"Girl, didn't you just say you were hungry? Why don't you eat it now? The temple people gulped down the rice soup in their bowls, as if the rice water with a few wild vegetables floating was a delicacy in the world.

"I've already drunk a bowl, you drink me, your wild vegetable soup can't be full." I stuffed two sips of corn soup into the hands of the temple people. Looking at the food delivered tonight, Qi Hou and Kan Zhi planned to starve all the people in this Qilan Pavilion to death.

Because I suspected that there was something wrong with Asu's food box, I deliberately did not go back to the room after eating, and pulled the temple people to sit on the steps of the front hall and chatted with each other. The six girls in the inner hall happily ate a whole box of things, and when they wiped their mouths, they went back to their rooms, and nothing happened. Could it be that I'm thinking too much? What happened just now, could it really be that Lizhu deliberately provoked it? Ah Su frequently shows weakness, just to not attract the attention of others? Before entering the palace, Ah Su complained that she was too tired to get along with me, but I didn't know that I was always thinking about her thoughts, and I couldn't be idle for a moment.

Because of such a fuss in the evening, after nightfall, the people of Qilan Pavilion obediently stayed in their rooms.

The room I live in was supposed to be the room of the night watchman of the Kiran Pavilion, and it was boxy, barely enough to fit a low table, two futons, and one side with a missing corner.

The temple people climbed up and down and busily cleaned up the bed, and I took advantage of the dim candlelight to bring out a large pile of herbs that I had brought into the palace today. In this pile of herbs, there are actually few poisons, and most of them are medicinal materials used to treat fractures and dislocations. The wound on his shoulder became more and more swollen, and in addition to the pain, the fingertips of his right hand began to feel numb.

At this time, the country of Qi has entered summer, and on a windless night, the damp air is breathless with a scorching heat. This room has no windows, and you can't open the door when the lights are on. So by the time I finished cutting a lonely, I was already tired of sweating. The temple man was more afraid of heat than me, and he was sweating profusely at this moment, and he was pouring powder on his face in front of the mirror.

"It's just the two of us here, who are you going to show this powder to?" I wiped my sweat and quipped as I looked at the temple man with a face as white as snow.

"Slave ugly, not enough powder for fear of scaring the girl." The temple man patted his face with his hand, and mysteriously took out a small box from his bosom and handed it to me, "Girl, did you just see the rusty lamp in the front hall?" ”

"See, what's wrong?"

"This is the patina that the slave scraped off the lamp in the afternoon, and I heard that women from the north would apply it to their eyelids to make their eyes look more spiritual. Tomorrow and water, try it for the girl? The temple man opened the small box, and sure enough, it contained a thin layer of emerald green patina.

"Patina for eyelids? Forget it, I don't need to. Why don't you take it and try it on the plain girl you like? I laughed at the temple people.

The temple man's face changed, and he put the small box back into his arms in shame: "What did the girl say, how can a slave still like a woman!" ”

"Is this annoying? I see that you care so much about Miss Su today, just talk about it. Vi, when did you become a member of Xiangfu Temple? I smiled and turned my face away and continued to cut my medicine.

The temple man knelt down beside me, took a lone stick, and carefully broke it with his hand: "I was sold into the house at the age of five, and the housekeeper let me clean my body and serve the nobles and concubines of the prime minister in the backyard. When Miss Su came, she was about the same age as me, and she was always kind to me. ”

"Then do you know what Miss Su and I are doing when we enter the palace this time?" I poured the cut medicine into a small clay pot, and added safflower, turmeric, red peony, and two bowls of water left over from the afternoon.

"Didn't you invite the monarch to pet him for the prime minister?"

"That's what Miss Su told you?"

"It was the slave who guessed it himself. Actually, Miss Su and I don't know each other, she won't live in Xiangfu after she was ten years old. I recognize her, and she probably doesn't remember me anymore. ”

"And who asked you to serve me this time?" I asked again.

"It was Chen Ye who asked me to serve the girl, and he said that the girl is a noble person and should be served carefully."

"I see......"

"Girl, is it a slave who doesn't serve well?" Seeing that I was out of my mind, the temple man took two steps to me by the corner of his coat, and asked tremblingly.

"No, you're doing a good job, I'm just asking." I clapped his hands, took the rest of the medicine into the clay pot, opened the door and walked out.

"Girl, where are you going so late?" The temple people hurriedly got up and chased out.

"What are you so nervous about? I'll go out to decoction, you go back to the house and sit! After a while, the fire will burn, and I'm afraid that the new powder on your face will be washed away by sweat again. ”

"It's okay, let the slave do this kind of rough work!" The temple man reached out and snatched the medicine jar from my hand and trotted to the courtyard.

Because Qilan Pavilion is still under repair, there are broken stones and broken wooden strips everywhere. Not long after I joined the temple people, we built a small stove in the corner of the wall and lit a fire.

"Girl, you were born so beautiful, did you enter the palace this time to invite your pet to be the master of that person?" The temple people put the clay pot filled with medicine on the fire upright.

"If I tell you that I can touch the corners of the celestial gods as long as I close my eyes, is that already a human being?" I smiled and quipped as I looked at the tongues of fire that kept coming out from under the clay pot.

"That's not a human being, it's a heavenly man!" The temple man came up with a curious face, "Girl, I heard Chen Ye say that you used to be a person who served the gods in the Jin Kingdom, seriously, what does the god look like?" ”

"I can't tell you that."

"Why?!"

"If I tell you, you won't live long." I got up and broke off a stick of wood from a discarded window lattice and gently stirred the fire. The temple man asked next to me, but I just smiled and shook my head.

Ever since I was deceived by Ah Su by Zishui, I have become a little suspicious. Although I have only been with the temple people for a day, I like this skillful and sweet-mouthed young man in my heart. But he is from the Chen Mansion after all, which makes me worry that he will be the second Asu. The Chen gang obviously knew me. They know both the weaknesses of my character and the "cunning" in my bones. A "scheming" enemy like me, if I was not fully prepared, they would never let me enter the palace with confidence. Now, the people who are watching me on the surface are Ah Su and Chen Shun, but the only people who are really inseparable from me are the temple people. Could he be a shadow deliberately arranged by Chen Heng, just waiting for the matter to be completed, and then kill me, Ah Su, and Chen Yiquan?

"Girl, the medicine is boiling." When the temple people saw me looking at the fire, they reminded me in a whisper.

"Oh." I came back to my senses and rolled a stick of wood on the grass that was on fire, and then lifted the clay pot and looked inside: "This medicine is almost ready, you go and dig some sand first, and then put out the fire later." ”

"Sand can also extinguish fires?" The temple man was stunned.

"Wells are not available in every household, and you, a person from a common people's background, don't even know about this?" I looked at the temple man and said suspiciously.

The temple man touched his head and said with a smile: "The slave entered the mansion early, and the fire prevention in the prime minister's mansion is water, and there is a big water tank in a hundred steps." If one of the rooms catches fire, it will be extinguished in a few strokes. ”

"It's easy to use water to extinguish fires, but unfortunately we have run out of water today, tomorrow morning I will go to the water room with you to fetch a few more cans of water, and tonight I can only work hard for you first."

"It's okay, girl, just look at the medicine, I'll go dig some soil." The temple man took off his coarse linen robe, picked up half of the tile from the ground, and found a place where the grass and pine were found by fire.

I watched his back and groaned for a moment, then quietly picked up the wooden stick on the ground and walked behind him. The temple man was kneeling on the ground with sweat and digging the soil, and I raised the wooden stick in my hand to his head and waved it over.

Ah Su and Chen Shun are both first-class masters, if the temple is Chen Heng's secret son, then the martial arts must be above the two of them. And in times of crisis, people will always involuntarily avoid danger. If the temple man is really a master, he will definitely be able to avoid a sneak attack like this.

There was a sound of "bang", and the temple people who were kneeling on the ground and digging the soil fell to the ground.

I looked at the broken wooden strip in my hand, and then at the motionless temple man on the ground, and I was dumbfounded.

He's a master, can't all masters avoid it?

Again, or again...... I hit the wrong person!

"Vi, wake up, wake up, temple people!" By the time I reacted and picked up his head, he was unconscious.

The night when I first entered the Qi Palace was extraordinarily long. I sat in front of the temple man's bed, and I didn't sleep all night.

Outside the wooden door, there was a low chirping of insects and a fluttering bell, and there was still an hour before dawn. I checked the wound on the back of the temple's head one last time, opened the door and walked out.

On the eve of dawn, yin and yang alternate, light and darkness intertwined before my eyes. In the distant sky, the stars were dotted, and the originally heavy black curtain was thinned by the night wind, faintly revealing the dark blue light inside. The dilapidated Qilan Pavilion stood in a strange posture in the stone and wood courtyard walls, and in those corners where the light did not reach, there seemed to be darkness dying and struggling.

"Girl," I was looking at the four corners of the Qilan Pavilion with a faint call behind me.

"Why are you up? Dizziness? Can you see clearly? I turned around and grabbed the swaying temple man.

"Girl, are you alright? Did there be an assassin in the palace last night? The temple man covered the back of his head, and his eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose were all wrinkled together.

"I'm the one who knocked you out last night."

"Huh?" The temple man was stunned for a moment at first, and then the two black and thick silkworm eyebrows jumped up: "Girl, why are you beating me?!" ”

"Don't worry, let me explain to you. Let's sit down in the first room, you have a head injury, although you have applied medicine, you still have to be careful. I helped the puzzled temple man into the house, "Are you still dizzy?" ”

"A little bit ......" The temple man sat on the bed and touched the back of his head, and suddenly his eyes widened, grabbed my hand, and said nervously, "Girl, I won't leave a big scar on the back of my head, right?" You won't turn around and become bald, will you? ”