The carriage traveled some more distance, and went around the high-walled alley, and came to another place where the weeping flower gate came, and the woman who followed the carriage stopped and said, "Girls, get out of the carriage, and wait for them all at the gatehouse." ”

They got out of the car one by one, looked around, and saw that the alley was empty, but there was no one. Looking up at the hanging flower door in front of you, it is simply built up of gray bluestone, without any gorgeous decoration, and it is expected to be a small partial door.

Mama Qing stood on the steps in front of the door, and when she saw them coming, she said, "It's still early, and the new clothes that have been cut have not arrived, so your own clothes and hair buns are neatly tidied first." The ladies from the Tang Mansion are all inside, you go in, don't lose the face of our palace. ”

The ladies were all plainly clothed, their clothes were dull in color, their eyes were swollen like peaches from crying, and each of them carried a small coarse cloth baggage, which was very weak and shabby. Mama Qing raised her eyes slightly, and said with displeasure on her face: "Can you wear such clothes to meet people?" and turned her head to reprimand the two mothers-in-law, "I didn't look carefully before I came out, I dressed like a flower child, when our palace is broken!"

The two mothers-in-law were divided, their faces were red and white for a while, and they couldn't say it clearly if they wanted to, and glared at the ladies fiercely. A fat woman couldn't help but scold: "Let you pick up the five taels of gold, and don't prepare bright clothes and jewelry, do you go to stick to the dog's mouth?"

Zi Ning was angry when she heard this, and couldn't help but say: "The five taels of gold are the money from selling your body, so naturally you have to leave it to your parents and family, let's go to Lord Su as a concubine, why do we have to spend money to buy clothes and clothes by ourselves?" I heard that the palace allocated money to make clothes and jewelry for us, and we didn't see any of the money, and eighty percent of it was pasted on the dog!"

The mother-in-law was annoyed and angry, and the money for the maid's clothes was allocated, and the stewards of the inner government were deducted layer by layer, and everyone made some benefits, which was a tacit thing for everyone. At this moment, he was suddenly exposed by a little girl, and suddenly felt that his old face was red, and there was no place to put his face.

Mama Qing's face was ugly, and she raised her hand and shouted, "Catch this stinky girl and hit the board hard!" Immediately, two mothers-in-law stepped forward and twisted Zi Ning's shoulders left and right.

The other ladies were stunned, and the green ring rushed up to stop it, and begged in a trembling voice: "Please forgive Mama, don't beat Ning'er ......" Before the words were finished, a fat woman raised her hand and pushed hard, and the green ring staggered back a few steps, and was supported by the cinnamon and manzhu behind him.

Zi Ning was not convinced for a while, broke free from the hands of the two mothers-in-law, turned around and pushed the mother-in-law on the left to a heel, and the elbow hit the chest of the mother-in-law on the right, the two mothers-in-law screamed in pain, a group of people were dumbfounded, no one could have imagined that this little girl dared to disobey, and Mama Qing said sharply: "It's the opposite, it's the opposite, take this little slut quickly!"

Several stout women bent up their sleeves, rushed around Zi Ning, and scolded: "There are such rampant little hooves outside the second gate, and there is no family law in the palace, isn't it!"

Zi Ning's body was dexterous, and as soon as she lowered her head to dodge, she pushed away a mother-in-law behind her with her backhand, thinking: "Anyway, you can't let them beat and scold, so you have to think of ways to avoid it." When she looked up, she saw high bluestone walls on both sides, a turn in front of the long alley, and no edge in the back, empty and empty, and she had to be caught wherever she went.

In a hurry, I saw that there were three big apricot trees on both sides of the weeping flower gate, next to each other, all of them grew into the thickness of a large bowl, the petals opened densely, and the branches stretched upwards and spread, much higher than the walls on both sides.

Zi Ning gritted her teeth, pushed away the mother-in-law who stopped her, ran towards the apricot tree with her long skirt, and immediately hugged the trunk with both hands, and climbed up the tree with her hands and feet. The onlookers suddenly exclaimed, although the apricot tree looked tall, but the branches were not thick, seeing her climb up so desperately, they couldn't help but sweat for her.

Zi Ning's movements were agile, and after a while, he climbed to a place more than one person high, stepped on the branches of the tree with both feet, and the branches and leaves of the tree were trembling and shaking, and the petals fell to the ground in an instant. Seeing her climb higher and higher, Luhuan was so anxious that she stomped her feet under the tree and said, "Ning'er, the tree is dangerous, you have old injuries on your body, hurry down and ......"

Mama Qing, who was standing on the steps, turned white with anger, "Teng" was angry, her wrinkled face trembled, and she said in a trembling voice: "Hurry up...... Catch her for me!" A bold woman immediately pulled up the placket of her long robe, pinned it in the belt of her trousers, took a "puff" into her palm, wiped her slap, looked up at Zi Ning on the tree, and scolded hatefully: "Little slut, when I catch you, I have to peel off your skin!"

The mother-in-law also moved quickly, and everyone opened their mouths to look up, only to see Zining getting closer and closer to the treetops, and the mother-in-law also climbed up closely. The branches shook violently, and Zi Ning clutched a branch with both hands, but couldn't find a place to stay. Everyone was so panicked that they all covered their mouths with their hands, and in an instant there was silence in front of the door of the weeping flowers, and no one dared to make a sound, lest she fall from the tree.

The woman who climbed the tree had a fierce expression, and scolded in her mouth: "Stinky girl, you wait for me, where do I see you fleeing?" quickly climbed to Zining's feet and stretched out a hand to grab her ankle.

"Ah!" everyone couldn't help but exclaim, their raised necks suddenly froze, and they saw Zi Ning raise her foot and step on the woman's hand hard.

"Oops!" the mother-in-law screamed, shaking her hand in pain, and her other arm clung to the trunk of the tree, not daring to let go. As soon as the two of them moved like this, the branches of the flowers of the whole tree immediately "shook".

Qing Mama looked up and saw that her eyes were dazzling, a pair of eyelids jumped, and she slapped the tree trunk next to her with a "snap", and said fiercely: "Let her fall down, it's good to fall to death!"

As soon as Luhuan heard her words, his face turned white in an instant, and he knelt in front of Mama Qing, and pleaded bitterly: "Ning'er is still young, and she is a little reckless, but she didn't mean it. Ask Mama to be kind, don't hurt her. ”

Zi Ning looked down and saw the green ring kneeling under the tree, Mama Qing ignored her, and couldn't help but worry about the green ring. Seeing that the chasing mother-in-law was not far from her feet, Zi Ning couldn't help but shout: "You old woman, don't come up and arrest me, otherwise...... I'm not kind to you!" said this, but secretly complained in his heart, in case this woman had to fight her to the end, such a high tree trunk, if she fell down, her bones would be shattered all over the ground.

Although she stepped on her mother-in-law just now, she was also forced to be anxious, and if she was ruthlessly pushed her mother-in-law off the tree, she would never be able to do it.

Luhuan was so anxious that she cried under the tree, kowtowed to Mama Qing a few times, and seeing that no one paid attention to her, she hurriedly got up, raised her head to look at the treetops, and shouted loudly: "Ning'er, you listen to Mama's words, don't climb up, it's too dangerous up there, don't you scare me......" Some of the women shook their heads and sighed, and some panicked, Xianggui couldn't help shouting: "Zi Ning, hurry down, beware of falling and hurting." ”

Zi Ning bit her lip and looked up into the distance, the sun was shining clearly. The branches of the apricot tree are higher than the surrounding houses and walls, only to see that inside the high wall is a row of wide corridors facing east and west, a row of maids in colorful clothes holding various food boxes, the rings on their bodies make a "jingle bell" crisp sound, and the strings of copper bells hanging on the eaves of the corridor, as soon as the wind blows, the sound wafts out from the corridor and reaches Zining's ears.

The slaves and maids were busy shuttling back and forth in the porch, not noticing what had happened outside the wall. Suddenly, Zi Ning saw a group of people coming from the distance of the corridor, and in the middle was a young man dressed in blue satin, with a dark cloak draped outside.

Zi Ning was immediately surprised and delighted when she saw the green satin clothes, although the two were far apart, and there were dense branches of flowers to cover it, so she couldn't see each other's faces, but she instinctively decided that the young man in Tsing Yi who came slowly was the person she had seen in the willow forest that day.

Suddenly her heart became lively, a wave of hope spontaneously, she waved her hand in the direction of the corridor desperately, and shouted in her mouth: "Hey, Jade Carving Boy, you save me!" She didn't know who his surname was, she only felt that his appearance was pink and jade, standing there like a jade carving, so she was in a hurry, so she shouted "Jade Carving Child".

When the maids in the corridor heard the shouting, they all looked up blankly, and suddenly saw an almond tree outside the high wall shaking violently, and there seemed to be a woman on it, shaking her arm violently into the wall.

Seeing that the tree branch was trembling and shaking, all the maids in the alley were also stunned, some stopped, some ran to the edge of the corridor to see, and asked each other in a panic: "Who is the girl on the tree? Don't you want to die?" In a blink of an eye, a mother-in-law was also on the tree, reaching out to grab Zi Ning's feet, and everyone immediately stomped their feet and exclaimed: "It's terrible, this is really going to kill someone!" If these two people fall from the branch and fall on the bluestone floor, the chance of survival is very small.

"Jade carving boy, save me......" she shouted with all her might, "I'm Zining ......"

The man in Tsing Yi heard a burst of shouts, hurriedly walked a few steps, came to the side of the corridor and glanced up, and saw a girl in the distance climbing on the apricot tree, the flower branches covered her face, and she couldn't see clearly, but the voice was Zining.

He frowned slightly, this girl really dared to cause trouble, and a person who couldn't be idle for a moment actually climbed to such a high tree, and saw a mother-in-law following under the tree, chasing her to arrest her.

Seeing that she was in danger but didn't know it at all, he was shocked, and a pair of misty eyes looked straight at the treetops, and slowly frowned.

Zi Ning waved his hands on the tree, and when he saw him walk to the porch and look up at her from afar, he was even more surprised and delighted, thinking: "Now I am saved, in front of this jade carving boy, Mama will definitely not dare to hit me!" She was on the branch of the tree, but the boy was in the porch inside the wall, and the two were separated by overlapping flower trees and a high wall.

The mother-in-law was stepped on by Zi Ning a few times, but she was still unwilling, and scolded: "Little slut, see if I catch you......" Rushed up hard, raised her hand and grabbed one of Zi Ning's ankles. Zi Ning grinned in pain, kicked her feet together, and the branches shook violently, but the woman didn't let go.

Seeing that the branches of the tree were trembling with great force, Zi Ning shouted, "If you don't let go, we will all fall." The woman trembled so badly that she shook back and forth on the branches, and her head was sweating so hard that her face was like white paper. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and pushed upward, Zi Ning stood unsteadily on his feet, and with a "click" he stepped on the branches under his feet, and his body fell towards the high wall.

Under the tree was the shouts of everyone, and the boy in Tsing Yi saw Zi Ning fall from the treetops and was about to fall under the wall in an instant. He secretly exclaimed: "It's not good, this girl ......" jumped out of the corridor, her body spun up, her toes stepped twice on the bluestone wall, and she untied the dark cloak on her body casually, and threw it upwards violently, like a big net towards Zining.

"Whew!" The cloak wrapped Zi Ning tightly, and the young man in Tsing Yi spun around in mid-air, stepped on the high wall with his feet, and pushed her with both hands, and with a "poof" sound, Zi Ning flew out of the high wall like a tightly wrapped zongzi, and landed on a roof covered with black tiles. ————