Before the second whip, Mei Zhaoyi was already blurred with blood, and she didn't even have the strength to scream. Ye Ningxiang didn't expect the so-called whipping to be so cruel, although this Mei Zhaoyi was self-inflicted, but Ye Ningxiang was not a cold-blooded and ruthless person after all, so she couldn't bear to continue to look at her miserable situation, turned around, and deliberately walked to a dark corner.

Seeing Ye Ningxiang's reaction, the jailer immediately saw that she couldn't stand this cruel bloody gas, so he said with a smile: "It's the first time that the people of Ye Gong have seen this whipping! This whipping has been the most common in recent years." ”

Then the jailer pretended to be mysterious, and said, "This whip is called the nine-section whip, and there are rules for this whip to be beaten, and it must be beaten until the ninth whip before the prisoner can breathe, and the executioner will be punished the same way." ”

Ye Ningxiang's eyes widened, as if to say how could she be so ruthless and unjust. The jailer seemed to understand, and then said, "But don't worry, palace people, our executioners' methods are very accurate, and there will never be mistakes." ”

After speaking, the jailer still walked up to Mei Zhaoyi with a smile, put his hand in front of her nose and probed it for a while, then looked at Ye Ningxiang with a smug face and said, "Look, it's really the ninth whip!"

Such a perverted behavior and the smell of blood wafting in the air made Ye Ningxiang feel very disgusted, and she hurriedly left the prison before she saw Mei Zhaoyi's death.

For ten days in a row, Ye Ningxiang would have nightmares every night, and in her dreams there would always be a woman in white covered in blood, with her hair scattered, her big hands with long nails straightened, and she kept shouting: "Give me back my life!

When she got up in the morning and looked in the mirror, Ye Ningxiang would feel like she was possessed by a female ghost, her yang energy was obviously insufficient, the dark circles under her eyes were bigger than her eyes, and her face was obviously much haggard.

Early in the morning of this day, the maidservant named Zhilan hurriedly came to Ye Ningxiang and said that Mama Li from the Queen Mother's palace came to deliver the decree, and asked Ye Ningxiang to hurry up to receive the decree.

Ye Ningxiang tidied up her clothes and deliberately applied a layer of rouge gouache to cover her tired appearance. Seeing Ye Ningxiang, Mama Li said impatiently: "Even if Your Majesty likes you, you can't ask your seniors to wait for you here for so long!"

Ye Ningxiang also felt that she was very rude, and then kowtowed respectfully to Mama Li, and said sorry several times in a row.

That Mama Li didn't mean to embarrass her, and directly put forward the matter, "The Queen Mother copied a lot of scriptures in the Buddhist hall before, and she prayed for the emperor, and the Queen Mother asked you to sort out these scriptures and put them in the library of Zhaoyang Palace, so that you can be closer to the emperor." ”

Then Mama Li looked at Ye Ningxiang's thin and thin little body, shook her head and said: "There are too many scriptures, I'm afraid that your little girl can't do it alone, so let the little girl who went to pass you on it before do it with you." ”

When Zhilan heard such news, she seemed to be reused, and she couldn't stop laughing all the way. And Ye Ningxiang has never been interested because of Mei Zhaoyi, and her mental state is not very good.

At this time, there is no one in the Buddha hall to worship, and there are no maids around, it looks very deserted, because of the worship of the Buddha, this Buddha hall is not a little popular, so that it is a little mad under the bright daylight.

At this moment, a very crisp but very small rattling sound came from nowhere, and the sound seemed to have a certain rhythm.

Ye Ningxiang was already frightened because of Mei Zhaoyi's death, but when she heard such a strange voice at this moment, she couldn't control her emotions for a while, screamed, and then grabbed Zhilan's shoulders hard, Zhilan was also frightened because of Ye Ningxiang's scream, and added a sentence "There are ghosts!"

At this time, the door of the side hall of the Buddha hall was pushed open with a creak, and a young man dressed in plain white clothes walked out from inside, the man was still holding half an apple in his hand, and that person was none other than Mu Xize.

"Mu Xize, why are you here?" Ye Ningxiang was shocked, and left the etiquette that should be observed behind her, not only calling Mu Xize's real name, but also not having the slightest respect in her words.

Zhilan was shocked when she heard this, and she tugged on Ye Ningxiang's clothes, and whispered, "Sister Ningxiang, you are too rude!" After that, Zhilan respectfully asked Mu Xize to say goodbye, and also apologized to Ye Ningxiang by the way.

Unexpectedly, Mu Xize was not a little annoyed, and said with a smile: "Hehe, eating an apple can scare you like this, I really don't know how you have spent more than 20 days in Zhaoyang Palace." ”

Ye Ningxiang continued to say stiffly: "Who, who is afraid, I, I just saw that there was no one, come, come and practice your voice!"

Mu Xize walked up to Ye Ningxiang, touched it a few times out of thin air, and finally touched Ye Ningxiang's head, then gently flicked her head, and smiled very dotingly: "You, it's still the same as before, with a hard mouth." ”

Probably feeling that she was incompetent, Ye Ningxiang took the initiative to change the topic, "The prince doesn't live in Ning Wangfu, why did he come to this Buddhist hall?"

Mu Xize smiled, and his expression seemed to be a lot more serious, "Princess Danyang followed Qin Xiao out to explore the rivers and lakes, and the fifth brother also went to Shuozhou, I am so bored that I can only miss you all the time, and I want to live in the palace and see you often, this is the only place to go." ”

Then he seemed to show a faint sadness, and continued: "After you left, my health became even worse, so I thought that going to the Buddha and dipping in the Buddha's light might be good for my body. ”

Then Mu Xize took two more bites of apples, as if thinking of something, and said, "The Queen Mother asked you to come over and carry the scriptures." This queen mother is really, although you are in charge of paperwork, I can't harm you like this!"

Mu Xize said as he opened all the doors that were half-open just now, only to see that there were about fifteen or sixteen half-human-high piles of scriptures piled up in this side hall, so that the originally spacious side hall did not even have a place to put his feet. Seeing such a scene, Ye Ningxiang and Zhilan were so shocked that they couldn't speak for a long time.

This queen mother really loves the emperor, how much effort and time does it take to copy so many scriptures! And how can the two weak women quickly move so many scriptures to the Zhaoyang Palace?

Mu Xize actually smiled a little gloatingly: "What's the matter, I'm in a hurry! I know how to quickly transfer these scriptures!" That look seemed to be waiting for Ye Ningxiang to beg him.

Unexpectedly, Ye Ningxiang didn't take his words to heart, and turned to Zhilan and said, "Let's go to other palaces and borrow two carts to come over, so that we can push these books away." ”

Because Ye Ningxiang ignored him, Mu Xize felt very bored, so he took the initiative to say: "There is a cart in the backyard of this Buddhist hall, it should be quite big, and you can finish moving all the scriptures after two or three walks." ”

Ye Ningxiang listened to the words, quickly found the cart, and then piled up the scriptures on the cart. At this time, Mu Xize snatched the cart from Ye Ningxiang's hand, and said meaningfully: "I have to push this cart." ”

Ye Ningxiang was puzzled, and was about to argue, but she heard Mu Xize say in a very gentle tone: "Good, obedient." ”

It turned out that Mu Xize did this for a reason, because as soon as they got out of the Buddhist hall, they met a few little eunuchs, and then Mu Xize followed those little eunuchs very shamelessly. In the end, it is a master, the little eunuchs finally took the cart in Mu Xize's hand embarrassedly, and then moved the cart into the Zhaoyang Hall very obediently according to their instructions.

After unloading the books, they helped Ye Ningxiang transport the remaining scriptures to the Zhaoyang Hall again, and then hurriedly ran away from the Zhaoyang Hall without having time to say a word.

Ye Ningxiang felt that Mu Xize was too inauthentic to do this, and couldn't help but feel sorry for those little eunuchs: "People also have something to do, and the prince calls people like this, and if you don't get people right, you will be punished." ”

Mu Xize smiled slyly: "I didn't say let the family help." ”

At this time, a girl's cry came from outside the library house, the sound was not loud, but it could be clearly felt that it was still crying after being suppressed vigorously.

Ye Ningxiang searched for the crying, and found that in the backyard of the library, there was a girl about fourteen or fifteen years old in a very inconspicuous corner, the woman was wearing a very good-looking Luo skirt, but her eyes were already red and swollen because of crying, and it was almost difficult to determine her original appearance.

When the girl saw that she had been discovered, she stepped back in horror, and then said pitifully, "Don't tell anyone I'm crying here, okay?"

Ye Ningxiang squatted down, stroked the girl's hand, and said very gently: "Okay, we won't tell others, but you have to tell us who you are." ”

The woman's face was embarrassed, and finally replied very reluctantly: "I, I am the youngest daughter of Lord Zhongshuling, Qi Mengyao." Then after a moment's hesitation, he continued: "Yes, the future queen. ”

When Mu Xize heard that it was Qi Mengyao, he immediately smiled with a smile on his face, touched her face with some effort, and said with concern: "I am your Uncle Xize, do you remember? You were just seven years old when I last saw you." ”

Hearing Mu Xize say this, Qi Mengyao seemed to remember something, and a shallow smile appeared on her originally crying face, "Oh, I remember, you are His Royal Highness King Ning, I bought me a rock sugar gourd when I was a child!"

Then Qi Mengyao suddenly cried again, "Uncle Xi Ze, I don't want to get married, I will only turn fifteen next month, I don't want to, I don't want to enter the palace so early!" After speaking, Qi Mengyao whimpered and cried again.

Mu Xize gently patted Qi Mengyao's back, and then said: "Xiao Jiu is a good person, he will take good care of you, I will also take good care of you, and her, her name is Ye Ningxiang, she is a kind-hearted girl, and she will take care of you wholeheartedly, so don't be afraid, you should be worried about Lord Qi like this!"

Qi Mengyao looked at Mu Xize, then at Ye Ningxiang, and then said with difficulty: "Okay, I'm not afraid." After saying that, he still couldn't stop crying.