ZHAO JUREN'S LAST LOVE
CHAPTER 55. Fulfilling Role

HAREM NAN PALACE

"Good, come in quick."Changyi pulled Zhao Juren's arm through the door of the large room where they slept in the next week.

"Changy! Can you reset your brain to think normally, we're men. We can't sleep in a room with a girl." Zhao Juren clutched Changyi's wrist in reply. His voice tried to get him down as low as possible.

"It's a low act. I don't want to do it." Add it with a small sound that is held.

"But, if we reject it, we'll be found out." Changyi glared back.

"It's gone too far, it's over the line, Changyi. We better get out of here, before we mess this up!"

"We're gonna screw things up if we both refuse to sleep here. Isn't it Mr Lian who forced me to do this? From the beginning this mistake was due to master. If not for master, this week we can have fun drinking in the wine shop until drunk. Eat good food at Nan's market and wash your eyes looking at the beautiful girls in the famous entertainment house." Changyi grimaced as he took the clothes bundle from Zhao Juren's hand.

"You're saying it's my fault?" Zhao Juren gnashed her jaw, anxiously hearing Changyi's statement.

"Indeed, whose fault was it that desperately sought the lady-in-waiting to force me this way? I'm just curious, how pretty are the ladies who made you willing to bet your life into this palace." Cangyi threw a seductive look.

"Mr Lian I suggest that if you meet the girl later, take her running and get her to drink wine and sleep at Mr. Ong's inn, do not forget to invite him to watch a street play that tells the defeat of Yanzhi troops by Nanxing troops. It's being a favorite spectacle in Kotaraja." With his leisure Changyi said, somehow Zhao Juren had almost plucked Changyi's head which really made him sometimes run out of patience. If this child knew he was Yanzhi then he would definitely not dare to say that through his lips that were made sensual.

"Hey, what are you guys doing standing there? Get in here!" A maid in a light yellow shirt was clearly the chief servant here, from her clothes it seemed that she had a higher position than the others.

With a rush Changyi walked in while pulling Zhao Juren's arm followed him through the door towards the servant hall.

"You're Aniang and Biao's replacement?" He asked ferociously, glancing at his eyes sharp.

"Yes, Madam." Changyi.

"Don't call me madam! I'm Murong! you can call me brother!"

Zhao Juren stared from behind Changyi's back like this unfriendly Big Brother Murong. This woman, her face is hard and grumpy.

"Aunt Mei told me to show you your bed." Murong turned his back, this room was large enough to accommodate five wooden beds the size of two people.

"You slept with Niu..." He pointed at one bed in the corner.

"And you," he turned to Zhao Juren for a moment.

"You shared a bed with Peiyu."

"Aaaaa.don't "Zhao Juren get stuck, his male voice came close to coming out, but Changyi swiftly stepped on Zhao Juren's foot.

"Sorry, miss uh brother Murong..." Changyi approached, walking slightly bent over so that the body would become short.

"My brother Ju'er and I will share one bed."

"Eh, why are you setting me up? In the hall of this kitchen servant room, I am the one in charge!" Hardik Murong with angry pias.

"Yes, I understand miss, but the problem is..."He glanced at Murong with a timid attitude.

"My sister here when sleep is delirious. And if he's delirious he usually likes to bite the ears of the person sleeping next to him."

"Haaaah?"

Murong, the head for the kitchen maid, her assistant this aunt Mei gawked at hearing him while subconsciously holding her own ears.

"Well, you can change your bed. Put your clothes there. Now hurry to the kitchen, aunt Mei needs help. There's a lot we have to do, tonight's Harem palace banquet shouldn't be in time or Her Majesty Queen Fang Yin will punish us!"

Murong glanced at Zhao Juren for a moment, clearly he had a lot of questions about Ju'er's appearance but he didn't have time to question it.

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The palace kitchen for the harem, separate from the main palace kitchen. The kitchen of the harem palace was quite spacious, with servants numbering in the dozens. There were three chief cooks working there, heading up a dozen of his men each to make various dishes.

How not, the Harem Palace was almost a tigaratusan people, the contents were Fang Yin's queen with 15 maids, servants and personal guards and eunuchs. The daughters of the king's unmarried brothers, number 12 with three of his followers, one lady-in-waiting and two servants. So did the 77 concubines of the king with his ladies and private servants who served him.

Among the 12 daughters, the sister of king Nan Chen the son of his father the previous king Nan from his concubines was one daughter who was his biological sister, the daughter of Nan Luoxia. The king's younger brother rarely appears in public, sometimes appearing only a few times a year. No one knew for sure what he was doing but all they knew was that he was studying at Tianshi Palace in the middle of a five-colored lake in the mysterious General Qui. This general Qui was the successor to the previous general who died of age, appointed directly by the king.

"Where is your lover? tonight we'll know, all the ladies will be with her. I wonder which one of your ladies' ladies is that." Changyi nudged Zhao Juren's shoulder which was fanning the flames in the furnace.

Zhao Juren did not respond, she did not want to serve Changyi who seemed to enjoy her role as the woman.

"Stt .." Changyi elbowed him again while pointing at Zhao Juren's chest with her lips deliberately turned around.

"What?" Zhao Juren didn't understand. Changyi approached him and whispered in his ear.

"Your chest stuffing cloth comes down next door, your p@yud@r4 is like a heavy meat scale."

Zhao Juren clenched her chest with a red face, then pushed Chanyi away while improving the shape of her chest.

"Damn." Curse it inwardly, Zhao Juren rarely said harshly though inwardly but since befriending Changyi she had become a little familiar with the expletive.

Zhao Juren tried to avoid gathering with many people, he busied himself with the menial work of turning on the furnace, transporting firewood and lifting the ingredients to and fro. While Changyi himself in an instant had been able to get along even took the hearts of some servants. They giggled while telling stories, their hands chopping vegetables and meat but their mouths were skillful at gossiping.

Changyi was so fond of his role, he was smart to have a tongue in praise of the servants then pretended to admire their cleverness while then secretly provoking stories about the state of the Harem palace including the most heated gossip, he said, Miss Huan, the new dancer, is now truly the darling of His Highness Nan Chen, then the hot issue is no less, a concubine of king Nan Chen who was reported to be pregnant suddenly became seriously ill.

By midday, some of the dishes were ready and some maids came from the room of their respective masters, the king's concubines to take food for the master.

"Hey, you...!" Suddenly a servant called Zhao Juren who was sitting exhausted on a round wooden chair near a wooden water barrel.

"I? Eh me?" Zhao Juren pointed at his own face.

"Yes, you. Please go with me for a minute, I can't bring all this alone." He pointed at the two trays on the table filled with bowls and dishes of various dishes.

"Oh.." with a slight confusion Zhao Juren could not say anything to resist, around him no other servant was close enough.

"Miss Chue is waiting for her late lunch, let's hurry." His request with an imploring attitude.

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