Cao Xiwan changed into a gray robe and gray scarf, and walked mistyly on the back corridor of the Queen Mother's Palace.
The moonlight is clear and shallow, like smoke and fog.
In the moon mist, she seemed like a half-dead soul slowly returning to the world from the dark underworld.
Feng Xiaochu felt that even if she was a puppet, she didn't want to be with Cao Xiwan!
She had to wear a shabby thick coat underneath and a gray robe on the outside. She looked like an ugly, fat puppet, floating in the palace, not ethereal at all. She looked too fat.
She gave a reminder. Cao Xiwan still said plausibly: "It's cold at night, so I have to take care of myself."
"hehe--"
She also followed the method taught by Xiao Chu and called the puppet hidden in the pillars of Shouning Palace on the back corridor. This meant: "Xiaoguang wow, Xiaoguang wow, come out and play - I am Xiao Chu -
"
She actually asked Feng Xiaochu: "Is it really okay? Will she really come out to play with you after hearing this?"
"...I am better than her. She will listen to me." She never said she was out to play!
"So, she has to play in the mud with you?"
"……Kill you."
"..." Cao Xiwan was shocked. It was the first time she had a companion to eat her, drink her, wear her clothes, and even beat her to death. Although Xiliu often expressed such thoughts, they were just thoughts.
Wow.
Feng Xiaochu was already very angry. She couldn't speak clearly and was teased by this guy. She glared at Cao Xiwan angrily, but this guy had a shocked expression on his face, with a completely sad expression of "What evil have I done?"
Feng Xiaochu subconsciously hesitated, wondering if she was too cruel.
But she was very nervous after entering the palace. She was trained in the Elephant and Leopard Room before, and today she sneaked in from the Elephant and Leopard Room in the Palace Garden.
She was a little worried about meeting Xiang Nu. Although Cao Xiwan said Xiang Nu was her loser, she was still nervous.
Only those who were teased by Cao Xiwan and laughed and laughed with her could calm down.
Cao Xiwan sighed quietly: "It's so difficult to take care of children." She was no longer so proud. Of course, Liu Ruhai was not as smart and sophisticated as Cao Xiwan. After all, she had been a veteran for many years, but this guy was completely clueless.
Did she find out that Feng Xiaochu was her backbone?
Now that I think about it, he must be too tired to take care of a child. Negligence is inevitable.
Feng Xiaochu looked at her inexplicably. This person was talking nonsense again.
Cao Xiwan had had several companions, and she thought she had the means to deal with people. She held her face sadly and said, "I don't blame you. Last time Liu Ruhai said that I should be respectful to His Majesty, but I didn't take it seriously.
.Now I’m being punished.”
"..." I really want to beat her to death. What kind of emperor is she?
Cao Xiwan was still sad for Yue and cried in the wind. No matter whether it was an emperor's family or an ordinary family, they couldn't take the employer who paid the wages too seriously. She had to set an example and become a role model for Feng Xiaochu.
"A person should understand the word etiquette."
"..." Feng Xiaochu looked at her. She had a sneaky look on her face, shaking her fat figure, using a hairpin to open the back hall window, sneaking in, and urging: "Come in quickly.
"
——Why should I talk to her about [etiquette] like this?
Cao Xiwan and Feng Xiaochu walked around the Queen Mother's Palace in the dark at midnight.
The moonlight illuminated the rows of floor-to-ceiling windows, and they each knocked on the pillars to find the puppets.
Shouning back hall, lacquer screen jade bed, sapphire blue brocade pavement.
The moonlight outside the lattice window spreads silently like the waves of the deep sea reflecting the moon.
She also chatted casually with Feng Xiaochu: "I found that the new companions I have found these days have very bad tempers. Oh, by the way, Yu Ci has been very gentle recently."
"...Always bullied by you?"
"it seems that."
The orchestral sound is ethereal, coming faintly from the night sky in the Imperial Garden, mixed with the fragrance of flowers in the late autumn evening breeze, refreshing and cold, with a unique charm.
His Majesty and his concubines are admiring the moon with the Queen Mother in the garden pavilion.
The palace maids who stayed behind in Shouning Palace also walked to the front porch and listened carefully to the music "Partridges Flying". The sound of Xiao, flute and Yun were all quiet and moving, touching the hearts and souls, making the palace maids unaware of where they were.
Where.
The palace people didn't know that two female puppets, one fat and one thin, came to the back hall.
The fat puppet Cao Xiwan and the thin puppet Feng Xiaochu worked together and knocked the pillars one after another.
Because the puppet Xiaoguang never responded to Feng Xiaochu’s call.
"Maybe, it's not Xiaoguang?" Feng Xiaochu thought for a while, "This puppet doesn't listen to me because it's better than me."
"...This is going to be difficult." Cao Xiwan leaned against the pillar, touched her chin, and pondered, "Can the two of us win together? Or she is someone who likes to be quiet and not sociable, nor does she like
Playing with mud puppets with us?”
Feng Xiaochu said angrily: "We can win."
She has no confidence in herself, how dare she enter the palace?
"Maybe it's because your voice is so unfamiliar." Feng Xiaochu thought for a moment, "We puppets have been locked together for many years. Even if we don't recognize each other's faces, our voices are still very familiar to each other."
After hearing this, Cao Xiwan felt that puppets are really difficult to serve. They are also afraid of life. Children who are afraid of life are the most difficult to take care of.
If it weren't for the inconvenience in the palace, she would surely sing a song and call the puppet out.
When Feng Xiaochu heard this: "I'll go outside to watch the wind, and you sing. If you're caught, I can escape."
"..." She looked around and talked to him, looking out the window with an admiring look on her face, "Listen, there are singers in the garden in the garden. They don't sing as well as I do."
"real?"
"...I will really deduct all of your wages for the past few months for medical expenses." She threatened.
Feng Xiaochu shut up. She was left to show off and nag: "Let me tell you, my singing master later entered the palace and served as Queen Xingwu's maid... I am also from a famous family..."
What kind of famous family is this? Feng Xiaochu sneered.
"Here." She knocked around and finally found the pillar with a deep echo and a puppet inside.
She wiped her sweat.
This pillar and screen were made together, but she never noticed it. Thanks to her, she remembered Bai Lao Palace. Bai Lao Palace mentioned Shouning Palace in the imperial mausoleum, and she asked about the palace furnishings. This place used to belong to Queen Xingwu.
residence.
She waved out the window, and Feng Xiaochu, who was relaxing outside the hall, jumped in.
She used the Biying Puppet Dance and danced with her legs straight.
"It's so scary." Cao Xiwan said in horror, "When I use it, I'm like a fairy. When you use it, you're like a female ghost. You have mastered the real blue shadow puppet dance!"
Feng Xiaochu glared at her.
Cao Xiwan was about to brag about Queen Xingwu Taizu in Shouning Palace, and how her master, Bai Laogongren, was blind and sneaked into the palace as a female official.
Suddenly, she turned her head and frowned: "Someone is coming."
At this hour and at this place, someone actually quietly entered the Queen Mother's Shouning Palace.
She and Feng Xiaochu jumped up together and hid silently on the beam of the back hall.
There was a gust of wind, and in the darkness, they saw a figure in gray robe, jumping and slowly entering the back hall.
It's a puppet.
She also saw that the person driving the puppet was actually Wu Laodang.
The eunuch blew a bamboo whistle in front of her again, and a gray-robed puppet came and rushed into the back hall of the Queen Mother's Shouning Palace.
Moreover, he deliberately avoided the palace people.
Cao Xiwan felt embarrassed because she forgot to tell Wu Laodang:
The antidote she gave him should be taken three times a year for the next ten years.