Xiaoming kept looking at Eunuch Lianying and Eunuch Gao Bing. They both were talking with a senior lady in her forties. He decided to leave the palace and ask Lu Bojing to come to the palace tomorrow.
"Yes, Your Royal Highness."
"The horse on which I rode to the market, Mūchén, had left it in a stable," Xiaoming said.
"There's only one stable in the market. Please follow me this way, Your Royal Highness," Lu Bojing said. Xiaoming walked away with him. Liu Jin Yu took a breath of relief upon seeing them leave.
She decided to run away and slowly stepped back when she stopped.
"Where are you leaving?" A well-dressed lady in her late thirties asked Liu Jin Yu. "Stand straight in your place if you don't want to get punished," she reprimanded Liu Jin Yu.
"But I do not–"
"Are you talking back? Don't forget your manners," the lady told her. The few young ladies around her looked at her which made her feel awkward. She had forgotten when she was scolded last time.
