First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Just as Zhou Ziqi had expected, as soon as Guihua left to protect him, the assassins chased after Zhou Ziqi.

Su Jixiang was rubbing the medicinal mud hard in the corner.

Her heart was so nervous that it was about to jump out of her throat.

Although she had kneaded dough thousands of times, this matter was nothing in her hands, but now it was different. Now Wei Ling's life was in her hands.

She only regretted that she didn't have two more hands.

Zhou Ziqi only said that it should be kneaded evenly, but he did not say to what extent it should be kneaded to be considered evenly mixed, so it was up to Su Jixiang to judge for himself.

In terms of the touch of the medicinal mud, the original medicinal mud feels like taro paste in the hand, but after adding the medicinal powder, it is like sprinkling a layer of coconut shreds and powdered sugar on the taro paste. Su Jixiang feels that what she needs to do now is to rub off this rough granular feeling and restore the medicinal mud to its original smooth and delicate state.

As Su Jixiang moved, the powder was gradually kneaded into the mud in her hands and slowly dissolved. The original rough feeling slowly disappeared, and the mud gradually returned to its original soft feeling as Su Jixiang expected.

Su Jixiang knew that the medicinal mud was basically ready now, so she carefully added the last and most precious portion of ice blue lotus calyx powder into it.

When adding it, I dared not even breathe, for fear that if I breathed too hard, the calyx powder that looked like blue ice and snow would be blown away...

Once the ice-blue calyx powder is added, the medicinal mud has a cool feeling.

Su Jixiang continued to rub the medicinal mud, and gradually the dark color on the mud faded, revealing a little bit of ice blue.

When the medicinal mud completely turned into the icy blue color of the ice blue lotus, Su Jixiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that the medicine was successful!

What should I do now? Go out with the medicine?

Su Jixiang thought about it and decided not to act rashly.

This medicine is so precious, and the calyx of the ice blue lotus is currently out of print... If this medicinal mud is lost, then all the previous work will be in vain. So Su Jixiang thought about it, divided the medicinal mud into several parts, wrapped it with paper, and hid two pieces in an inconspicuous corner of the house. She also carried a few pieces with her and hid them in different places.

This medicinal mud can obviously be rolled into many pills. In this situation, even if Su Jixiang is caught, all the medicinal mud cannot be taken away.

I can always save a piece or two.

No matter what, saving any bit counts.

After Su Jixiang hid the medicinal mud separately, he secretly looked out the window.

There were assassins fighting with the defending secret guards in the yard, but it was obvious that the secret guards had the upper hand.

Soon, the sound of war horses neighing was heard outside the yard, and reinforcements were arriving.

When the assassins who were still fighting with the secret guards heard the sound of war horses, they immediately stopped fighting and wanted to flee.

But the secret guards refused to let them leave, and they all rushed out, chasing each other.

For a moment, Su Jixiang was left alone in the room.

Su Jixiang...

But she soon saw a pair of soldiers rushing in.

"Search! See if there are any more spies!" The leader rushed into the yard on horseback. Seeing that the secret guards were chasing the assassin, he did not order anyone to help, but spoke to his men.

There weren't many people coming, including the leader, there were a total of twelve people.

Su Jixiang looked around. There was no place in the room of the medicine house to hide a living person of her size...

Su Jixiang had no choice but to walk out.

"Who are you?" The man in military uniform on horseback shouted immediately after seeing Su Jixiang. "Come here! Capture her!"

"No, no, no, sir. I'm just an old woman who came to help Doctor Zhou clean!" Su Jixiang was cautious and did not reveal her identity. She was disguised anyway.

She was holding the food box she had brought earlier, "I brought some food for Doctor Zhou!"

The leading soldier frowned when he saw Su Jixiang dressed like a sickly middle-aged woman, wearing half-new clothes and holding a food box in her hand. "Where's Doctor Zhou?"

"Just now there were assassins, and they took Doctor Zhou over there!" Su Jixiang said, pointing outside the wall.

She just pointed casually, and it was not the direction where Guihua protected Zhou Ziqi and left.

"Okay! Chase!" the leading sergeant said to his men.

Su Jixiang watched these people leave, and she quickly ran out of the house. As soon as she reached the door, she saw another group of people coming.

"Hey! Why is it you?" One of the soldiers said curiously after seeing Su Jixiang.

"General! It's me!" Su Jixiang said hurriedly.

This soldier was the one who questioned her and Guihua when they came over just now! Su Jixiang remembered.

"Aren't you visiting your sick relative?" the soldier asked, "Why are you here with Doctor Zhou?"

"The patient is here with Doctor Zhou!" Su Jixiang said nonsense.

"No matter what, arrest him first!" A sergeant on horseback said in a nasty voice, "Someone just came over with a fake document. There are too many spies around here. Arrest him first!"

"I am a good man, sir!" Su Jixiang said, "I know your commander, Qian Feng, Captain Qian!"

"Captain Qian is not here at the moment." The man softened his tone towards Su Jixiang when he heard Qian Feng's name. "Do you know anyone who can prove your identity?"

"I wonder which lord is stationed here?" Just as Su Jixiang finished speaking, she heard the sound of horse hooves. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw Chu Feng riding over on horseback.

"This is our lord!" the military advisor pointed at Chu Feng and said.

"Captain Chu! It's me!" Su Jixiang finally felt relieved.

Chu Feng belongs to the Black Tiger Guard.

All the Black Tiger Guards are basically Wei Ling’s confidants.

So when Su Jixiang saw Chu Feng, he felt half relieved.

Chu Feng rode over and pulled the reins in front of Su Jixiang. Then he looked at the others and said, "I told you to rescue Doctor Zhou. What are you doing here?" He shouted.

The others then woke up from their dreams and rushed into the house.

"No need to go, Doctor Zhou is not in the house." Su Jixiang said. "Someone escorted him away."

Chu Feng then looked at Su Jixiang again, "Who are you and why are you here?" He had just seen this woman standing in front of the house and she even called out his last name, but he didn't ask.

"It's me. Su Jixiang!" Su Jixiang said. "Captain Chu, can you take me to Military Advisor Xie?"

Although Su Jixiang knew that Chu Feng should not be reliable, she did not dare to take risks with Wei Ling.