Although she was beaten by Mother Wu in Chu Mansion, Ruoyun finally knew the difference between the flogging in the Dao Palace and the beatings in the past - Mother Wu was just an elderly woman, and she waved her rattan and closed her eyes. But the flogging is based on thin bamboo slices, and although the punishment of women in the palace is changed to a bamboo whip, she will be full of back wounds after 30 strokes.

It's just that when she was in the Chu Mansion, she forbears self-preservation and bows her head to live, but now she holds her head up and resolutely accepts this punishment, her heart is as empty as the sky, and she is like a mirror, although she is a prisoner, she is more comfortable than a free person.

The execution was personally watched by Changde, so she was able to save her life and go to the cold palace.

Yong'an Palace is chained and locked, miserable and miserable, although it does not occupy a large area, but as soon as you come in, there is a sense of cold and oppression. Before she could even think about the pain behind her, she was confronted with a flying scoop.

Only then did she realize that entering the cold palace and entering the cold palace are also different: the former may still have a day to come, although no one serves him, he is still the master, and although the food and clothing on weekdays are poor, he can also be given according to the portion, and the residence is cleaned and greeted routinely every day. But the clothes of the cold palace are slaves and maids, and they have to wait for the waste concubines of the cold palace to eat leftovers, there is no change of clothes, there is no fixed residence, and the clothes of the ladies must be cleaned every day, and the tables and chairs are wiped all on her head once every three days.

Yong'an Palace since the first emperor only abolished concubines, daily meals, regular delivery by the miscellaneous eunuchs to do, sent away immediately, no one has come in as a slave at all, even if there is, I am afraid that I can't bear the miserable life and choose to die early.

At present, she is equivalent to a person who must take over all the work, except for her Yong'an Palace, after the emperor ascended the throne, there has never been such a person who has been punished, and the waste concubines who can move freely and are not under house arrest are all strange. Then came the overwhelming chores.

I don't know who leaked the news that she was favored and abolished, most of the concubines in this cold palace were the concubines of the former emperor, and Rong Jinhuan was expelled here after he ascended the throne. The deeply jealous concubines of the former dynasty naturally would not let go of this excellent opportunity.

She can't eat at all after washing and cleaning, and she needs to wait for the palace people to deliver food boxes before she can drink some water at the door, and occasionally she will be called up by the waste concubines who have nothing to do all day long when she rests in the firewood room.

Even if she landed in the Chu Mansion, she had never been so abused, but she didn't want to die yet, she had to wait, waiting for Rong Jinhuan to pronounce the sentence on her, she wanted to see with her own eyes what would happen to her.

But the worst thing that happened to her was the wound of the thirty lashes in her back. The wound did not heal due to the scorching heat and lack of adequate rest, and the pain was unbearable once she worked, and even if she wiped it with water, she could only stop the festering. After only three days, she felt that she might not survive the day when the sentence was announced.

But in the past three days, the women who have been in the cold palace for a long time have gone from fresh to the most ridiculous to boring, seeing that she neither resists nor obeys, and only cares about doing things, even the initial implication and jealousy are lighter. Except for a few difficult masters. The rest began to bother with her.

Some of the waste concubines have already gone crazy, and they don't know how she is different from other slaves and maids, and every time she goes to clean, she pulls her to ask if the emperor is coming, so that she doesn't know how to answer. The terrible howl at night made her anxious and unable to sleep at night.

You can't survive or die, Rong Jinhuan's goal has really been achieved, but she doesn't want to live or die, these three days only made her calm and settled.

She rested against the doorrail, but the hot weather was unpredictable. It was sweltering for several days, and the sky was finally overcast. Soon it was a drifting rain.

She sat on the steps in the rain in a daze, the rumbling thunder made her frightened but extremely nostalgic, the situation of hiding from the rain after playing as a child was still in front of her, and she was so stunned to watch the rain cover and blur everything.

"Concubine Xian, please come in and take shelter from the rain." A soft female voice rang out.

She stood up in astonishment, and when she turned back, she saw a clean and clean woman leaning against the doorframe behind the steps, looking at her sympathetically, and stretching out her hand to lure her in.

She recognized her - Wu Hengyu.

Originally, she was a Wu beauty, with outstanding demeanor and dancing in the city, and her temperament was also famous for being in the limelight, and she liked to compete for the wind and be jealous, but she didn't expect to come to the cold palace for a period of time, but she faded away from her little daughter's expression and became down-and-out.

Ruoyun stood silent, knowing that she should have survived those desperate days when she was very likely to commit suicide, and now standing in front of Ruoyun was Wu Cainu, who had no sorrow or joy and washed lead.

Ruoyun smiled, and could even be said to be heartfelt admiration: "Wu Cainu is polite." I'm no longer a virtuous concubine, just Su Ruoyun. So saying, he followed her into the house.

"Before I came here, I used to cry and make trouble like that, but after a long time, my voice was hoarse, so I stopped shouting, and I fell asleep all night, and I forgot who I was and what I entered the palace for." Wu Hengyu poured her a cup of hot tea, her eyes wandered, "I have been bullied when I came here, but I am also a fallen person at the end of the world, and everyone forgets my existence after the end, and those who are looking forward to going out still can't get out, and those who are looking forward to death have long lost the courage to break themselves." ”

"Wu Cainu...... Are you still looking forward to going out? Ruoyun asked according to her words, took a sip of rare warm tea, and looked at the rainstorm outside the window before it stopped.

"My mother's family is not rich, the emperor took pity on me and let me enter the palace, but I don't know how to cherish it." Wu Hengyu avoided the important and trivialized, but Ruoyun understood that the emperor really liked her and named her a beauty, and she probably really liked the emperor.

"If you have a heart, there will always be a day when you will go out." Ruoyun looked at her fixedly.

Wu Hengyu smiled and sighed: "In this cold palace, there is no hope that there will be a day when you come in, and there are crazy people everywhere, if I am not careful, I will not want to go out." ”

"Flowers are not red for 100 days, and you are really right." Ruoyun laughed at herself, there was nothing to avoid when she spoke, and she simply said bluntly, "Maybe I am not the first person to go crazy, if you can get out, you must go out, I am just a person waiting for death." She raised her eyes and looked at her, and always felt that it was too pity for Wu Hengyu to die in the cold palace.

"Don't be so anxious to be a madman, if you are crazy, you don't know what to do." Wu Hengyu's words were shocking, and he gestured and whispered, "There are a lot of secrets in Yong'an Palace, such as the burial of the first queen and the martyrdom of the palace, and some were thrown to the northwest corner of Yong'an Palace and locked, howling and talking crazy every night, they all said that maybe one day the emperor would be angry and take care of them." ”

Ruoyun's heart was cold, remembering that Empress Xiao wanted to seize power through her relatives, Rong Jinhuan's six relatives did not recognize it, and let the Xiao family bleed into a river, presumably some people were inconvenient to kill, so the palace people were imprisoned in the cold palace.

Thinking of Empress Xiao, she remembered the pain in Rong Yixuan's eyes that day, her mother was killed by her royal brother, and she wanted revenge but was defeated and fled westward, Rong Jinhuan had no intention of letting go, and this dead knot could not be untied.

Wu Hengyu looked at her lonely and desolate face, so she quietly sipped on the side and didn't say anything again.

The rainstorm has just fallen, if Yun is inconvenient to stay for a long time, he went out to clean up the dead branches and leaves, most of the day passed, swept to the northwest corner, only to see the fallen leaves of the dead branches all over the door, and the door was locked with a fine iron.

She had no intention of snooping, and just wanted to leave, but a sudden low cry made her shudder: "Who is there?!" ”

She threw down her broom and fled, but her body was already weak, and gradually running turned into walking, and walking became difficult to move, and finally sat down next to the wall, dizzy and out of breath.

She gasped for a long time and felt stuffy, and instinctively looked up, only to see a familiar shadow in the corner of the wall about to shrink into the corner.

"Grandpa Chang!" She hurriedly stopped.

The figure froze, then turned out, still wiping sweat.

"Mother...... Niangniang ......" Chang's father-in-law looked at her nervously with a bitter face.

"There is only a sinner Su Ruoyun here, how can there be any mother......" she smiled bitterly, unable to get up and salute him, thinking to herself that she was a dying person anyway, so what if she put aside some etiquette? So I just sat and gasped.

"Where is Niangniang, the old slave is ready to be quietly put down. Alas, look at my memory. Changde greeted, and two little eunuchs came out of the corner, one holding a food box and the other holding tea.

Chang De saw that her face was not very good, so he hurriedly poured a cup and handed it to her: "Niangniang, don't see outside, if it weren't for Niangniang cooperating with the old slave to play that play......" He lowered his voice and glanced away, "Prince Rong may have already succeeded." ”

Ruoyun was really thirsty, so she took it and drank it all, but her throat was still dry, and she said hoarsely: "My father-in-law is already a great favor from me, so I'm not afraid that the emperor will blame me for saying this?" I left the water and took the food box. ”

"Alas, Niangniang, you don't know what to do, the emperor really can't excuse Niangniang last time, and Niangniang recruited it simply, the emperor can't get off the stage when he is angry......" Changde added water to her, and stopped talking.

"What about stepping down? Even if the emperor is not angry, I calculate that he and General Zhang will rob the prison and let the people who want to kill him go, my father-in-law might as well tell the emperor again, I am the one who stopped the envoys from robbing the princess, and I am the one who urged Cheng Qing and the search for people. She didn't frown after speaking, she drank another sip of water, leaving a small half cup and pouring it on the ground, "I knew early in the morning that the water was hard to collect, and what else did I hope for?" She looked at him faintly.

"Ouch, Niangniang, are you angry with the emperor?" Changde looked at the water agent on the ground, and didn't know if she was angry, so he had to stare dryly.

"My father-in-law is too worried, I am not angry with anyone, no one hates anyone, and now I am in a catastrophe, I just ask the emperor to spare innocent people." She looked at the cloudy sky again, sad, and then said to him, "Father-in-law, I had to kick you away that day, didn't hurt you?" ”

Chang De shook his head with a smile, stood hesitantly for a while, and sighed with a long sigh on his hip and shoulder: "The old slave wants the emperor to come up and take a look, but the emperor looks at the fold, even if he is in a daze, he pretends not to hear." Niangniang has to take care, the old slave is gone. ”

"Take care, father-in-law." She looked a little dazed and smiled reluctantly.

Changde walked a few steps, remembered something and turned back, approached her, and said in a voice that only she could hear: "Niangniang, the sentence of the scholar has come down, and it will be decided." ”

"Huh?!" Ruoyun came back to his senses violently, but Changde had already gone away. (To be continued......)