Take a deep breath, close your eyes and start brewing emotions. Li Zesi and Shen Luo immediately slowed down vigilantly, knowing that he might have to perform a stunt. The stars are eyed. But before Zhou Hui could open his eyes, he bumped into a person headlong and almost knocked the other party to his head. Zhou Hui was startled until he heard the other party's pleasant voice: "Oh, Fifth Highness, you are still so energetic." ”

Zhou Hui didn't even need to look at it, he jumped over and supported the other party with an arrow step: "Monkey Dad!" You're trying to kill me! Li Zesi and Shen Luo were stunned for a moment at the same time, and then they saw that His Royal Highness King Wu was holding an old eunuch. His beardless face was full of wrinkles like orange peels, and his eyes seemed to have disappeared in the wrinkles, but at this moment, he looked up at Zhou Hui and smiled brightly: "Long time no see, the Fifth Highness is so tall." Zhou Hui smiled childlike with joy: "Monkey daddy, how small is your monkey?" ”

"Die early! Still thinking about it? Another day, I'll play it fun for His Highness. "Good!" Speaking of this, Zhou Hui suddenly remembered something: "Monkey father, you don't stay with my mother, what's the matter?" The old eunuch's smile froze for a moment: "I'm no longer in the Drinking Dew Palace, and I've been assigned another errand." "What is it?" The old man pondered for a while, but still said, "Serve the Queen Mother for dinner." ”

Zhou Hui tilted his head and thought for a moment: "Very good." However, the queen mother will miss you, and you have to come back often. "I just came from there, and I'm thinking about you!" King Wu laughed: "I'll go over now!" She has prepared a fun trick for her old man! Li Zesi and Shen Luo interjected in unison: "It's all said and won't change!" However, King Wu had already marched forward with his head held high, completely ignoring the protests of the two. When the monkey father saw King Wu leaving, he also turned around, as if he had something else to say. But he was too old, and when he turned around, Zhou Hui's vigorous footsteps had disappeared at the end of the corridor, and Li Zesi saw this, so he had to follow quickly. Shen Luo stopped carefully and asked, "Do you have something to say to Your Highness?" We can communicate it on your behalf. ”

The old man shook his head, and when Shen Luo was about to leave, he finally made up his mind and called out to the young man: "Uh...... This is from His Highness when he was a child, so you can give it back to him for me. Shen Luo took it and saw that it was a small key, the edges were already rusted, and it could be seen that it had not been used for a long time. He was a little confused: "Is this it?" The old man nodded: "Please be sure to hand it over." Then he bowed politely, and he left. Shen Luo glanced at the key suspiciously, put it in his sleeve, and hurried down the corridor to the location of Queen Wu's Queen Mother-Yinlu Palace.

King Wu's mother, whose current title is Concubine Ji, is a middle-aged woman as energetic as her son. Although he is no longer in his prime, but because he is properly maintained on weekdays, has a good mentality, and never compares with others to cause pressure, he sleeps well, eats well, and speaks in a loud voice: "If you don't come again, I will send someone to your house to tear down the gate!" Zhou Hui completely turned into a love messenger at this moment, jumped over and hugged his mother: "If my mother likes to dismantle, I will cultivate twelve ways, pick and tear it up, and listen to the ring." "Nonsense! I will see who dares to break down your door, and I will tear him down first. Li Zesi listened to the black line behind the curtain, and the two of them got together, which was a complete double blow to the grammatical logic of human beings......

After talking for a while, Zhou Hui poked his head out, "Brother Chu, it's a trick!" "It's all said and won't change!" Li Zesi pressed the fire and reminded King Wu in a low voice. Zhou Hui ran out and pleaded: "I want to let my mother see it!" Shenluo is for you to use as you like. Shen Luo leaned over and said in a vicious tone: "If you dare to let him use the spell that ignites fire on my head, I won't come to your door for a month!" This sentence really startled King Wu, so he had to twist his mouth sadly and go back in disgust. However, Her Royal Highness Concubine Ji didn't care too much about this, it was a very happy thing to see her son, and the two of them talked warmly for a long time. Zhou Hui originally forced Li Zesi and Shen Luo to please his mother, but because the party refused to be a monkey, he had to give up, but he could also eat together and be lively.

So it didn't take long for Concubine Ji to order her to come down and set up a meal. Even for an ordinary princess's dinner, there are at least a dozen dishes. After a few dishes, everyone's table was full, and there were well-behaved palace maids waiting to serve them, so that the crippled dishes could be removed and replaced with new ones in time. Before the first cold dish of spring bamboo shoots and cherries could be put off the chopsticks, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside, from far to near in the corridor, and then ran away like raindrops, and then someone turned back, sounding more and more urgent.

Everyone was stunned. Zhou Hui put down the chopsticks, walked into his mother's curtain, discussed it, and then sent someone out to see what was going on. After a little palace maid who was only thirteen or fourteen years old went out, she came back after a long time, knelt down and reported, "Say yes...... One of the eunuchs died. Concubine Ji and Zhou Hui breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Oh, which palace?" ”

The little girl knelt on the ground, hesitated for a moment, and said softly, "They said...... It's Daddy Monkey. There was a gasp from behind the curtain. Li Zesi and Shen Luo looked at each other for a moment, and realized that it was the old eunuch just now, the old man who had greeted him cordially in the corridor a moment ago, was no longer there. The people in the Drinking Dew Palace were silent, and the air suddenly became thick and cold. For a long time, all you could hear was heavy breathing. Zhou Hui opened the curtain and instructed everyone for his mother: "Let's all go down, go back and fill your stomach, my mother doesn't want to eat, so you don't have to wait." Whoever asks, whatever he hears, says he doesn't know. ”

The eunuchs and palace maids retreated silently, and some were gently wiping their tears. Daddy Monkey is a very nice guy and they all like him. When only the mother and son behind the curtain were left in the room, and Li Zesi and Shen Luo, Zhou Hui called Li Zesi: "Let's make a trick." Li Zesi looked up in confusion and looked at King Wu inquiringly. The latter replied in a low voice: "Let others not hear our tricks." Shen Luo opened his mouth and said, "Don't worry. With us here, no one can hear us. Li Zesi glanced around and found that around everyone, he had already been shrouded in a light blue aura - Shen Luo's reaction was always one step faster than him.

Concubine Ji's sobbing voice came out all of a sudden, and Zhou Hui silently stroked her mother's back, and the silhouette on the other side of the curtain looked particularly heavy. He sighed and said to his friends: "When my mother didn't have anyone by her side, it was the monkey father who spent it with her. Before I was eight years old, I was followed by a monkey dad. Mother, why did Daddy Monkey leave you? How could he go to the Queen Mother? "He's too old," Concubine Ji's mood gradually calmed down amid her crying, "that's why she went." ”

Zhou Huiru was struck by lightning: "Could it be that you mean ......" "Yes, he went to try the queen mother." "Tasting meals, tasting meals for the nobles who are about to eat, pure security measures. This kind of work looks simple, and it is very suitable for the eunuchs and palace ladies who are completely useless when they are old and frail, and everything is fine when they are usually fine, but as long as something happens, their lives are in danger. Fierce drugs with severe toxicity, even if they are strong men, they are either dead or disabled, and an aging person like Monkey Daddy is almost a dead end.

"So," Zhou Hui lowered his head and thought for a moment, "Does anyone want to assassinate the Queen Mother?" Concubine Ji replied in a deep nasal voice: "The Queen Mother is old, she is not a threat to anyone, and she stabbed her." Zhou Hui shook his head, and his tone was very sad: "Mother, I hate this kind of thing." "I hate it more than you," Concubine Ji sighed, "You know a lot of capable people, right?" I hope they can at least figure it out for us. Daddy Monkey has been with me for so long, I'm sorry for him. Zhou Hui nodded, and was about to speak, when Li Zesi suddenly opened his mouth first: "Your Royal Highness Concubine Ji, it's not appropriate to do this." ”

Concubine Ji was stunned for a moment: "Why?" Who are you? ”

"In the lower Li Zesi, His Royal Highness King Wu sat down with a white man. With all due respect, there must be other powerful people patrolling the palace, and if you act rashly, you may be discovered. Shen Luo laughed from his nose: "Losing the battle before seeing the battle is quite like what the weak do." Li Zesi frowned: "If the food trial encounters an accident, it can be regarded as being loyal to the Queen Mother, why should we bear to touch the big mold for the sake of being small." ”

Although this sounds rude, Zhou Hui and Concubine Ji both know that this is the safest way at present: close their eyes and listen and wait for the incident. Both mother and son bowed their heads and fell silent. Shen Luo stood up: "Brother Chu, do you have someone you don't want to lose?" ”

Li Zesi was silent. Shenra then said, "I have. The two Highnesses also have it. So we'd better figure this out together. ”

Li Zesi didn't like Shen Luo's attitude very much, but at this point, he didn't resist more, just took out a piece of incense from his sleeve, asked Concubine Ji for the incense ball, unscrewed the hollow lid, put the incense piece on the charcoal, and slowly turned the incense ball after burning, and the fragrance gradually escaped from the gap, forming bursts of smoke as it turned. In the smoke, another scene looms. As if led by something, several people walked into a spacious room, where there was only a row of tables, and the monkey father and the other elderly palace maids and eunuchs knelt in front of them, each holding a pair of silver chopsticks in their hands, and their expressions were indifferent. Someone came in from outside, brought in a variety of meals, and placed them in front of them.

Every time it came up, some of the maids carefully picked out a little bit of it and put it in the bowls of these people. In front of Daddy Monkey was a plate of fish, which he carefully picked up and put in his mouth. Zhou Hui felt his mother's hand grip on him tighten suddenly. The palace ladies saw that these people were okay, and after a while, they served their meals. But the monkey father raised his hand and motioned to the palace ladies not to take the plate of fish, and he shook his hand as if to say something. After hearing this, the palace maid immediately said a few words to the eunuch in charge standing next to her, who nodded, patted the monkey father rewardingly, casually emptied the fish into the garbage can, and then they left as if nothing had happened.

"What did he say?!" Concubine Ji was so anxious that her voice changed tone. Shen Luo stretched out a hand, as if grasping something, through the ethereal scene, his fingers touched the monkey father's virtual lips, groaned, mechanically opened his mouth, the monkey father's voice came out of his mouth vividly: "This fish, not clean." Zhou Hui's eyes staring at the plate suddenly widened, and he muttered, "Shih Tzu milk." Shen Luo raised his other hand, placed it on the latter's shoulder as if to comfort King Wu, shook his head and sighed.

Shih Tzu milk, the belly of the pufferfish, is the most creamy, delicious and incoherent. But as long as there is a blood vessel that is not cleared, and there is a fish roe left, it is a deadly poison for the monkey father who has decayed qi and blood. There is no conspiracy, no suspicion, just a failed puffer fish. In the smoke, the old man struggled towards the door, and he held himself up all the way to the hallway. He grabbed the little eunuch who was passing by and said the last sentence, which Shen Luo faithfully repeated: "Tell the Fifth Highness ......"

Then he fell. Shen Luo silently took out the rusty key that the monkey father entrusted him to hand over and handed it to Zhou Hui. The latter gave it a blank look, and then quickly kicked it into his arms, and could not bear to look at it a second time. The room fell silent again, twilight peeping through the cracks in the windows, spreading heavily in all directions. Li Zesi and Shen Luo were waiting in the corridor outside, one with their heads down, the other with their heads up, both leaning on the railing, too lazy to talk nonsense with each other. It wasn't until Zhou Hui came out of it that the two of them gathered around, and Shen Luo asked, "How is it?" ”

Zhou Hui pointed his finger to his lips: "I said it was uncomfortable, I didn't have the heart to eat, and I rested early." Looking at the obviously not good-looking faces of the two friends, King Wu cheered up and tried to show a smile: "But we still have to eat, right." Let's go, I'll take you to eat good. Li Zesi sighed: "If you don't feel happy, don't force it, let's just go back." But Shen Luo came over and responded positively: "Yes, don't be too sad, let's get drunk and rest." This kind of dialogue is obviously singing against the stage, Li Zesi has been teaching almost every day in the past month, so he can only roll his eyes and reluctantly follow the two who hit it off.

In addition to the unified imperial kitchen, each palace also has its own small kitchen, especially Wu Wang Zhou Hui, because of the ordinary delicious, the quality of the chefs in his own house is extremely high, not to mention, but also deliberately for the drinking dew palace to renovate a delicate small stove, all the color and color, eat and drink are different from others, the way to renovate the food is also Zhou Hui collected from all over the place, eat well, and then come to teach the cook to make for his mother to eat.

So he's familiar with this place, and he can touch it with his eyes closed. Shen Luo has been feasting with him in the past, and he is no stranger, only Li Zesi, who was still eating in prison a month ago, of course his eyes are dark in this kind of place, and he is dizzy when he looks at those various food utensils.