Housekeeper of the Hundred Blossom Palace
Chapter 155: Continuation of Cleaning

It was the day after Yang and Yui Mei’s conversation.

Yui Mei returned to Jiaofang once again.

In any case, she was still in the midst of her job order, and she had to continue the work she left yesterday and clean the place.

There was still the matter of difficulties experienced when having this place cleaned.

‘Kinda reminds me of when I first came here.’

She recalled how she had to clean all the mansions that Mei, her superior court lady, had abandoned even though she just entered the Hundred Blossom Palace.

By the way, the frequency of her encountering Mei had decreased recently.

That was only natural. Mei skips her cleaning duties and aims to be a concubine, while Yui Mei does her job regularly while being a rubbernecker from time to time, so there’s no way their area of activity would overlap.

‘That girl’s desperate, after all.’

She could’ve just done her best with her job since she still hadn’t become a concubine until now, but Mei didn’t have that kind of thought, apparently.

She wanted to be a concubine, but she didn’t want to exert effort.

That’s the kind of person Mei was.

Anyway, let’s just set aside this talk of the past.

Yui Mei cheered herself, determined to make progress with cleaning.

She came prepared to deal with the stinky smell that hindered her cleaning before.

She placed a cloth that she ripped over her nose before putting the mask on it.

It’s unfortunate that her words would be unintelligible if she spoke while wearing this, but since she didn’t have any plans talking to other people while cleaning, it didn’t matter.

And so, Yui Mei started dusting off the edge of the site that had been entrusted to her, and sweeping the fallen dust.

Suddenly, she heard a buzzing noise, as if somebody was kicking up a fuss from somewhere, so she stopped what she was doing.

‘What is that?’

Yui Mei was bothered by the noise, so she decided to take a peep. A few guys clad in black were moving in groups in the corridor a short distance away from where she was.

‘What are these eunuchs doing in Jiaofang?’

Besides, they were wearing an unfamiliar set of clothes.

‘Goodness, who are they and where did they come from?’

She quietly observed, when they suddenly began opening the doors of the Jiaofang rooms as they passed by.

“Kyaahh!?”

“What!?”

Apparently, they opened the rooms of the courtesans, and women’s shrieks resounded.

They seemed to be doing an inspection.

‘So that’s where the noise is coming from.’

“Do not resist, anyone who resists will be considered as criminals.”

One of the men in black said so.

He didn’t even yell, but for some reason, his voice resounded throughout the place.

“We are from the Ministry of Justice. Be quiet, we will leave once we are done with the investigation.”

‘Eh, so those guys are from the Ministry of Justice!?’

The Ministry of Justice was an organizational branch of the imperial palace, and it could be compared to the police organization of her previous life.

In that case, it might be natural to think that these guys suddenly came to Jiaofang in order to conduct an investigation, but this situation might be a little weird.

Based on Yui Mei’s knowledge of Chinese dramas, investigation of the crime scene should be done by the soldiers and imperial guards, and if the crime occured within the Hundred Blossom Palace, it should be the eunuchs who do this job. The Ministry of Justice was supposed to be in charge of taking custody of the criminals that were caught and interrogating them.

In short, wasn’t it unusual for the Ministry of Justice to appear at the crime scene and conduct an investigation?

Actually, Yui Mei had never seen anyone affiliated with the Ministry of Justice until now.

‘Wait, is this because of the poppy juice that the Ministry of Justice went out of their way to come here?’

Yui Mei’s heart pounded while watching the events unfold, when she suddenly met the eye of a person from the Ministry of Justice’s group.

It was the person who called out earlier, saying ‘Do not resist’.

He was young, probably around the same age as Libin.

He left the group and strode towards Yui Mei.

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T/N: Sorry guys for the delay in posting, double chap to make up for the missed one on Monday ?