In the years of famine, I led a comfortable life with my husband

"I know Xie Chengjin usually leaves through the west gate. It's quite remote and cold, with many abandoned concubines, palaces, and cold palaces there. So we'll send people to ambush there. When he shows up, we'll make him disappear from this world without anyone noticing."

Xu Chao thought for a while and finally spoke.

As soon as these words were spoken, his confidants praised him one after another, and Xu Chao decided to do so without hesitation.

noon.

After Xie Chengjin attended the morning court, his right eyelid kept twitching. He suddenly had a bad premonition that something bad was going to happen.

After all, he had been targeting Xu Chao and the others repeatedly during this period. Xu Chao was so sinister and vicious, how could he possibly let him go? He might even take revenge on him at any time. Thinking of this, Xie Chengjin became even more cautious.

During this period, Xie Chengjin stopped running around and went straight to his own residence after the morning court session.

Xie Chengjin was thinking as he walked. Suddenly, he felt someone following him. Before he could turn around to see who it was, he saw more than a dozen darts flying towards him.

A man in black appeared behind Xie Chengjin at some point.

Xie Chengjin dodged quickly, but unfortunately he was still a step slow in the face of so many darts. A dart pierced his right shoulder fiercely, and blood quickly flowed down Xie Chengjin's shoulder and soaked his clothes.

Xie Chengjin was really surprised. He never thought that Xu Chao was so bold that he dared to commit a crime in the palace under the feet of the emperor.

Because the assassin who assassinated Xie Chengjin was masked, Xie Chengjin could not see the other person's face clearly. When the man in black saw that Xie Chengjin was injured, he planned to take advantage of the victory and continue to attack Xie Chengjin.

Seeing that his injuries were beyond his expectations, Xie Chengjin had no intention of continuing to fight with the man in black, so he threw out a smoke bomb he carried with him to buy himself time to escape.

For a moment, the man in black was caught off guard and was forced back several meters by Xie Chengjin's smoke bomb, and Xie Chengjin took this opportunity to escape.

Xie Chengjin did not hesitate and went straight to the imperial kitchen.

By the time Xie Chengjin rushed to the imperial kitchen, he was almost unable to hold on. He felt dizzy and his body could no longer hold on.

"Zhizhi, I..." Xie Chengjin fainted before he could finish his words.

"Xie Chengjin, what's wrong with you?"

This scared Su Zhizhi. When she saw Xie Chengjin lying on the ground, she immediately ran over in panic. When she saw Xie Chengjin's injured shoulder, she immediately realized that Xie Chengjin might have been assassinated.

Su Zhizhi quickly carried Xie Chengjin to her room, gave him some hemostatic medicine, and cleaned up all the blood he had shed along the way to avoid exposing Xie Chengjin's whereabouts.

In the Imperial Garden, the noise of the fight between Xie Chengjin and the man in black was so loud that it immediately attracted the patrolling guards.

When the man in black saw the guards coming, he was afraid of being caught and causing a big disturbance, so he fled in a hurry.

Su Zhizhi was worried that it would be too hasty for her to go out at this time, and that it would cause others to doubt her identity, so she chose not to go out and chose to stay in the room to feed Xie Chengjin some medicine.

Su Zhizhi fed Xie Chengjin her treasured quick-rescue pills, found a servant she trusted, and entrusted Xie Chengjin to the servant to take back to Xie's house. She then rushed to the imperial kitchen to continue cooking for the emperor. It was almost time for dinner, and Su Zhizhi still had a few dishes that she hadn't cooked yet.

However, Xie Chengjin was seriously injured at this time. Although Su Zhizhi returned to the imperial kitchen, she was still worried. Xie Chengjin was seriously injured and unconscious. Even with the quick-rescue pills she fed him, Xie Chengjin was only barely hanging on to his life. However, if the injuries on his body were not treated properly, there was still a risk of death.

Su Zhizhi knew all about this, so she was even more worried. However, she couldn't show any abnormality in the harem and had to pretend that nothing had happened, otherwise she would cause them a lot of trouble.

Su Zhizhi was thinking about something while her hands did not stop cooking. However, accidents always happen when people are distracted. While she was thinking about something, she felt a sudden sharp pain in her hand. It was different from a knife cut, this pain was attached to the skin.

Su Zhizhi thought something was wrong and subconsciously loosened her hand. The pot below was full of hot oil. The spoon fell into the pot, splashing hot oil droplets. Her skin, which had already been scalded by the oil, was injured again because she could not dodge in time.

Su Zhizhi gasped in pain. Without even bothering to deal with the oil pan, she hurried out of the kitchen and soaked her hands in cold water.

The water at this time of year was extremely cold. Su Zhizhi's hand was soaked in water. Although the burning sensation on the wound was relieved, she felt more of the biting cold and the severe pain of the wound. Su Zhizhi even broke out in sweat on her forehead.

In the imperial kitchen, Chef Su, who was not far from Su Zhizhi, saw everything. The moment he saw hot oil poured on Su Zhizhi's hand, Chef Su felt a slight pain in his own hand, but he said nothing and just watched quietly.

It was not until he saw Su Zhizhi run out, leaving only the pot full of hot oil, that Chef Su sighed silently, came to the pot, cleaned up the mess on the stove for Su Zhizhi, and turned off the fire under the oil pot. Only then did Chef Su turn around and walk towards the door.

At the gate of the imperial kitchen, Chef Su could see Su Zhizhi squatting by the well.

At this moment, Su Zhizhi was full of grievances and had no place to vent. She felt Xie Chengjin's worry, her own regret, and the sense of loss after being injured.

She thought about it over and over in her mind. The more she thought about it, the more wronged she felt. Her eyes were already filled with tears.

Su Zhizhi took her hand out of the water and looked at the redness, swelling and blisters that were visible to the naked eye. Su Zhizhi could no longer suppress her emotions. She sat on the ground hugging her legs and burst into tears.

Chef Su stood there, looking at Su Zhizhi's shoulders trembling from crying. He sighed deeply, turned around and quietly left the imperial kitchen. No one knew where he went.

When Chef Su came back again, Su Zhizhi had almost vented her emotions, but her eyes were still red and swollen from crying, and she looked so pitiful that people couldn't help but feel pity for her.

Su Zhizhi was tidying up her clothes, preparing to go back and find some burn ointment to apply to herself, when she turned around and met Chef Su's complicated but worried eyes.