Chapter 168: An accident on New Year's Eve

Xia Miaoyuan and the fifth prince looked up at the sound of the cat, and saw a heroic big cat walking briskly on the palace wall.

"There are so many cats in this palace!" The fifth prince exclaimed.

The queen in the palace is idle and bored, so she often likes to raise a few kittens to play with. Cats like to wander around, so there are often kittens wandering around at night.

Maomao and Xiaojuzi also looked up at the big cat on the wall.

Maomao, in particular, seemed to be very interested in the big cat, and even stopped, raised his two front hooves, and tried to reach the cat.

The cardinal cat glanced at Maomao with disdain, and then yelled "Meow..." and ran away.

"Meow..." Maomao yelled anxiously, and also rushed forward, as if to chase the cardinal cat.

"Maomao!" Xia Miaoyuan scolded Maomao fiercely, pulling the leash tight, trying to stop its violent charge.

But Maomao has grown up a lot now, and is very strong, Xia Miaoyuan is no match for it.

"Ah!" Xia Miaoyuan yelled, Maomao had already pulled the leash straight, and Xia Miaoyuan was dragged forward by Maomao for several steps.

"Sister, let go!" The fifth prince shouted hurriedly, shouting and rushing to grab the leash.

At this time, Maomao had already rushed to the position of the eunuch holding the lantern in front, and the traction rope was pulled straight and tripped the eunuch.

"Ouch!" The eunuch screamed, and Xia Miaoyuan was also pulled and fell.

But she couldn't care about crying, she just raised her head and looked forward, shouting: "My Maomao! Maomao come back!"

The fifth prince helped Xia Miaoyuan up, and when he looked up at Maomao again, the naughty little deer had run far away.

"Ahhh! My Maomao! I want Maomao!" Xia Miaoyuan burst into tears.

Li Mama and Yingxue and other followers also rushed over at this time.

Nanny Li pulled Xia Miaoyuan into her arms and comforted her, "It's okay. Maomao ran away. We can find it back. No matter how hard it runs, it can't escape from the palace. Don't worry, Your Highness."

"Yes, yes! It doesn't have wings, so it can't escape from the palace. We can find it back." The fifth prince advised gently.

Xia Miaoyuan stopped crying when she heard everyone say so.

"Go find it! Let's go find it!" Xia Miaoyuan wiped her tears and said.

"Okay, then let's go find it now." The fifth prince replied.

Xia Miaoyuan burst into laughter, immediately broke free from Nanny Li's arms, and ran forward with the fifth prince.

"Let Nanny Li send Your Highness back to the palace first, and I will take people to find Maomao, okay?" Yingxue asked.

"No, no! I'll find it myself!" Although Xia Miaoyuan's voice was childish, her tone was extremely firm and there was no room for negotiation.

Li Ma, Yingxue and others saw that they could not persuade Xia Miaoyuan, so they could only follow her, pick her up and walk forward to find Maomao.

Everyone followed Maomao's track, jogging all the way, turning around, and unknowingly walked to a more remote place.

Xia Miaoyuan hugged Yingxue's neck and looked around. He saw that the palace walls on both sides were very dilapidated and worn out, and the palace road was also covered with fallen leaves, which looked a bit messy.

The nearby palaces were also dilapidated. It looked like no one lived there.

"Where are we? Why is it so quiet!" Yingxue looked around and sighed.

Nanny Li also showed a timid expression, "Yes! It's a bit scary to see it like this. Why don't we go back first. Send a few eunuchs out with more lanterns to look for it."

Xia Miaoyuan pouted and said angrily, "No, no, look for it now."

At this moment, several people suddenly heard the faint sobbing of a woman not far away.

"Someone is crying!" The eunuch holding the lantern said in surprise.

"It can't be a female ghost?" Another eunuch's voice trembled.

"Don't talk nonsense! There are many shameless women in the palace. It's not surprising that they cry secretly." Nanny Li said gently.

"Listen! What are they saying?" The fifth prince raised his ears and listened very seriously.

Several people also shut up and listened attentively for a while.

Xia Miaoyuan vaguely heard a man's fierce voice, which seemed to be cursing someone.

Something like "You are a deadly star."

The fifth prince looked at everyone and suggested: "Why don't we go and see who is so bold that he is still scolding the palace maids on New Year's Eve!"

"Go, go, go!" Xia Miaoyuan raised his little fist and shouted fiercely: "Punish evil and promote good!"

Seeing that the princes and princesses wanted to go, several followers followed the sound.

The sound came from a small and broken courtyard.

The far door was not locked, but only half-closed.

The eunuch holding a lantern led the way, gently pushed open the door, and several people walked in.

Now that they were closer, they could hear the voices clearly.

There was only the sound of slapping, mixed with the man's curse: "You jinx! I have to bring you food on New Year's Eve!"

"Everyone is taking advantage of the master's happiness to go out and have a good time gambling, and you are still crying here! You are delaying my good thing! What's wrong with being hungry for a few meals? Can it starve you to death?!"

A hoarse woman's voice: "Eunuch Qi, stop hitting me, I just called you because I couldn't stand the stomachache."

"Eunuch Qi, I don't dare to do it again, never again, don't hit me."

The slapping sound still didn't stop, "Damn it, I'm going to beat you to death!"

"I have been cursed for eight generations, and I have to take on a loser like you! Why don't you just die, so that I can find another job!"

Xia Miaoyuan, the fifth prince, and several followers, from this intermittent conversation, roughly understood what was going on, and they were all furious.

"Dog slave! Stop hitting me!" the fifth prince shouted loudly!

"Who?" The scolding voice stopped abruptly, and asked angrily.

Without waiting for an answer, the male voice shouted again: "The cold palace is a forbidden area, you are not allowed to enter without permission! What do you want to do?"

Then, hurried footsteps were heard, and an old eunuch in a half-worn eunuch's uniform walked out.

"New Year's Eve, a festive day, what are you doing? Beating and scolding people at will?!" Nanny Li shouted at the old eunuch.

The old eunuch quickly scanned the people who came in and saw that the fifth prince and Xia Miaoyuan were two little children wearing luxurious clothes. Although he didn't know them, he had roughly guessed what they were.

He quickly softened his ferocious expression and replaced it with an indifferent look and said: "Hey, everyone, this is the cold palace, a shameful place, not a place you should come to, you should take the two young masters back quickly."

"You hit people!" Xia Miaoyuan stretched out his hand and pointed at the old eunuch, shouting fiercely.

"What right do you have to hit someone? It's wrong to hit someone casually! Your Highness will take care of it!" The fifth prince glared at the old eunuch and shouted.