"I heard that the girl is also from Hubei?" Ji Duoyou suddenly interjected and asked.

Uncle Concubine's eyes suddenly flickered: "Yes, but Niang Niang didn't take me with her when she entered the palace." The slaves and maids were later selected by the Hou Hou to enter the palace to wait for the mother. ”

"Niangniang has entrusted me with a way to send you back to Hubei. Although you are now in the quagmire, I still want to ask the girl, if the girl is good, is the girl willing to stay in the palace to accompany the mother, or go back to Hubei? Ji Tayu's gaze became very sharp.

"Accompany the mother?" Uncle Concubine's body trembled with fear: "I don't know what the general means?" Didn't the general say that the king would not allow the mother to be buried in the royal tomb? That ------"

"Naturally, I won't want you to be buried." Ji Duoyou waved his hand: "Just stay in this Xuanning Palace, there is an old man, death is like life, I don't think you want your mother to be desolate in front of the grave after her death, right?" ”

"This ------" Uncle Concubine bit her lip for a long time, and then responded in a low voice: "It should have been as the general invited, but the mother has unfinished business, and she still needs the slave and maid to go back to Hubei to cook." Please general------"

"No need!" Ji Duoyou interrupted her impatiently: "It seems that in your heart, Ehou Yufang is your real master, not Niangniang!" ”

"I ------" Uncle Concubine seemed to want to defend herself, but at this moment, there was a strange sound in the room, and the two looked at each other and said in unison: "Go and see Niangniang!" ”

In the middle of the night, the atmosphere of sleeping in Xuanning Palace was solemn and sad. The time for E Yao to fall into a coma is getting longer and longer, and the interval is getting shorter and shorter, only her chest beats slightly, indicating that she is still alive.

In the silver plate on the small table next to the bed, there were two delicate feathers, and the uncle put the feathers on the end of Eyao's nose from time to time to try to see if there was still a faint breath. Outside the bead curtain, Ji Duoyou paced back and forth, not caring about the ugly sound of the shackles on his feet.

Suddenly, Eyao breathed rapidly, and the sound of short wheezing echoed in the quiet room. Uncle Yu hurriedly rushed over: "Niangniang, what else do you have to say?" The slave is here! ”

E Yao's eyelids moved with difficulty, her sallow and thin face was flushed with a strange flush, her eyes were empty, she didn't know what she was looking at, she muttered a few times in her mouth, and suddenly shouted: "E Yu Fang!" You don't deserve to be my brother! ”

Uncle Concubine was startled, and instinctively said, "Niangniang, are you stunned?" He has always been thinking about you------"

Eyao fell backwards like a force, and there was an intermittent hoarseness in her throat: "------ Eyufang, my father and mother asked you to take care of me, but what about you?" In order to ------ a patina mountain, you ------ send me to this unsightly place------ you have harmed me for the rest of my life! I want to go back, I want to go home------ go boating in the Han River in my hometown------ go lotus picking-------"

After a sharp gasp, Eyao trembled a few times, then closed her eyes and said no more.

Uncle Yu took the feather and tried her nose, turned her face and shook her head at Ji Duoyou outside the bead curtain, and cried loudly. Ji Duoyou felt that the sourness and regret in her heart were beyond words, and muttered: "She is finally liberated, she can finally return to her hometown and be that carefree little girl again." No more having to be a pawn in the hands of others, free! ”

It's a pity that Zhou Li Wang Ji Hu has a life: bury it on the spot. Eyao can only return to her hometown, but her body cannot. It seems that no matter life or death, only the soul can truly be free.

When the palace was built, in order to lead the pickaxe water to dig an artificial living pool, the excavated soil was conveniently piled up to make the rockery scenery of each palace, and Xuanning Palace also had it. Duoyou and Uncle Yu worked hard for a long time, and finally dug a tomb one foot wide, two zhang long, and one and a half feet deep on the top of the small hill, and wrapped Eyao's body in a brocade quilt, which was considered to be buried.

"General, the king's intention was not to give Niangniang a separate grave, if we do this, will it be ------" Uncle Yu didn't dare to say any more, because Ji Duoyou's gaze was very piercing.

Duoyou sneered contemptuously: "Don't worry, this Xuanning Palace will not have a master to move in for at least ten years!" I'm afraid, all the people will go around here, and no one will know! He continued, "Do you know why I buried my mother here?" Because this is the highest place in the palace, I hope that Niangniang can climb high and look far away, until she misses her hometown! ”

He threw the pickaxe in his hand fiercely: "In the future, this place will be called Wang'e Palace!" Although Niangniang can't enter the royal tomb, she still stays in the palace, and there are people serving underground, and she is like life, enjoying the freedom and leisurely that she can't enjoy during her lifetime. He Ji Duoyou can only do it here.

After tossing for most of the night, the sky was bright, and the uncle was also tired. Duoyou persuaded her: "It's over, the girl should go back and rest for a while." It's been a hard day! ”

"What about you, General?"

"I'll sit with my mother again."

"Well, if the general has orders, call the slave at any time."

When Shuyu's figure disappeared on the top of the hill, Duoyou sighed lightly, took out a small brocade bag from his arms, cut a small pit with his hands, and buried it in it. He muttered in his mouth: "Niangniang, this is the copper grass flower you sent to your ministers, and it has not dried up." However, after all, it is a flower from Niangniang's hometown, so let it accompany Niangniang and chat about a trace of nostalgia! ”

The wind is blowing, and the morning wind brings the coolness of dew, which is refreshing. But with the sound of the wind, there is clearly a noisy noise, which is not real, but it is endless. Although this hill is not high, it can still take in the scenery of the small half of the palace castle, and Tayou got up and looked at it, and couldn't help but move in his heart.

There, isn't it the middle palace of Queen Fanji? How did it get so noisy? The chamberlain dressed in black and wearing a veil crown, the imperial doctor in a gray robe, and the palace maid in a crimson robe shuttled back and forth like ants ------. Those chamberlains worked in groups of two, all carrying a pair of stretchers in and out, and they went back and forth in the three halls in front of the middle palace. Some of the stretchers looked heavy, and the inner servants were bent at the waist and bowed on their backs; But once he came out of the room, he suddenly seemed to let go of the burden of a thousand catties and walked like flying.

What's even more weird is that everyone that Duoyou can see, the chamberlain, the imperial doctor, the palace maid------ are all masked, as if their arms are wrapped around something, instead of the previous wide and floor-length sleeves.

What is this doing? Duoyou secretly thought to himself: Is it to gather all the infected people in the palace to the middle palace for isolation and treatment? Need such a large place, has the plague spread so much in the palace? What am I going to do?

He touched his chest, and the stiff pestle was still there. In this case, should I relay Eyao's words to the king of Zhou, so that he can use this prescription when people just have symptoms, and it may save a lot of lives. Right! That's how it should be.

As soon as he said it, he was about to go down the mountain when he lifted his feet, and the shackles on his feet sounded. At this moment, he hesitated. Will Ji Hu believe him? Now he is hating E Yao because of the death of his beloved Wang Mei Zhongji, but he is afraid that he will hate himself too, how can he believe his words?

What's more, when he thought about it, E Yao was just guessing, and he was not completely sure. If you are reckless and lose a big package, it backfires again, and your life is not enough to worry about, what if you drag down Zhaozi Mu Ke again? Thinking of this, he suddenly smiled bitterly, what was he thinking? He Ji Duoyou is now a convicted person who has been imprisoned, who is he talking to? The guards at the door? People are so good at giving some food, how can they spread this word? Isn't it risking your life?

It's useless to think too much, and leave it to fate! Ji Duoyou suddenly felt that why did he become so passive and pessimistic? Is it really because of age?

Ji Duoyou was not mistaken, the three halls of the Middle Palace were the places where King Zhou newly opened up to isolate and treat the plague of rat Gu. Originally, the patients were isolated in situ, but later the doctors shuttled back and forth, which was inconvenient. This brought the patients to the Imperial Doctor's Office, but soon, the slap-sized place of the Imperial Doctor's Office was overstretched. Li Wang Ji thought about it for a while, pulled all the palaces and pavilions of the entire Hojing Palace, and finally selected the middle palace.

There's no better place to be. The middle palace is the largest independent palace in the whole Hojing palace in addition to the main hall where the king of Zhou lives, and the three major halls before and after are the three palaces, which are one and one pavilion, can also accommodate more than 100 people. What's more, since the death of Queen Fanji, this place has always been empty and can be used.

But when Ji Hu made this decision, Jia, who was the inner chamberlain of the royal city order, instinctively objected, and the reason was also very good: "Great King, the middle palace is the residence of the first queen. Although it is empty now, the king has passed the year of dancing elephants, and he will get married in the future. The future queen will also enter the middle palace, if this time it is the place where the infected people are treated, this ------ is afraid that this bad luck will not go for many years, and the king should consider other places! ”

Ji Hu didn't think about it and categorically vetoed the words of the inner servant Jia: "Lone is the king of the Great Zhou, and the queen of Lone will also be the mother of all the people in the world in the future." If you are afraid of bad luck and are timid, you are not worthy of being the mother of the country. Needless to say, it's decided! ”

Having said that, on the day of the opening of the Middle Palace, Ji Hu still sent someone to move the spirit of his mother Fanji into the hall of the front hall of the Middle Palace, and burned incense and prayed. I hope that my mother's spirit in the sky can forgive myself for disturbing her, and I also hope that my mother's soul will not be far away, and bless Dazhou to survive this catastrophe safely. He is not afraid that his future wife will be unhappy, and the little Shen Jiang who has never met will not stir up any waves in his heart, but for his mother, he will always have the most sincere thoughts and love.

In this way, the middle palace has become the most noisy and worrying place in the entire palace. Almost every day, Ji Hu would come to the gate of the middle palace with hope and watch with his eyes open.