The Empress Arrives: Rebirth of Concubine Hua

Chapter 19 Going Back First
The front yard was crowded and busy.

The servants who served were all trotting. Some were boiling water, some were decocting medicine, some were making vinegar, some were doing odd jobs.
Nian Shilan stood in the yard for a moment.

"Madam, the master is in a coma and the doctor said that the master has been infected with an epidemic. I am really worried, but there is nothing I can do here for the time being. I can only watch the master go through the tribulation. I feel really uncomfortable. It is better for me and the two princesses to go back first and wait for Madam to send us."

Nian Shilan took a handkerchief and wiped away the tears that were not very obvious.

Ulanara choked and looked at her with an indescribable look.

At a time like this, if it were anyone else, they would all rush to serve, but not like Nian.

But leaving her in this courtyard, with her husband's life or death uncertain and looking at this concubine at the same time, she also felt uncomfortable.

Ulanara waved her hand.

"Go ahead and stay in your yard. Come back when the master wakes up."

Nian Shilan took Hu Gege and Shu Gege away.

Hu Gege looked fine, but Shu Gege had been crying for a long time, her eyes were red and her whole body was trembling slightly.

The two followed Nian Shilan and wanted to send the concubine back to Jinglanyuan.

When they were almost at the gate of Jinglan Courtyard, Nian Shilan stopped, looked back at Hu Gege and Shu Gege, and sneered.

"Ms. Shu, if the servants see you crying like this, they will think something has happened to the master. Go back and don't follow me."

Shu was so frightened that she knelt down, trembling with fear and not daring to speak.

Mrs. Hu lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

Nian Shilan waved her hand impatiently and left. In this new life, she really didn't have the time to deal with these little shrimps.

After returning to Jinglan Courtyard, Nian Shilan asked Songzhi to call Xiao Linzi in as soon as she sat down.

Xiao Linzi was the young eunuch taken in by Nian Shilan in the second month after he entered the palace.

He was originally a horse slave who was kicked and ordered around in the stable. He is only 12 years old this year, 3 years younger than Songzhi.

Xiao Linzi's original name was not this, and he himself didn't know where his home was. He was abducted to the capital by a kidnapper.

Before he could make his move, the kidnapper was hunted down for kidnapping the little daughter of an official family.

The night before he was caught, the kidnapper felt guilty and drove him out of his hiding corner, leaving him to fend for himself.

Xiao Linzi was living on the streets when he was four years old.

The ignorant young child was picked up by a family in the dark night. He thought he would have enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear.

But that family just wanted to pick up another slave, and they would beat and scold him at any time.

The little children suffered a lot and lived in fear and terror every day, not knowing what they had done wrong to receive a beating.

He finally found an opportunity to run away at the age of seven, but he was just a little kid with no money and nowhere to go.

So he is the one who is seen snatching food from wild dogs on the street, he is the one who is knocked to the ground after stealing steamed buns from a merchant on the street corner, and he is the one who is busy digging wild vegetables in the mountains and almost gets eaten by wild beasts without noticing.

He was so hungry that he went to steal on the street, pretending to beg and approached a young man who looked well dressed. Just as he succeeded, before he could run away, he was called out by another little beggar who had once tried to snatch food from a wild dog with him but failed.

He was severely beaten by the young master's servants and thrown into the street corner.

He was cold, hungry and in pain all over. It was already early winter and he was only wearing a single layer of clothes that he had stolen from someone else's yard and was torn to pieces by stray dogs.

Before Xiao Linzi fainted from hunger and pain, he felt that he was going to die this time.

I didn't expect to wake up in a dark room. The room smelled terrible and there was the sound of horses snorting next to me.

He was startled by the smell of the horse and was about to struggle to get up when he felt a sharp pain in his lower body.

Xiao Linzi touched the painful spot and found that the only little brother who accompanied him was gone.

He couldn't hold it in any longer and started sobbing, but he couldn't cry loudly because it would hurt the wound more.

After crying for a while, the dark door was opened.

He then realized that he was in a stable and guessed that it was a wealthy family.

A limping dark figure came in through the door. Because the light was against him, Xiao Linzi took a while to adjust before he could see clearly who was coming in.

He was a middle-aged man with a pale face and no beard. He spoke slowly with a sharp voice.

"You little bastard, you're still pretty lucky."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man took out two steamed buns from his arms and threw them to the child in front of him.

Xiao Linzi no longer cared about anything else. He wolfed down the steamed bun as soon as he grabbed it.

But the wound was so painful that he almost swallowed the steamed bun with tears and blood. He endured the severe pain and swallowed the steamed bun first.

The middle-aged man spoke after Xiao Linzi swallowed the last bite of steamed bun.

"Boy, you are lucky to be picked up by our family. Live a good life with us from now on."

When the middle-aged man asked him his name, he said he didn't know his real name, and only remembered that his parents called him Mumu when he was a child.

Anyway, he can't read, he just knows this is the pronunciation.

The middle-aged man sneered.

"Little bastard, from now on you will be called Xiao Linzi, remember? When you are able to work, I will teach you the rules."

Just like that, except for losing his little brother, Xiao Linzi now had a name, food to eat, and a place to live.

After enduring the pain of his wounds for several months, he even got a job.

He was just a lowly little horse slave in the stable, but he was satisfied.

It was only later that he learned that this was the residence of the emperor's son - Prince Yong's Palace.

(End of this chapter)