Ability Shuttle: Don't mess with the black boss

Chapter 21 Qiankun Jade Cup (9)

It has been more than half a month since Concubine Yin left for the palace, and I feel extremely bored.When she was here before, although there was a generation gap of 5000 years, we couldn't find a common topic, but at least there was someone to accompany me when I was bored.

Now Li Rui is busy in the study all day long, and occasionally stays in my room for a night to cover up people's eyes. As for who sleeps in the bed, it is basically my virtue of respecting the old and caring for the young. After all, he is more than 5000 years older than me .

Once in the middle of the night, I woke up thirsty, closed my eyes and reached out to pour water, but found that the table in front of me was gone.I was startled, and quickly opened my eyes, only to see Li Rui poured a cup of tea and handed it to me, while I was lying on the bed.

In fact, I was not very surprised, because I have long been used to lying on the table every time, waking up at dawn to find the tricks on the bed.It's just that I didn't expect to wake up earlier today, but the situation is the same.

I took the water, raised my head and drank it all with a "gulu" and said, "Thank you. You should sleep on the bed." Then I was about to get up to make room for him, but he came over and pressed me on the bed again, lightly Covered me with a quilt.

I was very puzzled, wondering if it was midnight, and there were dedicated spies watching outside the door, so I lowered my voice and said in panic, "Is there something wrong?"

He smiled lightly, and asked an irrelevant answer: "If there is a chance for you to escape from this palace in the future, will you leave?"

I didn't wake up, and my thinking was in a mess, and I couldn't think about the meaning of his question.If I had been clearer and smarter at the time, I would have answered him firmly: "Of course."

But at that time, I fell asleep again in a daze, and vaguely heard him sigh: "Forget it, I asked knowingly."

Besides Shen Yuan, I haven't met him for a long time.

After the pumpkin pie incident last time, I had nowhere to vent my pent-up grievances, so naturally I wouldn't go to him.At the beginning, I was counting on whether he would take the initiative to come to me, but it turns out that I did think too much.

In the past half month, I have been corrupted to the bone, eating and sleeping all day long, sleeping and eating.Other than that, he used a knife on the edge of the bed to save money, and estimated how long it would take to return to the Qing Dynasty.

One day Xiao Cui discovered my imprint and asked me curiously: "Why did the princess engrave these strange symbols beside the bed?"

I made up a story along the way, roughly speaking about a queen who unfortunately suffered from insomnia in my mother country.Later, after a wizard drew these symbols on the queen's bedside, the queen could sleep peacefully.

Unexpectedly, three days later, similar marks were engraved on the sides of all the beds in the entire palace, and the scope gradually expanded to include tables and chairs.It can be seen how worrisome the overall sleep quality of the people of Xifengchao is.

On that day, I ordered Xiaocui to buy some fresh pumpkins, intending to make some pumpkin pies myself.

In fact, after I made it last time, the cooks in the house imitated it a few times, but the taste was not ideal, either because too much sugar was added, or the amount of flour was not added enough.

Xiao Cui was very agile in handling things, and within a short time, she completed the task I asked.Recently, she has become more and more intimate with me. She is a 14-year-old girl, and she will love whoever treats her well.At that time, she begged for a reward with a happy smile: "This pumpkin cake is really delicious. After the princess is done, can I reward Xiao Cui with two?"

I jokingly said, "Greedy girl, you are indispensable. Have you got everything ready in the kitchen?"

So she smiled brighter: "I have dismissed them all, don't worry, Wangfei."

I nodded and asked her to stay in my room, so she could come and inform me if there was anything wrong.She patted her chest and vowed to reassure me, and I was also relieved.Thinking about the golden pumpkin pie, after changing into a maid's clothes that Xiao Cui found for me, I swallowed and went to the kitchen.

The weather is not so good today, it is raining lightly.I held up a plain oil-paper umbrella, because the ancients were not used to wearing shoes, and I was afraid of accidentally falling, and the injuries were small, and if people found out, they would be completely exposed.So I walked carefully along the trail for a while, and finally arrived at the kitchen.

I put away the umbrella and just walked into the kitchen and closed the door.I saw someone walking towards the kitchen outside, and my heart tightened. Seeing a large pile of firewood beside me, I immediately hid behind the pile of firewood.

At the same time, the door was pushed open by someone, Xiao Hong walked in from outside, looked around and called out: "Is anyone there?"

I stood where I was, without daring to make any noise, thinking about how Xiaohong from the laundry room came to the kitchen.And I looked carefully, she was holding a wooden tray in her hand, on which were crystal clear Qiankun jade cups and a purple sand teapot.

After confirming that there was no one there, she closed the door in a panic.Then he walked to the kettle, put down the tray, took out a bag of powder from his sleeve, poured it into the teapot, and mixed it with water.

There was a "buzz" in my head, and the scene became more and more familiar, and it was clearly the poisoning scene often seen in ancient costume movies.It's just that being on the scene at this time makes people feel extremely frightened.

After Xiaohong finished all this, she walked out of the kitchen with the tray in her hand.I made up my mind and walked out of the firewood pile with only one question in my mind: Who is she going to poison?
I rubbed my forehead and tried to analyze.Suddenly something flashed into my mind - Qiankun Jade Cup.

Except for me, there is only one person in this mansion who can drink tea from a jade cup of heaven and earth: Li Rui.

My brain got hot, I walked out of the kitchen, I forgot to bring my umbrella, and rushed straight to Li Rui's study.If I remember correctly, he should be reviewing county documents in his study at this time of day.

The raindrops slapped on my body and wet my hair.My heart was very urgent, and there were countless episodes flashing through my mind at the moment, including that after Li Rui drank the poisonous tea, the Qiankun Jade Cup would surely fall from his trembling hands to the ground.

Of course, it is undeniable that there are fragments of the time I spent with him over the past two months.

People will always recognize some problems at the most pressing hurdles.

And at this moment, I finally understood one thing: Li Rui's honesty with each other made me, who had never had any friends, unintentionally regard him as a friend.Although I know that I can't change history, I don't want him to die, at least not in front of my eyes.

It's just that I overlooked one point at the time. The cause of Li Rui's death recorded in history was not being poisoned.

(End of this chapter)