Chang Anqing

Chapter 166 Luan in the Shoal
The afterglow of the setting sun has not completely receded, and the red silk lanterns in the palace have been lit one by one, as if another warm haze enveloped the city of Chang'an.Li Suijing, who was sitting in the warm sedan chair, closed her eyes quietly, as if she was resting, all she could hear was the creaking sound of the bearer stepping on the snow.

After about a cup of tea, the cold fragrance of plum blossoms gradually rose from the tip of Li Sui's nose. Almost at the same time, Nian Nu, who was following outside the sedan chair, said, "My lord, the plum blossoms in the plum garden are just in bloom. Would you like Choose a few branches for His Highness to take back?"

Li Sui opened his eyes slightly when he heard the words, and then said "hmm" and said, "Stop."

After the words were finished, the inner officer who carried the sedan chair put down the warm sedan chair steadily, and then Nian Nu carefully lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and stretched out his hand.

Li Sui got up and put his hands up, walked out slowly with the support of Yu Nu and Nian Nu, and stood still.

Looking around, it turns out that the flowers in Meiyuan are separating very well at dusk. Although they don't have the vigor of rain and dew in the morning, they have the arrogance of frost in the afterglow.

"Let them stop under the palace gate in the distance, and you just go with me."

After Li Sui finished speaking, he walked towards the Meiyuan with the support of Yu Nu. Nian Nu immediately turned around and ordered the following internal officials to wait at the palace gate far away.

Just as Li Sui was looking at the cool and proud color of the branch, Nian Nu followed closely, and said in a low voice as he walked: "Princess, if you pass through this plum garden, you will be in Yeting."

Hearing Nian Nu's vague reminder, Li Sui's eyes settled slightly, and then he said: "Let's go—"

The three masters and servants walked slowly through the deserted plum garden as if they were distracted, and after passing through a corridor, they felt that this place was completely different from the Six Palaces of the East and West. The zigzagging cracks shattered open, and an unknown amount of vermilion wall skin fell off, and it lost its original appearance in the dirty snow.

Stepping on the potholed floor tiles, the draft of the corridor blows his face like a ghost crying, causing pain. Looking at the dark place in front of him, it is difficult for Li Sui to compare such a place with any palace in Daming Palace.

Because there is no comparable meaning.

No matter in her previous life or now, she has never been to this place. Just like her, the concubines and nobles of the sixth palace, even if they are not favored, will not come to such a place.

Because for those people, they lost their identity.

"The county master—"

With the careful support of Yu Nu and Nian Nu, I don't know how long she has been walking. If she hadn't been wrapped in a good-quality Firefox fur hooded cloak, and held a hand warmer in her hands in the snow-white mink barrel, even if she was like this Even the body that rode a horse and shot arrows since childhood couldn't help the coldness soaked in the bones.

Under the direction of Nian Nu's eyes, Li Sui followed him to look, and saw that after walking about ten steps, he was about to reach the gate of a palace.

When Li Sui walked forward slowly with Yu Nu and Nian Nu behind him, before he reached the gate of the palace, he heard the painful begging from inside, which almost fell into the dust.

"Please, please, Jiu Niang is innocent, please let her go, I am willing to suffer for her—"

Hearing this slightly abrupt voice, Li Sui glanced sideways at Nian Nu slightly, and saw Nian Nu nodding in silence in response.

Without compromising, Li Sui quickened her pace a little. When she reached the gate of the palace, the internal officer guarding the gate looked up as if she hadn't heard it, and her perfunctory eyes fell on Li Sui and his party. Even though they never saw a few nobles here, but looking at their demeanor and attire, they knew that they must be either rich or noble.

"Excellent, noble—"

Because he couldn't figure out Li Sui's identity, the gatekeeper in front of him could only lower his head nervously, and stammered out these few words.

Li Sui didn't pay much attention to it, he only looked up at the word "Yeting" written on the gate of the palace, and walked in calmly.

"Your honor, this—"

"Princess Yongning said that Ye Ting has been negligent in the past few days, and the laundry for His Highness has not been carefully done. Who would dare to stop him now?"

The few internal officials who were still hesitating about how to stop them heard the words "Princess Yongning", and immediately stood still, their expressions changed, and they couldn't help being shocked when they saw Li Sui's cold and gloomy expression. kneel down.

In this world, besides the sister of the emperor, the niece of Mrs. Taiwei, the princess of Yongning who can walk freely in the harem, who else is the jewel in the palm of the Duke of the Dynasty and Princess Qinghe?
Hearing that Li Sui came here to inquire about the crime, and it was for Her Royal Highness, how dare they stop him?

Passing by a group of internal officials kneeling on the ground trembling and daring not to speak out, Li Sui raised his jaw and walked in calmly.

In the falling snow, Li Sui walked around the cold circular washing pool in front of him. Li Sui saw the bright lights, the dense crowd, and heard the sound of flesh cracking and the woman's hoarse crying. .

In the cold wind, people dressed as eunuchs were sitting under the verandah of Yeting Courtyard. The clothes on their bodies should be of high quality. As easy-going as she is, the cruelty in her eyes is as deep as she is.

Standing next to him, apart from a group of trembling little servants, was a well-dressed female official, who looked only in her thirties, but was already old-fashioned and serious.

And standing under the corridor, I don't know whether it was cold or frightened, the shivering Ye Ting maids all stood outside the corridor with pale faces, letting the icy goose feather and heavy snow fall on their heads and faces, and the thin-looking On the skirt of the jacket, he didn't dare to make a sound.

Surrounded by the crowd, Li Sui couldn't see the people among them clearly. He could only hear a woman begging non-stop. As the sound of execution gradually increased, the woman finally begged: "I am willing, I am willing, the officer begs you to forgive me!" Please let her go—”

At this moment, the eunuch who was sitting on the porch heard the sound, smiled and looked at the woman who crawled in front of him on her knees and knelt down the steps begging her like a dog, and finally responded by stretching out her hand and lovingly pointing her fingers. Rubbing the woman's chin caressingly: "If I knew it was like this, why did I do it in the first place, huh?"

"Eunuch, let go of my mother."

Just when the woman resisted the nausea and trembling of her body, and accepted the contact of the person in front of her, she was held in front of the court and was being tortured with thorns, but the silent girl made a sound, the voice was not loud, but it was as if A loud slap was slapped on the officer's face in public.

The inner officer's face turned pale, and he glanced at the crowd who bowed their heads silently and dared not speak out, then smiled and gritted his teeth and said "yes" three times, then withdrew his hand just now, looked down at the woman who was kneeling and begging him before and said: " But now I regret it, and now—"

Looking at the woman with a gloomy face in front of him, the inner officer looked at the woman who was being tortured not far away with interest while talking, and said, "I'm more interested in her."

The moment the voice fell, everyone looked at the place where the internal officer pointed casually, but it was the girl who insulted her.

Almost at the same time, the woman kneeling there turned pale and her body softened, her frail body was like catkins, which could be blown away with just another gust of wind.

"Officer, she is still young, I beg you to spare her, this servant is willing to be an ox or a horse to repay you—"

Seeing her mother kneeling in front of the eunuch and begging humbly for herself, tears rolled down the girl's cold face, and she kept calling "A Niang".

After receiving no response, the girl finally looked at the eunuch with hatred and said: "If you dare to touch us even a little bit, I will definitely return to you in every possible way in the future."

Hearing this, the inner officer gradually smiled on his bald and beardless face, and when he smiled, the vertical and horizontal wrinkles under his eyes couldn't stop like ravines, making him even more sinister and disgusting.

"I want to see how long you can stay stubborn."

After finishing speaking, he only heard Gu Zi say: "Stealing nobles' treasures and still refusing to plead guilty, it seems that the beating is too light, change the clothes and staff."

As soon as the words fell, everyone's expression changed involuntarily, and their figures shuddered suddenly, and the woman kneeling in the corridor also hurried towards her daughter like a madman, and blocked her crying with both hands: "No, no, no--"

Strip off the clothes and stick.

As the name suggests, it is to strip off the woman's dress, and then flog her in public.

The Central Plains has been passed down for thousands of years, and dignity is extremely important. Even those beggars who beg on the roadside will change into clothes that can cover their bodies to protect their bodies, let alone women in the deep palace.

Therefore, since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this punishment has been rarely used. It is only heard that the ruler of the former dynasty favored the noble concubine and allowed the noble concubine to use this punishment on the women in the harem, forcing many women to commit suicide in the palace.

So this stripping staff is not punishing, but killing.

Hearing the sound of chaotic tearing in his ears, Li Sui's face sank, Nian Nu shouted out of righteous indignation, "Who is abusing lynching?"

However, the crying and shouting in front of him were all in one piece, where could you hear Nian Nu's voice? Under Li Sui's signal, Yu Nu didn't say anything, but turned over and jumped onto the veranda in a short while, and then heard her cold Shen's voice was neither high nor low, but it shocked everyone into silence.

"The master of Yongning County is here, but he is not yet welcome."

Almost at the same time, following Yu Nu's gaze, everyone looked over, and when they saw Li Sui's master and servant, they immediately knelt down tremblingly, and said repeatedly: "Princess Changle Weiyang."

At this moment, Li Sui finally saw the situation in front of him clearly.

Seeing that Yu Nu didn't say a word, he flashed behind the eunuch like a ghost, and slapped the eunuch's right shoulder with his right hand warningly, seemingly unintentionally, but Li Sui knew that such strength was not a Eunuchs who don't know martial arts can resist it.

At this moment, when Li Sui's eyes met, the internal officer reacted. As soon as his legs softened, he slid from the chair to the ground and knelt down.

Li Sui didn't even look at it before he saw a woman in her 30s frantically protecting the person in her arms in front of the court. She was clearly in a state of distress, her temples were disheveled, her face was covered with tears, and her trembling body was everything. It revealed the extreme fear and anxiety in her heart.

As for the person in the woman's arms, Li Sui could tell that it was a girl who was about the same age as him. Even after being punished, the sleeves of the jacket had been torn off, and the neckline had been torn, exposing the snow-white skin of the neck. At night, although he was shivering from the cold, he was neither humble nor overbearing.

Against the background of the blood-stained skirt, that picture-like face was even better than her mother's, the only difference was that.

In the girl's eyes, there is a stubbornness and hatred that that pitiful face does not have.

No wonder, in the future, she will become the favorite concubine of two generations of emperors, which is extremely honorable.

What people are most afraid of is not falling into the quagmire.

What I am afraid of is falling into it and giving up on myself.

The world is so big and the mountains and rivers are so beautiful, not every one of the thousands of sentient beings can be born on the highest peak.Even if there is, it is not born without worries.

Like her, like sister.

And people who were born in the mud may not have the ability to leap to the nine heavens like riding a luan.

As in front of you, Jiang Lihua.

(End of this chapter)