Before long!
"!!"
|▽)
Annie spotted a counter with hardly anyone queued up and trotted over in a flash, stopping in front of it. She looked up at the towering counter, then stood on tiptoe, barely managing to show her little face above the countertop.
These government offices were good in every way—except for this one thing, which Annie found very unsatisfactory!
When they set up counters like this, had they never considered receiving child customers like her? Did children like her not need to handle business too?
Why did they make the counter so darn high? How outrageous!
(...)
(;￢￢)
"..."
Behind the counter stood a celestial maiden dressed in a moon-white standard palace uniform.
Her hair was arranged with meticulous precision, and she wore a professional smile. Before her sat a massive bronze mirror artifact and several stacks of jade slips of varying sizes, which she was currently sorting through with her head lowered.
"Hm?"
"Hello!"
Sensing Annie's little head peeking up, she looked up in surprise. Then she quickly recovered and gave Annie a sweet smile.
However, she did not seem to intend to serve Annie. Perhaps she had subconsciously assumed that Annie was merely a family member brought along by some customer handling business?
Annie, of course, did not care what the other party was thinking. She simply slapped the counter hard with her little hand and declared boldly:
"Hello to you too!"
(`)~
"Miss, I want to handle some business!"
(-)
"?!"
Hearing this, the celestial maiden, who had been about to resume her work, looked up again. She studied Annie's delicate yet childish little face, then glanced at the young ladies and maidservants who had by now come to stand behind Annie, clearly of no ordinary background judging from their attire. The professional smile