Chapter 12: The Old Story of Xiyang 1
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"The story of the three people that the gentleman said, and the third person is the dumb slave?" I smiled, "and this story is starting to feel really interesting." ”
"The encounter was an accident, Mei Ziyan met Mu Cheng, it seemed to be a robbery, and when she met a dumb slave, it seemed to be fate, but in fact, it was not always the case. Min Sikong said.
"What does Mei Ziyan want Mu Cheng to exchange for those two medicine mountains?" The autumn breeze came in my face, and there was a little rain, I stretched out my palm outside the railing and left a few small raindrops in my palm, "Why did it rain for a while...... Do you have an umbrella with you?"
The hand was gently held, pulled back, and wiped clean, and Min Sikong's indifferent voice sounded:
"Madame is careful that she has a cold, but do you want someone to add clothes?"
I shook my head, stood up and said, "It's not early, sir should go back to rest and eat, I won't be far away." After speaking, he suddenly sneezed.
"Madame, I'll take you outside the pavilion. Without allowing me to push, he took my hand in one hand and the umbrella in the other, and carefully led me out of the pavilion.
He held my hand so tightly that my heart suddenly panicked, as if to restrain the surging emotion, and his slender knuckles tightened and stiffened. Before I could finally struggle and protest loudly in protest with almost broken bones, I let go and put the umbrella in my hands. Then there was a silence, I knew he was looking at me, but I didn't know what mood he was looking at me, I just knew that my heart was beating fast, and a voice in my heart told me to turn around and leave.
So, I did it and turned away.
Min Sikong, are you just talking about a legend to me?
Jinping hurriedly greeted me, helped me all the way back to Xiyang Palace.
In the next two days, something happened in Xiyang Palace, which made me not have the mood to listen to Min Sikong's storytelling again.
The autumn wind and autumn rain are sad and murderous, it is the bleak and bitter weather, coupled with the faint cry like a night owl, Xiyang Palace has no peace all night, and the rumor that it is suspected to be a ghost spread throughout the harem on the second day. It is even said that a maid saw Mrs. Yinya's miserable white and blood-lost face on a rainy night, her eyes were blood-red as if she wanted to ask for her life, and the white clothes were fluttering and ghostly hidden in the dark night, trying to ask Mrs. Xi for her life.
The second night was even worse.
For two nights, the windows of Xiyang Palace were obviously closed, but they were blown open by the wind.
Although I am blind, I don't even believe in such a little trick, but in the middle of the night the cold wind blows in and suffers from the cold, and I can't get up top-heavy during the day.
When it was almost noon, the queen Bai Zhi came. I was awakened by the girl's cry, and I couldn't help but put on my cloak and go out of the house to see what was going on.
"Queen, may I ask what this little girl in Xiyang Palace has done?"
"This little girl is spreading rumors everywhere that Xiyang Palace is haunted, and she has found incense, candles, paper, and other prohibited items in the palace in her room, disrupting the order of the palace......" The grandmother beside the queen said sharply, "If you don't punish you, how can you maintain the peace of the harem?!" Mrs. Xi is inconvenient, and the queen is the master of the harem, so she should be like this. ”
"Who are you?" I asked, my empty eyes narrowing slightly, "Madame Ben is talking to the Empress, where is the noise coming from, and the Yue Dai is still smug?!"
"You-" The voice was a little angry.
"Mama Li, apologize to Mrs. Xi. Bai Zhi said slowly, "Sister Xiyang doesn't have to mind. This palace was worried that my sister would have trouble sleeping for the past two days, so she came to visit. ”
"Queen Xiyang Lao is worried. This little girl is young and uninformed, and when she hears something, she is frightened, the queen is angry, don't worry about her. Although she is stupid, her hands are very skillful, Xiyang is blind, she is responsible for the embroidery of many clothes, and there is no second child like this in this palace. Please also ask the queen to be tolerant, and forget about the small punishment and the big punishment. ”
"Oh, my sister doesn't mind that this rumor will hurt the face of Xiyang Palace?" Bai Zhi put down the teacup in her hand and said to the others: "You go down first, this palace has a few words to talk to my sister." ”
I waited quietly for her to speak.
"Ten days before you drowned, a full ten days, you will first go to the orchid garden every morning after dinner, about half an hour, and then you will let Lanlu read the scenery to you in the house; go to the lake at dusk to sit for half an hour, the original guards of Xiyang Palace are not small, but the low wall near the lake is full of shadows, and few people go to patrol, especially the places where the lord's favorite concubine often goes, not to mention that my sister never likes to have guards by her side. ”
"The queen is worthy of being the master of the harem, and she really knows every move of Xiyang Palace well. A sarcastic smile appeared on my face, "Why should the queen beat around the bush and say it directly?"
"Your routine is so regular that if you pay a little attention, you will know when is the best time to start. The girl who went to the drug administration to get the medicine was very broken when she heard it. ”
"Oh, Niangniang is saying that Xiyang has the intention to wait for others to come to the door to murder herself?" I laughed out loud, as if I heard a joke, "Then I don't know if the caring person that Niangniang said includes Niangniang Zunjia?
"Don't be complacent. The sound of the tea cup falling to the ground sounded, "Don't try to deny something in front of this palace! Xiyang, this palace asks you, what do you want to do?!"
"It's all women, don't the queen understand?" I said in a calm tone, without a hint of excitement, "I just want to know how good and protective the man I have forgotten about can be to me...... The queen won't think that there are too many women in this harem?"
"Hmph," she sneered, "who else would believe such a lie except Helian Yue, the lord of the country who is obsessed with love?
"Isn't the queen such a person? So why is the thief shouting to catch the thief today?"
"Snap", a crisp and neat slap made my face hurt, and before I could react, I heard Bai Zhi's scream of "ah", and then a small fluffy thing rubbed against the foot of my skirt. Bai Zhi's resentful voice sounded:
"He, he even gave you the young son of the snow wolf?!"
Snow wolf cubs? Not snow foxes?!
"You don't have to be complacent," she said through gritted teeth, "I warn you, don't rely on him to favor you in this palace and make waves and do whatever you want, if you have self-knowledge, you should think that you are a blind man who can't shake the position of the middle palace, how can he abandon the entire harem because of his temporary infatuation with you?!"
"He would, don't you believe it?" I said calmly, as if to state a fact. "Bai Zhi, queen, you really don't know what I want?"
Instead, she was silent.
"You know that. Maybe one day, you will be willing to make a deal with me, give me what I want, and get what you want. ”
"This palace doesn't know what dumb riddle you're playing, I want to remind you that you're done, people come, swing!" Bai Zhi's voice trembled slightly, and the palace people came in and escorted her away.
What I want is my memory, or rather, all the truth about the person of Xiyang.