The night was quiet and peaceful, and the lights in Yuqing Palace had been extinguished, only the lanterns in the corridor swayed gently in the wind. At this moment, whether it is the eunuch in the front yard or the palace maid in the ear room in the backyard, they have all entered a sweet dream. It was also dark in the lower room where the palace maids lived, and there were four palace maids living in this lower room, because of their low rank, the environment in which they lived was even worse, and the four of them lay down in a narrow small house, but because of the hard work during the day, they were more likely to fall asleep. In the sound of even breathing, Hongliu's eyes were closed, but he didn't feel sleepy at all. In the dark, there was a sleeping palace maid who suddenly laughed "hehe" in her dream, Hongliu knew that this was a red cotton, usually very grinning, her free family was poor, and she was satisfied to be able to eat a full stomach in the palace, as for the bullying and ridicule of others, she laughed and passed by; Curled up next to him is the red maple, usually timid and afraid, but he is conscientious when he does things, for fear of annoying the master; Lying next to the red maple is the red lotus, although she is usually silent, but she is very neat in her work, often after her own work, she will help others, so she is quite popular. Thinking about the experience in the Yu Palace in the past few days, Hongliu felt as if she was being stared at by several pairs of eyes, and only in the dead of night when the night covered everything could she relax and no longer be cautious.

Gradually, Hongliu felt a deep sleep, and the next moment she was about to fall asleep. At this moment, she suddenly heard a sound of turning over gently, and then someone got up and got out of bed, walked lightly, and went to bed lightly. The voice was so soft that it didn't wake up the others in the slightest, but Hongliu heard her heartbeat speed up all of a sudden, and her hands couldn't help but clench the quilt. This person has practiced kung fu, and his kung fu is still very solid, but the problem is that this person walks during the day but is not like this, Hongliu has observed the three people around him, and there is no sign of kung fu, and when he just got up in the middle of the night, this person obviously no longer controls his steps, but he didn't want to tell Hongliu to hear it. This person is the red lotus separated from him by the red maple. Hongliu's heart was turbulent, but his breathing was not chaotic at all. Soon, the next room was quiet again, unconsciously, Hongliu gradually fell asleep, in the dream, but dreamed of a young man's warm smiling face, seeing this smiling face, Hongliu's heart was a lot more steady.

The next day, the four of them got up early, and they were busy cleaning the courtyard, the three of them were used to doing this, although there was a huge yard, the three of them were still in order, the red willow was also very eye-catching, and the work was not clumsy, the four of them were busy, and when the sun gradually rose and the sky was bright, the yard was already clean. After the four of them cleaned all corners of Yuqing Palace, they were all sweating profusely, Hongmian dragged a big broom, and there was a gurgling sound in their stomachs. ”

Honghe saw that Hongmian was weak and weak, so he stepped forward and said, "Hongmian, if you are tired, give me the broom, and I will put it for you." ”

Seeing that Honghe was about to take the broom in Hongmian's hand, Hongliu went to get it in the morning and said to the three of them: "Three sisters, I'm not too tired, give me the broom, and I'll let it go alone." When she first arrived, she was courteous to the three of them, and the three of them were not polite to her, and handed the broom to the red willow.

Hongliu dragged four brooms, but it was a little difficult, Honghe saw Hongliu's heavy steps and walked forward, so he shouted behind her: "Hongliu, wait a minute, I'll help you get a piece." ”

Hongliu heard the sound of the red lotus, turned around and smiled at the three of them, and before he could speak, Hongmian exclaimed, it turned out that there was a ladder ten steps away from the red willow, and somehow slipped off the wall, and smashed straight towards the red willow. The three of them watched the ladder smash down, and Hongliu's face was also pale, obviously scared stupid. Hongliu closed his eyes tightly, he couldn't bear to see Hongliu being hit, Hongmian held Honghe tightly, his face was nervous, Honghe opened his mouth wide, but he couldn't say anything.

At the critical moment, a person flashed out behind the red willow, and gently took the red willow area, and the ladder made of bamboo rubbed the red willow body and smashed it on the ground, knocking down a large piece of flowers and plants. Several people were in shock, and a little eunuch ran over, looked at the red willow who was not hit by the ladder with a pale face, his teeth chattered, and said to the red willow: "Sister is fine, I really damn it, I just put the ladder on the wall, and somehow the ladder slipped down the wall, if I hit my sister, I will be guilty." ”

Hongliu obviously hasn't recovered from the fright just now, and is still stunned and silent, but the person who took Hongliu over just now and saved Hongliu's life scolded: "It's not the first day of errand, why are you so careless?" "It turned out that this person was Mao Ruhai, the guard of Yuqing Palace, with the red willow life, Mao Ruhai just passed by here, and saw that the red willow was about to be hit by a ladder, and he didn't have time to think about it at the moment, so he pulled the red willow, so that the red willow died on the spot.

Seeing this, the red lotus let out a long breath, and ran up shouting "red willow" loudly, and the red cotton and red maple hurriedly ran to the red willow, and several people saw that the red willow was fine, and they couldn't stop clasping their palms and shouting "Amitabha".

Hongliu came to her senses, and couldn't help but be afraid for a while, she watched the ladder fall down, smashing the flowers and plants next to it into a mess, and the front end of the ladder actually fell into the soil, thinking that if she was really hit, she would have to send her life here.

The little eunuch next to him couldn't help but apologize, and kowtowed to Mao Ruhai again: "Fortunately, the Mao guards reacted quickly, otherwise, the slave would have been guilty this time." ”

Hongliu also hurriedly thanked Mao Ruhai, Mao Ruhai saw that Hongliu was fine, so he shouted: "Hurry up and clean up the ground, if you let Gonggong Qin see it, carefully peel your skin." ”

The little eunuch immediately hurriedly cleaned up, Mao Ruhai turned to leave, and through a wall, he saw Father-in-law Qin hurriedly walking out, and when he saw Mao Ruhai, he stopped and asked, "What's the loud noise in the front yard?" ”

Mao Ruhai knew Father-in-law Qin's status in Yuqing Palace, and hurriedly told the matter 1510, Father-in-law Qin frowned after hearing it and asked: "The palace maid named Hongliu was scared stupid, and she didn't know how to run?" ”

Mao Ruhai replied with a smile: "Father-in-law, unless you know martial arts, people who don't have kung fu can't run if they want to, you didn't see it just now, the speed and strength of the ladder when it falls, even ordinary men can't run off." ”

Father-in-law Qin thought for a while with a calm face, waved his hand to let Mao Ruhai leave, and paced to the front yard by himself, seeing that the little eunuch was still crying and tidying up, and scolded the little eunuch for a while. The little eunuch didn't know why he made this mistake, and let Gonggong Qin punish him.

After punishing the little eunuch, Gonggong Qin thought thoughtfully, thought for a while, breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to leave.