"There are so many people coming this year's moon-watching banquet. Several princes have also come back. I heard that the Eleventh Highness, who has not attended the banquet for several years, will also come this time."

"Your Highness Eleventh? But wasn't he unable to attend such a large banquet in the palace because he was sick?"

"You don't know this. During this period when you came home to visit Concubine Yan, Empress Jing found a female chef from outside the palace, and cured the Eleventh Prince's illness." The older maid seemed to be worried that the palace people would hear the chatting of the two of them, so she came forward and said, "I heard that this female chef was found from Huajie."

"Flower Street? Wouldn't that be..."

The two of them were muttering on the side of the road, and suddenly the reeds that were approaching them shook violently for a few times, making a rustling sound.

The elderly female official, known as Sister Bao, turned her back to the lake and did not notice anything wrong. She only became a little more windy at that time and continued to chat. However, the maid who was facing the lake seemed to have seen something terrible, and pulled another person's sleeve to interrupt what she was saying.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Seeing that his companion showed a somewhat scared expression, the female official stopped talking, raised her hand to hold her companion's arm, and slowly turned around to look behind him as the other party's eyes.

As if to cooperate with their reaction, the reed grass swayed unnaturally, and it was even more violent than the last time.

"Bao...Sister Bao..." The younger maid was so scared that she rushed behind the female official, and poked half of her face out of her shoulder to quietly look at the reeds.

As if hearing their screams, the grass suddenly stopped shaking again. The female official took a small step forward carefully and shouted in the direction of the grass: "Who is there? Come out quickly. We have seen you, don't hide anymore!"

As if responding to her call, the reed bushes shook twice again. The two of them pulled each other nervously and looked at the shaking places of the bushes together.

With a "brush", a person-high reed grass was separated from both sides, and a person with disheveled hair emerged from the grass.

When Ling Mo first saw this person, he couldn't help but take a step back. The other party was wearing dark coarse cloth clothes, with a lot of fur on the reeds sticking to the dress, two black strips rubbed on his face, and the circle around the shoes was covered with mud. The most scary thing was that the other party was holding only a few stones in his hand.

"You...what are you going to do!" Ling Mo hid behind and shouted, "Don't come over."

"Wait, I'm not a suspicious person"

Seeing that the visitor had indeed not done any other moves after he crawled out of the reed grass, the older female official patted her companion's arms to comfort her emotions, and at the same time said to the visitor: "I wonder... well... girl, what's wrong?"

"...I am Xia Huamian, the chef of Hejinggong," the person who came to wipe the mud on his face and replied, and when the mud on his face was wiped clean, a very ordinary face was revealed.

"Sister Bao, the chef of Hejing Palace..." Ling Mo pulled the sleeve of the female official in front of her.

"Why did the chef in Hejing Palace appear in this place at this time?" Even though the other party showed his identity, the female official still maintained a questioning attitude.

"I'm preparing for the moon-watching banquet"

"The preparations for the moon-watching banquet need to come to the lake?"
Chapter completed!