Chapter 298: Before Dawn

Goodo......

The mellow wine with pale yellow foam poured into the silver bowl, and a rich aroma filled the hall.

The jade hand holding the silver bowl trembled from time to time, and the wine continued to be drunk.

On the Qibao Yunlong royal couch, Kublai Khan was reviewing the folds, and he didn't even look at the wine urn. The entire Daming Palace, except for the sound of wine pouring, was silent.

Huanniang's face was even paler, and the hand holding the bowl was still shaking, this time, it was no longer because of Kublai Khan's fierce light, but because of the pain, severe pain!

Ten lashes! Ten Solid Whips! Use a cowhide whip soaked in brine and whip it raw on the fine white and smooth back. Ten lashes down, the skin and flesh are open, half of the body is red, the brine corrodes the muscles, burns the nerves, and makes people faint several times.

Although immediately after the completion of the torture, the doctors of the Tai Hospital dressed and treated him, but the severe pain was unbearable even for a strong man, let alone a weak woman.

After only one night in bed, the next day was served by Yu Yu, and at this moment, Huanniang, even if she held an empty bowl in her hands, she couldn't stop shaking, let alone filling it with wine.

Pour out a spoonful, leaving only half a bowl.

Huanniang's face turned whiter, and the ladle holding the spoon was also like a puppet, standing on the stairs in a daze, not daring to make any extra movements.

After a while, Kublai Khan closed the music, rubbed his eyebrows, and said casually: "Drink it...... Or ten more lashes. ”

Huanniang shuddered when she heard this, closed her eyes bitterly, and two lines of tears flowed, and when she opened it again, she was helpless and firm.

A silver bowl containing half a bowl of spirits is slowly placed on a black lacquer tray.

This、This is the rhythm of finding death! The eunuch not only took a sigh, but also looked at Huanniang in a daze, and really couldn't figure out why this little palace maid was so stubborn. There is only half a bowl of wine left and right, and if you drink it, it will be over, and you will not be able to die.

Several palace maids who served wine also signaled Huanniang with their eyes not to disobey the king's will and invite trouble.

"Interesting." Kublai Khan suddenly laughed, and his smile made all the eunuchs, scholars, palace maids, and armor soldiers in the main hall change color, and they hung their heads in shock, and their hearts trembled. The guards who were familiar with the Great Khan knew that once he laughed, someone would be miserable.

As the eunuch waved her hand, Huanniang was dragged down by the armor again.

Kublai Khan's eyes flashed with interest. If at first he was just stimulated by the music, so he took Huanniang to vent, but now Huanniang's strange reaction has aroused his interest.

"The whip doesn't get wet, and it doesn't hurt the skin and bones." Kublai Khan paused before opening the next note, and said lightly, "I will see this waitress again tomorrow." ”

The eunuch hurriedly bowed his head and responded, and was shocked while chasing after him outside the palace, the Great Khan is planning to have fun for a long time, this stubborn palace maid is finished.

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At night, Huanniang, who was wrapped in bandages, returned to the hut, saw her sister Liu Niang's sad eyes, couldn't control it anymore, and threw herself into her arms, and the two sisters hugged each other and cried.

After a long time, Liu Niang suddenly stood up with a resolute expression: "No!" I'm going to go out of the palace to meet Hongyun and let her think of getting you out. ”

"No, sister, you can't leave the palace, it's too dangerous." Huanniang hurriedly said, "You and I are both Yan Ling's secret spies, Yan Ling has a strict order, we can only contact Qian Bo in a single line, and we can't meet Sister Hongyun directly......"

"But if you continue like this, you will die!" Liu Niang is really anxious.

"It's only twenty whips, and Huanniang can still hold it. And today's whipping is much lighter than yesterday's, and it doesn't get brine...... Don't worry, sister. Huanniang said this, not wanting to worry my sister, as soon as the topic changed, her eyes were shining, full of joy and said, "Right now, my Da Song form is very good, and Ah Weng has returned to our home in Lin'an with His Majesty." That Tartar Emperor was so upset and angry with me...... Huanniang's body hurts, but she is happy in her heart. ”

Although they are in the deep palace, it is different to have an organization, all kinds of new news from the outside world can be transmitted through special channels at any time, and the two sisters are in the deep palace and know the world.

Hearing her sister say this, Liu Niang seemed to recall the past, and the two sisters hugged each other tightly, with a look on their faces that were stunned for a while.

After Liu Niang carefully cleaned and changed the dressing for her sister, she carefully told her before she was reluctant to leave.

In the middle of the night, a little red light suddenly lit up in the dark Huanniang house, and if you look closely, it is a lit incense.

On the bed, Huanniang sat up silently, walked to a futon and sat down, and then took out a black thing in front of her eyes, and squinted her eyes slightly through the black thing, and locked the red and bright incense head three zhang away, and maintained this unblinking posture for half a moment. Then get up and move your limbs slightly, and in the process it will inevitably involve the wound on your back, and the pain will be cold sweat trickling down.

Huanniang leaned on the edge of the table, gritted her teeth and sat back on the edge of the bed, rested for a while, and continued with a stick of incense. It wasn't until an hour later that he fell asleep from exhaustion.

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Another day, when Huanniang was whipped out again, her white forehead was covered with beads of sweat, her face was white and blue, her lips were bitten, and she had to gasp for a while with every step. The surrounding palace maids, eunuchs, executioners, and healers looked at her thin back in the distance, and they all felt compassion, not only marveling at the courage of this weak girl, but also lamenting her ill-fated fate.

"What's the trouble with this, it's just a bowl of wine...... Alas! The healer who healed her sighed and was puzzled.

Listening to the sigh behind her, Huanniang smiled bitterly, if she could drink it, would she not drink it? A cup of belly, she herself is afraid!

Huanniang gritted her teeth and walked, and the Great Khan from the eunuch of Fang Cai sounded in her ears, "God has the virtue of a good life, the Great Khan is merciful, and the palace makes Wen Huanniang disrespectful, and he will rest for ten days." ”

She knew in her heart that this was not the brutal Khan who was really "merciful", but that he wanted to continue playing, for fear of playing himself to death. Ten days later, when his injuries are almost healed, he will definitely face a new wave of torture......

When he walked out of the palace gate, an old eunuch with gray temples and a somewhat hunched back greeted him with a food box, looking distressed.

Huanniang was surprised, and saluted from afar, calling her "father-in-law". The old eunuch hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and kept chattering about something.

The palace envoy and cowardly Xue Wei in front of the palace gate recognized this old eunuch as the old money in the imperial dining room, and he was also the father-in-law recognized by the palace maid Huanniang. In the deep palace, there is no one to rely on each other, and it is the norm to huddle together for warmth.

After saying some thoughtful words, Lao Qian handed the food box in his hand to Huanniang and patted the back of her hand gently: "This is white fungus black chicken soup, make up for it." ”

Huanniang's eyes flashed, nodded slightly, took the food box, and then bowed away.

The old eunuch in the imperial dining room took advantage of his position to get some nutritional supplements, which was also a potential benefit, and the palace envoy and cowardly Xue Wei in front of the palace gate were not surprised, tacitly and unconcerned.

Back in the house, Huanniang closed the door as usual, put the food box on the table, and then sat quietly on the edge of the bed, her eyes flashing, listening carefully to the movement outside the door. It wasn't until a moment later, when I didn't hear anything unusual, that I stood up and opened the food box.

At the moment of opening the food box, Huanniang's eyes revealed nervousness and a trace of excitement, and she inserted chopsticks into the soup, stirring slightly, clicking, as if touching a hard object. Huanniang's eyes were shining, and when she held the hard object with her chopsticks and slowly lifted it, a ray of silver light appeared on the oily noodle soup, illuminating the dim house and Huanniang's eyes of surprise and excitement......