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Chapter 4989: 5.0741 Tragic

"Miss, Miss!!" A slender young maid with a quiver on her back jogged quickly, almost colliding with Xiao Ju.

Xiao Ju gasped, quickly pushing her away. "How dare you! What's wrong with you, girl? Charging so carelessly into our young lady!"

Though the maid was thin, her strength was not small. Pushed by Xiao Ju, she remained completely still.

"Dali," Wu Ruomei quickly pulled the maid to her side. "Didn't I tell you to follow slowly? I'm very familiar with this place..."

"Miss Wu," Qi Lire frowned and said in a low voice, "This is the imperial inner court, unlike our ordinary homes. It's truly inappropriate for you to let your maid run and shout so frantically along the palace walls. It would be better to teach her more manners usually."

Wu Ruomei turned her head and saw Qi Lire dropping these admonishing words before turning and leaving with her maid, Xiao Ju.

"So prim and proper," the maid beside Miss Wu muttered, pouting. Her voice was neither high nor low, just loud enough to reach the ears of the departing mistress and servant.

"Miss, the daughter of Prime Minister Wu is simply too rude. Even her maid is vulgar and uncouth."

"She's lucky," Qi Lire replied. Prime Minister Wu had always cherished this daughter as the apple of his eye. Now that the Prime Minister was deeply trusted by His Majesty and had suddenly risen to prominence, the entire Prime Minister's residence was thriving.

"Miss Wu's impulsive nature, do you think she'll clash with... that one?"

Qi Lire pursed her lips, a faint smile appearing on them. "Hard to say." However, recalling Wu Ruomei's strange reaction just now, Qi Lire couldn't help but frown again. Let's just wait and see...

On the other side, Wu Ruomei galloped on her big dog near the garden, then quickly put the dog away and hurried towards the pavilion. Before she even got close, a few palace maids stopped her.

"Hush, keep your voice down."

Wu Ruomei involuntarily lowered her voice, her eyes darting towards the pavilion. "Is the Crown Princess napping in there?"

The little palace maids all nodded. Although they hadn't served the Crown Princess for long, the little Crown Princess's temperament seemed quite easy to grasp. She simply liked quiet. Don't provoke her unnecessarily. And if you do provoke her, don't provoke her too much, otherwise, if she retaliates, nine times out of ten, someone will die.

For example, yesterday, a maid who was courting death tried to poison the little Crown Princess. The first two times, the little Crown Princess ignored her, but the third time, she simply slapped her to death... Even her family members were all dealt with by His Majesty in a fit of rage, truly unfortunate. Now, His Majesty wanted to investigate deeper, to figure out who couldn't tolerate the little Crown Princess. It was estimated that another group of people would die once the truth was uncovered...

Wu Ruomei grinned. "Hey, I'll sneak over quietly. I won't disturb her, and I won't make things difficult for you, okay?"

"No, Miss Wu," a small palace maid repeatedly waved her hand. "If the little Crown Princess is woken up, she'll be in a bad mood all afternoon."

Wu Ruomei's mouth twitched. "Then I'll wait for her here. Hey, bring me a chair. I'll just sit here for a bit and wait for her to wake up."

The palace maids looked at her speechlessly, but in the end, they couldn't refuse the Prime Minister's daughter. They brought her a grand armchair and placed it opposite the pavilion. Miss Wu sat down grandly in the armchair. However, this was a shady spot, and cold drafts constantly blew on the back of her neck. It was truly not as good as the Crown Princess's pavilion, which faced the sun, was warm, and had curtains for wind protection.