good season

Chapter 23 Cat and Mouse
Before Zhao Yunnuan and the maidservants could gain a firm foothold, something flashed before their eyes.

Zhao Yunnuan subconsciously rubbed her eyes with her hands, and when she opened her eyes again, she was shocked by the scene in front of her.

I saw groups of rats rushing out from all directions and running in the same direction!
Zhao Yunnuan knew there were rat holes in the dungeon, and she had seen rats more than once, but she could never have imagined that there would be so many rats.

Most women are born with an instinctive fear and disgust towards rats, snakes, cockroaches and all kinds of insects. Zhao Yunnuan is not afraid of them, but she doesn't like them either.

She couldn't help but look at Zhao Shiqing, only to see the girl's eyes shining with excitement.

Zhao Yunnuan breathed a sigh of relief. My little sister wasn't scared, really.
Before he uttered the word "OK", Zhao Yunnuan understood what was going on.

Because she saw a cat, her sister's cat!
These mice did not go out shopping willingly, they were forced, and it was the cat that forced them!

The cat was not big, nor was it fat. At this moment, its small body let out a loud roar. It followed the mice, jumping from one group to another. The mice driven by it ran for their lives. Finally, the first mouse reached the destination that the cat had set for them.

Nie Qionghua’s head!

In the dungeon, everyone except Nie Qionghua was stunned at this moment. Nie Qionghua didn't even have time to be shocked before he fell into great fear.

Most people in the dungeon were witnessing the rats' climbing speed for the first time.

The leading mouse climbed up Nie Qionghua's legs, waist, and shoulders at lightning speed and successfully reached the top of her head. Finally, it huddled in Nie Qionghua's bun with pride and fear, looking at the cat ingratiatingly with its pair of bright little eyes!

Zhao Yunnuan suddenly wanted to laugh. She actually saw flattery in the eyes of a mouse.

Nie Qionghua screamed like a pig being slaughtered, but her scream did not scare the mice away. Instead, it served as a signal, and more mice flocked to her. They followed the example of the first mouse and climbed towards her head!

The best position above the head was occupied in the blink of an eye. Some mice climbed up, but were kicked down by their companions. Their fat bodies slid across Nie Qionghua's face, but they continued to climb indomitable. Their tails rubbed Nie Qionghua's nose, and a few rat droppings rolled down.

Those mice that failed to climb up quickly found a shortcut. They crawled into Nie Qionghua's skirt and climbed up her thighs.

Nie Qionghua screamed again and again, and yellow liquid flowed out from under her skirt. Several rats with obsessive-compulsive disorder had to crawl out and run away in panic.

When these rats just jumped out, the maids and servants who were locked up here with Nie Qionghua were still screaming in fear, but now, they all closed their mouths and held their breath, for fear of attracting the attention of these rats and being attacked by them.

Nie Qionghua had fallen to the ground without anyone noticing, with countless rats stepping on her and trampling on her.

Her head was dizzy, but she could clearly feel those disgusting little things drilling into her body.

At this moment, Nie Qionghua only hated herself for not being able to die. However, not only did she not die, she couldn't even faint to death. She finally understood what it meant to be worse than death. She was clearly very close to death, but she just couldn't die.

Nie Qionghua wanted to beg for mercy, but no sound came out. Her throat seemed to be stuck. She couldn't shout or speak. It seemed as if all her flesh and blood had been eaten away by these rats from the inside out.

So this is what near death is!

Nie Qionghua never dreamed that she would be eaten by a rat!

No, don't eat her. Where's the knife? Give her a knife!
Her throat crackled, but was quickly drowned out by the squeaking of mice.

Everyone's eyes were on her. The second aunt, who was usually sarcastic and troublemaker, was now like a pile of garbage occupied by rats.

Zhao Yunnuan retracted his gaze and looked at Zhao Shiqing again: "Almost."

Zhao Shiqing understood immediately and waved at Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao ran over and was about to jump into her arms. Zhao Shiqing said, "Don't come over. I think you're dirty. Lick you clean before you make out with me."

Little Demon: [Master Qingtang, please help the cat. What kind of master is this! ]

Zhao Shiqing: "Let them go. You can come back when you are full." Little Demon: [Meow~]

To others, the interaction between Zhao Shiqing and Xiao Yao was like the second young lady's cat being clever and human-like, except that it lacked the ability to speak.

That’s right, they believe that cats can understand human nature, but they don’t believe that humans can understand cat language. Even if Zhao Shiqing herself admits it, others will think she is talking nonsense.

In a daze, Nie Qionghua felt her body relax, as if she had shed a thick layer of skin.

But she still couldn't move, her limbs were still trembling from being trampled by countless rats, and this feeling would always stay with her until the moment she died.

These rats came and went quickly. Zhao Yunnuan jumped off the Eight Immortals Table and whispered in Zhao Shiqing's ear, "Are all these rats from the dungeon?"

Zhao Shiqing: "No, the rat hole is connected to the outside world in all directions."

Zhao Yunnuan pinched her sister's face and wanted to praise her, but she didn't know how. Forget it, let's praise them together next time.

It took three buckets of cold water to wash the rat droppings off Nie Qionghua's body. Of course, this was only on the surface, and there was still a lot of it hidden in her hair, ears, and clothes.

Nie Qionghua, who had regained her human form, was taken to another place. Apart from the Zhao sisters, she was the only one in the room.

After a long while, Nie Qionghua's eyes finally came into focus again, and she was finally able to make a sound.

"I was forced. I admired him so much, how could I kill him? Someone forced me, forced me, I had no choice. I am innocent, I was forced."

Nie Qionghua burst into tears, and her pitiful appearance was almost exactly the same as Nie's.

Neither Zhao Yunnuan nor Zhao Shiqing had ever seen this side of Nie Qionghua.

They are indeed sisters. They look exactly the same when they show weakness.

Unfortunately, even if Nie Qionghua cried until the Great Wall collapsed, she could not arouse the slightest sympathy from the Zhao sisters.

They are separated from her by the hatred of their father's murder.

Even though she was just one of the links, she was also stained with blood, her father's blood!

She said that she was forced and was innocent, but the moment she asked Aunt Zhang to arrange the matter, she was already guilty of the death penalty!
Nie Qionghua cried very sadly. Since she was a child, she knew that her parents didn't like her.

When her elder sister was four years old, she followed her grandmother to Beijing to celebrate the birthday of the old lady of Duke Weiguo.

The old lady of Duke Weiguo and the old dowager of Prince Liang are cousins.

In the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion, the four-year-old sister met the five-year-old young master of the Prince of Liang's Mansion. The young master had just arrived in the capital as a hostage and could not play with any of the other children, but only accepted her sister.

Her sister accompanied the young prince through his first year in Beijing.

A year later, the young prince adapted to life in the capital, and her sister also returned to her hometown.

On the third day after my sister came home, people from Prince Liang’s mansion arrived. In addition to two carts of gifts, they also brought a jade ruyi.

From that day on, my sister became the apple of the Nie family's eye, and the elders loved her far more than their brothers.

As for her younger sister, she was even less valued. Her mother even complained that she was unable to take her sister to the capital in person because she was pregnant with her at the time.

(End of this chapter)