Chaos in the Chu Palace

Chapter 1 Miyagi Break (1)
"Your Majesty, it's not good! The city is broken! The city is broken!" A hoarse cry exploded outside the Wenqing Palace.The servant, Eunuch Fu, stumbled and ran in from the palace gate.He ran and barked, his voice hoarse and difficult to distinguish.The maids and eunuchs who were working quietly in the palace screamed again and again, and rushed around with their heads in their hands.The screams passed through the layers of curtains, becoming trance and weird.

Ouyang Ruo sat on the bed in a daze. She was lying down very tired just now, but she was awakened by the nightmarish cry in the blink of an eye.

The city is broken!The capital, which had been guarded for half a year, was finally breached.

Then Huaguo is over, completely over!

She seemed to be haunted by a nightmare, her big eyes stared blankly at the soft and white Suzhou white forged tent in front of her.The palace maid Cuiwen ran in crying, grabbed Ouyang Ruo's hand, and shook desperately: "Your Majesty, hurry up! Run away!"

"Escape?" A look of confusion flashed across Ouyang Ruo's snow-white face, and suddenly, she pushed Cui Wen away and screamed: "Where is my Ling Yu, come, come, quickly bring Diji here, come here!"

She ran to the door of the room, and Eunuch Fu who was running towards him grabbed Ouyang Ruo and cried, "Your Majesty, run quickly. The emperor is about to go out and surrender."

Ouyang Ruo seemed to have never heard of it and said: "Diji, find Diji quickly, go quickly. If you are late, it will be too late. Go!" The last sentence was almost shouted.

At this moment, a delicate voice came from the door crying: "Mother Concubine, Mother Concubine, I want Mother Concubine!"

I saw the fifty-year-old nanny tremblingly holding the little emperor Ji Lingyu who had just turned three years old, and walked over with a face full of panic.Ouyang Ruo snatched it away and hugged her tightly, as if afraid of losing it.Nurse Wu, the nanny, watched and burst into tears.

"Miss, what should I do?" Wu Momo cried while wiping her tears.Cuiwen and Xiaofuzi beside him also choked up.

The nanny watched Ouyang Ruo grow up. When 16-year-old Ouyang Ruo came to the palace for a draft, she also followed.Now Ouyang Ruo has gone from a nobleman to a concubine Shu step by step and gave birth to an emperor concubine. It should have been smooth sailing, rich and prosperous, but unexpectedly encountered this catastrophe.

"Ouyang Ruo finally came back to his senses, his face was full of desolation, so he called out to the nanny, and the big tears fell down, not knowing what to say.

"Boom" There was a loud noise from the southeast, attacking the city!This is the sound of siege. Although I have heard it countless times, it seems to be very different today.The people in the room were shocked, and their faces were as white as paper.The maids and eunuchs outside the palace who hadn't had time to escape all screamed.The imperial concubine in Ouyang Ruo's arms let out a "wow" and started crying again.

Ouyang Ruo was awakened by Diji's crying, she quickly carried little Diji into the back room, took out the clothes she had prepared and changed for her.Ouyang Ruo kept her hands, and the nanny was also silently helping. In this critical moment, her hands were trembling with tension, but they were extremely agile.After changing her clothes, she quickly braided Di Ji's hair like a little boy from an ordinary household.

At this time, Cuiwen and Xiaofuzi had already changed their clothes, and came to Ouyang Ruo sobbing.They knew that their master had already made up their minds, but this time they left, they didn't know when they would see each other, maybe it would be an eternal separation between heaven and man, and there would be no time to meet each other, thinking about it made them weep endlessly.

"My obedient Yu'er, you have to obediently listen to elder sister Cuiwen's words and Xiao Fuzi's words when you get out of here, you know?" Ouyang Ruo said, holding back tears, her pale lips trembling.A pair of eyes fixed on the little man in front of him.

Little Diji didn't know why, but she still nodded obediently.

Ouyang Ruo hugged Di Ji tightly, and said to the two of them with tears: "I, Ouyang Ruo, solemnly ask you two today to take good care of my daughter. If you are lucky enough to escape from birth, find a secluded place to raise her well." Adult. In my next life, I will be an ox and a horse, and I will repay the kindness of the two of you by forming a grass ring." Said that he hugged Di Ji and was about to bow down.Cuiwen and the others were so frightened that they hurriedly pulled her up.

Cuiwen couldn't help herself from crying, Xiao Fuzi wiped her tears and said, "Don't worry, ma'am, even if we risk our lives, we will take Di Ji out well. Madam treats us as much as a mountain, and it's time for us to repay my mother." Great kindness."

Ouyang Ruo burst into tears, nodded quickly, and then lowered his voice: "I released Eunuch Wu out of the palace a few years ago, and he sent a letter to me a month ago, saying that he has made arrangements outside the palace. You As long as you contact me with the password I will give you, you will naturally be able to find him. He will help you if you have any difficulties." Cui Wen and Xiao Fuzi both nodded.

"Boom" was another bang, and it seemed that the thunderous shouts of killing and the sound of golden horses and iron horses could be heard outside the city. Ouyang Ruo knew that the city gate could no longer be guarded.

"Take Di Ji away, go!" Ouyang Ruo finished speaking, turned her back with a wave of her long sleeves, stopped looking at them, and squeezed out these words with difficulty, as if exhausting all the strength in her life, and then went on again. Neither speak.His frail shoulders trembled slightly.

The crying in the hall gradually faded away, and her hot tears rolled down, and she left, all left...

"Miss, they are leaving." After a long time, the nanny closed the palace door and came to Ouyang Ruo, looking at her with a pair of old eyes full of infinite pity. Her eyes had seen too many things.Parting from life to death is the most heart-wrenching, but she has seen it the most in her life.

The afterglow of the setting sun outside the hall has already sprinkled into the hollowed-out carved window lattices, casting blood-red mottled shadows on the cold ground.There was no loud sound of siege outside, but there was a faint and terrifying aura rushing towards Zhang Yawu grabbing the ground.It seems that as soon as the door is opened, it will rush in with a grin, bringing the fear of death.

Ouyang Ruo withdrew his erratic eyes, and the sad expression disappeared, as if the life and death just now had never happened.She quietly walked to the dressing table and looked at the bronze mirror on the stage. In the mirror, a beautiful woman who was overwhelmed by the country stood expressionlessly, her black hair like a cloud was messy, and her robe was tied indiscriminately, revealing her neck A piece of ice-like skin, with a peach blossom face, but an expression as cold as a plum.

"Nurse, help me do my makeup." Ouyang Ruo sat quietly in front of the dressing table, picked up the white jade comb carved with exquisite flowers and winter jasmine, and combed her long hair very slowly.

"Okay, miss." The nanny wiped away her old tears, gathered herself together, went forward to look at the once very familiar figure in the mirror, but now she was empty and strange, and forced a smile: "Miss, what kind of hairdo do you want to wear today?" ?” After speaking, the tears that had stopped rolled down again.

"Nurse, let's wear a flying bun." Ouyang Ruo said calmly, her plain face was as calm as death.

The nanny combed her hair carefully with tears in her eyes.Just about to pick up the pearl hairpin in the makeup box, Ouyang Ruo, who was motionless at first, suddenly said: "Nurse, use the white jade hairpin that mother left for me. I don't need anything else."

The nanny was taken aback, and silently took out a carefully wrapped red cloth from the bottom drawer of the makeup box. When she opened it, there was a slender Guanghan white jade hairpin carved with orchids. The orchids on the hairpin were so vivid that it was rare. The jade you got.Inserted on Ouyang Ruo's cloud-like blue silk, it is as cold and noble as a real orchid.

Ouyang Ruo looked back and forth carefully, and suddenly smiled and said, "Nurse, this hairpin is the one I like the most. If you see your mother on the Huangquan Road, you must know my daughter."

The nanny nodded again and again, but she couldn't say a word.

Ouyang Ruo didn't realize it, and went to the box where the clothes were usually placed, and found a piece of clothes with silver silk thread embroidered with Suhangbao and brocade as the bottom from the innermost box.Once the clothes are spread out, the silver light is brilliant, but under the light of the sky, it will faintly flow with colorful lights.Ouyang Ruo changed into it with great joy, straightened the clothes, and turned a small circle on the spot again, the skirt was swinging like circles of waves.

Ouyang Ruo raised her unpainted face and said to the nurse, "Nurse, how do you like this dress?"

The nanny finally couldn't restrain herself, and cried bitterly: "Miss, why didn't you run away with them, why..." The crying, which had been suppressed for a long time, finally burst forth, filling every corner of the palace.

Ouyang Ruo walked quietly to the nanny, opened her arms and hugged her gently.

"Nurse, where can I escape? Besides, if I run away from an imperial concubine, won't I be hunted down by the soldiers of Chu State? I can stop them here for a while. Besides, I'm out of the palace." The door is just a useless woman who will drag them down." Ouyang Ruo said lightly, as if he was not talking about a major matter of his own survival, "Lingyu is young, and Cuiwen and the others take her, so it is easier for the three of them to escape."

Before the last two words "safety" could be uttered, there was a sudden explosion outside the hall, as if thousands of troops were colliding with the palace gate.The nurse and Ouyang Ruo shuddered in fright, and they hugged each other.The palace people outside the Wenqing Palace who hadn't yet escaped screamed a few times, and quickly disappeared like frightened birds.

"Nurse, it's too late! You are old and weak, and you are a palace official. I think the Chu army will not make things difficult for you. But as the concubine of Hua Guohuang, I will either be reduced to a prisoner and suffer all kinds of humiliation, or I will escort Da Chu. If the country is a slave and a handmaiden, it is better to die for the country, and it will be settled once and for all."

Ouyang Ruo said hurriedly, although her face was full of tears, her expression was extremely determined.After saying that, he turned around abruptly and walked to the inner room.The nanny was crying for a long time, and she stretched out her hand as if trying to hold her, but she retracted it half way out.

How could she not know that after the country is broken, these women who usually live in this gorgeous palace are even more miserable than ordinary people. The common people can still escape and save their lives, but they, as the most noble women in the country, cannot even escape .

Death became their only and best relief.

The nanny's eyes were clouded with tears, and she saw Ouyang Ruo, like the last white butterfly at the end of summer, gently passing the curtained inner hall and walking towards the inner room.No matter when the young lady leaves, I will go with her too.The nurse hunched over her elderly body and lowered the peach-colored gauze curtain. Behind the curtain, a slender figure of a woman stood silently with a white ling in her hand.

A cool summer wind blew past, passing through the spacious and cold hall, carrying a slightly imperceptible smell of blood. "Dang!" There was a sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in the inner room.

The nanny's eyelids twitched heavily.Before he could react, the palace door was suddenly opened with a "bang", and many people rushed in together.The old nanny was dim-sighted, and felt that the smell of sweat and blood on those people's bodies was extremely unpleasant, and her heart was suffocated, and suddenly she saw several people rushing towards the inner room without saying a word.The eyes of several soldiers in the outer hall were greedy and fierce, and they all rushed to the table case, the antiques, vases, jades on the Duobaoge... After a while, several people scrambled like wolves.

The nanny looked at them blankly, and stood aside for a moment.Suddenly, I heard several soldiers who rushed into the inner room exclaimed in unison, followed by another burst of rude curses.The nanny saw a few soldiers staggering out, she suddenly came to her senses, and shouted angrily: "You bloody thieves dare to disturb Concubine Shu's ascension to heaven. You..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw a cold flash of a knife in the hand of a soldier, cutting towards the snow-white figure.The nanny screamed in fright, but there was a plop, and the figure fell to the ground.The soldier wielding the knife cursed fiercely: "It's so damn bad luck! If you want to die, don't die here." After finishing speaking, he put away the knife, picked up the jewelry box on the dressing table, and randomly grabbed a handful of pearl hairpins , The bracelet stuffed into his arms.

The nanny rushed over and tore off Bai Ling tied around Ouyang Ruo's neck. Fortunately, the soldier cut off Bai Ling with a knife, but Ouyang Ruo only held his breath temporarily, and the nanny pinched her again. Shaking, Ouyang Ruo woke up faintly after a while.

"Nurse, this..." Ouyang Ruo's snow-white neck was circled with bruises, that Bai Ling had hurt her throat after all, and her voice was hoarse and hard to distinguish.

(End of this chapter)