Xin Hui returned to the palace, Yuan Qi followed her step by step, and followed to the gate of Kunhe Palace, she stopped, turned her head sideways and said to the timid Yuan Qi: "The palace has arrived, you go down." ”

Yuan Qi's face turned pale miserably, his body trembled, and he knelt down: "Please Mrs. leave the slave and maid, don't drive the slave and maid out - if you return to Shouning Palace, you are afraid, you are only afraid, you are afraid of ......" Her voice was terrified, and she bowed deeply, revealing the crisscrossing scars on her neck.

Meiya held Xin Hui and didn't say anything, but there was obvious looseness in her eyes.

Peony on the side frowned: "There are rules in the palace, slow to say that you are from Shouning Palace, and Mrs. has been kind enough to save you, how can you be so embarrassed by Mrs.?" ”

Yuan Qi's eyes were full of tears, and he just kowtowed: "Madam, madam." ”

Meiya said, "What are you doing?" I don't know, I thought that the people of Kunhe Palace had happened to you. ”

Yuan Qi said sadly: "Madam, for the sake of the same Chen people, let the slave maid stay in Kunhe Palace, the slave maid is a cow and a horse, and she is as happy as a child." ”

"Are you also Chen?" Xin Hui asked.

"The slave is from the county." Yuan Qi wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, and there really was a sharp little face of a county woman.

"I don't think it sounds like your accent." Xin Hui looked at her.

Yuan Qi paused slowly when she heard this, there was a faint pain between her eyebrows, she bowed again, and her hand on the ground when she got up was still trembling slightly: "The slave's mother was originally from the county, and she grew up in the county, and her mother died when she was four years old, and then her father married a late ~ mother, and she sold the slave to Cangzhou at the age of ten. ”

"Sell?" Xin Hui raised her eyebrows, and her nose wrinkled slightly when she was surprised, like a curious kitten.

"Yes...... Sell. In the fourth year of Tian's grace, Chen Guobeiye had a great drought and couldn't survive, and □□ was pregnant with his younger brother, so he had to make this decision. ”

In the fourth year of Tian's grace, Yi Tianzi Fu ascended the throne, but the bucket handle pointed south, and the world was summer, and then the glowing star guarded the tail, and the corresponding county and state of the tail were really in a severe drought, and then there was a torrential rain. At that time, Xin Hui was not yet born, but he had seen a series of accounts in his father's astronomical ambitions.

And the most impressive thing is just the record of selling children and girls, and even the cannibalism of Yi Zi, and a small slip of annotations mixed in it, and the anecdote of the "travel" of the Empress Chu and the Qi country.

"At that time, you were only ten years old—" Xin Hui's voice softened a little.

"Although the slave is not more than ten years old, she is already sensible. The father led the slave and maid to a deep alley, and only said that if he could sell it for more money, it would be okay to sell it in Hualiu Alley first...... "She closed her eyes, tears slowly fell, and her white but not very delicate hands pressed on the ground, like a melting white candle.

"The slave maid said this, just to ask the lady to know that in this world, the lady is the first person to stand up for the slave maid, and the slave maid wants to stay by your side, even if she is a fire girl, she is satisfied."

Xin Hui looked at her quietly, and after a while, Fang sighed, waved his hand to stop the peony who was about to speak, and the people who had already offended Shouning Palace left and right were not bad at this point: "Okay, you just stay in the ear door and listen to the errand." ”

"Mrs. Xie." Yuan Qi kowtowed heavily to the ground, thanking Xinhui who had left.

When the room finally fell completely quiet, only the beautiful teeth full of worries remained, Xin Hui kicked off his shoes with both feet, threw himself directly on the bed, pillowed his hands under his head, first snorted, and then calmed down, only looked at the top of the bed in a daze, and stayed for a moment before calling the beautiful teeth to replace her dowry with the double-sided embroidered koi picture.

"Miss," Meiya screamed smoothly, and she couldn't change it, "Father-in-law Ji said that the king would come over in the evening, you see, otherwise, let's change this account later." She remembered that the koi picture on the tent was still selected by the old lady, and the koi on it were fat and bright, and they were good-looking, but ......

"Hmph, what are you going to do, are you here to ask the teacher about the sin? The left and right people beat and robbed, and robbed and robbed - don't you want me to hurry up and be comfortable? ”

Meiya has always been a procrastination trick in dealing with Xinhui, and immediately changed the topic: "But, miss, how can that Yuan Qi also be from Shouning Palace, and although she is from Chen, she grew up in Cangzhou in Qi State, so bring her back like this......"

Xin Hui sighed and said: "Although I know that she may be a bitter trick, and what she says is not all true, but such a lovely girl, I really can't bear to refuse." Moreover, isn't it what Mama Liu said, it is better to put it in the dark outside than to watch it under your nose. ”

"Well, Mademoiselle meant to say that what she just said was a lie......" Meiya remembered the strings of bright tears, "but it sounds ......"

"Isn't it strange that her voice trembles like her hands when she talks about her mother, but when she talks about her tragic life, her body calms down?"

Beautiful teeth suddenly, admiring and admiring: "Miss, you are so amazing." "It's really a layman who looks at the excitement, and an insider who looks at the doorway.

Xin Hui was very useful, and his face looked light: "What's this, when you lie and don't stutter, you can naturally see it, hey, it would be nice if my brother was here." "As long as he is there, check the Chen Qi intermarriage register in Chengde in the twelfth year, and the women's household registration and death record in the second year of Jingde, maybe he will be able to know some hidden information.

In this Chu Palace, the surface is rich and glorious, but in fact it is a bird in a cage, and she can't help it, she listened to the thrush on the window edge, turned over, and went to see the bright feathers, which were still dazzling in the darkening sky, and couldn't help but say: "In this palace, even the bird is really stupid......" Stay in the cage, but still call so happy.

"How stupid is this bird?" A voice suddenly sounded behind him, Xin Hui was startled, turned over and stood upright, and then immediately tore off his scattered clothes, only to see the king of Chu standing in front of the bed with a gentle expression, and he was still carrying a rattan cage in his hand, which was crowded and didn't know what it contained.

Xin Hui glared at Meiya, Meiya shrank her head, and looked at her aggrievedly: This King of Chu walked silently, and she didn't see it.

Xin Hui sat down for a while, and then remembered the events of the afternoon, and his upright body was a little crooked: "Your Majesty, forgive me, the concubine is sick and can't get out of bed, so I can't take the drive." ”

"It doesn't matter." He immediately accepted the explanation, "The widow has brought you some small gifts. ”

He raised the rattan cage in his hand and handed it to Xin Hui, with a little imperceptible flattery: "In the afternoon, in the courtyard of the nursing mother, I saw the palace people catching this cicada, and it looked very cute, so I brought you some." ”

Xin Hui saw a bulging eye squeeze out, and got goosebumps: "Cute? "It's really an unusual aesthetic......

"yes, it's delicious, if you like it, you can let them take it down and bake it......"

Xin Hui stared at the big cicada that was desperately squeezing out, his eyes slowly went up, and he saw a clean handkerchief, there were flowers and plants embroidered under the handkerchief, the materials were rough, but the needlework was authentic, and it was from Gong'e's hand at a glance, so he couldn't help but snort and didn't pick up the rattan cage.

The king of Chu put the rattan cage in his hand on the ground, and looked at the thrush on the window: "If you like smarter birds, tomorrow the widow will send you a few starlings, and you will learn to speak and recite poems if you twist your tongue." How is it? ”

Xin Hui tilted his head to look at him, as if he didn't know him, he was cold a few days ago, and he scolded people with a knife and looked like she had a face, and suddenly changed his sex.

She sighed and put her hand over his forehead, just like her own, and there was no fever.

The gentle and delicate touch, the eyes of the King of Chu were so soft that she had never seen before, she was nervous, and pressed her own impulse to pick his "mask", and was about to take her hand away, but he grasped it in the palm of her hand.

"I have something to tell you."

The acquaintance of Meiya had already withdrawn, and she covered the door very intimately, so that Xin Hui couldn't find anyone to answer if she wanted to pull a stack.

Xin Hui only felt that his fingers were stiff, and he was abnormally numb, and he laughed stiffly: "The gentleman doesn't move his mouth, what to say slowly." He tried to pull his hand out, but his hand seemed to be entangled in an iron hoop, and he couldn't move a bit.

"I've been out since I was a child, and I've been in the army for too many years, so I'm a rough man......"

-- I'm a little self-aware.

"Although many women may like me, sometimes I don't really understand what women are thinking. So, if you are unhappy or wanted, you can just say it, and I will satisfy you......"

- Wait, Xin Hui nodded from Fang Cai and was startled, what is the situation.