"In this palace, you and I are actually in the same situation, whether you admit it or not, it is the same in the eyes of others."

"Your surname is Yang, and my surname is Mao, but in the eyes of the emperor, we are all members of the Yang family, and we are all porcelain, but you are a precious porcelain that is put on the shelf, and I am just an inferior porcelain for him to smash if I want to. Precious porcelain is placed, and after being placed for a long time, it is too gray to even look at it; Inferior porcelain is open today, and tomorrow it cracks, and it is so cold that it will be smashed and used for gas. But in spite of this, we are still porcelain, one for the other, not that he doesn't want to smash us into powder and never be reborn, but he doesn't dare. ”

Concubine Mao's voice is beautiful, tactful and soft, and her beautiful voice speaks sad words at a slow pace, without anger, without resentment, only mockery.

It's mocking her, it's mocking herself, and it's mocking the man who hates to destroy them all but doesn't dare.

The queen didn't say a word, and her slender hand stroked her other arm through the sleeve, where it hurt, painful, painful, and extremely pleasant.

She knew why Concubine Mao came to her, and she also knew that Concubine Mao had just come out of Chaoyang Palace. Although she stays at home, she can always know everything she wants to know.

It's like Concubine Lin Shu's death.

She didn't speak, she listened quietly, and Concubine Mao was still talking, her voice was as good as ever.

"Just now, when the concubine came out of Chaoyang Palace, she suddenly remembered the girls in Rouge Hutong, the concubine didn't want to pollute your ears, and she couldn't pollute it at all, because those girls may live more decently than us."

The queen's brow moved, this was instinctive disgust.

But she didn't stop Mao Guifei, just put the fingers on her arm with a slight effort, and there was another burst of pain that spread from her arm to her whole body, and she exhaled a long breath, which was really comfortable.

There was a little more bitterness in Mao Guifei's beautiful voice: "The girls in Rouge Hutong, some can sell their art but not (that) body, and some can pick their own guests, only pick what they look pleasing to the eye; And those guests, whether they are spending a lot of money or shy in their pockets, are all coaxing and deceiving the girls, pampering and hurting. And we, do we have this life? ”

Concubine Mao's voice stopped abruptly, and the queen's fingers clenched heavily on her arm, this time the pain made her break out in a cold sweat, but her eyes suddenly brightened.

The queen's arm was already scarred, the old wound had not yet healed, and there were new wounds.

Knife by knife, it was cut by herself.

For this reason, she deliberately found a gorgeous knife.

The knife is neither long nor wide, and is used to peel apples, but the handle is inlaid with gold and jade, so gorgeous and delicate that people forget that it is a knife.

Therefore, the queen felt that it was most appropriate to use this knife to cut her arm.

......

Rouge Hutong is not one alley, but three alleys.

These three alleys are not in the same place, and there are also high and low differences.

The Red Sleeve Trick is undoubtedly the most expensive of them all.

It was the season of peach pink and pear white, and the proprietress Zhao Hongsleeves sat on the chair in an extremely elegant posture, and the person sitting opposite her was not a goldsmith in gorgeous clothes, but a young man in a green coat and a small hat.

"Xiao Dong, is there any news from the tenth sister?" This sentence is undoubtedly redundant, Xiao Dong's identity on weekdays is just a hawker, selling rock sugar gourds in winter and snowflake cheese in summer, he may be able to hear a thing or two about the news in the capital, but he can't inquire about the news in Xi'an.

Unless Mei Shengxue has a letter.

Mei Shengxue hasn't written back for a long time.

Xiao Dong shook his head, lowered his head and picked his fingers.

"Don't pick it, if you pick it again, you'll break your fingers." Zhao Hongsleeve said angrily.

Xiao Dong immediately stopped his movements and looked at Zhao Hongsleeve with a blank expression.

Zhao Hongsleeve sighed and complained, "I know she went to look for you before leaving, why didn't you go with her?" Aunt Dong is no longer here, you have nothing to worry about in the capital, and with you following her, I don't have to worry about it like this. ”

Xiao Dong was silent, Mei Shengxue had gone to look for him, he guessed that Zhao Hongsleeve would know sooner or later, but he never thought about how to explain to Zhao Hongsleeve.

Mei Shengxue was invited to Xi'an by a Qingdao person.

The year before last, the King of Qin sent a few heads to the Empress Dowager, and a Qingdao person was a saint-faced person.

The sensation caused by that incident can't be hidden, not to mention that the empress dowager can't tell the whole world that King Qin is disloyal, unfilial, and rebellious. Therefore, what happened in the court soon spread throughout the capital, and Mei Shengxue went to see a Qingdao person.

Zhao Hongsleeve and Xiao Dong didn't know what a Qingdao person said to Mei Shengxue, Mei Shengxue didn't tell them, and they didn't ask.

They know Mei Shengxue's character too well, and what Mei Shengxue doesn't want to say, it's useless to ask.

But last year, Mei Shengxue suddenly said that she was going to Xi'an, and Zhao Hongsleeve and Xiao Dong didn't have to guess to know that a Qingdao person asked her to go.

The red-sleeved move was opened by Mei Ge Lao to recruit the red sleeves before his death, and the red sleeves would not be abandoned, and Mei Shengxue would not let her leave the capital, after all, over the years, the news they got eight or nine times out of ten came from the mouths of the guests of the red sleeves.

Mei Shengxue went to find Xiao Dong, but Xiao Dong refused.

"Xiao Dong, there were ten of us back then, and there was no you among these ten people, you came to replace Aunt Dong. You didn't belong here originally, if you want to quit, you can leave while the tenth sister hasn't come back yet. ”

Zhao Hongsleeves changed her posture, her upper body leaned forward slightly, Xiao Dong looked at her, and suddenly felt that he was very close to her.

"I'm not leaving." Xiao Dong said in a low voice.

"Let's go, after the tenth sister comes back, you can't leave if you want to, have you forgotten how Xiong Sibao died?" Zhao Hongsleeves sighed again.

Of course, Xiao Dong will not forget how Xiong Sibao died, no matter who he is, he will not forget it after experiencing that scene, and he will not dare to forget it.

Xiong Sibao was about to quit and was killed by Mei Shengxue with a flying knife.

"Sister Zhao, you know we can't do that, but why don't you quit? I know you're not afraid of the Ten Girls. Xiao Dong seemed to have suddenly eaten the gall of a bear's heart and leopard, and he stared straight into Zhao Hongsleeve's eyes, his gaze was warm.

"Me?" Zhao Hongsleeve pointed at himself with a slender jade finger, as if he didn't expect Xiao Dong to ask like this. After a while, she laughed self-deprecatingly, "In my life, I will not go anywhere, and I will die in the Red Sleeves." ”

The red-sleeved move was given to her by the man, and it was her only thought.

"If you don't go, I won't go." Xiao Dong suddenly stood up and strode out.

Zhao Hongsleeve was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly got up and walked to the window.

Outside the window, Xiao Dong, who was dressed in shabby, walked out of the flowery red sleeves, he didn't look back, and strode farther and farther.

Zhao Hongsleeves stared blankly at the figure that was gradually moving away, and smiled bitterly.

What a silly boy.