In the side hall of the dining room, all the stewards were there.

Yesterday was Xiaonian, and I sent the Kitchen God to heaven. In addition to the great sacrifices in the palace, confession tables were also placed in the dining room, statues of the Kitchen God were enshrined, offerings were placed, and incense was burned.

Several stewards are currently chatting around Aunt Fu, mainly talking about making sweets after the Xiaonian Festival.

According to custom, sweets are made after the Lunar New Year. Most of the sweets made in the palace are snacks prepared for the women in the harem. Sometimes the people in the big palace will grab a handful and give them to the little palace people. Since it is the Chinese New Year, everyone in the palace can find a few pieces of candy in their pockets.

The candies made in the kitchen can be divided into three categories: nut candies, flower candies, and medicinal candies. Of course, when it comes to flowers, they are all dried flowers produced in August and September. The medicinal sugar was also called health-preserving sugar in the palace. It was mixed with ginseng, dangshen, asparagus and angelica, etc. It was sweet but also a little bitter. It is also the kind of candy that Xiaoba dislikes the most. Xiaoba has never understood that eating sugar is not because humans think they are too bitter, so they want to eat something sweet? Why make sugar bitter? Is this asking for trouble?

Because the prince does not eat sweets, the sweets made every year in the East Palace will be distributed to the officials and subordinates in addition to a portion of the candies given to each family as a return gift. We were all chatting with Grandma Fu about what flavor of candy we should make.

At this time, An Jiu wore Ren Gu's face and walked in from the outside. When he saw it was him, there was no sound in the room. An Jiu coughed in front of Ren Gu's face, bent down and said with a smile: "Salute to all the managers."

Because Manager Ping was not here, no one picked up on his words. On the contrary, Eunuch Qian kept glancing at Eunuch Qiang with his eyes, asking him to speak.

Eunuch Qiang glared at him covertly, and said to Rengu with a smile: "So Eunuch Rengu, I wonder if you have something to do here? Or does His Highness the Crown Prince have some orders? Eunuch Ping does not exist, otherwise you Wait a minute."

An Jiu looked at Eunuch Qiang's already ferocious face, which became even more terrifying when he smiled, like the tiger spirit and bear monster in the third brother's story, suddenly had a face, and he felt a layer of chicken skin on his arms.

He took a small step back without leaving a trace, and said to Eunuch Qiang, "No need, I don't want to talk to Eunuch Ping." Then he turned to Aunt Fu and said, "Mommy, can you take a step to speak."

Yan Sinian went to Aunt Fu to help Xiaoba match New Year clothes and jewelry, so naturally he wouldn't do it in a big way.

Aunt Fu saw that Ren Gu had pointed out that she was looking for her. Although she didn't know what was going on, she still walked out of the door with him. In Mammy's opinion, the rumors about Xiaoba were suppressed due to the incident of thunder striking a tree a few days ago. In the past two days, some people came to the dining room to inquire about Xiaoba. This Ren Gu might want to tell himself some rumors about Xiaoba or someone said bad things about Xiaoba, and he wanted to tell him.

After all, in the eyes of most people in the East Palace, this kid Rengu is good at everything, but he is not good at talking. Not only does he like to gossip, but he also has no control over his mouth and dares to say anything. If he were not His Highness's personal little eunuch , he might have been beaten a long time ago.

But Aunt Fu didn't expect that as soon as she left Rengu, she said that His Highness was looking for her and that he was in the small warehouse and asked her to go there now.

Aunt Fu glanced at Ren Gu. To be honest, she didn't believe him. His Highness didn't look for Ping Qi, but came to look for her. He didn't say what the matter was. He just said that His Highness was looking for her or that he went to the small warehouse.

Throughout the year, I can count on one hand the number of times I have appeared in front of His Highness.

Aunt Fu just wanted to take Xiaoba with her. The rumors in the palace these days were not right. She was getting old, so she didn't care about others.

He said to Ren Gu in front of him: "Okay, I'll call a runner, and we'll leave here."

An Jiu saw that Aunt Fu was going back to the dining room to call someone, and was afraid that she would call out Xiaoba, so she hurriedly whispered: "It's okay for you to call someone, don't call Xiaoba." This Xiaoba, Anjiu said very well. Light, like the sound of breath.

Aunt Fu knew that Rengu didn't know anything about Xiaoba, so when she heard the word Xiaoba from his mouth, she knew that the prince's call for her to go there was probably true. If Rengu lied to her, she would only say that it was Yunba. So he nodded, went to the dining room, called Feng San out, and took her to the small warehouse.

In the snack department, An'er was sent out because she was sick, and Grandma Xi Le was told by Ping Gong that she didn't need to take care of her anymore, so these days, it was Feng San who was mostly serving Grandma Fu.

When An Jiu saw that Aunt Fu had left, he also left the dining room. He was not sure whether Xiao Ba had discovered him. If Xiao Ba comes out and calls out to him at this time, wouldn't all his previous efforts be wasted? In fact, An Jiu knew very well that Yun Ba would not come out at all and would not call him, but he couldn't stop himself from thinking about this matter.

Unexpectedly, Xiaoba really came out, but fortunately, he didn't call him, but he was stopped at a corner not far away.

Xiao Ba narrowed his eyes and came close to An Jiu's face. Looking at his face carefully, his nose was still shrinking and sniffing.

"It's amazing. I've only seen people who don't look like me after putting on makeup. This is the first time I've seen people who can transform themselves into someone else's. It doesn't look like they're wearing a mask. How do you do it? Can you do it? teach me?"

In fact, An Jiu was wearing a mask, but the mask was very thin and was treated with special medicine, so it couldn't be seen. At a glance, you could even see the pores on his face.

An Jiu was surprised. He stared at Xiaoba. He knew that Xiaoba was very capable, but he didn't expect that he would become like this. Not to mention His Highness the Crown Prince who knew about the disguise. He was the one who wanted to bite Ren every day they met. Yajia, who is in the valley, didn’t even notice it, okay? How did Xiaoba find out?

An Jiu pretended to be calm and imitated the little eunuch's voice and said, "What are you saying, little palace maid? Why can't I understand?"

Xiaoba's big eyes narrowed, and she said coldly: "Xiaojiu!" A chill spread across her body. If we use materialization to describe it, then Xiao Ba's body should be shining with a light blue halo at this time. Unfortunately, no one can see it, but An Jiu can hear the sound of cracking ice coming from Xiao Ba's feet. . An Jiu quickly raised his hands to his face and said, "Don't be angry, don't be angry."

Xiaoba was very angry that his friend dressed up as another person and refused to tell the truth to him. so……

"Why did you come to the dining room dressed like this? Why did you use the excuse of looking for grandma? Are you here to make sure I'm not here?"

Every time Xiao Ba asked a question, he took a step forward, and An Jiu took a step back.

"You want to go eat delicious food, but you don't want to take me with you? You are afraid that I will find out, so you use other people's faces to determine my location first!!"

An Jiu was unsteady and almost sat on the ground.

An Jiu pointed at his face and hurriedly said to Xiaoba: "It's okay, didn't I tell you that I have a mission recently? This is it."

An Jiu rummaged through his clothes, but couldn't find anything to eat. Because he wanted to be in Dingren Valley, An Yi took away all the snacks on him.

An Jiu sighed and glanced at Xiao Ba. Although his face was still expressionless, it could be seen that he believed what he said because the surrounding air was not that cold anymore.

An Jiu didn't explain, and instead asked Xiaoba: "How did you find out that I am not from Rengu? Isn't it different?"

"It tastes wrong."

"What's wrong?" Because Rengu was a eunuch who knew how to apply perfume, An Jiu even learned how to prepare several spices for this purpose.

"There is a wound on Rengu's body. It may not have been taken care of properly. No matter whether it is winter or summer, as long as it is covered, it will smell. You only have fragrance on your body, not the stench."

"Wound? What kind of wound?" If Ren Gu had been injured, An San and An Liu would not have found out, let alone that there was a wound, and the wound had been bad all year round. Could it be that he had also been poisoned? "Do you know when he was injured and where the wound is?"

"Who knows how many years it has been, anyway, the wound is down there." Xiao Ba said and glanced at An Jiu's navel three inches below.

An Jiu looked down, nodded and said, "I just said that there is no Xuexiang here, and the boss won't let me go."

Xiao Ba didn't care about these things. Seeing that An Jiu had no need to eat, she planned to go back. In the kitchen, she cooked old duck soup to go with the Hu cakes. She had finished eating the cake and the soup was not yet cooked. She had to go back and wait.

Before leaving, she asked again without giving up: "Aren't you really looking for something to eat?"

"No." After An Jiu's decisive answer, he thought for a moment and said, "I still have the white meat from yesterday's sacrifice to the stove. Do you want it?"

Xiaoba rolled her eyes in her heart, she didn't want it.

Last year, the Kitchen God Sacrifice was held in the Kunde Palace. Because women are in charge of kitchen stoves, so the place of sacrifice was in the Queen's palace. However, when offering incense to the Kitchen God, women were not allowed to enter the house.

Therefore, the sacrifice of the stove in Xiaonian was presided over by the emperor. The emperor took the prince to burn incense in the house, but the queen had to stand outside the door and hand over things. All offerings must be delivered to the door through the hands of the queen, and then taken over by the prince and handed over to the emperor for the incense ceremony.

When offering sacrifices to the stove, a large stove is also used to cook the sacrificial meat. After the meat is cooked, a specially arranged eunuch will come and cut the meat into large thick slices, place them piece by piece on a plate, and share them with everyone.

After the emperor left, Xiaoba took a piece when no one was prepared. She took it into her mouth without thinking, and that bite almost sent her back to the end of the world.

There is no seasoning, not even salt, just boiled fat meat. That smell? In the apocalypse, Xiaoba could catch any strange beast or wild beast and cook the meat, it would probably taste better than this.

But the people here are very happy to eat together. They say that eating this is a blessing.

When An Jiu mentioned the sacrificial meat, Xiao Ba left without looking back.

An Jiu saw Xiaoba gone and didn't call her again. He also wants to go back to His Highness the Crown Prince and Aunt Fu to choose jewelry together. This is really not the job of a secret guard. I hope my mother will be satisfied with the choice of the prince. As a secret guard, he really has never learned this skill.

Suddenly An Jiu heard the sound of firecrackers in the palace. After one sound, there was another sound soon. It seemed that the emperor had left the astrological platform. Back to the Zichen Palace.

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