Lin Jiabao was really exhausted. Sitting on the edge of the bed, he felt that his bones were about to fall apart, and his hands and legs were sore.
Lin Jiabao and the Empress just sat and rested quietly. Lin Jiabao felt hungry and thirsty. He hadn't had lunch today. It was already afternoon.
"Empress Empress, are you hungry? I'll go to the kitchen of Xili Palace to see what to eat?" Lin Jiabao stood up and said to Empress Empress.
The queen also felt hungry in her stomach, "Anzhu, be careful, go back quickly..."
Before Lin Jiabao left, he put the big knife he was holding beside the Queen Empress, "This knife, Empress Empress, you take self-defense. I'll be back soon."
Lin Jiabao gently opened the door, got out with a cat on his waist, carefully closed the door, and ran quickly to the kitchen of Xi Li Palace.
The queen looked at the big sword with awe...
The kitchen of Xili Palace has been vacant for a long time, and there is dust on the stove. Lin Jiabao searched for a long time but couldn't find anything to eat, and finally found a bag of white rice and a small bag of flour in the cellar of the kitchen storage, as well as some sugar, salt and a small can of vegetable oil. Lin Jiabao thought for a while and prepared to use these to make two simple meals.
Lin Jiabao returned to the kitchen, first cleaned out a small stove, and then washed the pot and tableware. Lin Jiabao was very careful when doing these actions, trying not to make any noise.
When lighting the fire, Lin Jiabao raised his heart to his throat, fearing that the movement in the kitchen would attract thieves. Lin Jiabao felt his palms sweat. He quickly boiled the white rice into porridge and added some sugar to it. After that, the flour is added with water and kneaded into a dough, pressed into a cake, fried in vegetable oil and sprinkled with salt. The smell of vegetable oil fills the kitchen instantly.
Lin Jiabao's stomach made bursts of screams. Lin Jiabao swallowed his saliva, but after a little taste, he found a large food box and packed it.
Lin Jiabao carried a large food box and a pot of sweet porridge on his back, and returned to the room where the Empress stayed when the sun went down.
The queen waited anxiously in the room, her heart was full of worry, as time passed... The queen recited Namo Amitabha in her heart... I prayed to the Buddha to bless this kind child...
The queen knew that Lin Xiaoshi was also very afraid, but left her the only self-defense weapon. Facing the dangers outside alone, if you happen to meet a thief... The queen doesn't dare to think about it, she is very worried...
Seeing that Lin Anzhu was back, the queen breathed a sigh of relief. "An Zhu, have you come back, haven't you encountered any danger?"
"Empress Empress, I'm fine. I haven't met anyone. It seems that Xi Li Palace is still very safe." Lin Jiabao brought the porridge to the table, and took out the bowls and chopsticks from the food box.
The queen was relieved.
"Queen Empress, I only found these in the kitchen, so I made porridge and pancakes. It's a bit crude, please forgive me." Lin Jiabao filled a bowl of hot porridge and placed it in front of the Empress. From the bottom of the food box, the baked pancakes were placed on a small plate, ready to serve the Queen's concubine for dinner.
The queen took a bowl of porridge and tasted a mouthful of porridge. After a thrilling day, there is nothing better than drinking a sip of hot porridge in a cold room in winter. The porridge was cooked to a moderate degree of softness and hardness, and was sweet and delicious. The queen ate the sweetness in her heart and warmed her heart.
The queen looked at Lin Anzhu who was standing beside him, "Anzhu, you should also sit down and eat. Now it's a special situation, don't worry about it, eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold."
"Empress, please eat first, I will wait for you to eat before eating..." Lin Jiabao refused to sit down.
The queen pressed him down and sat down and handed him a pancake. "Hurry up and eat, you've worked hard today..."
Lin Jiabao used it together under the queen's repeated persuasion, and finished the cake in three or two times.
"Anzhu, your cooking is delicious. This is the best porridge I've ever had." The queen bit the cake and drank the porridge, thinking that it's really hard for this child... Lin Jiabao was too embarrassed to be praised. "It's not as good as the Empress said..."
After finishing the meal, Lin Jiabao went to the kitchen to boil hot water and returned to wash his hands and face for the Empress. After that, Lin Jiabao and the Empress Niang Niang cuddled on the bed. Originally, Lin Jiabao insisted on sleeping in the next room, but the Empress did not agree. The Queen Mother looked at Lin Jiabao and said, "You stupid child, lie down with Ben Gong today. We both have a care..."
Lin Jiabao lay down on the bed obediently, and the queen touched Lin Jiabao's cold face. "Why is my face so cold..."
There was no brazier in the room, and the room was really cold. The quilt on the bed was also very thin, and the queen covered most of the quilt over Lin Jiabao.
Lin Jiabao said in his mouth: "I'm not cold, Empress, please cover it."
Lin Jiabao had just sweated a lot on the Empress's back, and his back was soaked. When the cold wind blows, it feels extremely cold.
The Queen felt Lin Jiabao trembling, "It's so cold." The Queen hugged Lin Jiabao and wrapped the quilt tightly around the two of them.
Lin Jiabao felt the warm embrace of the empress, as if he had returned to the embrace of his mother when he was a child...
"Are you scared today..." The Queen asked Lin Jiabao softly. The queen thought that Lin Jiabao was only 14 years old, and it was indeed extraordinary to have today's performance. I plan to reward Lin Xiaoshi well after this matter subsides.
"Yeah." Lin Jiabao nodded honestly.
"This is the palace. Fighting for the throne and bloodshed are inevitable." The queen sighed.
Lin Jiabao calmed down now, and was a little worried about Yuan Qing and the others, not knowing what happened to them.
Seeing that what she said was a little heavy, the queen changed the subject, "I heard Cheng'er call you Jiabao, is it your real name?"
"Back to the Empress, yes, An Zhu's original name was Lin Jiabao." Lin Jiabao replied.
"It's a good name. Your parents must love you very much at home." The queen knew that the name Lin Jiabao meant that he was definitely favored at home.
"My parents have always loved me the most, and my elder brothers and sisters also love me very much." Lin Jiabao said that it was the happiness of his family.
"Then I'll call you Jiabao in the future... Jiabao, how did you come to the palace?" The queen was a little curious, the Lin family probably wouldn't let this most precious child into the palace.
Lin Jiabao whispered what happened to his uncle Lin Dali's family and why he came to the palace to the Empress.
After hearing this, the queen said: "What a bad relative, but if it weren't for this, you wouldn't have come to the palace, and you wouldn't have the fortune you are today..."
As the sky darkened, Lin Jiabao and the others did not dare to light the lights, and spoke in a low voice in the dark room. Lin Jiabao whispered some trivial things about his hometown, and the empress liked to hear it. The queen grew up in the capital and never left the capital. Hearing Lin Jiabao talk about interesting stories in the mountains, he felt very novel.
Lin Jiabao was talking about going up the mountain with his brothers and sisters to pick fruits when he was a child. The wild fruits are sour and crunchy...
Just as he was talking, he heard a sound from the next room, Lin Jiabao was silent, and the empress did not dare to come out, listening to the movement in the next room. Lin Jiabao quietly placed the big knife in front of them both.
A man's voice came from next door, "Damn, this palace is too big, I'm dizzy when I walk."
Another voice came, "Brother, take a break first, there is no one here. If I say this palace is too big, how tired is the emperor walking every day..."
"Haha say you're stupid, but you still don't admit it. Wherever the emperor needs to walk by himself, someone will carry it..."
"Oh heh, what big brother said. Look at my brain."
"Hey... you lighten up..."
"Brother, bear with me, I'll help you bandage it. Those guards of the Imperial Army are really good at reaching out. Fortunately, you are here, otherwise my little life will be explained here today, alas! It's a pity for the other brothers. I don't know if it's alive or dead..."
"Life or death is a matter of life, and begging for life on the sword will have such a fate sooner or later..."
"Brother, what do you think we will do next? Do you want to catch the Empress? That's 10,000 taels of gold!"
"What about 10,000 taels of gold? The Empress is the mother of a country. If she is caught, she will destroy the nine clans. Do you know the nine clans? Anyway, we are just asking for money, we don't have to work as hard as the dead men of King Li... "
"What big brother said... The queen should let those dead soldiers catch them."
"Haha, most of those dead soldiers were killed and injured. I don't know how many escaped? I don't care about them. Anyway, this time I came to the palace. silver."
"Hee hee, big brother, look, I'm a little better too..."
"You kid, you're so clever in this regard haha..."
"That's not what you taught me, big brother..."
"Okay, let's rest for a while. When it's late at night, we will try to escape from the palace. These are enough for us to spend most of our lives outside..."
After waiting for about an hour, Lin Jiabao and the others finally heard the thief next door leave. They each breathed a sigh of relief. It was very late at night, and neither of them dared to sleep, for fear that the thieves would return again, and that there would be King Li's dead men coming.
After the fourth watch, the queen couldn't support herself and fell asleep. Lin Jiabao saw that the queen was asleep, but she didn't dare to sleep. He pinched himself hard, forcing himself to stay awake.
Xuanyuan Hancheng rushed to the palace, and Ling Zhengfeng, the commander of the Imperial Army, reported to him what happened in the palace yesterday. Ling Zhengfeng said that he received the phoenix order from the Empress and rushed to the Yongshou Palace with the Imperial Army. At that time, the Empress had not been seen, and they fought with the people brought by Xue Song. In the end, many thieves were killed and captured, but some thieves still escaped.
Ling Zhengfeng said that Lin Xiaoshi and the Empress were escorted by guards and fled together. According to the guards who guarded the Empress and the Empress, the Empress and the Empress were going to the Qianqing Palace to escape. But he later sent someone to the Qianqing Palace and did not see the Empress and the others, so he thought that he should hide in another palace. It's just that the guards got separated from the Empress and Lin Xiaoshi, and it is unknown where the Empress and the others went...