Chapter Twenty-Eight: Raising Rumors
Aunt Zhiqiu brought dinner, porridge and side dishes, each dish was very exquisite, and sure enough, what kind of master had what kind of meal to eat.
She brought two more sauce buns, and I grabbed one and took a bite.
I remember how much I wish I could eat a steamed bun or steamed bun to quench my hunger after being kicked out of Liufu.
The man with the severed finger has no ability to make a living, and he has such a terrible face, even if he kneels to ask for it, he cannot ask for genuine sympathy, because they think I am unlucky.
The sense of survival is so strong, in the stall is to snatch a bun, because you can't run, you will soon be caught up, but the hunger is so strong, you don't have time to chew and swallow it, curl up on the ground and let them punch and kick, protect the bun in your arms, eat it bite by bite, mixed with the smell of dust on the ground.
I could get food after being beaten, which was too cost-effective for me at that time.
Stealing became a habit, and I would be complacent, glad that I had stolen one more or that they hadn't caught up with me. After a few months, stealing food turned into stealing money and valuables, and even if he had a broken hand, he could try his best to steal something until he was imprisoned.
I never want to remember the days in prison, which were as ugly as the outside world, if not even more ugly. Family members can live more comfortably if they have money to bribe, and the rest can only be bullied by the jailers, and then by the inmates.
There was only one gruel a day, and the jailer made fun of me and gave me an aliasβthe Ugly Monster with a Severed Hand. Sometimes when they are unhappy, they will kick over the porridge bowl, and you can only lick the porridge water that has been dirty on the ground, because I am willing to bear it if you want to live.
If it weren't for Aunt Chongzi, I think I would have really died, I thought I could bear anything, but when three or five jailers took off their clothes and pants to catch me, there was only one thought in my heart, that is, to die with these ugly people, I don't know where the strength came from, and cut the throat of a jailer with a broken bowl, they were afraid, and I finally saw fear in their eyes.
Chongzi appeared at this time, she didn't hesitate to cut the throats of the rest of the people, so much blood, I didn't even see how she made a move.
She said, Jin'er, come with me.
The voice was hoarse, like a handful of sand stuffed in the mouth.
All right. I recognized this life-saver, and my life was entrusted to the Night Pavilion from then on.
"What do you think, so distracted?" Aunt Zhiqiu knocked the bowl with chopsticks and said, "Oh, it's good to eat a meal, why are you still crying?" β
I wiped my eyes with my sleeve and replied, "The food is so delicious, Su Jin is a tear of emotion." β
Aunt Zhiqiu sneered, "Come on, you ghost has a sweet mouth." I'll clean up after eating and rest well, there will be more things tomorrow morning. β
After eating, it was already dark, the air was very cold, then I felt that it was really autumn, the thin quilt was not enough to resist the cold wind outside, my heart was full of colic, and the sweat seeped out from my back, Aunt Zhiqiu lived with me, I didn't dare to make too much noise, I could only exhale in a big gulp.
That's the price to pay, the price to be paid for the restoration of appearance.
The Liu family spent more than ten years and painstaking efforts to cultivate the ten spices Surui is just a poison that harms people, just like the Liu family, the heart is poisonous.
It took a while to relieve, and the moonlight came in dimly, looking at the moonlight and falling asleep in a daze.
The night was dark and sweet, without the distractions of dreams.
Following
The sun is slightly warm, and the time is just right.
Bei Yuliang also ordered to rest again, originally came to Nanshan to relieve his usual nervousness.
After washing my face and packing up in the morning, a palace maid called me at the door.
When she went out with doubts, the palace maid smiled, but this kind of smile was different from Ruxue's usual days, and she felt very fake at first glance.
"This is the famous Jin girl for a long time, she is really transcendent." She snorted twice, and I just thought it was contrived.
"You're welcome, girl?"
She patted her head and said, "Look, I almost forgot about business, I am Concubine Lian's personal maid." She stuffed the burden in her hand into me and said, "A little caution, our mother said that Miss Jin has a good future, and I hope the girl will help us more in the future." β
I know that the unwritten rules in the palace will remain unchanged wherever I go. "Niangniang is too polite, this is natural, and Su Jin also relies on Niangniang more."
"It's easy to say, Miss Jin, you are busy first, I'll go back." She twisted her waist and walked away.
When I opened the package, it was all gold, silver and jade, and Concubine Lian was willing to spend a lot of money, no wonder she rose step by step from picking women.
It's a pity that it's useless for me to ask for this, so I'll go out of the palace and give alms to those beggars another day.
Aunt Zhiqiu gave me some good melons and fruits and distributed them to the masters, she knew about my festival with Mu Han, so she specially went to the west to send them and let me go to the east.
Holding the bright and dripping fruits of all colors, sent to the master's room, the last one is cold, I always don't know how to face him, this feeling is very strange, it seems to be embarrassing but not embarrassing.
He also lives in a bamboo building, crunching on the stairs, swaying in the breeze, and fragrant plants.
Walking in, he was not there, put the fruit on the table, saw a guqin on the side, ripples in his heart rose slightly, his fingers involuntarily brushed up, and the crisp and lingering tone sounded.
Sit in front of the piano and caress with both hands.
The mood is scattered on ten fingers,
The tune is sad in a glass.
Halfway through the bounce, I only felt that my ten fingers were in pain, and the bone joints were already slightly red, so I had to stop.
"Good song."
As soon as he raised his head, Rin was standing in the doorway.
"The slave maid moves the strings without permission, please forgive me."
He walked in, sat down at the piano, and replied, "You are very similar to my sister." β
I always seem to be listening to people tell me who I am like, and if I was the first to meet them, I would have become someone like me.
"She is a concubine, but she has an indifferent temperament, but she later married a lover who thought she was right, and then was beaten to death by her so-called lover." He spoke calmly, without a hint of wave on his face, his fingers running over the strings. "I wanted to be the one who had the power to avenge her, and when I did, I felt pointless."
I lowered my eyes and answered him after a while, "It's like a moth to a fire, even if she knows the final result, she will fight hard, maybe she doesn't feel wronged." β
He nodded and said, "I'd rather never meet someone like this." β
His thoughts are the same as mine, moths to the fire are too stupid, I would rather live my life like the fortune teller said.
Coming out of the bamboo building, it is noon, the light is dazzling, people need to use their hands to block, the people often say that the autumn tiger is this season, if you don't pay attention, you will be infected with the wind cold.
Because it was a rest, the guards were also relaxed, the 351st Regiment sat on the ground and chatted, and the palace maids gathered together to weave silk threads, and it was rare to see such a happy scene.
I wanted to feel such a humane scene, so I walked through them and listened to the guards say that the palace maids in which palace were good-looking, and which team leader treated his subordinates well. When walking through the crowd on the side of the palace maid, it was very noisy, and the girl already talked a lot, and at this time, there was even more to say when they got together.
"Hey, do you know, that showy Liu Sujin?"
"How could I not know."
"I heard that she has a leg with Prince Xuan......"
"Your words are too ugly, that's called mutual affection."
"It's so lucky, so many people who are a thousand times better looking than her can't get into the eyes of the prince."
"She, like us, is a humble palace maid, and at most she can only be a nameless concubine."
They had a lively discussion, and they were red-faced, and I stood behind them, and they didn't notice it. A smile gradually became on my lips, and this is the effect I wanted, gossip has the greatest power, and everyone adds fuel to it.
Back in his room, bored, I don't know what Beiyu Jinchen will do when he hears it, or will he just smile indifferently? In this case, he should do something.
Grabbed some pastries and made up my mind to go to Nata's Linlang Pavilion.
I didn't expect to bump into Beiyu Jinchen when I went out, I really said that Cao Cao Cao arrived. He stood firmly, as if he was waiting for someone, I smiled brightly, and I didn't suffer a loss in this game.
"The prince is waiting for someone?" I asked deliberately with a wink.
His lips were curled in a just right arc, and his hair was clear, like a fairy. Step by step, I didn't stop until I was very close, I sensed that something was wrong, and began to retreat, ready to prepare for him to strike, but with his skills I had absolutely no chance of counterattacking.
Closer and closer, until his back against the brick wall could no longer retreat, he held the wall with one hand, put the other hand on my cheek, his thumb brushed his cheek through the tulle, and looked down and chuckled, his eyes dark, like stars.
I could only feign my composure and force myself to look him in the eye.
He was attached, his lips were in his ears, and I could even feel his burning breath.
"Pavilion Master, good strategy. It's just that you forget, we are people in the same boat. It's not a fair idea to do that. β
One word at a time, the tone was cold.
The pastry box in his hand fell to the ground with a thudding sound.
"Don't you know that there is a plan called a plan?" He asked rhetorically, his tone full of banter.
The smell of tea on his body was very sweet, and I put my hand on his chest, but I couldn't shake it in the slightest. On the contrary, he felt his steady heartbeat in his palm, and he panicked in his heart, and quickly withdrew his hand.
"You, you let go of me first." There was already a little panic in his tone, and he didn't want to be noticed, and the more he covered it up, the more obvious it became.
He rolled his eyes and smiled, "Aren't you fearless?" β
Beiyu Jinchen finally got up and got out of the way, against the light, I couldn't see his face.
"From now on, our well water will not interfere with the river water, we will do our own things, I will not embarrass you, and you don't want to control me, the Dark Night Pavilion is not a decoration." After speaking, he hurriedly picked up the food box, didn't dare to turn back, didn't dare to turn around, and said in his heart Liu Sujin, when did you become so timid.