Chapter 65
"This servant will wash the Empress Dowager's clothes now . Miss He, you can collect it at night . " Su Xi-er filled the basin with water again and began was . h . i . +ng unhurriedly .
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He Ying's attention was instead drawn by a blue robe being left to dry on the golden bamboo pole . Upon careful contemplation, she suddenly recalled that these were Prince Hao's clothes!
Don't tell me that Su Xi-er has become Prince Hao's personal imperial laundry palace maid? He Ying's complexion became even more ghastly when this thought crossed her mind .
"When you are done was . h . i . +ng, hang the Empress Dowager's clothes over there to dry . " He Ying pointed to the front . "Beside Prince Hao's robe . "
"This servant understands . " Su Xi-er replied calmly before lowering her head to continue was . h . i . +ng .
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He Ying glanced at her . "Wash meticulously . Otherwise, I'll skin you . " She then turned around and left the Laundry Service Bureau . Prince Hao's robes are to be washed only by Su Xi-er . I must report this matter to the Empress Dowager .
Su Xi-er paused what she was doing . He Ying is targeting me for the sake of the Empress Dowager, while the Empress Dowager is targeting me because of Pei Qianhao . Pei Qianhao is also making things difficult for me, and all of these have stemmed from me knocking him out .
If I hadn't knocked him out that night, I could have very well lost my purity to him . If that had really happened, I'm afraid that I would have ended up like the women in the Beauty Palace, pitiful and lamentable .
At this point, she redoubled her strength to rub the clothes . Since the clothes are valuable, the material is definitely sublime . It won't be damaged no matter how I rub .
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He Ying sped up after she disappeared from everyone's sight, entering the Compa . s . sionate Peace Palace where Pei Yaran was drinking plum soup .
When she heard the sound of hasty footsteps, Pei Yaran knitted her eyebrows . "What's the matter? Why are you so fl . u . s . tered? Has the sky collapsed?"
"Empress Dowager…" He Ying immediately lowered her voice . "This servant went to the Laundry Service Bureau and discovered that Su Xi-er was was . h . i . +ng Prince Hao's clothes again, almost as if she was Prince Hao's personal imperial laundry palace maid . In the past, Prince Hao's clothes wouldn't have been sent into the Laundry Service Bureau . "
Pei Yaran placed the spoon in her hand down before she looked into the distance and sneered . "He often told this Empress Dowager in the past that his clothes would be washed by the errand imperial guards at his Prince Residence . How great that he knows how to have a woman wash his clothes for him now . "
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"Empress Dowager, do you still want to transfer Su Xi-er to the Beauty Palace? Why don't you wait for Prince Hao to head for Nanzhao and directly sentence her to death?"
Pei Yaran glared at He Ying . "You are usually clever and quick-witted; why are you being so foolish now? Prince Hao is currently interested in Su Xi-er . If I sentence her to death at this critical juncture, he would have a falling out with this Empress Dowager . I know his temper best . "
He Ying pondered about it for a moment . What the Empress Dowager said made sense . Prince Hao's thoughts are unfathomable . If we lay a hand on something he's interested in, the consequences are inconceivable . Don't tell me that I have to watch on helplessly as Su Xi-er continues to be arrogant?
"This Empress Dowager and Prince Hao have gotten along for so many years . There is only one thing which sustains his interest protractedly…" The corners of Pei Yaran's mouth were raised to form a smile . That thing is power . No one understands that better than me .
She had been very young when her father had brought Pei Qianhao to the Pei Residence . With the young boy lacking a father, Pei Yaran's had raised him like his own son . This was the reason that Pei Yaran knew enough about him to believe that he would definitely abandon Su Xi-er if she threatened his power . Power is the most important thing in his eyes .
She had previously been tempted to immediately sentence Su Xi-er to death, that was no longer possible . Even though I don't kill Su Xi-er, I can make it such that the latter suffers many hards . h . i . +ps .
"Empress Dowager, do you mean that you are going to think of a way to send Su Xi-er into the Beauty Palace and let those women deal with her?" He Ying speculated in a low voice .