Chapter 5: Out of the Palace
I wondered in my heart, everyone in the cold palace ate the same food, why I was the only one who was poisoned, and I didn't ask the concubine until everyone left.
"Concubine Niangniang, how could I be poisoned?" I asked the concubine, she looked around, and then she lowered her voice and told me: "The imperial doctor has already checked it, and the mung bean cake at Concubine Rong's place contains poison."
"Someone wants to harm Concubine Rong?" I asked incredulously.
The concubine looked at the towering palace wall of the cold palace with a complicated expression and said, "I'm afraid that there is someone else who will be harmed," she turned around and comforted me with a smile: "Don't worry, Imperial Doctor Wang must have a way to save you, if it is ......"
She came closer to me and whispered in my ear, "If you have a chance to leave this palace, you will try to escape, and never come back!" ”
I was so shocked that I couldn't help but feel joy and sorrow at the thought of leaving, and almost cried: "What about you? She caressed my face kindly, "I don't have much time, I haven't thought I'd go out since the day I entered this imperial city at the age of eighteen, just let me die here and still be with them."
I hugged her tightly and snuggled up to her as I had been a child.
The next morning, the guards of the cold palace escorted me to the Tai Hospital, although my abdomen no longer hurt, but I was dizzy and weak.
Imperial Doctor Wang took me out of the hospital, and there were two rows of palace maids with red makeup and pink faces, with graceful steps and light postures, I couldn't help but look at them, and I was so envious in my heart, but for some reason they were expressionless, and their eyes were only looking straight ahead, neatly aligned, like a beautiful body.
"When will the third prince come?" I asked Imperial Physician Wang, "Today is the fifteenth day when the prince is checking the princes' homework, and the third prince naturally can't come." ”
Perhaps we will never see each other again, but as soon as I thought of this, I begged the Imperial Doctor: "I will go to the third prince and say goodbye to him, so let's go again!" ”
"Presumptuous!" He seemed to be angry, and taught me: "How can you see the three princes when you see each other? Then I went on my way, and I had to follow closely, for this man was not related to me, and it was a great favor for me to be willing to save me, and I was not in a position to make any other request.
The palace was full of guards, the palace gates were heavy one after another, the checkpoints were one after another, and the guards always had to ask Imperial Doctor Wang about my situation, but as soon as he took out his waist card, they would respectfully give way.
The waist card is emerald green, is the best jade polished, the body of the card seal a "Ling" word and engraved with the phoenix pattern, the texture is clear, lifelike, and other people's copper waist card is very different.
"Then out of the front of the Zhengde Gate is outside the palace," Imperial Doctor Wang said, I suddenly felt a pause in my heart, looked back, the towering palace wall blocked my view, only to see the towering roof, in the sunlight, the roof of the auspicious dragon shining.
This is the most luxurious and noble place in Jiang Kingdom, in a corner of this supreme and noble palace, I have spent twelve years, and there are many poor women, who spend the rest of their lives in this dark corner, and even their souls cannot escape.
He had already arranged for a sedan chair to wait for us outside the palace gate, and then I had been sitting in the sedan chair, and I didn't know how to bypass a few street markets, only to hear the sound of people outside, all kinds of cries and sales.
At first, I was a little afraid of him, and I didn't dare to lift the curtain, but this lively sound was really tempting, I was like a bird that had been imprisoned for many years, just out of the cage, greedily breathing the free air, eager to soar in this vast world, so I secretly lifted the curtain.
I was stunned by the sight outside, I had never seen so many people, they were crowded on the side of the wide road, children riding on the shoulders of adults, giggling with whirring windmills in their hands, and the steamed buns next to them were still steaming, and a burly man bought ten at once, and the little brother who sold the buns was happily busy......
I looked at all the novelties outside, and I had long lost track of time.
At about lunchtime, the sedan chair stopped, and the doctor got out of the sedan chair, and I was about to go down, but he turned around and said, "You are in there, don't come out," I had to stay in the sedan chair.
I was already very weak, and I hadn't eaten lunch yet, and I was even weaker, and after a while, the sedan curtain was lifted, and Imperial Doctor Wang handed me the three buns wrapped in paper in his hand, and said, "You are right here, don't walk around!" I took the bun and nodded.
I held the warm bun in my hand and ate it in a big gulp, because I eat cold rice and rancid food in the cold palace all the year round, even I feel very happy to eat this ordinary fresh bun, but when I think of the concubine, I forcibly resist the desire to eat all three and secretly leave one.
But suddenly remembering that the concubine had told me to find a way to escape and never go back, I secretly made up my mind that I could not return to the cold and cold palace even if I died, so I finished the third bun with tears.
I opened the sedan curtain and was about to go out, the two sedan chair drivers reached out to block the sedan door, I glanced at their tall bodies, and then looked at my weak little body, thinking about it or retreating into the sedan chair.
It seems that it is not easy to escape, just thinking to myself, someone opened the sedan curtain, it was Dr. Wang, he waved his hand at me, signaled me to go down, I just got off the sedan chair, it seems to be a pharmacy in front of me, the door is open, the plaque directly above is written with the word "Zhai", Xu is a long time ago, the word has been blurred to some can't see.
I wondered why the pharmacy had such a name.
When I entered the hall, I felt even more strange, there was not a single customer in the pharmacy, there was not a single guy at the counter, and the neatly arranged medicine cabinet was written in large vermilion characters: Broken intestine grass, crane top red, plover feather, aconitum aconitum, quinine...... All of them are highly poisonous poisons.
Although I have never seen these medicines, the concubine taught me the names of all kinds of things in the world when she taught me to read, and I still know this poison in my heart.
"The man has arrived," said Imperial Physician Wang, and then saw a man in his forties with messy hair and disheveled clothes sitting up on a rattan chair next to the coffee table, and he glanced over here as if unintentionally, and then lay down again, and said in disappointment: "It's just Nicosan, I thought it was some kind of poison."
Seeing him so arrogant and rude, Imperial Physician Wang was not angry, but clasped his fists and said to the man: "Then there will be work, I will come back in three days", he finished speaking and walked out of the door.
I didn't go out, I didn't go out, I had to stand awkwardly. The person on the rattan chair seemed to be asleep for a long time, and when I approached, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was really asleep.
Suddenly, a small snake covered in patterns poked its head out of the back of his head and spat out letters at him.