Liu Zhang first sent a woman a plain cotton-padded jacket with brocade flowers, and then cakes and potions. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this represented an extraordinary meaning.
"No way? Aren't you going to beat me to death and take care of me? Why are you so attentive all of a sudden?"
Chu Qiao felt uncomfortable all over now. She didn't like Liu Zhang. It wasn't that he didn't look good or he was too fierce. In short, besides being stubborn, he was as cold as ice. She really couldn't find him.
There was nothing she could relate to.
She picked up a pastry and took a bite. It seemed to taste pretty good. While eating, Chu Qiao said to the pastries.
"Then, let me make it clear to you, I am leaving as soon as the things in the palace are over, so please stop pestering me, and... you must not send anything over again in the future."
She pointed at the pastry and stared at it for a few times. After thinking about it, she took another one and put it in her mouth. It was really delicious. But after eating the second one, her thighs and buttocks began to hurt. Her forehead
Beads of sweat dripped down his face.
This damn Lan Hui, if Fourth Miss Chu gets a chance, she will never be spared lightly.
Just as she was cursing that bitch Lan Hui in her heart, Lan Hui walked in from outside. She glanced at Chu Qiao on the bed outside and said coldly.
"I didn't expect that I just hit him here, but there was a reaction there, and I even sent him food and medicine. He was really caring. Unfortunately, even if he is more caring, he is just an eighth-grade guard, huh!"
After saying that, she stretched out her hand and picked up a pastry from the tray. She looked at it with a contemptuous smile, but before she could take the pastry away, Chu Qiao snatched the pastry back.
"Do you also want to eat the cakes sent by the eighth-grade guard?"
"Do you think I really want to eat it? I just wanted to see what kind of low-quality pastry he brought over. It's not bad... It seems to be specially provided in the imperial dining room. This is something that ladies usually eat. He still has the courage to do so.
He's so young, aren't you afraid that I will report him?"
Lan Hui laughed coldly, with a sinister look on her face.
Chu Qiao was stunned. She held the pastry with her fingers and looked at it carefully. Then she realized that the pastry was shaped like a lily. It was crispy and delicious. It tasted of plums, egg yolks and pine nuts. Sure enough, it was not something from the imperial dining room.
It doesn't look like it was made casually. How could Liu Zhang, a palace guard, have the ability to get such pastries?
Suddenly, Chu Qiao became a little worried. Could it be that, as Lan Hui said, Liu Zhang had violated any palace rules? He took something he shouldn't have taken. Although Chu Qiao had no thoughts about this man, she couldn't let others suffer because of her.
punished.
"If you want to eat, just eat. So much nonsense." Chu Qiao pushed the tray, turned her head to the side, and stopped talking.
Lan Hui smiled slightly, took a few, put them in her mouth, and ate them unceremoniously. These pastries were usually something that palace ladies could never dream of eating. How could she let them go?
Unexpectedly, this woman had such a greedy mouth, which made Chu Qiao despise Lan Hui even more.
"If you like it, eat it all. Don't go out and talk nonsense. I will take the blame for you no matter what." After saying this, Chu Qiao held back her anger, but in order to block Lan Hui's mouth, she
She could only admit that she was unlucky.
"Haha, you can think so. How can a palace daughter who has just entered the palace not long ago fight with me? Aren't you asking for trouble? Since you said you took the blame for me, I won't argue with you. In fact
Come on, we can be considered even, after all you just testified against me?"
Lan Hui said coldly, as if this matter happened because of Chu Qiao, and Chu Qiao was punished because of herself.
Chu Qiao's suppressed anger was ignited again, and she responded angrily to Lan Hui.
"I testify against you? It's obviously you who did it, and you're pretending to be a good guy here. You should have been hit by those boards." Xu exerted too much force, and her thighs began to hurt again.
"I'm being punished? Don't you even look at who my master is? On the other hand, if you're being punished, no one may be willing to stand up for you. It's just Liu Zhang who secretly sends you some food and comforts you, haha.
"
Lan Hui said happily, laughing while eating the pastries, looking like she was in need of twitching.
Chu Qiao clutched the sheets, struggling to get up, otherwise she would have slapped Lan Hui in both ears, and then see how Concubine Jin Hui stood up for this bitch.
Lan Hui disapproved and strolled to the door. Looking outside, two palace maids were walking out of the imperial dining room under the guidance of several eunuchs. They should be the only two of the dozens of palace maids in the imperial dining room who could play with slingshots.
They have ordinary looks. They have been working as cooks in the imperial kitchen for a long time, and their figures are still a little bloated. I wonder what the emperor said that such palace maids did in the past?
"What do you mean...why did the emperor send all the maids who know how to use slingshots to go to Jie Qi Tower? Could it be a good thing?" She speculated.
"What good can happen?"
Chu Qiao muttered casually that she would either be arrested or beheaded. But after she finished speaking, she felt that she had made a mistake and immediately corrected herself: "Xu is a good thing, why don't you go?"
"I don't know how to do that. If I go there, I won't be bullying you..."
Lan Hui squinted her eyes, thinking, it would be fine if she went and was punished, but if she did something good and was noticed by the emperor, and was included in the harem as a concubine, it would be a loss if she didn't go this time.
Why do you want a woman who can shoot a slingshot? Lan Hui really couldn’t figure it out.
"It seems that Eunuch Ping hasn't asked you yet, can you make a slingshot and play with that thing?"
"How could I? I've never heard of a slingshot." The corners of Chu Qiao's mouth twitched, and she let out a cry of pain, then hugged the pillow and closed her eyes.
Although she pretended to sleep, her mind was in a mess and she was sweating all over. But after drinking the decoction Liu Zhang sent her, she actually felt sleepy. Not long after she closed her eyes, she fell into a deep sleep with her hand on her chest.
, guard that book carefully.
In the Jieqi Building of Chuxiu Palace, Eunuch Chen walked in with his waist bent and reported in a low voice to the man behind the white curtain.
"Your Majesty, we have searched the entire palace and found only five people who know how to make and play with slingshots, and they are all here."
Eunuch Chen frowned and looked a little ugly. The five palace maids he found were really unflattering. Each one looked more mediocre than the last. The two in the imperial dining room were also generous and fat. I wonder if the emperor would find such a palace maid.
What.
The five maids knelt there tremblingly, waiting for their fate. They didn't know whether they would be greeted by something good or something bad.
"Who threw this slingshot?" A hand stretched out from behind the curtain, holding the small wooden slingshot.