The night passed quickly, and I still slept deeply. When I woke up, Ju Xiang told me that the king of Yunnan and Cangyang had learned the context of the incident. The king of Yunnan was furious, and he ordered people to send red incense and smoke columns on the spot. I was startled and hurriedly got up and washed. I gently rolled up my sleeves and put my hand in the warm water, a few torn lotus petals floated and sank on the water, my eyes slowly lowered, and asked, "When?" ”

Ju Xiang stood aside with a towel and said softly: "The second lady is sleeping deeply, early this morning, the prince heard the tongues chewed by the little maids, and immediately sent someone here to take the person." ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Really? I took the towel from Juxiang's hand and wiped my hands, and I asked again, "What happened later?" ”

Ju Xiang said: "Later, under the pressure of the prince and Ming Shizi, Yanzhu recruited everything, but it was all the words that he had said to the second lady yesterday. ”

I chuckled and asked, "What about the red incense?" Did she recruit anything else? ”

Ju Xiang shook her head and said, "No, Hong Xiang didn't say a single superfluous word," his eyes looked at me cautiously, "The prince was very angry, so he tortured Hong Xiang and beat her with a whip, but Hong Xiang didn't recruit the person who was behind her." ”

I sighed, "Dad, why do you want to torture her like this," I panicked, and hurriedly asked, "But you saved their lives?" ”

Ju Xiang paused for a long time and said in a low voice: "They were all killed, Hongxiang was immediately exhausted, and the smoke column ...... The sticks smashed down again and again, and the body was unrecognizable when it was returned to the family. ”

I shook my head and asked, "But the maids and servants of the Yunnan Royal Mansion have to wait for their families to claim them after they die?" ”

Ju Xiang looked slightly sad, and replied in a low voice: "Yes." ”

I lowered my eyes and said, "I didn't want the lives of Hongxiang and Yanzhu, just send them out of the house, who knows that my father cleaned up the end of this matter for me, then there is nothing to be done," there was some regret in his tone, "I haven't been able to get up in a daze for the past two days, otherwise, I may be able to save them, and I won't just break it hastily." ”

Ju Xiang said: "This is also their own sin, it can be regarded as their own evil fruit, if it wasn't for the second miss to give this medicine, the second miss would not be in such a situation, it is obvious that they are not right-hearted, and they have harmed themselves." ”

I straightened my clothes and said: "That being said, it is true, but I can't bear it in my heart, you take some silver out and go out to Hongxiang and Yanzhu's family, let them buy two better coffins, and bury them well, Hongxiang can be regarded as serving me after all, pick two pieces of jewelry for her to bring in, so that she will not suffer in the underworld." ”

Ju Xiang pursed her lips and smiled lightly, as if she had expected me to give such an order, "Second Miss Bodhisattva heart, they treated you like this when they were born, and Second Miss still thinks about their future affairs like this, but the slave maid asked someone to do it early, where can I wait for Second Miss to worry about this?" ”

Ju Xiang gently opened the window, and the blue sky was full of white clouds, like stone flowers blooming on the reef in the mountains, and the dull and slow sunlight shone directly through the cracks. There was not a hint of wind, the cicadas were screaming, and the weeds and branches could not hold back the heat, and the leaves were rolled into thin strips.

Originally, there were ice urns everywhere in the room to relieve the heat, and I couldn't feel the heat wave of the hot sun at all.

The branches and leaves of the courtyard occasionally made a sound, the scorching wind, with the light fragrance of flowers, I felt as if it was faintly pressing, but my body was soaked in a thin layer of cold, and I couldn't help but hold on to the window and sighed: "Even if I want to take a break to live a peaceful life, I am determined not to provoke others, but I didn't expect that others will still come to provoke me." ”

Ju Xiang's small milk teeth bit lightly on her red lips, and asked me in a low voice: "Does the second lady still want to blindly fight with the world?" Do you still want to blindly regress and tolerate it? ”

I sighed deeply and said, "The two armies are fighting, and everyone else is coming to the city, what else can I do?" ”

Ju Xiang held my hand and said, "It's good that the second miss has made up her mind, and the slave maid will be of the same heart as the second miss, and swear to protect the second miss to the death." ”

I smiled slowly and helplessly, "In Jiankang City, people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, I am powerless to resist, and now I have hidden here, it is still the case, but this time I can still fight." ”

I know in my heart that in the current situation, even if I want to retreat, I can't go back, a step back is a cliff, and even if it is full of thorns, there is still a way to go.

Ju Xiang helped me tie up my sideburns, I reached out and shook the cold crystal jade on my head, and asked, "Daddy, did you tell me when the Lichun flower outside will be removed?" ”

Ju Xiang said: "The prince didn't say anything, but Ming Shizi secretly told the slave maid that Ming'er would send a few people to clean up and let the second lady rest assured." ”

I whispered, "Got it," don't look around, and said in a voice faintly tired, "Go down, I'm tired, I want to rest alone." ”

Ju Xiang frowned and looked at me twice, then quietly retreated.

Outside the window, the flame of Lichun flowers stands there, like a river of desire, free and unrestrained in the sun, feeling that the hot sun is decomposed by this free splendor, warm and fragrant. Let's just let it sway here for a little longer and soon, soon I won't see it again.

Very few people know that the spring flower that Riri is talking about is actually another name called "poppy".

Pull out the mountains and cover the world, and the times are not good. What can I do if I don't die? What is the reason for Yu Xi?

In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, Chu and Han fought, and Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was defeated and surrounded by the Han army. Xiang Yu knew that it was difficult to break out of the encirclement, so he drank with his favorite concubine Yu Ji at night.

Suddenly, when I heard Chu Ge all around, I couldn't help but sing generously and sadly: "Pull out the mountains and cover the world, and the times will not pass away." What can I do if I don't die? What is the reason for Yu Xi? ”

Yu Ji also felt that the general trend had gone, and sang "Song of Harmony" with tears and danced, and after a song, she pulled out her sword from Xiang Yu's waist and crossed it to her neck.

Later, a kind of grass grew on Yu Ji's tomb, shaped like a cockscomb, with opposite leaves, soft stems and long leaves, automatic without wind, like a beauty dancing, charming and lovely.

Folklore has it that this is the sincerity of Yu Ji, so this grass is called "poppy grass", and its flowers are called "poppy beauty". The bright red color of the poppy flowers is said to be dyed by Yu Ji's splashed blood. It seems that Yu Ji is still there after her death, she has become a poppy grass, which blooms every year in late spring and early summer, even if it turns into grass and wood, she is still persistent, still loyal and waiting for the overlord, or as before, she keeps showing her face and smiling for the overlord all year round.

Every time I see a poppy outside the window, I feel an inexplicable fear in my heart that such a delicate flower can become the sharp blade in the hands of the executioner, killing people invisibly.

Besides, as soon as Hongxiang and Yanzhu died, the last clues were all broken, and it seems that the turmoil has subsided, but in fact, there are still many unsolved mysteries: who made the medicine jar and the medicine powder inside?

Hongxiang took all the blame on herself, although it is really respectable and lamentable, but it is impossible for her to do it alone, I even think that no one can make such a thing in the Yunnan Palace, maybe it is also involved with the people in the rivers and lakes outside?

Hongxiang has just come to my room, and even if she plants the seeds, she is afraid that the flowers will not bloom until next year, but who and when did the spring flowers that are now blooming in the yard secretly plant?

……

There are so many potential dangers that I have to be afraid.