First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

"You bold thief! Now that you have robbed the money, run away!" In the Changxin Palace, a woman was standing in the corner shivering. She was blocked by two soldiers. Her hair was disheveled, and although her quilt was intact, her feet were bare.

She was holding a candlestick in her hand, threatening the men approaching her. Perhaps because of fear or lack of strength, her slender arms were shaking so much that the candlestick in her hands was swaying, as if it would fall to the ground at any moment.

Although the face beneath the messy hair was filled with fear and anger, it still couldn't hide her stunning beauty.

She had been forced to the point where she had no way to retreat, and could only press her thin back tightly against the wall. The coldness from the wall penetrated through her not-so-thick clothes, making her body and mind even colder.

"This is the emperor's woman!" The two soldiers who had robbed her jewelry caught a glimpse of her face and her jade feet, which they had no time to retract. One of them laughed obscenely and said to his companion, "You haven't tasted a woman yet! Why don't you just try it and try what the emperor's woman tastes like!"

"Let's go!" The other one nervously pulled the man. His arms were full of pearls and jade toys. He even took the jade paperweight on the table and put a few gorgeous palace clothes on his shoulders. As he moved, a golden ruyi fell out from his lapel. He quickly picked it up and stuffed it back. "If the Huainan King's army breaks in, we will be in trouble!"

"They won't be able to get in for a while!" The rebel soldier was blinded by lust. "We've worked for that damn emperor for so long, so what if we slept with his women! If you're afraid, just stand aside and wait for me! I must satisfy my desire to be an emperor today!" After saying that, she threw away the looted property on her body, grabbed the candlestick in the woman's hand and pulled it towards herself.

The woman was unsteady on her feet and was pulled over by him, falling directly into his arms.

"My beauty! You are throwing yourself into my arms!" The soldier immediately embraced the woman tightly, and became even more excited. The fragrance from the woman aroused his animal nature, and he tore the woman's clothes. Poor woman, she was only wearing a quilt, and with the sound of the clothes tearing, a large area of snow-white skin was exposed on the woman's shoulders and chest.

The man became even more excited, "Come and help!" Seeing that the woman kept struggling and tearing at him, he couldn't do it smoothly, so he shouted to his companion, "If you want to leave quickly, help me hold her down! The sooner I finish, the sooner we can leave here!"

The other rebel had no choice but to turn around, hold down the woman's hands and strangle her delicate neck. "I'll strangle you to death if you make trouble again!" he said viciously.

Just as the rebel was struggling to pry the woman's legs apart and was preparing to force himself on her, he suddenly felt a sharp pain at the back of his head. His movements froze for a moment, and he fell limply to the ground before he could even look back.

"What's wrong with you? What are you dawdling for? Hurry up!" Upon realizing that something was wrong with his companion, the soldier who had pinned the woman against the wall turned around and saw only a figure with powder sprinkled all over his face.

"You..." His vision was suddenly blurred, "Ah! My eyes!" He raised his hands to rub them, and instantly his eyes felt like they were on fire and burning with pain. He no longer cared about the woman, and covered his eyes with his hands, trying to rub the powder out of his eyes. The more he rubbed, the more painful it became. He screamed and stumbled all the way out.

A piece of clothing fell on the crying woman's shoulder, "Don't cry, madam, it's okay! If you don't want to be humiliated, put on this set of clothing." Then a voice came, and the woman raised her head. A young eunuch squatted in front of her. The candle was extinguished. She could only see the young eunuch through the weak light coming in from the window. His face was painted black, almost blending into the night! He handed her a set of clothes, which were also eunuchs' clothes.

"This palace..." The woman sobbed, looking at the young eunuch, her mind was blank, she didn't know what she wanted to say. She didn't know this young eunuch, but she felt that he looked a little familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen him before.

"What palace are you going to return to?" The young eunuch looked a little anxious. "If you keep dragging your feet, I'll leave on my own!"

"I want to see His Majesty!" The woman was anxious, "Can you take me to see His Majesty?" She raised her hand and grabbed the eunuch's sleeve, begging.

Many people in her Changxin Palace were killed by the two rebel soldiers, and no one knew where the others had gone... She could now seek help from this little eunuch who had appeared out of nowhere.

"I don't have that ability." The young eunuch shook his head, pushed the woman's hand away, and stood up. "The emperor has already run away with the queen and the imperial concubine. Now there are either rebel troops or some imperial guards and eunuchs who are taking advantage of the fire to rob. If your majesty wants to live, put on the eunuch clothes I gave you, and maybe you can escape. I'm going to run for my life too! In this chaotic world, staying alive is more important than anything else." After saying that, he walked towards the door.

Seeing that the young eunuch was about to leave, the woman, who was immersed in the bad news that the emperor had left without taking her, suddenly came to her senses, "Wait!" she shouted.

"Anything else?" The young eunuch looked back and saw the woman standing up tremblingly in the clothes he gave her. "I'll go with you! If you can protect me, I'll reward you handsomely!" Her hands were shaking as she put on the clothes, but she still tried to maintain her voice.

"Okay. One thousand taels!" the young eunuch said after hearing this. He paused and said, "Gold!"

"You slave!" The woman was no longer afraid when she heard this, and she shouted angrily, "How can you be so greedy? I am Concubine Mei! How dare you bargain with me!"

"Oh, Your Majesty, do you think that your innocence and life are not worth this price?" The little eunuch turned around and smiled. Although his face was painted black, this smile revealed a sense of elegance and refinement between his brows, which made Concubine Mei dumbfounded.

"You are not a eunuch!" Concubine Mei frowned and asked. "Who are you?"

"I didn't say I was a eunuch!" The man chuckled, "I am Jixiang, Su Jixiang, the firewood-chopping maid in the imperial kitchen. Concubine Mei is a noble lady, so naturally she doesn't recognize a little maid like me!"

"I know you! You are the first-class palace maid who volunteered to chop firewood!" Concubine Mei finally remembered who she was!

This is a strange thing in the palace!