box of hearts

Chapter 264 Looking at My Hometown (8)
Yingzhi hurriedly untied the silk cloth from her corset, and filled it with sweet and stone water to scrub, "Two days ago, I said my stomach was itchy, and the imperial doctor also specially told me to eat lightly, but today I just drink too much, look, It's all a rash."

"It's hot, what does it have to do with my drinking?" Qingtian leaned on a porcelain pier, holding a round fan with a phoenix and a flower branch in his hand, his face full of wine.

Yingzhi glanced up at her, "Slaves don't understand if they are irrelevant, just wait for the prince to come back and tell the truth."

"How dare you!" Qing Tian turned over his fan, "He turned around and bullied me for a long time."

Yingzhi glanced at her and smiled at her, changed pajamas with her again, and was about to bring the water out, but Qingtian tapped her on the shoulder with his fan, "Don't hurry, you idiot, I have something to tell you. You Sit down, sit down, there's no one else here, what are you doing with this vain ritual? Sit down."

She forced Yingzhi to sit on the other pier, and looked at her from left to right with a smile, "You have to treat me to winter melon soup." This "winter melon soup" is a Beijing dialect, which means a substitute It means to be a matchmaker.

When Yingzhi heard this, her face turned red, "Your servant knows what your mother is going to say, so don't say it before it's too late."

Qingtian tapped the handle of the fan on his hand, "I'm here, what are you ashamed of? Let me tell you, the prince has already selected two people for you, one is the imperial guard in the palace, and the other is the imperial court. I don’t know any of my colleagues. They haven’t been engaged yet, so I have nothing to say about their family background, appearance, or character. If a bodyguard is willing to make progress, he will be able to work in ten or eight years. You know. To be an imperial physician is to be an official of Yaliu. If you stay in Beijing for a long time, you will be more stable and stable. Each has its own advantages. Which one do you like, you can decide for yourself."

Yingzhi lowered her face and rubbed her hands left and right, but the skin didn't rot, "Tell the servants to say, it's the same sentence, slaves don't marry."

"You don't like to be an official? It's just like your old sister Muyun. It's okay to find a son of a rich businessman, as long as you don't think he's vulgar. What do you think in your heart? You have to give me an accurate answer." yes."

"Your Majesty, if the servant does not want to marry, even if you ask him a thousand times or ten thousand times, the servant will only say the same thing."

"When a girl grows up, can she stay by my side for the rest of her life? After all, she has to go with someone. Before I can talk, you can tell me what's on your mind, and I can help you find someone you like." You can't be sloppy in marriage, or you will point at someone casually in a daze, and then it will not meet your liking, and you will be the one to suffer."

On the opposite side, Yingzhi suddenly raised her body and stood up, then fell to her knees with a "boom", "Your Majesty, slaves don't marry, slaves only want to serve you for the rest of your life, you really don't want slaves, and your slaves will not go there if they die here." Get on the sedan chair!" After saying that, Zhen bumped their heads heavily on the ground.

"Okay, what is this for?" Qingtian was shocked, and hurriedly got down from his seat to stop him, looked at Yingzhi carefully, and said seriously, "Yingzhi, 'the desire to eat and drink is huge for men and women', 'the desire for men and women to live in a room is huge. Lun', 'Men should be married when they are colleges, and girls should be married if they are colleges'... These words are not for nothing. You must not be shy to look like this, you really made up your mind not to marry, at least you have to give me a decent explanation Otherwise, I will leave you alone today, and if you regret it in the future, wouldn’t I have missed your life?”

Yingzhi squeezed her hands empty for a while, as if she had experienced an endless turmoil, she looked at this side, with corners and corners in her eyes, reflecting countless broken and cold spots of light, "Niang Niang, do you remember that Back when you asked about my maidservant’s childhood, she said she forgot? In fact, this maidservant wanted to forget, but she always remembered it so firmly and clearly, just like what happened yesterday. At that time, my maidservant was still called Yongying... "

Yongying's father is a wealthy local family, and his mother is his five-room concubine.When Yongying was four years old, her father died of illness, and she and her mother were kicked out of the house by the wife.The mother took her to remarry twice, and was cheated out of all the money twice. The third time she married, she married a butcher who killed pigs. Yongying was already six and a half years old that year.One day, when her mother went to the town to go to the market, Yongying stayed at home to watch the house by herself. At noon, her stepfather came back suddenly and said that she wanted to play a game with her, so he carried Yongying to the big chopping board for unloading the whole pork.The wooden chopping board had been soaked in pig's blood for many years, and the human blood dripped on it was red or black, and it dried up in a blink of an eye.Yongying got up, crying and crying, but her stepfather slapped her twice, telling her not to speak out, "Otherwise I will kill your old lady with a knife!" After that, as long as the mother is not around, Yongying has to play this game with her stepfather. A game she doesn't like at all.On this day, Mother was going out again, and she cried and hugged Mother's leg, "Mother, can you come back at noon, I don't want to play games with Daddy anymore." After a few words, he grabbed Yongying's hair and slammed it into the ground and the wall, scolding her daughter as "scumbag" and "little bitch", and there were many words that Yongying couldn't understand, even the whole thing Even Yong Ying couldn't figure it out at all.That night, my mother had a big fight with her stepfather. A few days later, an opera master came to see Yongying. It was taken.The master changed Yongying's name to Xiuguan, said that she had a good appearance, and taught her to act in some romantic dramas.One day, when Tian was rehearsing a play with Xiaosheng, Xiuguan shuddered and stood there motionless.She didn't understand what was going on, but at that moment, she finally understood what had happened to her.The master drank and drank, and finally woke up Xiuguan with a board.

Yingzhi finished telling the story of Yongying and Xiuguan in a dry voice, Qingtian listened silently, she dared not think about it, God gave this young girl in front of her such beautiful eyes, just to let her Early on saw the ugliest things in the world.Several big teardrops fell from Qingtian's cheeks, she opened her hands, "Poor child, my poor child..."

Yingzhi slammed into her arms and cried for a while. She wiped away her tears, her mouth seemed to contain large and small gravels, "Mother, slaves don't marry. That girl Huaichun often sees her on the stage. The flowers are under the moon, the music is drunk, and the heart is attracted, but the servant knows that once he takes off a clean and beautiful costume, men and women are just a matter of the meat chopping board! The servant would rather be under the stage for the rest of his life. Watching a play, I don’t want to be put naked on the cutting board again.”

Qingtian didn't know what to say, she pondered for a long time, wiped away her tears, "My good boy, I dare not fully understand what you have suffered, but I understand that 'man is a knife, I am a fish', I was also a chopping board The meat that was slaughtered by the previous person. It’s just that it’s not always like this. There is always a person with him, not on the cutting board. How many times you have been cut on the cutting board, you think those scars will never heal He will help you smooth them out one by one. You will know what is the love of flesh and blood. Men and women are the ugliest things in the world, but they are also the most beautiful things. "

"My servant knows, just like you and the lord." Yingzhi blinked her tear-filled eyes, and said softly, "Since I was young, my servant never sits at night once or twice. You can see one ear and half an ear, but how many couples can you count in the world like the empress and the prince? Even if the slaves get married with the prince's finger, as the empress said, His family background and talents are all outstanding. When such a man gets married, no matter how outstanding he is, at least he must be a white jade. With such a slave and maid on the table, even if he dares not say anything because of the prince's affection, he still has a lump in his heart. , can you still have a good heart when you see a slave girl? Even if people don't dislike it, the slave girl will feel that she has climbed this family, how can she have a comfortable life for a moment? Even if the slave girl is really lucky, as soon as the hijab is lifted If the two love each other, then nothing will happen? Let’s just say that your marriage with the prince is hard to find in the whole world, isn’t it true that your mother is not wronged?” Yingzhi stretched out her hand and touched Qingtian’s lower abdomen. Gently press on it, "Besides, the imperial concubine in the mansion is so honorable and honorable, so can she be happy? The slaves have never eaten pork and have seen pigs walk. There are not many noble ladies who come and go. Bitter water in a basket? There is bitterness in the main room, and there is bitterness in the concubine's room. This woman, once married, there is no bitterness. Mistress, slaves do not marry. Since the body of a slave is not as good as that of an animal After being defiled by her stepfather, the servant girl has no desire for the relationship between men and women. For many years by her side, the servant girl has also seen the sea of ​​love, and the relationship between husband and wife is very light. To tell you the truth, besides the empress, the slave has never been bothered about anything other than worrying about the empress. The days are like heaven. What did the slave do wrong to be demoted to the earth? Empress, the slave is really You don’t want to marry. The servant girl was your mother’s cat-holding girl when she was a child, but now the servant girl holds the bottle for the mother, and the mother is the Guanyin master, the servant girl will hold the clean bottle for you for the rest of her life, no one will follow, and she will not go anywhere!”

As she spoke, Yingzhi kowtowed to the ground again and again.Qingtian felt that he had something to persuade her, so he opened his mouth, but didn't say anything more.She is not Avalokitesvara, and there is no bottle of nectar that can wash away suffering in her hands. Her words are just drops of honey, and thousands of drops can be sprinkled into the sea of ​​bitterness, but it can't make it a little bit sweet.

Qingtian's mouth was filled with the astringent taste of tears, she lifted Yingzhi and hugged her into her arms again.

(End of this chapter)