“These two maidservants, I don’t know where they died, that I can’t even find their shadows. I must teach them a lesson later.” Bai Zhenzhu muttered, her body continued to retract under the quilt, waiting for her maidservants to come and find out. The heat in the room was gone, it must be the maidservant, who put the charcoals was being lazy.

When she hid back herself in the quilt, she fell asleep again. When she woke up, it was already in the afternoon. She didn’t even eat lunch. She was so hungry that she called out the names of her two maidservants again.

The two maidservants still didn’t respond to her, and no other people responded to her, as if she was the only one left in this huge Lan Courtyard.

Bai Zhenzhu found it strange. In this courtyard, she lived with four close-knit maidservants. Two of them were serving by her side. They were responsible for her daily needs, while the other two were rough maids.

With so many people, no one heard her call?

The more she thought about it, the more she felt strange. She simply got out of bed but still wrapped in a quilt and walked to the door. The courtyard was empty. There were no busy figures just like in the past.

She walked back inside the house and walked towards the maidservants’ residence. The door was half-open, but she didn’t hear any sound. She went inside and found no one was inside the room. At this moment, she began to panic.

She threw down the quilt on her body and hurried to the other maidservants’ residence, but she didn’t see anyone. The room was also empty, just like in her closed-nit maidservants’ room.

How could this be? Where did they go?

She became more and more flustered. She then went to where the charcoals were being burned. There was firewood piled in the small wooden house, but there was no charcoal, and the mama who had been guarding the house day and night was gone.

No wonder the room was not hot anymore, no wonder it was so cold.

People were gone. It can’t be a coincidence. Is it an order from Pei Qinghan?

It was too cold, so she had to go back to the house and shrink back, hoping that everyone would return after a while.

She shrank and shivered in bed, but she was no longer sleepy.

The sky was getting darker, and the people who were supposed to bring food at this time also disappeared. No one in the house helped her light the oil lamp.

What to do? What should she do? What is she going to do now?

Having been the eldest lady for a while, she has almost forgotten her life in Huangtuo Village. She has become accustomed to the days where people serve her every day.

Is she going to kick back to her original place? No, no, she can’t accept it. How much did she pay to reach what she was today? She will never go back to her former self.

Bai Zhenzhu got out of bed and dressed up, then went to the kitchen by herself. The good meals in the kitchen have long been sent to yards of the several masters, leaving only some cold steamed buns and meals.

She pointed her finger to the cold steamed buns in the steamer and the dishes in the pot: “Give me two steamed buns and one dish for me.”

The cooks had been informed a long time ago, so he didn’t try to be polite. This young lady always makes trouble for them. She didn’t want to eat this and that. She always thinks that they didn’t do their best. They had enough of her a long time ago. So now that they have such a great opportunity, how can they just let it go?

“Oh! Who is this? Isn’t this the eldest lady? Why is the eldest lady come over to beg for dinner in person today?”

Beg?

Bai Zhenzhu trembled in anger, as she pointed her finger to the cook who was laughing at her and said: “You, you slave who is used to stepping on low and act high, you wait and see, just wait and see—” She turned around with anger and left.

From behind, the people in the kitchen laughed even more happily: “Okay, let’s just wait and see!”

“Bah, what’s wrong with her? Someone like her still hopes to climb Prince Xiao’s bed? Why won’t she look at herself in the mirror and think if she’s worthy?”

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