A Foodie Transmigrated into the Palace

Chapter 1315 - 1313: Humility

"But of course!" Xiao Shan replied joyfully.Tang Xun chuckled.

She joked with them for quite a while before suddenly saying,

"Come to think of it, I’m new here too!"

"Even if I don’t have to learn all the rules like Xiao Chuan, you should at least pick out the important ones and tell me about them!"

"So I don’t make any embarrassing mistakes in the future!"

The three maids’ eyes lit up. They exchanged a glance, then hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Madam is wise!"

"We’d actually been thinking the same, just never found the right moment to bring it up, and we didn’t dare mention it!"

Tang Xun smiled faintly.

"Nothing you can’t bring up!"

"You all know my background; I don’t come from some well-bred scholarly family!"

"So I absolutely have to study hard, I mustn’t make a fool of myself!"

It was one thing if she embarrassed herself; the important thing was that she must never let her husband lose face.

The three maids were very relieved to hear this.

"In that case, from now on we’ll teach Madam the rules from time to time! It’s actually not that hard!"

"You’re bright as ice and snow; you’re sure to pick it up at once!"

Tang Xun shook her head guiltily.

"Not at all, not at all. You’re teasing me!"

Because of her background,

she always felt a bit inferior in front of these exceptionally capable maids.

However, she felt no jealousy toward them.

Nor did she feel that she was being overshadowed by them just because they were more capable.

On the contrary, Tang Xun got along with them very happily.

After chatting and laughing together for only half a day, she had already formally acknowledged each of them as a teacher.

Xiao Shan was skilled at embroidery.

Though she herself had been doing needlework since childhood, most of it was just simple repetition.

No one at the Tang Residence had ever hired a female instructor to teach her all kinds of refined embroidery techniques.

Most of the time she had to grope about on her own, occasionally taking a few hand-me-down garments that Lady Zhu had rewarded her sisters with and studying the stitching on them.

Other than that, she’d had no chance to come into contact with anything, and she didn’t even have a proper teaching Sister by her side.

When she saw the exquisite patterns Xiao Shan had embroidered, Tang Xun was dumbfounded and immediately begged Xiao Shan to teach her.

How could Xiao Shan refuse?

But she still tried to persuade her.

"If Madam is interested, it’s enough to learn for fun; you don’t have to treat it as work. Whatever you need done, just give us the order!"

Tang Xun was very unaccustomed to this.

She had always respected those with skills, and felt that someone like Xiao Shan deserved even more respect.

So there was now an extra layer of respect in the way she looked at Xiao Shan.

"What about you, Xiao He, Xiao Xi? What are you good at?" she asked again.

Xiao Shan smiled and introduced them one by one for her.

"Xiao He is good at brewing tea and cooking, and Xiao Xi is good at making incense and studying medicine!"

Tang Xun’s eyes widened in surprise.

"The others are already impressive enough, but you even... study medicine?"

Xiao Shan nodded.

"Madam may not know this, but Xiao Xi’s ancestors ran a medical clinic and pharmacy. Her family has ancestral prescriptions!"

"If you ever have a headache or a fever and don’t want to bother others, just let her take a look at you!"

"Anything else that comes up, Xiao Xi can also take a look for you!"

This left Tang Xun even more dumbfounded.

A huge exclamation popped into her head:

She still had the nerve to call herself a young lady? She didn’t know any skills at all—how could that be called a young lady?

It was girls like them, versed in eighteen different crafts, who should be called young ladies!

...

After quite a while, Tang Xun finally accepted the truth.

Looking at the three maids who were also her teachers, she quietly made up her mind to study hard.

The first step was to have her husband give her some lessons so she could learn more characters and read more books!

The second step was to slowly learn more from these three!

Even if it was only tea-making, even if it was just making pastries, even if it was embroidery—anything would do.

Her life had already wasted too much time; from now on she mustn’t waste even a single moment.

Learning anything was fine, so long as she didn’t drift through life emptily!

"Madam, you truly love to learn!" Xiao Xi said with a smile.

Tang Xun’s face flushed hot.

"Not at all, not at all. Even three of me together wouldn’t be a match for any one of you! You’re the truly amazing ones!"

The three maids answered modestly and said no more.

Seeing that it was getting late, Tang Xun waved her hand.

"I’m tired and want to sleep for a bit. Come wake me when it’s almost noon!"

"Yes!"

The three maids answered and withdrew. The last one even remembered to lower the bed-curtain and close the door for her.

...

Because of someone’s behavior last night, she hadn’t slept well the whole night.

She’d only meant to lie down and rest for a while, but the moment she closed her eyes, she fell asleep just like that.

She had a rather unpleasant dream.

She dreamed that she and Xia Jingfeng went to a very splendid place, which she instinctively felt must be the Imperial Palace.

The place was resplendent with gold and jade, adorned everywhere with countless pearls and gemstones, luxurious and dazzling.

There were many people seated there as well, all dressed in the most gorgeous clothes, wearing the most beautiful and exquisite headpieces and jewels.

They were all performing various rituals in unison—rituals she had never even seen before.

After the rites, they took their seats and started saying things she’d never heard in her life.

Sitting at the head of the hall should be the Emperor and Empress.

They were magnificently dressed, their manners graceful, talking and laughing with ease, their expressions gentle and pleasant, but she couldn’t understand a single word.

She sat in the farthest corner, her palms sweating, her brow furrowed.

"What do I do? What do I do? If they see through me, won’t they laugh my husband to death?"

"They’ll definitely laugh at my husband for marrying someone like me!"

"With his status, he’d still be worthy of the Prime Minister’s daughter, yet he just had to take a fancy to the stupidest me!"

"Oh no, what am I going to do!"

Just as she was panicking like an ant on a hot pan,

the Empress suddenly turned her gaze on her.

The Empress smiled with noble composure, her lips opening and closing as she spoke, but again she couldn’t understand a word.

"Husband! Husband!"

She lightly tugged his sleeve, intending to ask Xia Jingfeng to help her out.

But no matter how she tugged, he didn’t react.

Frightened, she cried out,

"Husband, what’s wrong with you?"

Xia Jingfeng finally turned around.

What kind of face was that? His eyes were as icy as ten-thousand-year-old frost, his expression as cold as a snowbound mountain.

He stared at her with knife-like eyes and flicked his sleeve with a cold snap.

"Ignorant fool of a woman—you can’t even understand this. How did I ever fall for you?"

"You’ve truly disgraced me. I’ll divorce you as soon as we get home!"

"What?"

Divorce?

Tang Xun was terrified, cold sweat breaking out all over her back.

"No!"

"Impossible!"

"We made vows; you can’t go back on your word!"

Xia Jingfeng gave a disdainful smile.

"What vows and promises? I already have someone else in my heart. You will soon be my cast-off wife!"

As he spoke, he pointed to another beautiful young lady of good family sitting at the banquet.

"See her?"

"She is the one I love! Compared to her, you are as far apart as clouds and mud!"

Tang Xun: "..."

She tried her best to see the girl’s face clearly, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t.

In the end, she couldn’t care about that anymore and broke down, crying,

"No!"