Chapter 149: Boiling Out
"Why did you choose the Pure Hospital?" Zhou Tianmu raised his eyebrows, there are many places in the capital that can endure hardships and fatigue, and the clean courtyard is not the only choice. What's more, let Zhou Yusheng pretend to be a eunuch, he really doesn't know how Bai Shuqin came up with this idea.
Compared with her messing around, Zhou Tianmu was more willing to choose to believe that she had other ideas.
Bai Shuqin carefully observed his expression, and seeing that his face was more curious, he said, "I think the prince can learn something in it that can't be learned in the palace." ”
"The eunuch in the palace, who knows astronomy and geography, is it not as good as a group of eunuchs? I would like to hear what you can't learn in the palace. When Zhou Tianmu said this, his eyes were full of disdain for the low-level eunuchs.
Even if some people envy the eunuchs for having no worries about food and clothing, it is more of a mockery of their incomplete bodies, from ordinary people to the emperor.
Zhou Yusheng is the crown prince, so he naturally looks down on this group of eunuchs, and his condescending attitude in it will make him suffer. If he inadvertently revealed his ridicule of the eunuch, life would be even more difficult.
Bai Shuqin did not rush to argue, but said calmly: "Your Majesty, if you want to know, give me three days." I believe that in three days, the crown prince will have a different transformation. ”
Zhou Tianmu stretched out his hand and pointed at Bai Shuqin and said, "Okay, I'll give you three days!" ”
The nature of the country is easy to change and difficult to change, and there is still some truth in this sentence. Zhou Yusheng is already seventeen, and he will be weak in three years, and he is already an adult. His long-formed habits, Zhou Tianmu didn't believe that Bai Bai Shuqin could make him change in three days.
However, he faintly had some expectations, maybe Bai Shuqin could really make Zhou Yusheng different.
Compared with Zhou Tianmu's uncertainty, Bai Shuqin seemed confident, her eyes were firm, giving people a sense of inevitability.
Zhou Yusheng, who was locked in the firewood room, became much more honest after experiencing the experience of rags and gagged and rats gnawing his feet.
It's not because he resigned himself to his fate, it's that he really doesn't have the strength to toss, and the skin on his wrists is about to be worn out. He had never been treated like this, and secretly vowed to teach Bai Shuqin a good lesson when he went out.
Time seems to stand still, in Zhou Yusheng's memory, an hour should have passed quickly, but now it seems that it is long and cannot be reached.
The little eunuch Ah Ji, who was with Gonggong Chen, who was in charge of the clean courtyard, slapped Gonggong Chen on the back and asked, "Gonggong Chen, the time is almost up, do you want to let that person go?" ”
"This person provoked the prince and didn't say anything, and he still spoke falsely, and locked him up for a while to let him remember it longer!" Gonggong Chen's eyes didn't open, he reached out and tapped his shoulder and neck, "Here, use some more strength." ”
"You're right!" The strength in Aggie's hand increased a little more.
The sky outside gradually darkened, and Zhou Yusheng seemed to have been forgotten. If he had really been forgotten, would he have died in this wood house?
The thought that popped into his mind startled him, how could he think that? He is also the prince of a country, no one will forget him, as long as he waits, someone will come to save him.
When it was about to get completely dark, someone finally opened the door with a lantern. At this time, Zhou Yusheng had been lying on the ground and sleeping for an unknown amount of time, when he heard the sound of the door opening, he opened his eyes.
Aji walked up to Zhou Yusheng and squatted down and asked him, "Do you know it's wrong?" ”
In order to get out of this firewood room as soon as possible and go out early, Zhou Yusheng nodded hurriedly.
"It's good to know it's wrong!" Aji placed the lantern away from the firewood, then took out the cloth from Zhou Yusheng's mouth and untied the rope that bound his hands and feet.
Zhou Yusheng has been waiting for an opportunity to watch, and after Aji untied the rope that was tied to his feet at the end, he pushed Aji to the ground violently, pulled his legs and ran out.
"Oops!" Aji fell to the ground and shouted, seeing Zhou Yusheng running out, he was not in a hurry to chase, just picked up the rope on the ground, and said with emotion, "Gonggong Chen is really like a god." ”
Outside, before Zhou Yusheng ran out of the courtyard, he was held down by several tall and powerful eunuchs. Gonggong Chen walked up to him with a stick in his hand and sneered, and slapped him on the ass a few times before he could speak.
"If you dare to beat me, I want you to die a good death!" Zhou Yusheng struggled to get up and beat Gonggong Chen, but he couldn't move.
Gonggong Chen slapped him twice in the ass and said, "It's you who beats!" No wonder the prince wants to teach you a good lesson, a dog slave who has no distinction between dignity and inferiority! ”
Zhou Yusheng's eyes were bloodshot, and his teeth were clenched together, he had never been insulted like this.
"You dare to look at me like this, looking for a fight!" Gonggong Chen slapped his ass again, and then threw the stick to Aji, who had just arrived, squatted down, and reached out to pick up Zhou Yusheng's chin, "Do you know what kind of place this is, dare to be ruthless here." ”
"Phew!" Zhou Yusheng spat in Gonggong Chen's face, glared at him and scolded: "You eunuch, don't wait for me to go out, otherwise I will definitely kill you!" ”
Gonggong Chen angrily wiped the saliva off his face, stood up and instructed the eunuch who was pressing Zhou Yusheng: "Lock him up for me, starve him for a day and a night!" ”
In this way, Zhou Yusheng was tied with his hands and feet tied and locked in the firewood room.
After such a toss, Zhou Yusheng's stomach was also hungry and began to gurgle sound. He has always been clothed and fed, where has he experienced the feeling of hunger, he can't help but have a sour eye, and almost shed tears.
"Hmph, isn't it just a day of hunger, what's it? Don't wait for me to get out, or I'll settle accounts with you one by one. Zhou Yusheng said to himself, but in fact, he didn't know when he would be able to go out.
Here, he told that the heavens should not be called the earth, and even resistance was futile.
He suddenly remembered Bai Shuqin's words, everyone is equal. Where everyone is equal, even in this kind of place, there are high and low statuses, how can it be equal.
Everything that happened in the Jinggong was under Bai Shuqin's control, and Zhou Yusheng suffered a little on the first night. The next day, things changed. A slap in the face and then a piece of candy is much more effective than giving sugar first.
Sometimes Bai Shuqin would wonder if he was a little too much, but this kind of thought was the thought of Bai Shuqin's soul in his mind.
Zhou Yusheng was hungry for a night, and now he just wants to eat, even if he doesn't have delicacies from the mountains and seas, even if he only gives him a bun, he doesn't care.
Last night, Chen Gonggong said that he would starve him for a day and a night, and this night has passed, and there is still one day to suffer.
He listened to the sound of his stomach and regretted that he shouldn't have been impulsive yesterday. He should show weakness first, make them trust him first, and then run away when they lose their guard against him.
He seemed to have heard this practice from the previous Taifu, but at that time, he only regarded it as a paper talk, and he didn't take it to heart at all.
Now, however, he could think of the art of war on his own. Suddenly, he felt a little proud.
Just when Zhou Yusheng thought that he would starve for another day, the door was opened, and this time in addition to Aji and Chen Gonggong, they walked in one after another.
Gonggong Chen looked at Zhou Yusheng condescendingly, "I'll ask you again, do you know if it's wrong, do you dare to do it again?" ”
"Don't dare, never dare!" Zhou Yusheng shook his head like a rattle.
With the experience of the last time, Aggie didn't dare to let him go easily, but only untied the rope from his leg first. He stared at Zhou Yusheng carefully, and asked with certainty: "You won't be playing any tricks this time, right?" ”
"No!" Zhou Yusheng said yes.
Aji thought about it, and still untied the rope on his feet, but left the last one unsolved, took two steps back defensively, and said to him: "You can solve the rest yourself." ”
Zhou Yusheng was afraid that they would regret it, so he hurriedly untied the rope on his feet. After being tied up all night, his feet were already numb, and he couldn't stand up even if he wanted to.
When Gonggong Chen saw him like this, he instructed Aji, "Aji, you help him up." ”
"Great!" Aji stepped forward, helped Zhou Yusheng up, and said to him as a passerby: "You shake your legs, it will be much better to shake your legs twice." ”
Zhou Yusheng listened to his words and shook his legs vigorously, but the feeling of numbness became stronger, and he gasped.
"Uncomfortable, isn't it? Patience is over, you believe me, try two more times. "Aggie said sincerely, and he didn't get angry at all because of yesterday's events.
Zhou Yusheng, who was suspicious, tried to shake it a few more times, and sure enough, the numbness seemed to be somewhat relieved, and he immediately tried to change his leg again.
"If you can go, come over for dinner." Gonggong Chen couldn't help but smile and said.
This Gonggong Chen is about the same age as Zhou Yusheng, but among this group of thirteen or fourteen-year-old eunuchs, he is considered the oldest. He has been in the palace for three years, although he has only been in charge of the pure courtyard, but this job is much better than going to the prince's side.
When no outsiders are here, at least he doesn't need to look at other people's faces.
In the past, when he first entered the palace, the group of eunuchs bullied the weak and feared the hard, but he suffered a lot. When he finally got out of it, he didn't put his own experience on other eunuchs, but was able to compare his heart with his heart.
It was precisely because Bai Shuqin understood these that he chose to throw Zhou Yusheng here.
Zhou Yusheng and Gonggong Chen came to his room, and saw the scallion pancakes, boiled eggs, and two bowls of shredded pork noodles on the table, and their gluttonous saliva was about to flow out.
He swallowed his saliva, and without Gonggong Chen speaking, he didn't dare to touch the things on the table. If you accidentally make him angry, and put him in a firewood room and starve him for two more days, he will lose half his life if he doesn't die.
Gonggong Chen sat down first, patted the stool next to him, and said to him, "Sit down and eat something with me." ”
Hearing this, Zhou Yusheng didn't shirk it, sat down next to him directly, reached out and picked up the scallion pancake and chewed it. He couldn't touch the meatless pancakes before, but now he felt that the scallion pancakes were incomparably fragrant, more fragrant than any of the pancakes he had eaten before.
"What's your name?" Gonggong Chen asked.
Zhou Yusheng chewed the scallion pancake and replied vaguely: "Zhou Yusheng." ”
"Zou Yunshen? Good name. Chen Gonggong said to himself, he didn't go to eat the things on the table, just watched Zhou Yusheng gobble up.
Zhou Yusheng finished eating a piece of scallion pancake, and his stomach barely felt so hungry, and then he immediately picked up the bowl and swallowed a large bowl of shredded meat noodles into his stomach. In this way, he still didn't feel full.
Gonggong Chen pushed the noodles in front of him in front of him, "This bowl is also for you." ”
"Aren't you going to eat?" Zhou Yusheng asked.
"It's okay, I'll just eat a piece of cake, you can eat it!" Gonggong Chen said with a smile, as if the relationship between the two was good, and nothing had happened before.
Yesterday, Zhou Yusheng spat at others, and today people actually gave him their face regardless of their previous suspicions. With such a mind, compared with Zhou Yusheng's thoughts yesterday, he felt a little ashamed of himself.
However, the feeling that his stomach was not full made him not care about pushing, so he directly picked up the bowl and ate the noodles in a big gulp.
After two bowls of noodles, Zhou Yusheng felt full. He touched his somewhat protruding belly, and sighed that it was such a happy thing to be full.