The apple carried me on his back and walked back to the dormitory courtyard from the morning crowd.

In the end, I was dressed in men's clothes and rolled in a pigsty, and I hid my face in the back of Apple's thick head. I remember many years ago, my junior high school math teacher said to me, "Yusu, you just have to study hard, and Mona in the back seat of you is your strong backing." ”

Sure enough, at that time, I asked Mona if there was a topic I didn't understand, and she told me without reservation. And at this moment, the apple has become my solid shield.

When I returned to the hut, I took off my shoes and socks, my trouser legs were rolled high, and my whole knee was black and purple, but I didn't feel any pain. The whole leg was cold and wooden, and it was not until the flesh was soaked in a large bucket of hot water that the legs were swollen. The hot water relaxes the muscle meridians, making the edema appear, and the epidermis is scalded red and crystal clear by the hot water, looking like two giant radishes!

After washing up, I lay on the bed, and Apple helped me massage my back, coaxing me: "I ran away, why was I caught?" ”

Apple's hand was gentle, and as if it was soothing, I said in a daze, "It's a mystery." And he fell asleep with her infinite comfort.

But I didn't expect that while I was asleep, something happened.

When I opened my eyes, I saw that the corners of Apple's mouth were slightly broken, and half of his face was swollen. I asked, "Who hit you?" But she didn't want to say anything, but she didn't want me to do much.

I threw the quilt out of bed: "Before I go to the violent room, I'll go to Aunt Su Xiao and let her make the decision for you." ”

Apple was so serious for the first time: "Looking for Aunt Su?" It's the people of the Queen's Palace, how should you! ”

I'm stunned, Queen......

Storm Room - the earliest place to dry silk fabrics in the palace. Later, the women in the palace who were sick and the concubines who were guilty of deposing were all placed here.

If Yongxiang is the later Xin Zheku, then the violent room is basically a cold palace.

The courtyard of the violent room and the theater garden "Zhongyitai", the grain depot "Taicang", are comparable to the northernmost part of the Yeting Palace.

Apple carried the quilt luggage for me, and taught me the basics as she walked.

I couldn't help but laugh dumbly when I heard this, and it was also heart-opening to put Taicang next to the violent room, and I was really not afraid that there would be a broken jar and a broken outlaw who would burn it on fire?

Speaking of the fire, I suddenly remembered the Manna Palace: "Hey, Apple, was the emperor burned to death the night before?" Why isn't there a mourning in this palace? ”

Apple choked on the air he had inhaled, coughed a few times, and said angrily: "Do you want your little life, pure nonsense!" The emperor is in good health. ”

I asked, "Why?" I have heard that he reads every night in the temple of Manna. ”

"Before the fire, the saint happened to be sleepy from reading, so he walked out of the back door of the dormitory by himself to wake up, and just escaped the catastrophe."

"Then why are some people shouting to save the emperor?"

"Ahem, our son of heaven has never liked to be served by the side when he reads. When I went out that night, I guess I didn't close the book, thinking that the wind blew up the pages and touched the fire on the candlestick, which caused the fire. Gong E, who was waiting outside the front door, must have thought that the emperor was still inside. ”

I grimaced and sucked my lips, bared my two front teeth and looked at Apple with cross-eyed: "Who told you this statement?" ”

Apple was amused by me: "The statement given by the above, we are not up and down, listen to it." ”

With the sunlight shining behind me, I suddenly noticed that the apples had been reduced a bit.

I jumped around the apple, twisted left and right, sang and chanted: "My good sister, I've been bothered to lose weight lately, and I'm about to change from an apple to a papaya, can't it!" Go back and sister will make a delicious dish for you to taste! ”

"What kind of food?" She really didn't eat well, and as soon as she heard me talk about food, her eyes showed interest.

I blinked: "Keep it a secret, and you'll know soon!" ”

When I'm with Apple, it's really relaxing. Even on the road to the violent room, which is getting more and more desolate, he is full of joy and smiles.

I've thought about many versions of how barren and cluttered the riot compound is.

But I didn't expect that it would reach the point where I pushed the door and fell half of it.

This kind of greeting made me cry and laugh, but fortunately the door was not big, otherwise I would have really crushed the apple in front of me into apple puree.

The guards at the door were two lazy little waiters, seeing that the apple had a female history waist card, politely came over and lifted the door against the wall, and scolded with a smile: "This broken door has been squeaky for a year and a half, and I don't want to fall down and hit you today, so I'll find a craftsman to repair it." ”

When I entered the door, the rectangular courtyard in front of me was quite large. It looks like a bungalow family courtyard issued in the seventies and eighties, with a whole row of hard hilltop tiled houses facing south. No matter what background or identity they once had, the people who moved here are all living next to each other at the moment.

The tiles were peeling off and thatched, and the roof looked like patches one patch after another.

The dusty courtyard is covered with several layers of old fallen leaves, and the unyellowed weeds are rooted in the walls.

Apple and I asked about Concubine Xiao's room next to each other, most of the rooms were dirty and foul-smelling. There are only a few of them, and they are only neat.

Most of them are withdrawn and silent, or they play with an object and do not pay attention to people. It wasn't until we came to the end that there was an aunt who was holding a sunflower and picking melon seeds from above to take care of us. She raised her chin: "You have walked through, and you are the fifth room to enter the door." ”

The fifth? Oh my God, I was very impressed with the fifth room, where my sister, who was about thirty years old, was soothing and sleeping on the threshold.

We quickly turned back, put down our luggage, and carried her headfirst to the bed, where the color of the quilt was no longer visible. If you have to say that the dirty black is clear, it is reasonable......

There are no furnishings in the house, but the visual experience is still horizontal. One of the toe-topped shoes that had been pulled into slippers was on the table, while the other was a pet and was being held in his arms.

Even if you clean it up, you can't start for a while.

Apple helped me make the small bed in front of the window on the other side of the room, and pretended to glare at me: "You woe son is here to change your mind and be a new person!" ”

He took out a booklet from his bosom and put it on the bed: "Oh, your official document." You are allowed to walk in the palace with a book. ”

After that, she smiled and looked at my clothes and sighed: "Now I wear the lowest palace clothes, but I still have privileges. Also, this wisteria ash wears on you, it looks like a little Taoist aunt. ”

"Hey, you dare to make fun of me." The two of us fought and quarreled, and chased after each other into the yard.

Just then, I sent her out: "Okay, okay, you should go back too." ”

She held back her emotions and waved goodbye to me.

I didn't want to let unnecessary emotions drain my energy, so I turned around and came back with a breath to cheer up and start my new life.

In addition to being in disrepair, this place is just lacking in tidying up. The specifications are not as good as the house here, and I lived there for a while when I was a child. At that time, it was in a small alley, where there was a spacious and bright place.

Start cleaning up.

I rolled up my sleeves, drew water from the well by feeling, and soaked all the dirty clothes and hand towels I had picked up from the room, and put them all in the big basin.

Then I learned the way my grandmother used to wash and take washboards, and rubbed them one by one. The large ones were beaten with a hammer. This should be much easier than in Yongxiang, plus I only do the housework of two people in total, which is not tiring.

After a while, the dirty clothes were washed and hung on the bamboo poles in the courtyard.

Soap horn powder is a rarity at this time, and I use laundry water over and over again. First hastily sweep the dust on the pane table and the floor under the bed, and then wipe it with a rag dipped in soap and horn liquid, which is regarded as disinfection and sterilization.

When the dirt is gone, wipe it again with clean water. I pushed the rag from one end of the floor to the other, and I was busy.

Finally, the window was clear, and the fresh wind blew in through the window, and I felt that I had a good harvest.

After tidying up the house, I started to take care of the yard. The yard was too big, so I had to sweep the snow in front of the door first.

I dragged the fallen leaves and debris basket by basket to the westernmost pine trees in the yard. Finally, after a few trips, the slate floor was completely revealed.

A few buckets of water were used to wash the ground, and the steps under the eaves were rushed to the south, and the terrain was also high in the north and low in the south, and the water took away the dust in a hurry, and then slowly flowed away along the aqueduct at the root of the wall.

I looked at my watch, three hours. It's not a new look, but it's enough to give you a makeover.

That's all for today's cleaning, I clapped my hands and smoothed my clothes, my eyes filled with joy. But at this time, the sunflower aunt who had been watching the play next to me spit out the melon seed skin in her mouth and mocked me disdainfully: "You think you can change? It seems that you don't understand what despair is. ”

Despair.

In just a second, she broke the word "effort".

If you can still try, then there are options. So, what if there is no chance of effort?

My warm heart suddenly fell into the ice cave, and two lines of tears suddenly ticked.

But when I felt the tears rolling down my cheeks, my heart warmed. Before I traveled to this plane, my tears were cold, and I knew at that time that my body was not so good. But now, isn't it getting better again?

I have found that circumstances change with a change of mind.

Before I could digest the pain, I heard the ping-pong bells in the room.

I hurriedly went in to inspect the situation, only to see the ceramic cup shattered to the ground. I hurriedly helped her sit down: "Xiao Niangniang, I'm new to serve you, don't move, I'll come." I put the freshly dried tea to her mouth, and she was so thirsty that she drank the cow. After drinking three glasses in a row, he stopped.

She leaned back on the pillow and burped, "You're the bunny they say?" ”

"Huh? Uh-huh, it's a little girl. ”

Unexpectedly, she immediately took a sip: "These hanged ghosts who are powdered and rubbed flowers, I thought I was going to send a roasted hare to my mother to eat, but I didn't expect it to be a living person." Hey, what a disappointment! ”

I didn't know how to persuade for a while, so I said, "Niangniang, aren't you uncomfortable in your eyes?" I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to live normally, so I ......"

I looked into her eyes as I got closer, their eyeballs cloudy, and a thick white membrane near their pupils. It seems that this is not blindness, but what was later called cataracts.

"Are you done? My eyes are prone to eye diseases when I am young. In the past two years, there has been a white shadow that is more serious than one day, and the first two days have basically been considered blind, like now, I only see a human figure in front of me, as for you? I can't see it! Ahem, why are you still looking for someone to serve me, it's better to die a day sooner! ”

I tried to reassure her: "Niangniang, you may be able to cure this disease." In my hometown, there are many examples of healing. ”

She was silent, and the world was silent again.

I took out the nut steamed cake I brought from my baggage and gave it to my mother. In this violent room, only breakfast and lunch were brought outside, and dinner was never available. Fortunately, I was mentally prepared for a long time, and I ate two more large chicken legs outside the regular meal at noon, and I was almost full to my throat, which made me not hungry until now.

I lay in bed, thinking about how to solve the problem of tomorrow's meal, and fell asleep.

As I slept soundly, I vaguely returned to my old bedroom, and heard the sound of my sweet cat scratching the door with its paws outside the door. She's reminding me, open the door, I'm going to sleep next to your pillow.

This voice is a sign of my life, and every time it happens, I wake up keenly from my dreams and open the door to let her in.

And this time, it's no exception. I sat up in a daze, and opened my eyes for a moment to realize that I was in another time and space, and the sound of scratching the door came from the window in front of me.

"Who is it?" I exclaimed quietly.

Then a shadow jumped down from the window and flashed.

"Is it sweet?"

I hurried to the door, but Ye Jing was sleeping, the stars were sparse in the night, and everything was silent.