Chapter 1 Entering the East Palace
The wooden plaque in Jiang Xi's hand was made last night, and the handiwork was extremely rough. On one side of the wooden plaque is her name written on it, and on the other side is written the place where the errand is assigned - the East Palace.
"Mama, which lady lives in the East Palace?"
She escaped from the poor countryside, and brought her frail and sick brother to Jingyang to join her relatives, in order to raise money for her brother's treatment and let her aunt's family treat her well, Jiang Xi applied to be a palace maid. Last night, she heard the other palace maids discussing how big and how many palaces there were, which masters lived in the palaces, which ones were tolerant and generous, and which ones were small-bellied and domineering.
Only, no one mentioned this East Palace.
The lady in charge glanced at her and reprimanded: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince lives in the East Palace, don't open your mouth easily and make people laugh if you are so vulgar and ignorant!" ”
His Royal Highness the Prince!
Isn't that the Prince of Dayan, the future emperor!
Jiang Xi sighed infinitely in his heart, Mama Xu is really a good person, I thought that I had no money to bribe her, and I would be assigned to the Miscellaneous Courtyard as an inferior maid who washes and sweeps every day, but I didn't expect to go to the East Palace.
This joy lasted until she left the palace gate, and some of the palace maids with her group of six finally couldn't help crying, and others comforted: "Don't cry, if you are seen by your father-in-law, beware of being punished." ”
"It's better to be punished than to die."
"Don't talk nonsense."
The palace maid smacked and said: "How can I talk nonsense, the East Palace is a place where people serve, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is notoriously uncertain." The life of our slaves is not as good as the mud and dust on the soles of his shoes, and the three maids who were sent to the East Palace half a month ago are all dead, and one of them is one of them fished out of the moat six days ago. ”
Jiang Xi heard this, and his head was stunned.
She happened to be present when the floating corpse was fished out of the moat, and the corpse was soaked fat and large, and the knife in the neck was even whiter. She was so frightened that she had a high fever for a few days, and she couldn't eat, and when she closed her eyes, she was full of the horrible and pitiful appearance of the palace maid.
God, it turns out that Mama Xu wants them to die!
When he arrived outside the gate of the East Palace, Jiang Xi's legs and stomach were still trembling. The one who came to pick them up from the East Palace was a young man in Tsing Yi, who smiled and said: "Your Highness is happy with incense, you must always tie the sachet to your body." ”
The little maid said while holding the tray and distributing the sachet and a piece of pastry to the palace maids, Jiang Xi took the sachet and didn't dare to stuff the pastry into his mouth.
The little girl smiled at her: "Sophora cake, fragrant and sweet." ”
This little guy has red lips and white teeth, and when he laughs, his eyebrows and eyes are crooked like a beautiful little fox, which is very harmless. Jiang Xi took a bite of the pastry suspiciously, and whether it was poisonous or not, it was really delicious, and she almost couldn't help but show the bad habit of licking her lips.
The little girl asked her, "Is it delicious?" ”
"Hmm!"
She nodded, and found that he was smiling more and more intensely, like a flower blooming in spring, although it is really strange to describe a man with flowers, but the first thing that Jiang Xi thought of in his heart was flowers.
A boy who is as beautiful as a flower.
"Pastries are a wish of His Royal Highness, and those who eat the things of the East Palace are the people of the East Palace, and if someone is treacherous in the future and dares to flee without the permission of the master, the end will be to kill without mercy."
The little servant greeted everyone with a smile as he spoke, "Come in, Your Highness still has a reward." ”
Everyone looked at each other, quickly swallowed the pastry, and followed into the East Palace. The little guy leads the way through it, bypassing the rockery and flowing water, and after the white jade arch bridge, there is the dormitory. He stepped forward and knocked on the door to report: "Your Highness, all the palace maids in the palace have arrived." ”
There was no response from the hall, and after a pause, the little man suddenly kicked the door open.
Jiang Xi was taken aback by his actions, and was shouting in his heart that he would not die, when he saw a noisy commotion coming from the open hall, and then a group of black crows fluttered their wings and swooped towards them. The crows, who have never hurt people for no reason, pecked and scratched them as if they had seen food. The palace maids screamed in fright, and in the blink of an eye, their clothes and cheeks were covered with blood.
"Run!"
I don't know who shouted, and the palace maids immediately hugged their heads and ran around, and you pushed me and ran in the direction of the courtyard gate.
Jiang Xi was knocked down several times, and finally got up, a cold light flashed in the afterglow, and at the gate of the courtyard, two guards with knives appeared out of thin air. The moment the sword was unsheathed, the tip of the sword hit the necks of a row of palace maids who were in a panic, and warm blood immediately splattered out.
Jiang Xi was splashed in the face, her knees involuntarily weakened in fright, and she knelt on the ground with a flutter, and the knife swept over her head and cut half of her hair.
And the group of palace maids behind him who didn't have time to stop were not spared. Probably not even expecting to be attacked by this, some palace maids were still staring wide when they fell to the ground.
"Hahahaha——!"
There was a burst of laughter behind him, Jiang Xi stiffened his neck and looked back, and found that the young man in Tsing Yi was holding his stomach, and his spine was tilted back with a smile, as if he had watched a very interesting scene.
"It's all said, if you eat the things of the East Palace, you are the people of the East Palace, how can you defect without the permission of the master."
The little servant paced towards Jiang Xi's position, and the two guards immediately put away their swords: "Your Highness." ”