<h4>CHAPTER 50 (1): RUO YUAN RETURNS</h4>


    As the imperial guards walked into the Pce Side Quarters, Su Xi-er raised her head slightly to take a look and immediately caught a glimpse of Wu Ling and Eunuch Zhang.


    Themotion this time is too massive. It’s normal that Prince Hao would interfere.


    Old Maidservant Liu was about to pay her greetings before Wu Ling waved his hand. “Old Maidservant Liu, your leg’s condition isn’t very good. You can be excused from paying your greetings. I came here today under Prince Hao’s orders to assign maids from the Pce Side Quarters to the Laundry Service Bureau.”


    Wu Ling looked towards Eunuch Zhang and signalled him to select the pce maids.


    Old Maidservant Liu withdrew to one side. Eunuch Zhang walked to the pce maids and swept his gaze across each one of them, the expression in his eyes bing strange when he saw Su Xi-er.


    The incident in the Laundry Service Bureau urred too suddenly to have been an ident. Could it have been Su Xi-er’s doing? Don’t tell me that this is her n to have Ruo Yuan transferred back to the Pce Side Quarters. If anything, this will only make the situation more serious.


    Continuing this train of thought, Old Eunuch Zhang was startled with a sudden revtion. Among all the pce maids from the Laundry Service Bureau, only Ruo Yuan didn’t get afflicted with the red spots. She’s sick, and still lying in the Laundry Service Bureau right now.


    The Laundry Service Bureau is currently in a state of pandemonium where no furtherplications can be afforded. If Ruo Yan continues to stay in the Laundry Service Bureau while running a fever, and infects the other pce maids with unclear conditions, the situation will be even more chaotic.


    By that logic, won’t Ruo Yuan have to be transferred back to the Pce Side Quarters?


    Eunuch Zhang’s expression wasplicated. If my suspicions are correct, the culprit behind this huge uproar is Su Xi-er!


    Noticing that Eunuch Zhang was still not selecting the pce maids after a long time, Wu Ling couldn’t help but remind him, “Eunuch Zhang, what’s the matter with you?”


    “This old servant will be selecting now.” Eunuch Zhang swept his gaze across the pce maids, his finger pointing to several maids, including Lian Qiao, in rapid session.


    At least ten pce maids from the Pce Side Quarters have to be transferred. Counting the ones that I just chose, I’m still short of one.


    Wu Ling saw Eunuch Zhang looking in Su Xi-er’s direction again and randomly pointed at a pce maid. “Since we need to pick ten, let’s just take her. With that, we’re finished here.”


    Wu Ling naturally had his reasons for choosing this moment to speak. Su Xi-er can only be reassigned by Prince Hao’s personalmand. Others can’t transfer her as they please. Although Prince Hao hasn’t said anything yet, I can at least understand this much as his personal guard.


    Eunuch Zhang nodded. Before he left, he instructed, “Old Maidservant Liu, please reallocate the work to the remaining pce maids ordingly since there are now fewer pce maids in the Pce Side Quarters.”


    “Yes, Eunuch Zhang.”


    Wu Ling and Eunuch Zhang then took the ten pce maids with them to the Laundry Service Bureau, leaving Old Maidservant Liu to reassign their work to the others.


    Obviously, there would be more work due to the decrease in manpower. Not only did Su Xi-er have to scrub the chamber pots at night, she still had to pull weeds in the morning.


    Until the situation in the Laundry Service Bureau stabilised, every pce maid in the Pce Side Quarters would be very busy. Seeing that there was no indication of when the situation would be resolved, each of them secretly sighed to themselves.


    Just as all the pce maids were preparing to leave to carry out their work, two eunuchs came while carrying a rattan stretcher.


    Upon taking a closer look, they realised that they all recognised that fat and round figure. It’s Ruo Yuan!