Chapter Eighty-Five: Into the Prison Vault
"I'll give you a month, and if you don't come out alive, don't blame the mourning family for being ruthless." A sneer tugged at the corner of her mouth, mockery mixed with ruthlessness.
I bowed three times and silently withdrew from Ci'an Palace.
As soon as he stepped out of the temple gate, the whole person was almost paralyzed on the ground. Cold sweat kept oozing down his neck and melted into his shirt.
Walked back to the bedroom by the side of the Longcheng Hall with his arms around his arms, and clasped his fingers on the door to stabilize his body.
Nine deaths and one life, robbery and robbery, it is difficult to escape.
Pushing open the bedroom door, his arms tightened, and he turned back, facing a pair of bright gray eyes, like stars lit in the dark night, cold and sad.
"Are you crazy? Don't you know that if you make such a request to the queen mother, you can't or get out of the prison vault? He was still drunk, but there was clarity in the depths of his pupils.
The palace is a net, and news spreads faster than anything else.
I broke his hand around my arm and asked, "What do you want me to do?" ”
He lost his mind for a moment, "I said, as long as you want to ......"
I caught a glimpse of a sneaky figure, hidden among the trees.
The Queen Mother really didn't feel at ease and sent someone to spy on me.
"Your Majesty!" I amplify my voice and speak righteously. "Su Jin just wants to live a quiet and ordinary life alone, please let me go, the Queen Mother didn't embarrass me, please don't have a knot in vain."
As I spoke, I pinched the back of his hand with my fingernails and gestured to the man's position with my peripheral vision. He was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and flicked his sleeves cooperatively.
"You little palace maid dare to speak to me in such a disrespectful tone, it's really the opposite! There are many beauties in the world! I don't lack one of you, I don't know what to do, so I'll fend for myself! Then he turned and left.
I breathed a sigh of relief and went into the house and locked the door.
Seeing the man sneaking away through the crack in the window, he calmed down.
He walked over to the table and wrote a short letter with a small jar of poison in a drawer smeared on the side of the letter, as a precaution against outsiders, if anyone touched the letter, he would surely die. And the people in the cabinet naturally know how to deal with it.
Sprinkle a handful of millet on the windowsill, learn the bird's call and make a faint sound, and soon the carrier pigeon will fly to the windowsill.
Packed the letter and watched the carrier pigeon spread its wings and fly high, and then sat down with confidence.
Fatigue and sleepiness are coming, the body is tired, and the heart is also tired.
Lie down on the table and close your eyes.
Life is a lifetime, a mirror, an illusion.
It's better to go around and around and go back to the original point, it's better if everyone didn't know each other at first.
Pick up the pen again, and think back to the recipe I learned in Liufu.
The ink dots become plums, the clouds flow smoothly, and after pinching the priorities, the mood gradually calms down.
Angelica dahurica is a penny, angelica is a penny, silkworm sand is a penny......
Sketch the last stroke before stopping.
There are a page full of prescriptions, and every flavor is basically warm and nourishing.
If an ordinary imperial doctor looks at it, he won't find anything wrong, and this recipe will indeed make people radiant.
But there is no such thing as a free sale in this world, and the same is true for medicine.
If you want to defy the destiny of heaven and maintain your face, you must pay a price, this is the case with Shixiang Surui, and the prescription in front of you is also like this.
Although it will make people turn the destiny of heaven against time, it will definitely consume its own vitality, and when the vitality is exhausted, she will accelerate her aging and lack the ability to return to the sky.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but raise the corners of my lips and bend them to a mocking arc.
Liu Sujin, he is still the one who is vicious and unforgiving.
Strange has to be able to compare with the jade in his heart, the difference between cloud and mud, how to compare?
Curled up in the corner of the bed, closing his eyes, blocking out the light in the room.
I can't believe it, I don't dare to find out, is it a dream in the palace, or is it a dream under the mountain, or maybe even I am just a dream.
Emotions are really the most important thing in the world, and my aunt repeatedly instructed me to jump into this fire pit that I had dug myself.
I don't know if I'm asleep or not, but when I wake up, it's dawn.
I'm still in the walled palace, and it's a foregone conclusion.
Wash casually, change into gray and black palace clothes, pull your hair with a wooden hairpin, and face the sky.
I'm ready to suffer, I'm ready to go through the hell gate, and if I can come out alive, it will be providential.
The grandmother beside the Queen Mother took the prescription from my hand, and without saying a word, led me to the prison storehouse.
"Mama, can you tell Su Jin that the daughter of the Ministry of Rites is like snow, and she is doing well?" I hesitated, even though I knew she wouldn't pay attention.
For a long time, there was no reply.
Hold on to the burden in your arms, and the coldness invades your bones.
"Missing, half a month ago, Prince Xuan fell off the cliff, and she disappeared, as if she ran away from home, leaving only a letter." Her voice was emotionless, cold and numb.
This is indeed Ruxue's style, she has always been reckless. Now it seems that she is vowing to give birth to this child. The word love is fair to anyone in this world.
I mentioned Ruxue in the letter I sent to the pavilion last night, and I wanted Lan Zhi to help her. I don't know if Lan Zhi can receive this letter.
"Here we are." She said.
In front of him was an old iron door, green paint peeling and rusty.
The yellow wall is almost five people tall, as if it was built to create this cage.
Towering trees shade all sunlight and leave a dark shadow.
Stepping up the steps, the door gradually opened.
The smell of old decay pervades the body, and the smell of sweat and medicine residue is disgusting.
It was a terrible silence, except for one or two eunuchs sweeping the floor, their expressions numb and desperate, repeating the movements of their hands, despite the cracking of chilblains.
"Yo, isn't this a big celebrity in front of the emperor?" A woman walked over, with sharp eyes and thin lips, raised eyebrows, and a mean voice that was somewhat similar to that of the eldest lady of Liufu.
I stood still, letting her clamp my chin and look at me.
"Everyone in the world says that Long Cheng Sujin is the appearance of the country. In my opinion, it's not too much. It's just a little more flattering. She laughed unbridledly, and the strength of her hands was amazing.
I know that she is in charge here, I don't dare to say much, I can bear it, and it won't be bad anyway.
"Why don't you speak? Do you admit it, or do you not accept it? "She finally let go of me and clapped her hands as if she had dirt attached to it, her expression disgusted." Once you enter the door of the prison vault, there will be no day to go out, and you will have to remember it. Go inside, there's a lot of work to do. ”
I bowed slightly, bypassed her and walked into the inner garden.
The front yard is deserted, but the backyard is in full swing, and the palace people with different injuries are working hard, or washing or washing dishes, and their eyes are dull.
And the supervisors who surrounded them whipped them like horses.
The women's bedroom was a bunk large enough to sleep twenty people, with a hay mat, a washed white sheet on it, and the quilt was a little damp and even moldy.
The most marginal place is empty, and I think it's reserved for me. It happened to be the darkest place, there was no sunlight to shine through, and there were some gaps in the walls with cold winds.
I smiled secretly, at least it was much better than the prison.
Before the burden was put on the bed, it was suddenly snatched away, and it turned out to be a group of female workers who were resting. The expression is not like the sluggishness of the work outside, but the arrogance that does not fit the situation.
The leader who took my burden was a woman with a thick waist and a round face, and at first glance, she was fierce and vicious. "Hey, newcomer, do you know that newcomers have to follow the rules of newcomers, huh?"
She threw the burden to the people behind her, and the female workers opened the bag, shook off the clothes one by one, picked up a bracelet, and stuffed it into her pocket, not even the mahogany hairpin.
I watched them quietly, not saying or moving, just laughing.
"Look at your soft and weak appearance, who are you pretending to be pitiful?" One of them was the first to speak, kicking the clothes scattered on the floor in front of me, and the otherwise clean clothes were stained with dust.
They were originally poor people in the prison vault, but they had to bully each other and divide the winners.
There is something hateful about the wretched.
Pick up the clothes on the floor, pat the dust, and throw them back to the bed.
They probably thought it was boring for me not to resist, and said a few cruel words and dispersed.
After they left, I took out the glazed hibiscus hairpin in my sleeve. Solid as jade, streamer.
Fortunately, I didn't put it in the baggage.,I don't know why I have to carry this thing.,So I brought it in a daze.,It's a memory.,And there's no thought.,It's just an obsession.。
Put away the hairpin, take a deep breath, and it just so happened that the steward eunuch also came in.
"What's the matter, do you still need our family to invite you? Don't hurry up and get to work! Those bowls at the door, if they are not clean, they are not allowed to eat! ”
I was half-crouched on the ground, the bowl of oil in the barrel soaked in cold water, extremely difficult to wash and slippery.
The back of his hand was immersed in the water, and he couldn't help but hit a spirit. In the palace, the head has raised his body delicately, not to mention cold water when he broke his hand in the past, even if it was burning, he didn't feel anything.
The rag wiped the water droplets on the bowl and placed it in a wooden basin on one side, and after a while, the ground was high up, and sweat seeped out from both sides of the nose.
It's also a good thing to be busy at this time, but you won't think too much about it, so let it be.
"Hey...... Are you Liu Sujin of Longcheng Palace? A voice as thin as a mosquito interrupted my thoughts, and I turned my head to see a woman washing dishes with me, so ordinary in appearance that I forgot to see it.
I nodded, and continued to wash my clothes.
"Is that the one who danced on the drum? It's so beautiful, can you teach me? I'll give you dinner in the future! ”
I was dumbfounded, and my hand movements stopped.
"Slut! This man still dares to speak! "I was whipped my back, and it was so hot that I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
The female worker next to her hurriedly retracted her head, and she didn't dare to come out.
I didn't dare to touch the wound on my back with my hands, so I could only expose the pain to the cold wind.
It wasn't until all the fingers were stiff that I couldn't even lift the bowl before I heard the sound of a stoppage.
Everyone got up one after another and went to the west side to receive the meal, in an orderly manner.
I wiped the water stains on my hands on the hem of my skirt and followed them in line to receive food.
Each person only has a bowl of white porridge and a black-flour steamed bun that is as cold as a stone.
But they almost gobbled it up, as if someone was going to grab it. Standing in the courtyard, he was not afraid of hot porridge and drank it all.
When it was my turn, the rice ladler only scooped half a bowl of gruel to me, and his disdain was palpable.
I had already thought about this situation when I came to the prison storehouse, and I didn't care if I met it, anyway, I didn't have a lot of food, so it was enough to fill my stomach.
The black-faced steamed buns are a little moldy, and the green mold spots are obvious on them. I looked up at the others, and they were all stuffing their mouths as hard as if they couldn't see a mold spot.
I laughed and took a bite.
In the past, I used to be in prison, not to mention steamed buns, and even swallowed hay, and I was at peace when I came.
Before his lips touched the rim of the bowl, his left shoulder was hit, and the hot porridge in the bowl splashed on the placket of his clothes, and even the steamed buns fell to the ground.
"Yo, I'm so embarrassed." The female worker who bumped into me said in a weird way: "I just think there's an obstacle in the way, it turns out to be a newcomer, you see, why don't you hold your bowl more steady." ”
She kicked away the steamed buns on the ground, and a black dog took them away.
"I'm not coming back now."
The people around were gloating and waiting to see the show.
No matter how good my temper is, this time I can't hold my breath.
Thinking of the Queen Mother, she will definitely take my handle everywhere to put me to death, and there must be no mistakes now.
I wiped the porridge stains off the placket with a silk cloth, returned to the dishwashing area, and continued to wash the dishes.
"This girl isn't dumb, is she?" The female worker with a thick waist and a round face couldn't help but ask, and her hands on her waist seemed to be thinking of some tricks.
I remembered that when I was a child in Liufu, the subordinates in it also liked to make fun of me, because my mother taught me not to make trouble, I never paid attention to it, and they privately called me a little mute, and took pleasure in it.
Now these people in front of me are somewhat similar to Liufushi.