Prince Xili looked at Beibei's leisurely appearance and was a little curious: "Beibei, if you don't know where to take me to play, let's go find Xiya."
Beibei was a little surprised. Did Xiya stay in the palace? How could she not know? "Where is Xiya? Didn't my mother ask you to come to the palace to play with us?"
Xili touched his head and said, "The princess asked me to come to the palace to play with you, and asked Lord Wan to go shopping with my sister. I just want to see what Xiya is playing in the palace?"
After hearing this, Beibei also began to be curious. What can Xiya do in the palace? Looking at Xili: "Then do you know where Xiya is?"
Xili nodded: "I remember that they said they would take Xiya to Siyiku to study. What is Siyiku?"
Siyiku, it's normal for Aunt Xiya to go there. She nodded with a smile: "Well, let's go, I'll take you to Siyiku. But we have to sneak in, okay? And you, your yellow hair is too conspicuous, you have to find a way to cover it up."
Xili followed up and agreed: "I thought so too. You all have hats, why don't we get a hat and wear it so that others can't find me."
Beibei thought about it and realized that it was true. He patted Xili on the shoulder and said, "That makes sense. Come on, I'll take you somewhere."
Xili looked at Beibei. This time Beibei was moving very fast, as if he had found his target. The two of them wandered around the palace and finally found Beibei's destination.
This is the newcomers' room, where all the newcomers into the palace will report. After being trained here, they will be assigned to serve in various palaces.
There were young eunuchs who had just been sent to the palace, as well as young palace maids who had just entered the palace. Beibei walked with Xili inside. Although no one knew him, because of Xili's appearance, they deliberately avoided the crowd and slipped in.
The reason why they came here is that there are many newcomers here, and even if they are discovered, no one will recognize them. And only here are the eunuch clothes that children wear.
That's right, Beibei brought Prince Xili here to steal the eunuch's clothes. If you want to hide your identity, it's best to dress up as a little eunuch, wear a hat, and lower your head, so that Prince Xili can easily get away with it.
After finding two sets of eunuch clothes that fit him, he threw one of them to Xili: "Hurry up, change into it."
As he said this, he also took a set of clothes, turned around and went to the next room to change into the eunuch clothes. After changing, he spoke: "Siri, are you okay?"
Prince Xili also came out, looked at his new clothes, and nodded with satisfaction: "Okay. Does it look good?"
After turning around in front of Beibei, Beibei nodded: "Not bad, it fits me well. Look at me, I'm pretty good too. By the way, from now on, you're Xiao Beizi and I'm Xiao Lizi, okay?"
Xili nodded: "Xiao Lizi, I remember it, Xiao Beizi, how do we get to Siyiku now?"
Xiao Beizi smiled mysteriously: "Of course I'll go there on foot."
Just as the two were about to leave quietly, they were caught by a eunuch: "Stop, you two, go, the clothing storehouse is still short of two new people."
Beibei's eyes widened. It seemed that God was helping them. They wanted to go to the clothing store and had originally planned to sneak in, but now they could go in openly.
The two looked at each other, Beibei made a victory gesture, and then followed the eunuch out.
When he went out, he found that there were already four young eunuchs standing at the door. Apparently, including these two, six young eunuchs would be sent to the Clothing Storehouse today.
It just so happened that Beibei didn't know where the Siyiku was, so they could go there directly, saving a lot of time. Soon, several young eunuchs were sent to the Siyiku, and an older eunuch came to pick them up.
"My last name is Quan, you can just call me Eunuch Quan. Come with me. The clothing store is in a pretty good location, as long as it's safe. What we have to do every day is simple, just cleaning. The palace maids will call us if they need help, and we will go to help them when the time comes."
That's right, besides Eunuch Quan, who is in charge of the Siyi Store, the others are all young eunuchs who come to the Siyi Store to help. The main people in the Siyi Store are the palace maids who make clothes.
"Okay, having said so much, I will just show you around and let you know about Siyiku, where you live."
The eunuchs were taken to their living quarters, which was a room with six beds, the kind that were large bunk beds. "This is where you will live. Put your gifts away first. After that, I will take you to do what you should do today. For newcomers, start with cleaning."
Beibei and Xili then realized that they had not brought anything with them, but there were already quilts and other daily necessities on the bed. It seemed that these two people had nothing given by their families.
After sorting out the things, the six eunuchs, each with a broom, said, "Start from the door and clean it carefully. You can only eat lunch at noon after you finish cleaning."
After giving his instructions, Eunuch Quan left immediately. As soon as Eunuch Quan left, the other four eunuchs became lively: "What are your names? Where are you from?"
Beibei and Xili looked at each other, then looked at the other four eunuchs: “You guys clean here first, we’ll go to the other side to clean.”
After saying that, the two men ran away quickly. The other four eunuchs looked at each other in confusion: "Should we call them back? Eunuch Quan just said that they can't walk around randomly."
One of them said, "They want to wander around on their own. What does it have to do with us? Let's clean up quickly and finish cleaning this place first."
After these people came in, they were taught how to serve their masters, how to clean, the rules of the palace, etc. Obviously, they couldn't understand why there were still disobedient eunuchs.
If a disobedient eunuch is just a young eunuch, he will not live long in this palace. Thinking of this, the four young eunuchs immediately started to do their own things.
After Beibei and Xili successfully got rid of the little eunuch, they threw the broom aside. Who wants to sweep the floor for you? "Let's go to other rooms and see if we can find Xiya."
The two of them hit it off immediately and began searching every room. They walked into a room and saw a large vat with some beautifully colored fabrics soaking in it.
Beibei sniffed, there must be something bad in it. But she was not sure. It is said that one regrets not having read enough books when one needs them. Beibei finally understood this truth.
What is this piece of cloth used for? Beibei began to search next to the big vat. There were detailed records of what each piece of cloth in the palace was used for, and Beibei knew this.
Sure enough, a record was found on the other side of the vat. This piece of cloth was actually used to make shrouds for the Queen Mother's birthday. If someone had poisoned it, it would have been used to poison her grandmother.
What else can be done? Beibei was instantly upset. She would look for Xiya next time. Just as she was about to pull Xili away, a palace maid suddenly appeared: "Who are you? What are you doing here? This thing is so valuable, you can't touch it casually."
The tone of his voice was very fierce, as if he was going to eat someone. Beibei was startled and quickly apologized. He should have learned some verbal skills earlier. Now he would be exposed as soon as he opened his mouth!
Xili's words were the same. Why didn't I think of this question just now? The maid didn't get a response from the two people for a long time, and she was a little angry: "I'm talking to you, why don't you answer?"
Beibei suddenly thought of an idea and gestured with his hands, meaning that the two of them were dumb. And when Beibei gestured, he also noticed the porcelain bottle in the maid's hand.
Pretending to be careless, she actually broke the porcelain bottle on purpose. Immediately smelling the unpleasant odor, Beibei raised his head and glanced at the palace maid.
The maid was about to explode with anger at this time. This little eunuch actually dared to knock over her medicine: "Well, you actually dared to knock over my medicine. I will beat you to death today."
Beibei subconsciously realized that there was something wrong with this palace maid. She came to add some medicine every day. What kind of medicine was that? It was poison. It was simply outrageous.
The maid was obviously very angry and was about to attack Bei Bei. Of course, Bei Bei would not stand there and take the beating, so she dodged.
The maid became even angrier: "How dare you get out of the way? I'll beat you to death today."
Xili was still standing there, obviously not understanding what was happening. Beibei started to pull him and ran very fast, so he followed.
The palace maids behind them immediately chased after them and found that the two young eunuchs were running very fast. They were so angry that they shouted, "Quick, catch those two young eunuchs! They touched the cloth for the shroud of the Empress Dowager."
Upon hearing this, the other maids immediately came out to chase. In order to escape, Beibei looked at the cloth hanging in front of her, pulled it down directly, and threw it on the maid's face. Seeing so many maids chasing her, this was not a solution.
No, she had to find a way to leave here first. If she wanted to leave by herself, it would be quite easy, but she couldn't leave Xili here, otherwise, Xili would definitely be killed by these people.
Xili was afraid of being left behind by Beibei, so he kept running behind Beibei: "What happened?"
He asked while running, he didn't even know what happened. Beibei was also a little confused at this time. Did the palace maid not know that she had poisoned him? If she knew, the two of them would have run away without chasing. After this incident, no one would have known that she had poisoned him.
Besides, it was rare for her to suspect that the two young eunuchs could read, so how could they know poison? Beibei had no idea what the palace maid was angry about, and why she mobilized so many people to chase her.