Chapter XVII: Execution in the middle of the night
The first sunny day after the rain
The ground was drenched with water, and the snow that was as thick as a feather quilt also turned into water and disappeared without a trace, and the rain and snow water were tacitly blended together at this time, infiltrating the soil, and also working hard to revive all things.
Say goodbye to the long winter, say goodbye to the simple winter, the scenery that appears in the eyes at this time is no longer empty white, although it is not colorful and scattered, but it is at least the true color of the real thing, rather than other colors that cover up.
Before leaving, she had strange dreams for several nights.
At first, she dreamed of a man, as wonderful as a beautiful jade, she was overjoyed, but in a blink of an eye, she saw that the man knelt down to her in a heavy manner, and then picked up a sharp sword and stabbed it into her heart, and he also slapped himself to the door of the head, and the original spirit was shattered, and he died so desperately.
When she woke up, she was full of regret, and it was a pity for giving birth to a blushing face.
Another night, she dreamed of another man, feminine and handsome, there was a kind of confusion that made people poisoned at a glance, even the sleeves of his sleeves were turned into an indescribable scenery, but he drank the most poisonous wine in front of her with a smile in his eyes, and when the blood at the corner of his mouth flowed down, there was a sentence: "I have to give up."
This dream caused her to wake up in the middle of the night and never fall asleep, and a heart-wrenching pain entangled her heart, which was really a pity, and she really had to give it up.
can review the dream coherently, and I actually like one to die, and I like one to die.
This made her feel uncomfortable, what she had done wrong, and only then did she encounter such a dream, and the pathos in the dream was almost as if she had experienced it, and suppressed her heart.
The moonlit night was very quiet, and you could hear the sound of the breeze passing by outside the window.
She simply sat up, sighed slightly, and thought about it, she had been here for more than ten years, but she only had an extremely desolate dream that locked her soul, and the dream was uncomfortable again, and as for the rest, she still found nothing, who was herself.
There was a bit of anger in my heart, and I didn't want to faintly hear a rustling sound.
She got up, stepped gently to the windowsill, and by the moonlight, she saw a woman with a package under her arm and quietly walking towards the courtyard.
Stealing?
House slave escape?
The turbidity in the house is too much, it's time to clean up the house, and also give back a little bit of the kindness of the mother, the grace of this mortal care.
She woke up Zixi, called the nurse again, and combined the hours for Yin, it was really a good time, so she told them what to do.
The chief steward of the palace was immediately summoned and the servants of each courtyard were listed in the courtyard one by one according to their ranks.
The steward didn't know what he meant, but he still took the booklet and named him.
The servants were even more surprised, in the middle of the night, all of them were called, what an important matter, all of them were ignorant and sleepy-eyed, and they inevitably showed a look of boredom under the staggered emotions.
"There are a total of one hundred and twenty-eight miscellaneous servants in each courtyard in the house, plus Bu Qingjin's maids, and the mother-in-law in the kitchen, and there are one hundred and ten." The steward presented it to her.
She sat in the wide Taishi chair, and the snow-white fox skin cushion lined her complexion as white as frost and snow, so it was early spring, although there was no snow in the spring in northern Xinjiang, it was still bitterly cold.
"The eighteen people who have not yet arrived, can they take leave from the steward?" Her voice was not loud, neither light nor light, but her eyes locked on the steward in the audience, "Answer carefully!" ”
"Yes, there are nine people who are on leave." The steward is very shrewd, and his words and demeanor are deferential, and he shows a little loyalty that he does not dare to perfunctory. "The other eleven aren't here."
"Send these eleven people to the Yazhong tomorrow for the crime of running away from domestic slaves, and they will never be allowed to enter the house!" She said to Zixi, "Write it down, and go to the yazhong tomorrow to verify whether you are in prison." ”
Zixi took the booklet from the steward and recorded them one by one.
"Or maybe someone fell asleep in some corner of Gala and didn't know about the raid." The steward glanced at the servants standing in the row behind him, and when he turned around, he immediately knelt down and pleaded, "The county lord is young and generous, this is not a trivial matter to escape from prison." ”
And this, she carefully looked at the steward under the seat, her lean figure, her dark face was full of wrinkles, she should have been the most powerful position in the house, but her expression was even scorched because of her perennial greed.
"When did this rule exist in the house, where can I sleep in the corner of Gala?" She chuckled, raised her eyes with extreme contempt, and said slowly, "Isn't it the rules you set in private?" ”
"Minions don't dare!" The steward hurriedly realized himself and knocked his head to the ground again.
"Besides, whether the county lord is young or not, it is your master, the mother and daughter of the head of the house, it is not to take care of the affairs of the house, and you still need your consent!"
"The old slave is talkative, reckless, and asks the master to forgive him!"
The scene of the steward is very well said.
She looked up at the sky, for the darkness before dawn, and the stars in the sky had faded, leaving only a morning star to summon the dawn and the rising sun.
"There are not many servants in the house, and there are also people in charge of each courtyard, and it takes half a pillar of incense to gather the hour, which shows that there is really negligence in education and management on weekdays, laziness and laziness, and it is not a good thing that the rules are scattered, what do you say?"
"In the future, we must discipline strictly, obey the Lord, and serve the masters well." The steward was extremely clever, and hurriedly said aloud.
"There is no future, from now on, you will step down from your stewardship. The steward of my Northern Xinjiang Mansion can't be a good old man who ignores the rules. ”
"County Lord, please think twice, Huang Ting is the steward personally appointed by the prince, and he has been in the palace for more than 20 years, and he has never been on a business trip." A woman stepped forward and explained with great confidence.
Look at this woman who has passed the age of not being confused, she is dressed in brocade, she is the chief manager of the servants in the house, and she acts with no one in her eyes, and she is extremely arrogant.
"He has been in charge of the palace for more than 20 years, during which he has made the princess suffer for fifteen years, this slave's ability is really not simple!" She was neither angry nor irritable, and remained calm.
"The old slave is just in charge, just a working man, abiding by his duty and not participating in the affairs between the master and the son, and never daring to trespass." The steward turned his head to glare at the woman, and motioned to stand down, and he could do it himself.
"You can't even deal with the source of a rumor, and let its filthy breath spread in the house; You can't even control the mouths of the servants in the house, so what is your stewardship? She smiled lightly, and then said, "Or your hostess is not the princess, but someone else!" ”
"The old slave is ashamed, and I ask the county lord not to look at the old slave's merits but also to look at the hard work, don't drive him out of the house." The steward was in a state of pray.
"The county lord, the steward is the distant cousin of the son, and he must not dilute the dignity of his relatives and cause a bad reputation." The woman spoke again.
"Oh, I see, let others be relatives, so I formed an alliance to frame him." She got up and glanced at the row of servants under the seat, and then gave a look to the nurse.
The nurse understood, and immediately summoned the big men in the army who were standing outside the courtyard on standby, and they were about 20 people, but they were all armed with swords and military sticks.
They are the best of the iron horses, they are not small, and they are also very skilled.
With a wave of her hand, she said, "Stick this man with twenty sticks on the spot." ”
"You can't lynch him, the steward is a distant cousin." The woman was in a hurry, and even rebuked with a hint of anger.
"Let him be his own uncle, and dispose of it the same today." She said to the soldiers stationed at home, "After the fight, throw them out of the house, and never enter." ”
"Don't worry, these twenty sticks are enough for him." One of the big men in the army looked very happy, maybe he hadn't held a guy for too long, and there was a little excitement.
"You, you." Seeing this, the steward got up and wanted to flee everywhere, and desperately called for help, "Prince, son, prince help." ”
"So unrepentant, it seems that the twenty military sticks will not work." She smiled faintly, and said to the few military men who were agile and had already held the steward, "Give him fifty military sticks, and he will also end the evil in his life." ”
The big men in the army brought all the things, and immediately set up the steward under the seat and fastened the steward's hands and feet to the line, accompanied by a miserable scream, and also removed the sleepiness of the servants in the courtyard, all of them were shocked, for fear that the next one would be themselves.
In the meantime, she didn't speak again, only letting the screams grow from strong to soft and then silent, leaving only the sound of military sticks and of course the sound of broken bones.
It wasn't until she reported to fifty that she glanced at the housekeeper who had not moved and the flesh was blurred, and then turned her face slightly to the nurse.
The nurse understood, and probed in front of the butler's nose and shook her head.
Only then did she stretch out her hand and gently wave it towards the big man in the army who had just been executed, signaling to drag it out.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the woman who had just been arrogant began to shrink back, but she could not retract her eyes, and she only gave a glance to the other big men in the army who stood aside, and immediately the woman was trampled on the ground and could not move.
At this time, she sat down in the Taishi chair again, straightened her body, looked at the servants under the seat, and said very gently, "The county lord and my mother don't like to take care of family affairs, but it doesn't mean that they can't sort it out; Although I don't like words on weekdays, it doesn't mean that my mind is unknown; The eyes of the county lord are like mirrors, and they will not let them be humiliated, and the rules must be followed, if anyone dares to break the rules in the future and interfere with the master's affairs, even if it is all clever, even if the dynasty is far away, even if it is Biluo Huangquan, the county lord and I can also break his bones. ”
After a pause, her eyes locked on the woman lying on the ground, and then she still smiled, "This person has no respect, he is guilty of the following crimes, and it is a big taboo!" Thinking that the male and female have different servant identities, they were dragged out and shot to death with arrows, giving her a good time. ”
"No!" The big man in the army who didn't do it just now finally waited for the opportunity, as if his hands were itching for a long time, and happily carried the woman out like a chicken.
After such a toss, the sky has dawned.
"Remember that your master is the princess of the palace, and from now on your steward will be the county lord's grandmother, the head of the Chen family." She paused, and then said, "The prince's demeanor is absolutely amazing, if anyone dares to recommend a pillow seat, it will ruin the reputation of the prince, and he will be killed by the same random arrow." ”
"No", the servants under the table responded neatly, they finally understood that their county lord was not a good stubble, between her eyebrows and eyes and soft words, two were executed, and a batch of others were imprisoned, and the shot was fast, accurate, and ruthless, and there was no room for maneuver.
This heart is worthy of being a relative of Xiangguo, and it is worthy of being the master who wants to live in the East Palace of the Dynasty.
When all the servants left the courtyard, the nurse asked her with a shocked face, why didn't she take her with her when she entered the Central Plains, but she had been serving by her side since she was born.
She asked rhetorically, knowing filial piety, she wanted her to stay in the mansion, and set up the rules of the mansion to protect her mother. Once I go to the Central Plains, if I look forward to the time of returning to the northern frontier, I don't know if it is this life or the next life.
Hearing this, the nurse was teary-eyed, and her throat was choked up.
The nurse is careful, this is a capable person personally selected by her grandmother in her grandmother's marriage, needless to say, the protector is also extraordinary.
Seeing this situation, the nurse's tears could not be stopped for a while, so she had to be relieved again, maybe it won't be long before the northern Xinjiang changed its defense, and the court ordered them to return to the imperial capital of the Central Plains to live.
The nurse smiled with tears in her eyes, hoping to see Mrs. Xiangguo again.
This scene seems familiar.
It's like going through the years.
When she got up, she shook, and another tearful man appeared in front of her, and the woman wept even more, "I want to protect the only blood of the god of war." ’
"Zhuo Jing" she remembered, it was the woman's name Zhuo Jing, and then her eyes were dry and blind.
"But who is Zhuo Jing?"
She looked pensive, but she was so distracted that she was so frightened that the nurse cried.
Coincidentally, after Xiao Chu woke up, he learned that she had executed the steward, so he ran to theorize angrily, not wanting to see her like this, and was immediately pulled by Bai Hong's arm to persuade him to be careful of the prince's punishment.
"What's wrong with the girl, but she was convicted by the evil spirit of the Yellow Thunder beast just now?" The nurse clapped her hands vigorously around her to deter evil spirits.
She didn't know if it worked, but the sound really brought her back to her thoughts.
She saw and heard Bai Hong's words, so she stepped forward and stood in front of Xiao Chu, and slowly saluted, "Brother An's good." ”
Seeing this, Xiao Chu's face twitched and squeezed out a trace of embarrassment, but his body took two steps back.
"Last night I dreamed of my brother's mother, she told me that she died unjustly, and almost affected her brother, so stupid but instigated by the steward, otherwise, according to the life of the mother of the underworld, there should have been a daughter, but with a good word, the result was instigated, framed the princess, and she was retributed, neither had another daughter, but also suffered every day in the underworld, so the sister killed the steward in order to avenge the brother's mother." She spoke softly and weakly.
"You're." Xiao Chu interrupted her, "My mother, I haven't dreamed of myself, how can I drag my dream to you." ”
"My brother and mother are fond of blue dresses and lotus flowers, and when I dreamed of her, she still had a lotus flower in her hand." She's serious.
"Yes, yes." Bai Hong nodded and said to Xiao Chu, "Childe, there is a pond in that Taoist temple, and there are lotus flowers planted in it. ”
"I don't know." Xiao Chu looked ignorant.
"Don't you remember, that time, when I went in the summer, I also said that the flowers in this view are so bright, as bright as the lotus flowers in our house." As soon as Bai Hong believed the ghosts and gods, he naturally believed her words.
"Yes, there is a pond of lotus flowers planted at the back of my mother's house, it turns out that my mother likes lotus flowers." Xiao Chu nodded to himself, and realized himself.
"My brother's mother said that she didn't dare to enter her brother's dream, for fear of disturbing her brother's tranquility, and even more afraid that her brother's anger would stain her hands with blood, and the prince would punish her, and Yin and Yang would be uneasy at that time." She told me eloquently, "That's why I told me, no matter what, I am a brother and sister, a blood relative, and it is reasonable to avenge my brother." ”
"Yes, if Madame goes directly into your dream, you will directly raise your sword to cut off the steward, but it is not blood-stained hands." Bai Hong let go of Xiao Chu's hand and stepped forward to salute her, "The county lord is sincere, and the little one has thanked the county lord for my son and wife." ”
Xiao Chu's face twitched again, and then he sneered at her, "It's hard for you." ”
In fact, she was really, but she accidentally learned that Bai Hong believed in ghosts and gods. Xiao Chu has not entered the world, so he can't say that he is stupid, so he has to say that his heart is simple, and he seems to be a blank piece of paper.
sighed, she watched Xiao Chu out of her yard, and she actually had a little thought that she could see Zihan after entering the Central Plains, even if it was Yu Tianyi's stubborn donkey.