Crescent felt a little tired as she snuggled up in her room on the ship, and she reached out and closed the window, only to see a familiar face at the last of the cracks.

Unlike a glance at the docks, Crescent and the man looked at each other and recognized each other, the man frowned, and Crescent had closed the window.

And the man's eyes darkened, as if he had thought of some distant memory.

Xinyue remembered that person, this person was Rong Ying's first time, when she handed her over, one of Liang Weifang's ten secret guards, Xinyue didn't know what happened behind her, and asked Rong Ying, he just said lightly, they were all killed by him.

And the person in front of him should be the one who sent the letter back for Rong Ying. And how can he save his life from the other nine people, Xinyue thought a little confused, but he always felt that he still didn't need to know too much about these things.

So she sat back on her bed, looked at the messy bed, and shouted to the outside, "Is there anyone?" ”

The door was pushed open from the outside, and two men dressed as guards entered.

Crescent stood up and gestured to the bed, "Clean up." ”

"Yes," said the guard, who was standing on the left, turned around and went out to call the servant woman on the ship, while the one on the right, did not leave, and Crescent asked "Is there anything else you have to do?" ”

"Back girl, Your Highness has an order before leaving, do you want to have breakfast?" The guard on the right said.

Crescent Moon nodded, "Just prepare something light." ”

"Yes" The guard on the right also walked out, and Crescent looked at the wide open door, hung her head, and sat behind the round table, watching the streaks on her fingertips.

After a while, two maids, one big and one young, came, the older one with clean sheets and mattresses in his hands, and the younger one, with food in his hands, placed by the crescent moon's hand.

The little one, dressed as a girl, wearing a coarse cloth long skirt, looks quite delicate, but between actions and things, a little stupid and stupid, Xinyue looked at the meal is a plate of meat buns, a bowl of rice porridge, two small dishes, it is indeed light enough, and the little girl is a little dumbfounded, Xinyue picked up a bun and handed it to the little girl, "Eat it." ”

"I, the slave and maid don't dare." The little girl just wanted to stretch out her hand, but she looked up at the woman dressed as a woman who was making the bed, but immediately stopped her hand.

"Eat, I can't eat so much." Saying that, Xinyue put the bun in her hand, and the girl got Xinyue's permission, and immediately put the bun in her hand in her mouth, with a smile in her eyes and mouth, and bit off a small half of it.

Xinyue rarely showed a smile, and when she saw that she was happy to eat, she handed her a "Come, eat one." ”

"Girl, you can eat it too, it's specially prepared for you." The little girl took the bun and beckoned Xinyue to breakfast, and Xinyue picked up the spoon and drank the porridge gently.

"Girl, you look so good eating." The little girl looked at the new moon with a smile, she had already eaten one of the buns in her hand, and was holding the other one to eat.

"Aren't they all the same meals? Is there any difference? Xinyue took another sip of porridge, which was boiled in a casserole, it was very soft and rotten, and it tasted good.

"The girl is very elegant, I, although the slave maid is the first time to serve people, but when the slave maid is at home, I have also seen those young ladies, even if they add up, they are not as elegant as you, girl."

"Do you still know the word elegance? Do you think you've read a book? Xinyue really had no appetite, and after drinking two mouthfuls of porridge, she put down her spoon and looked up to talk to the little girl.

"Yes, when the slave's father was alive, he was a teacher in the village, and my mother thought I was a girl and didn't let me read and learn words, but my father would still teach me a few words, and named me Wenya, saying that it means that it is literary and elegant, but the slave and maid look at the girl, you are both literary and elegant." As she spoke, the little girl finished eating the bun in her hand, and Xinyue poured her a cup of tea, "It turns out that your name is Wenya, come and drink some tea to slow down." ”

"Slave maid..." Wen Ya looked at the mother-in-law who had already made the bed on the side with her eyes, and the mother-in-law should be Wen Ya's teaching mother, so Wen Ya was particularly afraid of her.

Xinyue smiled, "This grandmother, Wenya will stay here to serve, you go down first." ”

"Yes," the mama kept a straight face the whole time, and when she heard the new moon say this, she turned and left.

Seeing her leave, Xinyue handed her the teacup again, Wenya was very happy, and sat sideways beside Xinyue even more boldly, "Girl, are you going to follow Gongzi back to Liang Kingdom?" ”

Crescent Moon thought for a moment and nodded, "Now it looks like this." What about you? It doesn't sound like a great saint to your accent. ”

Wen Ya nodded, "The slave maid is from Micheng in Liang Kingdom, and this time she followed His Highness all the way with the boat, and it has been almost two months since she came out, so she can finally go back." ”

As soon as Xinyue heard that she was from Liang Guo, she couldn't help but ask her, "What kind of place is Liang Guo?" ”

"Liang Guo is cold, so the women of our Liang Kingdom are like slaves, with some meat on their bodies, so that they can keep out the cold. His Majesty's concubine Liu is plump, but she is agile and bright, and she can dance on the big drum. ”

"Listening to your tone, it looks like you've seen it with your own eyes?" Crescent asked.

Wen Ya nodded, "Yes, Concubine Liu Guifei is from our Micheng, before she was elected to the palace, she danced at our Thousand Lantern Festival in Micheng, that is the slave maid is only six years old, sitting on her father's shoulder, and watching her dance." She was dressed like clouds and danced on a drum in mid-air. ”

Xinyue could hear that she missed her very much, and was afraid that she would be sad, so she changed the topic and said, "What else?" ”

"There are also a lot of delicious foods in our Liang country, the pork meat is the most delicious, the mutton is even more delicious, and the most delicious is to keep out the cold. Snacks and fried fruits, sweet melons..."

"Sweet melon?" Xinyue remembered that this melon was only available in the Western Regions.

"The girl doesn't know. Mixed with cow's milk, it was thinly packed, wrapped in honey and sugar, boiled and dried and then fried, making it into a round shape, like a honeydew melon. ”

"And this way to eat? I don't really know yet. "Just as Liang Wei has never eaten rice cakes, Xinyue has never heard of this sugar melon" What else? ”

"There are still a lot of food, the cotton and linen spun by our Liang Guoqiao women will not be broken for a lifetime, and the ladies in the palace are rushing to wear them."

Xinyue listened, then sighed, handed her the porridge at hand, her eyes were about to see through the bowl of porridge, "I don't want to drink it, you can eat it for me." ”

"No, girl, you have only eaten two bites, and although the slave is hungry, the slave knows that you have eaten less. The slave's mother said that if there is any major matter, you must eat first. With that, Wen Ya handed the porridge bowl to Xinyue's hand.

Xinyue shook her head, "I'm already full, you see I'm always lazy to move, so I naturally eat less." ”

"Really, really?" Wen Ya seemed to be really hungry, so she reached out and picked up the porridge that Xinyue didn't drink, and just put it beside her, Xinyue was making vegetables for her, but she was crooked and fell to the ground, with blood gushing from the corners of her mouth.

Wen Ya stared at the big eyes, and brought the dishes and chopsticks to the ground, and Xinyue hurriedly leaned forward, "Wen Ya, Wen Ya... Come on, come on. ”

The door was opened from the outside again, and Crescent Moon shouted to the people who came in from the door, "Doctor, doctor." ”

"Yes, yes" The guard immediately turned to go out, and the other guard, who bent down and looked at her after a few tosses, lost his vigorous elegance, stretched out his hand between her snorts, as if he was used to seeing it, and said to the new moon, "Girl, she has lost her breath." ”

"No, no" Xinyue had never seen anything like this, the last time she fell to the ground, she struggled in pain for less than two times, and it was she who swallowed her breath.

Xinyue felt that her body was half cold, she couldn't stop shaking Wen Ya, at this time Lang Zhong had also arrived, he sniffed between Wen Ya's snorts, and touched her pulse and said, "Girl, this girl has died of poison." ”

"Poison, poison?" Xinyue looked at her like poison, but when it was really confirmed, she was still frightened in her heart, so she asked Lang Zhong, "What kind of poison is she in?" ”

"From below, it looks like arsenic poison."

"Arsenic?" Xinyue felt that the name of this poison was one word different from arsenic, so she tried to ask, "But arsenic?" ”

"Yes, arsenic is the name of the great sage, the poison of arsenic in our Liang country, and a taste of red herbs is added, and the medicinal powder is a faint red after being made, so it is named arsenic. This drug is also colorless and odorless, but the toxicity is twice that of ordinary arsenic, and after taking it, it is almost instantaneous. ”

"She, she was fine just now, in my room, she ate two buns...", as she spoke, Xinyue looked at the buns on the table that had not yet been brought down, so she said to Lang Zhong, "Lao Lang Zhong will check that plate of buns." ”

Lang Zhong stood up, took out the silver needle, and stabbed it one by one on the bun, sure enough, when the second was stabbed, the silver needle was already black, Lang Zhong broke a bun, and the meat color in the bun was more than the color of the ordinary meat bun filling, which was crimson, and Lang Zhong smelled "There is a subtle smell of sand, it is arsenic." ”

"Go and pick up all the people in the kitchen for me..."Xinyue didn't finish his order, just saw the guards looking at each other, thinking that this was not his own home, how could he order this group of people who only obeyed Liang Wei's orders, so he was angry in his heart, "I don't care, I didn't eat this plate of steamed buns, but I almost died under your supervision, and there is still a person lying here, who died because of your poor supervision, you say, what will your master do to you?" ”

"But at the girl's command." The guard on the left, a smart man, got down on one knee and asked what Crescent was going to do.

"You go and control all the people in the kitchen, don't beat or scold, don't tell the reason, just lock them in a room, watch the front and back, and don't run away from anyone. Again, it is to find someone to call Liang Wei back. Where did he go? ”

"Your Highness will go down to see Bingzhou..."The guard on the right was a solid person, and as soon as he heard Xinyue ask, he immediately said everything.

The guard on the left immediately stopped and said, "Shut up."

Finally, Xinyue looked at the two of them who had been silent for a long time and said, "You guys go and do it first." First, carry the elegant girl to the side of the room, and perform an autopsy to see if she had any other injuries, whether she just died of poisonous hair. ”

"Yes," Lang Zhong called two guards and carried the man out.

Xinyue looked at the place where Wenya had fallen just now, and the blood she vomited, Xinyue took out a handkerchief, trying to wipe away the small bloodstains, and then the tears couldn't stop flowing, and finally wiped the ground into a mess.

The mother-in-law who had made the bed for the crescent just now walked in, brought clean water, and pulled up the crescent moon, which was lying on the ground.

Xinyue raised her head, looked at her cold expression, couldn't help pursing her lips, and finally let the woman pull Xinyue, wash her hands, and throw a clean handkerchief to wipe her face.

Crescent Moon did as she was arranged, and finally she helped Crescent Moon to sit on the bed.

She stood beside Xinyue for a while, then leaned over the ground again, wiped the ground that Xinyue had just wiped, and finally said to Xinyue, "You know, this girl, did she ask for herself?" ”

Crescent Moon didn't finish, just listened to her.

"She has always been reckless, helping in the kitchen, always spilling the ingredients, in the middle room of the childe, and almost tore the childe's gown, and in the end, the child asked me to take her with me to raise her. Until last night, she hadn't learned how to pour a good cup of tea. The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became, such a girl, bringing her into the East Palace or even the Imperial Palace, was just for her to be thrown in and sent to death, so I was hungry and let her remember it for a long time. She is all self-inflicted, she didn't eat all day yesterday, practiced pouring tea until midnight, and just told me that she already knows how to pour tea, and asked me to go back and see. The reason why she eats the girl's buns is that she asked for herself, she is greedy, clumsy, and has no blessings. Xinyue saw that this mother-in-law was very cold and hard, and her tone was flat, she was talking about something else, but Xinyue felt her sadness, and when she put the bloody veil in the basin and washed it, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she did not let go until the end.

"She, her father is gone, my mother and brother are still there, I, I want to make up for them." After the new moon finished speaking, the woman immediately stood up, holding the handkerchief in her hand, looked at the new moon for a long time, and there was no fluctuation in her eyes, and then said after a while, "Girl, the slave maid just said that she brought all this on herself." Moreover, now that she has gone to reunite with her family, there is no place for your money, so you should keep it for yourself. ”

"I... I don't know anything. When Xinyue heard this, her heart was even more sad, her head bowed, and her eyes were dry.

The woman cleaned up the floor and turned to leave.

Crescent Moon was the only one left in the room, and she looked at the floor soaked in moisture, clasping her hands on her knees, overwhelmed and scared.

When Liang Wei got the news, he was looking at the end of the street exploringly, he just felt that someone was watching him, and just wanted to send someone to investigate, the guards waiting on the boat came with the news, "What did you say?" ”

"The Crescent Moon girl was almost killed on the boat, and the maid who served the girl was poisoned and killed on the spot."

"Is Crescent Moon alright?" Liang Wei took a few steps forward, then turned back to ask the guards.

"Yes, the Crescent Moon Girl is fine, just frightened." After Liang Wei heard this, he nodded, touched the hot thing in his arms, and frowned, "Check carefully, I want to know who it is before dark." ”