He never expected that it would be such an embarrassing result.
"Uncle Fu, have you sent someone to find out if my aunt has crossed the river?"
Xu Qin was also afraid of Zhu Gaoxu, a reckless man.
Although Zhu Gaoxu never succeeded in seizing dysprosium in history and settled in the East Palace, his time travel will have an impact on the trajectory of history.
Especially since Zhu Laoer was angered just now, it's hard to say whether he suddenly changed his strategy or jumped over the wall in a hurry.
Now Xu Qin only hopes that his aunt Xu Miaoyun, the future empress, will arrive in Nanjing as soon as possible.
"Reporting to the young master, according to the report from the government detective, my aunt has not arrived in Jiangbei yet, but she should be there soon, because she came galloping on horseback."
Xu Miaoyun is a tiger girl in the general family, with both civil and military skills.
In addition to reading scriptures since she was a child, she also likes to ride horses and practice martial arts, and her Jade Girl sword skills are superb.
She is an out-and-out heroine.
In the spring of the second year of Jingnan, Zhu Di's army marched northward and moved troops to Daning outside the Great Wall. There were less than 20,000 old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers defending the city of Beiping.
At this time, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong led an army of 500,000 to besiege Beiping City.
At the critical moment, Xu Miaoyun put on his helmet and armor and climbed to the city wall in person, fired arrows and brandished his sword, and defended the city together with the crown prince Zhu Gaochi for several months.
They persisted until Zhu Di led 80,000 Duoyan guards and hundreds of thousands of Yanshan guards to fight back.
Hmm, it's only a few days, so hold on.
Anyway, Xu Miaoyun will definitely arrive in Nanjing before July 17th.
Xu Qin thought of this, turned around and ordered:
"Uncle Fu, here's the order, all the soldiers and generals of the government will immediately strengthen the inspection of the courtyard. Anyone who intrudes without permission, no matter who they are, will be shot without mercy as long as they don't have an imperial decree."
Xu Fu was shocked when he heard this.
At present, the life of the direct line of the Xu family is at stake. How dare you act so forcefully without trembling and putting your tail between your legs?
"This... young master..."
He thought he heard wrongly.
"What? Isn't this young master clear enough?"
Looking at the sharp gaze that did not match his age, the housekeeper Xu Fu trembled and quickly clasped his fists and bowed:
"As you command, young master."
Xu Fu left the main hall and went back to various parts of the house to implement the young master's instructions.
Xu Qin sat on a chair and closed his eyes to relax.
In his previous life, he had never experienced such a life-threatening matter.
My whole scalp was numb and ready to explode.
…
The east department room of Ouchi Huanyi Bureau.
Night falls.
More than a hundred lowly dressed palace ladies lined up in a noisy manner and stood in an open space, waiting for today's meals to be distributed.
"Everyone is standing, one by one. After eating, go back to the cell to rest immediately. Don't light the candles for too long!"
Several eunuchs in charge stood fiercely in front of these maids in clothes and shouted.
They were all wearing shabby palace clothes, with Huanyi XXX written on the left breast and front.
This is their number.
Most of these palace ladies are very thin and have vegetable-colored faces.
More than 80% of them are low-level female relatives of the guilty officials, such as concubines and maids.
There are also related female relatives within the three clans of guilty ministers.
They were implicated in the criminal case and were thrown into the workplace to do menial jobs.
The Clothes Bureau is just one of them.
The dinner for the palace maids in Huanyi was very simple, with each person having a piece of slightly blackened bread and a large bowl of rice porridge.
This 'porridge' smells like mud dug out of the river, dark brown, and has a strange smell.
Each person is given a large earthenware bowl, which serves as both tableware and drinking glass.
This thing was probably moved from the scrap pile of that official kiln.
Carrying the earthen porcelain bowl, he walked to the big pot, and the eunuch making porridge directly covered it with a ladle.
Regardless of whether the hot porridge will spill out and burn your hands, just call the next one.
If a palace maid walks a little slowly or stops to say something, she will be whipped down by the eunuch supervising her.
In severe cases, they were even pulled out and forced to stand, beaten with bamboo whips, and not allowed to eat.
Yun Niang had been busy all day. Her arms were so painful that she couldn't lift them up at all. Her hands were red, swollen and a little numb, and her ten fingers were spasming slightly.
"Pap..."
The large clay porcelain bowl in Yun Niang's hand was knocked to the ground by the eunuch's spoonful of boiling porridge.
The porcelain bowl suddenly broke into several pieces.
The gruel in the bowl splashed onto the faces or backs of the hands of the surrounding maids, causing a lot of scolding.
Her fingers were already sore and weak, and because of the porridge being burned, Yun Niang could not hold the earthen porcelain bowl firmly.
Her back was hunched and her whole body was shaking uncontrollably.
"why is it you again."
A sudden and sharp roar made the palace maids around him tremble.
Their eyes all turned to Yun Niang, knowing that she would have to be punished again.
With her head lowered, Yun Niang found a pair of rusty orchids reflected in a piece of porcelain fragment.
Her heart suddenly sank, her head suddenly buzzed, and her whole scalp felt numb.
Slowly raising her head along the pair of palace clogs, her eyes moved up one by one. What finally fell into Yun Niang's eyes was the cold and ferocious face of Yan Yan, the head of the east room of the Huanyi Bureau.
"ah…"
She screamed in horror and collapsed on the ground.
Grandma Yan's angry eyes struck like lightning.
"Come here, drag me down with a cane and twenty bamboo whips, deprive me of food, and I will deduct three cents from my wages as a fine."
Two deacons and eunuchs dragged the pale Yun Niang to the sidelines.
She was lying on a bench, her back naked.
There was a crackling sound from the bamboo whip, and blood marks instantly appeared on her back.
Old wounds have not healed, and new ones arise.
Yun Niang gritted her teeth and did not scream for mercy, but just cried softly.
The twenty bamboo whips were finished in a short time, and she was dragged back to the prison cell and thrown on the straw mat on the floor like a dead dog.
Everything was as usual in the open space outside the stadium, and everyone was numb.
No one paid attention to Yun Niang, who was crying bitterly on the straw mat.
In fact, her real name was Tie Xiuying, the eldest daughter of Tie Xuan, a die-hard loyalist of Emperor Jianwen, Minister of War and Shandong Chief Envoy.
Yun Niang is her personal maid.
When Jinyiwei went to Tiefu to arrest someone, Yun Niang went to Jiaofangsi under her name.
Tie Xuan's wife and daughter are key criminals and will be demoted to lowly camp prostitutes in the Jiaofang Division, that is, "military camp comfort women."
The soldiers in the military camp were allowed to wreak havoc day and night, and they were tortured to death.
Tie Xiuying pretended to be Tie Mansion's maid Yun Niang and entered the Dauchi Laundry Bureau as a laundry maid.
This punishment is considered the lightest.
But for Tie Xiuying, it was equally sad.
What a pity for a rich girl from a second-grade official's family. She only knows how to play chess, calligraphy and painting.
She has never done any chores before, so she is the worst in the laundry department in terms of physical strength, speed, and laundry experience.
Being beaten, scolded and physically punished became Tie Xiuying's daily routine.
Only one month after joining the Huanyi Bureau, she was beaten five times with bamboo whips, leaving bruises all over her body.
She felt that life was worse than death.
I sought death several times, but I always thought of my dead father and brothers, my mother and two sisters-in-law who were tortured in the Jiaofang Department.
There is also the maid Yun Niang who replaces him.
She was heartbroken.
Now, she is the only hope for her family and the legacy of the Iron clan.
He must survive strongly and try to rescue them from the sea of fire.
This is Tie Xiuying’s firm belief.
