Chapter 19: The Lady in the Cold Palace
"It's here!"
Stopping in front of a dilapidated palace, Huang Gonggong finally spoke.
The palace gate is very broken, the masonry has fallen off and damaged a lot, and the two words of cold palace at the top of the palace gate seem to have faded and become blurred.
Under the walls on both sides of the palace gate, five or six small grasses grew tenaciously, quietly poking their heads out, showing off their tall posture and looking shy.
Imperial Physician Mu also stopped, looked at Xia Nan for the first time, and admonished: "Go in later, don't say anything, pretend to be dumb." ”
After speaking, without waiting for Xia Nan to answer, he entered the cold palace, with a tragic back, a bit of wind and sorrow, easy to water cold, and the strong man will never return once he is gone.
The inside of the cold palace is more broken than the outside, the peeling marks on the walls are one by one, and there is no complete place to be found, and the cracks in the floor tiles on the ground are overgrown with weeds.
In the corner of the cold palace, there is an ancient well, the weeds have grown more than half a person high, and there are some unknown shrubs, which almost cover the ancient well, revealing only a little dark cyan of history.
"Ah, you beat me, you dare to beat me, hahaha, the emperor loves me the most, I want him to order to kill you, kill you"
"The emperor loves you, nonsense, he loves me the most, for me, no concubine is lucky, he loves me the most, spoils me"
"Hmph, since I entered the palace, I have won the emperor's favor, and there are three thousand beauties in the harem, and the emperor favors me alone, so I persuaded the emperor to be sure to wet the rain and dew, but the emperor didn't listen. Your Majesty, spoil me, spoil me."
In the cold palace, in addition to the dilapidated palace, the gloomy environment and the vicissitudes of the ancient well, there are only the concubines here.
Around the ancient well, the two concubines with their hair scattered were fighting and making trouble, babbling nonsense in their mouths, tripping over the grass, and they didn't take it seriously, they got up and pinched again.
In a circle, there were seven or eight women around, looking indifferently, not joining in it, not coming forward to persuade them, just looking indifferently.
I just watched, I didn't speak, I watched her rise up, watched her feast, watched her gain grace, watched her collapse, watched her go into the cold palace, watched her go crazy.
These women seem to have been taken care of, but their clothes are tattered, and their faces are pale and bloodless, like evil spirits from hell, and they can only vaguely see their once beautiful faces.
Xia Nan is bold, and he has watched a lot of horror movies and ghost movies, but when he sees this situation and is in it, he still can't help but beat the drum in his heart, and has an illusion, asking if this is the underworld.
I felt a cool breath from my backbone to my brain, Xia Nan's face was faintly blue, and he looked at Gonggong Huang with flashing eyes, as the head of the cold palace, he could live here for so long, and he had to say a word of admiration.
"Little father-in-law, these two mothers have been in the cold palace for a long time, and they are a little uncomfortable with life here, and they have some mental problems. However, you don't have to be afraid, they don't hurt anyone, and they won't do anything to you. ”
Huang Gonggong comforted him.
Xia Nan nodded, did not speak, and remembered the admonition of Imperial Doctor Mu in his heart.
The three of them stood at the gate of the cold palace for a while, and the ladies naturally found them, and several ladies turned around, looked at them, did not speak, and looked at them with the eyes of the two madmen who had just looked.
In the past, Xia Nan had seen in the book that silence is a kind of power, and the gaze is a kind of oppression, but he never believed that the silence of nothingness and the illusory gaze really had any power.
This time, Xia Nan believed it, and those indifferent eyes seemed to be narrating the injustice he had encountered, and lamenting the misery he had experienced.
Being stared at like this, Xia Nan's heart was furious, his forehead was sweaty, and his eyes gradually drifted, as if he would also experience something bad.
At this time, the two crazy mothers also discovered Xia Nan and them, and gave up tearing each other apart and wanted to rush over.
"Ah, there's a newcomer again, there's a newcomer in the prison. ”
"Another one who is disgusted by the emperor, come here, come to us, wait for death with us, wait for death alone. ”
"Catch you, I want to catch you, I want you to accompany me, accompany me"
"Don't run, don't run, come and stay with me, play with me. ”
At this time, there was only one thought echoing in Xia Nan's heart, I grass, Huang Gonggong is farting, doesn't it mean that they are not harmful, and they will not be bad for him, what is going on.
Xia Nan was shocked, a little scared in her heart, she always felt that something was wrong, this feeling was more exciting than watching ghost movies.
When I think about it, I get excited again, and it doesn't seem like anything.
Along the way, Imperial Doctor Mou, who has always been calm and not very interested, is very calm, showing a bit of the old lady's bearing.
"Okay, Gonggong Huang, don't delay here, let's go see Liu Niangniang quickly. ”
Imperial Doctor Mu flicked his sleeves and walked forward first.
Huang Gonggong hurriedly said: "Okay, well, it's important to see Liu Niangniang." ”
Before leaving, he loudly commanded several eunuchs who were quietly waiting in the corner and said, "You, you, and you, why don't you go and pull the two ladies away, don't hurt anyone." ”
In the voice of Huang Gonggong muttering softly, "I don't have the eyesight to see", Xia Nan followed into a palace, and the temperature dropped suddenly, as if from the warm and comfortable autumn, it suddenly came to the cold winter wax moon, and the forest was biting.
It was dark in the palace, there was no sunlight for many years, it was quite damp, and there was a musty smell, which made Xia Nan feel very uncomfortable.
After only staying here for a short time, he already felt uncomfortable, how could someone live here all the time, how could he be better, how could he not get sick.
In the corner lay a straw mat, on which lay a woman, and by the faint light of the palace, the outline of the woman's face was a very beautiful woman.
The women who can be selected to be palace maids and concubines in the palace are all beautiful, with long crooked melons and cracked dates, and they don't even have the opportunity to enter Beijing.
The two crazy mothers and a few wooden women outside, although their behavior was abnormal, they could still see their natural beauty when they looked at the general outline.
But compared to this Liu Niangniang, they are all much inferior, Xia Nan only saw one of her side faces, and she was already greatly amazed, but she didn't know why such a beauty entered the cold palace.
"Niangniang, Imperial Doctor Mu has come to see you. ”
Imperial Physician Mu greeted softly.
Liu Niangniang was motionless and did not react, Xia Nanzheng was strange, but when she saw Huang Gonggong move, she moved the woman lying against the inner wall slightly, so that her face turned outward.
Liu Niangniang has a pair of bright eyes like stars, these smart and deep eyes, without a trace of numbness and indifference, are very different from other women in the cold palace.
Sleeping on straw mats, eating leftovers, getting seriously ill, being tortured, everything and everything she endured in the cold palace could not make her eyes dusty, even a little dark.
Looking at these eyes, Xia Nan automatically ignored Liu Niangniang's miserable white face, deeply sunken eye sockets, and no trace of blood-colored lips, only this pair of bright big eyes remained.
At this moment, for some reason, Xia Nan felt very heartwarming.
Chapter 2 is delivered.