When Ji Jiu entered the door, I was lying on the table and watching. (△ Novel)

There was a knock on the door, and he pushed it in without waiting for me to say anything, causing me to scramble the map into the makeup on the table.

Ji Jiu frowned when he saw my appearance and said, "It's not that I have sued you, the most important thing is to enter the palace, don't panic at any time."

As he spoke, his eyes glanced at the table intentionally or unintentionally, and I quickly pulled out the hairpin on my head and reinserted it in the mirror to hide the strange behavior just now.

I caught a glimpse of Ji Jiu's expression, as if he had something to say.

Stopping what I was doing, I sat up straight and looked back at him and said, "Didn't you say that you would come back from a trip and teach me again?" It's only a quarter of an hour, why are you back now?" Could it be that you said that you went out to make soy sauce at the mouth of the alley?"

Ji Jiu's face sank and said, "There is news from outside, the Northland just experienced a great catastrophe the day before."

I looked at him in surprise, opened my eyes wide, and said, "What do you mean?" "Some time ago, the sky in the north had been abnormal, and it was late autumn, but it was hotter than usual. “

Déjà vu, my heart trembled, and my hands clenched into fists. "In the middle of the night the night before, there was an earthquake!"

Ji Jiu just said two sentences, but I sat there speechless, and all that came to my mind was the tragic earthquake that I had experienced in the southwest.

I immediately thought of the most critical point, in addition to the number of civilian casualties, since the start of the war, hasn't the two sides been tugging at each other?

Speaking of which, the original empress's army had more advantages. But it can't be compared to the princess's many talented people, especially I heard that one of her subordinates can see the wind and clouds, talk a little mysteriously, and claim to be able to predict the future.

The common people of this world are somewhat superstitious and in awe of such people with strange arts.

But he is still a fan of the princess. It brought some unknowable elements to that war.

So the war was more complicated than previously anticipated.

The two sides were in a tug-of-war, and they were once at a stalemate, what does it mean to have an earthquake at this time?

I looked at Ji Jiu with a solemn expression and didn't speak, and the first thing that came to my mind was the upcoming selection of palace maids to enter the palace, and I don't know if it will change because of the new situation in the north.

A few turns of mind. I haven't found the right words to ask Ji Jiu, but he spoke first.

Don't blame me for calling him an old man, since he gave me a "new" name, I've often found my dad in him, especially when he taught me the rules. This is especially true of this feeling!

I don't know if he will be so angry that he will vomit blood when he knows what I think!

Ji Jiu looked at me with his eyes and said in a calm tone: "Xiaoling, now looking at the news transmission in the city, there will definitely be measures to deal with it in the palace immediately, if it affects the selection of palace maids this time, you can just study for a few more days."

It seems like I need to learn the rules, do I need to?

Don't you need it?

Ji Jiu showed a depressed expression when he saw me. Very disapprovingly: "You have never entered the palace, and when you encounter such a situation, you may not know how to deal with it." I'll teach you a little more, and be prepared. "Okay, okay," I nodded, "everything you say makes sense, after all, you're the old man there." “

Ji Jiu heard the old man's words. The expression on his face became even more gloomy, and he was about to leave. I stopped him behind him, "Hey. Where did you hear from you?" You go out on the street by yourself, don't you understand everything?" He said in a cold tone, it seems that the old man really hit it! "Can I still get out?" When I heard this, I was overjoyed, and I immediately came to my senses. "When did I say you can't go out?" Ji Jiu looked at me inexplicably and said, "It's just that you lack too much, so I'm more worried, so I let you spend a little more time consolidating." "You didn't say it earlier, I really want you to keep me in this house until you enter the palace." I wiped a drop of sweat from my forehead and smiled bitterly.

My chest is no longer tight, I am no longer sleepy, and my spirit is suddenly better.

Looking in the mirror, just as he was about to go out, Ji Jiu threw over a small bottle. "Apply it before you go out."

I don't need to look at it, I also know that it is Xiao Anxin who made up the disfigurement potion, and this person is now staying in the small courtyard and living with us.

Since I can't hold the boat anymore, I'm bored, and I'm developing new hobbies every day!

But the cooking that he was most interested in was taken to the extreme by Uncle Liu, so he specialized in other research directions.

There are several rooms in the small courtyard, one of which has a lot of books, and there are many kinds of medicinal materials, those that Uncle Liu collected, and Ji Jiu got these days.

Xiao An came to inspiration one day and began to develop disfigurement drugs.

I'm just a three-legged cat when it comes to disguise, and of course it's relative to some gifted people.

Xiao An's talent is obviously higher than mine, and he is much better than me.

The days he has been studying have been small.

I smeared my face in front of the mirror full of resentment, humanity covered a thousand ugliness with whiteness, and a black charcoal was smeared, no matter how beautiful it was, it couldn't be beautiful.

When I went out, I was under the persimmon tree, Xiao An talked to Uncle Liu, and when I was going out, Xiao An was very interested in stopping me and looking at it: "This is not enough, and then change it."

He didn't know where he could get a small blade out of his body, and he could do it with three or two clicks on my head.

When I saw Uncle Liu looking at me with disgust, I knew something was wrong? 5 things!

Rushing back to the house, almost half dead of anger, the dead eunuch just raised his knife and shaved off a portion of my eyebrows.

This is good, ugly is just one word!

I gritted my teeth and stood in front of the mirror, staring at Xiao An who was following. "I used to be in the palace, and for a while, everyone made this eyebrow shape." "Don't say it, with this smeared face now, it looks very good!"

Your sister is good!

When he met Ji Jiu at the door, he looked at me in shock, especially his gaze quickly focused on my eyebrows.

Without waiting for him to ask, I hurried out at the speed of light. I didn't have to count me down a few more words, and I walked fast and heard him sigh behind me.

Anyway, I'm not going to the palace for beauty pageants, to be honest. In addition to affecting my own mood and affecting the cityscape of the national capital, what else will happen to my ugliness?

The greater the contrast with the original, the less likely it is that the empress will recognize me, and some kind of Cheng dù is also protecting my own safety.

Sitting in a teahouse on the street, I asked for a pot of tea. I was alone looking at the long street outside.

I didn't miss the topic of conversation around me for a moment. "Where did the princess's group of capable people come from?" You don't know this, I heard that in this war, the princess has the help of other countries behind her. “

I listened to a lot of gossip, including whose aunt next door gave birth to a male baby. She has given birth to four children, and she can't spell out a little girl, whose family is about to enter the palace to select the palace maid, whose family and who followed the empress to go on the expedition, but this time I returned to Beijing but didn't come back to stay in Beiying.

Now the topic finally came to the part that interested me the most, and listening attentively, I could see that the aunts who were drinking tea and chatting here knew a lot of information.

Speaking of the great earthquake that had just occurred in the north, sighs came and went.

But in the midst of a lamentation, I also got a pretty good piece of news. The earthquake was naturally a natural disaster, but fortunately, it occurred in the sparsely populated Northland, and the number of casualties was much smaller. The most important point is that there are losses in the military camps on both sides, so that everyone can temporarily put aside the fighting.

Whether it is the empress or the princess, what is fighting for the throne is the ownership of the entire Sealand country, and if there is such a big thing in the country, if you continue to fight regardless of the life and death of the people, it is really unreasonable.

An agreement was reached between the two parties. Retreat 50 miles each, and deal with the disaster relief on both sides first. January follow-up.

The conversation was over, just as I was about to leave. Someone at the adjacent table lowered his voice and said, "The empress returned to Beijing, I heard that it was because of the matter of the great teacher." "Don't talk about state affairs, don't talk about state affairs." An old woman sitting with her whispered.

I'm surprised, I just talked about a lot of state affairs, why do I actually say that I don't talk about state affairs now, then I just heard everything

It took me a few times in a row to understand, and what she said was "Don't talk about the national teacher".

I walked back to the alley where I lived, and crashed into a carriage head-on at the corner of the street.

At that time, the wheels of the carriage were no more than five centimeters from me!

The handlebar style is really good, tighten the reins, and the carriage narrowly brushes past me.

Before I could get up after falling to the ground, a girl in a purple dress who got off the carriage rushed to me and squatted down and asked, "How are you?"

She took my hand, pinched my foot, and tossed her hand up and down, relieved to make sure I was okay.

She looked up at my face and couldn't help but burst out laughing at my dignity. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." She blushed and apologized to me.

I waved my hand at her and smiled generously in return: "It's okay, laugh, laugh, laugh for ten years."

I raised my hand and touched my face and said, "It's actually good to look like this, every time I'm in a bad mood, I look at my face in the mirror, and I'm happy."

She raised her eyebrows and looked at me and smiled, "Sister, you are talking so interesting." "Ah, what's your name?" My name is Xiaoling. "Which ling?" Water chestnut of water chestnut?" I was scared to death just now, if I hurt you, not only would I hurt you, but I wouldn't even have a chance to enter the palace for selection. ”

"This, it seems to be a bit of a coincidence." I stood in the shade of the tree on the side of the street with the girl in the purple dress and talked for a while, and I was surprised to learn that she was actually preparing to enter the palace like me.

Coincidentally, I paused and asked, "You just said that you were afraid of hurting me, but what does this follow-up palace have to do with it?"

"The Sealand Palace is very strict, and hitting and injuring people can be regarded as having a criminal record, and most of them will be defeated."

"Would you love to enter the palace?"

"Well, many female officials in the Sealand Dynasty now also entered the palace in the name of selecting palace maids."

"And what's going on?" (To be continued),! Look for us.