Chapter 311 - Tender Feelings on Paper
Chapter 311 Tender Feelings on Paper
Lin Mengya lightly looked through the book and found it to be a pile of drawings.
She turned the pages one by one and found that Liuxin Courtyard was drawn on it.
Snow, a baby tiger, her maids, and even her teacher busy in the stone room were all drawn on it.
It was only a few days since she had left Prince Yu’s Mansion. She missed them very much.
A knowing smile appeared at the corner of her mouth. Even Baisu looked over with curiosity to see what was painted on that drawing.
“Our courtyard? How thoughtful His Highness is.”
Lin Mengya looked at them as if she had found a treasure. They were just black-and-white pictures but they conveyed a lot of information. Those unspeakable things could be read in those pictures.
Baisu smilingly looked at the drawings and asked with curiosity, “A letter can say this to you. Why did His Highness make such a fuss?”
“Perhaps because Prince Yu thinks that it’s not much to be particular about.”
After a while, Lin Mengya carefully stored it away.
Long Tianyu was becoming more unfathomable and did all kinds of surprising things. But Lin Mengya believed that he had his own reasons.
She sorted out those things Long Tianyu gave her and found them practical, even including lots of receipts. He really knew what she needed in the palace.
“Let’s go back early today. Today is a good day.”
Lin Mengya threw an glance at those scared doctors and decided to show her kindness and leave the space to them.
When she got back, Lin Mengya saw Pearl and Agate coming up to her very politely.
Lin Mengya was very generous and gave them small bills. But both of them looked at each other in speechless despair. They thought that they would come to a bad end. But unexpectedly, Lin Mengya gave them money.
Lin Mengya saw clearly their surprise. She did not know why the empress placed two idiots here who could not hide their own intentions.
The empress did not care about her, or she thought of Lin Mengya to be at the same level as them.
“Excuse me, is Princess Yu here?”
From outside came a soft voice suddenly.
Lin Mengya turned around and saw a woman in a light-green cloth coat.
Baisu standing by her side went over to ask in confusion. They murmured at the door for a while, and then Baisu seemed to understand and came back to tell her.
“Master, she’s Consort Xian’s maid. She wants to know when the 10th prince can be sent here. She’s his Nanny Liu.”
While they spoke, Nanny Liu already approached and bowed to greet her. Her round face and simple clothes made her look like an honest woman.
She earned money by feeding the children of others. She was a poor woman. Life had forced her to leave her own baby behind and come to the palace to feeding others’ children.
“Greetings, Your Highness, may you live long for a thousand years.”
Lin Mengya gave her a friendly smile and talked for a while.
What they talked about was almost all about the 10th prince. Pearl and Agate paid attention to their discussion and then were diverted to clean the room for the 10th prince.
When there were no annoying eavesdroppers around, Lin Mengya took Nanny Liu into the main room.
“Did Consort Xian ask you to tell me anything?”
They talked in the inner room and Baisu always remained alert, so it would be safe.
Since she chose to cooperate with Consort Xian, Lin Mengya would like to try her best to meet her demands.
“Her Highness said to entrust Your Highness to take care of the 10th prince. If they are lucky enough to survive, Her Highness will never forget your great kindness, Your Highness.”
Nanny Liu spoke sincerely but Lin Mengya just sneered silently.
Consort Xian was very intelligent. But Lin Mengya had to accept it because she had volunteered to cooperate with her after all. Now that Consort Xian let her raise the 10th prince publicly for now, she was also telling others in the palace that Consort Xian and Lin Mengya were in the same boat.
Since it was so, Lin Mengya had nothing to complain about.
“Thanks, but don’t see it as a great kindness. I like the 10th prince. Just send him here as soon as possible. Remember, you’d better send him here when he’s sleeping. Put more clothes on him so he doesn’t catch a cold.”
In fact, Long Yinghua was a clever boy. Under her right guidance, he could manage to deceive those people in the harem. He was just a boy. They would not always keep an eye on him.
Nanny Liu immediately said thanks and then left. Lin Mengya looked out for Pearl and Agate, who were peeping at her room silently, and then a playful smile rose up on her mouth.
Lin Mengya decided to make good use of the two “spies” to make the 10th prince manage to deceive them.
Consort Xian was really powerful, even the empress could not defend when she started. Lin Mengya heard that Consort Xian had already fainted three times in front of the resting palace of the empress.
Consort Xian took the gloves off to make the empress do a full-scale investigation into it.
Seriously speaking, plotting to murder a prince was equal to the crime of conspiracy. If the 10th prince died silently, then the dead could not testify.
But because Lin Mengya meddled in it and saved his life under such a circumstance, everyone was stunned.
The empress and the Crown Prince could not put it down obviously. Then, they had no time to deal with Lin Mengya.
But Lin Mengya knew clearly that she would be the first one when the empress had the time. So she had to make the empress busy. She could not give the empress a chance to fight with her, at least not before she saw the emperor.
It became dusk soon. Nanny Liu and Consort Xian’s reliable maids took the 10th prince to her room.
His bedding and everything he needed were all carried with them and moved to her house. The room that the 10th prince would stay was not big, but it was placed in a good area, clean and ventilative, suitable for children to live in.
“From today on, you should take care of the 10th prince’s diet and daily life. If there’s something wrong, you’ll bear the consequences!”
Lin Mengya specially assigned Pearl and Agate to serve Long Yinghua. After all, Nanny Liu would take care of his closest things.
In this way, Pearl and Agate were restricted in the house and had no spare time because children always have things you need to worry about.
Almost everything in his own room was moved here so that he did not wake up in an unfamiliar atmosphere.
Lin Mengya already told Nanny Liu not to care about anything else in the whole house aside from the things about the 10th prince. Nanny Liu served in the palace for many years and understood what she should or should not do. Lin Mengya’s warning was actually needless.
After looking at the sleeping boy, Lin Mengya and Baisu went back and had a rest.
When the door was closed, Baisu saw Lin Mengya, who had never done any sewing before, carefully tearing open the hems of clothes with scissors.
“Master, are you—”
Before she finished her question, Lin Mengya gave her a gesture to stop.
In a minute, Lin Mengya pulled out a tiny paper bag and carefully flattened it out. It was a brief note.
Lin Mengya carefully read it, and with the help of Shen Nung, she remembered almost everything very soon. Lin Mengya incinerated it and threw it out of the window.
“These days, Pearl and Agate will try hard to see these things I carried. Remember, don’t let them look at it easily, but do let them see it. You should pretend to be giving it away by accident. And you’d better look nervous when you get back and find that these things have already been checked. Am I clear?”
Although Baisu did not understand what that tongue twister meant, she still nodded and promised to get it done well. That was Baisu’s advantage to listen to Lin Mengya.
“From tomorrow on, tell them that I won’t go to the Court of Imperial Physicians and see anyone because I’ll take care of the 10th prince.”
Lin Mengya knew that Baisu would be very busy to deal with all of this alone. But the other three maids could not protect themselves so she had to depend on Baisu alone.
Long Tianyu was a man of action, Lin Mengya knew that clearly.
Lin Mengya was mildly rebuffed by the Imperial Hospital, and today, Long Tianyu had dealt them a head-on blow. She set a condition for Long Tianyu. Then, the Imperial Hospital would have tough days in the future.
Lin Mengya fell into a deep sleep with good aspirations for the future.
Lin Mengya should be dreaming of setting traps for others.
Lin Mengya opened her eyes and saw a pair of dark almond eyes.
She blinked her eyes and he blinked his eyes as well. She rubbed her eyes and he rubbed his eyes as well with his chubby hands.
“Little guy, did you get up so early just to imitate me?”
Lin Mengya stretched out her hands to pinch his chubby, tender cheek. She felt very happy when she saw the mini Long Tianyu early this morning.
“No! Mother told me to keep close to sister-in-law. So I’m watching you.”
Long Yinghua pouted. Obviously, he knew that Lin Mengya could do nothing to him.
This little clever boy deliberately misunderstood his mother’s words. Looking at him, Lin Mengya’s interest was aroused. On second thought, she decided to begin her training for the little guy now.
“All right, if you want to watch me, let’s play a game. If you win, you can follow me anywhere. If you lose, then you have to stay in the house and never go out.”