Hearing someone approaching on the official road, Lou Xiliu slowly pulled out the dagger he carried with him. This amethyst-encrusted Western Region dagger was given by his master Hui Zhu.
"An inch short, an inch dangerous." The master said, "I think you like to take risks, and your temperament is suitable for using a dagger."
Xiao Zhao also drew his weapon.
Seeing the shadow of a car approaching gradually, Cao Xiwan jumped out. She waved happily: "Here, here -"
"..." Lou Xiliu and Xiao Zhao jumped out, then stood still, silently watching Qing Niangzi fly out. She stopped the car, shouted that she was so tired, climbed into the car, and called back, "Come on, come on."
, I have to go to the palace tonight."
Cao Xiwan called Mao Ergou and drove her to find a hot spring behind the East Palace.
She has been waiting for the bus.
Lou Xiliu sat unsteadily in the car as the wheels turned, and asked politely: "We ride horses faster."
"It's so tiring." She refused. Two big mules led the carriage and galloped on the deserted official road, and the pine shadows flew back. Xiao Zhao was sitting sideways by the carriage shaft and heard her and Lou Xiliu
While talking in the car, he remembered that he had been nervous for a long time in the grass on the official road. Unexpectedly, she was just too lazy to wait for the bus. Xiao Zhao couldn't help but said: "I had known that I could hire a car in the city."
"Scare, we are not one of our own. We were found leaving the palace when we were driving. This is against the law."
"Shall I catch the bus?"
"No, you still have to do something for me." She refused and hurriedly raised the car door curtain on the roof of the car. The night breeze blew and the stars shone brightly. She waved to Xiao Zhao to get in the car.
"?" Xiao Zhao was puzzled.
She opened the package in the carriage, took out several large buns of medicinal materials, and asked Lou Xiliu and Xiao Zhao to pick up the medicinal materials.
"It needs to be sorted into thirty small bags. Put it in when you take a shower. It can nourish your health and replenish your energy. It has great benefits."
"...What are we doing out tonight?" Xiao Zhao was called in, crowded in the carriage and asked deep questions.
"Go to the hot springs."
"..." Didn't you agree that you would fight to the death with Shi Mingniang? Aren't you afraid that someone would do something wrong and kill you?
"It's too rude to fight and kill. It's not suitable for a palace lady like me." She solemnly pointed to the junior Xiao Zhao, "take a bath in the hot spring to be healthy and energetic. Real masters win with momentum and surrender without fighting.
Soldiers of men.”
"Really?" Xiao Zhao hesitated. Cao Xiwan put her hands on her hips and raised her head: "Of course! I am!"
Xiao Zhao felt the momentum of the number one master and rushed towards him.
Mao Ergou looked back and glanced at Lou Xiliu and Xiao Zhao, who were honestly picking up medicinal materials. He thought that the young man had been tricked by Qing Niangzi again.
The hot spring pavilion of the Imperial Palace is located above the East Palace.
There are double towers and deep palaces, and the stars are pouring down. Although there are eunuchs guarding the palace, how can they take care of such a huge palace?
"right here--"
Cao Xiwan was so happy that she left Mao Ergou in the woods on the official road to watch the car and sleep. She took Xiao Zhao and Xiliu and found the hot spring pavilion.
The eyes were full of hot mist and the night breeze filled the air. The three of them sat together by the hot spring and continued to pick up medicinal materials.
"Come on, come on, there are five more bags to pick up. Then we can go to the hot spring." She encouraged the juniors, "This bag is for Xiao Zhao to wash his feet, and this bag is for Xiliu to wash his face. I'll go
Take a bath."
"..." Lou Xiliu looked at her. She was wearing the official uniform of a female official today, but she did not wear palace makeup or a bun. She only had a face as clear as water and noodles, and her hair was tied tightly into a bunch behind her head.
, she originally thought that Qing Niangzi was wearing official uniform so neatly to explore the terrain in the imperial mausoleum and to prevent encountering the royal guards guarding the mausoleum.
Now, Cao Xiwan took out a towel from her package and put it on her head. Lou Xiliu could tell that she was not dressed up for fighting, but for the convenience of visiting the bathhouse.
When Cao Xiwan turned to look at Xiliu, her expression was startled. She quickly took out two more towels from the package: "Or? I brought them. They are all new. I have never used them."
"..." Lou Xiliu and Xiao Zhao are not at all interested in coming to the hot spring to wash their faces and feet, okay? Why does the Qingluo female ghost have to ask a companion to take a bath?
"Don't think about killing people every day, that's not good." She persuaded, "I promised your master to take care of you. I have to take you with me no matter what I do, right?"
"..."
It’s really not necessary. Lou Xiliu and Xiao Zhao thought.
The hot spring pavilion introduces hot spring water according to the terrain, and is divided into several pavilions. They are separated by carved boards, and there are screens hanging down to the ground to block the surroundings.
In the spring starry night, the boards, gauze, and screens all reflect the water waves, hazy like smoke.
Cao Xiwan looked out the window intoxicated, looking up at the night: "It's so beautiful——"
"..." Lou Xiliu and Xiao Zhao were sad and silent.
Liu Ruhai felt the same helplessness behind the mist. He didn't have the leisure and leisure to appreciate the night starry sky like she did.
He arrived half an hour early and waited here again and again. His patience ran out and he watched her find a pile of pots and buckets. She washed three pots and buckets and also used a package of medicines to ward off diseases.
He wiped it off again and again: "That's it!"
She divided the buckets, basins, and medicinal materials, and told Xiliu and Xiao Zhao to find a place to wash slowly. She held the package between her arms and a towel, and she was looking for a place to take a bath while holding the basin. She was thinking about finding a place where they could take a bath.
The pavilion where you can see the starry sky makes you feel comfortable taking a bath.
Liu Ruhai opened the curtain and walked out of the hot spring veil helplessly: "Is something wrong?"
Lou Xiliu and Xiao Zhao were both shocked.
Cao Xiwan looked at it and was pleasantly surprised: "Mr. Liu is here. What a coincidence!"
"..." Can you stop pretending?
Liu Ruhai thought that after finishing the hot pot that day, he got a sticky note under the tea cup on the white stone table in his yard.
Could he know it was her?
【Li Gong Hot Spring Pavilion. The third quarter of the day after the emperor.】
She did postpone her departure from the palace for a day because Xiao Zhao found Wu Laodong to run errands for him before leaving the palace.
Originally, Liu Ruhai thought she had discovered an ambush in the imperial mausoleum, so she changed the date and location with Shi Mingniang, and changed the showdown to tonight in the East Palace Hot Spring Pavilion, and asked him to come over as a witness.
Of course he would come for such a big thing.
Unexpectedly, he observed behind the veil for a long time, only to see her ordering her juniors to work, and Shi Mingniang was nowhere to be seen.
"Oh oh oh, I have a prescription for you to ask Mr. Liu -" She was polite and took out a prescription. Just as Liu Ruhai was about to take it and take a look, she suddenly said: "The person I was waiting for is here."
Even Liu Ruhai couldn't help being pulled by her and moved behind the screen to hide his whereabouts, not to mention Xiao Zhao and Lou Xiliu. The two juniors hid behind Cao Xiwan nervously and excitedly.
At this moment, I saw a woman's vague figure walking in.
By the starlight, Liu Ruhai couldn't help but look over carefully. Is it Shi Mingniang? She made an appointment with Shi Mingniang?
However, what walked in was a white-haired palace servant holding a big broom. He was an old palace sweeper.
Before Liu Ruhai had time to be disappointed, another sudden change occurred.
"Senior——!" Cao Xiwan jumped out and hugged the old palace lady's thigh, "Senior! It's me! Xiao Cao!"
In the next moment, she was kicked out.
Lou Xiliu was shocked, and immediately rushed out to help her fight. However, Liu Ruhai grabbed him. Cao Xiwan immediately counterattacked, with buckets and basins in his hands, swinging them like two swords, and hit the old palace man head-on.