Just then, a loud, piercing sound suddenly rang out along the Thousand-step Corridor—
"Waaah!"
The two people in the pavilion immediately fell silent and looked warily in this direction. Eunuch Yu and the other little eunuchs standing outside the pavilion all turned their heads as well. Shang Ruyi, slightly startled, also lowered her head to look at the bundle in her arms. The little brat wrapped in swaddling clothes was squinting his eyes, clenching his tiny fists, grinning.
The sound just now had come from him.
Shang Ruyi wasn't actually very afraid. After all, everyone came and went along this Thousand-step Corridor, and she was still a bit of a distance away; no matter how you counted it, it couldn't be considered eavesdropping. She only felt this child was too tactless, and lightly patted him through the swaddling.
The baby was jostled, stunned for a moment, then started to mumble and whimper.
