Xu Miaojin was wearing a loose Taoist robe. When she reached the gate of the courtyard where the princess lived, she saw a eunuch standing guard. The eunuch bent over and said, "Master Chi Yue, wait a minute. The prince is in the princess' room and has something to say. How about you come back later?"
Standing at the door, I could vaguely hear a quarrel or two coming from inside. The relationship between Prince Yan and Princess Xu has always been very good, so it is rare for something like this to happen. It must be that they were arguing.
"Okay." Xu Miaojin turned around and left without saying a word.
The eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you, Master Yuechi."
Xu Miaojin walked around the garden, and when she came back, she saw the figure of King Yan walking away quickly from a distance. She then slowly walked towards the gate of the yard.
The eunuch had left, so Xu Miaojin walked straight in. The door of the princess' room was not closed
The house was already shabby, and no one had lived in it since it was bought, let alone cleaned it. Zhu Gaoxu walked into the poorly lit main room and couldn't even find a place to sit. The shabby square wooden table and benches were all covered with dust.Wang Gui fetched some water and found a gray-black cloth whose original color could not be seen clearly. He washed it in the water for a while, wrung it dry, then came up and wiped the bench. Only then did Zhu Gaoxu sit down.Wang Gui then busied himself wiping the benches and the table, which gradually became cleaner. However, the rest of the main room was still very dirty, with footprints all over the dust on the floor....Somehow, Zhu Gaoxu recalled a small incident from his previous life.When he was in high school, he secretly went to Internet cafes to play games all night many times. One time, my cousin brought his girlfriend with him. She was a cute girl with a very strict family discipline. S
At the northernmost part of Prince Gaoyang's Mansion, there is a garden with illegal buildings. In the garden, near the gatehouse of the inner hall, there are several houses, one of which has a wine cellar.The cellar was originally stocked with wine, but now almost all of it has been moved away, and the few remaining jars are thrown in the corner. It is dimly lit here, and the light from the hole above can only illuminate a small area.Xu Miaojin's hands and feet were tied, and she sat on a chair covered with soft fur. The silk ball in her mouth had been taken out, and she could speak now, but she didn't say a word, just silently watching Zhu Gaoxu busying himself there.On the brick wall next to it, there was a diagram with some lines drawn on it. It seemed that Zhu Gaoxu was rebuilding according to this diagram. Not only had he designed it in advance, he also put it on the drawing. It can be said that he was very deliberate."This kind of cellar is
The ropes around Xu Miaojin's body had been untied, and she was pacing back and forth in this dark place, moving her numb hands and feet. Before King Gaoyang left, he bought a few more things, including candles, charcoal stoves, flints, and several wooden barrels with lids filled with well water.There is a thick curtain in the corner opposite the bed curtain, which should be the "changing" place.The newly dug vents are relatively small and located high. The only accessible place was the entrance to the wine cellar, and the stairs had been removed. Xu Miaojin looked up and observed that it was inaccessible without a ladder, and there were iron bars covering it, making it impossible to climb out.The entrance above is also where things inside and outside are exchanged through a rope. Xu Miaojin's future expenses and waste items to be sent out can only be exchanged through this place.In such a situation, it was difficult for her to escape. Besides, she
Spring in the south is a land of fresh green, with new grass growing, buds sprouting from treetops, and buds about to bloom.Dayuanba Village is dozens of miles away from the nearest Yugan County of Raozhou Prefecture. The water network here is dense, and there are countless winding rivers and streams. Canoes supported by bamboo poles and black-sailed boats paddling on the river can be seen everywhere. In the paddy fields, farmers wearing straw hats and oxen have already started a year's farming.A woman with disheveled gray hair and dark skin came back carrying a large back of pigweed. She walked through a path between a clump of bamboo forest, an earthen dam and several thatched huts, which was the Du family's house.The door opened in the small earth dam is the back door, and entering is the kitchen. A young girl quickly came up to catch the woman's back.The woman immediately began to chatter, "Non was still a little girl at that time, and my fathe
The room was dark, and only the moonlight shining in from a small window allowed people to identify the location of the bed. This wooden bed had been there for who knows how many years. It had been there before Du Qianrui was sold out. Now whenever someone moved on it, it would make a "creaking" sound, as if it could fall apart at any time, but it hadn't fallen apart yet.In front of that small window, Du Qianrui learned needlework when she was a child. I remember it very clearly, but I felt it was a little small. Even in the daytime, the window was not bright enough, which hurt my eyes. Now when I look at it again, it seems even smaller... maybe I have seen bigger windows outside.In the daytime, you can see that the exposed brown-yellow earth wall has many cracks. Many years ago, Du Qianrui was worried that the wall would collapse, but it is still fine now.Everything was so familiar, after all, it was the place she had seen since she was born. Even though
This ancient county town is surrounded by the Xin River from east to west, so Zhu Gaoxu and his companions took the water route up the Xin River. There are also a large number of residents living outside the city walls, and a group of low and dilapidated buildings are built along the river. From a distance, it does not look like a city, but like an ancient town.The flames of the "Jingnan Campaign" had not yet reached Jiangxi, and without the noise of cars and factories, the city seemed very peaceful.Zhu Gaoxu went south and did not take the canal route in the east. Although the route in the east was shorter, the government troops were heavily involved and the atmosphere was tense; the route through Henan and Huguang was more peaceful and unobstructed. After crossing the Yangtze River, they went straight to the Jiangxi Provincial Administration.If you don't go east along the Yangtze River, you can avoid many important obstacles. At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu
It was just daybreak and fog covered the bamboo forest. The foggy and dark path was scary to look at.Farmers go to bed early and get up early, so this schedule can at least save lamp oil. At this time, Du's mother has almost finished making breakfast, and Du Qianrui is sweeping the earthen dam with a broom, which is her regular routine every morning.Her eyes were empty and lifeless, and she had long since given up hope. The wounds on her fingers had scabbed over, and her sweeping movements were becoming more and more skillful. People always get used to everything around them slowly.She hasn't thought about music, chess and painting for an unknown amount of time, and now she only has pig grass, brooms, and stoves in her mind. Maybe in two years, I can completely forget all those flashy things from the past. Maybe in another two years, I can get used to the kind of hut in the pigsty. The room is full of stench, the floor is muddy, and there is no place to s
It was a bright spring day with a clear blue sky, fresh air and clean river water. The forests on a riverside peninsula were lush green, and sometimes birds flew over the water and into the woods, creating a peaceful atmosphere between heaven and earth.Three men carried a box up the hillside. Veda said, "This is it." They then put the box under a tree and opened the wooden board. The fat man inside immediately made a "woooo... woooo..." sound, and then gasped rapidly, "huffing and puffing", as if he was tired from lying in the box and being carried up."Mr. Zheng, please watch over the people first. Wang Bin and I will go over there to dig the hole. We will take turns to rest in a while." Wei Da said again.Zheng He nodded and said, "Let's follow Brother Wei's arrangements."So the two men carried the hoes and went behind some trees and started digging."Brother Wei, there is something I have been wanting to tell you, but I only mentioned it tod