Ziyan looked at Zi Ning silently picking up the rice, and remembered that she begged Aunt Tao today: "How is your mother, are you okay?" ”

Zi Ning paused: "I was beaten more than a dozen boards and drugged, so it is estimated that I am still lying on the bed......"

Ziyan was a little worried when he heard it: "Didn't you call the doctor to take a look, how can this lie down be good?" ”

At this time, Ziqing spoke: "If you have medicine, you should be thankful, how can you still hope to find a doctor." We have never heard of a palace girl who can call a doctor when she is sick. ”

"How? Are you waiting to die? Ziyan's eyes widened, there is no humanity in this place at all.

"If you can survive it, it will be fateful, but if you can't get through it, you will be wrapped in a straw mat and thrown into a mass grave, or you will find a piece of waste land everywhere and bury it, and no one will take care of it at all. In some places in the summer, the grass grows so luxuriantly that there may be bones buried underneath. ”

The two of them shuddered when they heard this, and even their hearts and livers were pinched.

Zi Ning put down the dishes and chopsticks, and after listening to what Ziqing said, his stomach rolled for a while, and he couldn't eat a mouthful of food.

Ziyan looked at the food in front of him that had not yet moved his chopsticks, and wrinkled his face with worry. She stretched out her hands to shine in the dim candlelight, and her two hands, ten fingers were so swollen that they were purple and black, and they hurt when they touched them, and they were itchy and unbearable if they didn't touch them.

Zining also stretched out her hand, her hand was more serious, how delicate it was before and how serious it is now. Not to mention that the fingers are swollen, the skin is broken and pus is flowing in some places, the nail covers have been blistered and have turned white and soft, and if you are not careful, you will feel that it will break, the original delicate and smooth hands, but now it is very terrifying, Ren herself does not believe that she will have such a pair of hands.

Ziqing sighed, she was also an old man here, her hands were dry and rough, and there was a thick layer of calluses on her palms, which had been soaked in water for many years, and her skin was already dry and wrinkled.

"I'll go and ask you for some ginger tomorrow, and rub it on the frostbite area, which will get better soon."

Ziqing looked cold and cold, but he was actually kind-hearted.

Fortunately, there are still good people in this world, who have not been tormented by the long-term darkness and changed their minds.

Zi Ning went back to his bed, and the small window paper next to the bed was whirring in the wind. She flipped over the quilt, tore off a two-finger-wide piece of cloth on the mat at the end of the bed, and took a small embroidery needle and nailed it to the wooden window frame to block the cold wind.

The weather is getting colder and colder day by day, and she is still wearing the old clothes left by the palace maid before, and the cotton wool inside has been washed unevenly, with potholes, and it is difficult to keep out the cold at all, and the cuffs have faded and have raw edges.

When I got up this morning, there was already a thin layer of ice on the ground that had been sprinkled with water, and I don't know if it will snow tomorrow, if it snows, this laundry work will be even more torturous, and she doesn't want these hands anymore.

Zining was lying on the bed, and tonight's quilt couldn't get up for half a day. She was already cold, and at this time in the past, the earth dragon had already burned in Liuyun Xuan, and she used silver charcoal, opened the cotton curtain, and felt warm when she entered the house. Now in this lower room, the four walls are cold, and the chill hits people, she hasn't even taken off her coat, and she has two thin beds of yellowed cotton wool wrapped outside, only her nose and eyes are exposed, and even her ears are wrapped in horns, and she has to soak her feet in hot water tomorrow.

I don't know how my mother is now, whether she sleeps cold at night. When she left, her mother was lying on her stomach, and she was beaten like this, and she had to lie down for at least four or five days, but fortunately, there was still a Wen'er in the house, and she would have to thank her well another day. Thinking of his back, he also had a faint pain, but fortunately, the little eunuch who beat him collected five or six points of strength, otherwise she probably wouldn't be able to get up.

Xu is Zining was really tired today, and he fell asleep in a daze when he closed his eyes.

Before dawn the next morning, a mother-in-law came to call outside.

Zining woke up in a daze, and his feet were still cold after sleeping all night. When she got up, she was sore, her back was not straight, she still overestimated herself, and she took a few boards, and only then did she really feel the pain.

After pouring hot water, I wanted to clean my face, but as soon as I put my hand into the basin, the whole person jumped up. The hands are pus and crusted, and the heart hurts when it is cold and hot.

A little palace maid came outside, saying that she was here to deliver clothes. There are regulations in the palace, the rough palace maids of the ten grades have two sets of clothes every month, even if they are coolies, but in wearing this, the various stewards will not be deducted, the palace maids wear all faces, and the maids of the palaces come and go, you can see that if anyone is dressed inappropriately, the master will blame it, and the first to be punished is the aunt of the housekeeper of each hospital.

Today's queen doesn't like bells and whistles, and the palace maids in the harem are mostly plain and elegant. In the spring and summer, the light green skirt looks fresh and pleasant, and the ornaments on the head are not allowed to be worn indiscriminately, and the silver jade hairpin is only worn by those female officials above the fifth grade and the master's personal maid, the master likes flowers, and some beautiful little palace maids can only put a hairpin on their heads at most. In autumn and winter, it is full of dark ochre clothes and trousers, two cotton shirts, a jacket, and a thick jacket outside, if the weather is colder and it snows heavily, a thick cotton jacket is added to the outside of the thick jacket, and the pants are also thickly wrapped in three layers.

After two days of freezing, he finally changed into a warm cotton jacket, Zining wrapped himself round, with a pair of big eyes sparkling, which was cute.

But it's cold anymore, but the action is a little clumsy.

Her hands are really ruined, I don't know if they can be better in the future, some of the scabbed places are soaked in water and rotten, and they begin to bleed pus.

She had planned to finish washing her clothes early and go to the needlework to see her mother, because she might not be able to finish the washing.

When it was time to eat at night, Zi Ning's hand couldn't even hold up the chopsticks, so he picked up the rice and dropped it on the table.

"Zining Ziyan, quickly take this wipe handle, my aunt asked me to bring it for you."

Ziqing had a piece of ginger in his hand, simmered it in the charcoal fire, and cut it in half with a knife, and each of them was half.

Zi Ning took the ginger cube and rubbed it on his hand. The fingers are not broken where the skin is fine, and the itchy places are much more comfortable to rub the ginger juice, but in some places the skin is broken, and the ginger juice is soaked, and it is spicy and painful, which is very unbearable.

Just as Zi Ning was carefully wiping his hands with ginger, there was a pop outside, and suddenly someone knocked on the door": Is Zi Ning in the house, something happened, open the door quickly. ”

It was Wen'er's voice, Zi Ning was startled, hurriedly got up, and threw the ginger block on the table, and the ginger piece rolled to the ground and was trampled on by her.

As soon as the door opened, before Zi Ning could ask, she saw Wen'er with tears on her face, and Zi Ning's heart began to sink.

"Go and see your mother, if it's too late, I'm afraid you won't even be able to see it for the last time......"

Zi Ning staggered, so shocked that he couldn't speak, and then shook the door and ran out of the hospital.

"Zining! Don't get excited, if you provoke Aunt Chun, you'll die! Wen'er hurriedly chased after her, the key in the courtyard would fall in half an hour, and Zining's situation would inevitably cause a big disaster.

Zining cried while running, she was fine yesterday, why didn't she work all of a sudden, if it was really Aunt Chun's evil thing, she would have tried her best to avenge her mother.

Zining rushed into the courtyard, and the little eunuch guarding the door was knocked to the ground by her, ": You little, hurry up and stop for me!" Dare to go wild in this courtyard, I won't let you eat and walk around! ”

Wen'er finally arrived, and she heard the little eunuch guarding the door scolding, "My father-in-law is angry, it was Aunt Chun who ordered her to come, I am afraid that something will happen slowly, so I am anxious to ......"

The little eunuch looked at it, and he was not a good talker": Is it really Aunt Chun's name? Don't frame me. Let's go, go with me to Aunt Chun's and ask for clarification. ”

Wen'er is panicked now, she secretly ran out while the eunuch guarding the door was changing shifts, where is Aunt Chun's order, if she knows, she will not be peeled. ": Aunt Chun has already rested, I don't dare to disturb her, otherwise she will be punished for kneeling and beaten on the board. Father-in-law, you don't remember the villain, the little girl is young and ignorant, so spare this time. ”

Xiao Linzi, who was guarding the door, didn't really want to lead someone to Aunt Chun's head, and as soon as he heard that Wen'er was soft, he went down the steps: "You little Nizi, sooner or later you will be punished, if you are so reckless in the future, I will not be able to spare you!" ”

"Yes, yes, I won't dare next time." Wen'er snorted.

Before Xiao Linzi could speak, Wen'er ran away as soon as she slipped away, so angry that he spat on it, and even these little hooves bullied him.

When Wen'er entered the house, she saw Zining throwing herself on the edge of the bed crying with grief.

The two little eunuchs couldn't pull it up after pulling it up a few times, but it was really strange, looking at the little one, the strength was so big.

"Girl, if you don't let us carry the corpse out, when the key is dropped in this courtyard, we will not be able to send it out, and this dead man will not be able to spend the night in the courtyard.

Zi Ning could still listen to what the eunuch said, clutching the burlap covering her mother's face, crying sadly. She didn't believe that her mother went like this, and when she was in prison, her mother persuaded the old lady to have thoughts, but now she couldn't think about it, she went carefree, but left the world to suffer alone.

"You lie, you said that you have always loved me the most, how can you bear to leave me alone, the road ahead is unknown, how can you abandon me with confidence! How could you leave Ning'er behind...... You lied to people......"

Wen'er saw that Zining was crying more and more irrationally, and pulled the white cloth on Yang's body and didn't let go. As long as someone stepped forward to pull her, they bit down on other people's arms, so angry that the two eunuchs wanted to throw their hands and go out to find someone. If you keep crying like this, something will happen.

"The two fathers-in-law are doing well, take pity on her, don't go and call someone, if you let Aunt Chun know, we will not have good fruit to eat." You help me get her, I'll go get the rope, and then you can carry the body away." ”

Zining's eyes turned red when she heard Wen'er's words: "No one is allowed to touch my mother!" I am so grateful to you, you are also a conscienceless, just like them! Zining grabbed the quilt tighter, grabbed whoever came up, and didn't care if the wound on his hand was bleeding.

Wen'er was in a hurry, and hurriedly glanced at the two little eunuchs, and said in a verbal voice, "Hurry, hurry." ”

She reached under her bed and pulled out a cloth rope.

The two eunuchs were also small, and they couldn't control Zi Ning in the face of the crazy excitement at all, her arms waved indiscriminately, and they didn't let people get close at all.

Wen'er was also anxious, and rushed to Zining's waist and hugged her, "Hurry up, pull the chair over!" ”

The eunuch hurriedly handed the chair forward, and made a gesture to press Zi Ning on the chair, Wen'er let go of her hand and pulled out, lying directly on Zi Ning, ready to tie her hands.

"Wen'er, what are you doing! Why are you helping those bad people to harm me! Zi Ning struggled, one hand didn't know where it came from, broke free from the confinement of the little eunuch, and with a wave of it forward, Wen'er was caught with a blood mark on her face.

Zining was stunned for a moment, and began to struggle again. Seeing this, the eunuch hurriedly pressed his other hand tightly.

Finally controlled the person, and tied her backhand to the back of the chair with a waist rope, and finally stopped.

Zining didn't know how she became like this, she couldn't accept the fact that her mother left her forever, maybe wait, wait for her mother to wake up......

"When I entered the house in the afternoon, your mother hung on the beams of the house, and it was already bad at that time, and my aunt didn't let people make a noise, saying that Yang's hanging was a big crime, and I finally secretly called you here, but you are like this, you don't want to die?" Wen'er saw that Zining was a little calmer, and squatted down and comforted her bitterly.

"My mother is gone, why did I leave a cheap life......

"You," Wen'er was angry: "You don't want to die, I still want it." Think about it, if even you go, who will burn incense for your mother on the Qingming Festival in the future? You can't think she's a lonely ghost. ”

Zining didn't speak anymore when he heard it, so he just cried alone.

The two eunuchs took advantage of the opportunity and hurriedly carried the body out, and the outside had already been beaten, and they might be able to get out if they moved faster.

As soon as the two of them went out, they ran into someone.

"Is there any rule for such a noisy scene! I told you to clean up the corpses, why are you still here! ”

It's Aunt Chun!

"Small, small......"

The two little eunuchs were scared to pee, and they didn't know what to do.

"There's a little palace maid who won't let us carry it, and the slave can't catch it at all......"

"Are you dead, two people can't control a little girl? Who the hell is really daring! ”

As he spoke, he took the other two maids into the house.

The little eunuch's legs were weak in fright, but fortunately, the aunt didn't pursue it, and hurriedly went outside after carrying someone.

Wen'er saw that Aunt Chun had brought someone in, so she knelt down with a plop: "Ask my aunt to be kind, Zining died of her mother, and she was inevitably impulsive, please take pity on her." ”

Aunt Chun squinted: "You still have to think about yourself." Discharge from the hospital without permission, invite outsiders, and storm the porter, you are really cowardly."

Wen'er was shocked, this time she was dead.

"Someone, tie up these two cheap maids, throw them all to the firewood room, and deal with them tomorrow."

After Aunt Chun finished speaking, she shook her hand and went out.

Luo Yu sneered when he entered the door: "Look at you, meddle in your affairs and get into trouble." ”

"Phew, you must be a despicable villain who has gone to tell the truth again, you have entered the Huanyi Bureau, and you don't have to accumulate some virtue."

"How am I? Are you miserable? You still have to think about how your aunt will punish you tomorrow. ”

"You!" When Wen'er was about to scold, she was gagged by the other two palace maids and dragged to the firewood room with Zining.