Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 152

Carrying a heavy bamboo basket, Xia Ziqi walked step by step in the mountains. It is summer now, and she is wearing coarse linen clothes that are no more breathable than the silk, satin and silk in the palace, and she has never had much strength. Panting, the stuffy clothes made her sweat profusely, and her back was soaked in a short while.

"Damn nunnery, these old women will enjoy it!" Xia Ziqi cursed, biting his lip and lifted the bamboo basket on his back again.

Every day she would go up the mountain to cut firewood like this, often it would take half a day to go there, and when she came back she was exhausted and had to go to the meditation room to do her homework, if she didn't finish it, she would be punished, and the master in charge would use her thick whip Beat her hard.

Thinking of such a miserable life, Xia Ziqi felt aggrieved, and was about to cry while wiping away his tears.

She thought that with Xia Bin pleading for her, Ming Shengdi might take back her life, but in the end, the bamboo basket fetched water in vain, and she was afraid that she would never go back to this palace.

With grievances and tears in his eyes, Xia Ziqi was chopping firewood at the foot of the mountain with a heavy axe. The blood bubbles on his hand rubbed against the rough wooden stick of the axe and went straight into her heart, but Xia Ziqi didn't dare to stop. , I'm afraid I won't be able to finish my portion. For example, there will be no food at night.

The sun shining high above his head soon slowly fell to the foot of the mountain. Xia Ziqi walked back to the nunnery with a fairly full bamboo basket on his back. The sweat-soaked clothes on her body felt extremely uncomfortable against her skin. From time to time, I miss the bathing hot spring pool in Qiluo Garden, and I miss the pleasure of swimming and bathing in the cool water.

Thinking like this, she walked back to the nunnery. After all, it was a different place. Xia Ziqi sniffed, lowered her head and walked into the yard. After working for two or three hours, her stomach was already growling with hunger. , just waiting to hand in the firewood and go to the canteen to get the meal.

Suddenly, Xia Ziqi smelled a fragrant smell of meat. She turned her head and looked around to find the source of the smell. She was surprised and puzzled at the same time. You must know that this nunnery is vegetarian, and there is no meat at all. If the presiding teacher If she finds out that anyone secretly eats meat, she will be punished with a stick.

But this time the smell of meat did exist, Xia Ziqi poked his head, and saw an aunt at the other end of the corridor walking towards the single room with a cup of soup. emanating from that soup.

"Hmph, my princess is a vegetarian every day, but you bitch eat meat secretly. See if I won't report you to the steward!" Xia Ziqi laughed sinisterly as she spoke, trying to win the steward by denouncing her sister-in-law. Please treat yourself better.

Thinking of this, she put down the firewood and walked to the house of the master in charge.

When she reached the door, she was about to knock, but she heard faint voices coming from inside the room.

"This time, Zhang Yuanwai said, to pick someone with thin skin and tender flesh, it's better to be a young lady, so that he's clean, and he won't be impolite when serving people."

"Ms. Zhang, don't worry, after so many years of contact, you still can't trust our stuff?"

The person who said this was the master in charge, and she had a few words with the person named Zhang Niang.

"Naturally, you and I can trust it. It's a good arrangement. Now the world is different. There are more rich masters, but they just like tricks. It's a wonderful thing to come to this nunnery to have fun. !"

The conversation between the two was extremely explicit, and occasionally there were a few weird laughter. Xia Ziqi was listening outside the door, and she was even more afraid to knock on the door.

What kind of place did she go to? Is it a nunnery where she practiced, or a brothel that secretly traded flesh and blood...

Xia Ziqi was thinking like this, and he didn't pay attention to the movement of his feet. He stepped on a dead branch with a slap, and there was a crisp sound, which made the two people in the room look over.

"Who's outside!"

The master in charge yelled and opened the door abruptly. Seeing Xia Ziqi standing there helpless, his face darkened and he pulled her into the room.

"Master in charge...disciple...disciple doesn't want to listen to the corner!" Xia Ziqi responded submissively, fearing that the master in charge would hate her, "I just came to the door because I wanted to report something to you. I don't care about anything. Did not hear!"

But Xia Ziqi's weird expression didn't seem to have heard anything, the master in charge snorted coldly and said, "I want to hear what you have to report."

"Yes, it's Huimin's aunt. She ate meat secretly in the single room. This disciple saw it with her own eyes!"

I could only hear the person next to her called Mrs. Zhang giggling, approaching Xia Ziqi with a heavy smell of makeup, looking her up and down, and reaching out to touch her shoulders.

How could Xia Ziqi have ever suffered such contempt, she was about to open Zhang Niang's hand with her round eyes, but she restrained herself after touching the face of the master in charge.

"Hey, old sister Xi'e, when did you have such a watery girl in your nunnery? Look at this delicate skin and tender flesh, it looks like you can pinch water." Zhang Niang touched Xia Ziqi's face in satisfaction. After a while, the powder on her face was as thick as a city wall, emitting a pungent smell.

"This... this is the fourth princess who was relegated from the palace." The master in charge said, and gave Xia Ziqi another look, signaling her not to talk too much.

Hearing these words, Zhang Niang's eyes lit up, and she became more and more fixated on Xia Ziqi as if she had found a baby.

"Princess... how about princess..."

She smiled and said: "Since she was a princess in the past, she must not be used to the hard training in this nunnery, right? You see that Huimin can have meat to eat, and you want to be like her, no, better than her! "

Zhang Niang's eyes raised a long and narrow arc, moving closer to Xia Ziqi.

"My Zhang Niang has no other skills. What she is best at is to connect girls. After entering this nunnery, no matter what princess or lady she was, they are all the same. Since she wants to live a famous life in the past On hot days, you have to exchange things, don’t you?”

The master in charge didn't speak, and just let Zhang Niang say that she was afraid that Xia Ziqi would know about this and would shake off to the palace, but since Xia Ziqi already knew, dragging her into the water was the safest way.

Xia Ziqi listened to Zhang Niang's bewitching word by word, her self-esteem and arrogance did not allow her to succumb, she bit her lips, but then remembered all the benefits in Qiluo Garden, and hated the miserable days in her heart even more .

"Hui Qi, you have to think about it. Hui Min's girl is just mediocre, and her market is not very good. She can still live comfortably. If you are willing, you must be a hundred times better than her." The master in charge said. , and his tone softened, "I know that you used to have a noble status, and you are also a master who is reluctant to part with glory and wealth. You can think about it for yourself if you succeed or fail."

The two sang together, not only promised Xia Ziqi various benefits, but also satirized her openly and secretly for not wanting to return to the palace. Under such a double blow, Xia Ziqi's heart was shaken.

Yes, what could she hope for now?Ming Shengdi will never forgive her, and the Yue Guifei and the eldest son of the emperor can't save her. Is she really going to live a lifetime of poverty in this nunnery?

Thinking of this, Xia Ziqi finally compromised.

Putting his hands in his sleeves, he nodded slightly.

Seeing that she agreed, Zhang Niang and the master in charge smiled at each other.

Under the oppressive methods of the two and the temptation of money, Xia Ziqi, who was once aloof, fell into the quagmire and became the kind of woman she despised the most.

Another month has passed in a hurry, Xia Zijin is basking in the sun in the yard, it is the hottest month of the year, and there is only a little cool breeze in the early hours, and she has to hide in the house when it is close to noon Dare to go out of the house, otherwise the sun like a fiery snake will definitely burn off a layer of skin.

"Princess, you haven't seen Boss Xia for a long time, do you want your servant to pass a message for you?" Xiaokui said while fanning him.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it, but now he is sent by his father to work in the Shangyi Bureau. How happy are he with those court ladies? What is the princess calling him for?" Xia Zijin muttered with her eyes closed.

Xiaokui chuckled a few times with her mouth shut, and joked, "So jealous!"

"You girl is getting more and more courageous, you dare to make fun of this princess."

"Slave, are you telling the truth?" Xiaokui stuck out her tongue and massaged her shoulders again, "But, princess, don't worry too much. Mr. Xia is wholeheartedly devoted to you, but it's just an errand. If you feel unhappy in your heart, just wait for Director Xia to come and say a few words!"

Xia Zijin hummed and said nothing, but Xiao Huanzi's voice came from afar in the yard.

"Princess, princess!"

He trotted all the way to Xia Zijin, raised his front robe and knelt down.

"What's the rush?"

"My servant's informant near Yikun Palace was investigating the situation, but intercepted a secret letter, which seemed to come from the nunnery outside the palace!" Xiao Huanzi said, and took the letter from his sleeve pocket. A letter with a light yellow background was pulled out.

"Oh, she has some skills, and she can do things for her so badly?"

Xia Zijin stretched out her plain hand to pick up the letter, opened the seal between her fingers, and pulled out a few thick sheets of letter paper from inside.

She looked at the light, and saw that the dense lowercase letters on it were all from Xia Ziqi's hand, four of the five pages of letter paper were filled with complaints, and there was something written on one page, which is truly extraordinary .

"Xia Ziqi has been a noble lady of the royal family for more than ten years in vain, yet she is so confused." Xia Zijin laughed with the corners of her mouth pulled, and stuffed the letter back into the envelope, and put it away in her sleeve pocket.

Since Xia Ziqi committed suicide, she wouldn't mind helping her a little bit more. After all, it was a sister-in-law affair. Since she caused Xia Ziyan's death, she should get everything back for Xia Ziyan herself!

(End of this chapter)