If you want to enter the palace, you must first leave the palace

Another not-so-long night passed.

Bei Juse, who was forced by Onion to practice spitting stunts last night, woke up this morning and found that not only his throat was dry and sore, but also his voice became a little hoarse. He couldn't help wondering if Onion's so-called manly training was a deliberate trick my own.However, Onion and himself don't seem to have any deep hatred, so they shouldn't be so boring and engage in so many petty tricks, right?Thinking of this aspect, Bei Juese's heart immediately calmed down.Then, I followed Onion with confidence, and started another day's work.

However, Onion is a bit abnormal today. Not only does he walk much faster than usual, but he even works at least three times faster than usual; the strangest thing is that he who usually only pushes all the toilets to Beijuese to wash, today Instead of taking a nap, he washed the toilet by himself!

At noon, when the other eunuchs from the Xiangfang came back one after another, the group of Congtou and Bei Juese had already finished all the work.

Onion patted Bei Juse on the shoulder and said, "Hurry up and eat something, change into clean clothes, and I'll take you to a place to see and see!"

Bei Juese asked curiously: "Where?"

Onion smiled mysteriously, and said, "Don't ask too many questions, you'll know when you get there."

The place that Onion mentioned turned out to be an underground casino hidden in a remote courtyard.

From the outside, the courtyard looked like a small courtyard that had been abandoned, and the surroundings were quiet and desolate. Outside the courtyard stood a small eunuch with a mouse-headed lookout.Entering the small courtyard, seeing three houses side by side, Onion pushed open the closed door of the house in the middle familiarly, and Bei Juese found that the bustling inside the house was completely incompatible with the desolation outside the courtyard!

A large group of people gathered in the middle of the house. At a glance, most of them were dressed as eunuchs. Among them were the three heroes of the Ruan family, the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and some eunuchs from the Farming Academy.Among the eunuchs, there were also many people dressed as palace guards.They all craned their necks to look in the same direction with full concentration, shouting "big" or "small" in a suppressed voice.

Bei Juese followed Congtou curiously and squeezed into the crowd. It turned out that the center of the crowd was a gambling table of different sizes, and the table was filled with coins of different sizes.And the person next to the gaming table who seemed to be possessed by a supernatural object, shaking the dice from head to toe, was Eunuch Bai!

"Boy," Onion next to him showed a treacherous smile, "Let me show you how I can kill the world!" After finishing speaking, he pushed straight forward.

After half an hour...

"Master Onion, can you not take it off?" Eunuch Bai, who only had his underwear on, begged.

"One more trick! One more trick! Brother Onion, I still have underwear to take off!" Ruan Dayi hugged Onion's thigh.

Onion sitting on the gaming table with his legs crossed, a pile of silver and a pile of clothes beside him.Most of the people around the gaming table had no shirts, only underwear.Onion yawned, tossed a piece of silver in his hand, and said slowly with a helpless expression: "You all lose to the point where you are left with nothing but your underwear, why would you bet with me if you are penniless?" ?”

"A bet is never lost! Onion, lend me some more money! As long as I have money, I can make money!" Someone in the crowd said loudly.

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted countless responses.Congtou raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said, "Okay, take your money and clothes back, and I'll keep an account first!"

Everyone immediately said: "Thank you onion!"

Seeing Cong Tou complacently sitting on the gaming table keeping accounts, Bei Jue Se finally understood why Cong Tou made others willing to serve him and made so many people respect him.It turned out that everyone owed him money; and his money was won from other people at the gambling table with superb gambling skills.

After a group of gamblers got back their clothes and money, a new round of gambling started in full swing.Bei Juese, who has no money and no interest in gambling, decides to leave the underground casino and go back to the farm to rest.Originally, he wanted to talk to Cong Tou before leaving, but seeing that he was winning and the gaming table was crowded, he gave up.

It was a long way from that remote courtyard back to the Farming Institute, but after finishing all the work for today, Bei Juese slowed down and walked back with nothing to do.It has been a few days since I entered the palace, and I only have a chance to relax today. Of course, I have to enjoy this rare leisure time.

While walking and admiring the scenery in the palace, before I knew it, I came to the Huachi, the only place I had to pass back to the Farming Academy.

As soon as he entered the range of the painting pool, he heard a burst of noise.

"No! Please, give it back to me!" A female voice begged anxiously.

"If you have the ability, come and get it!"

"Yes, come here!" The two childish voices laughed arrogantly.

There was a "plop", as if something had been thrown into the water.

"Oh, I fell into the water, it's so boring, let's play somewhere else!"

"it is good!"

Childish laughter gradually faded away with the sound of footsteps.Curious, Bei Juese quickened his pace and walked forward for about ten meters. After turning a corner, he saw a woman squatting not far in front of her, struggling to reach out to fish for something in the pond.Suddenly, she slipped and fell into the water.

The woman struggled among the lotus leaves floating on the water and shouted: "Help!"

Without thinking too much, Bei Juese ran forward quickly, and before he could take off his clothes and shoes, he jumped into the pool and rescued the woman who was struggling in the water.When he dragged the woman to the shore, the woman stood up and coughed desperately with her head down.

Bei Juese asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

The woman coughed for a while, then suddenly turned around and grabbed Bei Juese's arms, and said anxiously: "My cloth rack is still in the pool, please, help me get it up!"

It was only at this time that Bei Juese could clearly see that the woman was a girl about fifteen or six years old. She had a small melon-shaped face, a pair of big eyes, a few strands of wet hair sticking to her forehead, and a drenched grass-colored dress. The skirt was clinging to her body, and her thin and thin body was trembling slightly.Probably because she was frightened by falling into the water, her face was pale, her lips were bloodless, her big eyes were flustered and lifeless, and she looked like a helpless kitten.

Looking at the girl's lovely and pitiful appearance, Bei Juese felt his heart skip a beat for no reason, and an indescribable strange feeling surged up.This feeling that he had never experienced before made him stunned.

Seeing that Bei Juese didn't speak, the girl shook his arms vigorously and cried out anxiously: "Please! That cloth frame is very important to me! Please help me! You If you help me catch it, I will repay you!"

Bei Juese came back to his senses, but he couldn't help but panic when facing the girl's teary eyes.At a loss, he comforted the girl and said, "Don't...don't cry, I, I'll help you get it right now." After speaking, he pushed the girl's hands away, turned around and jumped into the pool again.

After a while, Beijuese emerged from the water, held up a cloth frame embroidered with patterns and asked the girl, "Is this it?"

"Yes!" The girl nodded excitedly.

Bei Juese climbed ashore and handed the cloth rack to the girl, who quickly took it over, with a smile on her face, and said gratefully to him, "Thank you!"

The girl's smile made Bei Juese's heart beat uncontrollably again.He was stunned for a moment before he managed to say: "Lift, it's just a matter of raising your hands."

The girl inspected the dripping cloth shelf carefully, and suddenly cried out: "It's broken!" Her face became even paler, "My hard work is all in vain, it's gone."

Bei Juese stretched his head over, and saw that the pattern embroidered on the cloth frame turned out to be a big "Shou" character, but the embroidered picture of "Shou" was cut in the middle, and the hole marked the "Shou" character. "The word was mercilessly divided into two pieces.

Bei Jue Se comforted the girl and said, "Isn't it enough to embroider a new one?"

The tears in the girl's eyes fell like broken beads.She cried and said, "It's too late! Next month will be the Queen Mother's birthday. It took me three months to embroider this birthday picture. Now that it's done like this, it's too late to embroider a new one!"

The girl's tears splashed onto Bei Juse's heart like hot water, making him feel heartache for no reason.A surge of enthusiasm came to his head, and he blurted out to the girl without thinking, "I'll help you! I can embroider such a birthday picture in half a month. Let me help you embroider it."

The girl stopped her tears, looked up at Bei Jue Se, and asked uncertainly, "Do you know how to embroider?"

Bei Jue Se nodded affirmatively.

After receiving an affirmative answer, the girl threw away the cloth frame in her hand, grabbed Bei Juse's hand as if grasping the last straw, and said anxiously: "Then I will thank you!"

Although the girl's hands were cold, the flesh of the palms was very soft, giving off a feeling of frailty just like hers.Bei Juse, who had never been held hands by a girl like this, was a little at a loss.

Fortunately, the girl only held it for a moment, then let go, stood up and said, "Can you come here again at dusk? I'm going to prepare a new cloth rack now, and I'll bring it to you when it's ready."

Bei Jue Se nodded and said, "Okay."

The girl said: "At dusk, you wait for me at the painting pavilion in the pool in front of you. I won't see you there." She picked up the cloth rack and was about to leave.

Bei Juese suddenly remembered that he still didn't know the girl's name, so he hurriedly called her: "What's your name? My name is Xiaobei!"

The girl turned her head and smiled shyly, and said softly, "You can call me Jing'er. Xiao Bei, see you later."

Although her face was pale, it did not detract from the heart-warming feeling in her smile.Looking at the girl's slender back going away, a strange emotion arose quietly in Bei Juese's heart, and then slowly germinated.