247 Sisters of the Ancient Garden

"Advocacy is also raised by parents, and it is also a life!" The dark-skinned man shouted, "Hit the cold water."

With a burst of cold water, the actor shivered all over, and woke up slowly. The woman breathed a sigh of relief and kowtowed to the dark-skinned man, "Sir and I have the grace of recreation, thank you sir!"

The man waved his hand: "He's already infected, don't thank you early!" Come back with me to get medical treatment and see if you can be saved, and thank you soon!"

"Dare to ask sir, the name of Gao?"

"Rongyi!"

For the people in the middle palace, they are undoubtedly isolated from the world. They could hear the birds and insects chirping outside, and they could feel the increasingly heavy and oppressive atmosphere in the palace from the busy figures of the palace doctors, but none of this had anything to do with them. Life excluded them, and the walls of the middle palace separated them from the inside and outside.

The people who came here were willing to talk at first, shouting and pouring out their anger and fear. However, more and more people died, and no one had time to listen, so everyone had to remain silent. There is an atmosphere of suspicion between people.

Where the threat of death is everywhere, mutual suspicion is the most natural situation.

It was a quiet dusk, and the twilight was dreary outside, but the clouds were clear. It is rare that the Sanjin Hall of the Middle Palace is bathed in such a refreshing and soft light, and the sound of dishes and bamboo chopsticks hitting each other is heard everywhere. A few crows swirled above the middle palace, and suddenly disappeared again. Rare tranquility------

With some difficulty, a woman carried a half-full porridge bucket and walked towards the terraced house on the west side of the nave. This was originally a place for the high-grade palace envoys to live, since the death of Queen Fanji has been abandoned for many years, and now the halls are full, and the patients have to be arranged here.

The woman entered a desolate courtyard, stepped on the dead branches and leaves that no one had cleaned the thick layer, put down the porridge bucket, and breathed a sigh of relief. On the bluestone-paved path, a few clumps of withered yellow weeds stubbornly emerged from the cracks in the slabs, rustling in the evening breeze. A hare was foraging for food, and when he saw someone coming in, he was startled and fled.

Before entering the house, I smelled a pungent smell, which was about the fact that the room had not been ventilated for a long time, and the smell of mildew was overwhelming and could not be dispersed. The woman strode in, the room was dimly lit, and she was faced by an earthen kang on which lay a woman in her early thirties, with a pale face and a withered appearance, and her unkempt hair was scattered on the kang with a lock. Next to it was a clay bowl with something like black ink in it.

"Sister Dong'er!" As soon as the woman entered the house, she busily washed the pottery bowl and refilled it with a bowl of hot golden corn porridge: "It's still hot! Eat a little bit to have the strength to live!"

"Uncle and sister, you're here!" Dong'er struggled to sit up, but finally lost his strength, lifted off the sheet covering his body, and then pulled the cover again, constantly raising his hand to stroke his sweaty forehead.

Shuyu helped her up with concern, stroked her back, and asked repeatedly, "What's wrong? Still can't cough it up?"

Dong'er cleared her throat, and indeed in the past few days, she felt that a ball of cotton wool had blocked her throat and eyes, and she couldn't take it out. She shook her head weakly, "It's useless! I know ------ myself," she nudged her uncle, "You stay away from me, don't get so close!"

"It's okay!" Uncle Yu stubbornly still held her arm: "You know, I have had this disease in Xuanning Palace, and I can't catch it!" Even the palace doctor has fallen three of them these days, but I'm fine, sister, you should believe me!"

"Then you have to be careful, take it easy!" Dong'er said with a slight disgust: "My sister is a few years older than you, and she entered the palace before you. Do you know why the Commander of the Kingdom has to send you here to serve?"

Uncle Yu pouted: "I know! He just wants me to die here, and then there will be no proof that he poisoned and murdered his mother. Unfortunately, he miscalculated!"

"You're careless!" Dong'er reluctantly opened his eyes and gasped for a while before he said, "Inner Attendant Jia stares at the Middle Palace every day with one eye, if he learns that you are not infected with the epidemic and are still alive, how will he let you go? You have to escape, get out of the middle palace, get out

Wangcheng, there is a way to live!"

"I don't know what my sister said?" Shuyu lowered her eyelids, and her words were full of helplessness: "But now that the inner and outer palace cities are sealed like iron buckets, I ------ I can't fly with wings!"

Dong'er suddenly stretched out a hand that was as thin as dry wood, grabbed his uncle's arm tightly, and whispered: "Listen to me------ there is a dog hole behind this row house, where the king ------ and Princess Boji used to hide and seek, but unfortunately it is smaller, you take advantage of the unpreparedness at night, dig the hole bigger------ once the time comes, immediately escape from the middle palace------

"Timing? What time did my sister say------?" Uncle Yu was puzzled.

"Before I came here, there was some change in the people of the palace. Think about it, there are people in the world who are as cheap as ants, and they have no desire to survive? After being closed for a long time like this, waiting for death every day, can there be no chaos? At that time, it will be time for my sister to flee for her life."

"But even if I can escape from the Middle Palace, how can I get out of the royal city?" Uncle Yu muttered, "General Ziliang promised Niangniang to help me return to my hometown, but now he is also locked up in the district hall, how can he help me?"

Dong'er took off a bamboo bracelet in his hand and handed it to his uncle, "You go to Princess Boji." When Yiji had an accident, Princess Boji was raised under the knees of Huang Yingniang for a period of time, and had a friendship with her sister. I made a pair of these bracelets, she wore one, and I wore one. For my sake, the princess will help you."

Uncle Yu took the smooth bamboo bracelet and burst into tears: "Sister, shall I take you with me?"

Dong'er shook her head laboriously, "Whether I can survive tonight or not is unknown. Stop talking nonsense!"

"Sister!" Two tears rolled down from her uncle's eyes: "Why are you so helpful to me?"

"Because you and I are both concubines, and we are both sisters from Jiang Hanlai's hometown!" Dong'er let out a long breath, and a glimmer of brilliance flashed in her cloudy eyes: "Huang Yingniang's biological mother is the daughter of Yang Zi, and she is married to Huang Guowei as Mrs. Zheng, and my father and mother are her dowry servants. When Huang Ying entered the palace, his wife was not worried about her only daughter traveling far away, so she used me as a maid to dowry. My mother and I have been sisters since childhood, and she has never treated me as a servant. But I'm really homesick------

Uncle Yu choked up and said, "I didn't expect my sister to have such a relationship with the country of Yuanyang, and my father and mother are also from Yuanyang. It's just that they were captured because of the defeat and were taken care of by the Marquis, and the whole family has survived to this day."

Dong'er's eyes lit up a little: "Since I entered the palace, I have only served the former king once, but ------ just once, and since then I have been here for the rest of my life, and I will never be able to leave this deep palace or return to my hometown. Sister, you can't learn from me, you have to go home! You can see the fishing boats on the Han River and the lotus flowers by the pool------ you can see them------

When the uncle came to the courtyard again at night, Dong'er finally coughed up the lump of cotton wool that blocked her throat and eyes, which was red. In the noisy noise of high fever, Dong'er always maintained a calm look.

The next morning, when Dong'er came to deliver the porridge, Dong'er was already dead, half of her body hanging out of the bed, her eyes half-open, and she had no expression.

During this time, it was the time when fires in the capital city of Ho were frequent, especially near the former post house that was used as a medical hall. According to the regulations, the family members of those who died of the epidemic cannot be brought back for burial, and must be dealt with centrally. Most of the ancestral tombs of the residents in the city are located on the outskirts of the city, and it is natural that they cannot leave the city at this time. As a result, the ponds in the city were drained and became natural cemeteries.

Those family members who could not get back the bodies of their loved ones were struck by misfortune, and in a moment of anger, they set fire to their own houses, even the houses near the post house, and all of them suffered. This kind of action is extremely difficult to prevent and stop, and fires are frequent, and the entire capital of Ho is always in danger by taking advantage of the strong wind.

Zhao Bohu had to issue a harsh edict from the Prime Minister's Office, and for the arsonist, he was beheaded, and his head was hung at the inner city gate to show the public. When a dozen or so bloody heads hung on the beams of the city gate, people were shocked to see it, and the wind of arson subsided slightly.

Hokyung was worried, feeling that this move was too cruel and ruthless, and he had no sympathy for the misfortune of the common people, which was afraid of provoking a popular uprising. At that time, Zhao Bohu's face was blue, and his handsome face was covered with a layer of frost, coldly

He said, "Tzu is not in charge of the army. The situation now is even more dangerous than it was during the war. If there is a slight carelessness, the social sector is in danger of overturning. If you only pursue the benevolence of women, the country will not be a country, and there will be no home. Hu Yiyi took on this matter, with a clear conscience, and he was not afraid of the infamy of the historian."

After saying a righteous and strict speech, Ho Jing Ling was speechless for a while, so he had to give up his hand and say: "Xiangguo is far-reaching, and he will be taught."

Zhaoji is throwing a tantrum in the backyard. Since moving in with her two children and her sister-in-law Meng Ji, her temper has been inexplicably much shorter. Since getting married, who can understand the feeling of being close to her husband and not seeing each other for more than a month?

But today, she was angry for a reason. That's because she suddenly found that Meng Ji's belly seemed to be as big as a mother's belly that was about to give birth, and she was really shocked. Let the resident doctor carefully examine it, and said that it was too much tonic and caused the fetus to be too large.

It's really angry to summon yourself. She has given birth to two children, and she knows how many pregnant women have dystocia and stillbirths, all because the fetus is too large. When Meng Ji heard this, he was immediately frightened and pale, and when he saw it, he was too frightened, so he hurriedly persuaded him with good words, and soothed him for a long time before coaxing him back.