On the long and narrow palace road, the young palace people in plain palace clothes were panting and running in the direction of the sporadic lights not far away. The cold moonlight shone on her pale face, illuminating the cold sweat and slightly wet sideburns clearly, like a moving Western painting.

"Girl, are you—are you alright?"

Yuan Chengtai didn't expect that when he met the girl again, he would be in such a situation.

After not seeing Zhiwei appear for several days, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed in his heart. Thinking about it again, I don't know which palace the girl served, whether she was pardoned from punishment, or if something had happened.

Wang Jing also teased him and asked if he wanted someone to help him inquire, but he was rejected with a red face, and then he was a little remorseful, and was thinking about how to pull down his face to find Wang Jing to be soft.

On this day, he was on duty, and just as it was his turn to take a two-day holiday, he was ready to go out of the palace and go home to see his widowed mother and younger brothers and sisters.

Unexpectedly, I met her running wildly on the road between the palace walls, her eyes were red, but her face was terrifyingly white, and there was even a little blood stained between her fingers.

Yuan Chengtai fixed his eyes and saw that this girl was none other than the one he was thinking about.

Without thinking too much, he stretched out his hand to stop and stopped the person: "Girl, you, are you okay?" ”

Zhi Wei reflexively ducked back, and her vigilant eyes made Yuan Chengtai very uncomfortable.

"You, who are you? What are you doing? ”

She recognized the other party's costume as a palace guard, but in the confusion, she couldn't tell the difference, and associated the person in front of her with the guard who woke her up before.

Yuan Chengtai was disappointed, it turned out that people didn't remember him at all, but that's the same, he wasn't born a beautiful man, his skin was still a little dark, and even Wang Jingjing was born more handsome than him, which was more pleasing to the palace ladies of Qiande Palace.

But he still said patiently: "Girl, you have blood on your hands, are you hurt?" ”

Zhi Wei was shocked and looked down at her right hand.

Sure enough, there were indeed some blood stains on his hands that had not yet dried up, but they were not conspicuous, which also showed that the guard in front of him was a person with sharp eyes.

She hesitated, and smiled reluctantly: "Thank you for your concern, it's just that I accidentally scratched my hand, it's not a big deal." ”

Zhi Wei quickly took out a handkerchief with her left hand, bandaged her "injured" right hand without a trace, and politely saluted the kind guard, and was about to turn around and walk away.

Yuan Chengtai had a lot of thoughts in his heart, but it was not easy to ask, looking at the back of the other party, the god made a ghost and said a word.

"That, I'm on duty in Qiande Palace, my surname is Yuan ......"

Zhi Wei turned her head in a daze, her eyes rolled around his face, and her brows furrowed slightly, as if she was thinking about the intention of what he meant.

Just when she showed a sudden and surprised look, Yuan Chengtai, who had been slandering herself for being stupid, finally saw a glimmer of hope.

Does she remember me? Do you remember it now?

However, another rush of footsteps shattered his illusions.

"Hey, Miss Zhiwei, why are you- why are you here?"

The shrill, thin and feminine male voice that suddenly interjected obliquely showed its existence in the cold night.

It's like the same problem, but it's a different problem for two people.

Yuan Chengtai naturally recognized this prince and knew the truth that the little ghost was difficult, so he hurriedly arched his hand and briefly explained the reason why he passed by here when he left the palace.

This place is no longer counted in the inner palace, but at the foot of the imperial city, and the time under the gate here is not as strict as in the palace, especially for this kind of guard on duty in the palace.

Wang Dexi didn't doubt his rhetoric much. It's just that I always feel that these two people seem to be more than that, at least one of them is.

He squinted at the expressions of the two, didn't say anything, and said directly to Zhi Wei: "Time is in a hurry, can the girl move to talk?" As he spoke, his eyes still glanced at Yuan Chengtai.

Yuan Chengtai could only leave with interest, but he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

"This prince has always been the confidant of Chief Manager Zhao, what do you do when you don't stay in the palace at night and run outside? You can't have come to find that girl, have you? That's not the norm...... Hmm, but it's a mistake, and by the way, knowing her name, it will sound much easier to type in the future......"

Thinking about the fact that this Zhiwei girl might remember him, Yuan Chengtai was even more happy in his heart, and he completely forgot all the unreasonable phenomena of that scene. For example, her panic, the blood on her hands, and the late night visit of the princess......

Tonight, Zhiwei was frightened again and again, and her heart beat several times faster than usual.

Even if she vaguely guessed Wang Dexi's intentions, such a point in time and such a coincidence, she still couldn't help but be suspicious.

"The prince is looking for me, but what do you have to say?"

And the girl said this. How did you think about what you said a few days ago? ”

Wang Dexi smiled and glanced at her right hand that was hidden beside her without a trace, and did not say anything.

But Zhiwei always felt that her careful thinking seemed to have been seen through by the other party. What's more, in tonight's encounter, in addition to Steward Zhang's intervention, is it also related to other people? For example......

She shuddered, not daring to think about it any more.

Thinking that she had just been stabbed in the right chest, rolling on the ground bleeding and cursing her in a low voice, but not like an old eunuch who could die in the next moment, Zhi Wei trembled slightly.

If it was as she guessed, maybe the old eunuch would die, no, maybe he was dead now, and Wang Dexi was coming......

Even if Wang Dexi has nothing to do with this matter, he just happened to come, and it is estimated that he will need his help to completely smooth out this matter.

Otherwise, the old eunuch suffered a big loss, and he would definitely think of ways to rectify her. This time it's still a pretended "Candle Night in the Cave Room", and next time it may be a stick and abuse!

Zhi Wei closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, it was already peaceful.

"It's an honor for a slave to be able to help my father-in-law. Please also ask your father-in-law to command. ”

Three days later, the Raccoon Bureau.

Steward Zhang cast a puzzled look at Zhi Wei, but couldn't read any answer from her face.

It stands to reason that it should have happened that day, otherwise Xiao Wanzi's rhetoric when he came back would not have been like that.

Moreover, Zhiwei did come back late that night, and according to the palace people in the same room, the description was indeed a little embarrassed, and she looked flustered.

In the words of Huacai: "If you don't know, you think you have been robbed by someone outside!" ”

But the strange thing is that Zhiwei returned to normal the next day, and she still worked so hard when she worked, and her actions did not seem to be inconvenient.

If it didn't work out, Gonggong Chen would have been annoyed and angry, but he didn't come to the Huanyi Bureau to look for him again, which shows that this matter is a bit strange.

What's even more weird is that after that day, Zhiwei seemed to have fallen into an evil spirit, sticking to Xi Yue, a man from the old palace, every day when she had nothing to do, and even took the initiative to share the work for the latter with great diligence, even if there was so much work in her hands that it was smacking......

Steward Zhang shook his head, made a note in his heart, and decided to go to Gonggong Chen in person tomorrow. That old guy is the second-in-command of the internal officials and supervisors, and he can't be easily offended, so he still has to find out the situation so that he can decide how to treat this newcomer in the future.

In the past few days, Zhiwei's abnormal appearance has not only attracted the attention of Steward Zhang, but even Huacai and others have been a little sideways, not to mention her diligent target and Xi Yue herself.

This old aunt is indeed very old, even older than Aunt Qing who served the former queen, I heard that she was a little palace maid during the period of the first emperor, but for some reason she did not leave the palace, but came to the Huanyi Bureau such a heavy place to retire. But she is not like Aunt Qing, she has the rank of a female official, and now she is just a decoration in the Siyuan Bureau.

Of course, Steward Zhang didn't dare to treat her like an ordinary palace person, and assigned some light work every day to make a show.

At least, Zhi Wei noticed several times that every afternoon this old aunt was very idle, either walking here or stopping there, and everyone else also ignored her, as if she was just a wandering spirit in the Huanyi Bureau.

"What do you want to do with me like this?"

In the afternoon of this day, Xi Yue, who had ignored Zhiwei for several days, finally couldn't help it and questioned her with a cold face.

Zhi Wei blinked and smiled sincerely: "Auntie is a smart person, can't you guess?" ”

If Wang Dexi didn't hide it from her, he only came to Xi Yue a few days ago, but the other party refused to speak. A few days later, she was wrapped up like kraft candy again. Coupled with a few words of conversation between Wang Dexi and himself that day, anyone who is interested can guess it, not to mention Aunt Xi Yue, who has lived peacefully to this age in the palace.

Aunt Xi Yue's eyes narrowed, the tails of her eyes were raised, and there was immediately a trace of fierce aura on her face.

Zhi Wei smiled again: "My aunt must have been a beauty when she was young, and she is as her name suggests......"

Aunt Xi Yue's accumulated momentum suddenly loosened, and she still sneered, and this time there was a little more contempt in her laughter.

"Little girl, do you think you can coax me by saying a few nice words? It's too much—"

Zhi Wei suddenly interrupted her, lowered her voice, and still had a smile on her face: "Although I don't know why my aunt is willing to stay here when she can go out of the palace to retire, I know that there is only one ...... in this palace and this imperial city."

She turned her face away and raised her chin to the east: "I'm just a pawn, if I don't move my aunt, someone else will come forward one day." My aunt is a person who looks down on fame and fortune, and even sees through the red dust, and it is understandable that she is reluctant to get involved in these things. However, since the master wants to know, no matter what it is, it is only a matter of time. Isn't that so? ”

Xi Yue stopped smiling, and looked at her for the first time.

Zhi Wei held her breath, she knew that her words might have moved the other party, even if it was only a little bit, it was hope.

"Since it's all about this, if I don't open my mouth again, I'll have to bear the charge of bullying the king, right?"

Zhi Wei's eyes lit up, and she still had a humble expression on her face.

"Auntie's words are wrong, we are all on errands for the master. Being able to share the worries of the master is not only our blessing, but also our credit, how can we get to that? ”

Aunt Xi Yue smiled leisurely, although she was old, her uncloudy eyes seemed to see through her, so that her voice became smaller and smaller, and finally she was a little embarrassed.

"For the sake of your guts—"