Quick Transmigration: Even Extras Want to Be Leading Actresses

Chapter 181 Breakthrough Round (6)

"Huh?" Gu Shijiu turned around. "How do you know me?"

The young eunuch leaned against the tree and stood still: "If I didn't know you, why would I risk delivering vegetables to you?"

He's not stupid, and as for compassion, the people in the palace have none.

“When I first entered the palace, I almost starved to death. You gave me half a cake, and I survived on that food.”

Gu Shijiu's eyes were full of disdain: "Isn't this where the emperor lives? How come people are starving to death here?"

"Hehe, the good days belong to those in power. We're lucky if we can even have food to eat."

In each lunar palace, there are people who starve to death. They are usually young and weak. Even if they don't starve to death, they die of illness.

Let alone palace maids and eunuchs, even low-ranking concubines couldn't get medical treatment when they were sick; being able to get some medicine through connections was considered lucky.

"I see."

Gu Shijiu suddenly remembered a palace drama she had watched before. No wonder the female lead won; she had a loyal doctor.

What do you call this? This is what you call winning at the starting line.

The eunuch changed the subject: "A guard has died. If this person hadn't died, we would be in trouble."

The tall guard quickly begged for mercy: "I didn't see anything."

Even Gu Shijiu didn't believe this. She twisted her hands to the left and right and broke the tall guard's neck. She then turned to ask the little eunuch.

"What's your name?"

The young eunuch gasped, "My name is Little Li. You have amazing skills."

Gu Shijiu said somewhat embarrassedly, "It's alright."

She's a cultivator; defeating a mortal is nothing to her.

Looking at the two corpses, Xiao Li frowned: "If these two die here, they might still catch us."

Gu Shijiu didn't care: "Let them arrest me. I was just thinking of asking the emperor why his harem is such a mess."

Little Li's gaze towards her changed: This person may be skilled in martial arts, but seems to have some mental issues.

Forget it, he should handle it himself.

Leonardo DiCaprio found a small shovel in the abandoned palace and wanted to dig a hole to bury the person.

The shovel was a bit small, and he wasn't strong enough, so it took him a long time to dig a small hole.

Gu Shijiu couldn't stand it, so he found a larger shovel in the palace, threw Xiao Li aside, and quickly started working on the small pit that Xiao Li had dug.

Little Li was dumbfounded.

After finishing his work, Gu Shijiu collapsed on the ground: "I can't go on anymore, I'll starve to death if I don't eat soon, do you know where I can find food?"

"Didn't you eat just now? By the way, you seem fine, and you're wandering around everywhere."

"No, why are you dressed like this and coming here?"

Leonardo DiCaprio's mind was completely overwhelmed by a barrage of questions.

"I got lost when I went out to find something to eat." Gu Shijiu didn't say anything good; he really couldn't eat the food that Gu had brought him.

Little Li understood: "If you can't even finish this, you'll regret it later."

For palace servants who served their masters, eating leftovers was perfectly normal.

"You can't eat leftovers." Gu Shijiu shook her head repeatedly. "You'll get Helicobacter pylori infection."

Little Li: What nonsense!

He led Gu Shijiu back when suddenly a colorful bird flew past them.

Gu Shijiu's eyes lit up, and she ran after him.

Little Li was startled: "That's the Empress Dowager's favorite golden pheasant, you can't catch it."

Gu Shijiu ignored him, not caring what kind of chicken it was, she was determined to eat it today.

Golden pheasants are very fast and tend to run to the edges and corners, making them difficult to catch.

Gu Shijiu chased after the chicken and finally caught it outside a deserted lake: "Why is this palace so dilapidated?"

Little Li caught up, panting: "Nobody comes here much, it's like a deserted palace."

The house was damaged and no one repaired it; every day, only one person delivered meals to the few disliked concubines.

Over time, this place fell into disrepair. The palace was vast, and there were many such places.

"Then today is a good day for me." Gu Shijiu happily snapped the pheasant's neck.

Even Leonardo DiCaprio couldn't stop him: "You're moving way too fast."

At least let him know, otherwise he won't even have time to react.

Such a huge matter, each and every one of which could cost you your head, yet this person just casually did several of them.

"Do you have a fire? Let's roast chicken." Gu Shijiu hadn't put down the shovel yet.

"I'll go look in the kitchen; they should have it there."

Little Li didn't dare to refuse; he always felt that if he dared to say no, the shovel might hit his head.

Gu Shijiu hadn't forgotten about Consort Cao, so when he sent him to find fire, he brought Consort Cao along as well.

Little Li didn't know how to do it by chance, but since Third Sister said it was by chance, then so be it.

Before long, the two reappeared in front of Gu Shijiu.

"Third Sister, I heard from Eunuch Li that you caught a chicken?" Consort Cao clearly had no sense of awe.

Little Li was amazed. These two palace maids, who were clearly from the lowest rungs of the palace, were incredibly audacious.

Of course, that includes him now too.

Neither Consort Cao nor Gu Shijiu knew how to light a fire, so only Xiao Li could do it.

He gathered a pile of branches, set up a makeshift grill, plucked the chicken, gutted it, skewered it with branches, and placed it on the fire.

Then he burst into laughter.

"If I, Li Gui, can eat the Empress Dowager's chicken, I will have no regrets even if I die immediately."

Gu Shijiu gave him a strange look: "Is something wrong with him?"

The chicken wasn't big, and the three of them were only half full. Gu Shijiu then turned his attention to the koi in the lake.

She had just seen them; these fish looked fresh and plump, and weren't very afraid of people, so they should be easy to catch.

Without hesitation, Gu Shijiu took a shovel and slapped it down on the fish's head, and the fish floated to the surface belly up.

After slapping the water more than a dozen times, more than a dozen fish came up to the surface.

Gu Shijiu instructed Cao Xuanshi to wrap the fish up as a reserve food, and warmly invited Xiao Lizi to come and eat with him sometime.

Ignoring the heat, Little Li almost swallowed his tongue: "It's been so long since I've had any meat."

Consort Cao also wolfed down her food.

Gu Shijiu tasted it and found that the koi carp didn't taste very good; it had a muddy smell when grilled.

However, she didn't mind; she couldn't waste food.

The three of them ate three fish in a row, finally filling their stomachs.

Leonardo DiCaprio stretched and yawned: "This can't be the legendary last meal before execution, can it?"

Cao Xuanshi looked at him; he was actually only fifteen or sixteen years old.

In her world, boys this big are still in middle school, and they occasionally cause trouble for their parents.

Here, the daily worry is about filling one's brain with food.

Consort Cao couldn't help but tear up again.

Gu Shijiu realized that this person was quite prone to crying.

Even the viewers in the live stream were somewhat saddened.

"These people are all minors, only teenagers, still cubs."

"A terrible society, thankfully our world doesn't have these kinds of things."

“I watch dramas often, these should all be things from the old days.”