Daming: My grandfather is Emperor Hongwu!

Chapter 58 Chunxiu

After the old man's birthday, the winter in the capital became colder and colder.

The winter in the south of the Yangtze River is different from that in the north. Although there is no snow drifting for thousands of miles, the ubiquitous cold wind and humid cooling go hand in hand.

A soft sedan is slowly moving forward in the narrow corridor of the deep palace.It has just snowed, and the red walls of the Forbidden City look even more beautiful under the light of the white snow.

There was a warm copper stove in the sedan chair, but Zhu Xiongying still covered her tightly, only her eyes were exposed.

The two of them just came back from the palace.Zhu Xiongying's uncle, Chang Mao, was so happy that he got a daughter, and the old lady got a letter. She was so happy that she didn't care about the rules and took her grandson out to have a look.

For Zhu Xiongying, this is his rare leisure time.

The Hanlin bachelors in the university hall taught him to be more strict. In addition to studying in the palace every day, he also practiced the footsteps with those honorable children as a pastime.However, this kind of pastime is becoming more and more boring, and Xu Da and others have sent many of those honorable children to the army.

"Brother Ying!" Empress Ma sat on the side and smiled, "What do you want to eat later?"

Zhu Xiongying watched the snow outside through the window of the sedan chair, and said casually, "Eat hot pot when it snows!"

"What is that?" Empress Ma was slightly surprised, "What is hot pot?"

Zhu Xiongying clicked his lips, erased the products that did not belong to this era from his memory, and said with a smile, "It's the pot!"

"Hey, it's not that simple. After a while, grandma will ask someone to cook white meat for you!" Empress Ma laughed.

It's funny, but the expression on his face in the next second is a little puzzled.

"Stop!" Empress Ma softly called, and the soft sedan stopped.

Jia Gui said from outside the sedan chair, "What is your order?"

"Why does it sound like someone is crying?" Queen Ma raised the curtain and said doubtfully.

Zhu Xiongying also listened carefully, it seemed that someone was crying on the other side of the road, and it was a woman, a young woman.

Suddenly, a eunuch's voice came from the other side of the fence, "You still have the face to cry, let's see if the miscellaneous family beats you to death!"

Papa, like the sound of slapping the palm of your hand.

In the long corridor, this sound was particularly ear-piercing.And there are women, suppressed crying.

Empress Ma's face suddenly changed, "Go and see!"

"Yes!"

Not long after, Jia Gui walked quickly with the two of them.

One of them was tall and thin. Judging by the clothes on his body, he was also the role of the head eunuch in the palace.And beside him was a fat girl in her early ten years old with a round face, small eyes and a flat nose.

This girl's fat is different from others.She is both fat and strong, like a water tank.And the eyes are naive, as if not very smart.There is no rule at all when walking, the small eyes keep looking around, and the footsteps make a heavy sound.

"The maidservant kowtowed to the empress!"

"The maidservant kowtowed to see the grandson of the emperor, Qiansui!"

The eunuch and the little palace maid knelt down, the eunuch was wearing a brand new robe, but the girl was wearing a thin palace attire.His face was flushed and stained with tears.

Empress Ma looked displeased, "What's going on?"

Jia Gui said beside Empress Ma, "Go back to Madam, his name is Sun Buren, and he is the eunuch in charge of Concubine Ning's concubine. The cry you heard just now is that she is there to deal with the girl who made a mistake. !"

"Your Majesty, forgive me, this servant deserves to die, this servant didn't know that your arrival and disturbed Your Majesty, this servant deserves death!" Sun Buren's complexion was very pale, and it seemed that he was a bit mean.

Zhu Xiongying noticed that the kneeling girl clenched her hands tightly, which seemed to be wounded.

"Did you hit her?" Zhu Xiongying asked.

"Returning to Your Highness, the servant just hit her on the palm a few times!" Sun Buren whispered, not daring to raise his head.

"Nonsense!" Zhu Xiongying said, "Gu has heard the sound of bamboo boards beating his palms!" As he spoke, he said to Jia Gui, "Tell her to stretch out her hand and show Gu!"

"Your Highness asked you to reach out!" Jia Gui said, but the girl was indifferent, as if she didn't understand.So he directly pulled her arm up and opened his palm.

"Hiss!" Empress Ma gasped, the girl's palms were criss-crossed, densely packed with whip wounds.

"Why did you beat her?" Empress Ma said angrily, she was kind-hearted, and she was the most kind to eunuchs and maids on weekdays.

"She made a mistake!" Sun Buren trembled.

"Made a mistake? If it's a big mistake, you have to send it to the respect room. How can you do it!" Empress Ma said angrily, "The women in the palace belong to the emperor and the prince, how can you allow you to chastise indiscriminately? "

Traveling through time, Zhu Xiongying realized that he had been deceived by inferior costume movies.

For the women in the palace, only the emperor and the prince can decide their life and death.They are all serving these two, so even if they are wrong, they can't beat and scold them at will, because they are the emperor's women in name.

Like in TV dramas, there is almost no such thing as a concubine beating a maid to death at every turn.Even if he was accidentally killed, he had to be sneaked out and buried.

When Emperor Wanli was young, he shaved half of her hair because of beating a court lady, which angered Empress Dowager Li and said that she would abolish him.

Sun Buren trembled all over, "She was lazy on the job, she stole the master's food. She trampled to death Concubine Ning's cat!"

There are rules in the Forbidden City that dogs are not allowed.Therefore, in order to relieve boredom, almost all concubines keep cats.

"She trampled the cat to death?" Queen Ma asked with a frown.

"Master Concubine Ning's yellow cat was basking in the sun under the eaves. Who knew that it didn't have long eyes, but stepped on the cat's head when it went out, and killed the cat!" Sun Buren said tremblingly, "Then The cat, Concubine Ning has raised it for two or three years, and it is usually her heart."

"That's enough!" Empress Ma scolded, "It's just a cat, but it beats people like this. Although she is a court lady, she is also a human being. Look at her hands!"

On that girl's hand, the wound was cracked like a fish's mouth, and her already fleshy hand was red, swollen and wide.Obviously, this is not the first time she has been beaten.

Palace ladies are indeed human beings, which are different from the Eight Banners draft system of slavery in the later Qing Dynasty.The court ladies in the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty all had special eunuchs who selected innocent women from good families outside.

"You are also raised by your parents, you are also a servant who serves others, and you are also a hard-working person, so you are so cruel to this girl?" Empress Ma said angrily again.

"It's just a cat, and it's fine if you scold it a few times, but you still abuse lynching?"

To put it cruelly, in the hearts of those concubines in the deep palace, the pets that may accompany them are indeed more noble than these servants.But in Empress Ma's heart, people are definitely more important than pets.

She is the queen who followed the old man and suffered from hunger and suffering.In the years of war, not to mention cats and dogs, even mice ate them when there was a shortage of food.In her eyes, those things are just living things.

"Slave servant deserves to die!" Sun Buren kowtowed again and again, dripping with cold sweat, "Slave servant just taught her a lesson and didn't abuse lynching!"

"Still sophistry!" Empress Ma said angrily, "Jia Gui!"

"The servant is here!"

Jia Gui first bowed to salute, then walked to Sun Buren's side, slapping him twice.

Crackling, extremely loud, the face of the other party swelled up in an instant.

"How dare you lie in front of your majesty!" Jia Gui scolded, "Come here, go to the Jing Office and hit thirty boards, really hit!"

On the side, a few strong eunuchs immediately stepped forward.

"Forget it, thirty boards will kill you!" Empress Ma took a look at Sun Buren and warned, "It's still the same sentence, you are also a miserable person, so why bother other miserable people!" After saying that, she paused, "Send it to the respect room, hit ten boards, and give him a note, maidservant, thank you for your kindness!" Sun Buren kowtowed repeatedly to express his gratitude.

(End of this chapter)