"You are very closed in the palace, and going out of the palace is like being isolated from the world for seven or eight years." Ma Qian joked about Qingshi, and then pulled out the stool and beckoned, "Come, Shi Niang come and sit, Boss Ying, you go and get a pot of Penglai pulp." ”

The young man with a soft face said with a smile, "Ma Qian, you accompany the proprietress to get wine, so as not to always feel that Boss Ying has tricked you and perfunctory you with wine." ”

Ma Qian's brain was not too dull after drinking, and he was a little stunned, and then reacted, "Yes, go, go, Boss Ying, let's go to the wine cellar, hehe." ”

"Hey, you're big~!" Yingge is well-informed, and he can't see that this is supporting them.

But she also knew that Qingshi would not do anything to Shi Niang, so she glanced at Shi Niang worriedly and left with Ma Qian.

"The three of you are tired all night, go back and rest."

"Yes." Xian'er, Xiao Yudie, and Xilian all got up, bowed down, and obediently closed the door for the two.

Without outsiders, the smile on Qingshi's face was much more sincere than Fang Fang, and he didn't have the feeling of being in tune just now, "I haven't seen you for a few months, Shi Niang looks a lot more energetic, can you get used to spending these days in the capital?" ”

I don't know if Qingshi took the initiative to come to her, or if he was forcibly pulled by him as Ma Qian said, and happened to meet her.

Because of the identity of the other party's Dongchang person, Liu Ruyue replied truthfully, "I opened a restaurant in the opposite alley next to Yunyingfang, but 200 meters away, and I have a good life in the capital." ”

"After returning to Beijing, I went back to the palace, and I didn't have a chance to come out for a few months, I missed the dishes made by Shi Niang, but I didn't expect Shi Niang to open a restaurant, so that I would have a place to go out of the palace to eat in the future, so as not to worry about it."

Qingshi's expression has always been sincere, Liu Ruyue can't argue whether it's true or not, and there is nothing on her body that is worth using to deceive a eunuch in the palace.

If you want to talk about use, Liu Ruyue wants to have more friendship with the people in the palace, "I haven't seen you for a few months, but the bluestone is much less clear than when I was on the boat, it's not easy for you to go out of the palace, you can come at any time if you want to eat." ”

Qingshi hesitated for a moment, then remembered something and smiled, "Oh, Ma Qian told me that there is a restaurant to eat, and you have to make a reservation, I think it's this restaurant opened by Shi Niang?!" ”

"Yes."

"Shi Niang's cooking skills are so good, why don't you open a big restaurant?"

"I like to research new dishes, and I have to provide food and pastries for Yun Yingfang, so I don't spend much time in restaurants, and I can only cook ten tables of meals a day."

Qingshi smiled unchanged, "Oh, I heard that Shi Niang still takes some door-to-door cooking work?" ”

Liu Ruyue replied carefully, "Yes, the people who can come to the restaurant to eat are all men, and it is inconvenient for everyone to go out, so they also come to the door to make some." ”

"Oh, then before I left the palace today, I heard that the right prime minister's mansion was accidentally stolen last night, could it be that it was also done by Shi Niang?" Qingshi turned sideways and looked at the restrained Shi Niang with great interest.

Liu Ruyue was surprised, "This matter has already spread to the palace?" ”

Qingshi is very straightforward, "Shi Niang doesn't know, the Right Prime Minister's Mansion is not an ordinary place, something like this happened, how could the palace not know." ”

But Liu Ruyue was not surprised how could the palace know, but surprised that Qingshi took the initiative to say these things to her, saying that he had a deep friendship with the people of Jinyiwei and knew that these things were very simple.

But why do you want to tell her?

"I ...... I just wanted to prove my innocence last night, so I wouldn't have committed any taboos, right? Liu Ruyue was worried, she didn't know anything about the intertwined forces in Beijing, could it be that Qingshi was here to remind her or something?

But why, just because they took the same boat when they went to Beijing and cooked a few meals for their uncle?

"What a taboo can this be." Qingshi Lang smiled and fell into worry, "I just listened to it, and I felt that last night was really dangerous, but fortunately, Shi Niang was smart and cleared her suspicions, you are walking in the mansions of various dignitaries and nobles in Beijing, and you must be more careful in the future." ”

"Thank you, Qingshi, for thinking about Shi Niang."

The young man of Qingshi looked at Liu Ruyue heartily, "Shi Niang's method of making fingerprints visible last night sounds really novel, Qingshi wants to see it." ”

Oh, if it's for this, Liu Ruyue is still a little more down-to-earth in her heart, otherwise she is really uneasy in her heart, "Qingshi wants to see it, I'll show it to you." ”

Liu Ruyue took out the bottle from her arms, and Qingshi agreed, "Shi Niang is right to be careful, carry it with you, and if you are suddenly invited to someone's house, you can also use it at any time." ”

always felt that the other party was reminding him of something, Liu Ruyue took the bowl and was about to make a demonstration.

Qingshi curiously left his seat and walked closer to observe, "In addition to the jade pendant, the white porcelain bowl, which is originally white, if the fingerprint happens to be attached to the brown object, will this medicinal powder have no effect?" ”

"What if the fingerprints are on wooden chopsticks? Can I still leave fingerprints? ”

Thinking back to this paragraph in the book she read at the time, Liu Ruyue said, "Sometimes it is indeed difficult to extract a complete fingerprint, it still depends on luck." ”

"Why does the place where my finger touches it turn brown when I touch this powder?"

"I don't know." There are some things in the book, Liu Ruyue and Chu Qianche can't understand them, like strange symbols, similar to the ghost drawings written by Taoist priests, with circles and forks, and the two can only pick the parts that they can understand.

Qingshi didn't ask again, and directly gave Liu Ruyue the stove for warm wine in the house.

According to the way she did last night, Liu Ruyue demonstrated that the white porcelain bowl had the fingerprints of her and Qingshi, and after the white mist was smoked, they all turned brown.

Qingshi took it in his hand and observed, and choked up with red eyes and emotion, "Sure enough, I can make my fingerprints visible, if I had this thing earlier, my friend Xiao Dengzi, who grew up in the palace since childhood, would not have been beaten to death by a stick because he was wrongfully stolen the concubine's jade hairpin." ”

Thinking of the fate of her youngest son Lu Yongqing in the previous life, Liu Ruyue's heart softened.

If these children have a choice, who would want to enter the palace as eunuchs?

The work of serving people is not easy to do, and the things in the palace are more complicated than those in the back house of a large family, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will die, and you don't know how you died.

Liu Ruyue handed the corked porcelain bottle to Qingshi, "This bottle of manifestation powder, you can use it." ”

Qingshi looked up in surprise, "Give it to me?" ”

"Hmm."

"Give it to me, what should I do with Shi Niang?"

"I still have a bottle at home." Liu Ruyue didn't say that she would do it, this was also to avoid trouble, and stuffed the bottle into Qingshi's hand, "Besides, how can this thing be used often, a bottle can be used for a long time, and it is best not to use it for a lifetime." ”