Quick Transmigration: The Foolish Beauty Saves the World

Chapter 136 The Useless Prince's Power Seizure (14)

The title "Senior Palace Maid" (大宫女) is only one character different from "Palace Maid" (宫女), but its meaning is entirely different. They were not merely personal maids, responsible not only for attending to the prince's daily life, but also required to serve him in bed before his marriage, instructing him in matters of private life. After the prince's marriage, the Senior Palace Maid would also have the status of a concubine.

Therefore, the status of a senior palace maid was usually that of a concubine's daughter carefully cultivated by a noble family or a minister's family, such as Qi Jingjing.

Jingli had no idea about these things yet, and thought that the head palace maid was a palace maid who was one rank higher than the ordinary palace maid.

Qi Jingjing then followed Jingli.

After Langyue left, Jingli remained standing in the same spot, leaning forward to look left and right.

Qi Jingjing found him adorable and asked softly, "Is Your Highness looking for someone?"

Although she was only eleven years old, she already possessed the features of a beautiful young woman. Facing the girl he was meeting for the first time, Jingli felt a little embarrassed to be too arrogant, so he simply wrinkled his nose and gave a soft snort.

"Why haven't I seen Xiao An? Didn't Mother say he would take care of me?"

Jingjing chuckled: "Taking care of His Highness's daily life is no small matter. Her Majesty has her own arrangements. In a few days, His Highness will be able to see Xiao An."

Jingli was still a little worried: "Where is Xiao An now? I want to go see him."

“Jingjing doesn’t know either…” Jingjing said helplessly. “If Your Highness is really worried, Jingjing can inquire about it.”

Jingli sighed, "Then I'll have to trouble Jingjing."

He had just released his energy to sense that Yu An was not in this hall at the moment, and it seemed that he had already moved from the slave quarters to the proper servants' quarters.

The palace servants in each palace and hall live in different places. Jingli had never paid attention to this before, so it was indeed more reliable to let Jingjing ask than for Jingli to go herself.

As expected of the woman raised by the matriarch of the Qi family since childhood, Jingjing quickly established good relations with the other palace servants in the courtyard. She bought some necessities and sent them to the places where the palace servants lived in their daily lives. Sure enough, she saw a thin and small child among them.

Jingjing guessed that it must be Xiao An, the one the Third Prince mentioned.

"Xiao An is staying with the other palace servants. The Empress has arranged a small bed for him. Starting tomorrow, I heard from the steward that Xiao An will be given some odd jobs. He should come with the other palace servants."

Jingli made no attempt to hide the joy in her eyes: "Okay, then bring him to see me tomorrow!"

That afternoon, Jingli unusually did not go out to play, but instead tinkered with a wooden sword in her own courtyard.

During the martial arts class, Jingli had many wooden swords. He chose the one he used on the day he first came to this world and slowly carved the character "yuan" on the hilt, waiting for Yu An to come to his side so he could hand it over to him.

But he waited and waited until the next day after school.

He returned excitedly, but finished his meal with Langyue absentmindedly. He only pretended to take a nap with his eyes closed, and before Jingjing could call him to get up, he ran outside the palace again.

Palace servants sweeping the floor, serving tea and water, burning incense... among these figures, there is not a single small figure.

Jingli turned around and asked Jingjing, "Where is Xiao Anren?"

Jingjing had no answer. She had only been there for a day, and even if she had extraordinary abilities, she couldn't possibly know the whereabouts of a mere servant.

She looked at the fair and tender little bundle in front of her. His beautiful eyes were slightly red, filled with a moist anger: "Take me to him!"

The young eunuch watched the two of them, opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing more and followed them.

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"The third prince has arrived."

The palace servants' daily lives were separated from the palaces of the empresses and princes, but they were not far apart.

At this time, the palace servants who remained in the living quarters were either not qualified to appear before the nobles or were timid and afraid of trouble. Upon hearing the eunuch's announcement, they all knelt down, creating a dark gray path.

Jingli wasn't used to being worshipped, but given the era and his position, he couldn't change it. In the past, he could choose to ignore it, but today he had to find someone to help him.

My gaze swept over all these people, but I couldn't find that little figure.

Jingli frowned and asked sharply, "Where is he?"

He didn't specify who he was asking, but it seemed everyone knew who he was referring to.

Several thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys shrank back, which Jingli keenly noticed: "Bring those people to me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several people behind Jingli strode forward and roughly dragged the boys over.

Jingli's eyebrows twitched, feeling uncomfortable with the scene, but she could only pretend to be disgusted and take two steps back, shifting her gaze away.

The boys, in pain from being grabbed, began to beg for mercy.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, please spare this servant! This servant was only following orders!"

Jingli didn't dare look in that direction, and only asked, "Where is everyone?"

"At...at the old tree..."

Where is the old tree?

Without needing to ask any more questions, Jingli's palace servants were already clearing the way.

Jingli secretly glanced at the boys and saw that their hands were twisted behind their backs, their heads were pressed to the ground, and their faces were scraped.

"Make these people kneel down."

"Yes."

The palace servants who were holding the boys released their grip and stood guard to the side.

The old tree, as its name suggests, is a large tree over a hundred years old in the courtyard of this living quarters, lush and verdant in mid-spring and early summer.

Its branches were so thick that it would take five adult men to encircle them. As Jingli passed by, he didn't see the person behind him for a moment—it was Yu An.

Jingli took two steps forward and saw Yu An's current appearance, her heart suddenly tightened.

The skinny little guy was bound up with hemp rope and hung from the tree.

Through the gaps in the hemp rope, Jingli saw that Yu An was only wearing an undergarment; the new palace robe that should have been his was nowhere to be found.

At this moment, Yu An's eyes were tightly closed, and his lips were dry, cracked, and blue. It was unknown how long he had been hanging there!

"Put him down!"

Jingli shouted angrily.

In just one day, his lover had already been tortured into this state.

Jingli was so angry that her hands were trembling. She asked the eunuch to bring the boys over, then carefully picked up Yu An, who had been rescued from the tree, and laid him flat on the ground. She then asked someone for some water and moistened his lips with her fingertips.

Jingjing, who was standing nearby, took the porcelain bowl of water and said, "Your Highness, let the servants do this..."

Jingli had no intention of letting Yu An out of his sight at this moment. He was willing to do anything, not just moisten Yu An's lips, but even give him artificial respiration.

But he still remembered his identity. With his eyes closed and his breath coming in and out, Jingli suppressed his emotions that were about to explode.

He activated the energy lamp and placed it on Yu An's chest.

The lamp also weakened the influence of the world's filth on him. He shook his head and whispered to Jingjing, "I will come in person."

Jingli used the system to scan Yu Anquan from head to toe, and found a bunch of problems, most of which were left over from the past.

At this moment, Yu An fainted. According to the system's deduction, he had not eaten or drunk anything for a day and had been hanging on the tree for at least three hours.

Three hours...

Jingli clenched her fists, closed her eyes, and felt powerless once again—this world really can devour people.

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【small theater】

Yu Yuanyuan: I fainted. I need a kiss from Xiaoyu to wake up. (Pouting)

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*This short skit is unrelated to the main text.