Chapter 3: Skinning and Bruising
"Madam, why, Mrs. still refuses to eat?" Mama Liu looked at Fang, who had removed her coat as soon as she came back, stepped forward and rubbed her shoulders for her.
"Don't say it, I'm kneeling, crying, begging, and I won't eat anything! The old man said that it was a little heavier, and she covered her chest as if she was about to faint to death......" Fang Shi gritted his teeth, twisted his eyebrows and said, "If it weren't for the fact that the master must not worry about it now, I really don't want to care about her." ”
Mama Liu turned her head to look at the doors and windows.
"Don't worry, I said I was tired, and let them go down. Now it's just the two of us. Fang patted Mama Liu's hand, "Okay, I'm tired too, help me go to the couch to rest." ”
Mama Liu helped Fang Shi to lie down on the hibiscus couch and picked beads and earrings for her. She spread Fang's hair and pressed her scalp little by little with her fingers.
"Madam, I think it is better to find the reason for Mrs. Tai's hunger strike. When the old lady was there, the eldest man left, and the lady was sad like that, and she never went on a hunger strike. Who is Mrs. Tai? When the old lady was from the dragon, she pulled the three children with one hand, and when the army slaughtered the village, she was stunned to throw her two daughters to protect her younger son, such a ruthless person would go on a hunger strike because he was angry with Young Master Rui, and he couldn't say anything. Mama Liu rubbed the back of Fang's neck, "If you want to say it's pretending, Mrs. Tai didn't ask for anything noisy, not to mention, if she was forced to die, she would be hungry for one or two meals, you said that she didn't make noise or make trouble, and she was hungry for three or four meals......"
"What do you mean?"
"I think, could it be a nightmare? There are also three souls separated from the body under convulsions, and when the time comes, the dirty things will take advantage of the weakness to enter the ......"
"Wouldn't it? The old lady seems to be quite sane! Fang sat up in fright. Although she was not a delicate woman, she couldn't help but feel sick when she heard about the gods and ghosts.
"That's the problem. Ever since Mrs. Tai had a problem with her shaking hands, when did you think she was so clear? ”
Mama Liu's words made Fang Shi fall into deep thought.
Do you want to find a nun or goddess to see?
In the Zhiyun Courtyard, Gu Qing didn't know that the Fang clan was going to find a goddess to "deal with" him. The only thing she wanted to do now was to go to sleep. After sleeping, the stomach will not be so uncomfortable.
She felt that she was going to die, not from starvation, but from stomach pain.
After four hungry meals, Guogong and his wife came to beg, and Guogong's son and the grandchildren of this old lady Qiu came to beg. Fortunately, the news of her hunger strike has not yet spread outside the house, and now except for a few rare heirs of Mrs. Qiu, no other relatives have come to "visit".
In this way, Gu Qing still had difficulty even sleeping.
From the moment she opened her eyes, words such as "Mrs. Tai, eat some", "Old lady, you should enter something", Gu Qing was so hungry that she didn't even have the strength to open her mouth to shut them up.
Dare to take "persuasion" as a task, right?
When she almost had a convulsion, the imperial doctor came and gave her an injection. Since then, the people in the mansion don't know if they are afraid of the scandal of the family or what, and the imperial doctor has never appeared again. The person who comes to ask for advice every day is a doctor surnamed Hu, who is said to be a family doctor and a wise doctor. But this supposedly clever doctor only uses the words "excessive anxiety and cold condensation" to fool people when he comes to the doctor every day.
Gu Qing wanted to laugh when she heard it. If you want to say that there must be "anxiety", she is hungry for four meals, but it seems that she is still early to die, can she not be anxious? But what kind of thing is "cold condensation and qi stagnation", which can "stagnate" on the stomach and make people go on a hunger strike? .
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he is looking for death!
She lay groggily on the bed, thinking that the family would not be so easy to talk if she was hungry again, and that it was possible to send someone to fill it, or come up with other tricks.
How should she deal with it? Gu Qing felt that the "hunger strike" was probably the most courageous thing she had done since she was a child, and it was also the most headache.
She was thinking about how to deal with it, she just turned over to make herself comfortable, and when she opened her eyes, she was startled by the flower mama kneeling next to the bed.
Mama Hua has been staying in the outer room all the time. In the house, there are several maids in the house, such as Mama Sun, Xiangyun, Yanyun and Jiayun, who are waiting.
Gu Qing glanced at the room with his peripheral light, the light was dim, and in broad daylight, the doors and windows were closed. Except for Mama Hua kneeling in front of the bed, the very old Mama Sun was guarding the door at the door, and Xiangyun and several other big girls were nowhere to be seen.
"The slave knows that Mrs. Tai has never been very kind to see the slave and maid, but there are some things that the slave and maid have to say." Mama Hua had a serious expression on her face, and she knelt upright. "The slave's life was saved by the old man, I really don't want to see the princess come into disaster because of Mrs. Tai's ruthlessness!"
This trick is common in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms! Gu Qing rushed in at those strategists and shouted, "Lord, you're about to come to a catastrophe!" "Impressed, Mama Hua is trying to attract her own attention?
It's a pity that she is not Mrs. Qiu, and Mama Hua is the wrong person to say. She's ready to commit suicide, but what can she do in this house? She is not their real mother or grandmother!
"Mrs. Tai, you are on a hunger strike, if there is a case, the first person to suffer is Young Master Rui. If you are not good, everyone will think that it was Young Master Rui who caused you to become like this, you are an old feudal monarch with a command, but Young Master Rui is a young son who has no title. To put it mildly, Mrs. Tai, you probably don't understand the law of the country, but the slave and maid came out of the palace, and I have seen a lot, and those who contradict their grandmother to the point of forcing their grandmother to death like Young Master Rui want to cure the crime of 'disobedience'. ”
"Disobedience is a heinous sin, to be skinned and weeded, and to be ground and ashes! The eldest lord is such a child, do you want to make the eldest lord the last child, and there is no one to light incense before the grave when he dies? ”
Gu Qing's eyelids trembled. She understands grinding bones and ashes, what is that peeling and pulling grass? Either way, it sounds like a terrible punishment.
As a modern person, it was difficult for Gu Qing to understand why there was so much terrible torture. Hearing that the child was about to be skinned and dusted because of a two-word argument with his grandmother, no matter how much Gu Qing wanted to throw away this broken skin bag regardless of it, he couldn't help but worry about it.
Mama Hua said terrible things without any expression, as if it was none of her business. But her eyes betrayed her. At this time, she was staring at Gu Qing's face carefully, not even wanting to let go of the slightest hint of expression. She knew that Mrs. Qiu could hear it, and she was not hungry as others thought.
It's good to have a reaction! If there is a reaction, you can prescribe the right medicine.
"'Peeling and weeding' is to peel off the skin on the top of a person's head and pour mercury into it, in doing so, a complete human skin will be peeled off, and then the human skin will be stuffed with lamp grass, made into a human form, and sent to the street to parade. Young Master Rui is still a child, and the human lamp will probably be smaller. After the skin is peeled off, the bones will be ground into powder and scattered in the wind......" Mama Hua looked at Gu Qing, whose face had finally changed a little, and continued to say stubbornly.
"Don't think that Young Master Rui is still a child, and we are the pardoned Xinguo Mansion, so Young Master Rui will not be treated like this. Although the Duchess is recognized as a compassionate person, it does not mean that she is not selfish. Why did Young Master Rui come to confront you? How did he know that the eldest lady's dowry was with you? Who has more mouths? Young Master Ming is already seven years old! ”
"Mrs. Tai, if you still care about the deceased Master Meng, you should hold up this breath and help Young Master Rui. Young Master Rui seems to be well-dressed now, but in fact, he is in danger......"
When Mama Hua said the punishment of peeling the skin and raising ashes, Gu Qing was so cheeky that she listened to it. But when she said "secret news of the public mansion" or something, Gu Qing didn't react again.
Originally, that little kid had never seen it himself. She doesn't know if the dowry is not a dowry. Whoever wants it will take it!
The grandson said that if he can't move, then the son.
"If you don't care for the deceased lord, then talk about the lord in the house. You have to have a case, the 'right squire of the military department' that the old man has just promoted will be lost. If the person on the throne has the intention to take power, it is possible for the lord to be removed from the title or demoted because of this matter. Now this is not the old man's then, and the old man doesn't have the talent of the eldest master, so he is reluctant to move! When you fall, the whole mansion falls! ”
"Besides, Xiangyun, Yanyun, those maids, as well as the people in the whole courtyard, all depend on you to survive. You have to be in case we don't serve well, and those of us who don't serve well will only get worse. Xiangyun and the others will probably be pulled out and sold, they are the children of the family, and their parents are all on errands in the house, I am afraid they will all be kicked out. Those rough subordinates, whether they can keep their lives is a question! Mrs. Tai, we have been serving for so many years, you can do it! ”
Mama Hua said a little irritated. This old lady Qiu has never read a book, she doesn't even know a word, if she wants to talk about human feelings, she usually hasn't seen as many practices, if she changes to another master, she doesn't have to say it so clearly. But the old lady on the bed can't do it if she doesn't make all the benefits and stakes clear! Whether you listen or not understand is a problem. Moreover, if this one is muddy, even the old man can't do anything but let it.
Let's just say that she has said so many things with all her tongue, if it is an old lady in any other mansion, for the sake of the family's rise and fall, even if she is going to die, she will breathe in one breath. She was fine, except for the fact that her eyelids twitched and her face twitched when she said that she was peeling, and she looked immobile at all times. She has been in the palace for so many years, and all kinds of masters have seen it, like this selfish person on the bed, who doesn't care whether anyone lives or dies except for her own thoughts, this is still the first place.
If you live well, what are you looking for to die?