This job took a very long time, and they could only go back to their rooms to sleep after it got dark.
Liu Qiaoer discovered that the house where they slept had twelve people living in one room.
Everyone slept on a common bed. Some of the palace maids had rough palms and a smell on their bodies, needless to say, they had smelled like they had cleaned a toilet.
Several people had new and old scars piled up on their bodies. After returning to their rooms, they would apply medicine to each other.
What is her current identity? Liu Qiaoer still hasn't figured it out.
She sat on the bed and was about to check her wounds when a maid grabbed her hand and said, "Don't move. I'll apply medicine on you later."
Liu Qiaoer took off her shirt. The whip marks on her body were very painful. She applied the cool ointment and felt very comfortable.
"Qiao'er, father has committed a crime, and I don't know when we can get out."
"By the way, will your fiancé come to rescue us? Well, at most they can rescue you. Even though I'm your sister, they won't care about me."
It turned out that the palace maid in front of her was her sister. She was still called Liu Qiaoer and was the daughter of the Minister of Rites Liu Sheng. Liu Sheng was arrested for some unknown case.
The house was ransacked, the men were thrown into prison, and the two daughters were sent to the Yeyouting in the palace.
Yeyouting was where the children of imperial criminals were imprisoned. They were forced to do hard labor here and served as slaves for the people in the palace.
As for Liu Qiaoer's fiancé...
She didn't know who it was, and didn't have much memory in her mind.
Sure enough, the next day, around noon, someone came to see her.
Liu Qiaoer followed the housekeeper to the outside of the palace and saw a man who looked very similar to Lu Yunzheng standing there.
"Let's go. Don't come into this kind of place again. As for your sister, don't worry. I will take good care of her."
The man bowed deeply to the housekeeper: "Thank you, auntie."
Liu Qiaoer was taken away by the man just like that.
When she saw the person coming, she had some impression of him. This man was Liu Qiaoer's fiancé, the eldest son of the imperial doctor's family in the capital. Although he looked a bit like Lu Yunzheng, his temperament was not very similar.
His full name is Yun Zheng, and he is this year's top scholar.
As I recall, when Liu Qiaoer's father was choosing a husband for her, he was waiting under the list and let Liu Qiaoer choose her own husband. As long as the man was not engaged or married, her father would send someone to propose marriage to him.
But no one expected that the number one scholar was actually the eldest son of the Imperial Censor, Yun Zheng.
The Yun family and Liu Qiaoer were already acquainted with each other, and after the two families discussed it, the marriage was decided. It was originally scheduled for March next year.
Unexpectedly, something happened to Liu Qiaoer's father. During the Emperor's New Year's sacrificial ceremony, one of the firecrackers went off, which was considered very unlucky in the eyes of everyone.
So the next day, the family of Minister of Rites Liu was raided.
Now, half a month has passed, and some people in the court have pleaded for mercy, but the emperor has ignored them completely.
Liu Qiaoer didn't know how Yun Zheng got her out.
When I followed Yun Zheng back to the Yun family, Mrs. Yun’s face was not so good anymore.
"If it were me, I would forget about this marriage, but you insisted on getting the person out. Your father is the Imperial Censor. If someone reports it, our whole family will be in trouble."
Yun Zheng did not say anything, but Lord Yun said considerately: "Let her go back to the guest room to rest first. Yeyouting is not a good place. Find a doctor to see her."
Liu Qiaoer was arranged to live in a side courtyard, and the Yun family sent two maids to serve her.
Only then did Liu Qiaoer realize that it was already the twenty-seventh year of Shengyuan and Zhao Ziyu was already forty-seven years old.
The task posted in the space is to kill Zhao Ziyu before he turns fifty and find the next monarch. Otherwise, God will have strange signs, the prince will be incompetent, and the world will be in chaos.
It’s strange that Zhao Ziyu had been emperor for so many years but only had one son.
Soon, the doctor from Yaowang Valley arrived. Liu Qiaoer took a closer look and found that he was an acquaintance. The man was none other than Xu Shaoguang, the son of Xu Dong from Yaowang Valley.
Liu Qiaoer glanced at him calmly and suddenly asked, "Doctor Xu, have you heard of the former Doctor Zhu?"
Xu Shaoguang is now a middle-aged man in his forties with a goatee, which he strokes from time to time.
Hearing her mention Doctor Zhu, he nodded and said, "Of course I know, but Doctor Zhu was sent by the Emperor to find the elixir of life, and he hasn't come back yet. I'm afraid he's in danger."
It turns out that this is what Zhao Ziyu said to the people in Yaowang Valley.
Liu Qiaoer pondered for a moment and said, "Is it true that none of the people who went there at that time came back?"
Xu Shaoguang nodded: "More than 20 years have passed, and no one has returned. I don't know if they haven't been found, or if they have been found but don't want to come back. It's also possible."
It seems that many people now know that the people from Yaowang Valley went to look for medicine for the emperor, but they didn't come back, so everyone gradually forgot about it and no one mentioned it anymore.
Now Liu Qiaoer asked again, and Xu Shaoguang answered.
Liu Qiaoer thought about it carefully. All the people who went in at that time died, but Hong Yuan, who she said was protecting her, did not enter the secret realm.
I don’t know whether Hong Yuan is still serving as a guard beside the emperor.
Liu Qiaoer thought of her mission again and felt a little depressed. Killing the emperor or supporting the new emperor, neither of them was easy.
It was dark and Liu Qiaoer couldn't sleep. At this moment, Yun Zheng came.
He did not enter Liu Qiao'er's room, but said politely through the window: "Miss Liu, something happened in your family. Now I have tried my best to rescue you. I would like to ask you to do me a favor."
Liu Qiaoer was silent for a while and then said, "Go ahead."
Now that the Liu family has fallen on hard times, she would agree even if asked to break off the engagement.
Yun Zheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Miss, actually the person I like is your sister. If you are willing to help me, I will be very grateful."
Liu Qiaoer was speechless. Since he liked her sister, he might as well just get her sister out. It would not be a waste of time to get her out.
"Okay, I wonder what Master Yun wants me to do?"
Yun Zheng added: "But your sister has already arranged a marriage with the Pei family. It would be the best if you could marry into the Pei family in your sister's place."
Pei family? The only person Liu Qiaoer could think of was Pei Yuanshan.
I only remember that Pei Yuanshan's family was exiled to Mobei. I don't know how they are doing now.
"Pei family? That Pei family? The Pei family in Luzhou? What does it have to do with Pei Yuanshan?"
Yun Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Pei Yuanshan is Master Pei's grandfather. The Pei family was exiled to the north. He later made military achievements and was promoted to general by the emperor. The Pei family guarded Mobei for fifteen years. Now the Pei family has only one son left, Pei Yi. Master Pei is sixteen years old this year, the same age as the girl."
Pei Yi is Pei Yuanshan’s grandson
It has to be said that people in ancient times got married really early. Twenty-five years means two generations. By this calculation, Pei Yi's father got married and had children at the age of fifteen.
Well, none of this matters. It doesn’t matter who Liu Qiaoer marries now.
Now she just wants to complete the task quickly, return to the secret realm, and upgrade the space. She wants to see what it is like to travel through time and space at will.