The muscular eunuchs raised the thick wooden boards in their hands high and slapped them heavily on Grandma Du's buttocks. Grandma Du's mouth was stuffed tightly with a white sweat towel, and tears flowed down her forehead in pain. I have veins popping out on my upper body, and every time a board falls on my body, I can’t help but lift my upper body up.
"Wow----"
Little Yiner, who was originally very happy because he saw two identical little dolls, unexpectedly saw a few unfamiliar eunuchs from the Qianqing Palace beating his close Aunt Du as soon as he returned to the Yongshou Palace and entered the front yard. Little Yiner was immediately frightened and cried loudly.
When Xiao Niu Hulu saw this scene, she was also panicked. She quickly reached out and changed the position of her son in her arms, so that his back was facing Wei Zhu and others, so that he could not see this horrific execution scene.
When the little guy put his little head on her shoulder, little Niu Hulu managed to calm down. While patting little Yiner's back with her hand to comfort her, she hurriedly walked down the steps, walking in a hurry He rushed forward and shouted loudly:
"Stop! You all stop it for me!"
Concubine Niu Hulu shouted loudly, but the eunuch who was executing the execution ignored her at all and continued to slap the tablet with all his strength.
Seeing this, Xiao Niu Hulu rushed to Wei Zhu, hugged the crying Xiao Yiner tightly in his arms, shouted at him and asked:
"Wei Zhu, you are so brave, you actually dare to lynch the steward of Yongshou Palace behind my back!"
Wei Zhu is a sharp dagger who works secretly for the emperor. He doesn't have much contact with the concubines in the palace on weekdays. There is a lot of blood on his hands, and his whole person is cold from the inside out. Naturally, he doesn't look like a smiling tiger. Liang Jiugong always had a warm smile on his face, adhering to the principle of staying on top of everything with the concubines in the palace.
He listened to Xiao Niu Hulu's stern words, but his face remained expressionless. He glanced lightly in the direction of Grandma Du, then leaned over to Xiao Niu Hulu and said unhurriedly:
"The imperial concubine really thinks highly of this slave. As the eunuch in charge, I naturally have these palace rules firmly engraved in my mind. Without the emperor's order, how could I dare to bring people to attack you in this cold weather? Where's the wet nurse being tortured?"
Hearing Wei Zhu's words about moving Kangxi out, Xiao Niu Hulu suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. Just as he thought of the rumors of bad luck and good fortune that had caused a great deal of commotion among the people, the next moment he heard the sound of Wei Zhu. There was no trace of respect in the cold voice:
"At the end of June, the servant was ordered by the emperor to go out of the palace to investigate the matter of the imperial concubine and the thirteenth and fourteenth princes being slandered by false rumors among the people. The servant was incompetent and it took him half a year to find out. The original rumor of lucky stars actually spread from the mouth of this old slave, so the emperor specially asked the slave to reward this old slave with fifty pieces of gold. I wonder if the imperial concubine, as the head of the Yongshou Palace, knows about this. Son?"
The suspicion in her heart came true. Xiao Niu Hulu could not help but tightly press the small breast dumpling in her arms. She swallowed and held herself up. Her eyes wandered and she did not dare to look at Wei Zhu. She spoke in a low voice.
:
"I don't know what you are talking nonsense about."
Little Yiner also felt the force of his mother's slap on his body suddenly increase. Although he was in his early one year old and didn't understand what was happening and why someone would hit Grandma Du, he could sensitively feel the current situation.
It was very dangerous. I could only look at Grandma Du with tears in my eyes. I was so scared that I didn't even dare to cry.
Xiao Niu Hulu's reaction was within Wei Zhu's expectation. After all, the matter had been exposed. He could let the slaves around him take the responsibility. Of course, there was no need to drag himself into the mud and ruin his external image and reputation.
reputation.
He turned his neck, and his slightly stiff neck made a "squeaking" sound. Then he waved to the execution eunuchs, without looking at the little Niu Hulu standing next to him, and said coldly.
He opened his mouth and said:
"Since the imperial concubine doesn't know about this, then don't stop the slaves from doing their errands. After the slaves have beaten these fifty big boards, they have to drag away this old slave who dares to gossip and commit other crimes.
Where is Xin Zheku?" Wei Zhu paused and took a look.
Xiao Yiner, whose eye sockets were trembling with fear in Xiao Niu Hulu's arms, continued with a hint of warmth in his voice, "Besides, the tenth prince is still young now. I would like to advise the imperial concubine to go back to the main hall to warm up."
Well, it’s not good for children to see this scene.”
As soon as Wei Zhu finished speaking, "Pah, pah, pah" the board that fell on Madam Du hit even louder. Little Niu Hulu closed her eyes unwillingly and fearfully, and hugged her son tightly.
The little body walked quickly towards the main hall without looking back.
When Wei Zhu saw Xiao Niu Hulu leaving without any hesitation, he couldn't help but sneered mockingly.
Aunt Du, who was lying on the wide bench to be tortured, could not help but bury her face on the wide bench. As the wet nurse of Concubine Niu Hulu, she was the most useful steward in Yongshou Palace. In the past, she was in Yongshou Palace.
It can be said that the scenery here is infinite, and even the nobles who live in the side hall and the backyard are always there.
Everyone promised to give her some face, but now she was pressed in this humiliating posture in the front yard and tortured in public. Looking at the palace maids coming and going, the eunuchs would glance at her covertly. She felt that her
His old face has been completely disgraced, and his face has been torn off and let everyone trample on him.
Although she can sympathize with her master's way of protecting herself, she is not an ordinary slave after all. She has nursed her master since she was a child and treats her as her own daughter. Now she doesn't even look at Xiao Niu Hulu.
After returning to the front yard and leaving the front yard, Grandma Du also seemed
As if he had given up all his strength, he closed his tearful eyes sadly, feeling the pain in his numb lower body. He felt regretful in his heart. He regretted not being able to stop his mother-in-law from spreading rumors among the people. At the same time, she also regretted that she had entered Niu Hulu Mansion when she was young.
The master's wet nurse...
Xiao Niu Hulu returned to the main hall and hurriedly put her son back into the cradle in the inner room. He didn't even bother to coax him, so he hurried back to the hall and looked out through the glass window on the south wall.
The servants in the palace are the best at judging people's glances. Some of them made a "squeaking" sound, which turned the fine clothes worn by the tortured person into tattered strips. It looked horrifying.
, but the person who hit the board will only suffer minor injuries, but sometimes the clothes he wears are good, and the sound of the slapping is not loud, but it actually hurts the muscles and bones, waiting for others to want to take it.
When the clothes on the tortured person are taken off, they will find that the cloth has long been adhered to the skin and flesh. After struggling to take off the clothes, you will see that there is not even a piece of good flesh on the lower body of the person.
Xiao Niu Hulu looked at Grandma Du's intact clothes and knew that these dog slaves were serious. She couldn't help raising her hands and covering her mouth tightly, tears streaming down her face.
Then she saw that Nanny Du suddenly tilted her head and her hand fell heavily on the cold bluestone. Her pupils shrank and she quickly raised her feet to rush out. But as soon as she reached the threshold, she heard the sound of the strong eunuchs.
He shouted in a hoarse voice, "Boss, this old slave has fainted."
"Then hurry up and finish the rest of the boards." Wei Zhu said impatiently.
The strong eunuchs had no choice but to finish the remaining boards hastily, and then dragged Granny Du's body out like a corpse. There was a bloody stain on the bluestone floor, Niu Hulu·
Ming Ya felt extremely painful in her heart at this moment. She extremely regretted what she had done in the heat of her mind before, but she had no intention of turning back. Now it was too late, so she had to bite her lower lip hard and hold the mahogany door frame tightly with her hands, tears streaming down her face.
He watched as his wet nurse was taken away by Wei Zhu.
The biting cold wind in late November blew bitingly, and soon there were snow beads floating in the sky. The snow beads made the golden glazed tiles crackle, and the strong wind blew the palace lanterns hanging under the eaves swaying around.
Making a whimpering sound.
In the middle of winter in the north, it gets late and early, and at four o'clock in the morning, the sky outside the window becomes so dark that no one can be seen.
After Qingyan fed the twins, the two little ones were wrapped in swaddles and sleeping sweetly on the inside of the bed. Qingyan leaned on the bedside and looked down at the inventory of items in the warehouse with the candlelight on the candlestick.
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After Xiaosi celebrates her sixth birthday next spring, she will have to move to Nansan House. She wants to take advantage of her confinement period to sort out the things in the warehouse, so that she can take them there to decorate Nansan House for Xiaosi.
The courtyard of the place.
At this time, Bai Lu grabbed Zhang Tianxi's sleeve and angrily opened the orange-red door curtain of the inner room and walked in quickly. After seeing the twins sleeping, Bai Lu suppressed the anger in her heart, pulled Zhang Tianxi to the bedside, and whispered angrily.
shouted:
"Xiao Xizi, why don't you hurry up and tell the master what you hid from the master before?"
Qingyan put down the pamphlet in her hand, turned around and looked at her two confidants standing by the bed in bewilderment. Bai Lu looked like she was about to explode with anger, while Zhang Tianxi looked embarrassed and didn't even know where to put his hands.
Where is it? She couldn't help but asked in confusion:
"Lu, Xiao Xizi, what's going on with you two?"
Bai Lu turned her face and glared at Zhang Tianxi, then lowered her voice and whispered to Qingyan: "Master, ask him to tell you what he did secretly without telling us!"
Zhang Tianxi felt so miserable in his heart that he couldn't help but raise his hand to wipe his face, then sighed and said in a low voice:
"Master, this is not something that I wanted to hide from you on purpose. It was actually the Emperor who asked me to hide it, and I dare not hide it from you."
"What happened?" Qingyan became even more curious when she heard that even Kangxi was involved.
Zhang Tianxi coughed twice, buried his head even lower, and whispered hesitantly:
"In the past midsummer, not long after the master was diagnosed with pregnancy, there were many rumors outside the palace that the master was pregnant with two little disaster stars that would cause trouble. There was a big fuss at that time, and the slave also received the news, and before he had time to give birth,
You said that Mr. Liang came over and told me to take control of the Chuxiu Palace and not to let these terrible rumors get into your ears, lest they cause you to get pregnant. It didn't take long for the rumors to come back again.
Turned around, said it was Linghui
The master came into the palace to give instructions to our two young brothers, saying that you are carrying two lucky little stars. Later, the bad rumors gradually disappeared. The slave has been thinking about waiting for you to give birth before telling you. Who
I know today’s thirteenth elder brother and fourteenth elder brother
During the third bath, too many people came to our Chu Xiu Palace. Bai Lu accidentally found out about this from others. When she told the slave, she found out that the slave also knew about it in advance, so she dragged the slave here angrily.
I apologize to you."
After hearing this, Qingyan couldn't help but widen her eyes and was shocked. She never thought that such a life-threatening thing could happen without her knowledge.
After Bai Lu heard Zhang Tianxi's words, she followed up and said:
"I also know that you were right to hide it from the master at that time, but the master has been in labor for three days. You should have told me about this matter in advance. You don't even know that when I found out from the slaves of other palaces,
When I heard this, I was really angry! Our master and the thirteenth and fourteenth brothers are so good, how could they be splashed with such disgusting dirty water!"
"Sister Bai Lu, I am wrong. I swear that I will never hide anything from you or my master again."
Zhang Tianxi looked at Bai Lu's round face, which was red with anger, and said with a smile.
Qingyan also sighed. To be honest, if she knew about this before giving birth, she would definitely be extremely angry. It is also possible that she had fetal gas, but now her two children were born safely, and this
The rumors had long since died down and turned into yesterday's news. At this moment, she didn't have much anger concealed by Kangxi and Zhang Tianxi, but she just couldn't figure out who was behind the rumors and caused the pink eye disease.
Before Qingyan could speak again, Nanny Li, who was wearing a brown winter coat, also walked in quickly. Seeing Bai Lu and Zhang Tianxi were also in the inner room, she couldn't help but be slightly startled, and then she hurriedly leaned down.
He said aloud:
"Master, something happened in Yongshou Palace?"
When the three adults heard this, they all immediately turned their attention to Grandma Li who was standing at the yellow rosewood table not far away.
"What happened in their palace?" Qingyan also leaned forward and asked hurriedly.
Aunt Li frowned slightly and replied softly:
"In the morning, Concubine Niu Hulu's wet nurse, Aunt Du, didn't know what mistake she made. She was slapped fifty times by Wei Zhu, the manager next to the emperor, and she was dragged unconscious to Xinzheku. I heard that Niu Hulu was
Concubine Hulu and the tenth elder brother have attended the baptism of our little elder brothers.
When Sanli returned to Yongshou Palace, he happened to see the scene of Aunt Du being tortured. Brother Ten seemed to be frightened and lost his soul. He had a high fever at noon. Now Doctor Zhang has also rushed over. He heard that Brother Ten