Chapter 5: Entering the Palace
"Ahh
Lu Mingxi fell to the ground in pain, screaming again and again: "Why am I so unlucky, I can be smashed every walk?" What the hell is it? Almost stoned me! ”
Turning his head to look at it, he was startled: "How is it a person?" Cliff jumping? Suicide? ”
Recovering his strength, he pushed the person away from him, struggled to sit up, and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Fortunately, I have practiced, otherwise I would have been stoned to death this time!" Which girl can't think so much? ”
Leaned closer and pulled the hair covering the woman's face: "What...... How is she? ”
Fu Ivan sat against a tree, and seeing that Ivan was unconscious, Lu Mingxi reached out and probed his nose, and put his mind at ease: "Fortunately, it didn't break." But how did she fall from above? Can't think about suicide? He looked around again and saw a basket of herbs not far away: "Could it be that she fell from above while collecting herbs?"
"Hey, wake up, wake up......" Lu Mingxi pinched Ivan's face, but he didn't see Ivan wake up for a long time: "What the hell is going on?" It's time to wake up, too. ”
was in a hurry, suddenly Ivan's head tilted to the side, Lu Mingxi caught a glimpse of Ivan's neck, two small wounds were black and swollen, and he was suddenly shocked: "She was bitten by a snake?"
Not daring to delay, Lu Mingxi immediately picked up Ivan horizontally and hurriedly ran out of the woods.
The county commander Zhou Guang sat firmly in the main hall, but the tea cup in his hand trembled. The proprietress on the side, Hua Ying, cried silently: ", what should I do if this happens?" Why don't you send someone to catch that little slut! ”
"You know what!" Zhou Guang dropped the teacup: "You don't care about this matter!" Seeing that Zhou Guang was angry, Hua Ying sat aside and didn't say anything, just crying.
"Sir!" A servant ran in: "There is a letter in the capital!"
"Bring it to me?" Zhou Guang took the letter in a panic. When I saw it, I laughed: "Hahaha...... You want revenge, here's your chance! ”
"What chance?" When Hua Ying heard this, she immediately stopped crying and leaned in.
Zhou Guangxiao's mouth was about to open: "The letter said that the Holy Lord chose a girl!"
"What does this have to do with arresting her?"
"You don't understand, life in the palace is not easy," Zhou Guang smiled: "Since someone is protecting her and she can't move openly, let's come to the dark!"
It's already on the lights, but there is still no shadow of Ivan, Yi Rende anxiously walked around the house, Yi Hang ate a bowl of wild vegetable soup and lay down next to Liu to sleep.
"Knock knock knock......" There was a knock on the door.
"Xiao Fan is back!" Yi Rende hurriedly went to open the door, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw the county commander Zhou Guang standing at the door with two entourages.
Yi Rende hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Grass people Yi Rende greets the county commander!"
"Hurry up, get up." Zhou Guang helped Yi Rende up with a smile on his face: "This county is here to tell you good news."
"Good news?"
"yes!" Zhou Guang walked into the courtyard and looked around: "Where is your daughter Ivan?"
"Go back to my lord, the little girl went up the mountain to collect medicine, why don't I go and look for her back?"
"Don't bother," Zhou Guang stopped: "That's the case, this county received an order from the imperial court today, the emperor wants to select a wide range of women, and after consideration in this county, your daughter Ivan is just right."
"What?" When Yi Rende heard this, he immediately knelt on the ground: "My lord, the little girl is not talented, she has been rough and clumsy since she was a child, and she can't be a girl, please forgive me."
Zhou Guang helped Yi Rende up: "Hey~ It's okay, and there are two silver to be taken if you are selected as a girl." As he spoke, he motioned to his entourage to bring up a brocade bag: "This is the subsidy of the imperial court for the selection of women, take it."
"This ...... Adult, little girl is really inappropriate! "Irende didn't take the bag.
"Ouch, I mean, why can't you think clearly?" Zhou Guang pointed to the house: "Look, what kind of life are you living here?" Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your son, right? Sending her daughter into the palace, she doesn't have to worry about food and clothing, and she has this white silver to take it, so that she can treat her wife and not let her son starve, isn't it? ”
Zhou Guang said that the spit flew everywhere, but Yi Rende frowned and sighed again and again.
"It's not a secret," Zhou Guang leaned close to Yi Rende's ear and told him what had happened today.
"What!" Yi Rende was so frightened that his soul was not possessed: "This ...... How could this happen? ”
"So," Zhou Guang looked like a bodhisattva: "Thinking that he was young and coerced, the county will not be held accountable, and the little girl will be selected, such a beautiful thing, others can't ask for it!"
"Yes, you have to think about it," Zhou Guang's entourage put the brocade bag on the table in the house: "The county will leave first, and I will pick up people in two days, so it's decided."
Zhou Guang walked out of the courtyard with his entourage, and Yi Rende collapsed to the ground all of a sudden, crying: "What kind of sin has this really created?"
Mei Zizi returned to the county office, Hua Ying was sitting in the main hall waiting for Zhou Guang, and when she saw Zhou Guang coming in, she hurriedly greeted her: "How is it?"
Zhou Guang picked up the teacup on the desk and took a sip of tea: "Don't worry, it's no problem."
"However, if this girl enters the palace and it goes smoothly, then it is us who are unlucky." Hua Ying is still not at ease.
"Well......" Zhou Guang thought for a moment: "If I write a letter to the capital again, I will never let her get her wish." Picked up a pen and paper, waved his hand and wrote down the letter, and immediately sent someone to send it out.
At this time, the mountain was pitch black, only a house halfway up the mountain was lit up, Lu Mingxi hugged Ivan, hurriedly came to the gate, and kicked the door "bang": "Hurry up and open the door!"
A man dressed in short clothes opened the door, saw Lu Mingxi, and immediately saluted: "The son is here!"
Lu Mingxi ignored him, walked straight inside with Ivan in his arms, walked through the courtyard, put Ivan on a chair in the main hall, and shouted loudly: "Old Wu! Old Wu! Come out! ”
There was a sound in response, and a man in his thirties with a disheveled hair walked out of the room, stretched his waist, yawned, and glanced at Lu Mingxi impatiently: "In the middle of the night, if you don't sleep, what are you doing here?" I don't know...... Yell? Did you bring a girl with you? ”
Seeing Lu Mingxi lying crookedly on the chair, Lao Wu stepped forward: "You look pretty good!"
"She was bitten by a snake" Lu Mingxi wiped the fine sweat on Ivan's forehead: "Old Wu, save her."
As soon as he heard about the poisoning, Lao Wu took a closer look at Ivan's face: his lips were blue, his face was bloodless, and he took his hand to check the pulse: "It seems that she was still bitten by a highly venomous snake, Xiao Lu, quickly carry her to the bed inside and put it away, and I will dispense the medicine."
"Are you sure?" Lu Mingxi was very uneasy.
"This ......" Lao Wu hesitated: "She has been poisoned for too long, and I am not sure."
"Huh?" Lu Mingxi stopped talking and looked at Ivan worriedly.