Chapter 1961 [Shangxie] The Thief Who Stole the Steamed Buns
The night passed like this.
When the bright lights in the hall went out, Xia Fuyi weighed the pros and cons, and turned around and left the palace helplessly.
There were tens of thousands of imperial guards in the palace. No matter how confident she was in herself, she couldn't defeat ten thousand with one. Every extra minute or second she stayed in the center of the palace increased the risk of being discovered.
She didn't think she could fight her way out of the tens of thousands of guards.
But Xia Fuyi was not ready to give up.
The milky white morning light painted the vast palace city, and was reflected in the dark pupils that had become a little tired after the night.
She blinked her black eyelashes, gripped the sword tightly in her hand, turned around and disappeared into the crowd of early risers.
Although he was prepared to continue, Xia Fuyi still didn't expect that this protracted battle would last for seven days.
During these seven days, she slept in various corners of the city during the day, and when night fell, she moved silently in the palace like a nocturnal creature.
It was not until the seventh night, before she successfully entered the Purple Palace, that she was finally discovered. The reason for this exposure was that Miss Xia stole a steamed bun from the imperial kitchen because she was extremely hungry.
Miss Xia had just taken out a steamed bun through the window when a head suddenly appeared in the empty imperial kitchen like a ghost.
The moonlight was pouring outside the window, covering Xia Fuyi like a layer of transparent gauze. She was holding a steamed bun in her mouth in the moonlight and looking at the palace maid who suddenly appeared. The next moment, she heard a deafening scream.
“There’s a thief!!!”
Miss Xia stuffed the steamed bun into her mouth with one hand with an expressionless face, turned around and disappeared.
But the scream that had already been uttered had already caused the night to fluctuate.
The guards who were patrolling nearby fired flares, and the guards in the entire area were mobilized.
In the darkness of night, these small groups of teams quickly and silently gathered and then intertwined, and began to frequently and vigilantly walk through every tiny corner, knocking on every closed palace door.
After explaining the general situation to the guards, the palace maid quietly retreated.
Today she used a lot of effort to get rid of the guards outside the palace maids' quarters, trotted all the way to the Zichen Palace, and climbed through the small window as if she was familiar with the place.
The man was still sitting in front of the screen. She couldn't get close to the palace during the day, so she had never seen the man's appearance clearly, but just a vague silhouette was enough to make her heart soften and moved.
Only after she sat down behind the screen did her heart, which had been pounding all night, finally calm down a little.
She leaned slightly against the screen behind her, but didn't dare to lean completely close to it and let the person behind her feel her weight - this might be the reason why she would always risk her life to come in and talk to him.
Although this man had never spoken a word to her, he always had a cold aura that made people afraid to get too close to him, or even to look at him too much.
But the more this happens, the more it makes people yearn for and be attracted to it.
She started talking about the interesting things that happened today. This time she didn't have to rack her brains to think about it, she could just talk about what had just happened.
"I'm telling you, there's a thief in the palace."
She whispered in a mysterious tone,
"And I discovered it just now."
"Yushan had something to do tonight, so she asked me to help her clean up the imperial kitchen. As soon as I extinguished the stove, a hand reached out from above my head and took a leftover steamed bun from the plate. I looked up and happened to meet the eyes of the thief who stole the bun..."
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