Chapter 287: The Land of Tigers and Wolves
The prefect of Yangzhou finally arrived in a hurry before Wanying decided to give up.
Although the prefect's wife was furious, she finally showed mercy to her subordinates and spared the prefect's life.
"May I ask who you are?" The prefect of Yangzhou dispersed the melon-eating crowd and asked.
"I am Prince Rong, that is, the wife of the current emperor."
"The prince's wife, the mother is the third lady of the Shi family?"
"Exactly! My father is Shi Zhongyuan! ”
The prefect of Yangzhou was overjoyed, but he didn't expect the new queen to fall from the sky and fall on the boundary of Yangzhou.
"Niangniang, the lower official has lost the welcome, if the mother does not dislike it, first go to the cold house to settle for one night, and when it is dawn, the lower official will immediately send the mother back to Beijing!"
"Okay, if you can return to Beijing safely, you are my benefactor!"
Wanying was escorted by the Yangzhou prefect and came to the residence of the Yangzhou prefect.
At the insistence of the prefect's wife, Wanying lived in the main hall of the mansion. After sleeping in the open for more than a month all the way, Wanying was finally able to take a comfortable bath. After Wanying washed it, Hongfu used the water that Wanying had bathed to wash the poor flower cat several times.
The prefect of Yangzhou did not ask Wanying why she suddenly descended to Yangzhou City, and when Yun Niang combed Wanying's hair, she said worriedly: "Niangniang, I always think that the prefect of Yangzhou is a little weird." ”
"I can see it too, but after tonight, we'll go back, whether he's weird or not!"
As he was talking, the flower cat stretched lazily, nestled softly in a chair, and looked at the three of them with his eyes half-open and half-closed.
"This flower cat fled all the way, and it was all skinny and skinny!"
"Niangniang, you only see the cat, you look at yourself in the mirror, your cheekbones are bulging!"
Wanying looked at herself in the bronze mirror, but she was stupid, she hadn't looked in the mirror for nearly a month, how could she be so thin and look like a ghost.
The previously round face is now deeply sunken, revealing the cheekbones that were not obvious, the chin has been pointed out of shape, and the eyes that were originally radiant and looking forward to the sky are now deep and dull, hollow like a deep sea.
"It's a lot thinner, and it saves me the trouble of taking care of myself." Wanying could only comfort herself like this.
"Niangniang is pregnant now, she can't accept it, wait for the child to be born, and then plan it!"
"No, this kid has been with me for so long, all the way around, I thought he would fall off a few times, but fortunately, it is still firmly in my belly."
Yun Niang also had some tears when she spoke, and said sadly: "Niangniang, a few times you fall, I am afraid that the child will fall, what a good child, what a good child!" ”
"When others are pregnant, they are working hard to supplement, this palace has been more than three months now, not only is it not fat, but it is also much thinner than before, you can imagine how many grievances the child has eaten in my belly!"
Mothers are like this, preferring to suffer themselves rather than let their children suffer. Watching a child suffer is worse than death!
Yun Niang was said by Wanying's words, and she shed tears, why not? When the three young masters, five young ladies, and several aunts in the master's mansion were pregnant with the little masters, every meal was to the best of their ability, which was the arrogance and dignity that women should have when they were pregnant.
"This child has followed me through life and death, and in this life, as long as I live, I will definitely not let him be wronged again." Wanying said that she also shed tears.
Yun Niang wiped the tears in her eyes, and wiped them for Wanying, and the two stared at each other in the bronze mirror.
Hongfu poured the water that had bathed the cat in the yard, put the basin outside, and came in alone.
"Let's rest early, everyone is very tired this month, rest all night tonight, and we will enter Beijing tomorrow!"
"Niangniang, can you leave later tomorrow?" Hongfu said.
Hongfu wants to solve the evil seed in her stomach in Yangzhou City.
"From Yangzhou to the capital, it takes a month to take a boat at the latest, let's talk about it when we get to the capital, okay?"
Both of them are mothers, one is very precious to the child in his womb, and he can't wait to give him the best things in the world; One is to hate the evil seed in his womb and not want him to stay in his womb for one more day.
"Niangniang, one more day of injustice will be one more day, while it is still small in my belly, if it is big......"
The evening breeze blew the curtains in the fragrant fragrance of gardenias, and under the orange light, the cats yawned lazily, and the distant voices drifted over the quiet summer night, drifted into the rickety curtains, and then jumped into the ears of several people.
"Hongfu, that kind of medicine hurts the body, you are not married yet, what if you really can't have children in the future?" Yun Niang pulled Hongfu over and said distressedly.
"Yun Niang, I'd rather be single for the rest of my life than this child, it's not a child, it's a devil!"
Hongfu shook her head calmly and said. Move a few icebergs from the house to the bedside.
"Don't talk about it, go to bed early! The people here are not familiar with the place, in case you take the medicine of the tiger and wolf, you will still suffer if you hurt your body, and when you get to the capital, I will go to the palace to find a doctor for you to help you. If something happens, you can be treated even if it happens. ”
"Niangniang is right, let's go back to the capital!"
Yun Niang held a candlestick, put it on the high table of rosewood at the head of the bed, helped Wanying to lie on the bed, and then put down a few curtains in the room, took a mat and spread it on the ground, and laid the floor with Hongfu.
Maybe it's because he's just taken a shower and relaxed, or maybe Prince Rong has escaped and ascended to the throne. Wanying lay on the bed for not long before falling into a deep sleep.
The scent of gardenias in the incense burner lingered in the moonlit desolate room, wrapped in the ghost of midsummer restlessness. The cat was lying half-asleep on a carved chair with only black paint to be seen.
The imperceptible cold air was spitting out imperceptibly on the icebergs on the high tables, and the heat that finally squeezed in through the crack in the door was arrogant and wanted to devour Wanying on the bed, but it was blocked by a hard ice wall.
Wanying in the dream has been riding the wind and waves all the way from Yangzhou in July on a high-sail giant ship to the golden capital, and she was greeted by her beloved husband, the Supreme Wan'an Emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.
The imperial guard of honor stretched from Ziweimen to the canal ferry, just to welcome the return of the queen. Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, no queen has ever landed on the canal ferry, which is also a golden opportunity for the people of the capital to see the royal style.
"Qing'er, finally let me wait for you."
"Liulang, Qing'er is so hard to find you!"
The emperor took Wanying from the imperial boat, took her hand and boarded the royal car, and sat on the nine-dragon carved gold car, the emperor finally held Wanying in his arms, "Dear, I am the emperor, you are the queen, we will never be separated in this life." ”
Wanying went through several life and death tribulations, and finally saw her husband, a thousand words choked in her throat, and speechless tears flowed first.
Three lives and three lives of bitter waiting, this life escaped from death to get together, he and she will not let each other apart again. The two hugged each other tightly, and thousands of words turned into ten fingers interlocking without words.
"Knock knock" There was a sharp knock on the door, waking Wanying from her sweetest dream.
After several unprovoked catastrophes, any slight noise in the night could wake up the fragile and sensitive nerves of three people.
Hongfu jumped up from the mat, stuck to the door and asked, "Who?" ”
"I'm an insider of the Yangzhou prefect."
"Yes, madam, hurry up and open the door!" Wanying said to Hongfu through the heavy cool air in the room.
The sound of the skirt is not like the dignity that a four-rank official should have. There must have been a hundred thousand urgent things.
"Niangniang, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, you should run away quickly."
After settling down for a few hours, Wanying thought that her evil calamity had ended, but she was relieved, thinking that she had flown into the sky, but she hadn't opened her eyes yet, and she hadn't woken up from her dream, and she fell into the abyss again.
Wan Ying's body suddenly shook on the bed, and the originally cool cool air turned into a demon who was extremely scary, seeping into Wan Ying's heart from a pore.
"Niangniang, hurry up, the governor of Liangjiang just brought the masters over, I overheard a few words."
"What did they say, ma'am?"
"Niangniang, you hurry up, without further ado, I'll take you through the back door."
Suddenly, another thunderclap struck out of the calm sky, and the earth-shattering sound woke Hongfu from her trance.
"Mother, they are probably going to die."
Another thunderbolt made the roof tremble and the curtains tremble.
"Madam, your husband is the prefect of Yangzhou, why are you telling me this?"
"Niangniang, in the future, Niangniang will fly on the branches, I just beg Niangniang not to execute my husband and give him a way to live, and he is also forced to do so."
"Is that what the Governor of Liangjiang meant?" Yun Niang has already started to pack her few luggage items.
The prefect of Yangzhou put on a coat for Wanying. In the dark room, there was only the thunder of the earth shaking outside and the neighing of the cats in front of me.
"The emperor has been on the throne for more than a month, the new queen is the young lady of the Wu'an Hou family, the governor of Liangjiang just received the edict of the queen's coronation yesterday, and he has not yet had time to release it to us in Yangzhou."
There was another bright flash of lightning in the sky, and then a muffled sound almost cleaved the room and captured Wanying alive.
Without further ado, a group of four people with the flower cat followed the prefect's wife and went around to the backyard.
"Daddy's ash bag forgot to take?" Wan Ying hurriedly remembered the ashes placed next to the Buddha shrine.
Hongfu also shouted: "Niangniang, I'll go back and get it!" You go first. ”
Wanying shook her head and said, "No, let's go together." ”
The group turned back again, and Wanying stumbled to the Buddha shrine, and took away the ashes of the master with tears in her eyes.
Out of the back door, the prefect's wife said: "Go forward is the ferry port in Yangzhou, Niangniang, take care!" ”
"Thank you, ma'am, for telling me."
"Niangniang, I am also for my husband's life, I hope that when Niangniang returns to the right position in the future, the merits and demerits will be offset and he will be killed."
The huge raindrops had already smashed on her head, and Wanying once again fled for her life in the rain.
This time was even more dangerous than the last time, because the entire Liangjiang was on guard because of Wanying's escape, and everywhere she went, she was strictly guarded.
In the torrential rain, the prefect of Yangzhou stuffed a bag of gold into Lao Lin's hand. Several people fled to the ferry in a hurry, and only a few warblers and Yanyan's wandering warblers were moored at the ferry.
After a night of leather and meat business, the wandering warbler in the small painting boat listened to the sound of the rain and fell asleep under the oil lamp, and the wandering warbler's aunt continued to weigh the silver in the light, and a little girl stood behind her and played a fan. As soon as you look at the description figure, you know that it is another wandering warbler a few years later.
"Boatman, boatman, we want to go out of Yangzhou City."
The boatman who was on the board of the ship, who was woken up from a good dream, said angrily: "We are not a cargo ship or a passenger ship, you are looking inside." ”
Lao Lin touched the rain on his face, stretched his neck, and roared, trying to understand what was in his mouth to the boatman.
"Boatman, there is no boat here, you can do it, send us out of Yangzhou City!"
The boatman was getting impatient, "We're listening to the music, let's go find other boats." ”
Lao Lin took out a piece of gold and smashed it in the cabin, and the hard gold smashed the ship's board into a small pit of joy, with a 'clang' sound, which happened to roll in the boatman's hand.
The boatman picked up the gold from the ground, weighed it in his hand, and bit it in his mouth, almost bursting his own cavities. Then he said frantically: "It's really gold, fifty taels!" ”
The boatman carried the gold into the painting boat, Wanying hugged the oilcloth bag in her arms tightly, and used her body to block the rain falling from the sky, Yun Niang carried the luggage, Hongfu held the flower cat, Lao Lin stepped on the deck with one foot and stepped on the shore with one foot.
"Mother, gold, fifty taels of gold!" The boatman held up to his mother.
Mom took the gold, weighed it in her hand, reflected the light of the gold in her eyes, and asked incredulously, "Where did it come from?" It can't fall from the sky, right? ”
The boatman shook his head and said, "There are a few people outside who want to take our boat out of Yangzhou City, and this gold should be the passage fee for us." ”
The warbler had been woken up by the noise of several people, and said charmingly: "So much gold is used in Yangzhou City? Don't be a robber? ”
The boatman shook his head and said, "Girl, how can three women and one man be robbers?" ”
The warbler had lost her sleep, got up and walked to the window, and gently pushed it open, the rain outside drenched her pink clothes in an instant. In the midst of the storm, she miraculously met Wanying's eyes. The two of them avoided the thunder of the thunderbolt through the heavy rain curtain, and actually understood each other's situation.
Wanying secretly felt that she was acquainted with the woman in front of her, where was it?
Is it in the painting boat in the picture of the river during the Qingming Festival? Or is it in Qin Huai Bayan's drama? Or is it the overlap of past and present lives between lightning and flint?
"Boatman, call them in!" After speaking, the warbler closed the small window that the heavy rain weaved in obliquely.
The four wet men, along with a cat, stuffed the small painting boat to the brim.
Mother took a few clothes from Liuying to Wanying, and took her own clothes to Yunniang, and the little girl who played the fan also generously lent her best clothes to Hongfu.
Lao Lin and the boatman went out, changed their clothes outside, and guarded the door.
"Girl, you look like you're pregnant, aren't you?" Mom's eyes were like torches, and she suddenly saw Wanying's protruding lower abdomen.
"It's been almost four months!" Yun Niang changed her clothes, turned sideways and blessed a blessing, which is to thank her mother for her clothes and help.