The Journey Ahead (IV) (Part II)

Xinyang stretched out his hand and tapped her acupoint, and when he saw that Jin Ju had stopped screaming, he asked, "Do you want to rot the whole face with maggots?" Or answer me honestly, and I'll cure you? ”

"Governance... Govern... Good. ”

"Then what do I ask, and you answer."

"Okay." Jin Ju kept nodding.

Xinyang went to take out another porcelain bottle, poured the Chinese medicine powder on a piece of tissue paper, and brought it to Jin Ju. Jin Ju didn't dare to come out, for fear of blowing over the medicinal powder.

"You're smart." Xinyang spoke, quickly exercised, a layer of mist, with a gust of breeze, and sprinkled the medicinal powder firmly on Jin Ju's wound. The bleeding quickly stopped from expanding from the wound that had previously stopped expanding.

"Rushi, go get a piece of gauze and help her wrap her face." Although the scene was bloody, Xinyang didn't want the two girls and Sister Hui to avoid at all, but instructed them to do things. Although Rushi was very scared, she quickly went to the cabinet to find gauze. Waiting for the gauze to be brought and wrapped, Xinyang put the medicine bottle in his hand beside Jin Ju: "The poison in your wound has been resolved, and the wound on your face, take this medicine every three days, and you can scab over after half a month of cultivation." If you are really obedient, I can ask the third sister-in-law to give you gyokuro cream to remove the scar. ”

Jin Ju was dumbfounded for a while, and finally realized what Xinyang was saying to her, and nodded desperately.

"Jin Ju, Mo Lan said that everything she does is at your disposal, she doesn't know who the master behind you is, everything she does is at your behest. You are jealous of her, because she is prettier than you, better than you, more like the lord of the county than you, so your master arranges for her to go to my bed. Therefore, you poisoned me and were ready to kill me. You said that you are such a vicious and ugly woman, I shouldn't have treated you just now, should I throw you into the wolf's den in the back mountain, and let the wolf tear you apart? And scratch yourself with the Emei steel thorn in your hand again? I can detoxify you, or I can poison you again. ”

"Don't, no, I don't, I don't, it's Mo Lan, it's Mo Lan's master, she used to be the concubine of Prince Cha Ying, His Royal Highness the Prince arranged for us to enter the county lord's mansion Let me do everything according to Mo Lan."

"The second prince of the Turks, Cha Ying?"

"Yes, yes."

"Do you think I'm going to believe you? The story is too far away. You and Mo Lan both have Beijing accents, how can you be in Turkic. ”

"The little woman is telling the truth. I grew up in the capital since I was a child, and I was kidnapped by the second prince at the temple fair the year before last, and there were more than a dozen women in Beijing who were kidnapped with me. We were taken to a manor, and there were many other women who had been taken from other places in the village, and there were many people who taught us all kinds of skills. He poisoned us again, saying that if we were to be obedient, someone would give us an antidote at the end of every year, otherwise we would have pain all over our bodies. ”

Jin Ju didn't say anything, she was very scared, If she told the truth, Prince Chaying's people would definitely not let her go, and they wouldn't give her an antidote at the end of this year, what should she do?

Xinyang seemed to understand what she was thinking, and in disgust, he put a handkerchief over her wrist and checked her pulse. The Tang family's medical skills are excellent, and the sons of the Tang family know how to heal, which is a well-known thing in the government and the opposition. Just by the fact that the muscles on her rotten face just now were no longer bleeding or painful, she knew that Tang Gongzi had a way to deal with the poison in their hands, and that might have a better way to deal with the poison in her body. The poison on the Emei thorn was ordered by the master to be applied, saying that only the master had the antidote, but now Tang Gongzi took action to cure it. Jin Ju looked at him with wide eyes. Seeing that he raised his eyebrows easily, he then instructed Ruhua: "Go and invite the third brother and the white girl to come." Let the third sister-in-law be sure to bring medicine to cure a woman's yin deficiency. ”

Then he looked at Jin Ju: "This is not called poison in your body, it is just a very poisonous medicine, which is specially designed to torture women." It can be cured, but I can't do it, the white girl is a woman, she is more convenient. ”

"Really? But why can't I see it when I look for a doctor at the pharmacy in Beijing? ”

"I don't have to lie to you. Ordinary doctors can't see it, and they must be people who understand internal strength, or people who have advanced medical skills like the white girl. ”

"But Mo Lan said that only the prince has the antidote." She looked at Merlan. At this time, Mo Lan couldn't speak, but her eyes showed a fierce light, and her face was red. "Mo Lan, you lied to me, didn't you?"

Mo Lan was speechless, just looked at her with contempt.

Jin Ju is not stupid, she seems to understand: "Mo Lan, you just want to control me, so you don't tell the truth?" ”

She turned to Xinyang again: "Childe must save me." ”

"As long as you tell me everything you know, I'll let the white girl treat you."

"Okay." She made a great deal of determination.

"Where is Zhuangzi?"

The maid didn't know, only that it took a day and a night to travel from the capital to the Zhuangzi carriage. Moreover, the snow in Zhuangzi in winter is much heavier than in Beijing. ”

"How many people are there in Zhuangzi? What do you do? ”

"I don't know how many there are in total. All I remember is that there were eight rooms in the courtyard where I lived, and there were three people in each room. There are three courtyards in front and back, where so many women live. I also thought about escaping, but I was discovered by Zhuang Ding in the courtyard, I was arrested twice, and I was drugged again, saying that I couldn't get the antidote if I escaped, so I had to stay there. During the day we all learn various crafts together, and at night... Every other day in the evening, an old woman would come in with some men, saying that we should learn how to serve men. Of course, not everyone will be ruined, and the generally beautiful ones are asked by the old woman that those men can't take the last step, and they torture their ordinary-looking sisters if they have fire. She spoke in a lower and lower voice, and her head was lowered, as if she was very ashamed, she was one of the ordinary-looking ones.

"How long have you been there?" Xinyang didn't want to embarrass her, so he changed to another topic.

"For more than half a year. Ordinary women were tied up by them and taken there, and it is said that they stayed for about half a year and ten months, and then they were sent away. ”

"Who else is sent with you besides you?"

"There were also a few women who were sent out, and they set off in batches, and I was sent to the capital with three other women, and I don't know exactly where they went after that. But I heard that I basically went back to where I was kidnapped. Before we went out, they showed us portraits of our families. It is said that it will complete the task, not only will there be an antidote, but it will also send us home. But if we don't obey, not only will there be no antidote at the end of the year, but we will also kill our whole family. We were told that we were not allowed to ask each other about our family background and addresses, and if the old wife of the guard found out, they would kill our family members directly. ”

"How long have you been with the county lord?"

"It's been a year and a half."

"Mo Lan came with you from Zhuangzi?"

"No, the slave went to the lord of the county first. But when he was in Zhuangzi, Prince Cha Ying came several times, and Mo Lan followed him and was his concubine. I was with the lord a year later, and she said that the prince had asked her to do the business. ”

"What is the Lord?"

"I don't know much about what she told me to do. Because the county lord has a bad temper, he often changes the girls around him," she didn't dare to say that the county lord had a bad temper, and often injured and disabled the girl, "The prince likes to be here with the county lord, and often the girl he likes to see will be taken away, but this Mo Lan has been here for half a year, not only is the county lord very important, but also very good at dealing with the princess, not only the prince values her, and asks her to wait every once in a while, but also lets her continue to stay by the county lord's side to do things. Mo Lan is lucky, the girl who is favored by the prince of the world, often after a few days of interest, will be sold to the Qinglou, but Mo Lan is not only often summoned in the past six months, but also has never suffered from flesh and skin, let alone sold her, the county lord also likes her, often takes her to attend various banquets, or socializes in the wealthy in Beijing. Even when he entered the palace, he often ordered Mo Lan to serve. After we came to Kansai with the lord of the county a few years ago, the prince also came. ”

"You said that Prince Zhi came to Kansai?"

"Yes, about half a month after we came to Tangzhuang, the prince came. At that time, the county lord also joked that the prince was fascinated by Mo Lan and chased him to Kansai. Mo Lan didn't say much at that time, she just went out with Shizi for one night that day, and then went out with Shizi several times one after another. ”

"After Prince Zhi came, is there anything special about it?"

"This slave doesn't know. The prince came and said that he was staying at a friend's house in Xianyang City. He also sent someone to inform the county lord on the first day, bring Mo Lan over, and come back to send Mo Lan back. The county lord did not go to see the prince. ”

"Is Prince Zhi's son still in Kansai?"

"I don't know."

"Is it really Prince Zhi's son?" Xinyang glanced at Mo Lan. Mo Lan trembled unconsciously, and projected her eyes staring at Jin Ju to the ground.

Jin Ju nodded affirmatively: "It's the prince of the world, and someone came with a letter from the prince of the world." After Mo Lan came back from a night at Shi Ziye's place, Shi Zi Ye also rewarded Mo Lan with a lot of gold fruits and a pair of jade bracelets. ”

"Do you know the person who delivered the letter?"

"I don't know, but the county lord read the letter when he received it, if it wasn't for the prince's handwritten letter, I think the county lord would have recognized it."

"Isn't it the king's retinue or guards who sent the message?"

"We usually follow the county lord, not all the people in the palace have seen it, maybe it is the entourage of the palace, but we don't know each other. But no one doubted it, if it weren't for the prince, who would know that the county lord had a maid named Mo Lan? ”

"Really?" Xinyang looked at Mo Lan. Mo Lan kept her head down and didn't speak.

Jin Ju only woke up at this time, and also looked up at Mo Lan in a daze.

Xinyang turned around and walked in front of Mo Lan, who still kept her head down and didn't look at him. The naked body gradually turned a little pale due to the cold, and it was even a little dazzling. Xinyang walked back to Jin Ju again: "Has His Royal Highness not summoned Mo Lan for a few days?" ”

"Mo Lan just spent the night there four days ago."

"Four days." Xinyang nodded and didn't say anything more. Just pacing back and forth.