Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2505 Reconciliation 47.0

The punch came too suddenly and no one could react. They all watched as Mr. Ke's fist made such close contact with Mianbai's cheek.

Mianbai was hit hard by Ke's punch and staggered back several steps. Fortunately, Yingwu reacted quickly and ran over to hold Mianbai, otherwise he would have fallen to the ground.

Mian Bai steadied his steps and first thanked Ying Wu for supporting him. Then he touched the place where he was hit. It was already swollen. He sighed helplessly and looked at Mr. Ke.

"What are you convulsing about?"

"Why did you hide it from me? Why didn't you tell me? I thought..."

"What do you think?" Mianbai took the ice that Merlin had found from somewhere, put it on his face, and sneered, "Do you think that for all these years, I have coaxed you, provided for you, and obeyed you in everything because you are very charming and attractive?" Seeing Ke Dajia's unbelievable expression, he continued to swing the knife and said, "This is all because of the Grand Empress Dowager. When I was down and out and was ostracized in the palace, it was because of the Grand Empress Dowager's appreciation and love that I was saved from the most difficult situation. If it weren't for the Grand Empress Dowager, the grass on my grave should be as tall as a person by now."

"You were bullied in the palace?" Shen Jiu was puzzled. "Aren't you a musician? Were they the eunuchs or the palace maids who bullied you?"

"To answer General Shen, none of them." Mian Bai shook his head gently at Shen Jiu and said, "It's just some struggles among our own people, among the musicians. In fact, although our title sounds nice, we are court musicians, but there are many intrigues in the Imperial Music Garden. Among so many musicians, those who can enter the palace are all very strong, and no one is worse than the other. If you want to show your face in front of the nobles in the palace, you can't just rely on your strength, you have to fight for the opportunity to perform, which is not as easy as being favored by those concubines. But I..." He sighed, "When I first entered the palace, I was young and had no experience. So, I didn't understand the means and people's hearts in this deep palace. I thought that people were really good to me, but I didn't expect that the reason they were good to me was because they cared about the precious scores in my hands. When my value was used up, I would be thrown aside like rags."

"So, when you were at your lowest point, it was the Empress Dowager who saved you?"

"Not the most miserable, that's not accurate." Mian Bai looked at Shen Cha, "It was a life-and-death moment that saved me. The struggle in Yuyue Garden was far more exciting and intense than the general imagined. They would use various means to torture a person, and the feeling can be best described as worse than death. Many people say that people die in the palace every day, either this way or that way, and they all die silently, without causing any waves at all." He looked at everyone and nodded at them, "That's what happened, many people couldn't stand this or that torture and committed suicide. It was the same for me. Before I met the Empress Dowager, I hadn't eaten for three days because the food they gave me was always rotten. Sometimes, when they saw me eating, they would deliberately knock it over. When I was practicing the piano, they would suddenly come over and pretend to accidentally break my fingers, or cut my strings with scissors. Or when I was sleeping at night, I suddenly felt that the bed collapsed, and they had broken the bed legs during the day. In short, they would not be violent with you, and would not really beat you up, but they would torture you psychologically and mentally, making you miserable. "

"These." Jin Miaomiao touched his chin, looked at Shen Cha and Shen Jiu, and then looked at Hong Ye, "There will be many similar situations on the eunuch side. I didn't expect that you musicians would also do these things. This is too much."

"Lord Jin, wherever there are people, there will be many such fights. The number of people in the late emperor's harem was very small, and the late emperor was not a lustful person." When Mian Bai said this, he suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times in the direction of the imperial mausoleum to atone for his disrespect. After he kowtowed, he stood up staggeringly and said, "So, the harem is very peaceful and not very chaotic. But there are also many fights among the palace maids and female officials. They know that the late emperor will not see them, but they still fight with each other. The musicians have the opportunity to meet the emperor and the nobles in the palace, so they fight no less than others, but they still care about not really being people in the palace and dare not cause any deaths." "You have been bullied by them like this, haven't you ever thought of fighting back?"

"I thought about it." Mian Bai sighed, "I tried, but it was no use. Because I'm alone, young, and have been here the shortest, while they are older, have been here longer, and stick together. So, my resistance will only make their bullying more intense, and more people will join in." He touched the wound on his face, feeling better than before, and continued to apply ice to his face, saying, "I really couldn't bear it at the time, so I walked to the deepest well in the harem, wanting to..."

"Jump in?" Seeing Mian Bai nod, Shen Jiu sighed, "If you really jump into that well, there will be no way to survive."

"Yes!" Mian Bai nodded, "I have already inquired about it before. The most important thing is that people don't often pass by that place, so I can disappear quietly. But..." He smiled embarrassedly, "What a coincidence, the Empress Dowager passed by there that day, and just when I was about to jump in and was standing on the edge of the well, she was like a god, descending from the sky and asked the eunuchs around her to pull me out of the abyss. I said before that at that time, I hadn't eaten or slept for three days and three nights. I was very weak. I almost used up all my strength to walk from Yule Garden to here and climbed up the edge of the well. The moment I was pulled down, my eyes went black. Before I fainted, I was thinking, living is too difficult, and dying may be even more difficult."

"What happened after you woke up?"

"I'm already in the Empress Dowager's palace. When I opened my eyes, I saw the Empress Dowager's worried and anxious expression, and Doctor Wang, who looked relieved."

"and after?"

"The Empress Dowager asked me why I was so depressed. I was young at the time and couldn't hide anything. I finally found a lifeline and quickly appealed for myself. So I told her everything that happened in the past six months since I entered the palace."

"The Empress Dowager stood up for you?"

"Yes!" Mian Bai nodded, "For the next few months, I have been in the palace of the Empress Dowager."