Chapter 258: Pounding the Rice Pit
(Cat flutter Chinese) "Wei Qing doesn't have to be impatient, I will recruit famous doctors from all over the world to diagnose and treat the queen, and the queen's illness will definitely be cured. (Fengwu Literature Network) "Xuanyuan Rui resolutely resisted and looked at Wei Changyan coldly.
"Your Majesty, even if the queen is in good health, the matter of the harem concubine is ......" Xue Shaoqing wanted to reconsider the prerogatory, Xuanyuan Rui interrupted him impatiently, "Xue Qing, there is no need to discuss this matter again, if there is anything else to do, please play it together." ”
"Alas! Your Majesty," Xue Shaoqing sighed in a low voice, and took out a piece of music and presented it: "The old minister has a ...... of music"
Yun Xiao forced Xiao Wan to call Xia Li, afraid that Xuanyuan Rui would be unhappy if she knew, so the three of them changed their clothes, and Yun Xiao put the precious sable fur on her body and went to the prison as a civilian.
It is inconvenient for Weifu to sit on the chariot, the distance from the harem to the prison is not close, Xiaowan and Xia Liang helped Yunxiao, and the three of them quietly came to the prison, bought off the jailer, and went in smoothly.
Xiao Wan held Yun Xiao's arm, Xia Li led the way in front, and walked a long way in a roundabout way. The dark and dreary road was as silent as death, and there was no figure in sight, and Yun Xiao's heart only increased a little fear.
"Xia Li, I'm afraid I've walked so far out of the capital?"
"Miss, the women's prison is in the innermost, the road is not far, but it feels far away." Xia Liang explained in a low voice, "People who come in for the first time have this feeling, and if they are prisoners, they will be even more afraid. ”
"All the gloomy and narrow tube roads are the same, you won't go the wrong way." Yun Xiao walked forward nervously.
"No, the slave and maid were locked up here for seven days, and when the mother woke up, the emperor ordered the slave and maid to be released to serve the mother, and then came in to see the autumn moon a few times, so it won't be wrong." Xia Liang stretched out his hand and pointed ahead: "It's almost there, miss, go this way." ”
Yun Xiao followed the direction she pointed and saw a large courtyard.
In the courtyard is a large dyeing workshop, there are red, yellow, blue and green several large pools, a group of female prisoners dressed in thin prison uniforms, leaning over to wash dyed cloth in the icy pool water, one by one frozen red and swollen and festering hands make people look cold.
The prisoners were all dressed in the same costume, as if they were all molded out of the same mold, with drooping eyelids, cold expressions, tired looks, and even the three of them passed by them without lifting their eyelids.
"Autumn Moon won't be in the crowd, will he?" Yun Xiao's heart suddenly tightened, and her eyes looked for Qiu Yue's figure among the female prisoners.
Xia Li looked at Yun Xiao and replied: "Qiu Yue and I were both here as coolies at first, and then I was released from prison, Xiao Yi came to see Qiu Yue, and saw that she couldn't support the wind and cold, so she asked the prison head to dredge the joints, and then she was transferred to the room to do coolies." ”
"Xiao Yi?"
"Well, Yu Xiaoyi cares about Qiuyue very much, and often sneaks in some medicine and food." Xia Liang and Qiu Yue are the best sisters, so they naturally know that Qiu Yue is interested in Xiao Yi.
"Xiao Yi has dredged up, why is Qiuyue still working as a coolie?" Yun Xiao was still puzzled.
Xia Liang lowered his eyes and sighed in a low voice: "Miss doesn't know, the emperor has a special decree to punish Qiu Yue heavily, so the prison boss doesn't dare to take too much care of Qiu Yue." ”
"Alas! The sufferings of the autumn moon are all suffered because of me. "The emperor meant to let Qiuyue suffer a little, Yun Xiao was speechless, and she felt guilty.
"Hey, what are you guys doing? Heaven and earth are not allowed to stay, go out quickly. A prison officer came over with a loud shout.
Xia Liang stepped forward to speak to the prison officer and pointed at Yun Xiao: "Lord Prison Head, this is Qiu Yue's sister, please be accommodating and let them meet." ”
Jing Prison glanced at Yun Xiao.
Yun Xiao was wearing a gray-white patterned rolled fur trimmed big hat, a big hat with a big white velvet scarf covering most of her face, only showing two eyes, standing silently, without a trace of respect and flattery, and even without the etiquette of looking at the prison head, Jing Prison Head felt very unhappy, pursed the corners of his mouth, didn't want to bother anymore, hugged his arms, trembled one leg unruly, and shouted to pick up people:
"Get out, go out, get them all out for me, Qiuyue is a repeat offender, and no one is allowed to visit the prison."
Xia Liang handed over a silver ingot, and smiled flatteringly: "Lord Prison Head, raise your noble hand, please let them see it." ”
A piece of silver immediately cured Jing Prison Head's leg trembling problem, threw the silver high, and then received it in his hand, Jing Prison Head glanced at Yun Xiao, "Come with me." ”
The head of the prison led them into a large, darkly lit room with a rumbling sound.
"Let them see the autumn moon." The head of Jing Prison called a female jailer to turn around and leave, no one wanted to stay in such a noisy place.
The three of them followed the female jailer inside, and there were several wooden hammers with two or three meters of arms long on the left and right sides of the room.
Qiu Yue lay next to one of the half-meter-deep rice pits, a thick wooden stake hammer was raised high above his head, and smashed into the rice pit with a bang, while the wooden hammer was raised, Qiu Yue leaned his upper body into the rice pit and stirred the rice in the pit with his hands, and then quickly got up to avoid the wooden hammer to smash down.
"Autumn Moon." Yun Xiao called, Qiu Yue didn't hear it, the wooden hammer was raised, she pierced into the pit and smashed the rice, the sledgehammer fell, Qiu Yue's body flashed out of the rice pit, boom! Sledgehammer down.
Yun Xiao's heart tugged together.
Xia Liang went over and pulled up Qiu Yue, pointed at Yun Xiao, and shouted in her ear: "Qiu Yue, Miss has come to see you." ”
Qiu Yue saw Xiao Wan and Yun Xiao standing behind her, tears welled up in an instant, she walked over with her knees as her feet, knelt at Yun Xiao's feet and bowed her head and kowtowed: "The slave deserves death, the slave deserves death." ”
"Qiuyue, get up, get up."
Yun Xiao stretched out her hand to help, Qiu Yue lay on the ground and couldn't get up, still kowtowing.
"The slave and maid are derelict in their duties, the crime is unforgivable, you should kill the slave and the maid."
"Qiuyue, don't be like this, forgive your innocence, get up quickly." Yun Xiao was powerless and couldn't help her, so she called Xiao Wan and Xia Li: "Xiao Wan, Xia Li, quickly help Qiu Yue." ”
"Miss, go back quickly, this is not where you came." Qiu Yue was helped up by the two, looking at the master who had lost a lot of weight, and her heart ached.
"You can't do this kind of work anymore, it's too dangerous, and if you are a little negligent, you will ......" Yun Xiao didn't dare to continue, this kind of coolie was too dangerous: "Come back with me, I'll go and ask the emperor to forgive you." ”
"Don't ......" Qiu Yue shook her head with tears in her eyes and walked away.
Yun Xiao grabbed her, looked at her earnestly, and said: "Qiuyue, you have to understand the emperor's pain, don't be jealous because of it, the emperor will not cut off your head, punish you to let you have a lesson, and you should be more cautious in doing things from now on." ”
"The slave and maid understand that the slave and maid have harmed the master and should be severely punished, and the emperor deserves to cut off the slave's head."
The jailer came over impatiently and shouted: "Okay, okay, it's okay to say a few words, Qiuyue, work quickly." ”
Qiu Yue glanced at the jailer nervously, and said hurriedly: "Master, Qiu Yue can still see you in this life, even if you die, you are content, take care of the master, and the slave and maid go to work." ”
She knelt down and kowtowed, crawled back to the edge of the pit with tears in her eyes, and leaned into the pit again.
Yun Xiao looked at Qiu Yue's body that had not entered the rice pit, standing there and shedding tears of pity, suddenly, there was a scream behind her, a female prisoner peeked at Yun Xiao, who was dressed in luxury, unfocused, and was smashed in the rice pit by a wooden hammer, and the surrounding prisoners surrounded her to rescue her, the jailer came over to intercept the female prisoner, whipped and whipped, and shouted loudly: "Don't get close, work hard, don't stop, go back to work." ”
Burst!
The wooden hammer fell again.
Yes! The female prisoners were stopped by the jailers, and they watched and their hearts tugged.
The jailer whipped people away and let the wooden hammer behind him smash down twice, the female prisoner was silent, only to see that half of the body shook with the horror of the hammer falling, and the jailer shouted for a while, and then turned around and dragged two feet to pull the female prisoner out, the female prisoner was bleeding from her mouth and nose, and she was dying.
Qiu Yue was too frightened, and her body fell down as soon as she went limp, and Xia Liang and Xiao Wan stepped forward to support her.
"Qiuyue, are you alright?" Yun Xiao squatted down and looked at her with concern.
"The slave is fine, don't worry about the slave." Qiu Yue's face was pale, and she was weak.
Yun Xiao turned her eyes to look at the female prisoner, and involuntarily ordered: "Quickly send the imperial doctor to save people." ”
"Imperial Doctor, hmph, you think you're the queen." The jailer sneered at Yun Xiao.
"Jailer, you are also a woman, you are so cold and hard-hearted, you can save her, but you watched her being stoned to death, and prevented others from helping, you are clearly malicious murder." Yun Xiao glared at the jailer and accused angrily.
"Shut up! Who dare you to be presumptuous in the prison! The jailer pinched his waist, pointed at the short whip, and scolded him strongly, and he looked at him angrily before meeting, after all, he was at a loss, and she turned to lower her arrogance and find a perfect reason for her behavior: "What are you staring at, you want to rebel, I am fulfilling her, hum, she was hit on the head with such a heavy hammer, even if she is rescued, she will not live for a few days, it is better to die than to die quickly, so as not to suffer for a few more days." ”
"Drag it out and throw it to a mass grave, let her fend for herself, live if she has a life, and feed the wolves if she doesn't." The jailer turned around and cold-blooded orders to the other jailers, apparently she was the little leader of the female prisoners.
The female prisoner was dragged away by the two of them, like a dead person.
"Get to work, get to work." Seeing that Qiuyue was still nestled in Xia Li's arms, the jailer threw over a few whips, "Don't be lazy, work quickly, no matter morning or night, as long as you can see it, you have to work, don't stop." ”
Qiu Yue was so frightened that she immediately got up from Xia Li's arms, knelt down and kowtowed to Yun Xiao, "Qiu Yue is going to work, you go back and rest quickly, don't come to see the slave in the future." With that, he got up and went to the rice pit, and buried half of his body in the rice pit again.
Yun Xiao watched in horror as the sledgehammer fell one by one, ran to Qiu Yue's side, pulled her aside and hugged her tightly in her arms: "Qiu Yue, don't do it, I'll take you back, I'll take you back." ”
The female jailer glared, and the three-foot short whip shone at the two of them: "Idle people go out, get out!" Damn, don't be lazy, get to work. ”
"You, you dare to whip Miss, you are looking for death!" Xiao Wan ran over and protected Yun Xiao with her body. Cat flutter Chinese