Red apricots make spring

Chapter 6
"Ma'am, don't..."

"Please... please forgive me..."

"I...don't dare to do it next time, Madam, please forgive me..."

A disheveled woman dressed as a servant girl struggled and cried continuously under the control of two servants, but this behavior obviously did not arouse the sympathy of the high-ranking lady in the hall who was called Mrs. Li. Putting down the tea bowl in her hand, she lightly brushed the bright red water silk floral skirt with a handkerchief, lowered her eyebrows and said in a manly voice: "Why didn't you stop her mouth? Pull it down, peel off the small clothes and hit a hundred. "

One hundred blows!This is simply to beat people to death!The faces of the maidservants standing by were panicked, but they knew that their wife was angry, and the more they tried to persuade them, the more likely they would add fuel to the flames, so they exchanged anxious looks, and no one dared to speak more words of advice. .

The servants responded, and pulled a piece of rag from nowhere, quickly gagged the girl's mouth, dragged her out of the hall, set up a bench, pressed her hard on the bench, and swung the bamboo board to kill her. Ten out of ten will rise.

The servant girl struggled silently at first, but was gradually beaten to the point of blood spattering, and passed out under the severe pain, without making a sound.

"Hey, Zhao An, I'm afraid I'm going to kill someone if you keep hitting..." After hitting forty boards, the servant holding the stick saw that he couldn't hit well, so he lowered his voice and asked his companion, "What should I do? Do you still want to hit?" ?”

The servant named Zhao An gave him a sideways glance and said: "Madam didn't tell you to stop, do you have the guts to stop?" Having said that, he didn't feel that his strength slowed down when he dropped the stick.

The two servants gritted their teeth and swung down another twenty sticks, but the maidservant who was beaten did not move as if she was dead. Zhao An boldly stepped forward and sniffed, but who knew that the tentacles were cold, let alone lifeless, he was horrified. He immediately took a few steps back and sat down on the ground, unable to get up for a long time.

"Who told you to stop?" Just as the sound of the stick hitting outside the hall stopped, Mrs. Li who was sitting in the hall frowned slightly when she couldn't hear the sound of the stick hitting, and her tone was rather displeased.

"Madam... no... it's not good..." Zhao An ran in and knelt down and said, "Ru Hua... seems to have been beaten to death..."

"Killed to death?" Li Shi didn't change his face, just raised his eyes, and said with a smile: "I think she is pretending to be dead! Take a basin of water and splash her on her body, and I guarantee that she will come back to life."

Zhao An secretly scolded her for being cruel and merciless, but he didn't dare to show any dissatisfaction on his face. He hurriedly ran down according to his words, took a basin of cold water, and poured it on the girl's head and face. After waiting for a long time, there was no movement, and he didn't Dare to sniff the maid again, put down the basin and ran to the hall to kowtow to Mrs. Li, fearfully said: "Ru Hua is really dead, villain dare not lie!"

"Really dead?" Mrs. Li stood up, adjusted the jade hairpin inlaid with beads on her head, and hummed softly, "It's a good deal for her! You go to the tent to get a few copper plates, buy a broken mat, and wrap her up." Throw it on the mass grave!" After she finished speaking, she seemed to feel a little filthy, so she pulled off her veil, covered her nose, and walked out of the hall.

Before the corpse of the servant girl Ruhua could be collected, Xu was disgusted in her heart. When Li Shi walked around, she took a detour to avoid the torture equipment in the middle of the courtyard, but there were three servant girls behind her, one of them was Jinxiu. Unfortunately, she was walking a little closer to Ru Hua, and suddenly felt something pulling the corner of her skirt, and glanced out of the corner of her eye in a hurry, and saw that the one holding the corner of her skirt was Ru Hua's hand, which had been declared dead. Immediately, I was so frightened that I forgot everything, let go of my voice and screamed.

"What are you arguing about?" Li Shi who was walking in front was startled by the screams, she couldn't restrain her anger, she turned around and slapped Jinxiu on the face without knowing the reason.

"Ma'am, your hands hurt carefully."

The maid, Jin Yu, was on good terms with Jin Xiu. Although she still hadn't figured out why Jin Xiu, who was always cautious, suddenly yelled wantonly, but she knew that today was different. If she annoyed Madam again, there would definitely be no fruit for her, so she hurriedly knelt down and begged for her forgiveness.

Unexpectedly, Jinxiu was slapped severely, she just froze for a moment, then screamed again, pointing at her skirt with a terrified expression.

"Cheating a corpse... cheating a corpse..."

Yan Hong, who was at the end, was the first to discover the reason for Jinxiu's gaffe, but she didn't scream, she just took a few steps back, her legs gave way, and she sat down on the ground in a daze.

Horror flashed across Li's face, but she knew Ruhua was the most cowardly maid in her life, and she never believed that she would have the courage to turn into a ghost after death, let alone the red sun at this time, and the world is bright, so she forced herself Calmly said: "Hurry...what are you panicking, Zhao An, you, you go check her breath..."

How guilty is she, these words made her voice tremble.

Zhao An was also afraid, after all, he was the one holding the stick just now, but he didn't dare to disobey his orders, he moved forward tremblingly, and was about to reach out his hand to detect Ru Hua's breath, but he saw Ru Hua's body move slightly, from her throat A low moan escaped, but her mouth was gagged, and this moan sounded like a gossamer.

Looking at it like this, it seems that people are not dead yet!

Zhao An's courage suddenly grew, he tore off the rag stuffed in Ruhua's mouth, breathed again, and found that he was still breathing a little, and quickly replied: "Ma'am, she is not dead yet, I thought it was just now." I was beaten until I was suffocated, but after a while, I came back to life!"

not dead!Everyone present let out a sigh of relief.

Li Shi immediately put down her hands that were tightly clenched on her chest, Yanhong got up from the ground with strength she didn't know, and stood silently behind her, even Jinxiu finally stopped screaming, feeling that half of her face was burning hot after being beaten It hurts, and I feel anxious about my gaffe just now.

After the relief, there was silence. It seemed that everyone hadn't fully recovered from the shocking incident. At this moment, the only thing left in the yard was the chirping of the autumn cicadas, which could be heard endlessly.

It was still Jin Yu who was clever, seeing that there was no annoyance on Madam's face at this time, she quickly asked in a low voice: "Madam please show me, this is like a flower..."

"Take it down to heal your wounds!" Li said impatiently, turned around and left, just walked to the door of the moon cave, and suddenly turned around again, scanning everyone's faces with sharp eyes, and said slowly: " Don't ask a doctor to show her! Also, don't make this matter public, if the master asks, he will say that Ru Hua is sick and can't come forward to serve her, have you made a note?"

"Remember it." Several maids and servants in the courtyard agreed in unison.
Zhao An bowed slightly, seeing that Mrs. Li was far away surrounded by the servant girls, she waved her hand and said to Zhao Fu who was standing beside him, "Come here and help her, and carry Ruhua to her own room!"

(End of this chapter)