After a long moment, the door creaked open. A maid from the Zhongyong Marquis Estate stepped out, her expression neither servile nor overbearing.
"This eunuch," she said, "we have been traveling all day, and my mistress has just returned to her quarters and fallen asleep. It is quite late; may I ask what urgent business the Empress has that requires summoning her?"
After Lin Jingyue had left earlier, Zheng Yue had instructed her two senior maids that no matter who came, they were to stall and prevent anyone from entering.
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