Feng Hongluan ordered that the ice and slag water should be changed every hour to prevent the ice and slag from melting into the mouth.
With only water and no food, even a strong man may not be able to tolerate it, let alone a sixty-year-old woman with injuries on her body.
When the maid came to report on the third day, she said that Mrs. Han Jia had begun to cry in the woodshed and asked for a charcoal brazier to be brought in.
Feng Hongluan was playing chess with Hong Yan. Hearing this, he chuckled and said, "Hong Yan, do you intend to let me play this game?"
Hong Yan pretended to be puzzled: "Where did I let you go?"
Feng Hongluan gave him an angry look: "Don't you admit it? Stop playing. I've been playing chess all day and it's very boring. Let's go. Are you interested in going out for a walk with me?"
Hong Yan smiled fondly, turned his head and told the waiting maid: "Since the princess wants to go out for a walk, I will let you accompany her today."
The maid was flattered. She was just a low-level maid serving tea and water. She was not qualified to serve the princess. She stepped forward and stretched out her hand obediently, but she supported Feng Hongluan a little clumsily.
Feng Hongluan didn't mind, and allowed the maid to hold her carefully. The movement actually made her very uncomfortable, but she was in a good mood.
"These past few days, you have been delivering water to the guy in the woodshed?"
"To tell you the truth, yes."
"Did she drink a lot?"
"Returning to your Majesty, because it is all ice water, it is very cold. Every time before the ice melts and the water warms up, I will obey your Majesty's instructions and put in new ice water. The old lady will not drink it at first, and she has been suffering from it for the past two days.
I couldn't stand it anymore, so I drank a few big bowls with ice cubes. I had a stomachache last night and it hurt for half the night. I was moaning. The servant invited Liu'er, the housekeeper, and the housekeeper said that she could howl as she pleased and didn't need to pay attention."
"Yes!" After leaving the room, Liu'er suddenly came over to invite Hong Yan and whispered a few words. Hong Yan looked at Feng Hongluan apologetically.
Feng Hongluan knew that he must have something to do, so she smiled and said, "Just go, I'll go for a walk."
"Then be careful, you..." Hong Yan couldn't even call out the little girl's name.
The little girl was smart: "Slave Xiaofu."
"Xiaofu, serve the princess well, you know? Be careful."
"It's the prince." Xiao Fununuo responded.
Hong Yan raised his head and looked at Feng Hongluan: "It's cold. Don't leave for too long. Just take a look and come back. If you are really unhappy, I have many other ways to torture her. Just watch her with peace of mind and it will be better than death."
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Feng Hongluan nodded and waved to Hong Yan: "Go quickly, don't delay your business."
Hongyan nodded and led Liu'er away. Xiaofu hurriedly knelt down and said, "Send me off to the prince."
I don't know what happened. It's rare to see Hong Yan in such a hurry. When I saw him turn around, his face suddenly became serious. It seemed that it must be something important.
She didn't care anymore. Hong Yan probably wanted her to know and would definitely tell him.
Now she and Hong Yan have developed a tacit understanding. Although she cares about everything about Hong Yan, as long as Hong Yan doesn't tell her, she won't ask.
Everyone should have their own secrets in their heart, right?
It's like her, the biggest secret, I'm afraid she won't tell Hong Yan for the rest of her life.
In her previous life, she didn't have the chance to take revenge on those evil people, so she died with hatred. In this life, she will finally get it back bit by bit.
She said that it was a dull knife to cut flesh, and she was happy to see them in pain slowly.
This maid named Xiaofu may have been used to doing rough work, and her movements were a bit fussy, but her mouth was very flexible. When Feng Hongluan asked her, she answered everything in an orderly manner.
When they arrived at the door of the woodshed, Feng Hongluan commanded: "Open the door."
"Yes, your Majesty!" Xiaofu quickly went up and opened the door of the woodshed, and a foul smell hit his nostrils. Xiaofu hurried over, took out his handkerchief, and held it a finger in front of Feng Hongluan's mouth and nose: "My Majesty,
I'm afraid I had diarrhea yesterday and it smelled very bad, so I'd better not go there."
The sun poured into the house in large quantities. Han Jia, who was so exhausted that her face turned pale, had already passed out on the firewood pile. Her face was pale and her body was in a mess. A pile of straw was thrown over her body to keep out the cold, but it still couldn't stop her.
The shivering ice is cold.
Now, it is the coldest day of the year. Feng Hongluan looked at the unconscious Han Jia and sneered: "I can't stand it anymore. Wake me up. Doesn't she want a charcoal brazier? Give it to me.
She brought all the firewood and gave me all the charcoal braziers in the house."
Xiaofu shuddered, this would not burn someone to death.
The empress usually looks like a gentle person, but now she has to deal with a thief like this. It seems that what this thief stole is really not trivial.
She deserved it, even if she stole something and ran away, she actually dared to come to the door and take the stolen goods to identify them.
"Yes, ma'am, what about water?" she asked carefully.
Feng Hongluan sneered: "Don't you think that ice slag water doesn't taste good, and you still feel upset after drinking it? From today on, there is no need to give her any ice water. It's not that she's hungry, okay, then we'll have three meals a day.
Everyone is given eggs, remember, only egg yolks are allowed, not egg whites."
This is not about killing people.
Xiaofu was even more in awe of Feng Hongluan.
The empress really doesn't show her face. Once she shows her face, this method is more terrifying than the one in purgatory.
First she was cold and hungry, then she was hot and thirsty. It was such a torture for this thief woman not to be unable to bear it.
She usually goes in and out of the firewood shed the most. If someone dies here, it will be scary to come to get firewood at night!
I thought so in my heart, but I didn't dare to disobey Feng Hongluan's order: "Yes, I will do it now."
Even if the guarantee is not enough, she has solved the matter this time, and the empress is satisfied, and she does not need to stay in this woodshed.
Thinking like this, she worked even harder. That afternoon, she sent someone to clear out all the firewood in the woodshed. It was so hot in the house that she was afraid of setting the doors and windows on fire, so she had people remove all the firewood in advance.
The doors and windows were sealed with iron sheets. If the doors and windows really caught fire, it would only be the old woman's death.
Then, the charcoal brazier pots were moved in one by one. There were seventeen charcoal brazier pots, which made the entire woodshed as hot as a stove. No one could stay there for even half a quarter of an hour, and it was as uncomfortable as the burning.
At noon that day, a hundred egg yolks were burned in the kitchen. Each egg had only yolk and no egg white. Within half a quarter of an hour of being sent to the woodshed, sixteen or seventeen of the hundred egg yolks were gone. It seemed that the old woman was really hungry.
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But she ate it in such a hurry, and the yolk was dry, so it would be a bit painful for her to turn around.
Xiaofu naturally reported all these to Feng Hongluan.
It was already dark by this time.
Feng Hongluan was even more worried about Hong Yan. At this time, it was usually time to come back.
She only listened to a few words of Xiaofu's words. Anyway, this was what she expected.
"I know everything. Go to the door and see if the prince is back?"
When it was her turn to do the errands in the prince's house, a low-level maid, she was naturally filled with joy: "Yes, I will go."
She ran out without stopping for a moment. When Yang Yun came in with dinner, she almost staggered. They looked at each other, Xiaofu apologized and left in a hurry.
Yang Yun stabilized the tray in her hand and went into the room to complain: "I don't know where the maid is from. She was so reckless that she almost ruined my wife's dinner."
Since beating the Han Jia family, Yang Yun's humble and cowardly temperament seems to have changed. This change cannot be said to be good or bad, but Feng Hongluan knows that Yang Yun is gentle in nature and will probably not make any concessions.
Something she wasn't happy about.
At most, he used to be quite gentle to everyone, but now he has a bit of a arrogant temper.
Naturally, Yang Yun should be so arrogant. After all, if Liu'er is the housekeeper of the house, then Yang Yun is the maid of the house.
She usually treats her servants much more gently than other maids in other families.
Moreover, it was indeed Xiaofu who was reckless just now.
So many people have served her, perhaps because of her experience with Liuxiang, so even if others do something perfect, she can't help but be picky about it.
Thinking of Liu Xiang, hatred suddenly arose in her heart. Liu Xiang didn't know whether to live or die. Naturally, she hoped that the danger would be turned into good luck, but looking at the blood stains left on the ground, she was afraid that the danger was far worse.
Xia Rongling, Hu Die, and the remnants of the Xia family are all over the world. Unless they never show up again in this life, how can she give up?
A Xia Hui is not worth her Yan'er.
And one stick of incense was enough for her to raze the Xia family to the ground and annihilate the nine clans.
She felt a slight discomfort in her lower abdomen because of her anger. She always kept the hatred of the Xia family in her heart. She lost Xiao Yunye because of the Xia family, and she even almost lost her child because of the Xia family.
If it weren't for the song "Jade and Stone Burn Together" at that time, her body wouldn't need to be so careful now.
The fetus in the abdomen becomes a little unstable when the baby is slightly agitated.
This account, all these accounts, are all recorded, and she will not miss a single one.
Yang Yun didn't know that Feng Hongluan had been thinking about so many things during the half-cup of tea. She just saw that Feng Hongluan's eyebrows tightened slightly and she put her hand on her lower abdomen. She worriedly said: "Master, I feel uncomfortable in my stomach."
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"My slave, please go and ask for Dr. Wang."
Regarding the child's matter, Feng Hongluan didn't dare to be too careless after thinking about it. She nodded: "You should go there in person. Doctor Wang gave me his rotation list. Today is not his rotation, so you can go to his house and ask him
Do you recognize me?"
"I know this. It's not far. It only takes half an hour to run back and forth. I'll go there."
"Yeah!" I don't know if it's because I'm worried about Hong Yan, or because of the cold wind blowing in the afternoon, or because I was angry just now, but I feel a little uncomfortable in my lower abdomen.
It's better to ask the imperial doctor to take a look at your peace of mind.
Yang Yun hurriedly went to invite him, but Feng Hongluan entered the room on his own and lay on the recliner, waiting for Hong Yan to come back.
It's already this hour, and as usual, even if Hongyan doesn't come back, he should demolish Liu'er and come back to say something.
Ever since the emperor's attitude towards Hong Yan changed, Feng Hongluan was always worried that one day, accompanying the emperor would be like accompanying a tiger, and the emperor might be detrimental to Hong Yan.
Last time, the Imperial Physician Wang reported that the palace guards were having sex with the concubines. The Emperor asked the Imperial Physician from the imperial hospital to work with several maids to check all the concubines in the palace. Anyone who has not been found to be a virgin is no longer a virgin.
, all dealt with.
At that time, I thought the emperor had been cuckolded and publicized it widely, but now Feng Hongluan understands a bit of the meaning.
I'm afraid that the emperor's move was to scare the monkeys.
Since ancient times, scandals such as affairs between guards and concubines have been constant. The way to deal with it in the past dynasties was to deal with the guards and concubines privately to cover up the scandal.
And this private way of dealing with it can only encourage this evil trend, because everyone knows that as long as they are lucky enough not to be caught, those concubines who have been widowed in the palace for a lifetime will not be discovered even if they have an affair for a lifetime.
No one is greedy when a man loves a woman, let alone in a cold and lonely palace.
Which woman can really wait for a man who will never see you all her life.
The emperor's move was to vigorously check the chastity of all the concubines who had not received any favors. He wanted to warn the entire harem that everyone should strictly abide by their duties.
At that time, Feng Hongluan and Hong Yan thought the emperor was looking for embarrassment.
Now several days have passed. Doctor Wang said that there are quite a few concubines who have lost their virginity after examination. There are at least more than sixty. In one case, the emperor gave him the red crown of the crane. The whole harem was in panic. The concubines and the guards had such good relations.
I'm afraid this thing will never happen again, because the emperor has ordered that such inspections be carried out every three years.
When this kind of inspection is defined as a law, it is no longer a family matter in a general sense, but elevated to a world matter.
Just like the law that stipulates that a woman's unfaithfulness and unfilial piety should be punished by death by being dipped in a pig cage. Although it is unfair, it is very satisfying for most people.
Feng Hongluan hated this kind of law, which stipulated that men should have three wives and four concubines, but women deserved to stay with their husbands for the rest of their lives.
If Hong Yan was also the kind of man who had three wives and four concubines, she would definitely leave him without hesitation and find a man who would truly love her for the rest of her life.
She was lucky that she was lucky enough to meet Hong Yan in this life.
Therefore, she cherishes Hong Yan even more, fearing that the emperor intends to cultivate Hong Yan as the emperor's younger brother, but if he fails to do so, he will lose his status as a prince, or even lose his head.
It's like King Huai, who was stripped of his title of prince and demoted to a commoner. Now he is in a prison in heaven, suffering from the cold and freezing weather...
Why, I suddenly thought of King Huai.
Feng Hongluan's eyebrows tightened. This person never believed that the child in her belly was Hong Yan's. She originally had a good impression of him and thought he was a gentle and gentle gentleman, not to mention that King Huai once saved her.
Life, but now, my feelings towards King Huai are complicated.
In her memory, Hong Kangding passed away in the sixth year of her pregnancy. On the day of the funeral, she had seen it from a distance on the roadside. The white spirit was white, the snow was falling, and the sorrow and joy were wailing. Hong Zhi, who had no heir, was held by his nephew Huanjing.
There was a huge and long funeral procession, everyone was crying in sorrow, and the people walked along the road to see each other off, and the scene was sad.
The funeral scene was vividly staged before my eyes, and the voice of greeting came from the door.
"Empress!"
"Just back?"
It's Yang Yun, she seems to have been out not long ago.
Yang Yun entered the room and said: "I met the third lady of Zuo Xiang's family at the door. She knew that I was going to ask for Dr. Wang, so she told me not to go."
"What? Does she still know the whereabouts of Dr. Wang?"
"My servant dared to ask why. The third lady said that all the imperial doctors in the palace are now in Master Hongzhi's house!"
He was deprived of the title of Prince, and now no one dares to call him Prince Huai.
Thinking back to the past, even though he was sick and weak, he was still very energetic.
But now, he is not even a prince anymore.
"Why did you go to his house? Did something happen to Princess Goryeo?"
"No, my servant inquired about it. It was Master Hongzhi who fainted in the prison and had a high fever. Master Hongzhi has always been in poor health. The emperor didn't want to pay attention to it at first. Later, our prince, the other princes and the Queen Mother
After we talked and begged together, the emperor allowed him to return to his residence to see a doctor. I think the empress should have a meal first. The prince and Liu'er must not be able to come back at this time. Since the prince's affair, Mr. Hongzhi's house has been in a state of depression.
The situation is tight, and there are only a few old people left to help. If such a big event happens today, Liu'er will probably be busy running around to help out! Everyone knows that our prince and Master Hongzhi have the best relationship.
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My heart skipped a beat, I was just recalling Hongzhi's funeral, and now this news came.
Although according to the memory of her previous life, Hongzhi could live for at least three years, in this life, many people's life wheels had long stopped following their original trajectory. Just now, she suddenly thought of Hongzhi's funeral, which was very ominous.
Could it be Hongzhi...
It would be true if he disliked Hongzhi, but he didn't want him to die like this.
Feng Hongluan didn't know why, but she was sure that what happened to the prince was definitely not done by Hongzhi.
She even had a vague feeling that it was Hong Yan's arrangement.
But if it was really Hong Yan, was it Hong Yan who wanted to blame Hong Zhi?
Aren't they the best of brothers?
If Hong Yan was really setting the blame on Hong Zhi, was the solemn and worried expression on Hong Yan's face when he left in a hurry, was it a lie?
Or should I say that blaming Hongzhi is just a temporary measure.
Or could it be said that she was just making wild guesses, and that there was another clue about the prince's affairs?