"Good!" Qiu Tian nodded in compromise, and the stunned Qingfeng looked at the tacit understanding between the master and servant, Nan Nan said, "Tacit understanding? Or mutual trust? ”

Qiu Tian sighed helplessly, watching Angelica quickly put on the light Xiahu suit, but couldn't help but shudder.

"You guys wear such light clothes to the lake, can you stand it?" She couldn't confidently touch the thin Xiahu suit, and her brows were twisted into the word "well", but Angelica slipped down the lake and gasped, "Miss, I'm fine." ”

"After a while, Angelica will get used to being in the water." Xiuniang picked up a teapot on the small stove next door and poured a bowl of ginger soup for Qiu Tian, "After they get up from the water, they will drink a bowl of ginger soup to get rid of the cold." ”

Qiu Tian took the bowl and looked at a few palace maids who had just gotten up from the water not far away were surrounding the small fireplace, drinking ginger soup to ward off the cold, but her body still couldn't stop trembling, which made her feel sad.

"Is it the work arranged by the Imperial Dining Room? Or is it a job arranged by the Miscellaneous Servants? As soon as she asked this, she suddenly smiled, laughing at her ignorance and innocence.

The inner court is under the jurisdiction of the people of the miscellaneous service department, and Granny Qian is only in charge of the courtyard where the palace maids are located, and Liu Quan is the head of the miscellaneous service department, and he is also the person who speaks in the inner court.

And this matter of picking lotus root in the lake must have been arranged by the miscellaneous department, and it was also Liu Quan who asked the palace maids in the inner kitchen to pick lotus root in order to please the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room.

Xiuniang couldn't understand Qiu Tian at all, "Do you have a way to help us change the status quo?" ”

She shook her head, "The matter of going to the lake to pick lotus roots cannot be changed. ”

"Huh?" Xiu Niang sighed in disappointment, but Qiu Tian took her hand, "I should be able to use these broken lotus root waste to improve everyone's food." ”

"Really?" Xiuniang looked at Qiu Tian suspiciously, "These broken lotus roots are fishy and smelly, even the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room said that they couldn't use it." Feed the pigs, and the pigs may not eat it. ”

"Whether you can eat it or not, it's not up to the group of mediocre chefs to decide." She picked up a piece of broken lotus root stained with mud and said confidently to the embroidery girl, "Embroidery girl, I will borrow you the same as the kitchen next." ”

Xiuniang looked at Qiu Tian's confident appearance, and couldn't bear to suppress her, so she could only nod worriedly.

"Look, Miss! I plucked a big lotus root! Angelica happily raised his arm and shouted at Qiu Tian, Qiu Tian looked at Angelica like a child and smiled, "Angelica, be careful!" ”

"Wow!"

"It's really big!"

"I'm afraid I've dug up the biggest lotus root section so far!"

Everyone exclaimed, the first time they saw such a thick lotus root, even the father-in-law of the miscellaneous servant who was standing not far away to supervise the work hurriedly went to pass it on one person, and one person dared to step forward and shout, "You be careful, when the lotus root breaks, you will have no good fruit to eat." ”

Angelica held the lotus root to Qiu Tian and wanted to give it to Qiu Tian, but she didn't want to be snatched by her father-in-law who was shouting at her, so she pinched her orchid finger with a smile and said: "The head of the imperial dining room said that this winter lotus root is different from other lotus roots, the older and more tender it is, the bigger it is, the more flavorful." ”

He thought that this arm-thick lotus root would definitely get him a lot of bounty and those small pastries in the imperial dining room, and the smile on his face became more and more energetic when he thought of this.

But Angelica originally wanted to give Qiu Tian a delicious lotus root food dish, but now he didn't want to be robbed by this stinky and shameless father-in-law, so he hit the water with a fire, and the father-in-law sneered arrogantly, and turned to leave.

However, if he met someone else today, the others would inevitably swallow it reluctantly, but today he met the greedy Angelica, who lightly slapped the water surface and stirred up the muddy water, and then turned her hand into a few water droplets in the direction of the father-in-law who robbed her of the lotus root.

The droplets of water burst out like bullets with two "sighs", mercilessly hitting the father-in-law who had just walked two steps away.

"Ouch-"

"Smack-"

The father-in-law screamed miserably, fell to the ground in embarrassment, and the lotus root in his hand instantly shattered into several pieces.

"Xiao Liuzi, why are you so careless, this lotus root is wasted." Xiuniang looked at the broken lotus root on the ground distressedly, "Originally, this lotus root was offered, and everyone might have a full meal, but now you are wasted, what do you say?" ”

Xiuniang pulled her throat and accused Xiao Liuzi who had just snatched the angelica lotus section, and instantly her accusation attracted everyone's attention, but she glanced at Qiu Tian and drank Angelica as if she had nothing, and went to clean up Xiao Liuzi.

Qiu Tian glanced back at the embroidery girl who couldn't tell through it, and hurriedly took Jiang Chaoye's cloak and put it on Angelica, who had just climbed up from the cold and biting lake, Angelica was flattered and gasped, and hurriedly glanced around to find out if there were any secret guards.

The cloak that the master gave Qiu Tian is now on her to keep warm, which is much more exciting than her in the biting lake water.

"Miss, no!" Angelica frowned nervously and pulled at the cloak, "The slave is hidden, if the master's cloak is soiled, it will not be good." ”

"Master?" Originally, Qiu Tian was not sure if Angelica was Jiang Chaoye's person, but now she didn't confess and leaked it, which suddenly made her sure that Angelica's master was him, just when she thought she had escaped Jiang Chaoye's advice to face her life, she took the initiative to accept a "big gift" given to her.

Angelica was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly denied it, "No, no, no...... Miss, you heard me wrong. ”

"The master of the slave is you!"

At what time, Angelica felt that the whole world was going to end, and this sense of fear and powerlessness instantly swallowed her reason, and she was afraid that her identity was about to be revealed for the days when she drank blood on the knife.

At this moment, she is not afraid of the failure of the mission hidden by Qiu Tian's side, but she is afraid that her identity will be revealed and Qiu Tian will hate her, get tired of her, and not let her serve by her side, then she will eat a lot less of those strange but very delicious and unforgettable delicacies.

In addition, she felt the unprecedented taste and the "temperature" she had been looking for in Qiu Tian's food.

She looked at the "shrewdness" revealed on Qiu Tian's sweet face, and asked in fear, "Miss, ...... you?"

"That's it!" Qiu Tian quickly helped Angelica put on his cloak, "The more you explain, the more mistakes you make." ”

"Miss, I'm ......"

"That's it!" Qiu Tian patted her on the shoulder, and suddenly smiled brightly, "We'll have the inner court kitchen!" ”

Angelica looked at Qiu Tian who didn't care at all, or didn't feel sad about her identity, frowned, and muttered, "Miss......"

"All I know now is that you are my personal maid. If you're disobedient now, I'll be alone. Qiu Tian pretended to look pitiful, and said to Angelica, who was still doubting himself, "Angelica, can you bear it?" ”

In an instant, Angelica's heart was hot, "I can't bear it!" ”

Qiu Tian smiled when she heard this, thinking that there was a person around her who knew martial arts, and she would never suffer anywhere.

She casually picked up the broken lotus root piled next to her and looked at it carefully, then selected a few more pieces of broken lotus root that did not have much damage, and was about to turn around and leave, but Xiao Liuzi, who didn't want to be pointed at by Qianfu, rushed towards the two of them like a crazy yak.

The breeze on the side was the first to react, "Be careful—"

Seeing this, Qiu Tian suddenly turned around and pushed away Angelica who was following him, Angelica looked at Qiu Tian in astonishment, "Miss, who are you?" ”

But as soon as the words fell, Qiu Tian was violently hit by Xiao Liuzi, and Angelica looked at Xiao Liuzi like this and saw Qiu Tian pushed to the lake.

And Qiu Tian's hand was interrupted, and the lotus root fell in front of her at this moment, and she fell to the ground and watched Qiu Tian, who saved her, lose her center of gravity and fall into the lake.

But only Qiu Tian knew that Xiao Liuzi's madness was not accidental, but inevitable, and he deliberately targeted her.

She finally broke free from Xiao Liuzi's collision and stopped by the lake to stabilize her figure, but she didn't want the belt around her waist to suddenly tighten, and the strong grip behind her dragged her into the lake.

"Ahh

Qiu Tian looked at the world as if it was still, and she could see countless expressions clearly: frightened, scared, watching the play, sneering...... And that grin that only appears on the faces of the enemy......

"Poof—"

She plunged heavily into the lake, splashing the muddy water in the lake into the air, splashing into mud and scattering all around.

The lotus canopy, lotus leaves and silt water mixed with winter lotus root in the lake devoured her like an abyssal beast, the smell was biting, making her unable to breathe, etc., and it was this cold and dirty feeling that reminded Xiao Liu Zi of the cruel smile on her face, and suddenly inspired her will to survive.

The messy and mushy brain suddenly woke up.

Even though the muddy water made her unable to find her direction, her body's instinct to survive made her keep pulling upwards, but the moment she reached the surface of the lake and could breathe fresh air, her face was violently pressed down with her hand.

The force was so great that she understood that it was a murder and that its purpose was to drown her.

"Whoa—"

"Save ......"

The sudden hand made her panic, "Help......"

"Help...... ......The next moment she was pressed again, she quickly grabbed the man's hand with both hands, but the mud adhered to the man's hand and she couldn't catch the man's hand, and Qiu Tian quickly pulled the firewood from her hair on her head and poked at the man.

"Ahh The man cried out in pain, "Little bastard, you actually stabbed me. See if I can kill you! ”

The man hastily treated the gap of the wound, but let Qiu Tian seize the opportunity, underwater she relied on the man's hands to determine the position, her body kicked hard in the opposite direction of the person, and her body pressed back.

In an instant, she swam a short distance away from her hands like a fish in a lake.

The nerves are tense like a bow with a full string, and they can collapse at any moment.

At this moment, she happened to find a stone at the bottom of the lake, and she used it as a stepping stone, and her legs quickly bent and kicked hard, and her body flew out of the water like a sharp arrow.

"Whoa—"