Mu Qianyu looked at her walnut eyes that were swollen from crying and hesitated before replying: "I feel you are a bit pitiful..."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu""""""" said Bei Chenxi, crying again.
"But if you are a princess and marry the heir, Zhao Yu will not dare to treat you badly. It is much better than being born in a poor family and being sold to a rich man. Thinking about it this way, it is not pitiful." Mu Qianyu had no choice but to see her crying so miserably.
Change your words.
Bei Chenxi stopped crying and looked at her, then started crying again after a moment: "You are too cold-blooded. How can you say such a thing when I'm so miserable?"
"I..." Mu Qianyu held his forehead.
What a sin, why did this happen to her? It wasn't her who decided to let her get married!
Next, Bei Chenxi was still crying and complaining, and Mu Qianyu's stomach was growling. He had just eaten a few mouthfuls of cold food at the queen's place and was already hungry now.
"Princess, why don't you eat something before you cry?" she advised.
"No, I will go on a hunger strike and I will die to express my determination!"
"I'm hungry. Can I go eat something first and then come to accompany the princess?"
"No, you can't leave, you just eat here." Bei Chenxi said domineeringly.
Mu Qianyu nodded, not eating anywhere else.
The maid brought the food, and Mu Qianyu listened to her cry while eating.
Bei Chenxi's crying became smaller and smaller, and finally she put her head to the table, looked at a plate of roasted pork with bamboo shoots and asked, "Is it delicious?"
"It's not delicious." Mu Qianyu looked at the three pieces of meat inside and reacted quickly.
"I'll try to see if you're lying to me." Bei Chenxi snatched the chopsticks away from her when she wasn't paying attention.
Mu Qianyu watched her eat a piece of meat, and then her big red eyes lit up and she wanted to take off her chopsticks again.
"Princess." She quickly stopped her. Seeing Bei Chenxi looking over, she said, "Don't you want to go on a hunger strike to show your determination? You seem to have no determination after eating."
"With my level of cultivation, I won't starve to death even if I don't eat. I can eat secretly and pretend I haven't eaten..." Bei Chenxi thought for a while before eating the second piece of meat.
Mu Qianyu felt heartbroken. The palace maid brought a total of four side dishes, a combination of meat and vegetables. Among them, the roasted pork with bamboo shoots contained the most meat, and it was about to be eaten up.
Bei Chenxi didn't know how long it had been since she had eaten. After finishing this dish, she went to eat other dishes. In the end, she had finished all the steamed buns on the side and barely licked the plate.
Mu Qianyu also couldn't laugh or cry. The cooking skills in the imperial kitchen were really good, but it was a pity that she had not had a good meal yet.
"You can't say anything when you go out, just say this is what you eat." Bei Chenxi put down his chopsticks and looked at Mu Qianyu with fierce eyes.
"Okay." Mu Qianyu agreed because of her pity, "Then I'm resigning?"
"You must not say anything when you go out!"
Mu Qianyu finally breathed a sigh of relief after going out. He turned to ask the princess maid beside him: "Who is responsible for my food and daily life? Where should I live?"
"Nvshi Liu and Nvshi are in charge." The maid took the tray and looked at Mu Qianyu in disbelief. She didn't expect that Shang Gong had such a big appetite.
"What about them?" Mu Qianyu asked.
The person who sent her here before was the queen's maid, but when she came, she only saw the princess's maid, not her subordinates at all.
"Maybe you are busy with the princess's wedding. My maid will take you to your residence."
"Thank you." Mu Qianyu nodded and didn't take it seriously.
The residence is in the side hall. Someone has already packed it up, and there are two little maids at the door.
"Mei Xiang Qiuju has met Lord Shang Gong." The two of them saluted. It seemed that they had been in the palace for a long time, and their attitudes were neither humble nor overbearing.
Mu Qianyu nodded: "Okay, can any of you prepare some food for me? I haven't eaten enough just now."
The maid who sent Mu Qianyu here looked at her a few more times.
Mu Qianyu knew what this girl was thinking, but she had no choice but to send her away politely.
The side hall was not small, and her stay was relatively comfortable. However, the food had to wait for a long time. It was not until the evening that Qiu Ju brought a tray, which still contained four dishes and two steamed buns.
It's just that this dish doesn't look as good as the dish I just had at the princess' place, and it looks a bit bland.
"Go down." Mu Qianyu didn't know what to say. I guess the food served to female officials should be of this standard. She only stayed in the palace for a few days so she didn't leave an image of being difficult to serve.
Qiu Ju bowed slightly and withdrew without expression.
Mu Qianyu shook his head, thinking that the maids in the palace were different. Not only were they beautiful, but they also had great airs.
She hadn't seen the two female historians, King Liu and Wang, until she went to bed at night. Logically speaking, these two direct subordinates were supposed to come to Shangguan to see the ceremony that day, but Mu Qianyu didn't understand these etiquettes and didn't care.
She didn't sleep very well that night without her daughter by her side. She got up early, washed herself briefly and started waiting for breakfast.
Her stomach growled several times before she was served a simple breakfast. She lamented that life in the palace was too troublesome, and it took so long to eat.
The two maids outside the room looked at each other after Mu Qianyu entered, with contemptuous smiles in their eyes.
This country bumpkin from outside is so easy to fool. I heard that he was treated harshly by the Mu family when he was a teenager. I'm afraid he hasn't had much experience in handling others. Their attitudes are so cold and she actually responds with a smile?
If it were another Shangguan, he would have done it long ago.
And that breakfast is just for ordinary palace ladies. Even the eighth-grade female officials would disdain to eat it, let alone her dignified fifth-grade minister.
After Mu Qianyu finished eating the tasteless breakfast, he walked out and smiled at the two of them again, and asked kindly: "Are the two female historians, King Liu and Wang, still busy? When will they come to see me?"
As far as she knew, she only had five days to prepare for the situation. One day had passed yesterday, and she still didn't know what to do, so she had to hurry up.
"I don't know. The two female historians will come over after they finish their work." Mei Xiang replied lightly.
Mu Qianyu nodded: "I'm busy with things in the palace, I understand."
At this time, Zi Ling, one of Bei Chenxi's personal maids, ran over and said, "Master Shang Gong, the princess has summoned you for something."
"Okay." Mu Qianyu agreed and followed her.
"I really don't know why I let such a well-experienced person be the minister, and he dared to offend the Queen as soon as I came up. How could the Queen make her feel better?"
"Don't talk about the empress, even Liu Nvshi will not let her go. Originally, the position of the palace should be hers. Unexpectedly, a female official fell from the sky. She should hate it to death now."
"Yeah, doesn't this give her some authority? It's strange that she can continue to be a palace minister."
Mei Xiang Qiuju started talking after Mu Qianyu left.
Mu Qianyu never thought that there would be so many twists and turns. At this moment, he was listening to Bei Chenxi's bedroom planning how to implement the seventh fake hanging to make it look more real.