After sending the little eunuch away, Xiaoxiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info She pretended to be calm and walked into the back kitchen openly.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Are the live chickens ready? A chef-like man asked aloud as he took the spoon.

"Killing!"

"Hurry up, hurry up! Hands and feet are sharp! If you delay Your Majesty's dishes, everyone will lose their heads! ”

"Yes!"

The back kitchen was busy, Xiao Xiang took a turn in the back kitchen, and no one had time to take care of her at all.

"Come on, come on, girl!" Someone suddenly shouted behind Xiao Xiang.

Xiao Xiang hurriedly dodged, and a man carried a large wooden basin and walked over to Xiao Xiang. Xiao Xiang subconsciously covered her nose and saw that there were more than a dozen freshly killed chickens in the wooden basin, and they were about to go to remove their feathers, and the smell of chickens on the man's body made Xiao Xiang almost vomit.

After wandering around for a long time, Xiaoxiang finally saw a place where she could start, so she pretended to be casual and walked over, holding a bag of things in her hand, which Liu Guifei asked her to prepare to add condiments to these dishes.

Xiao Xiang walked to a few casseroles, a palace maid was fanning the fire while looking at the stove, I don't know what soup was stewed on the stove, it smelled good.

"What's boiling in this pot? It smells good. Xiaoxiang asked.

The palace maid raised her head, saw that it was Xiao Xiang, and hurriedly stood up to greet her and said, "Sister Xiao Xiang, why are you here, what kind of game is boiling in this pot, and I don't know what it is." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm just here to see how the kitchen is prepared for Niangniang, you're busy with you." Xiao Xiang patted the palace maid and comforted.

The palace maid was about to sit down, and suddenly stood up again, startling Xiao Xiang, Xiao Xiang asked, "What's wrong?" Shocked. ”

The palace maid whispered a little embarrassed: "Sister Xiaoxiang...... That one...... Can you help me keep an eye on this stove for a while, I want to go......"

The palace maid said so much that her face turned red, Xiaoxiang, as a woman, instantly understood, so she said: "Then you go and come back quickly, I'll help you watch it." ”

"Huh! Thank you, Sister Xiaoxiang, I'll be back soon, I'm sorry for you, as long as you control the fire all the time, don't worry about anything else. After the palace maid finished speaking, she hurriedly ran out, and almost collided with the others at the door.

Xiaoxiang finally has a chance to start now, although she can almost be regarded as calling for wind and rain among all the servants and maids in the palace, but after all, she is still young, and now she really wants to do such a thing, she is a little scared in her heart, and for a while, the paper bag she was holding tightly in her palm was almost soaked with sweat in her palm.

After struggling for a long time, Xiao Xiang remembered Liu Guifei's fierce eyes glaring at her, and she shuddered a little, so she mustered up her courage and prepared to open a nearby casserole with a little trembling hands.

At this moment, Xiaoxiang suddenly heard someone shouting: "County Lord! How did you get here? ”

Xiao Xiang looked up and saw from a distance that Lord Liang was already standing at the gate of the back kitchen, so frightened that he hurriedly retracted his hand, stuffed the medicine bag in his hand back into his sleeve, and pretended to guard the stoves as if nothing happened.

"You guys are busy, this county lord is just coming to see." Lord Liang smiled faintly at everyone and waved his hand.

Xiao Xiang didn't dare to look directly at Lord Liang, because she knew that this woman was really smart, she would never dare to play any small moves in front of her, once she was discovered, it would be a place to die.

Lord Liang walked around the back kitchen, greeted everyone he met very kindly, and praised their craftsmanship and performance, and everyone's efforts were personally recognized by Lord Liang, and they were full of enthusiasm for a while.

Suddenly, Lord Liang inadvertently caught a glimpse of Xiao Xiang sitting in the corner staring at the stove, her overly calm reaction attracted the attention of Lord Liang, so Lord Liang walked towards Xiao Xiang in the corner.

"What kind of soup are you stewing in this pot?" Lord Liang looked at Xiao Xiang's back and asked.

Xiao Xiang's heart was beating straight and she didn't dare to turn her head to look at the county lord Liang, at this time a maid behind the county lord couldn't stand it anymore, and said: "Our county lord asked you, why don't you ignore people?" ”

Xiao Xiang knew that she couldn't hide after all, so she took a deep breath, tried her best to hide her weakness, changed her smiling face, got up and turned around, and saluted to Lord Liang and said, "The slave has seen Lord Liang. ”

"Is that you?" Lord Liang seemed to be a little surprised by Xiao Xiang's appearance.

"It's the slave maid, just now the slave and maid were staring at the fire with their hearts, and they didn't notice that the county lord was coming, you are really guilty, please punish the county lord." Xiaoxiang pretended to admit her mistake.

"You don't wait by your concubine's side, what are you doing in this smoky kitchen?" What a shrewd woman is Lord Liang? Xiaoxiang's sudden appearance, how could she not have more eyes.

"Back to the county lord, my mother asked the slave maid to come to the back kitchen to see how the dishes of the banquet were prepared, after all, today is Your Majesty's birthday, and my mother doesn't want anything to go wrong with today's banquet." Xiao Xiang was in a hurry and found a very appropriate excuse.

At this moment, the palace maid who had asked Xiaoxiang to help her watch the fire hurried back, and when she saw that the county lord Liang was standing beside the fire, she quickly knelt down and saluted and said: "The slave didn't know that the county lord had arrived, and the slave and maid were a little inconvenient just now, so I asked Sister Xiaoxiang to take care of the stove on her behalf, and asked the county lord not to punish the slave." ”

The county lord of Liang said to Xiao Xiang with a calm face: "Go back and tell your mother, here is the county lord watching, there will be no problems, let her rest assured." ”

Xiao Xiang smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "That's that, with the county lord here, there will definitely be nothing wrong, the slave and maid will retire first." ”

After Xiao Xiang finished speaking, she bowed and left, but the slave who was originally watching the fire still knelt on the ground and didn't dare to move, waiting for Lord Liang to speak.

"Get up." Lord Liang glanced at her and commanded lightly.

"Lord Xie." The slave lowered her head and quickly got up, ready to open the casserole to see how the soup was boiling.

"Throw it all out and do it all over again." Lord Liang said suddenly.

"Huh? Poured out? The slave obviously didn't understand what Lord Liang meant.

"Let you throw it out and ask the chef to do it again, understand?" Lord Liang's tone was flat, without the slightest anger, but it made people feel that they were not angry and powerful, and the slave hurriedly obeyed and took the casserole away from the stove.

The county lord of Liang beckoned, and a eunuch not far away hurriedly ran over and asked, "What does the county lord command?" ”

"The maidservant girl of Huilan Palace just now, apart from staying in this corner, where else did she stay?" Lord Liang asked.

The little eunuch scratched his head, thought for a while, and said, "It seems that it has just turned around, and it has not stopped except for these stoves." ”

Lord Liang nodded slightly, and then ordered: "Tell everyone, when I saw other people in the palace coming over today, they all had a lot of eyes." ”

"Yes!" The little eunuch nodded.

Xiao Xiang hurriedly left the courtyard of the back kitchen, did not dare to stay, and went back to the main hall directly.

The atmosphere of the banquet in the main hall was very good, the singing and dancing continued, Shi Hu was slightly drunk, and the ministers were no longer as restrained as before because of the wine.

Xiao Xiang bypassed everyone and quietly returned to Liu Guifei's side, no one noticed that a little maid had left, probably only Lord Liang knew about it because he happened to bump into it.

When Liu Guifei saw Xiao Xiang coming back, she looked at Xiao Xiang and wanted to confirm whether she had succeeded, but she didn't expect Xiao Xiang to bite her lip lightly and shake her head helplessly.

Liu Guifei naturally immediately understood that Xiaoxiang had just gone out and didn't do what she expected, so she glared at her fiercely. There were so many people in the main hall, and Shi Hu was beside him, Xiao Xiang couldn't make any excuses, so she could only retreat to the side stupidly.

Night had fallen, and the two Murong brothers in the post house were sitting in the house, the dim candle flame was swaying in the wind, and Murong Ke was very upset when he saw it, so he got up and closed the doors and windows heavily.

"Second brother, we have been waiting with the doors and windows open for several days, and since we received such a broken note a few days ago, there has been no movement, what is going on in Shi Jian's mind?"

"What should come will come." Murong Jun closed his eyes and sat there motionless.

"I don't have the patience you have, and I'm going crazy if I keep going like this." Murong Ke complained.

"It's been too quiet these days, it's not normal. The forbidden army outside seemed to have moved, and I sensed that something was wrong. Murong Jun opened his eyes and said slowly.

"What's wrong?" Murong Ke hurriedly sat down next to Murong Jun and asked in a low voice.

Murong Jun glanced at him, stood up, and said, "If I can predict the prophet, will I still be placed under house arrest by Shi Hu?" It's all said to be a feeling. ”

"Second brother, don't be thinking about this there, Shi Jian hasn't heard from him, aren't you in a hurry at all?" Murong Ke looked up at Murong Jun and asked.

"Since Shi Jian has taken the initiative to contact us, he will not cut off the news, he is a person who has a strong purpose in doing things, and he will never do it without consideration, since he has started again, he will definitely not give up halfway easily."

"You've only met that Shi Jian once, how can you be so sure that he will definitely save us?"