Chapter Fifty-Four: A Night in the Garden
(54) Garden Night
"They are so domineering, don't the government care?" Liu Yizheng asked.
"The government can't help them, and if the people report to the officials, they will gather people to retaliate. They are numerous and powerful, and they have weapons, and even when the government comes, they are afraid of them. "The shopkeeper said.
Liu Yizheng motioned to Shen Tian, and Shen Tian said knowingly: "Shopkeeper, this is my prince, Ren Yangzhou Thorn History, if you want to go to another country to do business, my prince will give you two silver taels, if you have nowhere to go, you can go back to the palace together and do things for the prince." As he spoke, he took out a few taels of silver from his bosom.
When the shopkeeper heard this, he was overjoyed, and called the woman to kneel in front of Liu Yizheng, and said: "Thank you Wangye, the younger one is from Yangzhou, named Yang Er, who has fallen here, this is my righteous daughter Crow, our father and daughter depend on each other, and they just go back to their hometown with the prince." ”
St. Martha was very fond of the woman when she saw that she was dignified and beautiful. So I got into the carriage with her, and we chatted happily along the way.
It turned out that the crow was originally from Yangzhou, she was born in a large family, but on the day of her full moon, the house caught fire, and the fire destroyed everything in the family.
Her parents sent her to the vicinity of the nunnery after the fire, where she has never been found.
A kind nun found her and gave her to a nearby villager, but when she was five years old, she was abducted by a stranger.
Later, she fled to the foot of the mountain, but fortunately was rescued by Yang Erxiang, and the two father and daughter were commensurate and dependent on each other.
St. Martha said: "It turns out that my sister's background is so pitiful, if you don't give up, how about you and I become sisters in the future?" ”
The crow cried out with joy: "Sister! ”
"What's your real name?" Santa Martha asked.
"I don't remember, sister, for as long as I can remember, everyone else has called me a crow, and I have no name or surname." Raven Road.
"Poor sister!" St. Martha said, "You and I are both poor people, I am also an orphan, and my name is also what they call me, my name is St. Martha." ”
For some reason, Santa Martha fell in love with the crow at first sight, and she quietly told the crow little by little in the car about herself in the car without reservation.
Even if this prince is a fake prince, she quietly told the crow. She hoped that when she arrived at the palace, she would have an extra helper.
The crow is also very attentive to St. Martha and Yang Shuixin, serving carefully and taking care of them along the way.
Liu Yizheng saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart.
For the next few days, nothing happened. Bon voyage.
When he arrived at the palace, he assigned the crows to St. Martha's room to take care of St. Martha's daily life, which was equivalent to giving the crows to St. Martha's personal maid.
Yang Er was assigned by him to be a husband in the firewood room, and he was also extremely happy to take on this errand.
In the first few days of her stay at the palace, Santa Martha heard faintly crying in the middle of the night. The cry was very scary, like a complaint, like a song, like a cry.
She was afraid that Yang Shuixin would be woken up, but in the past few days, Yang Shuixin has slept very sweetly, and she is really a cute baby.
The crow was also repeatedly awakened. Frightened, she asked if St. Martha had ghosts. Santa Martha decided to wait until daylight to find out.
St. Martha's had not yet traveled all over the palace, and when she walked out of her bedchamber, she was stopped by a guard.
She asked indignantly, "Why don't you let us out?" ”
"The prince has ordered, in the past few days, the people in the house will not go out first, and wait for the arrival of the Midyear Festival."
"Where did the prince go?" Santa Martha asked.
"The prince has been bathing and cleaning himself in the room these days, and no one is allowed to disturb him." The guard said, "Madame, don't embarrass your subordinates. The prince ordered, and he will be wronged in the past few days, which is the custom of the royal festival. ”
Santa Martha stupidly hugged Yang Shuixin and returned to the room with the crow.
What kind of broken customs in the palace have to be like this for the Midyear Festival?
Afraid of ghosts? Thinking of this, Santa Martha couldn't help but feel creepy, the night cry in the distance, is it really a ghost crying?
Hmph, don't let you walk around, it's obvious that there is a ghost in your heart, it seems that this fake prince has a bad heart.
Just go out for a walk tonight and look around!
Santa Martha decided. However, is it to bring Yang Shuixin and them together?
No, there are many people, and besides, it's better to go alone for risky things. Thinking of this, she told the crow to go to the garden behind the dormitory to relax.
Fortunately, there is this garden, or it would have been placed under house arrest by Liu Yizheng.
Santa Martha looked at the flowers in the garden, thinking of King Yang Xuan in her heart, and couldn't help but feel sad.
At nightfall, St. Martha saw that the crow was sleeping very deeply in the other bed, and she quietly sprinkled a layer of soothing powder on the incense burner in the house, so that Yang Shuixin and the crow would surely sleep soundly in two hours.
She sneaked out the door.
In the moonlight, the guards were dozing, and she quietly sprinkled the soothing powder on his mouth and nose, and now, he leaned against the wall, and fell asleep.
There are patrolling guards in the palace from time to time, where should they go?
Connected to Santa Martha's dormitory is another back garden, the path unguarded by guards. Just go there.
Santa Martha crept into this back garden, and she listened intently, and the cry seemed to come from the back garden.
Strangely, there are no guards here, and there is a large pond in the empty garden.
The lotus flowers in the pond have already bloomed, and only some remnants of the lotus are left on the water.
Under the moonlight, it looks a little bleak.
Suddenly, the voice began to sound again, and when I listened closely, it seemed that I couldn't hear it.
Santa Martha stood quietly on the edge of the pond, carefully observing the movements around her.
Suddenly, a figure floated by, and disappeared again.
Is it really a ghost?
Santa Martha was a little scared in her heart, but after thinking about it, she didn't do anything wrong, and she was not afraid of encountering ghosts in the middle of the night.
Thinking of this, she stabilized her mind and continued to observe the movements around her.
A burst of singing suddenly floated from nowhere, "Brother Love, you are too ruthless, my sister keeps watch for the lights at night, Brother Love is too ruthless, my sister holds the empty pillow at night......"
The song was soft to the bone, and Santa Martha was soft to hear it, and when she was just screaming badly, she was pushed from behind, and the whole person fell into the pool.
Saint Martha only felt cold all over, and in a trance, someone was standing in front of her, and she fixed her eyes on it, it was King Yang Xuan.
"King Xuan......" she called out and threw herself forward. I saw that the figure suddenly disappeared, and she began to feel hot again, as if she was in hot soup.
She struggled for a moment, and suddenly what seemed to fall suddenly seemed to fall, and she couldn't help but scream.
It was dark in front of her, and her body kept falling, so she had to close her eyes and let her body fall rapidly.
There was a loud "boom" that shook her and made her faint.
When Santa Martha woke up, she found herself lying on a large bed, naked. What's going on?
She was horrified to find that there was a man sleeping next to her, and that man was actually Liu Yizheng!
"You, you, why are you here?" She shouted loudly, pushing him to wake him up.
"Martha, I, I'm ......" Liu Yizheng was also disheveled.
Santa Martha hurriedly covered herself with a quilt, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
She stared fiercely at Liu Yizheng, who was spitting, and then bit the corner of the quilt and tried to remember what had just happened.
It was as if she had a dream, in which she felt like she had fallen into an ice cellar and then into flames.
In the dream, it seemed that King Yang Xuan came to his side and brought water.
It was water, and she seemed to take a sip of water, and then she and her husband exchanged heartfelt messages.
And then, and then......
But why Liu Yizheng?
Is it a hallucination?
Have you been separated from King Yang Xuan for a long time, and you misidentified someone?
The more she recalled, the more she blushed.
Just when she was ashamed and angry, King Yang Xuan had already tidied up his clothes, and he said softly: "Martha, you will be my person in the future, and you will live in the palace with your children in the future." ”
"No, no, Lord Wang, I am a man with a husband, you can let me go." St. Martha pleaded, almost letting go of the quilt that had wrapped around her.
"Alas, it's all because the king didn't tell you clearly, although the king is a stand-in prince, but the prince is as kind to me as a mountain. He gave me this palace, and the pool here is his alchemy pool, and the water in it is all elixir. You drank the elixir and came to me. And I, I just took the pill refined by the prince, so I can't help ......myself," Liu Yizheng said.
Liu Yizheng said again: "If you want to blame, blame the woman who pushed you into the water is too vicious!" ”
Liu Yizheng saw that St. Martha lowered her head, and tears dripped on the pink quilt one by one, he was distressed, this extremely beautiful woman!
He stepped forward, and she trembled and cried, "Don't come here! ”
"Okay, I'm not going, I'm not going. You put on your clothes first, and I'll turn around. He said, turning around.
Santa Martha looked around the room, it was not a big room, there was only this large bed, but there were strangely shaped incense burners in all corners of the room.
There must be a problem with the incense burner as well!
Santa Martha only felt soft and weak, without a trace of strength.
She slowly put on all her clothes, thinking to herself that Yang Shuixin didn't know if they had woken up.
"How long have I been here?" She asked.
"About two hours." He still didn't turn around.
"You turn around."
"Have you forgiven me?" He turned around, his face full of joy.
"You send me back to the child, she is still young and needs me."
"Of course, I'll send someone to take you back to the dormitory right away." Liu Yizheng said, "You have a good rest." ”
He clapped his hands, and two maids walked in.
Santa Martha came out of the room with the help of the two maids, and through a passageway, she was almost carried by the two of them.
Back in the dormitory, Yang Shuixin was still sleeping soundly on the small bed, she touched her face, and felt a lot more relieved.
Look at the crow again, she is turning over and going back to sleep.
Santa Martha still felt limp, and she lay down in her clothes, and her heart was numb.
King Xuan doesn't know where he is now? In the future, we will see each other again.