“I said, you lazy girl is still sleeping. Quickly get up! We are playing cards, you are the only one that isn’t playing!

Yun Ge opened her blurry eyes confusedly and replied casually. “Let me sleep more for a while. I was working overtime until very late last night.”

Standing in front of the bed was a young beautiful girl, dressed in traditional costume. She suddenly felt something wrong, couldn’t helped but smiled wryly. She had been here in this world for around half a year, but still remembered things in the past.

The beautiful girl in traditional costume was surprised and said, “What did you say, still sleepy?”

“Hmm, i am still tired. You guys play, don’t worry about me.” Yun Ge patted her pillow, planning to continue her chat with Zhou Gong*.

*(Zhou Gong here is 周公聊天, which i am not sure how to translate it. In some sense, i feel its like dream deity or something since she is talking about sleeping time.)

“Hmph! Which day have you even been not feeling tired? You only know sleep, sleep and sleep. Get up immediately or i will pull your blanket!” The beautiful girl didn’t listen at all.

“Miss Jing Xue, have mercy on me…” She went to sleep, even if just for a while.

Although the beautiful girl named Jing Xue, she was a kind of person who couldn’t calm down for a moment. Seeing that she was totally ignored, she immediately moved her hand into an action. She pulled her sleeves and grabbed the blanket.

Yun Ge quickly grabbed her blanket back. Knowing fully that she couldn’t escape today, she raised her hand as a form of surrender. “I wake up, wake up, okay! Don’t pull it. You don’t know how difficult it was to get this blanket. I will accompany you guys playing.”

“You only know how to work hard for this kind of things. I don’t understand how come you have so many weird ideas.” Jing Xue was the winner over her. She was so proud of herself as she spoke. She went back to Flower Hall to wait upon Yun Ge to get up and freshened up. She also didn’t forget to urge her. “Be quick, eveyone is already waiting for you.”

Yun Ge crawled out of the bed, went to wipe her face with water inside the tray near the window. She was completely awake now, muttered to herself. “Yeah, i also think that i am full of bad ideas. I gave you guys cards to play with, turned out that i still cannot sleep in peace.”

“What are you talking about?” Jing Xue yelled from the Flower Hall, didn’t understand her mumbling.

“It’s nothing. I’ll be better soon.” Yun Ge sticked out her tongue and quickly put on the middle layer of her dress. Thinking how fast the winter came and it was usually not that cold so quickly, still put on a thick cloak on the outside.

Thinking back about the time she read a novel online, always see lot of story with a transmigration back into the ancient times that said the ancient clothes were all troublesome and they couldn’t wear it. She couldn’t but laughed at it. By trying to wear it personally, these ancient clothes were all quite easy to wear, tied one or two straps to right place. She guessed that only someone with low intelligence didn’t know how to wear them. Just like a description in the novel where the heroine could burn the kitchen simply by making a fried egg. Everything was exaggerated to the point of absurdity.

Leaving her small courtyard, went to a place that not even further than a hundred of steps was Jing Xue’s courtyard. When she arrived, there were other two more people sitting at the table, waiting for her for a long time. The girl in pink on the left side was Ke Lan and the girl in green dress on the right side was Yue Yi.

Ke Lan smiled gently at Yun Ge. “Like what i said, only Jing Xue that has the gut to wake up our Miss Yun Ge. Yun Ge, you still haven’t eat any breakfast, right? Here are some snacks, you can eat it first. Later on, we will eat while playing.

“Is it still breakfast? It’s almost noon. You two only know to let me bother other people’s dream and be the bad guy here.” Jing Xue felt indignant.

Ke Lan smiled. “Who’s the one that made us become friends? Only you are the one that assertive toward Yun Ge. If we let Yue Yi go, it is for sure that she will waiting there until Yun Ge wake up naturally. Then, what are we going to play?”

Yue Yi, who stayed silent on the side, was embarrassed and stared at Ke Lan, trying to stop her desperately.

Ke Lan laughed. “Although my heart can be softened, i am not a man.”

Yue Yi was angry. “You are the bad guy! You only take the opportunity to make fun of me. Don’t let her win so easy later and take all of her money from losing the bet!”

Yun Ge looked at the beautiful girls in the room, busy with laughing and scolding at each other, but sighed because the ancient man was so blessed. There were more than a dozen of beautiful woman like them in this big villa and they all were belong to the same man, Zhao Jian Shen, the Seventh Wangye of Ji Kingdom. This manor is another village or Bie Zhuang*, in fact, it was more appropriate to call it Cold Palace or Logistic Reserve Center**.

*(Bie Zhuang or 别庄is another words that i am not sure which one is good. From my understanding is this setting is like in a kind of separate house or manor that still belong to the wangye and the location is in the mountain. if you read bunch of transmigration story before, i am sure you will get the idea and this two words appear a lot, for now i will choose either villa or village, depend on the story context.)

**(Logistic Reserve Center or 后勤储备中心 is something that i have no idea. Literary translated is correct, but the meaning somehow off.)

Yun Ge and several other young girls were gift from other country to Zhao Jian Shen. The esteemed Zhao Wangye was reckoned to be someone with both too many women and also worry that they might be spies, and without even bothered to look at it, ordered the butler to send them here for settlement.

For a common woman, this was possibly waste of years. It was kind of a tragedy of being alone and isolated in the palace. In regard to Yun Ge, who spent her entire life gratuitously, that would be the greatest fortune from the heaven.

Imagine for a professional woman in her twenties, who was under economic pressure and slept less than five hours every day, what is better than doing nothing all of sudden, wake up naturally by herself and living without care about monthly expenses?

Alright, her situation right now was considered as being raised by someone, but the man who support her had no requirements for her at all. Do not need to meet and greet him, no need to serve him, only care about eating, drinking and life. Such a selfless offering, Yun Ge was very grateful.

As for some inconveniences in life, it was bearable.

The place that she was transmigrated righ now were very similar to ancient China in every aspect, only the history was completely different. Anyway, from her own understanding of the ancient China’s history was only limited in several dynasties and some major events, so the brother spirit let her chose the destination. She didn’t hesitate to choose a destination that she herself couldn’t explained. It was just she didn’t know what was wrong, Meng Po’s soup didn’t wiped out her memory and the original plan of reincarnation turned out to be transmigration into someone else’s body.

“Earth calling Yun Ge! Aren’t you sleeping too much already? Why are you still in daze all day long?” Jing Xue patted Yun Ge’s back hardly to pull her back from her memory.

Ke Lan and Yue Yi snickered at the side.

Yun Ge smiled apologetically and played cards with them.

The playing cards were made out of old papers from this Bie Zhuang’s study room when Yun Ge was bored. It was a total of fifty-two cards, the imitation of poker card, with number one to thirteen and each number had four colors. This game card was the same as the one from the earth. In order to make it easier to memorize for a beginner, the card with number thirteen and black spades as the highest and one as the smallest.

At the beginning it was just a game with a few girls from the nearby small courtyard. Later on, around the are where they live, men or women were both hooked on the game. When you were idle, you could see a four-person team plyaed the cards everywhere.

Yun Ge was a master in playing cards, so she usually found some girls who played well, such as the three girls in front of her.

Friendship was built from playing cards, like on a day when you have nothing do except playing cards and chatting. In Yun Ge’s previous life, this kind of happy life was something that she dared not to think about. Although there were few gossip to talk about, it was nothing more than about which girl that smells bad, which girl that is good at embroidery at what pattern, and so on. Although it was a ‘harem’, but if there was no man to vie for, there will be nothing to do.

“Hey, hey, did you hear that? I heard Zhang Ma said, that Wangfei returned to her hometown to recuperate. In few days she will pass by this place and she will come here for resting.” The news that Jing Xue had, was always the most up-to-date.

“Wangfei? Did Wangye married a Wangfei?” Ke Lan asked excitedly.

“Of course it’s the mother of Wangye, the famous Wu Wangfei in the past.”

As soon as Ke Lan heard that, she became interested. “Wu Wangfei? I also heard something when i was still in Yue Kingdom. I heard that Wangye was a fillial son. In order to cure her mother’s illness, he personally went to Yunwu Mountain to find the medicine, he was poisoned after passed by the black swamp. After fighting against deaths several times, he finally picked Ziyang Grass and saved his mother.”

Yue Yi who was listening, sighed. “Unfortunately, due to her noble identity, the princess is not something we can meet casually.”

“Want to meet Wangfei? Yue Yi, you just want to see Wangye, no? Hahaha… Your heart is in Spring now.” Jing Xue winked.

“Bah, you stinky girl! Don’t you want to see him? Come one, entertaint me a little… Aiya, Yun Ge, this round is not counted. You are too crafty, you don’t remind us of the rest of the game.”

Ke Lan, Jing Xue and Yue Yi found the circumstances was gone and it was already late to regret.

Yun Ge shrugged and didn’t bother. She originally came here to play with them. Be serious! She hadn’t had any opponent yet in these two lives. She had already made enough money for this month and it wasn’t good to scare away the people.

“Yun Ge, ah, Yun Ge… I see that you are using us so that we spend our money on gambling for you. You don’t even use your money at all.” Ke Lan saw that Yun Ge didn’t object, even generously ignored the credit.

“Sister Lan is joking. I am just the accompanion. Thank you for your kindness of letting me win.” Yun Ge made a gestur that similar like Tai-Chi.

Several women talked and laughed as the topic was once again return to the upcoming arrival of the Wangfei.

After living in the small village for more than half a year, the only one that come and go to this place was Zhang Ma, the person in charge of this place and a few of crude servants. Wangye himself had never patronized this place and the relatives of the royal also never came here. And the true name of this cold place was indeed Cold Palace*. Since it was so difficult to have a person with high status, naturally everyone here were so excited.

*(Cold Palace or 冷宫 is exactly the same as the other historical story of cold palace, where bunch of abandoned women are place here by the king or the lord and being ignored.)

If you are able to show Wangfei a good performance, can’t say for sure by being able to stay at Wangfei’s side, how small was the chance to meet Wangye? No matter how bad it was, as long as the Wangfei took a fancy of it, even being designated as the wife of the manor’s guard was way better than wasting youth in this kind of place.

The four women, to be exact, the three women had a lively discussion around the matter between Wangfei and Wangye. Yun Ge had no interest in this. As for her, the best life was being a loafer, doing nothing except idling and eating for a lifetime. She was unsure if the owner would give her life like that until she was old.

Several women still did not return to their yards even after twilight and even had their dinner served at the poker table.

Yun Ge and the other women usually lived in the couryard that located at the south side of the mountain village. Because there was no master in this mountain villa*, usually, only Zhang Ma, the person in charge and several servants from other place took care of the chores in the yard, cleaned the house, cooking and did the laundry, including helping the girls to buy all their necessities. It wasn’t given by the servants directly to the girls. The crude servants never step their foot into the courtyard as the whole villa was managed by Mr. Zhao, Zhang Ma’s husband. So, basically this place was isolated from the outside world.

*(山庄中 – Another term to describe about a villa that located in the mountain)

Normally it was okay, but in the winter, it could be very troublesome to take a bath. In addition of getting pocket money of two silver ingots monthly, Yun Ge ofter got some money after playing poker. So, she often spent the money to let those servants to help her with water for her bath and also to find someone outise to make some common living necessities, such as soft goose feather blanket and sanitary napkins for her monthly affair.

Fortunately their wellbeing here were properly managed and also they were given additional clothes and subsidies every New Year. Otherwise, according to Yun Ge’s quality of life requirements, two silver ingots plus the income from the poker table, it would be tight, no need to mention about saving.

Yun Ge returned to the courtyard. Li Ersao* had already boiled her a large barrel of hot water. Yun Ge thanked her, closed the door and soaked in the water. After finished the bath, she put on her pajamas and immediately flew to her favorite bed.

*(Li Ersao or 李二嫂 is a woman that named Li, married to a man that second son in a family.)

The winter here was considered not too cold. According to geography of her previous life, this place should be in between the subtropical and tropical regions. A goose feather blanket is enough to spend a warm winter.

Yun Ge went to sleep in blissfulness. The moment before falling asleep, she thought that to live like this is better than a dream.