Su Qi was about to struggle to resist, but he heard the door squeak and was pushed open, and the old eunuch went and came back.

Su Qi didn't dare to move immediately, hid behind a row of wooden shelves, watched the old eunuch sneakily look around, took out a small paper bag from his sleeve, opened the lid of the cup where the soup was stewed, and poured all the powder in the paper bag into it.

Poisoned?! Su Qi's eyes suddenly widened, and she was about to exhale subconsciously, but she was grabbed by a hand on her shoulder, signaling her not to act rashly.

Su Qi turned his head and saw an eight or nine-year-old boy behind him, who was born thin and had a pair of bright pupils, he shook his head at her very solemnly, and raised his hand to make a silent gesture.

Su Qi nodded, stopped making a sound, and watched the old eunuch finish poisoning, put the paper bag against the fire on the stove, let out a low sneer in his throat, and turned around and went out.

When he walked away, Su Qi asked the young man, "Why didn't you let me speak out, seeing that he poisoned people?" ”

The young man glanced at her: "If you want to eat and be brave, who gave you the courage?" He stood up straight and looked at the bowl of poisoned snow clam Liyan soup: "This soup is stewed for Concubine Li, Concubine Li, who is pampered and arrogant on weekdays, domineering and vicious, has made a lot of enemies in the palace, and it is normal for someone to want to harm her." But she is in the position of a concubine, if she is poisoned, she must be strictly investigated, so ordinary concubines have no guts to kill her, at best, they just add some ingredients to restrain her, make her sick for ten days and a half months, ruin her appearance and make her sharp. ”

Su Qi couldn't help but sigh at the young man: At a young age, he analyzed the people and things in the palace very well, and sure enough, the environment trained people!

She was sighing, but she heard the young man ask, "Who are you?" ”

"I ......" Su Qi was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to introduce himself, so he had to vaguely: "I'm new, what about you?" ”

The young man laughed at himself: "I have been in this palace for many years. ”

Su Qi saw that the young man was about the same age as the little eunuch who was scolded just now, so he thought that he was also a little eunuch who had entered the palace since he was a child, and sighed pitifully in his heart, and asked again: "...... Are you here to steal food too? ”

Her word "also" made the young man feel good, and he felt that since he was secretly eating in the middle of the night, he sincerely taught her experience: "This is a soup room, which is specially used to make soup for high-ranking masters." I don't recommend stealing food here, not saying that if you don't have enough to eat, if you accidentally get poisoned, you don't know who you died for. He cautiously straightened up and looked around, and when he saw that there was no one around, he waved his hand to Su Qi and said, "Follow me!" ”

Su Qi rarely met a habitual offender, so he hurriedly followed him out of the house, walked all the way to the back of the imperial dining room, and walked to the last row of rooms, the young man took out a thin board from his waist, carefully inserted it through the crack in the door, opened the door bolt in three or two clicks, turned around and waved his hand at Su Qi, and the two of them slipped in front and back.

There was no light in this room, it was pitch black, and it was much fuller than the previous soup room, Su Qi could only follow him slowly in the dark all the way, and after walking a few steps, he was about to stumble over the pumpkin and radish cabbage on the ground, and stumbled extraordinarily.

The young man took her to the window, and by a little hazy moonlight from the window, he touched a few tables under the window, and found a few cold buns in a dustpan, and handed them to Su Qi: "This is a place for the palace maids to put food, although the food is not as high-end as before, but it is so reassuring." As he spoke, he picked one up and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Sure enough, it's an expert!" Su Qi couldn't help but praise the young man, took the bun and wanted to go down. She was already hungry, and at this moment she felt that this cold meat bun was simply a unique taste in the world, a little more delicious than the imperial kitchen banquet she had eaten in the palace in the past.

Thinking that his days in Yinshuang Pavilion were afraid that he would be more auspicious, and the vicious Lan Guiren didn't know when he would starve her, Su Qi simply took a few more meat buns and put them in his arms in case of emergency.

The boy glanced at her faintly, and did not laugh at her unproductive behavior, but leaned back on the table and munched on his own.

Su Qi finished the remaining three meat buns, and unwillingly reached out to touch the dustpan next to him, hoping to find some more to eat and take them away, so as to be prepared.

She looked away in the dimness, and it was not a bamboo dustpan next to her, but a huge porcelain basin, and she slid her hand, and the porcelain basin fell to the ground with a "bell" and shattered.

This sound can be described as crisp and loud, and immediately I heard a guard outside the window shouting: "Who's inside?!" ”

Su Qi was so frightened that the three souls and six spirits were about to go out of his body, and he was almost crying stupidly, and anxiously asked the young man: "What should I do?!" ”

The young man was calm, swallowed the last bite of the bun, wiped his oily mouth, and said, "Don't run yet!" ”

After that, he jumped up and pushed open the window, pulling Su Qi out of the window.

Su Qi didn't have time to think about it, so he was pulled forward by the young man, but soon heard a guard shouting behind him and chased after him. Su Qi had no choice but to speed up his pace desperately, and the meat buns in his arms rolled down one by one during the run, so there were a few more dogs in the team chasing them inexplicably, and the howling sound caused the high and low dogs in the palaces and courtyards to bark and cry, and for a while, the originally silent palace was noisy.

Su Qi felt that this scene was quite familiar, and remembered that when she first entered the Beijing Palace, she was often chased by the palace guards in the middle of the night. But at that time, there was Mu Yunsong, the boss of the palace, who supported him, and it would only be a shame if he was caught, but now in the inner courtyard of the palace, if he is caught, he may even lose his life!

She was anxious to herself, and the young man grabbed her for a sharp turn, and she couldn't parry, and hit her head against the wall.

"Hey! Hey, hey! She covered her nose with a nosebleed, and gasped in protest as she ran: "Can't you say hello first when you turn?" ”

But the boy ignored her, and kept pulling her all the way into a courtyard.

Su Qi saw that this courtyard was about the same size as the Yinshuang Pavilion where she lived, and thought that it was the residence of some other concubine, and she was about to remind this "little eunuch" that trespassing on the concubine's palace might not end well, but he pulled her and rushed straight into the main hall.

At this time, the lights were still on in the house, Su Qi was pulled into the house by the teenager, and saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, dressed in a blue brocade shirt, waist-length hair draped, sitting at the table holding a book and reading it fascinatingly, suddenly heard the sound and raised her head, a thin face embedded with a pair of big eyes, and said angrily: "Hong'er......"

Only then did the young man stop, panting and saying eagerly, "Auntie save me!" ”

"What's wrong with you?" The girl in Tsing Yi looked at the young man and Su Qi, who was being pulled by him, and had no image of his nosebleeds, frowned and said strangely.

But before the young man could elaborate, there was already a shout from the guard mixed with the barking of dogs outside the door: "What about people? It must have gone into the courtyard! ”

The girl in Tsing Yi showed an anxious look in her beautiful eyes, and hurriedly said, "You guys go to the back room to hide!" Seeing that the young man took Su Qi away, he sat down at the table calmly, picked up the book and continued to pretend to be in a trance.

After a while, a middle-aged grandmother came in and said: "Princess, there is a big inner guard outside the door, saying that the person with a suspicious appearance has sneaked into the Muen Pavilion, and he is afraid of disturbing the princess, and wants to enter the courtyard to search, please show the princess." ”

Mu Yunxi, a girl in Tsing Yi, raised her eyes from the book and pretended to be surprised: "What kind of suspicious person?" Why didn't Hongu see it? ”

Mama was embarrassed: "This ......"

Mu Yunxi said unhappily: "What time is it?" The palace has already rested in wide clothes, and let a group of Ouchi guards come in to catch thieves, what kind of system will it become? ”

Mama heard the meaning of the princess's words, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Yes, the slave and maid will go and send them away!" With that, he closed the door and withdrew.

Mu Yunxi heard that the big inner guard outside the door had walked away, Fang got up and went to the inner room, looked at the young man who was sitting on the ground, holding a teapot and drinking cow, frowned and asked, "Hong'er, what trouble did you get into again?" Who is this girl? ”

The young man seemed to be reminded by his aunt, put down the teapot and wiped his mouth, and said to Su Qi: "I forgot to ask, who are you?" ”

Mu Yunxi was almost angry with this nephew: a person who met in Pingshui, you dare to drag others to run around in the inner courtyard of the palace, and you were chased by the inner guards...... Do you really think that you are the Monkey King, can you go to heaven and earth?

Su Qi solemnly bowed to her with her skirt down: "See Her Royal Highness the Princess, trespassing into Her Royal Highness's bedroom late at night, many offenses, please punish Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

When she was hiding in the inner room, she clearly heard someone calling the girl in Tsing Yi "princess", and she was a little dumbfounded; After turning his head to look at the thin young man sitting on the ground, he thought that he had just called this princess "aunt......

The one who can call the princess an "aunt" will obviously not be a little eunuch.

Su Qi stroked his chest: The palace is really not a fun place, and if you meet a companion who steals food, your identity is unspeakably expensive!

Mu Yunxi saw that this woman was humble and polite, and she was dragged all the way in by his family Hong'er, so he didn't blame him, but only said to the young Mu Hong: "Why are those guards chasing you?" You're in trouble again? ”

Mu Hong said indifferently: "I went to the imperial dining room and ate two steamed buns, which is not a big disaster." ”

Mu Yunxi heard the clue: "Concubine De is embarrassed by you again?" ”

Mu Hong lowered his eyes and teased: "No ......"

Mu Yunxi looked at this nephew distressedly, and secretly sighed that this child was born in the palace and was really miserable: the biological mother was a talented person with a low position, and she was not favored by the saints, and she died of blood when she gave birth to him, and the queen mother thought that he was the eldest son of the emperor, so she was raised by her side since she was a child. It's just that in recent years, the queen mother and the emperor have become increasingly discordant, and the emperor forcibly snatched the child from the queen mother and put it in the palace of Concubine De in the name that the eldest son needs to be raised.

But Concubine De is a narrow-minded person, and she doesn't like this child in her heart, and Mu Hong's child is stubborn by nature and does not accept it when she is killed, which makes Concubine De more disgusted and disgusted.

Now that Concubine De is pregnant, she is likely to be a prince. The matter of the emperor's heir in the palace is always life and death, Mu Hong, the eldest son of the emperor, naturally poses a threat to the child in her belly, so Concubine De intensified her abuse of Mu Hong, reprimanding and scolding at every turn, often not even giving food, just hoping that one day he can starve to death, die of illness, or be robbed of the status of the prince by the emperor.