On the night of the third day of the lunar month, in the northern capital, the north wind called, and the snowflakes fell overwhelmingly like cotton.

The streets were long deserted, and the ground was covered with leg-deep snow. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The two carriages quietly stopped at the back door of the East Palace.

Four figures got out of the car and waited outside the door.

Downstairs, through the dim light, you can see that everyone is equipped with knives.

From time to time, they peered through the crack in the door, and looked around nervously.

"It's coming!" A man in his thirties whispered.

The other three hurriedly moved out of the way of the door and split up.

After a while, the door creaked open, and a girl stuck out her head to look at both sides, sure that there was no problem, so she opened the door and turned around.

"Madame, here they are!"

The two girls walked out of the corner door with lanterns and separated on both sides, and then five or six more people came out one after another.

I saw one of them, a noblewoman wearing mink, holding a child in one hand, a man and a woman.

The boy looked like he was about eight or nine years old, with double eyelids, two eyes, and a handsome face, and he never dragged himself away from the water when he walked, which was because he had practiced martial arts with his father Wang since he was a child. He wears a large red felt cloak and a pair of deerskin boots.

The girl was petite, sleepy-eyed, and her delicate face showed a hint of distress, and she never knew what had happened or why she had been woken up from her dream. She was about five or six years old, wearing a sheepskin jacket and a pair of deep sheepskin boots, and her body hung almost diagonally on Madame's hand, and as soon as Madame let go, she fell to the ground.

Behind them, there is also a twelve or thirteen girl, duck egg face, willow eyebrows, although wearing an orchid white cotton jacket and blue cotton pants, but it does not look bloated, the whole person looks clean and neat, and the demeanor is not like the other two girls, but there are some masters of the style.

"Greetings to Madame!" When the four men saw their wives, they all knelt in the snow.

"Hurry up, please!" Madame spread her hands, bent down, and made a gesture!

With tears in her eyes, Madame looked at the four men one by one.

"I'll leave it to you today! If I can have a fate in the next life, I will be a cow and a horse to repay the great kindness of the generals! Please bow down to me! ”

When the four men saw their lady say this, they were so panicked that they were busy talking.

"Madam, you can't help it! We've been tormented! Several of us have been following the prince for many years, and the prince regards us as his confidants, and we feel very honored. Now that the prince is in trouble, we have nothing to retribution, I hope we can save the prince's flesh and blood with death! ”

"Madame! Let's make a long story short, this place is not suitable for a long time! It was the twelve or thirteen-year-old girl who followed Madame who spoke.

"Yes, yes, yes. Come, child, kneel down for Sister Suman, in the future, when your mother is not by your side, you must listen to Sister Suman! Suman, please child! ”

As she spoke, the lady led the two children, turned around, and made the two children kneel, and knelt in front of the girl named Suman.

Madame's kneeling shocked everyone present.

"Madam, I can't help it!" Su Man hurriedly knelt down and pulled up Madame, "Madam, don't worry, as long as I am here, I will definitely take good care of them and settle them down." ”

The lady stood up and pulled Suman up from the ground. Su Man bowed deeply to Madame.

"Madame's great kindness, the slave and maid take it to heart!"

After speaking, Su Man picked up the brother and sister and walked towards the car.

The car started slowly.

"Wait!" Suddenly, the lady ran after the car.

Hearing the lady's call, the car stopped.

"Wait, Yu'er, Yao'er, let my mother hug me again." Madame was already in tears, she hugged the two children, put her face on the faces of the two children, kissed and kissed, "Baby, remember, you must listen to Sister Suman!" ”

The two children agreed, crying with their mother, who was about to be separated.

"Madam, take care!" Although Su Man lowered his voice, it was still very crisp in this rustling snowy night. She pulled in the two children and said to the man driving in front of her in a commanding tone: "Go, if you don't go, you won't be able to leave!" ”

"Drive!"

The car sped up.

The lady suppressed her crying and ran after the car. was pulled by two girls.

"Madame, slip carefully!"

Snowflakes hit Madame's face and melted. Snow and tears mixed together!

The carriage disappeared from view in an instant.

The lady stood there for a long time, looking in the direction in which the car was flying, and saw only the white snow, which united the heavens and the earth.

Madame prayed over and over again in her heart. May the two children be safe.

"Ma'am, let's go in!" A girl helped her husband and said.

Two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, standing in the snow, trembling with their hands holding lanterns.

Madame was excited, and she seemed to remember something.

"Linghua Xiaocui, you two go, give me the lantern! The farther you go, the better, and don't show up in this place again. ”

"Madam, we are born as people of the East Palace, and we are ghosts of the East Palace. At this critical juncture, Mrs. Abandon wants us to flee for our lives, we can't do it! How can we forget the kindness of the prince and his wife to us?! ”

"Don't be stupid! You have been with me for so long, although you are masters and servants, you are also very affectionate. The Eastern Palace's Mansion is inevitably going to suffer a disaster, and I don't want you to suffer in vain. Let's go, don't take your luggage, I'm afraid it's too late! You are all inconsequential people, they won't bother to track you down, I have some jewelry here, take it as a fare! ”

As she spoke, the lady took off the jewelry from her head, wiped a pair of jade bracelets from her wrists, and gave them to the two of them.

"That's enough for you to live for a few years, let's go!"

Linghua and Xiaocui knelt in the snow, pulling their wife's clothes and crying.

"Madam, let the slave and maid stay with you, don't drive us away!"

"What, my words are not good, are they?"

The two girls didn't speak, they pulled Madame's clothes and didn't let go, and they couldn't cry anymore at this time. After a moment, Xiao Cui said.

"Madam, neither of us has relatives or reasons, since we were young, you and the prince took them in, and grew up beside you, where do you let us go? We followed Madame, even if we died, we were loyal, and we had a good reputation! ”

"You two don't know how powerful this is, this time the East Wangfu is in a catastrophe. In the hands of Yankee, that is death. He fabricated the charge of rebellion against the prince, and wanted to attack the palace, can you live? ”

"We're not afraid!" Linghua raised her face and looked at her lady very resolutely.

"You two listen to me, we are in a catastrophe, and when the king of Zhennan returns to Beijing, he will overturn the case for us, and at that time our bones will also have a place. I hope that your annual death day \ Qingming Festival can give us a grave, okay?! Even though the two children escaped, I didn't have much hope. Now that the emperor is not in Beijing, and the power is in the hands of Yang Ji, how far can they escape?! Can you escape his poisonous clutche?! Go, even if I beg you! If we can have you thinking about it after we die, it won't make us lonely ghosts, right?! ”

"Madame!" The two girls listened to Madame's words, were reasonable, and had nothing to refute. They hugged their wife's legs and cried.

Time was pressing, so the lady kicked them away angrily, turned around and walked towards the courtyard, and the two girls hurriedly got up and followed. But the moment she entered the door, she turned around and closed the door and bolted it.

"Madame!" The two girls banged on the door and cried.

"Be obedient, go to the south, find a hotel, stay first, wait until tomorrow when you leave the capital, go to the Zhennan Palace, tell him everything that happens here, and he will call the shots for us." He will also take you into the house, and you will have a place to go, go! ”

Madame's voice faded away. The two girls slammed the door, crying hoarsely, and their voices were hoarse.

No one responded to either of them.

After a while, Linghua remembered Madame's last entrustment, she knew that the officers and soldiers in this place would come as soon as they said they would, and if they didn't leave, they would have failed Madame's kindness. She pulled Xiaocui up, and the two supported each other, and walked south in the wind and snow.