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  Chapter 12: The Cost

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  Chu Kexi nodded and entered the courtyard. As soon as she did, all the maids in the courtyard turned to look at her. Not seeing Qingguo, Chu Kexi was about to call out when Qingguo rushed out of a room: "Young Mistress!"

  Chu Yun Ting's maid also followed behind, timidly: "Young lady... are you here to change clothes? I have a set of Second Young Lady's clothes here..."

  Chu Ke nodded: "Take it out." The maid turned around and left, she immediately winked at Qing Guo.

  Qing Guo supported her into one of the rooms. Chu Yun Ting's maid had already opened the package and brought out a set of clothes.

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  As expected, it was a dazzling red. A bright red cheongsam with a cloud and water pattern, a long skirt that trailed on the ground, and a short red satin jacket made her absolutely eye-catching.

  The accessories were all in place, a bright and colorful five-colored flashing palace ribbon, with a jade nine-dragon pendant tied to it, a moon-white satin ribbon, set against a large red background, must be even more eye-catching.

  Chu Xue looked at them with frequent nods: "Indeed a good match."

  Qing Guo has already brought that autumn-colored dress, just right, the lotus-leaf color still has a bit of red, this one doesn't have any red at all.

  That maid is a bit silly, compared to the previous one, her reaction is much slower. Qing Guo has already taken out the clothes, but she hasn't reacted yet, with a normal expression, holding the big red dress and waiting for Third Miss to take it over. Until Qing Guo put down the clothes he took out himself, grabbed her and walked outside, she was surprised and exclaimed "ai ai".

  The eunuch waiting at the gate was getting impatient, pacing back and forth in a circle. He would occasionally look up at the sky or glance around restlessly, looking extremely bored. Just as he was doing this, another eunuch came running from a distance. The eunuch at the gate quickly looked over and hurried to greet him with a bow: "Master is here, Master!"

  "Xiao Anzi, wasn't that just the third daughter of the Chu family who came in to change her clothes?" The eunuch, who was called "Dry Father", looked about four or five years older than Xiao Anzi, and asked in a low voice as soon as he saw Xiao Anzi approaching.

  Xiao Anzi nodded desperately and smiled fawningly: "Yes yes yes, it's really the son who is looking at them, the two sisters don't look alike"

  "Does it look like a pipe?" The dry father took out a package from behind and handed it to him: "This is a pink dress, remember, see what color she comes out with, if it's red, be sure to ask her to change into this one, if it's another color, don't bother."

  Xiao Anzi inexplicably picked up: "Dry dad, what color clothes they wear, do we need to care?"

  "Ask fewer questions about things you shouldn't ask about, and know less; that way, you'll live longer."

  Xiao Anzi immediately stuck out her tongue and nodded desperately: "Yes, yes, yes, son understands, son asks one more question, and son's tongue will be cut off"

  "Talk less," said the old man, then looked around and whispered: "Today this third girl, I'll keep an eye on her. Before nightfall, no matter what happens, let her out of the palace. If anything goes wrong, come find me immediately."

  "Yes, son understands"

  The dry father nodded and looked around for a while, didn't see anyone paying attention to this side, then turned around and walked away.

  Xiao Anzi wiped the sweat, looked down at the package in her hand and muttered to herself: "Nowadays, there are all kinds of evil things that have exhausted their brains to stay, and those who have worked hard to leave. If they don't make trouble, they won't be able to live in peace."

  He stood at the gate of the courtyard, shaking one leg and humming a little tune in the distance.

  Chu Kei hastily changed into her own clothes, glanced down to make sure everything was in order, and didn't even bother to check if her hair ornaments and eyebrow makeup matched, before opening the door and walking out.

  Ignoring the maid of Chu Yunting who was staring at her with wide eyes, she hastily walked out. The empress's summons must not be late, if late, you have to explain the reason, once explained, it is possible to leave an impression on the empress. She hurried out and smiled at the eunuch waiting at the door: "Eunuch, I've changed."

  The eunuch glanced up and down before turning around and walking inside, Chu Kei hastily following.

  Arriving outside the hall, Chu Kei saw that most of the people in front had already gone in. She quickly scanned the area and found that Chu Yun Ting was still there, so she let out a sigh of relief and went to stand at the far end, keeping a distance of ten million eight thousand miles from her.

  Standing at the edge for a while, I could still feel Chuyuntin looking over with her head tilted, causing the lady standing next to Chukeqi to look over in confusion several times, thinking that Chuyuntin was looking at her.

  Chu Ke's expression didn't change, she lowered her head and never looked that way again.

  The eunuchs at the gate suddenly bowed, and the people standing outside immediately became tense. A eunuch came out of the palace gate and shouted: "Chu Yuntin, Chu Kexi is summoned."

  The two of them hastily responded and followed the eunuch into the palace, with Chu Ke'er carefully walking behind Chu Yun Ting, two feet away from her.

  Once inside, Chu Ke'er didn't lift her head again and didn't care what kind of person was above her. She followed the rules, bowing when she should, sitting down when told to, and answering questions in a soft voice that was barely audible to those above her.

  Chu Xue was well aware that people who were high up would look down on those who were timid and reserved. If one's attitude was neither arrogant nor humble, it could attract their attention and earn their respect.

  The empress then continued to summon people from outside the palace to come in and pay their respects. There were many people, and they came in one or two at a time, so it took a long time. Occasionally, there would be someone who caught the empress's attention, and she would ask them more questions, which would delay things even further. It wasn't until the hour of wei that everyone had been seen, and the empress retired to the rear palace to rest. Everyone went to the imperial garden to stroll around and wait for the evening banquet to begin.

  Chu Kei followed everyone to the backyard and only then saw that someone had been paying attention to her all along, it was Lan Zixiang.

  For this blue girl, Chu Ke now feels the same as her brother Zhu Yuehuan, that is, she can see her everywhere, like a ghost. This girl seems to have fallen from the sky, coldly observing herself busy all day.

  For her, Chu Ke was now annoyed to the extreme.

  Seeing her looking over, Lan Zixiang didn't think much and walked over: "Chu San Niang." She greeted, but there was no smile on her face, instead, she looked like she was looking for trouble.

  Chu Ke nodded slightly: "Lan Girl."

  Lan Zixiang ignored her cold gaze and said, "Miss Chu is really busy, flirting with Zhu Yucheng, pulling and tugging with Zhu Yuhuan, and now she's even attending the palace banquet for the selection of the queen? Does she still want to enter the palace?"

  Chu Ke sat on the corridor chair in the tour gallery, she didn't go to the pavilion, there were already four or five people inside at this time, the tour gallery was long, and it wasn't easy for everyone to bump into each other unless they took the initiative to come over like Lan Zixiang.

  She patiently looked at Lan Cixi: "Lan girl, are you okay? Are you full and bored? Why are you staring at me all the time? If you like Zhu Yuchen, go find him. Why can't you get along with me? What does my business have to do with you? Weren't you crying and refusing to enter the palace earlier? What are you doing coming in now?"

  "I just can't bear to look at it..."

  Lan Zixiang still wanted to maintain her elegant image, but who knew that the person sitting opposite was an ancestor of sarcasm, not allowing her to be slow and gentle, and as soon as she spoke, she was immediately interrupted.

  "Do you know that others can't stand the sight of you? You're self-righteous, complacent, shameless, and pretending to be noble, but in reality, you're inexplicably meddling and annoying people without even realizing it..."

  Before she could finish speaking, Lan Zixing had already stood up with a livid face and walked away.

  She can't stay and she can't argue with her, so is she supposed to just stand here and listen?

  Chu Ke glared at her back, "Really disgusting." The anger in her heart was truly unbearable. This Lan Zixi always pretended to be an onlooker, coldly smiling as she watched herself, as if all of her actions were under her control. She looked at herself calmly, with a look that seemed to say 'let's see what happens next'. Probably every day she imagined that Zhu Yuxuan would finally realize that she was a bad woman who only cared about wealth and status, only to discover that she was actually a good woman who had always been in love with him, and then throw herself into his arms...

  "Stinky girl" glared at Lan Zixuan again, she turned her head around to search everywhere, hoping to see Zhu Yucheng, not knowing if he had come in or not.

  But she also knew it was in vain, even if she got in, it would be impossible for her to appear around here.

  She turned her head to look for it, and saw that Lan Zixiang had walked away. She stood behind a tall flower tree, looking sneaky. Chu Keqi became curious, and followed the direction of Lan Zixiang's gaze. She saw a group of palace maids walking over, stopping at the garden gate. One of them was speaking to the others, then several palace maids dispersed, coming into the garden in pairs.

  Two palace maids walked up to a young lady, bowed and paid their respects, said something, and the young lady followed them out of the garden. On this side, another girl was found and followed...

  Chu Ke saw Lan Zixiang intentionally or unintentionally hiding, staring at the several palace maids in front of her. However, two palace maids appeared behind her without being seen and walked towards her.

  It seemed like a shout, Lan Qixiang suddenly turned around and two palace maids bowed to her and said something. Lan Qixiang hesitated for a moment, but had no choice but to follow the two palace maids out of the garden.

  Chu Xue saw Chu Yunting, and two palace maids also walked towards her, saying something. Chu Yunting was very calm and replied, pointing this way.

  Chu Xue's body suddenly straightened up, could it be that the Empress Dowager wanted to summon her? Impossible...

  One of the palace maids came over and curtsied, saying: "The Empress has summoned Miss Chu."

  Chu Ke'er controlled her 'thumping' heart and hurriedly smiled: "Should I go by myself, or should I go with my second sister?"

  "The queen asks both girls to go." The palace maid replied with her head lowered.

  Chu Ke'er stood up and followed the palace maid, seeing Chu Yun Ting's calm face, the two of them followed behind the palace maid and entered Kun Ning Palace again. (If you like this work, welcome to subscribe, reward on Starting Point Mobile Web , your support is my greatest motivation.)

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