Chapter 40: Endless Night

In the sky, the clouds were thick, the ice and rain were falling, and the cold moon was long gone. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The sparse sky seemed high and deep, like an endless eternal night, shrouded in the hearts of all Chu people, and they didn't know when the dawn would come.

In the warm pavilion of the palace of the king of Chu.

Princess Wu took the string of high-grade purple beads in her hand, and half-snuggled on the warm couch weakly and bonelessly, and a maid half-kneeling on the ground rubbed her calves lightly, glanced coldly at Mi Xuan, who was kneeling on the ground, and said loudly, "Second princess, do not abide by the palace rules, go out of the palace without permission, ignore the king's jade body in vain, and punish her to kneel in front of the palace to pray for the king's blessing." ”

"Yes, Princess. The two maids stepped forward and unceremoniously asked, "Princess, please go out with the slaves!"

Mi Xuan, who has been kneeling for a day since returning to the palace, replied with white lips, his hands on the ground clenched into fists, his head lowered, his eyes were full of tears, and he bowed to the ground three times in a trembling voice to thank him, "Thank you for your kindness, Concubine Mi Xuan will pray to the heavens with the most sincere heart that his father will wake up as soon as possible." There is not a day when she wants to go to heaven like today, curses the mother and daughter for not dying well, and prays that the king of Chu, who wants to die together, can wake up as soon as possible.

I struggled to lift the hem of my skirt and wanted to stand up from the cold stone slab, but I was so tired and hungry that I hadn't eaten a drop of water or a mouthful of rice in an afternoon or a night.

Princess Wu lowered her eyes and glanced at Xuan Xuan contemptuously, as if she was looking at cheap and unbearable garbage, and even gave her a look, staggered her eyes, raised her willow eyebrows, and said without being salty or indifferent, "Fortunately, I didn't let the king put you on the genealogy of my Chu royal family, otherwise wouldn't I have lost the face of my royal family surnamed Mi." ”

"A maidservant born to a palace maid, what kind of princess is it!" Qian Zhao knocked the melon seeds, and the fine melon seed skin was spit out, spraying on the face of the concubine, she wanted to hide, but she didn't have the strength to dodge, let it spray on the pale face, and landed at her feet, a pair of black and white eyes could only suppress her gaze, staring at the blue bricks under her feet that were like mirrors, reflecting the mother and daughter sitting on the light fur warm couch.

"The second princess is now wearing a sinful body, you have to be careful when walking, and no one will help you if you fall. A maid saw her fall coldly, and instead of stepping forward to help her, she frowned and said.

"Yes, thank you Sister Ping'er for reminding me. Mi Xuan lowered his head and didn't speak again, until he stepped out of the palace of King Chu with the maid beside him, and then thanked him in a low voice, "Thank you again just now, Caiyi." ”

"Princess, you have to hold on!" Caiyi looked at her master with slightly red eyes, at this time even she knew that if the king of Chu died today, presumably the second princess would be even more miserable, and no one in the harem would be able to stop Mi Zhao's mother and daughter......

Outside the dormitory, Ruo Ao Ziyan was holding Mi Huang, Qingpu and Si Qin were holding black oilcloth umbrellas behind them, protecting their bodies, and they saw Mi Xuan, who was drenched in ice and rain, pale and soaked, and his legs were not naturally bent, walking with a half-lame.

Mi Huang's eyebrows were slightly clustered, his eyes moved slightly, and he and Mi Zhao glanced at each other, and shouted, "Imperial sister." ”

"Sister Huang...... You...... Injured!" lifted his eyelids with difficulty, looking at the morning was still intact, but when he came back, he couldn't even walk, and if Ao Gongzi was holding the Huang Huang, Qi Xuan guessed that he must have been seriously injured by the assassin sent by Qi Zhao, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he was sent by Uncle Ao's cousin's carriage when he left, so he avoided a catastrophe.

"Well, the royal sister seems to have a lot of inconvenience in her legs and feet, so she should pay attention to her body. Mi Huang nodded and didn't say much, "Siqin, give an umbrella to the second princess." ”

"Yes. ”

Ping'er saw that Mi Huang was meddling, her willow eyebrows were upside down, and she knocked down the oil-paper umbrella handed over by Si Qin, and reprimanded loudly, "The second princess disregards the health of the king's jade, and the princess punishes her to pray for the king in the rain." Could it be that the eldest princess is going to disobey the princess's phoenix order?"

Si Qin bent down and picked up the paper umbrella on the ground, glaring at the other party angrily in his heart, assassination is also, and now it is too, it is simply too deceitful!

Isn't it just that Princess Wu has the backing, and they really think that they are soft persimmons, and anyone can pinch them.

Holding the oil-paper umbrella in his hand, he looked at his princess aggrievedly, "...... princess"

A sharp gaze shot at the arrogant Ping'er in front of him, as if the phoenix of the Nine Heavens, born of revenge, finally broke out of the locked cage, and at this moment burst out of the ruthlessness and coldness of the superior, and said, "Your little maid saw that this princess did not kneel or worship, and even committed a crime. Siqin, what should I do according to the palace rules?"

"Princess, the lightest, ten slaps in the mouth!" replied Si Qin.

"Si Jian, palm mouth!" Before the words fell, a loud slap resounded throughout the square outside the palace, and all the palace guards and palace people who were walking back and forth looked at this scene in amazement, they have always been polite and polite, and it can even be said that the cautious eldest princess actually beat the princess's maid, Sister Ping'er.

Even if he was leisurely, the force of Si Jian's slap was still amazing, Ping'er was dizzy and was slapped to the ground, covering the high swollen cheek on the left, shaking his head, and staring at a pair of apricot eyes in disbelief, looking at the Mi Huang who was being held in his arms in front of him and the Si Jian who was holding his big hand high, "You!" That look was almost like eating people, "How dare you, I am the person next to the princess! You treat me like this, the princess will definitely not let go of your ......"

"It is precisely because you are the female official close to the princess that you represent the princess in every word and deed. And the princess is the mother of this princess, and this princess is going to teach you what is the difference between dignity and inferiority for her mother today, otherwise if you offend your father or the important ministers of the court one day, won't you provoke criticism for the princess! Si Jian, continue!"

"Yes, princess, I don't know if she can hold my ten palms. Si Jian stepped forward with a laugh, exclaimed happily, opened the bow left and right, Si Qin counted the numbers on the side with a slight smile, "One, two, three, four...... Nine, ten! done!"

Fan to the tenth time, Ping'er's whole face is swollen like a pig's head, it is simply unbearable, and someone among the onlookers has already gone in to report.

"Qingpu, disrespect the courtiers, fifty rods, and hand them over to the punishment hall to expel them!" Ruo Ao Ziyan, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly raised his voice, and after speaking, he walked up the steps mercilessly.

"Thank you Imperial Sister and Young Master, the mother concubine is waiting inside!" Mi Xuan glanced at Mi Huang gratefully, and the two sisters tacitly bowed their heads slightly, and said no more.

One knelt in the center of the square in front of the dormitory, and the other walked up the jade steps.

The two sisters, one was supported by the maid, and the other was held by the first son of the Chu State, and they staggered through in the cold autumn rain.

was originally in a similar situation, but because of a person's rebirth, everything began to deviate from the original track, and gradually changed a different fate.

It's just that the gears of fate are constantly spinning, where will they each lead, is it heaven and earth, or the nine hells?

Who knows?