Close Encounter

"Do you need anything miss_??" Fan Mei was dressed in her maid dress which shows the tastes of the inhabitants of this Palace.

"Mmm, no I don't, I was just looking for some herbs for my hand is killing me_!!" Henan could not exaggerate more.

Let me bring you some herbs then and make paste to apply on your hand_!!" Fan Mei was ready to walk out from her room.

"Stop, I'll go with you, I am tired to look at the ceiling of this room_!!" being maid, it was not Fan Mei place to speak.

She walked toward formal kitchen.

Wei Lan was also there.

The paste she gave her sister to apply on the wounds of Lue Zhen was used up and she needed more herbs to make it again.

"Where are we going_??" Henan asked her maid, she thought to collect information through her mouth.

"Formal kitchen is made to provide every formal necessity and we can find most of fresh herbs there too so I am heading toward formal kitchen, do this miss need something else too_??" she asked as it was her duty to look after the guest.

"Na, not necessary, after all we can visit again if we need anything, right?" Henan waved her hand.

"Yes! we can miss anytime_!!" they approached it.

Formal kitchen was only for name, Henan knew beforehand, formal kitchens happened to be as big as royal kitchen because the number of servings prepared in a formal kitchen exceeds to that of royal kitchen sometimes.

A girl brushed past the maid.

The maid wanted to yell thinking that it was another maid but to look at the fine attire of the girl she stopped her mouth.

The part of the fourth court where Wei Lan was kept was considered a place where only those live who were under kind attentions of Crown Prince.

Concubines or future concubines lived in the Fourth Court while the third Prince was living in upper portion of Fourth Court, why, it was due to his irrational insistence that he was allowed to stay in the upper Fourth Court.

No one know why third Prince insisted to stay there, it was his wish to see the children of servants playing in their small courtyards from afar and upper portion of Fourth Court was the only place from where he could see them.

Henan looked at the girl but could not see her face due to her fast pace.

"Can we take different path to my room, it would be refreshing too_??" just when her maid turned to walk back she sheepishly suggested.

"As you wish miss Diu_!!" she turned around and took another path.

Henan did not see this path before.

It was lush decorated, few maids in their pooled dresses were wandering here and there.

If maids were this yearned dressed, how would a concubine be dressed??

Suddenly this thought popped in her head.

Henan was not used to such kind of scenes because Shang Palace was little different and slightly more conservative than this Zhilan Palace.

"It seemed I have seen you before, you are also living in the Fourth Court_??" a woman wearing slander veil appeared in front of Henan out of no where, it was because the fact that Henan was deep in her thoughts.

Her mature gaze landed on Henan with a smirk.

"Oh, you must have, I never know that this Fourth Court also host some outdated things_!!" Henan could only act commoner and humble in front of Crown Prince and Queen for the sake of her own purposes but not in front of a mere concubine.

"Ahh, what did you say?? who do you think is outdated?? say it again_you don't know who I am_!!" the concubine was fuming with flurry.

"Whoever you are is none of my business_!!" Henan waved her hand ready to dismiss her further talk.

The concubine was more fueled with this.

"Don't dream anything, you country girl, your ass is not fit for Crown Prince to venture in_!!" the concubine spoke in her ear and walked past chuckling horribly.

She spoke in such low pitch that even her maid could not hear.

Disgusting!!

Henan wanted to spite at her but she was gone.

Her maid guided her to her room and applied the herbs on her burned hand.

Henan was not feeling good after hearing the disgusting words of that concubine, she wanted to show her real place but how??

If she wanted to stay in this palace for sometime until she found way to reach Wan Hu, she could not possibly allow these trashy concubines to walk on her head.

"Miss, if you allow this maid of yours, I wanted to say something_!!" her maid spoke up, it seemed she was looking through some of the thoughts of Henan coming in her head.

"If I been asked, I would say that you must not think about revenge that concubine_!!" the maid slowly spoke.

"Why not, she is disrespectful, I should teach her how should act properly in front of me in future_!!" she was firmed.

"Its not that she has influence but because she is the most famous in her cunning traits, please don't say anyone that I said those words to you, I only thought to help you, you are small in years and experience to face that woman_!!" her maid fell on the ground uttering mixed pleadings.

'She is afraid yet she wanted to help too.' Henan was moved by her actions.

After third day of intense care, Lue Zhen could breath smoothly, Jie Lan heard his smooth breath and heaved a sigh of relief.

His swollen eye was batter and his cheeks was slightly healed.

Bigger wounds were also doing batter, just that it would take time for deep wounds to heal properly.

"No, I would not eat anything until you find the woman who fell unconscious in this room a week ago_!!" six years old third Prince again was reluctant to eat anything until his orders were fulfilled.

The servants were cutting their fingers under their teeth's.

'Why this third Prince suddenly abandoned his habit to thrash and then eat his meal happily?'

'How they were supposed to find that woman??' This Palace was big enough with thousands of maids and servants, they don't know where she would be.