Chapter 57: Mutilation
It was night, the vermilion gates of the five northern schools were closed, and the courtyard was pitch black, except for one of the rooms lit by candlelight.
"Squeak" The door opened, a palace maid came out, holding a large wooden basin in her hand, and walked to the corner of the wall with difficulty, splashing the water with a bang, she gently put down the wooden shed, and wanted to rest against the wall for a while, and in a blink of an eye, she seemed to catch a glimpse of a figure: "Who?" ”
She walked left and right, but there was no half of a figure, and the appearance of the palace maid also flashed in the light, it was spring grass.
"Spring grass! Spring grass! The old eunuch's shrill and hoarse cry suddenly came from the house, and Chuncao hurriedly picked up the wooden basin and trotted back in response.
Behind him, Yin Lingyuan came out of the shadows and quietly followed behind Chuncao.
Inside, an old eunuch with a wrinkled face was barefoot, his trouser legs were pulled up to his knees, and a woman on each side was kneading his ankles. Seeing Chuncao coming back, he raised his eyelids slightly, and asked in a lengthened voice: "Splash a foot wash water, why is it so long?" ”
Haruka pursed her lips and stood with her hands down, not speaking.
The old eunuch became more and more interested, and his feet glared slightly, and the two women who were kneeling immediately understood, and let go of their hands and waited for him to put on his shoes.
The old eunuch walked slowly to Chuncao's side, circled around her twice, and sighed in his mouth: "Some people, they just can't see the situation clearly, and they think that they are the favored Spring Lady, delicate yo, tsk." ”
Chuncao only felt uncomfortable, trying to avoid the old eunuch's gaze.
"Hey", the old eunuch sighed, "You, one by one, you dream of serving the emperor all day long, and you never listen to what our family says. ”
When the words fell, the three people in the room shook at the same time, and the two kneeling were busy begging for mercy: "The duke is clear, but whatever you command, we are willing to do." ”
The old eunuch Hua Daxi glanced at them, nodded with satisfaction, and looked at Chuncao again, Chuncao finally couldn't help it, and said in a trembling voice: "Father-in-law, I gave you all my silver coins and jewelry, just let me go." ”
Yin Lingyuan leaned on the window and looked at it clearly, knowing that the red in the old eunuch's mouth was the sister in the mouth of the Zhang family who stole ginseng during the day.
After the Zhang family shouted that sentence during the day, Yin Lingyuan was worried about the people coming and going in the Imperial Garden, so he took the people back to the Yinghua Palace and listened to her talk about the current situation of the North Five Institutes.
The masters of the girls are not masters, and the slaves are not slaves, although they have served the emperor, they have been left out here for a long time, and no one has taken them seriously.
The chief eunuch Hua Daxi covered the sky with one hand, and he could be polite to those young and beautiful women, and for those who were a little older like Zhang's family, or who were rejected by the emperor like Chuncao, he took pleasure in torturing them.
Hua Daxi didn't dare to beat and scold them openly, so he tortured them with those small pieces of work.
Hong'er was forced by Hua Daxi to lie in bed all day long, not allowed to get up, and even her daily meals were only allowed to lie on the bed.
At first, it was okay, Hong'er's hard work all day can be regarded as resting, but it is ten or twenty days...... As time went on, she became more and more uncomfortable, her whole body was sore, she couldn't breathe, her legs seemed to be unconscious, she remembered, but Hua Daxi sent someone to guard her day and night, and she was not allowed to leave the mattress half an inch at all.
Gradually, the skin under Hong'er's body began to fester, and the pain was unbearable every day, her legs were shriveled and atrophied, and her upper body slowly gained weight due to lack of exercise.
Her guards were gone, and Zhang finally got the opportunity to come and visit. Seeing the good sister like this, she had no choice but to steal Yin Lingkite's ginseng.
And what Zhang said about getting better after eating ginseng is not so much ginseng, but the effect of spiritual spring water, I am afraid that she will dig vegetables in the garden at will, and it will also have this effect.
Yin Lingyuan couldn't believe it, in the palace, those people were also Qi Ye's women, and they lived so miserably? Only then did he persuade Yu Ze to follow her to the North Five Institute to find out.
"I'm doing this for your good!" Inside the house, Hua Daxi gritted his teeth, "Don't you all want to serve the emperor?" How can such a clumsy person get into the eyes of the emperor? This father-in-law is training you for the emperor, Chuncao, you have to understand the grace. ”
The last sentence came to her ear, making Chuncao have goosebumps all over her body, knowing that if she didn't obey her fate, she would end up like a red girl, she clenched her fists desperately, lowered her posture and said softly: "Please, please teach me the duke." ”
"That's right." Hua Daxi nodded with satisfaction, sat back in his seat, pointed to the cold tea and said, "Let's go make hot tea first." ”
Chuncao responded in a low voice, lit the stove and boiled water in the middle of the night, and finally made a hot tea and presented it to Hua Daxi with both hands: "Father-in-law, please use it." ”
"So long." Hua Daxi grunted dissatisfiedly, reached out to take the teacup, and as soon as he touched it, he screamed: "You want to burn me to death!" ”
The teacup made a noise, and the whole was poured on the tray, and the hot hot water went down the edge of the tray, and when she touched Chuncao's hand holding the tray, she was burned and shivered, and instinctively let go, and the wooden tray fell with the teacup on the top, and the porcelain teacup was shattered all over the ground, and the hot water mixed with the tea leaves splashed all over the ground.
"Rotten wood! Deadwood! "Hua Da jumped to his feet, "It's so stupid and useless, how can you serve the emperor?" ”
Chuncao's hands were burned red, and he didn't dare to make a sound, so he resignedly: "I, I'll make another cup." ”
"It's the same with another 800 cups!" Hua Daxi pinched his throat and screamed, pointing to the debris on the ground: "Don't clean this place for me yet!" ”
"Yes, yes." Chuncao replied in a low voice, and bent down in humiliation to reach out to pick up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground.
"Wait?" Suddenly, he heard Hua Daxi scream again, and then he squatted down and pinched Chuncao's sleeve with two fingers: "Tsk, if this pair of softness is injured, how can you serve the emperor in the future?" Look at this red one, it's hot, right? ”
The softer his voice, the more scared Haruka became.
Sure enough, I only listened to his next sentence and continued: "If you are hot like this, you have to take care of it, and you are not allowed to use your hands." ”
"Father-in-law?" Haruka shuddered.
"With your mouth." Hua Daxi smiled proudly, "These fragments are all picked up for me with your mouth, and the tea leaves on the ground are all licked for me!" ”
Chuncao was struck by lightning: "Ask the playboy to be gracious!" ”
Hua Daxi seemed to be looking for some great fun, and turned around with great interest: "You two, take candles to illuminate her." ”
The two women did not dare to disobey, and one stood on either side with a candle in his hand.
"Pick it up." Flower Daiki urges.
"Grandpa ......" Chuncao burst into tears, and finally slowly bowed down under Hua Daxi's glare.
"But be careful, if you hurt your mouth again, you really have to take care of it like Hong'er." There was a happy sound from above, and Chuncao's body shook, and she couldn't help but be more careful.
The women standing on both sides did not move, the candles in their hands had been burning for a long time, and the hot candle oil flowed down the candles and fell on their hands, and they did not dare to say a word.
Yin Lingyuan couldn't stand it anymore, and slammed the door open: "Mr. Hua is so majestic!" ”
Yu Ze couldn't stop it, so he followed behind her helplessly.
"Who?!" Hua Daxi was so frightened that she almost didn't fall off the chair, snatched the candle in the hand of one of them, and approached Yin Lingyuan's face to illuminate: "Yu, Yu Jieyu?" ”
"Does the playboy still know who I am?" Yin Lingyuan said in disgust, "But you have forgotten who you are!" They are all women, and the emperor's women dare to be so cruel, if you want to die, just say it, why bother so much. ”
"What is Yu Jieyu talking about? Old slave, old slave really can't understand. Hua Daxi bowed and saluted, but out of the corner of his eye, he passed over Yin Lingyuan and looked behind her.
Yin Lingyuan was condescending: "Since you don't understand, it's better to be a fool, Chuncao, and the two of you come here, follow me to see the emperor!" ”
Chuncao seemed to see a savior, and hid behind Yin Lingyuan with a roll, but the other two women couldn't bear it.
Yin Lingyuan was just about to speak again, when he heard the chaotic footsteps behind him, turned around, and a group of little eunuchs lined up, blocking Yin Lingyuan's back road.
Hua Daxi slowly stood up: "Yu Jieyu came alone, right?" ”
"Snort", Yin Lingyuan smiled, "Is it possible that Mr. Hua still wants to kill the palace concubine?" ”
"How dare the old slave do such a thing", Hua Daxi completely lost the panic at the beginning, and his cloudy eyes shot a touch of ruthlessness through the candlelight: "It's just that Concubine Rong has been looking at you unpleasantly for a long time, Jieyu leaked out of the palace, Concubine Rong took the opportunity to plot against her, and accidentally killed Jieyu, which is really regrettable." ”
"My father-in-law is a good plan", Yin Lingyuan was still calm, but Hanlu behind her unconsciously took a step, looking at Yin Lingyuan who was alone, and then looking at the flower manager who was full of people, I didn't know what to do for a while.
Yin Lingyuan didn't care about her, and only looked at Hua Daxi: "My father-in-law has the ability, just use it." ”
"Then don't blame our family", Mr. Hua squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, "Today is either you die or I die, do it!" ”
The eunuchs got the order, and they rushed up and attacked Yin Lingyuan, but when they rushed to a foot in front of her, they seemed to be blocked by something, and they couldn't get close to the front half a minute, and they wanted to struggle, but they found that their movements were sluggish, and they couldn't move?
What's going on?
Before the crowd could react, a flying kick hit one of them in the chest, and the man flew out and was so used to the wall that he couldn't get up again.
Yin Lingyuan turned sideways, snatched the candle in Hua Daxi's hand and threw it into the crowd, Yu Ze secretly wrapped his spiritual power, and the candle smashed on the forehead of one person, and he fainted straight backwards.
Chuncao and the other two women were dumbfounded, they had never seen such a fierce woman.
Yin Lingyuan kicked over another one and yelled at the three women: "What are you doing in a daze? It's time for revenge! ”
The three of them woke up instantly, and the other one who was holding a candle immediately learned Yin Lingyuan and smashed the candle out in his hand, which was right in the middle of his head.
"Oops!" Hua Daxi fell to the ground with a painful cry, and looked at his hands in a daze when he smashed the candle, not understanding when he had so much strength?
With a tacit look at Yu Ze, Yin Lingkite opened the bow left and right, and the little eunuchs who beat fell into the water, after cultivating for so long, she finally saw the power of her spiritual power for the first time.
Chuncao and the three of them were encouraged, coupled with the resentment in their hearts, they grabbed Hua Daxi and played to the death, pulling their hair and smashing the wooden plank, Chuncao didn't care about the burns on her hands, and her long nails scratched the blood marks on Hua Daxi's face, and she was so ruthless that she couldn't wait to cut off her nails.