Chapter 6: Balls and Chrysanthemums (1)

In the blink of an eye, only Empress Dowager Cui, Jasper and Lingxi were left in the Changle Palace, and a few older people came in with palace maids to clean up the tea sets used by the concubines.

Empress Dowager Cui looked at the wren brother who no longer howled in a daze, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

It wasn't until Biyu removed the cold tea cup and replaced it with a hot flower tea with pine needles that Empress Dowager Cui took a deep breath.

Lingxi felt a twitch in her heart, knowing that Empress Dowager Cui was going to dispose of her.

Dead or alive, in one fell swoop.

Empress Dowager Cui took a sip of tea and said to Brother Wren, "Jin Gui is used to it, hang it in the warm pavilion." ”

Lingxi breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, listening to the Queen Mother's tone, she didn't intend to punish her in the matter of her name. But who knew that she just wanted to retire with a blessed body, so she heard Empress Dowager Cui put down the teacup and said calmly, "Take it down and learn the rules well." ”

The rule in the palace is that a ring ruler two feet wide and two feet long is broken by one. The ring ruler is made of soft bamboo strips, which has excellent softness, and it is like hitting twice when you hit it once. Often before the ring ruler is interrupted, the palace maid who is subject to the rules has already gone to the bottom of her life.

Lingxi climbed on the bench far away from the Changle Palace, and the little eunuch took the ring ruler and slapped her on the ass and thighs. The palace clothes that I put on in the morning were fresh, and I saw blood stains in a few clicks.

Lingxi gritted his teeth, holding up the pain, but he didn't dare to scream, and tears flowed down like beads with broken threads.

At this time, her heart was full of hatred, she hated that she was a killer in her last life, and she had not lived a normal life; hated her for crossing over to this Great Shun Dynasty in this life, and then entering this palace that eats human flesh and drinks human blood; I hated the name given by my uncle and wife, so that she was involved in the disputes in this palace for no reason.

But these hatreds can't resist the pain caused by the ring ruler that fell on her.

Biyu stood in front of Lingxi, reciting aloud the palace rules and precepts, the configuration of the three palaces and six courtyards, and which master lived in each palace.

Then the rules and precepts of this palace, like this, are engraved into the flesh of the spirit rhino one by one, in the heart, and in the memory. So much so that when she thought of the palace rules many years later, there would be a pain on her back, and she couldn't erase it even if she wanted to.

The little eunuch who waved the ring ruler saw that Lingxi was stubborn, and said to Lingxi while Biyu was going to drink tea to moisten his throat, "Girl, you have to hold back the pain, you can't scream, as soon as you call for life, you will be gone......"

Lingxi had lost his mind in pain at this time, and when he heard the eunuch's words, he realized that he actually moaned. She suddenly woke up in her heart, she can't die, she definitely can't die! She lived a life that was not a human life in her last life, and she still wants to go out of the palace and live a good life with her parents for a few years in this life.

As soon as the brain was clear, the ring ruler that fell on the body hurt even more.

When Biyu came back from drinking tea, she recited aloud, "Three palaces and six courtyards, respected by the Weiyang Palace where the queen lives for her mother." The second is the Qianyun Palace where Cui Guifei Niangniang lives, and the Yongle Palace where Dong Guifei Niangniang lives ......"

Lingxi's delicate ten fingers clasped tightly on the bench, and he held his breath in his chest, trying to memorize every word that Jasper said.

Suddenly, she heard the little eunuch behind her whisper, "Girl, I'm sorry." ”

Then there was a sharp pain in his lower back, and a 'click' sound sounded in his ears. The breath in Lingxi's chest leaked out with the sharp pain, and before he could lift it again, he fainted as soon as his eyes were dark.

The little eunuch in charge of the beating fell to his knees, allowing Lingxi's weak body to roll off the bench and fall to the ground.

In a daze, Lingxi returned to the world made of steel and concrete. In BJ's biggest KTV, her partner, who has worked with her countless times, put a gun to her head and said, "I've taken another mission, guess what?" ”

Lingxi's hand gripped the head of the gun and asked, "Why?" ”

"Because the time has come."

The trigger was pulled, and Lingxi didn't feel the shock of the bullet passing through the chamber of the gun in a hurry, and felt a burning pain in his eyebrows, as if the sound of a skull shattering sounded in his ears.

After all, it's dead. Lingxi watched the things in front of him slowly become blurry, and a trace of relaxation actually rose in his heart. Then, my mind drifted into darkness.

"Mama Qin, Mama......" someone seemed to be talking in her ear, and Lingxi's ears moved, "She's not dead yet...... Allow more, let it be longer, still panting......"

"Do you want to wait until you die and then drag it out? Luomei Xuan is not the Ting Palace, it has dirty my courtyard! A female voice that sounded young said sternly.

"She was sent in by her uncle's mansion, if she went out like this......"

There was silence in the room for a while, and the female voice said, "If it doesn't work, you should have informed it earlier, otherwise I won't be able to spare you!" ”

The uncle sent it from the mansion, did he say himself?

There was a wetness from his mouth, and Lingxi subconsciously swallowed the coolness of his mouth. A cry of joy came from his ears, "Amitabha, you can be regarded as drinking some water." ”

Since that day, Lingxi's injuries have been getting better day by day. When she opened her eyes, she was presented with a childish face about thirteen or fourteen years old, with a face that seemed to be full of affection, and then full of coldness.

"Your life has been picked up, my name is Chun'er." The palace maid put down the needle and thread in her hand, poured a cup of cold tea and sent it to Lingxi's hand, "You are half dead these days, in order to keep your life, I put on a plain silver hairpin." In the future, you will pay me back if you send a monthly statement. ”

Lingxi didn't have the strength in his hands, so the palace maid named Chun'er fed the tea to Lingxi with a cold face.

Lingxi vaguely remembered what she heard in her coma, and knew that although the palace maid in front of her was cold, her heart was hot. Otherwise, she would have been dragged out and disposed of, so she said in a hoarse voice, "My sister loves me, and when I send a monthly example, I will definitely return it to my sister." ”

Chun'er snorted coldly and went out of the house with the kettle.

Lingxi was lying on his stomach, and he wanted to shrink into the quilt, but he felt that the quilt hurt badly when he touched the wound. When she gritted her teeth and covered herself tightly, she was already sweating profusely.

Lingxi knew that Chun'er's face was cold and hot, and since she woke up, she was clever everywhere, making Chun'er laugh every day. After Chun'er's face was cold for a few days, she also got into trouble with Lingxi.

In Chun'er's mouth, Lingxi learned that she was now in Luomei Xuan in the Yongshou Palace.

Luomei Xuan is located at the back of the Changle Palace, which is the side hall of the Changle Palace, and is named after the courtyard full of red plums. Because there were no other concubines in the Longevity Palace, Empress Dowager Cui asked the palace people to repair Luomei Xuan into a small garden, which was similar to the warm garden of the uncle's mansion.

The only difference is that the warm garden of Uncle Guo's Mansion raises birds and sparrows, while the flowers and plants are raised in Luomei Xuan. In fact, they are not even as good as the lowest-level palace maids, and they can only be regarded as craftsmen in the palace. Chun'er is a craftsman who raises flowers, and Lingxi is a craftsman who raises birds. In addition to them, there are also craftsmen who wait for Songbai, craftsmen who wait for plum blossoms, and craftsmen who wait for all kinds of flowers and plants......

It is precisely because they are craftsmen that they are allowed to live nearby in this Luomei Xuan and wait for flowers and plants. The other palace maids, the low-grade rough envoy palace maids, all lived in the special place where the palace maids lived. High-grade people, such as jasper and green jade, have special courtyards for them to live in in the Yongshou Palace.

Before entering the palace, Lingxi knew that life in the palace was difficult, and the masters of each palace could not be offended, otherwise they would be sent to hard labor by a few boards, and at the most they would directly take off their heads and then reincarnate. Just like this time, she was obviously not wrong, but in the end she was beaten half to death.

But Lingxi never expected that the minions in this palace would be more difficult to wait for than the master. Don't talk about it from afar, let's just say that the Qin steward in Luomei Xuan will put on all kinds of faces after the monthly case is issued on the fifteenth day of every month, if you don't take out part of the monthly case and obediently give her tea, it will be indispensable.

The big palace maid who often waits in front of the master has a reward to take, and even the little palace maid who runs to it can get a few pieces of broken silver and small rewards. Only craftsmen like Chun'er and Lingxi want to live in the palace by relying on others, and the money in those months is far from enough.

In order to fill Mama Qin's mouth, the craftsmen in Luomei Xuan on weekdays embroidered some handkerchiefs and uppers in their spare time to help Xiao Xiazi find someone to sell them in exchange for a few stickers. Although Xiao Xiazi secretly deducted a lot, it was more or less an entry.

Chun'er's plain silver hairpin was made by her for a long time, and it was precisely because of this that Lingxi felt more and more that Chun'er was a kind and good person.

In the previous life, Lingxi could only hold a gun with both hands, and in this life, he could only feed birds, and he felt powerless for the work of holding needles and pinching threads.

Chun'er's mother is an embroidery girl, and Chun'er has learned a lot of needlework from her mother before entering the palace. Before the injuries on Lingxi's body were neatly resolved, Chun'er began to teach Lingxi embroidery. Fortunately, Lingxi is ingenious, and he can slowly embroider a small flower on the plain bottom handkerchief with a simple rope.

Chun'er carefully tied the thick stitches embroidered by Lingxi with an embroidery needle, and sighed for the 10,000th time, "Ling'er, you still have to practice your stitches, and such a handkerchief can't be exchanged for silver when you get it outside." ”

When Lingxi was sent to Luomei Xuan, no one said what her name was, only that she was sent in by the National Uncle's Mansion to feed Brother Wren, and she was disrespectful in front of the Queen Mother, so she was punished for this. Later, Chun'er asked, she only said that her name was Ling'er.

Lingxi raised the ten fingers that had been pierced by the needle and said coquettishly to Chun'er, "Sister loves me......"

Chun'er reluctantly picked up her embroidery and embroidered it. I knew that Lingxi was too young, and I went to the palace to suffer this hardship when I was only nine years old, and I just walked in the ghost gate. In fact, she entered the palace at the age of eleven and dealt with flowers and plants all day long. Before Lingxi came, she was even cautious when talking to others, for fear that one would accidentally lose her life.

In a blink of an eye, it was March 3, and it had been more than two months since Lingxi entered the palace, and the injuries on his body were slowly healing, but he left a two-inch-long scar on his waist. Chun'er looked at the distressed Zhenbang Lingxi rubbing, and wished that she could rub the scar away. Lingxi indifferently explained Chun'er, if the palace maid in the harem is sick, no one cares, she is lucky to be able to pick up a life and come back, what scars do you care? Hearing Lingxi say this, Chun'er was also relieved. The life of the palace maid is like tea overnight, it is too bitter.

Empress Dowager Cui never mentioned Brother Wren or her again, Cui Guifei's grounding has long been lifted, and Emperor Yonghe loves her more than ever.

In addition to feeding Brother Wren every day in Luomei Xuan, Lingxi sat with Chun'er and embroidered a veil.

She can now embroider flowers and birds on the handkerchief, and she can exchange a few coppers for more or less when she gets outside, although it is small, but it also makes her happy.

Lingxi is happy to be at ease now, although Luo Meixuan is located in the Queen Mother's Palace, it is a secluded place, except for the palace maids in the Queen Mother's Palace to hold flowers and plants, she can't see anyone else, and the person she wants to please every day is nothing more than Mama Qin.

As long as Mama Qin is happy, the life of these craftsmen is still full of nourishment.

Lingxi looked at the sky outside the window and smiled, Chun'er once said that the palace maid can go to the palace maid in charge of the Yeting Palace to declare her departure from the palace when she is over twenty years old. Although the waiting process was slow and long, as long as there was no major fault, they all went out at the twenty-one or twelve.

Besides, when there is a big happy event in the palace to celebrate with the whole world or some special things happen, the palace will also release people to show God's grace.

"What are you laughing at...... Chun'er is embroidering a picture of red plum and snow in her hand. The scene is the scene of Luomei Xuan, which was drawn down by Chun'er with a pen early. Recently, I was empty, and I just embroidered it.

Lingxi's little hand covered his mouth and covered the laughter back, but Shui Lingling's apricot eyes still couldn't hide the smile.

"It's your ghost every day," Chun'er nodded Lingxi's forehead and said, "Hurry up and embroider, Grandpa Xia will come to get something in a while." If you embroider a more handkerchief, you will see Mama Qin's good face. ”

Lingxi deliberately made Chun'er laugh, covered her little hand to her eyes and said, "I don't want to look at it." ”

Chun'er was amused by Lingxi and laughed, Lingxi heard it, stomped her little feet and continued, "If you don't look at it, you won't watch it!" ”

Chun'er smiled even more cheerfully.

The two men were laughing when they suddenly heard a scream in the courtyard. Chun'er's face changed suddenly, and she covered Lingxi's small mouth with her hand.

Lingxi hurriedly took his hand down, and Chun'er climbed on the kang in the ear room to look out of the courtyard.

I saw that Yuan'er, the craftsman who lived in the ear room of the west side room, was kneeling in the courtyard, and there were Mama Qin and a palace maid wearing a lily-style beaded flower on her head. That palace maid Lingxi knew that it was Ziyu who reprimanded her and Shangguan Yan'er on the day she first entered the Empress Dowager's palace.

Mama Qin said something to Ziyu flatteringly, and made a circle with the plum branch in her hand as she spoke. Ziyu changed her humble attitude in front of the green jade that day, and said to Qin, "Mama Qin, you are too comfortable in this Luomei Xuan, so that these palace people don't even know which one of the masters is. ”

Mama Qin's face immediately changed when she heard this, and she said flatteringly, "Miss Ziyu, how dare I...... It's really that the people in this palace are too lazy, I ......" | ..

"Hmph, are you used to being lazy?" Ziyu snorted coldly, "That ball chrysanthemum is a new product to pay tribute before the year, and the entire palace is also our Yongshou Palace, Weiyang Palace, Cui Guifei's Qianyun Palace and Dong Guifei's Yongle Palace, each palace has a branch, and now the good ball chrysanthemum has broken branches......"

Without waiting for Ziyu to finish speaking, Mama Qin reached out and pinched Yuan'er's armpit. It was already early spring, and the palace people had already changed into a slightly thin spring shirt, and Mama Qin unscrewed it with one hand, and Yuan'er's face turned pale at the moment.

But Yuan'er didn't dare to shout, the rules in the palace are that palace maids are not allowed to shout when they are punished, otherwise they will be beaten to death.

Chun'er pulled Lingxi back to sit on the kang and didn't let Lingxi look at it again. Ziyu said something in the courtyard and left, and when Lingxi looked back at the courtyard, the courtyard was already empty.

Lingxi thought that Yuan'er had gone back to the West Ear Room, but when the palace people of Luomei Xuan were eating together in the evening, they didn't see it. Lingxi asked Chun'er with her eyes, but Chun'er warned her with her eyes not to look around.

Lingxi can only pick up a bowl of rice. After eating a few bites of a bowl of rice, he heard Qin Mo cough lightly.

The palace people hurriedly dropped the dishes and chopsticks in their hands and stopped moving. Mama Qin glanced at everyone and said, "Let's all disperse." ”