The young palace maid also stopped. She looked at Ah Li with surprise and said, "You want to become a lover with the eunuch?"

Before Ah Li could speak, the little palace maid suddenly knelt down, saying in a scalding tone, "Eunuch... Eunuch Master."

"Talkative and talkative, does your tongue want to run away from home?" Xu Zhi's heart was churning like a stormy sea. He stared sharply at the prostrate palace maid, as if he was about to explode at any moment.

The young palace maid trembled and dared not utter another word.

Ah Li reached out and grabbed Xu Zhi's sleeve, saying, "Did the Grand Eunuch really receive that imperial decree?"

"It's okay, I won't answer. That person can't do anything to me." Xu Zhi looked down at Ali's hand and saw that the redness and swelling from when they first met were gone, and her complexion had improved a bit.

Ah Li said in a low voice, "Actually, the eunuch could also ask me what I think."

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhi looked at Ah Li and asked uncertainly, "So, what do you mean?"

Ah Li, however, said with a beaming smile, "Eunuch, I'm willing, I'm willing to become your partner."

"Do you know what this means?" Xu Zhi narrowed his eyes, suppressing the little thrill that was rising in his heart.

Ah Li nodded and said, "I know, but if it's the eunuch, I'm really willing."

Xu Zhi looked intently at Ah Li, and seeing that she didn't avoid him but instead stared at him expectantly, Xu Zhi felt a desire to escape.

So he turned and left.

"The factory manager?"

Ah Li took two steps forward, but Xu Zhi didn't stop and said, "Nonsense."

As Xu Zhi was about to leave the Eastern Depot, he said, "Fool, what is your status and what is mine? If you become my lover, you'll be the one laughed at."

However, there was still a secret joy in my heart.

Xu Zhi wondered if the side effects were due to the cure for his poison. Otherwise, where did his joy come from?

We should have that imperial physician come and take a look, and prescribe some medicine for him.

The Eastern Depot gradually returned to calm, and no one spread the news.

Even the emperor inquired about it twice, but Xu Zhi turned him away and stopped asking.

Xu Zhi even had someone investigate who the Second Prince had been in close contact with recently, otherwise, no sooner had he brought Ah Li back to the Eastern Depot than he eagerly went to request an imperial decree.

This is something that makes one think deeply.

Xu Zhi received the message very quickly.

The guard standing behind Xu Zhi said, "The Second Prince has a close relationship with a general's daughter from Jin. The exchange of the Jin princess was also at the Second Prince's behest."

"What's that general's daughter's name?"

"Yang Shuhuan".

Xu Zhi tapped the table lightly, his tone firm: "We must send this message to Jin, so that everyone there knows that the Second Prince is deeply in love with that young lady."

"Yes," the guard replied and was about to leave.

Xu Zhi seemed to have thought of something, and then said, "Go and investigate the abuse that Princess Jin has suffered in the Cold Palace over the past two years. Is the Second Prince also behind it?"

The guard said, "I will go and investigate immediately."

"Go ahead." Xu Zhi waved his hand and went to see Ah Li.

Ahri was making dumplings with the palace maid at that moment, and they were also preparing some sauce.

The young palace maid was laughing and pointing at Ah Li's face, saying, "Miss, you have flour on your face."

Ahri didn't think too much about it and raised her hand to wipe it, but the more she wiped, the more there was.

Just as the palace maid was about to grab her handkerchief, Xu Zhi arrived.

"Factory Manager!"

Just as the young palace maid was about to kneel down, Xu Zhi stopped her, saying, "Don't kneel today. You'll get your hands dirty and it will delay the dumpling-making."

Ali laughed and said, "That's right, hurry up and wrap the dumplings, we're waiting to eat them."

Xu Zhi looked at the pork and cabbage filling on the table and said, "Why did you decide to make dumplings today?"

Ahri finished pinching the dumplings in her hands and said, "I want to eat them."

"Then let the chef make it." Xu Zhi pinched a piece of dough, and memories of the past began to flash through his mind.

Ahri asked the palace maid to roll out the dough, and she took the filling and continued wrapping, saying, "I just want to do it myself, it tastes better that way."

Xu Zhi also picked up a dumpling wrapper and started wrapping it up, just like Ah Li did.

Ah Li watched with a smile and noticed that Xu Zhi's first wrap was not good, but the second one was quite decent and even better than hers.

"Is this your first time making one?" Ahri asked, unconvinced.

Xu Zhi thought back to the past, then looked at the dumplings in his hand and said, "I guess so."

Soon, the dumpling wrappers were gone, and the pork and cabbage filling was also used up.

The palace maid led the people to the small kitchen to cook the wrapped dumplings, while Ah Li went to wash her hands.

Xu Zhi rubbed the flour off his palms and said, "If it were dyed red, it would look so beautiful."

Ah Li turned to look at Xu Zhi. Was this guy having another episode?

Then, Xu Zhi suddenly stood up and walked out.

Aren't you going to wash your hands?

Ahri called out.

Xu Zhi said, "No need, I'll go wash outside."

In the small kitchen, everyone was forced to kneel on the ground, and there was a bottle of medicine powder spilled on the ground.

Xu Zhi stepped in from outside the door, bent down, picked up some powder with his fingertips, and smelled it. It was poison.

"Who sent them?"

The young palace maid pressed her head to the ground in fear. She knew nothing. Just as she was about to put the dumplings into the pot, the Imperial Guards burst in and, without saying a word, forced them all to kneel on the ground.

Xu Zhi didn't expect anyone to answer him. The people who came to kill him were initially quite tight-lipped.

Seeing that the dumplings on the stove were still intact, he waved his hand, ordering someone to cover the mouth of the poisoner and drag him away.

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