Zheng Qingyun also heard the clues, and his face instantly turned red with embarrassment. She was not as free and easy as Xiao Xia, who dared to say anything, so she immediately lowered her head and did not dare to talk.
Suddenly she thought of something again, and quickly raised her head to look at Zhao Huan, and whispered: "Can the prince please intercede for Yu Shu?"
"Yushu is a good girl. She is extremely sincere towards the Nu family. The Nu family can guarantee that Yu Shu has no bad intentions at all. It's just that sometimes her words and deeds are not in my sister's eyes."
Zhao Huan was also quite helpless about this matter.
Zhao Huan knows better than anyone what kind of person Chen Yushu is.
But the problem is that Zhu Lian fulfilled his duties and everything he did was for the sake of the palace, and he couldn't find any faults at all.
Chen Yushu was a monk who had become a monk on the way. She had not systematically learned royal etiquette at all, so she naturally made frequent mistakes.
Zhu Lian did not directly expel Chen Yushu from the inner house, which was enough to give Zhao Huan face.
"I'll go take a look at the laundry room later. If nothing else happens, I'll blow my pillow tonight and this matter should be settled."
As soon as he said this, Xiaoxia's sweet smile echoed in the room again.
"Hahaha, that's how the prince can say such things."
"Those who don't know better think that the princess is the real owner of the palace."
Zhao Huan didn't want to talk to Xiao Xia, but the problem was that every time this girl said something, Zhao Huan wanted to slander her.
"The princess is not the master, who is?"
Xiaoxia stuck out her tongue and said playfully: "That's right. Everyone in the palace must obey the princess's orders. Even if there is a property in the future, the princess will make the final decision."
"Your Majesty is not only the eldest son of the emperor, but also the first king of the Song Dynasty appointed by His Majesty. How noble is that?"
"The prince will be the future master of the Song Dynasty."
Zhao Huan was too lazy to talk to Xiao Xia, so he turned around and walked towards the laundry room.
The laundry room is also divided into an inner and outer room. The outer room is used to wash the servants' clothes, and the inner room is naturally used to wash the clothes of the princes and princesses.
They are both laundry rooms, but the treatment is completely different.
Chen Yushu was punished and sent to the outer room. As soon as Zhao Huan walked into the yard, he heard a sharp scolding.
"What do you do for food? These few clothes have not been washed yet. You are really a waste of food."
"Don't think that after working in the inner house for a few days, you really think of yourself as the princess's confidant. You don't even know where you come from!"
"The maids in the inner chamber have all learned etiquette and rules since childhood. Look at you, you are so clumsy. Apart from annoying the princess, what else will you do?"
"If the prince hadn't brought you back, I would have whipped you with a bamboo board!"
Zhao Huan frowned. If he hadn't come to the laundry room in person, he wouldn't have known that there were such "powerful" people in the palace.
Looking around, I saw a middle-aged man in Tsing Yi and a small hat, sitting on a chair, holding a teapot in his left hand and a bamboo board in his right hand, assuming the posture of a general manager.
Zhao Huan vaguely remembered that this person was indeed the chore manager of the front yard.
As the palace gained power, it recruited a group of new servants, and this person was among them. His name seemed to be... Quan Gui.
At this time, Chen Yushu, who was being scolded by Quan Gui, was squatting next to the wooden basin and washing her clothes hard.
Chen Yushu came from a poor background, so she could easily handle this kind of menial and tiring work.
But the problem is that the tasks Quangui assigned her are too heavy.
In the entire outer room, 70% of the servants' clothes, more than three hundred items, were all thrown to her.
After five days in the laundry room, apart from sleeping and eating, she spent the rest of the time washing clothes, but even then she only washed half of them.
Facing Quan Gui's scolding, Chen Yushu neither spoke back nor felt aggrieved. She just lowered her head silently and washed the clothes that could never be finished.
The more Chen Yushu remained silent, the angrier Quangui became.
"Look at your virtues. You don't have any discernment at all. You are as boring as a gourd. No wonder you always make the princess upset."
"When you get here, you must learn the rules from me, otherwise I will make you look good!"
"Huh, what a poor life, just like your gambling father!"
If Quan Gui was just mean-mouthed, Zhao Huan would naturally turn a blind eye. After all, Xiao Xia was not much better.
It is precisely because of the existence of these "difficult" people that the palace is respected by others.
But poking into people's hearts and insulting their character is another matter.
Just as Zhao Huan was about to scold him, he saw Chen Yushu's feet suddenly weakened and she fell into the basin of water.
Before Zhao Huan could react, Quan Gui jumped up from the chair, grabbed Chen Yushu's hair and pulled her out of the basin.
Then he picked up the bamboo board and hit Chen Yushu hard on the shoulder.
"You useless thing, you are deliberately causing trouble with me here!"
Leng Buding was hit with a bamboo board, and Chen Yushu screamed in pain, but Quan Gui beat her even more fiercely.
The bamboo board was slapped on Chen Yushu's back, and she kept cursing.
"Bad bones!"
"See if I don't beat you to death today. If you can, take off your clothes and show the scars on your body to the prince."
Chen Yushu couldn't bear the pain and finally started to cry out, but she didn't beg for mercy, but asked loudly: "What did I do wrong?"
"Her Royal Highness the Princess said that you can go back as long as you finish washing the maid's clothes. I am a valet in the inner chamber, how can I wash the clothes for the male servant?"
"You are clearly trying to make things difficult for me!"
Seeing that Chen Yushu still dared to talk back, Quan Gui became even more angry: "I just make things difficult for you, what can you do?"
"Before, I asked you to have a nice word with the princess and transfer my sister to the inner chamber, but you were too high-minded and ignored me at all."
"I am the miscellaneous manager. It is your blessing to ask for your help. You, a bitch, have only been in the palace for a few days and yet you dare to be so arrogant."
"If you fall into my hands, I will naturally make you look good!"
Speaking of this, Quangui picked up the bamboo board and hit Chen Yushu's calf.
The force was not heavy, but it hurt so much that Chen Yushu gasped.
It turned out that in order to make things difficult for Chen Yushu, Quangui deliberately refused to give her a small stool, so that Chen Yushu had been squatting to wash clothes, and her feet had long been numb and she had lost consciousness.
But she refused to beg for mercy, let alone ask for help, for fear that the prince would go back and blame the princess after he found out.
Chen Yushu was not a submissive person. After being bullied by Quan Gui, she couldn't bear it anymore and bit Quan Gui's wrist hard.
"ah!"
"You're looking for death!"
The pain caused Quan Gui to lose his mind instantly. He raised the bamboo board and prepared to hit Chen Yushu on the back of the head.
At this moment, Zhao Huan grabbed his wrist.
"Who dares to interfere in my affairs!"
Quan Gui turned around suddenly and roared angrily. When he saw Zhao Huan standing in front of him with a cold face, he instantly regained his senses. Then his whole body went limp and he was paralyzed with fear on the spot.
Chen Yushu, who was all wet, half-knelt on the ground, looked up at Zhao Huan who suddenly appeared. She, who had always been strong, actually shed tears of grievance.