Chapter Twenty-Six: Fighting for Life
The one-eyed old woman kept clamoring to sleep, and the old witch had to coax her in the house, while I experimented with a rope to pull them up to the tree by the dead tree. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The time was approaching, and I was still here throwing ropes from the branches, once, twice, three times...... After the failure, finally the rope was thrown.
"Squeak~Yo~" The heavy voice of the gate sounded, and I heard the sound that the gate was open, and two fathers-in-law with lanterns came in.
Nanshan Gongzi actually sent someone here, and I shouted happily into the house: "Mama is coming, Nanshan Gongzi's people are here!"
These two fathers-in-law, one with a round face and one with squinted eyes, look at the roe deer rat and don't look like a good person, thinking that they are all chickens and dog thieves.
"Whoa, bad luck!" squinted her eyes when she walked past Wu Meiren, but her round face didn't care.
When I got closer, I greeted them with a smile and said, "It's coming so fast!"
After hearing this, the two of them looked at each other and said to me with a smile: "Madam, let's go on our way!"
I turned around and called, "Mama!", but seeing that the witch and the old woman had a bad face, she hurriedly came to pull me: "Madam, we are not leaving!"
I have been trapped for so long, how can I have the opportunity but not escape, I asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"
The witch and the old woman spit out a few words: "Madam, this ......", before she finished her words, she was interrupted by a round-faced smile: "Old mamma, you better go and look at your master!"
"Madame, I'll take care of Mademoiselle first. The old witch hurried back to the house as if she had heard the decree.
Why did they let her go back to the house, I wondered, "Didn't the three of them go together?"
"The master ordered you to send it first, and soon it will be their turn!" said to me with a round face, still smiling.
"Ma'am, please!" Squinted eyes hunched over, and his right hand reached forward to signal me to go first. But the more I looked at the two of them, the more I felt treacherous, and when I thought about the old woman's attitude towards them, I realized that I had made a fatal mistake.
I didn't leave, and asked tentatively, "Are you the Empress Dowager?"
"He~he~" They laughed gloomily, "What do you think? I was scared and tried to run into the house, but Squint Eye grabbed my shoulders from behind with his arms.
"Let go of me, wretch!" I struggled, I kicked, I hit, but not only did he not loosen, but he tightened tighter and tighter, and I shouted, "Help!
Roundface circled the end of the rope he threw at me next to the tree, and laughed at me, "We brothers have done so much work, and you are the only one who has prepared a rope for yourself." ā
I was so angry and annoyed, my bowels were blue, why was I still so unlucky, unlucky! Unlucky! Unlucky! I cursed them desperately: "You villains, you can't die well." After death, he will go to eighteen layers of hell, and he will not be able to live forever. ā
"Scold! I won't be able to scold for a while!" Haha!" the two men laughed again. The round face had already tied the rope loop, and the squint dragged me to the tree.
I struggled desperately but couldn't get out of my confinement, so I used my strength to cry out for help: "Help, help, help me!" At this critical moment, I only heard the door of the west room 'squeak ~ yo' opened, and a neatly dressed woman with a good face came out, she was about thirty years old, although she was not as beautiful as a flower, she looked a little well-behaved.
The round face was about to put a rope loop on my head, but when she came out, she stopped her movements and scolded sharply: "What are you doing here?"
"Sister help me, sister help me!" I struggled and helplessly asked her for help. But she didn't even look at me, but said to the two executioners: "Please forgive my father-in-law, the slave and maid dare not delay the father-in-law's business, it is really unbearable." There was also some shyness in his words.
The round face waved at her very unhappily: "Go!", the woman listened, smiled and saluted, hurried to the western toilet, walked in a hurry, and almost tripped over Wu Meiren on the ground, I secretly laughed at her deserved.
The round face put the rope loop around my head, and after pulling the loop tight, he pulled the other end of the rope and hung me up little by little. I tugged at the rope with both hands to give myself some room to breathe and not let my neck break. "Vomit~cough~cough~" Although I am struggling desperately, it seems that my life is at stake today!
"Let go of Madame, you murderous demons who don't blink. The old witch woman rushed out at some point, threw the two broken bowls on the round face, and the round face snorted, "Dead woman, look for death!"
"Dead old woman, I'm beaten!" squinted eyes angrily chased her into the house, scolding and ** voices were endless. I tugged at the rope and threw my feet to say, "Don't hit them!", but I stuck out my tongue and hummed, and tears broke out from the rope.
The round face hung me in the air, dragging the rope to tie it to the root of the tree, but I was blocked by two people who fell from the sky, these two people were also wearing my father-in-law's clothes, a little white face, and a thin monkey. He was just about to go crazy, when the cold light appeared in front of him, his throat was cut alive by a sharp weapon, and blood gushed in his mouth, and he died of convulsions.
After the round face died, his hand naturally loosened the rope, "Ah~~~" I screamed and did a free fall exercise under the action of the earth's gravity, this is going to fall, Sun Xuan's small body is enough to bear. Just when I thought I was going to fall and eat, the rope was pulled by the little white face, and I almost had a close contact with the earth by a fraction of a second.
"Madame is so beautiful, it's a pity that she broke it!" said the thin monkey with his hand on his face, holding me up, and taking off the rope around his neck. I didn't care about him at all, bent over and coughing and retching, my hand touching my neck and gasping for breath, sighing how good it was to be able to breathe!
"Fifth brother!" the little white face shouted with a serious face, and the thin monkey's face was slightly restrained when he heard it.
"What's wrong?" came out of the squinted eyes that heard the sound. As soon as he saw what was in front of him, he pulled his legs and ran out, and the agile figure of the thin monkey blocked his way in a flash.
"Brother, it's my own family!" Squint said to the skinny monkey with a grin.
"Who's with you is your own family!" said the thin monkey, and at some point there was an extra dagger in his hand, which instantly pierced into the heart of Squinted Eye. Squinting was unexpected, took a few steps back, and fell to the ground and died.
"Mama, Mama!" I screamed and ran into the room, where I saw two old women hugging each other, huddled in the corner, bruised from many beatings on their faces.
"Madame, you're all right," said the old witch to me in surprise. I nodded happily: "Hmm!"
"Put on these clothes. The little white face threw in a bag of clothes worn by the handymen.
After the three of us had changed, we went out of the room, and the old witch said to the one-eyed old woman with tears in her eyes, "Miss, the slave can finally leave here with you." Listening to her words, I was stunned, and suddenly remembered that Cuiping was still in the Beiwang Mansion, and if I just ran away, wouldn't she be finished!
"Let's go!" the little white face urged.
"Please take the two grandmothers first. After contemplating this, I said to the little white face and the thin monkey.
"Madame, won't you go?" asked the old woman in surprise.
"If you two escape like this, the Empress Dowager will definitely do everything possible to arrest you back, even if you go out, you won't be able to live in peace. You go first, I will stay and burn this place, so that she thinks that you have been burned to death, and you will be able to live freely in the future. "I said what I thought, and there were other reasons I didn't say.
"How are you going to get out, ma'am?" said the old woman, fearing that I would be in danger again.
"I have my own way to get out, Mama better hurry up and go with the hero!" I said to her confidently.
"So, let's go!" The little white face walked out with the two old women, but saw the thin monkey standing still and shouted, "Fifth brother!"
"I'm not leaving, I'm going to stay and help her. Hearing the skinny monkey say this, I was grateful: "Thank you, hero!"
The little white face sighed, and said, "Don't get into trouble!", and took the two old women into the dark night.
The thin monkey moved the bodies of Wu Meiren and her two fathers-in-law to the house, and set all the houses on fire. The ancient houses are all wooden structures, the fire burns fiercely, spreads quickly, and the courtyard is clean with some barren grass, and after a while, the whole garden will be on fire, and the houses will fall down. The air had been distorted by the fire, and the skin was painful.
"Bang~Bang~Bang~" Gongs and drums were noisy outside, "It's on fire, put out the fire!" The cries were everywhere, and the chaotic footsteps were getting tighter and tighter.
"Someone is coming soon!" said the skinny monkey to me.
"Hero, please hang me to the tree again. I said to him. It's also strange that this dead tree is not on fire.
He was clever enough to understand what I meant, and said to me with a smile, "If you don't get this right, you'll be a hanged man." ā
The voices outside were getting closer and closer, "Help, kill, help, help......" I shouted a few times with all my might, and my voice became hoarse! After shouting, I put a rope around my neck and said to him: "I can't bear the child to trap the wolf, come on." ā
"You're a woman, all right!" he leaped, picked up the rope, and pulled it around the root of the tree twice, so fast and so violently that I went up with a breath, and my neck was tighter than before, and I wanted to say to him, "It's too tight, help me loosen it." ā
But he smiled and clenched his fist at me: "Farewell!" and jumped over the high wall and left! Let me struggle in the air, this time if I don't come again, I will really die.
Entering the dethroned garden, I saw Sun Xuan hanging from a tree in the flames, "Tenglong!" Dongfang Zheng gave an order, and Tenglong threw it with a knife and cut the rope. Dongfang Zheng flew up and caught her steadily.
"Imperial Doctor Xuan!" he hugged Sun Xuan and walked away.
Half an hour ago
Dongfang Zheng was going to the study to review the chapter, and his father-in-law Rong Lu led Teng Long, the general of Yulinwei, who was wearing a purple suit, to the front of the palace and retreated by himself.
"Teng Long sees the emperor!"
"Get up!" Dongfang Zheng said as he used his pen to review the recital, as if there was a mess that he couldn't unravel.
"Thank you, Emperor!" Teng Long got up and continued: "The things arranged by the emperor have been done. ā
Dongfang Zheng listened, raised his head and breathed a long sigh of relief: "Send some people to be optimistic, and you must not leak the rumors." ā
"Please rest assured, the emperor has made all the arrangements, and the people sent have been selected and absolutely loyal. Teng Long replied.
"Okay, don't worry. Dongfang Zheng trusts Teng Long, because Teng Long is not only strong in martial arts, but also strong in handling affairs, and most importantly, he is absolutely loyal to himself.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I want to see Your Majesty!" there was a commotion outside.
"Rong Lu, what's going on outside?" Dongfang Zheng asked unhappily.
Rong Lu hurriedly ran in and replied: "Back to the emperor, Qingxing, who entered the dethroned garden last year, somehow ran out, and the slave is asking people to send her back!"
"Qingxing?" Dongfang Zheng groaned, and couldn't remember who it was.
"It's Concubine Ru's former personal ring. Rong Lu reminded carefully.
"Oh!" Dongfang Zheng suddenly realized and said, "Bring her in." ā
"Yes!" Although Rong Lu felt that the emperor's move was inappropriate, he didn't say it, and went outside to bring Qingxing in.
"Your Majesty, the slave didn't want to harm Concubine Ru, it was the Empress Dowager who arranged for the slave to do it, and the slave didn't dare not do it!"
Dongfang Zheng was not surprised when he heard it, he just looked at her coldly and asked, "How did you get out?"
"Back to the emperor, tonight, another lady entered the garden, and the two fathers-in-law of the criminal court wanted to kill her, and the slave took the opportunity to run out. Qingxing replied.
After hearing this, Dongfang Zheng asked Rong Lu with an ugly face: "You slave actually concealed the report, which concubine committed another crime?"
"Back to the emperor, it was not the concubines in the imperial city who entered the dethroned garden, but the new concubines of the king of the north, so the servants did not tell the emperor. Rong Lu hurriedly knelt down and explained, he knew that Dongfang Zheng was a little angry.
"What?" Dongfang Zheng listened to and walked out of front of the case angrily. "Dog thing!" kicked at him. "Teng Long, come with me to have a look!", the two of them rushed towards the Dethroned Garden.
"Your Majesty, the rules of the imperial city strictly prohibit the emperor from going to the dethroned garden, if the empress dowager knows about it, she will have it!" Rong Lu shouted as he looked at the backs of the two leaving.