In a few moments, the kitchen was flickering with firelight, and curling gray-white smoke was coming out of the chimney.

Cao Zhijin walked into the kitchen and saw the maid squatting under the stove to make a fire.

"I didn't expect you to be so quiet!"

The fire was up, and she pulled one out of the small pile of dry firewood neatly placed behind her and threw it into the stove, looking at the dancing light of the fire.

Cao Zhijin didn't know what she was talking about, and smiled awkwardly: "It's so quiet here, no matter how lively I am alone, I can't make any noise!"

"That's not what I'm talking about!" She looked up at Cao Zhijin and said, "It's not that no maids have been here before, but as a result, they are noisy and noisy at night, as if they were frightened by something, and ran outside like crazy." ”

"As a result, I died outside the next day inexplicably."

Cao Zhijin finally understood a little, she looked at her and said, "So you just asked me not to go out?"

She nodded.

Cao Zhijin looked at her like that, she shouldn't have known that there were secret guards outside the Moon Gate, which means that those maids who ran out were all killed by the secret guards outside the door!

"Aren't you afraid?" She looked at Cao Zhijin a little curiously and asked.

Cao Zhijin shook his head, King Chen is terrifying!

"Aren't you afraid?" Cao Zhijin looked at her and said.

The maid smiled bitterly: "I'm different from them, they were punished to work here because they made mistakes, but I didn't make any mistakes, and I was assigned here as soon as I entered the house."

"I thought it was just a little more bitter here, and it would be good to live without the battle in the back house, but the maids who came here died a lot, and then I gradually understood that as long as I stepped out of that door, I would die!"

"They have been blessed, and I have been suffering from beginning to end, and it is never-ending suffering, and I will be trapped here forever in this life, lonely and old, what is the difference between living and dying?"

"I sometimes think about death, but I can't do it myself, and I also want to step out of that door, but after all, I am still unwilling, so I am not afraid at all, maybe I will be liberated when I die!"

After speaking, she habitually guarded Cao Zhijin, her face was full of remorse, and she seemed to regret confiding in Cao Zhijin.

Cao Zhijin smiled: "Then I'm the same as you!" I was also sent here today when I entered the house. ”

The maid looked at Cao Zhijin in surprise and sneered, "What are you laughing at?" After a few days you find out that nothing around you is repeated, you won't be able to laugh! ”

Cao Zhijin still smiled: "Laugh that I found a companion, you just waited for me near the Moon Gate, right?" You'd love to have me with you, right? You were deliberately indifferent to me before, not because you targeted me, but because you were afraid that after you invested your feelings on me, I would not be able to withstand the 'test' and die, you were afraid of repeated disappointment! ”

When the maid saw Cao Zhijin tell her all the things on her mind, she was annoyed at first, and suddenly she was relieved again, and she got an unprecedented moment of joy in her heart.

"It's been a long time since I've talked to someone like that!"

Cao Zhijin looked at her and said sincerely: "You just saved my life, in return, I will talk to you in the future!"

The maid smiled comfortably: "This is the most honest reward I have ever heard!"

"Reacquaint yourself, my name is Zhu Xian!"

"My name is Wen Jin!" Cao Zhijin smiled.

Zhu Xian was in a hurry to do things quickly, and the meal was ready in a short time.

The kitchen is spacious and there is a small round table in the corner.

She moved the small round table to the stove and closed the kitchen door, and the warmth surrounded them.

Cao Zhijin looked at the two dishes and one soup on the table, and said, "This is too luxurious!"

She saw it when Zhu Xian was washing vegetables just now, and the basket was full of fresh vegetables.

Zhu Xian said in surprise: "This is the benefit of living here!"

Cao Zhijin first ate half a bowl of rice to cushion her stomach, and then asked her, "Since we can't go out, where do these fresh vegetables come from?"

Zhu Xian replied: "During the day, when you want something, someone will put it in front of the moon gate in advance, we just go and get it, the quality of the things is not bad, except that there is no freedom and no popularity, it is not too bad to want to come here!"

Seeing that Cao Zhijin was surprised, she said simply: "You'll know if you go and get it tomorrow!"

After a simple wash, Cao Zhijin spent the night in Zhu Xian's room.

The next day, she got up early and went to the moon gate with Zhu Xian, and saw a dark cloth on the ground, with a quilt and some clothes on it, and a basket of fresh vegetables next to it.

Zhu Xian carried the basket, and Cao Zhijin carried the quilt and clothes back to their respective residences.

Although Zhu Xian persuaded her to move in with her, Cao Zhijin politely refused. She hasn't forgotten the purpose of her coming to Chenwangfu, even if she can't get out now, it's much more convenient to live alone!

Zhu Xian didn't care, he went back to his yard and put the basket and came back to help Cao Zhijin clean up the house.

Cao Zhijin now has a lot of cloth, and the broken windows can be plugged with cloth.

Zhu Xian looked at her kitchen and said, "The chimney in your kitchen is blocked, you can eat with me in the future!"

Cao Zhijin walked into the yard and looked in the direction of the chimney, it turned out that there was a big tree growing next to the chimney, and the fallen leaves fell into the chimney one after another, and the chimney was blocked over time!

"Good!" Cao Zhijin nodded.

Zhu Xian looked at the sun outside and said, "It's not early, we should go and prepare breakfast for the master."

"What master?" Cao Zhijin asked.

Zhu Xian looked at her for a moment, and sneered: "Do you think that the palace is just for us to be confined?"

Cao Zhijin smiled embarrassedly: "I thought you were the only one here!"

Zhu Xian said solemnly: "There is a master living in this Qinxiang Garden, I will take you to see you later!"

"You have to remember that if you still want to leave here, it's best not to look at the master, not to talk to her, and not to be curious about anything related to her! Because we can't leave Qinxiangyuan, it's all because we have been in close contact with this master! ”

Cao Zhijin thought to himself, it turned out that this Qinxiangyuan was not only trapped by the maid, but also by a master!

"And what should I do if the master wants to ask me?" Cao Zhijin asked her.

Zhu Xian snorted coldly and said, "That's absolutely impossible!" I have served that master for so long, and she has not spoken a word to me, and I sometimes wonder if she cannot speak. ”

Cao Zhijin said thoughtfully: "To be able to trap a person so carefully, only King Chen can do it in King Chen's Mansion!" I'm already curious about what kind of person that woman is, who can make the dignified king go to great lengths? ”

"Have you forgotten what I just told you?" Zhu Xian looked at her worriedly.

Cao Zhijin smiled playfully: "Everyone has curiosity!" Don't worry, I'm just thinking that I'm not going to get myself in trouble! ”

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