Although the bathroom was luxuriously furnished, the experience of bathing this time was exceedingly terrible for Gu Yunxi.

Nanny Yan and Nanny Gui indeed resented Gu Yunxi now, perhaps because they had gotten reprimanded by the servant for Gu Yunxi's intentional frame-up.

After Gu Yunxi became quiet, the two began to serve her to wash, and their actions became even ruder.

Nanny Yan left for a moment, and when she came back, she held a peony-patterned oval white porcelain box in her hand.

She opened it, inside of which was some soap powder scented with hosta flowers.

Nanny Yan reached into the box with her big hand, grabbed a handful of soap powder, and smeared directly on the top of Gu Yunxi's head.

Then, Nanny Gui strode forward. She inserted her thick fingers into Gu Yunxi's hair, scratching violently.

Gu Yunxi couldn't help but wince for their torture.

Initially, her eyes got stung by a few drops of the brown soap powder when Nanny Yan crudely put it on her head.

Now, the vicious women began to ravage her delicate scalp wantonly. How could she continue to endure such sufferings?

Gu Yunxi kicked the bathtub hard with both feet, shouting discontentedly, "Do you know how to serve people? I'm going to be stung blind with the soap powder. Stop! I don't want to bathe anymore."

These two women were vicious, but Gu Yunxi was not a person who would meekly accept everything.

She deliberately stretched her neck and shouted to attract the attention of the guards outside.

Someone knocked on the window again with a louder sound and a quickened frequency than before. It sounded like that person was already quite impatient.

"What's the matter! Behave yourself, you two, or I'll report to the Master and punish you by making you kneel on the tiles."

The two nannies' expressions were angry and forbearing for the thankless job.

After a long time of hard work, they finally washed Gu Yunxi up thoroughly.

The charcoal fire at the bottom of the bathtub was still burning and kept the water warm and suitable for bathing.

Gu Yunxi was comfortably immersed in warm water, somewhat unwilling to go out of the tub.

Seeing Nanny Yan brought the clean handkerchief, Gu Yunxi looked up with her clear and bright eyes watered by the steam and said to the two nannies, "Having been in bed for two days, now I have the stiff back and sore arms. Since you two have plenty of strength, why don't you come over and give me a massage?"

The two women immediately showed two long faces, which were so black that they looked like two big pot covers.

"Well, are you unwilling?"

Gu Yunxi uttered a sneer and continued after rolling her bright eyes for a while, "Who just promised in front of Master Ming to serve me well?

Do you refuse to be ordered about by me now since I'm the only one here? In this way, I feel uncomfortable and will not get out of the tub. When the charcoals in the drawer all get consumed, please go and replace them with new ones for me."

The two women gritted their teeth angrily, but they couldn't do anything to this clever girl.

Who knew whether she would tell the Master about it or not if they didn't follow her will? If she did, the Master would likely get angry and punish them by making them kneel on those sharp tiles.

Reluctantly, the two had to swallow their anger. One kneaded Gu Yunxi's arms and shoulders, while the other massaged her back, both of them acting cautiously with moderate strength.

At this time, Gu Yunxi only needed to lean on the side of the tub and relax. Closing her eyes with a smirk, she enjoyed comfortably in the warm bath.

After a long time, the charcoal fire in the drawer weakened, and Gu Yunxi felt the bathwater temperature gradually dropped down.

She lazily opened her eyes and raised her head, saying casually, "Okay, that's all for today. Help me up."

The two nannies were already so tired that they were gasping, panting and suffering from aches and pains in their fingers and back.

Without any rest, they helped Gu Yunxi out of the tub and wrapped her in a chrysanthemum-patterned greenish-yellow cross-stitch brocade quilt. And then, they led her to round the screen and lay down on the couch on the west side.

"It's too cold! I need a charcoal brazier!"

Gu Yunxi started to niggle them again.

Nanny Gui frowned. She opened her drooping triangular eyes to coldly stare at the girl, who was having trouble for no reason, and said in a gloomy voice, "It's almost June, and how can it be cold?"

"I have been weak and afraid of the cold since I was young. If you don't prepare the charcoal brazier for me, I will not change clothes!"

Gu Yunxi leisurely lay sideways on the soft couch, with her black hair wetly spreading over the bed and some over her delicate shoulders and collarbone.

She stretched one of her snow-white little feet out from the quilt and swayed it playfully in the air, making people attracted and distracted.

The two nannies were surprised. The pretty and well-built little bitch was truly attractive, and no wonder that the Master loved her so much.

Maybe she would be in the Master's good graces in the future, and in this case, it was better not to offend her now.

Nanny Gui became silent and turned around to go out to make a charcoal brazier.

Since the silver charcoal was dry and flammable, and there would be no smoke and dust while burning, it was most suitable to be used in the bedroom for heating when it was cold.

Soon, Nanny Gui brought a copper brazier with the pattern of fishes playing with pearls and placed it in front of the couch.

The charcoal fire in it was burning, warming up the bathroom.

Gu Yunxi lowered her eyes and glanced at the charcoal brazier indifferently, smiling faintly.

Gu Yunxi suddenly screamed as soon as she put on a lake-green dress with the cloud and butterfly patterns, "Ah! My earrings are missing."

"Earrings?"

The two nannies' hearts jolted for her words.

They all already felt exhausted by the demands of Gu Yunxi.

At the moment, every of her movements would make them panic, and even their blood run cold.

Gu Yunxi furrowed deeply and showed an anxious expression, her fingers pinching her empty earlobes, "I wore a pair of gold earrings when I came. How could the earrings disappear after I took a bath?"

Suddenly raising her head, she stared directly at the two bewildered nannies with sharp eyes.

With her little hands outstretched, Gu Yunxi said deliberately, "No wonder you acted so rudely just now when you washed me up. It turned out that you took a fancy to that pair of gold earrings. Tell me, did you two steal my earrings?!"

"Miss, don't talk nonsense and indiscriminately wrong us!"

Feeling anxious and scared, Nanny Gui hurriedly retorted out of breath.

Gu Yunxi, smiling faintly, crossed her arms and raised her voice, "If you didn't steal my earrings, it should be that you knocked them off during the bath! It all results from your rudeness to me in every direction. Get my earrings back! Otherwise, don't blame me if I sincerely praise you two in front of the Master!"

"Miss, please keep your voice down. We'll find them back for you."

Nanny Yan had lost all the tough auras she had just now, and she repeatedly waved her hands and begged Gu Yunxi with a depressed look.

She scolded in her heart, "The Master's taste is so strange! How can he get attracted by such a fussy little bitch?"

If she became in power in the mansion, they would be likely to have a gloomy time.

With jumbled thoughts, the two nannies quickly rounded the screen.

Compared with the ordinary bathtub that could not keep the water temperature, the double-layer bathtub with charcoal fire was a few inches higher.

Although the two nannies were tall and robust, it would not be easy to bend down to find something in the bathtub if they did not stand higher.

Nanny Yan took a low stool, stepped on it, and then bent down her bucket-like waist to look down into the water.

It was impossible to see through the turbid bathwater mixed with the soap powder and flower petals.

Without any other choice, Nanny Yan rolled up a sleeve and put her thick arm into the water, stirring back and forth.

After a moment, Nanny Gui asked, "Did you get them?"

Nanny Yan was bending down so deeply that she would not feel comfortable after being such a gesture for a long time.

She grimaced and blushed, shaking her head violently and saying, "No... I found nothing..."

While saying, she grasped the edge of the tub with one hand and continued to grope in the water with the other.

No one noticed that Gu Yunxi, who had been silent for a long time, slowly stepped behind them and gently curled her lips, revealing a strange smile.

Nanny Yan suddenly felt that it became empty under her feet, and with the half of her body leaning above the water, she completely lost her balance.

"Ah!"

While screaming in horror, she dropped headlong into the tub.

"Hahaha!"

The water splashing, Gu Yunxi held the low stool in both hands and laughed wildly in front of the tub.

"Ah! Little bitch, you are deliberate."

Nanny Gui got furious while seeing it, and her widely-opened triangular eyes gleamed a murderous expression.

Gnashing her teeth, she flung herself at Gu Yunxi and kept chasing her like a wild beast.

At this time, the extreme anger and hatred dazzled her head, and she forgot that her companion still got trapped in the tub upside down and was violently struggling, accompanied by the gurgling noises.

Gu Yunxi threw the low stool in her hands towards Nanny Gui, and then she rounded the screen and ran shrewdly around the spacious bathroom.

She carried her dress with both hands, and her slender body dodged so flexibly that Nanny Gui's clumsy and thick arms could never reach her.

After missing catching her several times, Nanny Gui became more irritable and couldn't help screaming.

The servants outside heard the unusual movements in the room and began to slam the door hard.

They finally broke the door bolt by force, and four or five eunuchs surged into the bathroom.

In front of the couch, Gu Yunxi avoided the charcoal brazier dexterously with a twist of her waist.

But Nanny Gui behind her was bulky and clumsy.

Before Nanny Gui could react, she found that the little girl in front of her suddenly disappeared, replaced by a charcoal brazier where the flames were burning fiercely.

She couldn't stop now. She opened her big catfish-like mouth and screamed, and one of her big feet stepped into the brazier.

Red flames immediately surrounded her calf.

Feeling painful and frightened, Nanny Gui howled and stamped her feet hurriedly, spinning around in place. The young eunuchs all found tools on hand and whipped her to help her extinguish the flames on her body.

When everyone was in a mess, Gu Yunxi carried her dress and ran out of the bathroom, laughing all the way.

Looking back while running, she suddenly felt a pain in her body and realized that she hit someone.

While Gu Yunxi was groaning in pain, a pair of cold palms firmly seized her around the middle.

Then the scene in front of her vision quickly turned, and the man hugged her up while she was in a trance.

"Little monster, you already made troubles again while being out of my sight for such a short time."

Ming Lan's triumphant voice sounded in her ears.

"Lord Ming?"

Gu Yunxi gazed at the unfamiliar face that showed up in front of her eyes, with her eyebrows and eyes completely occupied by surprise and doubt.

All she had seen before was his face in makeup, but at this moment, he washed up his face, and Gu Yunxi was almost unable to recognize him.

To tell the truth, Ming Lan looked handsome with his makeup removed.

Why did he have to learn to make up like a woman?

Ming Lan's charming eyes shone with a dim light. Noticing that Gu Yunxi stared at him in a daze, he curled his thin lips slightly and raised his eyebrows, chuckling in a soft and attractive voice, "Well? Now that you feel comfortable after taking a bath, and Master Ming has turned to be Lord Ming again?"

"Lord Ming, put me down."

Gu Yunxi got a shiver for his gaze, and goosebumps rippled over her skin.

She soon reacted and started violently struggling to get free.

She bit on Ming Lan's shoulder. He winced in pain but did not let her go.

Gu Yunxi looked behind him in panic. Those eunuchs were crowding together, winking at her, teasing, and joking.

Someone brave even followed Ming Lan and whistled through the fingers between the lips.

Indulging his subordinates and ignoring Gu Yunxi's shouting and cursing, Ming Lan quickly rushed into the room with her in his arms.