"Auntie save me! Auntie save me! ”

"Your Majesty, please let Yuzhen go, please ......"

"What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and send the princess on the road!"

"Auntie! Auntie! I don't want to be martyred, I don't want to be martyred......"

The hall was in chaos, and more than 30 harem concubines and princesses were locked up in the palace and strangled.

Three days ago, the traitors of the DPRK and the king of Chu joined forces to break through the capital, and entered the imperial city under the banner of the Qing monarch's side, forcing the forbidden army to retreat one after another, and now it is about to attack the Qianzheng Palace.

The rebels entered the city, burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil.

In order to protect the dignity of the royal family, the old emperor in his sixties gathered the concubines and unmarried princesses in the palace to celebrate the festival.

Liang Ying, who had just been lying down for an afternoon nap, crossed over at this juncture, she suddenly felt difficult to breathe, and her neck seemed to be stuck by something.

At first, she thought it was a nightmare during a nap, but when she was in a daze, she seemed to hear terrible cries in her ears, and some strange memories were drilled into her mind, which made her have a splitting headache.

The intense pain prompted her to open her eyes violently and try to break free from the nightmare, only to see what she saw almost scared her out of her.

I saw an old man in a brocade dress carrying a sharp sword and slashing people frantically, there were more than a dozen corpses lying on the ground, women in strange clothes and discolored faces were crying in horror, and the two attendants were tightening Bai Aya and strangling her alive!

Before Liang Ying could figure out the situation, she felt that her brain had turned into a paste.

Just as her consciousness was about to dissipate, she suddenly heard a loud "bang", and the door of the Qianzheng Hall was knocked open by the rebels.

The next moment, the terrible howl in the hall was deafening, intertwined with the barbaric invasion of the rebels, and the old emperor was bloodily beheaded.

The two chamberlains who strangled her could not take care of her and fled for their lives.

Liang Ying fell limply and landed on a corpse, half of her face was soaked in a pool of blood, and the blood was still warm!

The women who were forced to die for the country and observe the festival thought that they were looking forward to the dawn, but unexpectedly, when the group of beasts saw this group of weak and helpless, they all showed greedy eyes.

The women were like lambs to the slaughter, chased by the rebels.

The frightened cries for help in her ears stimulated Liang Ying's nerves, and many memories that did not belong to her were drilled into her brain.

She pinched her palm in the chaos, and a sharp sting pain came into her heart, the nightmare was so real and terrifying!

Liang Ying's whole person was stunned, she just took a nap, could it be an out-of-body soul?

In the confusion of her thoughts, she secretly opened one eye to peep.

Those tragic scenes were unbearable to look at, she no longer dared to look closely, let alone move, she could only resist the urge to gag and pretend to be dead.

The unbearable situation in the main hall lasted for a long time before it calmed down.

During the period of pretending to be dead, Liang Ying's mind gradually calmed down a lot, and realized that the place where she was the Qianzheng Palace, and the strangled body was also called Liang Ying, a princess in the Beiyan harem, now fourteen years old, ranking fifteen.

And the concubines' clothes are all gowns and double skirts, which is likely to be the background of the late Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

After the thugs satisfied their bestial desires, they left one after another, leaving behind the disheveled women.

Liang Ying didn't dare to be careless, so she just continued to lie motionless.

As expected, it wasn't long before she heard hurried footsteps, and another group of rebels rushed in.

When the soldiers saw the woman who had been ruined and killed on the ground, they cursed a few foul words, and then collected the remaining beads and belongings on the corpse and left in a hurry.

Liang Ying pinched a cold sweat in her palms, the soldiers outside let out crazy shouts of killing, and the chaotic cries of the palace people greatly stimulated her spirit.

She wanted to continue lying on the ground and pretending to be dead to return to that warm afternoon, but after avoiding several groups of people entering the temple one after another, she finally made the decision to save herself on the verge of collapse.

With the residual memories in the mind of this "Liang Ying", she planned to hide in the cold palace first.

Hurriedly taking off the white silk around her neck, she found the body of a thinner waiter, pulled his clothes from him with discomfort, and took off her outer robe and changed into the dark brown clothes of the waiter.

Coming out of the side door of the Qianzheng Palace, looking up, the corpses of the palace people in the flower platform were hideous and terrifying.

Liang Ying's hair stood upside down, she didn't dare to look closely, and fled to Chongyangmen.

There are a lot of corpses lying in the corridor, blood is everywhere, and across a palace wall, it is the painful whimper of the palace people after being seriously injured, and it makes people blow up.

Liang Ying didn't dare to linger and stumbled away.

Unfortunately, this body was too delicate, and it was too frightened, its legs were sore, and it was out of breath after running a few steps, and it almost collapsed to the ground.

She struggled to hold on to the palace wall, and couldn't help pinching herself, it hurt!

It's not a dream!

Liang Ying looked at her sadly and angrily, comforting herself that maybe she could meet a hero to save her beauty, maybe she was still holding a cool script!

However, he didn't wait for the hero to come, but waited for the sound of hurried footsteps.

She had just been stimulated, and she was inexplicably frightened when she heard the voice.

It was too late to escape now, so she didn't think much about it, and immediately lay down by the wall, gritting her teeth and putting the arm of a corpse on herself—pretending to be dead.

Footsteps came from the hallway, and she closed her eyes and held her breath motionless.

A group of soldiers in armor hurried through the corridor, uninterested in the corpses, and ran over with a cold glance, noticing nothing out of the ordinary.

When the footsteps went away, Liang Ying had the courage to open a gap and peek, secretly relieved, there was no danger.

It wasn't until the soldiers had completely disappeared into the corridor that she got up in horror and continued to run.

Crossing the corridor to the Taiping Palace, I met a group of palace maids and attendants running in panic.

Liang Ying was mixed in and hurriedly hid in the Imperial Garden.

The imperial garden in the palace has a huge area, with artificial lakes, rockery stone forests, lotus ponds, horse farms, etc., and the original body grew up in the palace when he was young, so he is naturally familiar with the layout of those buildings.

The rebels had little interest in the Imperial Garden, and most of them were looting the palace property, or they were committing adultery and plunder.

Liang Ying didn't dare to run around in the daytime, so she found the rockery stone forest and hid in a narrow stone crevice, planning to wait until it was dark to take refuge in the cold palace.

From being strangled to being safe now, less than an hour has passed.

Good Duanduan came here from modern society, with no relatives, and a delicate and frail daughter, no matter where he goes, it is a dead end.

But frustration is frustration, and her life still has to be picked up, and she carefully searches for the only remaining belongings on her body.

As a princess, she is really cold, except for the two silk flowers on her head, there are no extra accessories on her body, which shows that she does not have enough food and clothing on weekdays.

Liang Ying took off the silk flower, and luckily there were six silver leaves inlaid at the bottom.

She carefully removed the silver ornament and checked it in her hand, it was quite weighty, and it should be worth some copper plates.

After patiently waiting for night in the stone forest landscape, she secretly squeezed out of the crack in the stone and went to the lotus pond in the dark.

On the way, she suddenly saw the fire in the Chaoyang Palace, and there was a chaotic sound, she looked up, and a bold idea was born in her mind.

Today, the rebels invaded the imperial city to burn and loot, it was the most chaotic time in the palace, if she didn't take advantage of the chaos tonight to escape from the imperial city, the longer she stayed in it, the greater the variables.

After thinking about it, Liang Ying decided to take a risk.

At present, there are soldiers patrolling and guarding each gate, and it is difficult to avoid them and escape, but in addition to the land route, there is also a waterway, which is the moat.

Liang Ying usually loves sports, swimming and diving are not a problem, but what needs to be tested is whether this body can withstand her tossing.

After some weighing, she decided to give it a go and decisively went to the artificial lake, intending to touch the moat from the edge of the artificial lake, and then dive out of the imperial city from the moat.

Heroes can't wait, then be your own hero!

She had been stumbling forward in the dark, and it was until midnight that Liang Ying barely reached the junction between the artificial lake and the inner moat.

Even though it was early summer, the water in the river was still cold.

Liang Ying looked at the firelight in the distance, feeling sorry for her.

This thin and delicate little body, walking three steps and taking two breaths, most of them will not be able to swim out of the moat alive.

But what happened in the Qianzheng Hall during the day really ruined the three views, those soldiers were terrible and cruel, and no woman could be spared.

Taking a deep breath, she finally chose to survive by going through the joint.

The cold river water soaked into her whole body, and she shivered with cold, and at first she was very uncomfortable, but then she soaked in the water for a while before she gradually became able to control her body balance.

The river swelled, driving her forward.

At this moment, Liang Ying was extremely glad that her skills were not pressing, and with her exquisite skills in the water, her body became more and more flexible, and she could easily float far away along the river.

The city was chaotic, and few people paid attention to what was going on in the river.

Liang Ying took advantage of the darkness of the night, and the journey was quite smooth, but she would also encounter corpses, some palace people and some soldiers, so she carefully avoided them.

However, after less than two quarters of an hour of soaking in the water, she felt that her body began to struggle.

At first, Liang Ying felt that she could barely hold on, but she would never think that she would be unable to bear it after holding on in the water for less than half an hour.

If it was in the past, half an hour was enough for her to swim out of the city, but today is really bad, first, her physical fitness is too poor, and second, her energy is seriously consumed.

Even more unfortunate was that she was unlucky to encounter an undercurrent at the confluence, and when she was about to swim to the outer moat, the raging river slapped on her body, knocking her far away.

It's a hell start!

Before she lost consciousness, she couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

If I'm guilty, please punish me with the law instead of letting me die and live, live and die!

When Liang Ying thought that he would return to the furnace to rebuild, he was luckily washed out of the moat by the river and stuck on the root of a locust tree in a tributary of the Jingyang River.

Luckily, there was a family living by the river.

I thought that I could go back to that warm afternoon after being a water ghost, but I never wanted to be in a daze, she seemed to hear the sound of talking.

When the sky was completely bright, as her body temperature warmed up, Liang Ying gradually became conscious.

She twitched her fingers, and a crack opened in her eyelids.

What caught his eye was a gray linen tent, and it took a long time for the chaotic brain to gradually become conscious.

She's alive?

At this same moment, an elderly woman came to see her and asked happily, "Is the little lady awake?" ”

Liang Ying looked at the kind face in a daze, and said hoarsely: "Grandma, am I still alive?" ”

The woman's surname was Cao, and she was called Mrs. Cao, and she replied, "Hey, you are still alive." ”

Hearing this, Liang Ying was emotional, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

She's a dog!

Seeing her grief, Mrs. Cao hurriedly comforted: "Little lady, don't cry, there is a lot of chaos in the city right now, I see that there are strangulation marks on your neck, it can be seen that the situation is bad, and now there will be blessings after the catastrophe, and you must not cry the blessings." ”

This sounds like a heart-warming sound.

From yesterday's collapse to now being comforted by the old woman's soft words, Liang Ying was really moved, and concealed her surname and said tearfully: "Wang Ying thanked Grandma for saving her life." ”

Mrs. Cao sighed heavily, "This world is chaotic, since yesterday afternoon, there have been more than a dozen floating corpses floating in the river in front of the door, and it can be regarded as fate that you can meet our ancestors and grandchildren." ”

After that, ask Qian Jin to bring ginger soup.

After a while, the boy brought a pottery bowl, and Mrs. Cao said: "This is my grandson Ah Yong, you have been soaking in the river for a long time, most of you are suffering from the cold, hurry up and drink some ginger soup to sweat, if you have a high fever, it will not be good." ”

Liang Ying half-supported her body, Cao Pozi stretched out her hand to support her, she took the pottery bowl and endured the spicy and poured all the ginger soup into her stomach.

Cao Pozi advised: "In the past two days, the little lady has been careless, for fear of cold and high fever. He added, "Now it is strictly forbidden for people to go out in the city, and it is not easy to ask for a doctor, so you can be more careful." ”

Liang Ying nodded yes, as if she remembered something, she touched the strangulation marks on her neck uncomfortably, and asked, "Is there a bronze mirror at Grandma's house?" ”

Mrs. Cao replied: "Yes." ”

She went to the next room to get the bronze mirror, and also took the clothes that Liang Ying was wearing before, and said, "This is your clothes, I didn't throw them away." ”

Liang Ying thanked her.

Mrs. Cao went out to prepare food for her.

Picking up the bronze mirror, Liang Ying looked at her face carefully, and only felt strange.

Although the face in the mirror is not childish, the facial features are good, with a goose egg face, and a pair of peach blossom eyes with affection under the willow eyebrows.

The nose is small and straight, the lips are full and have lip beads, the skin is fair and delicate, and the whole body is noble and elegant.

The black hair and snow skin match each other, and even if you are blind, you can guess that she does not look like a civilian.

Glancing at the undried robe on the chair, she hurriedly rummaged through and pulled out a few silver leaves hidden in the piping of the sleeves, but fortunately all six silver leaves were there.

Liang Ying breathed a sigh of relief slightly, she had money on her body, so she didn't panic.

Later, Mrs. Cao sent a bowl of brown rice porridge with pickled dried radish, "The little lady will use some." ”

Liang Ying was not polite, picked up the chopsticks and used them, the radish was dry and crisp, with the spicy spice of dogwood, and the entrance was particularly appetizing.

She knew that the other party must have hidden doubts, so she took the initiative to mention her life experience, saying that she was the maid next to the first concubine in the palace, and explained in detail the actions of the rebels who attacked the palace yesterday to burn, kill and loot.

Cao Pozi continued: "A few days ago, many civilians also died at the gate of the city, if it wasn't for the ban issued by the King of Chu, most of us people would have suffered. ”

Liang Ying asked worriedly: "Doesn't Grandma plan to leave Beijing for refuge?" ”

Mrs. Cao waved her hand helplessly, "Where can you go if you leave the capital, there is chaos everywhere right now, not only the chaos in the capital, but also the disputes of princes in other places, I heard my son say that the chaos is worse than the capital." Instead of being outcast, it is better to stay at the feet of the Son of Heaven and fight for the opportunity to pick up your life. ”

The tone of her voice revealed a helplessness like an ant.

The inaction of the imperial court, and the turbulent era of alternating power and government, where can the defenseless people find a way out?

This topic is really heavy, and the two did not say much.

Liang Ying's mental state was not bad in the afternoon, but she had a high fever that night.

Cao Pozi saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly called for money to pour in a bowl of home-brewed sorghum wine, and then diluted it with warm water to neutralize it.

Wine has the effect of heat dissipation, Cao Pozi wiped Liang Ying's hands and feet with sorghum wine, and also used a cloth towel to cool down his forehead.

It's a pity that after being busy for a long time, Liang Ying's high fever still can't go away.

Qian Jin asked, "Auntie, will she die?" ”

Mrs. Cao frowned and said: "Don't talk nonsense, this little lady was strangled half to death in the palace, and she can still float out of the moat and stay in a breath, which shows that she is a hard life." ”

After that, the grandfather and grandson were dead horses and horse doctors tossed for nearly a quarter of an hour, and Liang Ying's body temperature gradually dropped, which shows that sorghum wine has played a role.

Mrs. Cao stretched out her forehead and said with satisfaction: "I'll just say that my life is hard, it's not hot." ”

She had a high fever for two consecutive nights, all of which were cooled down by Cao Pozi using sorghum wine mixed with water, and she was also taking wormwood ginger soup during the day, so she didn't have a high fever again after three days.

Seeing her health improve, Mrs. Cao was very pleased.

This good deed merit can be regarded as being done to the end.

Now that the city gates are sealed, and the people are strictly forbidden to go out, they naturally do not know the situation outside.

This kind of panicked days lasted until about six days, and news came out in the palace that the old emperor was mourned, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, which was the eleven-year-old emperor's grandson Liang Yan.

The new emperor took the throne, changed the name of the year to Xingyuan, and granted amnesty to the world.

The city that had been locked down for several days finally opened the city gates, and the people who had been stranded in the capital before heard that the city gate was opened, and they fled for their lives.

Liang Ying also planned to leave Beijing, she had already planned and was ready to take refuge in Shu, because she learned from Cao Pozi that the princes in the Central Plains are now in dispute, and only the Shu side is slightly more peaceful.

Before leaving, Liang Ying gave Cao Pozi a silver leaf to show her gratitude.

Cao Pozi excused herself, but she couldn't stand her persistence, so she reluctantly accepted it.

That silver leaf can be exchanged for a lot of copper, and Cao Pozi accepted her benefits and prepared a simple burden for her.

Liang Ying thanked again and again before leaving.

The streets are crowded with people, and a few shops have opened their doors.

At present, all of Liang Ying's belongings are five silver leaves, so she first went to find a pawnshop and took out a silver leaf to exchange for copper plates.

The pawnshop owner exchanged four hundred and eighty copper plates at the market price.

If it was a peaceful period, the purchasing power of these more than 400 wen would still be considerable, but now the world is chaotic and prices are unstable, and it cannot be squandered by her.

After changing the copper plate, Liang Ying first went to buy two coarse cloth clothes, and then went to the shop that sold fat powder to find makeup for disguise.

The woman gave her two porcelain vases, which she did not know what they were made of, which smelled tasteless, and which turned her skin sickly sallow when applied to her body.

That's exactly what she wants.

The two linen clothes and makeup cost her nearly two hundred Wen, and Liang Ying felt pain in her flesh.

After handling her makeup in the shop, she looked at herself who looked haggard and sickly in the bronze mirror, and had a lot of dirt spots, and was very satisfied.

As the saying goes, a man is clothed and a horse is saddled, with a blue-blue floral turban wrapped around her head, and a blue-gray linen garment of rough workmanship, crumpled and hunched over her breasts, and the image of a thin woman who has been ill for a long time is presented.

Liang Ying is very satisfied with this shape.

She always paid attention to her manners, and after leaving the shop with her chest hunched over, she bought dry food to take with her, and followed the crowd out of the city in a hurry.

At this time, the city management is not strict, and no one interrogates him.

After stepping out of the city gate, Liang Ying let out a long breath, she was finally able to escape from this ghost place that scared her.

Who would have thought that she was not happy for too long, and in less than half a month, she became an unlucky person again, and was taken captive into a bandit's den to do hard labor.

thought that this life was completely over, but she actually picked up a colorful pheasant in the bandit's den.

The bandit leader Zhao Pheasant, in the words of Mrs. Zhao, my son is heroic and handsome, and he is a flower in ten miles and eight towns!

That's right, a colorful pheasant in ten miles and eight towns!