The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

445: Alante

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It took Rain an hour to finish chopping the wood after Feng Wu walked over to help.
Afterwards, they returned to their room.

Their roommates had been talking, but the moment Feng Wu and Rain entered, they became quiet and immediately broke away from each other to go to their respective beds, completely ignoring Rain and Feng Wu.

Rain wasn’t like them.
She was only at the castle to complete the task and get her bonus, so of course she didn’t care how the other maids saw her.

The four girls were divided into two factions: Feng Wu and Rain were one, and the two girls were the other.

Neither of the girls wanted to be dragged down with Rain after the trouble earlier that day, so they chose to keep their distance from her.
As a result, their first night was tense and awkward.

The four girls got their assignments the next morning.
Feng Wu was assigned clean up duty.
Her primary responsibility would be the second floor.

Rain was assigned kitchen duty.
Her main responsibility would be to help out in the kitchen doing whatever odds and ends needed doing.

The other two girls were assigned yard duty in the back.
As long as they diligently stayed on top of sweeping the leaves everyday, it would be an easy task.

They thought Rain would be assigned heavy work, that the lady maids would pull some kind of trick behind the scenes to make her suffer because of what happened yesterday, so they were surprised when this was unexpectedly not the case.

Could the maids have generously forgiven Rain?

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No, thinking like that gave the maids too much credit.
Servants getting along like that during normal times in a home like the count’s was rare enough.
Letting a lower ranked servant get away with insult would be even more rare.

Sure enough, a few days later the maids showed up in the kitchen to give Rain trouble, assigning her random extra tasks, then deliberately looking for fault with Rain so they could justify asking Tingli to punish her.

Rain, who had a constant stream of trouble, had no time to investigate the countess.
It took all she had to suppress her anger and not reveal their disguise.

The original plan was to have Rain do most of the legwork, but with her being the center of so much attention, it was impossible.
She would only draw unwanted attention if she were to start asking questions about the countess.

This meant Wind, Pei Qing, and Feng Wu had to take over and do all the work.
Unfortunately, Wind and Pei Qing were men, so it was hard for them to ask about and get information on the countess.
Which meant in reality, the only one who could investigate was the socially inept Feng Wu.

Feng Wu was allowed to clean the guest rooms and corridors but wasn’t permitted to work near the masters because she was too new.

In the three days since entering the castle, they hadn’t found anything.
In fact, they hadn’t even laid eyes on the count or countess.
The husband and wife were almost always locked away in their rooms, doing who knew what.

Though there was gossip the countess occasionally came out to delegate tasks, Feng Wu herself had never seen the elusive lady.

Feng Wu only had ten days to complete the task before the individual challenge started.
She worked hard to investigate the countess because she was on a tight schedule.
Let’s look at all the ways she tried.

First Attempt:

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“Why are you here? This floor is the masters’ private residence.
No one comes up unless they’ve been summoned! How did you get up here?!” A maid with a wary face stopped Feng Wu.

“Sister Tingli asked me to come to the fourth floor to clean.” Feng Wu replied with a deadpan expression while raising her rag and bucket.

“This is the fifth floor! The fourth floor is below this one!” The maid angrily pointed to the floor.

“Oh.” Feng Wu nodded and went downstairs with her bucket and rag.

The plan to pretend to clean the count’s room failed.

Second attempt:

“The countess didn’t say she wanted to eat snacks.
Who asked you to bring those here without permission!” A maid asked Feng Wu after stopping her.

“These are the new pastries from the kitchen.
The old lady asked me to bring some to the count.” Feng Wu replied.

“The old lady asked you to bring them over? Eat one and show me.” The maid looked suspiciously at Feng Wu.

Without a word, Feng Wu ate one of the pastries. . . 

After awhile the plate bottomed out.

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Maid:. . . 

Feng Wu: Delicious.

The plan to approach the target with snacks failed.

Attempt three:

Attempt four:

And so on. . . 

The fifth floor was guarded by those loyal to the count and countess.
Feng Wu tried really hard using many different methods, but none worked and she couldn’t get in to see either of her targets.

But luckily, because she kept persisting, the fourth day brought a reward.
Feng Wu was cleaning the corridor when she saw a beautiful woman escorted by a lady’s maid.
She didn’t know who this person was, so when she saw her approach, Feng Wu stood with a blank look on her face without performing the customary greeting.

“How brazen! Not greeting even though you see the countess approach?!” Lamia berated Feng Wu loudly.

Was this the countess?! Feng Wu was a little surprised, but she stepped aside and offered her greetings.

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“It’s quite all right Lamia.
Don’t scare the girl.
Come, don’t be afraid, tell this lady your name.” The countess said kindly to Feng Wu after addressing her maid.

“My name is Feng Wu.” Feng Wu had lowered her head, so it was impossible to read her eyes.

“What a fine name for such a beautiful girl.
It’s rare to see one so beautiful amongst the servants,” praised the countess before walking away with her maid.

Feng Wu had a thoughtful expression as she looked at the countess walking away.

Although the servants were all young, beautiful women, their beauty was separated into different grades for rank.
Feng Wu’s beauty was a rarity amongst the women.

The countess sat quietly in front of her dresser as she combed her hair in the room she shared with her husband.
She smiled while stroking the smooth skin on her face.

“Alante.” An emaciated and withered man struggled to call out her name from the bed.

“My dear Nigusu, are you uncomfortable?” Alante asked her husband tenderly.

“I am fine Alante.
Where did you go just now? Why didn’t you stay by my side, my love.
I don’t want us to be apart even for a moment.” Nigusu’s eyes were lit with affection.

“I won’t ever leave you.
We’ll be together forever, and ever. . . ” Alante promised with a smile.