The rain was pouring in the sky, and the outer palace where Zi Ning lived was full of spring overnight, with wicker buds and flower stamens blooming. The servants of the outer palace got up early in the morning to work on errands, and they were busy serving the work in the palace.

The two rows of adobe houses at the northeast wall are in disrepair, and the black tiles on the eaves are broken into half, and the roof is pressed with green bricks so that the tiles do not fall off. Poultry droppings were scattered in the courtyard, mixed with the sour smell of sludge, and a flock of sparrows frolicked and chased, flying around an old tree in the courtyard, making a burst of noisy noise.

A pink-and-white apricot tree in front of the house has withered slightly after the cold rain, leaving only a few scattered clusters of flower branches hanging on the treetops.

Zi Ning saw a tree of remnants through the sparse window lattice, and couldn't help but sigh, this dove country is full of fairy spirit of the Qing cultivation place, there is finally a place contaminated with mundane fireworks, which makes people feel more cordial.

Suddenly recalled the line of life and death that day, if it weren't for the rescue of the son in white satin silk, he would never have escaped this catastrophe. Seeing his dazzling figure flying into the hall by stepping on the clouds, he should be an immortal clan with quite a lot of magic.

The thin morning mist had not yet dissipated, and Zi Ning lay silently for a long time, struggling to endure the pain all over her body. I thought to myself: "I'm just a mortal person, even if my soul crosses after death, I shouldn't wear it to the immortal realm, what is going on?"

This matter is really bizarre, she can't figure it out over and over again, so she doesn't want to think about it anymore. Things in the world are always like this, and if you try to find an answer, you can't know it, and if you ignore it completely, maybe one day it will pop up.

In the past few days, the injuries on my body have been reduced a lot, but my legs and feet are still extremely sore, and I can't get out of bed and walk around. I slept and woke up all day, woke up and fell asleep, and had countless strange dreams, but I couldn't remember the real and the various scenes in the dream.

There are thousands of people in the inner and outer palaces of the palace of the king of the dove, and the outer palace gate is full of horsemen, coachmen, sedan chair drivers, handymen, rough maids and old palace concubines in the palace. These poor people who sell themselves to live in the palace do not accept the cultivation of the pill, and the things of the immortal path are far away from them, and they are no different from ordinary people.

The outer palace garden is enclosed with a high wall of blue bricks, a house next to each other, and the steward of the outer palace gate assigns them errands, although the palace people are barely living, but they also live happily.

Zi Ning is a small maid among the many inferior palace people, talented and intelligent, with high understanding, she has learned a good cooking skill, and she is a little cook in the dining room at the age of thirteen.

"Whew!" Zi Ning exhaled deeply, except for these basic conditions imprinted in his mind, other things were messed up, if he didn't think about it carefully, he couldn't figure out some clues.

In the past two days, there has been no water, and the whiplash wound on the body has not yet scabbed, and at this time, he moved slightly, and the wound pulled the muscles and muscles in pain.

I took out the folding fan from under the bed pillow, and gently stroked it with my hand, the fan handle was clean and shiny, as if there was a fairy aura, and a faint sandalwood breath lingered around the nose.

Zi Ning's heart throbbed for a moment, a layer of blush appeared on her pale face, and she said secretly: "From now on, in the country of hair dove, I will be Zi Ning, the rough maid of the dining room!"

The fan slowly unfolded in her hand, and a smile bloomed on her face, like a delicate pink flower, like a tree with a bright blue shadow. The elegant sandalwood fragrance and the tough and cold touch made her embarrassed and uneasy heart feel a real sense of steadfastness.

"Who was the person who saved me that day?" Zi Ning's messy thoughts gradually cleared up, recalling that the guests who participated in Princess Tong and the banquet were all richly dressed and surrounded by auspicious clouds, and after entering the banquet, they were like a cluster of flowers, and there did not seem to be a fairy prince wearing a white brocade inlaid with gold clothes.

A gorgeous white color crossed her mind, Zi Ning sighed faintly, and turned her head to see that the seriously injured Chef Lin was still unconscious, covered with a thin quilt with a few coarse cloth patches. There was a messy bun on his head, a long pillow of wheat bran, his eyes were closed, and his breath was a little weak.

With pity and sadness in her heart, Zi Ning raised her eyes to look around the cottage, next to the low bed was a small wooden table with short legs, an oil lamp stand and two coarse porcelain bowls placed on the table, and several small long-necked porcelain vases wrapped in red cloth were piled up crookedly.

Although the furnishings in the house are simple, they are clean and tidy.

The "home" in front of her was a little unfamiliar, and Zi Ning thought secretly: "I'm going to live here in the future, alas, the family seems to be a little poor." ”

I was quite emotional, and suddenly heard the "creak" of the door, and saw a girl in a dark yellow gauze dress come in, her movements were light and fast, like a light breeze.

The light in the room was dim, and the girl had a goose egg face, and her two eyebrows showed a heroic spirit, and she asked coldly, "Are you Zining?"

"I am. Zi Ning was not used to being asked about her, so she looked at the girl in a daze and replied with a red face.

The girl didn't speak, looked at her twice, suddenly raised her hand, and poked a few silver lights at her chest, the back of Zining's neck and tongue were numb, and she couldn't even move her hands and feet in an instant, thinking: "Who is she, is she going to kidnap me?" suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, desperately trying to shout, but there was no sound in his throat.

The girl in front of her was obviously a cultivator and knew some immobilization spells. Zi Ning's whole body was stiff, her tongue was numb, and she couldn't say a word, it seemed that she had cast a spell.

The girl "whoosh" threw out a silver glittering demon rope from her sleeve, wrapped Zi Ning in a thick felt tightly and tied it tightly, and took out a Qiankun bag, "Hula" to put her head and body together.

Then the Qiankun bag was retracted from her waist and turned into a delicate little sachet, and the girl hurried out of the door.

Zi Ning secretly complained bitterly, thinking: "This early morning, there are not many people coming and going in the palace courtyard, they are all busy working, who will notice that someone has kidnapped me." ”

All kinds of terrible thoughts poured into her mind, shocked and horrified, "I'm just a rough little maid, what did she do with me?" I thought to myself, "Oh no, if it's really them, I'll have to kill me." ”

The girl's steps were unusually light, and the Qiankun bag hanging around her waist was not at all forceful, and she went straight out of the courtyard of the outer palace gate in a blink of an eye, and it was deserted all the way, and no one paid attention to her.

Zi Ning was stiffly wrapped in felt, lying straight in the Qiankun bag, only to hear the girl's slight panting. Her footsteps were also flying, the Qiankun bag was swinging around, and Zi Ning shook so dazzly that it was worse than seasickness.

There was a "whirring" wind and birds in her ears, and the girl ran for half a pillar of incense, and her footsteps slowed down, and when she saw that there was no one around, she untied the Qiankun bag and threw it to the ground.

The Qiankun bag suddenly enlarged, Zi Ning's shoulder and back fell to the ground, and she fell heavily into the grass, touching the wound on her body, and suddenly felt pain.

The girl untied the top of the Qiankun bag, Zi Ning exposed half of her head, and was about to look up, only to see the girl raise her hand and sweep it, and press it on the top of her head.

"Oops", Zi Ning couldn't help but cry out, and suddenly felt that her tongue was flexible and she could speak. His body was still a little heavy and numb, but he was able to twist his neck slightly.

The nose smelled a faint scent of osmanthus flowers, which emanated from the girl's body. Zi Ning took a deep breath, couldn't help coughing twice, relieved the symptoms of dizziness, and asked in a lost voice, "You...... Who are you?"

Half of his face was still muffled in the felt, and his voice sounded like an urn.

The girl's eyes were filled with a chilling aura, and she was silent for a long time, and Zi Ning asked again: "I have no grievances with you, why did you arrest me?"

"Hmph!" the girl frowned, and said coldly: "I'll ask you a few questions, and you have to answer honestly." Her voice was crisp and cold, and although she was not very old, she had a calm bearing.

Zi Ning breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and thought: "Seeing her like this, she doesn't look like a ruthless bad person, I will talk to her well, maybe she will be soft-hearted, so let me go." ”

immediately pretended to be innocent and pitiful, with a hint of whimpering, and said weakly: "Sister, if you want to ask, just ask, Zi Ning must know everything." ”

Qiankun wrapped her tightly in the bag, and when she said these words, she couldn't breathe, and it sounded a little pitiful.

The girl let out a "hmm", satisfied with Zi Ning's reaction, and asked, "Do you recognize Empress Hua Yao?"

Zi Ning was slightly stunned, her eyes rolled twice, and she quickly replied: "Who in the Fa Gu Kingdom doesn't recognize Empress Hua Yao, although I am the little maid in the dining room of the outer palace, I also know the prestige of Empress Hua Yao." Besides, the empress saved the lives of me and A-Niang, and she is our great benefactor, so it is natural to remember the empress's kindness for the rest of her life. ”

The heart became more and more strange, this girl asked her if she recognized Empress Hua Yao, Empress Hua Yao was the concubine of Emperor Dove to marry the emperor, how could there be a maid in the palace who did not know the reason of the empress, wouldn't it be a more question?

Zi Ning has always been smart, and secretly felt that the whole thing was full of strangeness, and thought: "Maybe she didn't mean to drink, and asked me if I recognized Empress Hua Yao, but she actually wanted to go around the bend to inquire about what special relationship I had with the empress." ”

She had thought about this question herself, and when she first woke up, she thought about it repeatedly in her head. There are thousands of palace people in the palace of the Hair Dove Kingdom, and Empress Hua Yao is high, rarely paying attention to the miscellaneous affairs of the outer palace gate, and it is impossible to deliberately rescue a lowly little cook.

Princess Tong almost got food poisoning, but Empress Hua Yao didn't worry about the princess's safety, but saved the lives of their mothers, and took great pains to wash away their injustices, and then ordered someone to send soup and supplements, which is really incredible. It's as if the princess is not her biological daughter, Zi Ning is her daughter.

Even Zi Ning herself wondered if Empress Hua Yao had other intentions, as the empress of the Fa Dove Kingdom, it was unbelievable that she cared so much about an inferior maid.

The girl was silent for a moment and continued to ask, "Before that, have you ever seen Empress Hua Yao?"

Zi Ning nodded secretly, thinking: "Yes, this is what she really wants to ask, but with my status, even if I want to climb the empress, there is no way." ”

Thinking of this, he sighed slightly and said, "I wish I had that kind of blessing, but it's a pity that I grew so big that I didn't even enter the inner palace." If it weren't for the rescue of Empress Hua Yao, I wouldn't have known the empress's respectability in this life, and she was also a stunning beauty!"

"Presumptuous!" the girl shouted urgently, Rao was bold, and she didn't dare to talk about Empress Hua Yao behind her back, seeing Zi Ning's frivolous words, she couldn't help but shout to stop. Then her eyes trembled, her emotions calmed down, and she slowly asked, "Who else is in your family?"

After saying these words, Zi Ning became bold and replied easily: "Only my mother is alone, my father died on the battlefield when I was not born, and my mother raised me." Our mother and daughter depend on each other for their lives, and we have no other relatives. This is the family background in her memory, and she says it like an endorsement.

Seeing her answer cheerfully, the girl said "um" with satisfaction, and then asked: "Your aunt is the maid brought into the country by Empress Hua Yao, why has she been living at the gate of the outer palace and not serving Empress Hua Yao closely?"

This question was very strange, Zi Ning couldn't answer it directly, and asked tentatively: "Was my A-Niang brought into the Dove Kingdom by the empress? ”

After thinking about it for a while, he said to himself: "If this is the case, it is reasonable for the empress not to let us enter the inner palace. ”

The girl was surprised and asked, "Why?"

Zi Ning writhed in the Qiankun bag, supported the felt with both hands, reluctantly sat up, and said with a smile: "Don't you know, my aunt is on an errand in the dining room, and she often loses everything, forgetting to put salt in cooking, and not remembering the heat when cooking, which scorched the smoke all over the house, and almost choked us." If you say a word of unfilial piety, if you let A-Niang serve Empress Hua Yao closely, she will be blasted out of the palace in a few days. ”

When the girl heard this, she couldn't help but laugh, and said in a soothing tone: "You are born smart, why don't you beg your aunt to serve by Empress Hua Yao?"

After saying these words for a long time, Zi Ning understood the girl's meaning, so she said with a smile: "Don't mention it, I'm also a clumsy, careless don't say anything, and I don't know how to look at my eyes, how can I serve Empress Hua Yao." Look at the sisters in the inner palace, all of them are like fairies, I am so earthy, I am sent to the empress, and I don't make people laugh everywhere. ”

The girl was silent for a long time, as if thinking about what to ask next, Zi Ning turned a few corners in her heart, and secretly thought: "If she wants to talk from my mouth, it must be unfavorable to Empress Hua Yao." Hmph, do her daydreams, the empress is so kind to me, how can I betray my benefactor?"

Seeing that the girl didn't speak, Zi Ning deliberately patted her ass and said: "Sister's Peugeot appearance, she looks very smart, and around the emperor and the empress, there is no shortage of first-class capable people like my sister......"

The girl frowned, and suddenly leaned over and shouted, "Shut up!" She didn't like to beat around the bush when she spoke, and she was even more tired of being deliberately flattered by others. After a pause, he frowned and asked, "How old are you this year, and what is your birthday?"

"My birthday?" Zi Ning's eyebrows twisted into a pimple, and she thought, "Your birthday is your birthday." He immediately smiled and said: "I am sixteen years old, and my birthday is coincidental, I was born on the day of the autumn equinox." ”

An excited expression flashed across the girl's face, "Is it really the autumn equinox?" Suddenly bent down and pinched Zi Ning's shoulders with both hands, and shook it vigorously twice, "Are you not mistaken?"

Zi Ning grinned in pain, and screamed: "How can I remember my own birthday, I can't be wrong...... Oops, sister let go, it hurts me to death. The girl's strength was so great that she pinched the old wound on her shoulder, and the pain made her break out in a cold sweat.

The girl's chest was turbulent, and she thought: "Since the birth date is right, it is really her! Shushan has worked hard to find it all these years, and finally the effort has not been in vain." Deng Shi came back to his senses, quickly let go of Zi Ning, and gasped heavily, his expression shocked but very happy.

Now that she has found the little master, from now on, she can't be allowed to suffer anymore.

At this time, a sound of footsteps came to this side, the girl hurriedly tied the Qiankun bag tightly, Zi Ning shouted anxiously: "Hey, this sister, you asked me a question, I answered honestly, why don't you let me go back?" ”

The girl was worried that this matter would be known, her expression was a little dazed, and she scared her coldly: "If you dare to speak out, I will ...... I'll break your neck. ”

Zi Ning suddenly stirred, quickly closed her mouth, and thought: "She walks so lightly and dexterously, and she can use spells, she should be strong in Taoism, I am definitely not her opponent." ”

Secretly worried, although she had practiced a little boxing before the crossing, but her strength was too far behind, if she fought hard, this girl would destroy her with one finger. I thought: "The hero doesn't suffer the loss in front of him, first hold back and keep quiet, take one step at a time." Seeing that this girl didn't seem to want to kill people, I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, but wanted to see where she went.

The girl didn't have time to pinch a spell to collect the bag, so she only heard a fat Gong'e with a comb in a double bun running behind her, and asked with a grin: "Sister, where are you going, moving this pile of heavy things?"

The girl panicked slightly, then eased her emotions, and said with a smile: "The princess's house is going to use a felt mat, and I just want to carry it......

She hid her identity in the Hair Dove Palace, so naturally she couldn't easily reveal her spells, so she had to bite the bullet and make up a lie to perfunctory past.

Before the words were finished, the fat Gong'e reported that she was brave, and said with a smile: "The road is still far, I will help my sister carry it together." When he came up, he picked up one end of the Qiankun bag and hugged it tightly into his arms.

This hug just grabbed Zi Ning's neck, so that she almost closed her breath, but fortunately, this Gong E has a lot of flesh on her body, and Zi Ning has a face against her belly, only to feel soft, but she will not panic.

The girl had no choice but to let Fat Gong'e help her carry the Qiankun bag, and the two of them stepped forward and one after the other, speeding up their pace, and soon entered the Cailan Palace where Princess Tong lived.

When Fat Gong'e saw the place, she smiled and put down the Qiankun bag and ran to do other things.

The raindrops began to fall again, and gradually became heavier, and the wind and rain were mixed with the cold. This Qiankun bag is woven from Shushan silk, and the texture is thin, but it cannot block the wind and rain.

Zi Ning only wore a close-fitting coat, and there were scars on her body, although she was wrapped in felt, but she was drenched by the cold spring rain, and she felt pain and cold, and she couldn't help but tremble with her teeth, and she shivered from the cold.

Seeing that there was no one around, the girl raised her finger to pinch a trick, and hurriedly turned the Qiankun bag into a small bag and tied it back to her waist. Then he ran into a large courtyard densely covered with flowers and plants, quietly bypassed several rows of side rooms, and dodged into a room.

When she entered the house and closed the door, she found a camphor wood box containing clothes, lifted the lid of the box, and whispered: "You stay here, don't move! When it gets dark, I'll send you out." ”

As he spoke, he untied the Qiankun bag, took back the demon rope on Zi Ning's body, opened the felt roll, dragged out Zi Ning, whose limbs were numb, and threw it into the box, and then closed the camphor wood lid with a "snap".

Although Fa Jiu Guo is a descendant of the Dao clan, since Empress Hua Yao got married, the palace has been surrounded by immortal law prohibitions, and she uses a Qiankun bag to carry a living person, and it is very dangerous to walk in the inner palace, and she may be exposed at any time.

I had to put Zi Ning in a box for the time being, and after nightfall, I thought about sending her back.

Zi Ning fell all over her body, but fortunately, she was used to it, compared to whipping the whip that had been dipped in dove wine and water, this time she fell into the bottom of the box, which was quite gentle.

I was so disappointed in my heart, I thought that the girl would send her back, but unexpectedly took her to a strange place, threw her in a box and locked her up. I thought: "How long will I hide, but fortunately, she didn't kill me, although this kidnapping is thrilling, but my life is saved." ”

Then the girl was heard coming out of the house, and the door was closed with a "bang", and the footsteps faded away, and the surroundings fell into a deathly silence.

Occasionally, the rain crackled outside the window, and there was no other sound.

Zi Ning listened intently for a long time, and the girl never returned. She was numb and crispy and painful, curled up in a ball in the box, her muscles and muscles could not move, her hands and feet were sore, and although she could speak out loud, she did not dare to shout and scream.

After waiting for a while, I couldn't help but worry again: "I've been hiding like this, in case she forgets me, I'll starve to death in a few days." Does she want me to fend for myself? It's so miserable, and it's so miserable to starve to death as a cook. ”

The pungent smell of camphor wood in the box, mixed with various aromas dyed by clothes, made her chest panic, drowsy, and her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't lift them.

After only holding on to a stick of incense, he couldn't hold back any longer, leaned his head against the pile of soft clothes, and fell asleep.

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Q version of the small fan:

Zining: This folding fan is cool to the hand, moist and penetrating to the bones, and there is a smell of jade sandalwood, it is really a good fan, wait for this girl to stay and play carefully.

Folding fan: Master, you save that kitchen girl, just pinch a fairy trick, why throw me out, woo woo, so sad.

Kunlun Emperor: Do you want me to perform immortal magic in front of mortals? You are brain-dead, I am not brain-dead.

Folding fan: Why am I brain-dead, why can't I use immortal arts?

Zining: Because he's an immortal, he's very arrogant—

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