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

Su Zhizhi looked down at the pill in her hand, sneered, and with a flip of her wrist, the pill disappeared. She ignored the messy things in the room and fell into a deep sleep again.

The next morning, Su Zhizhi woke up early. After washing herself slowly, she ran out of her room in a panic, shouting, "There's a thief! There's a thief! Help!"

The imperial kitchen was full of strong young men. Upon hearing Su Zhizhi's cry for help, many of them rushed directly to her room. Chef Su was no exception. He rushed to Su Zhizhi's side as quickly as possible and nervously checked around her. After confirming that Su Zhizhi had no obvious injuries, Chef Su breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What happened?"

Su Zhizhi's eyes suddenly filled with tears, and she said with great grievance, "I was a little tired yesterday, so I went to bed early. But when I woke up this morning, I found that my room was turned upside down. It was obvious that someone had come to my room in the middle of the night, and even the valuables in my room were stolen. Those things are very valuable and mean a lot to me. If I can't find them, what should I do?"

Su Zhizhi was so anxious that she was about to cry, as if this really happened. Su Zhizhi was afraid that Chef Su and others would not believe her, so she took them to the outside of her room. The door was open, and the mess in the room could be seen at a glance.

Everyone present couldn't help but gasp. It was obvious that someone had been rummaging through the food. Chef Su, always protective of his people, was furious. "What? How dare someone do such a filthy thing in the imperial kitchen? Someone, go investigate thoroughly! I want to see who is so shameless as to go into a mortal girl's room in the middle of the night!"

There were many people watching around. Among the crowd, a few people's faces suddenly became strange when they heard what Chef Su said. They looked at each other and then concealed their emotions.

Chef Su acted very quickly. The people under him were all carefully selected and trained by him. Although they were not ranked among the top in the harem, they did have some real skills. In just half a day, these people found the spies planted by Concubine Wan in the imperial kitchen.

Su Zhizhi followed behind Chef Su, looking at the few inconspicuous people kneeling in the courtyard of the imperial kitchen. She was almost overjoyed. The theft was just a trap set by her. She knew that Concubine Wan would definitely plant spies in the imperial kitchen. Although she didn't know what it was for before, it was definitely used to monitor Su Zhizhi now.

Su Zhizhi didn't want everything she did in the future to be under Wanpin's surveillance, so she simply took advantage of Wanpin's trick and removed all of her eyes. In this way, she could also break free from Wanpin's control.

Chef Su was not in as good a mood as Su Zhizhi. He had a gloomy face and looked at the people kneeling in front of him. The hostility in his body was almost materializing.

"Come here, give each of these people twenty lashes of the cane and expel them from the imperial kitchen. They will never be allowed to set foot in the imperial kitchen again. The rest of you, watch out! This is the fate of betraying your own people. Think carefully before you do anything next time."

After saying that, Chef Su went back to the kitchen without looking back, not wanting to look at these people again. After hearing what he said, they wanted to beg for mercy, but the moment they opened their mouths, they were blocked with rags and dragged away.

Su Zhizhi didn't want to care about what happened to those people. Anyway, her goal was achieved, and her mood suddenly became much better.

She happily followed Chef Su into the kitchen to cook, but while cooking, perhaps because she was too happy, she accidentally touched the place where she was previously injured by the hot oil. Although it had been a long time, burns were not so easy to heal. Su Zhizhi grimaced in pain, put the rice spoon aside, carefully pulled away the gauze, and began to blow on the wound to try to relieve the pain.

The cool breeze blew across the wound, taking away the slight pain, and Su Zhizhi immediately felt a lot more comfortable.

Chef Su also noticed Su Zhizhi's movements. Seeing Su Zhizhi checking the wound, he walked over and whispered, "Your wound hasn't healed completely yet. Don't stay in the kitchen yet. Go back and rest. Your room is in such a mess. It will take several hours just to clean it up. Just rest and recuperate for the next few days. You don't have to worry about anything in the kitchen."

Su Zhizhi didn't bother to be polite with Chef Su. She accepted the request, thanked him, and turned to leave the kitchen.

Su Zhizhi returned to the room, looked at the mess on the floor, sighed heavily, and resignedly began to clean up.

But perhaps because the house was not big, although it looked a little messy, fortunately Su Zhizhi had the habit of tidying up every day, and in just half an hour, the room was restored to its original state.

Even so, Su Zhizhi felt a little tired after doing all this, so she simply lay down on the bed, resting while thinking about the next time she would see Xie Chengjin.

Before, she didn't know where Xie Chengjin was, and she didn't dare to act rashly in the palace. But now she knew everything, so it was impossible for her to leave Xie Chengjin alone. What's more, Concubine Wan also said that Xie Chengjin had woken up. No matter how Su Zhizhi thought about it, she felt that she still needed to see Xie Chengjin again.

But before Su Zhizhi could set off for the Yangxin Palace, Su Zhizhi, who had rested enough and was about to open the window for ventilation, went straight to Xie Chengjin who was squatting by the window and was about to knock on the secret signal.

Xie Chengjin's hand was still in mid-air, and before he could knock, the window in front of him was opened with a swish.

The two of them just stared at each other in front of the window. Su Zhizhi stood there in a daze, and Xie Chengjin put down his hand a little embarrassedly, and then looked at Su Zhizhi with eyes full of attachment and tenderness.

After a long while, Xie Chengjin finally spoke first, "It's late at night and the dew is heavy. Zhizhi, are you really not going to invite me in for a chat?"

Xie Chengjin teased, and Su Zhizhi suddenly came back to her senses. She felt that Xie Chengjin's voice was very distant, as if she had not heard Xie Chengjin speak for a long time.

Su Zhizhi concealed the soreness in her nose and quickly moved aside to let Xie Chengjin climb into the house through the window.

As soon as Xie Chengjin stood still inside the room, he hugged Su Zhizhi into his arms, "I'm sorry, Zhizhi, I made you worry for so long. It's all my fault."