The place where the officials and maids rested was the lower wing of the court.

There were more than a dozen bunks stacked on top of a large kang, a broken table on the ground, and a broken oil lamp on the table.

Some put down the bed cover to rest on the kang early, and some were bored and gossiped about the past scenery together.

Zhou Rong saw Yi Xue's hands full of blood blisters, and with the help of the faint light, she helped her bandage in distress.

"Girl, it's really hard for you, I'll do your work for you tomorrow."

"That aunt is evil, I'm afraid it won't work, and besides, you have a lot of work, I'll do it slowly, at most a few whips."

Yi Xue pretended not to care and smiled bitterly, but she really felt that she couldn't do it.

"Alas, I'm really my own lady, I heard that you are a famous piano in this capital."

An elderly official maid glanced at Yi Xue's hand and smacked her mouth: "Tut-tut, it's a pity that these hands are gone, and now any famous songs are not as good as this pestle." ”

As he spoke, he laughed, and the other officials and maids laughed along.

"You ......" Zhou Rong was angry, but she didn't know what to say.

Yi Xue shook her head at Zhou Rong and motioned for her to ignore them.

"Alas, everyone is a hard-working person, there are a few women here who are not former family members, like me, who were born in the palace and were punished for doing wrong things, and there are only a few, so don't laugh at each other."

It was a thin and weak little official and maid who looked like she was fourteen or fifteen years old.

"Yes, now everyone is a hard-working person, I don't know how many years I have to work in this court, this place is not much better than that edict, I am tired and tired, just to take a few fewer whips and grab a few mouthfuls of food."

It was Wang who spoke, and she was almost recovered, and the aunt in charge ordered her to go down to the field and do some light work.

"The lights are out, the lights are out, the lights are gone, I am sleeping, this day is not alive, it is really boring!

The old officials and maids who were grinding their teeth were bored, flattened their mouths, and stopped talking.

On this day, Yi Xue and Zhou Rong were cooking rice with other officials and maids again, and the aunt in charge saw that Yi Xue was weak, and when she came up, she came up with a whip, and a blood mark appeared on Yi Xue's shoulder.

Zhou Rong on the side saw it, and was busy protecting Yi Xue and pleading: "Aunt Zhang's subordinates are merciful, my girl has not done this, her hands are full of blood blisters, my aunt is merciful, and I ask my aunt to be gracious, and I will do the girl's work for her." ”

"You did it for her? What kind of place should you be, an official and maid sent from prison, or when you are a girl from a family? Aunt Zhang said and whipped down again.

This whip hit Zhou Rong's body.

This Aunt Zhang seemed to be angry, and seemed to feel that Zhou Rong had challenged her prestige, she gritted her teeth and whipped the whips one after another with hatred.

Yi Xue saw that Zhou Rong had been whipped for herself, so she hurriedly pushed her away, and the whip fell on Yi Xue, and the coarse cloth palace clothes made a few cuts, oozing blood.

Zhou Rong saw that Aunt Zhang was so vicious, so in a hurry, she picked up the wooden pestle and hit Aunt Zhang.

How could this Aunt Zhang withstand Zhou Rong, a pestle who can be called a martial arts master, only to hear a miserable scream of "Mom", and she was knocked unconscious.

"Ah, dead man, dead man!" The officials and maids who were doing the work on the side jumped up in fright, and saw Aunt Zhang lying upright on the ground, shouting indiscriminately.

The shout alarmed the other aunts in charge, and one of the older aunts stepped forward, tried it with her hand, and said to an aunt who looked of a higher grade, "There is still gas." ”

Then he pointed to the two officials and maids who looked a little stout and said, "You two carry Aunt Zhang into the house!" ”

"Yes!" The two officials and maids didn't dare to slack off, and immediately came up and used all their strength to carry this Aunt Zhang away.

"Who did it, who?"

The aunt of the higher grade had a very ugly face, her mouth was fierce, and she scanned every official and maid present with a whip in her hand, as if she could fall down at any time.

The officials and maids were so frightened that they didn't dare to mess around, and peeked at Zhou Rong who was protecting Yi Xue with their eyes.

"Who are you, come out, and say?" The higher-grade aunt asked, pointing to a thin little official maid.

"Back to Aunt Tang, yes, yes" The little official pointed in the direction of Yi Xue and Zhou Rong with her finger.

"Rubbish, lowly slave!"

Aunt Tang raised her hand and gave this thin little official and maid a whip, but the little official and maid were whipped but didn't dare to make a sound, hiding their faces and crying.

"It's me!" Seeing that Aunt Tang was more fierce than Aunt Zhang, in order not to implicate others, Yi Xue stood up.

Aunt Tang slapped her palms with a whip rod, looked around Yi Xue in a circle, smacked her lips without smiling, shook her head, and said slowly word by word:

"Alas, look at this little face, it looks like a fairy, it doesn't look like a hurtful person, you and I are easy to deceive?"

With the last obviously raised tail note, Aunt Tang suddenly turned around and threw a whip, which was thrown straight at Yi Xue's face.

Seeing that the whip was about to hit Yi Xue's face, it was too late to say that it was too fast, but I saw a hand grasping the whip tightly.

When Aunt Tang saw that the whip had been caught, she was annoyed and angry and wanted to pull the whip back, but the whip was held tightly.

"It seems that you hurt Aunt Zhang?"

Aunt Tang's orange-colored face was visibly annoyed.

"Yes, it's me, who dares to be rude to my girl again, don't blame this girl for being polite."

Zhou Rong's hand clenched tighter, and drops of blood dripped on the ground along her hand.

"Rong'er, let go!" Seeing that the back of Zhou Rong's hand was whipped out of a bloody mark, Yi Xue cried out in distress.

"If you dare to throw the whip again, I will abolish you!"

Zhou Rong pulled the whip forward slightly and then let go of her hand, and this Aunt Tang staggered backwards, if it wasn't for other aunts to help, she would definitely fall to the ground.

"It's the other way around, come quickly, push these two guilty slaves out and give them eighty lashes each."

Aunt Tang, who had not yet stood firmly, pointed at Yi Xue and Zhou Rong with trembling fingers, and a crow-like sound came from her shriveled mouth.

The two aunts who came up were about to push Yi Xue and Zhou Rong out, when they heard a slender male duck's voice coming: "Slow! ”

Following the voice, an old eunuch was supported by several small chamberlains.

Aunt Tang looked at Dong Meng and hurriedly stepped forward: "I've seen Eunuch Dong!" ”

Dong Meng smiled gloomily and said slowly: "The whole palace prays for Princess Xuanhua, the princess is merciful, and asks the palace not to kill in March. ”

"Yes, yes, that's what the eunuch said." Aunt Tang chimed in.

"This remnant of the Yang family has been very beautiful in the capital in recent years, and many sons of the gate valve family have fallen for her. This time I was lucky enough to meet the amnesty and escaped, the mother is always unhappy in her heart, the death penalty can be avoided, this living crime is ......"

Dong Meng paused deliberately, stared at Yi Xue with his cloudy eyes and lowered his voice: "Niangniang heard that you are here, and I especially told you to take good care of you." ”

Then he commanded in a loud voice: "Throw these two lowly slaves into the cave and send them to the barracks in three days." ”

After speaking, Eunuch Dong "smiled" and squinted at Yi Xue, and left with the little chamberlain.

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