meeting the emperor’s eunuch

It's been a month since Li Wei entered the palace. Just as she had expected every day she had to do double the amount of work the other maids did, the food she was given was very few and her other maid made sure to make her do their work.

Today was no different after doing double the amount of work yesterday. Li Wei had little time to sleep and it was already morning. She and Ah lam went to do their work. She had to help in the kitchen wash dishes that would be brought in. The work was easy, however how could the maids give her such easy work. They also brought their dishes and gave her to wash. It took her half a day to finish.

The next task was to wash clothes. There were tailor maids for clothes however they dumped their work to her there were piles of clothes. It seemed that she would be finishing very late.

When the maid went away, Li Wei grabbed the piles of clothes and threw them inside the water she would use to wash them. After throwing the last pile in, she also went inside the water and started washing the clothes. After making sure that she washed almost half of the clothes and hanging them she started to wash slowly as she waited for the emperor's eunuch who usually passed their on his way to deliver the message the emperor sent to the empress.

As the sun finished setting, Li Wei knew the time had come and the eunuch was almost there so she poured water all over herself, her eyes filled with tears but did not spill, she pinched her cheeks to make them rosy.