Chapter 9 Stepping into Yongxiang
When you walk into Yongxiang, you feel depressed.
This is a narrow alley with unattainable palace walls on both sides.
Being in it seems like there is no way out of advance or retreat, you can only slowly get rid of the dead bones waiting to die in the long and tormented years.
"Neighbors, be careful at your feet." Duo Yan's gentle reminder called Deng Sui back to his senses.
"Well." She nodded slightly and asked in confusion: "What kind of work do you need to do when you are imprisoned here?"
"Minding rice, grinding stones, chiseling, chopping firewood, etc." Yang Miao said as he knew it. "All of all, it's all physical work."
Deng Sui nodded slightly: "So that's the case."
"There are also people who do not do anything and are only imprisoned here." Yang Miao said again: "Those who are mostly deposed concubines. Yongxiang has become a cold palace and a place where they live for their lives."
People outside only saw the prominent figure in the palace, but at this moment, Deng Sui felt the smell of death approaching. It was the rotten smell of food, the rotten smell of flesh, and the lasting smell of blood.
"Please, please." Yang Miao said respectfully: "This is the wooden room where the sinful maid Wang lives."
It is better to say it is a cell, with wooden doors and iron locks wrapped around it.
Before they could do their jobs, these women were imprisoned and guarded, without any freedom.
At this time, they were either surprised or resentful looking from their cell, with various emotions mixed in their eyes.
Deng Sui walked in slowly with such a look.
In the wooden room, nothing else was except a torn straw mat and a few coarse cloth clothes.
Duo Ye was careful, afraid of missing something, so he gently lifted the straw mat and looked carefully.
"Did you forget to tell me any details about Yongxiang Ling?" Deng Sui suddenly looked sideways and looked at him in confusion.
Yang Miao's heart trembled. Could it be that Guiren Deng asked about the maid? "When he said the nobleman, the slave dared not hide anything. But... there is nothing special about it."
He pretended to be confused because he didn't dare to offend Yin Guiren.
"I want to ask, three days ago, that is, the day when Wang disappeared. What special happened in Yongxiang? Think about it carefully." Deng Sui frowned and looked at Yang Miao, clearly feeling this person
There is really something to hide.
"Negotiable, look at this." But at this moment, Tuo Ye found something strange. She carefully picked it up and presented it to Deng Sui.
"This is..." Deng Sui took it, looked carefully, and frowned.
"If you say goodbye, that day is indeed no different." Yang Miao was in trouble: "It's better to get up early in the morning to arrange for the criminal maids to work, and they are not lazy or lazy. The work they have to do is also the same as before.
almost."
"So what is being repaired or newly built in the palace?" Deng Sui asked carefully again, holding the things that Tuoyan handed over.
"If you want to be honest, there are many places for repair in the palace. For example, the garden behind Weiyang Palace, and the pavilions behind Zhangde Palace. And..."
"Just talk about which one chooses to serve the criminal maid from Yongxiang." Deng Sui interrupted him.
"That is the Taiye Pond, north of Jianzhang Palace and southwest of Weiyang Palace." Yang Miao said respectfully: "There has not been repaired or cleaned for a long time. The vermilion on some pavilions faded, so I chose one from Yongxiang.
The maid who is diligent in hands and feet will be sent to work. He will go there before dawn every day and can only be sent back at dusk. Now, everyone is still there."
"Well, I know." Deng Sui smiled faintly: "It's getting late, it's time to go back to the palace for lunch. Let's go."
Yang Miao thought that Guiren Deng was going to say something, but he didn't expect to leave. "I respectfully sent the nobleman to him."
However, it was this sentence that aroused variables.
The women trapped in the wooden room suddenly started to make a fuss.
"Neither, don't leave. You save me, I don't want to be trapped here..."
"Neither, I am diligent and loyal. Please take me out of Yongxiang. I will definitely serve you as a cow and a horse."
"Why are you a noble man, but I am a slut, all of you have the same beauty, why should I be locked up here?"
Deng Sui had just walked outside a wooden room, and a pair of black-nailed hands suddenly stretched out, almost scratching her face.
"Bold!" Yang Miao rushed over and kicked the woman in the knee. "You dare to offend the noble man, are you tired of living?"
Tuo Ye quickly protected Deng Sui behind him: "Don't be afraid of noble people. They have been locked up here for a long time and have deep resentment. Only then will they offend noble people without saying a word."
"Forget it. Don't make things difficult for them." Deng Sui breathed a sigh of relief, trying not to make people feel panic. But in fact, she was really scared. She had never seen such a resentful place. She had never seen such a place that was full of resentment.
I don’t know that some people are not as comfortable as dying when they are alive. “Let’s go.”
Under the protection of Yang Miao and Tuo Yen, Deng Sui quickly left here.
On the way back, she pinched the things in her hand without saying a word and exerted a little force.
Tuo Yen realized that her face was not good, but she didn't ask any more questions and quietly accompanied her back to Gad Palace.
"Miss, you're back." Meishu greeted her with hot tea: "Hurry up and take a sip of hot tea to suppress her shock. I specially added some pearl powder to it."
"Pearl Finish?" Deng Sui was a little surprised: "Where did it come from?"
"It was just sent in." Velvet presented the bamboo slips: "It was prepared by the lady for you."
Only by looking at the handwriting on the bamboo slips, Deng Sui knew who was the idea. "It seems that my family already knew about the day I entered the palace."
"I'll know so soon." Sirou said with some concern: "I really care about the lady at home."
The implication is that the uncles' secret whistles did not relax their vigilance for a moment, for fear that they would do nothing if they were sent to her, the daughter of the Deng family.
"Yes." Deng Sui smiled faintly: "But I won't talk about this anymore. On the way back to the palace just now, I saw that the flowers in the palace were so monotonous and not beautiful. In spring, if there are no colorful flowers to decorate the palace road, wouldn't it be too scary to have no colorful flowers to decorate the palace road?
It's tasteless."
Meishu smiled heartlessly: "What the lady is talking about. When you were in the mansion, you like all kinds of flowers. There are always endless flowers in the small garden behind the Xiulou. Why not wait
After lunch, I will accompany you to the flower garden in the palace. Who doesn’t know that all the good things in the world are in the palace? I guess the flowers are also very beautiful.”
"Okay." Deng Sui said with a smile: "I'm a little hungry, go and prepare lunch."
"No." Meishu retreated happily.
"I will also help you." Sirou also retreated.
It was only then that Deng Sui could take a look at the bamboo slips presented: "Yongxiangling is safe to do business, and he delivered what I wanted so soon."
"Yes." Tuo Yen smiled and opened the bamboo slips for Deng Sui: "This records the matter about Wang. I'm just afraid it's not complete."
"Do you know something?" Deng Sui asked.
"If you are the noble man, I have been in the palace for five years. I do know some things that Yongxiang Order dares not disclose to you." Tuo Ye curled his lips slightly and said, "Then Wang has not only served Empress Dowager Dou.
It was the one whom Empress Dowager Dou gave to His Majesty. Unfortunately, he was not enthroned in the rank of the emperor, but he was just an imperial maid."
After saying this, Deng Sui understood. "It is true that she is the Queen Mother Dou's person, but it is true that she has served Your Majesty."
"What the noble man said is." Tuo Yan nodded.
"Although there is nothing special in her wooden room. It is a good place to ventilate well and see the sunshine. Furthermore, those sets of clothes seem to be coarse, but they are better than others.
It's a lot newer." Deng Sui curled his lips and said, "I guess it's been a short time since I bought it, or there are some purchases every once in a while."
"What the noble man means is... someone secretly helps the Wang family?" Tuo Ye couldn't help but be surprised: "How could this happen? No matter what, she is just a sinful maid."
Deng Sui spread his palm and showed the things that had been holding in his palm to Tuoyan. "You also feel that it's different, right? Not to mention that it's not the season for plum blossoms to bloom. Even if there are still some people who haven't bloomed.
The plum blossoms will not be in Yongxiang either.”
"The noble man is wise." Tuo Ye lowered his head: "I am ashamed of being able to do it."
"Nothing is wise." Deng Sui looked at the pearl powder lying on the teacup, and the smile on his face couldn't help feeling helpless: "It's just that you don't want to make merits but you want to be fine."
After waking up, Yin Lingyue felt very comfortable.
After stretching, she leaned lazily on the cushion and called Mo Yu.
"The noble man is awake. I will pour tea now."
"Is there any news over there?" Yin Lingyue's tone softly, as if she was not fully awake.
"I said I went to the flower garden to see the flowers." Mo Yu presented the hot tea. "I went there after lunch."
"Look at the flowers in the flower garden?" Yin Lingyue took a sip of tea, and the fragrant tea soup penetrated her throat, and she felt much more refreshing. "Is she very leisurely? What do you say in Yongxiangling?"
"It was said that Guiren Deng asked some irrelevant things, and before leaving, he was shocked by the sinful maid in Yongxiang." Mo Yan sneered: "She is the same. Is that a place where anyone can go?
That courage is to do this, and you are not afraid of laughing at people."
Yin Lingyue glanced at her with some annoyance: "Don't say this again. It's a mistake to say too much. It's enough to have Yao Jiaer around me, so you'd better keep calm."
"I know the crime." Mo Qi quickly cleaned up his face.
"I don't know why, but I always think this matter is strange. As soon as she entered the palace, Wang disappeared. It would be fine if she couldn't find out about this. If she really found out something, how could she be
It’s not that I seem to be incompetent.” Yin Lingyue frowned: “It’s better not to be neglected. Mo Yan, who did you say that girl has served in the past? Why did she arrange her in the Gad Palace?”
"I have inquired about it. That Touyan was a beauty serving the late emperor. But after serving for two years, the beauty died. In the next three years, she had never followed any master. She was simply a man who needed some manpower.
Send to help.”
Yin Lingyue thought for a while: "Since I have never followed any master, I must be eager to have a good master. Then don't choose so clearly and let others think of a solution."
Chapter completed!