TN | The Malicious Empress

Chapter 61: Raven Moon

In the Wo Long Temple in the mountains, it was the time in the evening when the skies were getting dark and a light drizzle fell. The rain came with a chill wind, thus Alexia closed the window before turning around and stating, "Young Lady must be cautious and not catch a cold."

Marie wrapped Jennie with a cloak and spoke worriedly, "The mountain roads are not easy to walk. If the rain falls for the entire night, not sure if one could leave after tomorrow morning prayers. One may need to stay one more day else the road would be muddy."

"One more day to rest then one will rest one more day." Alexia smiled, "The scenery of this place is very good and the environment is also quiet and secluded. It is still better than..." She swallowed the rest of the words back to her stomach as she wanted to say that it was better when comparing to those snakes in the Shen residence.

Jennie sat at the table moving the chess pieces. The current her now loves to play chess but unfortunately the few girls by her side did not know how to play, so she had to play by herself. Occasionally Alexia and Marie would feel strange when their Young Lady played by herself, as there would be times when she portrayed some odd expressions which would make one's heart cold.

The doors were pushed open and Gui Momo came in with a wide smile on her face. In her hands, she carried some food ,saying, "Young Lady, this is the vegetarian cuisine of the temple. Even though it is vegetarian, Wo Long Temple's cuisine is rather good. This old servant specially requested for a bowl of crystal Osmanthus broth. Eldest Young Lady and Second Young Lady had already tried it and said that it was good."

"Oh. Place it there." Jennie said plainly.

"It would be best that Young Lady eat it while it is still hot. It would not be delicious if it cools down." Gui Momo warmly brought the bowl over to hand it over to Jennie.

"Why is Momo anxious?" Marie took the porcelain bowl smoothly from Gui Momo and smiled, "Young Lady had said to place it down. Just now she felt some discomfort and would take it after a while."

Gui Momo felt annoyed in her heart but when she saw Jennie being indifferent to Marie's words, she could only clench her teeth. Previously Jennie would always treat Gui Momo's words as the most important and if Gui Momo had some dispute with the maids, she would definitely punish the maids first. She did not know from when Marie, Alexia and those two girls were being favoured by Jennie.

Just as she was contemplating, she heard Jennie suddenly say, "Momo has already accompanied me for fourteen years."

Gui Momo's heart jumped a beat as she looked at Jennie. At that exact moment, Jennie also looked over. A pair of clear eyes that had a childlike innocence which also put Gui Momo in a trance.

Without one noticing, that baby that was crying piteously for food had become little girl and grew up to a gracefully slim young female in front of her. Gui Momo's heart sighed, in the beginning when Shen Xin and his wife left for the battlefield, they requested her to take good care of Jennie and in a blink of an eye, fourteen years had passed.

"Momo all the while is close to me." Jennie said softly, "One remembered there was a time where I was running a fever and it was raining outside, like it is now. The physician that the residence invited did not arrive for a long time, so Momo got worried and ran out to search for one. At the end, Momo slipped and broke your head but still instead to search for another physician to come over."