Emperor Duan looked at Duan Jingqi's appearance of not resisting and not having the slightest vitality, but he sighed heavily in his heart, and quietly turned his head to look at Su Zhi before continuing, "The Lord of the Bing Kingdom trusts me so much and directly asks the princess to come and kiss, I will definitely treat her with great courtesy, and from today onwards, I will use the courtyard outside the palace as a place for the princess to rest before she gets married." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you will definitely tell the Lord of the Kingdom all about your care," Ba Machinery saluted on behalf of the princess.

After some polite words, it was naturally a congratulatory voice from the courtiers, but none of the people in the palace were sincerely happy, as if they were suppressed by something heavy in their hearts, and even Emperor Duan was full of emotion for all kinds of unavoidable emotions back then.

At this time, it was almost close to Zishi, and the singing and dancing in the palace was the time to be lively, but Emperor Duan was no longer in the mood to appreciate it, he waved his hand, and Su Mao whispered like a roundworm in his stomach to tell the people around him to speed up the process, and the eight-treasure reunion dinner, which was supposed to be scheduled to be served half an hour later, was also served one after another.

The palace maids outside the hall respectfully carried the food boxes in a row and walked from the direction of the imperial dining room, and each line to a courtyard gate had to undergo a check by the Imperial Forest Army on duty here, and after passing through layers of checkpoints to prove that all the maids did not have weapons on them, they would finally be tested in front of the main hall by the personal eunuchs beside Emperor Duan with silver needles to test the dishes for poison, only after going through these procedures, a dish could be brought out of the food box and sent to Emperor Duan and the relatives and ministers in front of them.

At this time, the maids with food boxes had just left the imperial dining room and had just passed through the third door, they all walked forward quickly with their heads down, and no one noticed that Xiao Dong, the maid standing at the end of the line, had been replaced by another person at this time, and they would not know that Xiao Qiu and Xiao Dong had already exchanged identities in the dark just now with a psychedelic extremely fast light skill.

At this time, two sisters who looked exactly the same, one was fleeing quickly along the darkness to meet Bai Lingchen outside the palace gate, while the other was holding a food box in one hand at the end of the team, and the other hand quietly touched the dagger quenched with poison on his waist.

This night, Xiaoqiu took advantage of the chaos to have a rough idea of the terrain in the palace, and from here, you can go through three thresholds to directly reach the place where Emperor Duan is, and this time is just enough time for the poison on the dagger to attack, Xiaoqiu looked up vigilantly, and in the quiet and silent palace, she suddenly looked cold, and randomly held the dagger and stabbed it fiercely on the inside of her arm.

She bit her lower lip and tried not to make a sound, and then quickly sprinkled the hemostatic medicine that had been hidden long ago on the bleeding wound, such a strong stimulation almost made her faint in pain, but when she remembered that Bai Lingchen had told herself that she didn't want her to die, Xiaoqiu felt that everything was worth it.

Her painful chaotic mind gradually appeared the appearance of Bai Lingchen when she said that, but this weak but firm belief supported Xiaoqiu to grit her teeth and survive the darkness in front of her, and finally regained consciousness, her feet were still instinctively moving forward, but the pain had just passed, and the erosion of the poison instantly spread all over her body.

Xiao Qiu gritted her teeth and persevered, when she was beaten in the Spirit Pavilion in the early years, she learned the ability to not show any pain, she followed this group of palace maids through two doors smoothly, and it was not until she walked to a dark corridor again that Xiao Qiu threw the used dagger out at will, and she continued to lead to the last gate as if nothing had happened.

At this time, she was about to be unable to suppress the blood gushing in her heart, her face was pale and she looked at the direction of the palace gate in the cold winter night, and the corners of her lips were raised, she was afraid that she would not be able to wait to meet Bai Lingchen.

In fact, as early as the moment she received the task, Xiao Qiu had already prepared to break the contract, she couldn't go to see Bai Lingchen, which would lead a large number of royal forest troops to his side, although they all knew how dangerous and impossible this plan was, but Bai Lingchen was still willing to meet her outside the palace, and this was enough.

Xiaoqiu has been humbly in love with Bai Lingchen for so many years, how can she bear to put her master who has always loved and served in danger, Xiaoqiu held back the tears in her eyes and resolutely turned her head, tonight is destined to make Bai Lingchen wait for a while.

Xiao Qiu once again suppressed the urge to surge his blood, gritted his teeth and endured the pain of being eaten by poison all over his body, if he wanted to complete the task, it was almost impossible to assassinate with a poisonous dagger, so Xiao Qiu decided to let the poison soak his whole body and then use himself as a weapon to assassinate Su Zhi.

She restrained her trembling hands with all her might, and as soon as she looked up, she saw the majestic and solemn hall in front of her, and finally reached the last level, Xiaoqiu, like all the maids in front of her, took out the rice and held it in the palm of her hand, and the steward eunuch let a person enter the palace every time she tested one, because Xiaoqiu's sister Xiaodong has been in the palace for the palace maid of Duan Dibu in the past few years, so when she arrived at Xiaoqiu, she also checked it very carefully.

The eunuch's silver needle pierced in different positions five or six times before slowly withdrawing his hand, but Xiaoqiu trembled slightly as if he couldn't bear it anymore.

The eunuch glanced up at her, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual on her face, he whispered, "You don't want to die when your hands are shaking in front of the emperor?" If you are afraid, go and change someone for you. ”

Xiao Qiu hurriedly lowered her head and begged, "Father-in-law, the slave maid has not seen so many nobles in the palace for a long time, and the slave maid will change it," Xiao Qiu said as she bit her lower lip and forced herself to endure the pain of being eroded all over her body, until the faint smell of blood came from her mouth and barely returned to normal.

The father-in-law glanced at her, and his tone was half concerned and generally warning, "If you can't hold on, speak quickly, there is a soup waiting for you." ”

Xiaoqiu gritted her teeth and nodded, a trace of long-lost warmth arose in her heart, and then she listened to her father-in-law's order, "Serve!" ”

Xiaoqiu slowly bowed her head into the hall with the many maidservants, everything in it was dazzling, and the people around her were wearing all kinds of silk and satin, and they couldn't open their eyes, but among the many luxuriously dressed people, Xiaoqiu still found Tang Meng's location at a glance, she couldn't help but sneak a look over, only to see that the woman with a happy face was talking and laughing with the prince beside her, she smiled as if she had come out of a painting, and she still had a gift carefully selected for her by Bai Lingchen in her hand.