Gu Youyou understood the rules here, she immediately took out some silver notes, handing one worth a thousand silver to each on-duty palace maiden. The palace maidens hurriedly assisted her up and down, and they finally gathered everything needed before the doors closed.
"Miss, that's five thousand silver gone." Xiang Chun felt heartbroken; as a maid, she only earned four silver a month, and that was because she was the head maid. The second and third-tier maids didn't even earn four silver, and here were five thousand silver that she could never earn in her lifetime!
Gu Youyou said, "It's only a small amount of money. Just with this dress I'm wearing, I can earn back double the silver."
Gu Youyou and Xiang Chun, after the evening meal, returned with a bunch of colorful scraps, and were again ridiculed by others.
Xiang Chun couldn't bear it and began arguing with them.
Gu Youyou ignored it altogether and went to eat.
Time was limited, and they couldn't go to bed too early.
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