Chapter 23: The Queen
Liuxiang nodded: "I heard that the first generation of queens came from the Ming Kingdom and their relatives, and their status is very noble, and every once in a while, the Ming Kingdom will send a princess who is the most noble princess they have to make peace, and the time between them is the time when the emperors are replaced." ”
"In other words, the princesses sent by the Ming Kingdom have all become the queens of our country? And if the emperor had sanctioned the empress's actions, the two countries would have gone to war? ”
Ruka nodded silently.
And the bell was also stunned for a while, but finally reacted, and said with a sad face: "That means that if the queen wants to deal with you, the emperor will not care......"
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Ye Zitong smiled and waved his hand, "I'm hungry, go get me something to eat." ”
"Miss, you won't be able to eat until tomorrow morning."
"I know, the wedding ceremony, but it's just the three of us here, can't we?"
The bell winked at Ye Zitong, took out a large paper bag from the luggage he was carrying, and handed it to her: "Miss hasn't eaten much since last night, you can eat this thing quickly." ”
Ye Zitong took the paper bag and looked at it, then frowned, pinched his nose and stretched out his hand, and threw the paper bag to the bell: "Chestnut? I hate eating chestnuts the most. ”
Bell really suspected that he had misheard: "Miss, you are not mistaken, are you?" Chestnut fried chicken was your favorite snack in the past, how could you hate it? ”
Ye Zitong was stunned, and replied in her heart that it was because she was not the previous Ye Zitong.
"After all, it was different from now, and now I don't want to eat this, is there anything else?"
Bell glanced at Liuxiang strangely and shook his head: "Miss, you used to love this, why did you suddenly not like it?" ”
"If you don't like it, you don't like it, what's the reason? If I don't have anything else, I'll go out and look for it, and I'll starve to death after almost a day without food. ”
Looking at the expressions of the two looking at each other, Ye Zitong knew that eating here could only be a fantasy, and he had to complain in his heart that in ancient times, the identity of women was inevitably too low, men drank and ate meat outside, but women could only stay in empty rooms here - still hungry.
"Forget it, I'll have to find something to eat, and you two go out for a wedding drink."
"Miss, it's a rule to stay in the cave room on the day of marriage, even if the two of us are your personal maids, we can't watch you break this rule, Miss, let's go out and get you something to eat, you can stay here obediently." The always conservative Liuxiang persuasion.
"What can you get? It's just scraps of cold rice, so I don't eat those. Saying that, Ye Zitong ripped off the crown of his head, pulled off the hairpins on his head one by one, ripped off the tassel red shawl, and said to the bell, "Bell, give me a set of civilian clothes." ”
For Ye Zitong's series of quick and skillful movements, the bell was already dumbfounded, Liuxiang reacted a little quickly, and blocked the door with her body and said: "Miss, you can't just leave, today is your great joy, why can't we let you out!" ”
"I'll just go out and get something to eat, and I'll be back in a minute." And there are so many people in the Eighth Prince's Mansion today, I'm afraid that this banquet won't be dispersed until late at night, so she is not so stupid, sitting here obediently and starving.
"Really, miss, what if the Eighth Prince suddenly comes over and can't find you?" Liuxiang stood firmly at the door of the room.
Ye Zitong frowned impatiently, quickly stretched out her index finger and middle finger and tapped it twice on Liuxiang's chest, and then Liuxiang found that she couldn't move, and her eyes widened.
Even Ye Zitong herself was taken aback, she learned this trick when she flipped through the books in the study without any opinion, but she didn't expect it to be so hands-on, she raised her eyebrows at Liuxiang and said, "Are you really fixed by me?" ”
Liuxiang's apricot eyes widened, but she couldn't speak.
"Miss, what are you doing here? Why do you want to keep the incense on? Hurry up and untie her! ”
Ye Zitong was amazed at her natural learning ability, she just glanced at the description in the book, and actually used it, it was incredible, but in a moment she thought of a fact that made her cry and laugh.
"I don't have blood to solve acupuncture points, but it doesn't matter, the book says that it will be eliminated automatically in a quarter of an hour." After that, Ye Zitong looked at the bell viciously, "See?" That's the price to stop me, do you want to be here too? ”
The bell shook his head in a daze, and Ye Zitong slipped out with a smile.
When sitting in the sedan chair, Ye Zitong has already studied the route here thoroughly, the general big families attach great importance to feng shui, not to mention the royal family, the site of the building must be in the right position of the mountains and rivers, no mass graves, no yin burials, no supernatural events, and the structure of the house is mostly simple, the sunny side is the main house, and the main house is surrounded by the side hall and the houses of the side concubines, the route is not many and simple, it is easy to plan a route to escape without being discovered.
Slipped from the concubine's room to the corridor, pierced from one pillar to another, and then hooked with nine claws when there was no one around, and easily hooked the lion's head pillar on the roof, and as soon as he retracted his strength, the whole person flew over, and stood firmly on the roof.
Ye Zitong put away the nine-claw hook and said proudly: "What's so great about light work, with this thing, I can do it wherever I want." ”
Leaving the Eight Princes' Mansion smoothly, Ye Zitong wandered through a crowded street, and finally decided to go to a big restaurant to have a full meal first.
Coming to a famous local restaurant, Ye Zitong chose a private room by the rooftop, ordered a table of chicken, duck and fish, and watched the scenery downstairs while eating alone.
Below the rooftop hotel is a green building of Chiguoguo, there are many gorgeous women standing at the door to solicit guests, and the men who pass by all turn back several times, sitting on the second floor can hear the delicate calls of the women.
Ye Zitong drank a small glass of wine, and when he was tasting the soft and rich red of his daughter, he frowned and put down the wine glass.
For she saw a group of strong men dragging a girl who had been tied with a rope and made a silk rabbit to come up, all of them strong and strong, and the girl they carried in the air was covered with dust and dirt, about fifteen years old, with her clothes as tattered as a rag, and a pair of big hollow eyes like black grapes looking timidly at the crowd.
The shopkeeper ran to a few strong men, led them to the private room opposite Ye Zitong, and said with a smile: "What do you want to eat?" ”
"If there is good wine and good food, all will come up." Three or four strong men sat down around the table, dressed in a rough way that did not look like a local, with a face wrinkled like a knife, and a shrewd light from his deeply sunken eyes, looking at the corners of the hotel.
The poor girl sat trembling on the ground, looking at them pleading with big, innocent eyes.
Ye Zitong picked up the wine glass again, but he raised his vigilance by twelve points, and his eyes swept over the group of strong men from time to time.
"It's unlucky, the money didn't arrive, and I only caught such an unlucky woman!" The shopkeeper served the wine, and one of the men in a black robe poured himself a bowl of wine, and after drinking it, he took a sip at the woman.
"Forget it, big brother, don't be angry, you know, now this woman is much more expensive than a man, I think this girl is quite good-looking, and she should be able to exchange some money when she sells it to a brothel." Another pug-like man persuaded.
The black-robed man glared at the woman viciously: "Her father owes us fifty taels of gold, and this woman is worth fifty taels of silver at most, and we have lost a lot!" ”
"Yes, it's really unlucky, this time I went to collect money, and I only collected half of the money in previous years, which is a big loss! I think this girl looks pretty good, she's young, and she looks like she's still a chick, so why don't we try it first? ”
As soon as the lewd man's words fell, the other men laughed treacherously, as if acquiescing to the man's suggestion.
Ye Zitong was sick to her stomach when she heard this, put down her chopsticks and wine glass and wanted to leave, but as soon as she stood up, the woman who had been squatting on the ground suddenly resisted, struggled and twisted and rushed to Ye Zitong.
She was startled, and the other strong men stood up with the straddle knives at their waists.
"Girl, help me! I see that you are the daughter of a rich family, please save me! My dad was just beaten to death by these guys, and they want to sell me to a brothel, I'm only seventeen years old, I don't want to go to a brothel, girl, save me! I am willing to repay you by being a cow and a horse! ”
Ye Zitong just came out to eat and have fun, she didn't want to meddle with things at all, and she didn't understand what was going on in front of her at all, so she shook her head and said, "There is no shortage of maids in our family, I'm sorry, I can't help you." ”
The woman's face turned pale, this was probably her last fight, with the determination to die to beg Ye Zitong, although Ye Zitong looked indifferent, but the woman's choice was the last straw, and now this last straw is broken.
"Okay, you!" The strong man in the black robe grabbed the woman's hair and pulled her to his side.
Even Ye Zitong looked at it at that moment, and the woman screamed in pain, covering her head with both hands, trying to alleviate the pain.
"You shameless stinky bitch, Uncle Ben still wants to give you a way to live, who knows you don't want it, okay, you don't want it, right? Brothers, strip her of her clothes and show them to everyone! ”
Ye Zitong's brows furrowed even tighter, this group of people was inevitably too shameless, and they wanted to sweep away this woman's face in front of so many people.
The woman's face was wet with tears, and she was hopeless and allowed the strong men to tear off her already small clothes, looking helpless and desperate.
Before her clothes were torn off by the strong men, Ye Zitong shouted: "Her father owes you a hundred taels of gold, right?" I'll give it back to you, but the girl must be mine. ”