The cold palace where Ziyan was imprisoned was outside the northeast corner of the palace, but it was not actually inside the palace. There was only a gate at the north corner connecting the palace and the cold palace.
The cold palace is not only deserted, but also dark. The sun is shining directly in the sky, but it still can't pass the high red wall, and the sunlight can shine into the courtyard where Ziyan lives.
There is only one maidservant by my side, two people, one master and one servant, the daily job is to clean the toilet, from waking up in the morning until night. Tired, dirty, and smelly. On the first day, Zi Yan collapsed, fell in front of the toilet of a Taiping car, and passed out.
Even though Ziyan used to be a noble concubine, she has already been deposed as a concubine, and she is far worse than an ordinary court lady when she comes here.
The eunuchs in Guangou's place are all ruthless, thinking of ways to torture the concubines who come here every day. A fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken, and the eunuch is not afraid that they will go out in the future and bite back. Because based on their years of experience, they knew that none of the concubines who fell into the cold palace could continue to go out in a majestic manner.
Some grew old here and died of illness; some hanged themselves; some scolded the emperor as a bastard every day, were denounced by eunuchs, and stabbed to the emperor. up.
How can Ziyan survive such endless and dark days! Waking up after fainting, turning from thinking to sad, from sad to crying. Sad and angry, he ignored Rong Changan and Li Hai.
It happened to be overheard by the queen who came to the door, "Wow, you dare to scold the emperor behind your back, look at me not cleaning you up for the emperor!"
He slammed open the door of the room, held a whip in his hand, pointed at Zi Yan and reprimanded: "I heard what you said just now! You are charged with disrespect to the emperor! However, it seems that you have deeply I won the favor of the emperor, so I will forgive you and stop beating you. However, from now on, you will clean all the toilets, and I will take away the girls around you. If you can't finish the day's tasks, don't even think about eating and sleeping. Listen Reached?"
Zi Yan used to be a noble concubine, with an arrogant heart, and also the empress dowager's niece, how could she tolerate a mutilated eunuch pretending to be a tiger in front of her!
Zi Yan propped up her delicate body, and scolded at the eunuch: "What are you? How dare you make me go?" She reached out to hit the eunuch, but was grabbed by the eunuch.
Arms can't twist her thighs, no matter how domineering Ziyan is, she can't stand people, how can she not bow her head under the eaves, and she is a woman, how can she beat a man!
The corner of the eunuch's mouth curled into a sinister smile: "Zi Yan, if you are dishonest, I will give you more work in the future!" Suddenly, the eunuch's eyes revealed a gloomy light, "Let me tell you the truth, many of the maids here are dead. For no apparent reason, we did it behind the scenes. If you also want to die miserable, then you don’t need to change your attitude, but if you want to live, you have to listen to me.”
The eunuch's gloomy and ferocious appearance made Zi Yan's hands tremble in fright.
"You... How else can you deal with me?"
The eunuch's eyes were cold and fierce, and he suddenly flicked the whip in his hand, and the loud sound made Zi Yan and the girl beside him hug into a ball: "Many people died under my whip; others died. In the well in the backyard; and some people, without knowing it, disappeared..."
"Oh, no!" At this moment, Zi Yan really felt that she had come to a boundless hell.
From then on, Zi Yan didn't dare to act coquettishly and presumptuously, she sat in the yard cleaning toilets every day, cleaning more than one hundred toilets a day. There was a girl who brushed with her before, and she basically helped her brush, but now she is the only one doing it by herself, so it goes without saying that it is hard work.
At night, a person only dared to hide in bed and sleep alone, not daring to walk in the yard.
Because the eunuch told her a legend. The wells in the cold palace can’t be seen at night. If you really want to see it, look into the well, and you can’t see anything when there is moonlight, but when the moonlight is covered by dark clouds, you will hear the rumbling sound inside the well, as if something As if a fountain spewed out, a woman with disheveled hair and a concubine's costume stood out of thin air at the mouth of the well, her body was wet, her eyes were very bright, she was radiant, her nails were as long as she wanted...
Thinking of the legend of the eunuch, Zi Yan trembled all over her body, her ears seemed to be filled with the cries of those depressed women who had died for many years, it seemed that women in white robes and disheveled hair came and went in the entire courtyard and the entire wing go.
Couldn't eat well, didn't sleep well, within a few days, Zi Yan became very thin.
On this day, I was flushing the toilet and felt a little dizzy, normal! Tilting her head, she knocked over a toilet, and the dirty water in the toilet dripped onto her head, face and clothes, very pickled! But she seemed to be numb, unable to realize the filth on her body, afraid that the eunuch would come over with a whip again, struggled a bit, got up, and continued to clean the toilet.
"It seems that you have changed a lot!"
The familiar voice made Zi Yan stop what she was doing. She raised her numb face slightly, and looked at the door with dull eyes.
Rong Changan, who was dressed in gorgeous neon clothes, was full of pearls and emeralds, like a tree of peach and plum blossoms in full bloom, his face was ruddy, his spirit was radiant, and his bright eyes seemed to be rippling with autumn waves.
What made Rong Changan look more noble was her posture. With both hands flat on the lower abdomen, her body is straight and slim, her eyes are looking straight, as if she is not moved even if there is a bag of gold on the ground in front of her.
The current difference between clouds and mud may be the result of the grievances between the two of them. Zi Yan had to give in, she no longer had the strength, ability, or fighting spirit, so she went to compete with Rong Changan.
As soon as Zi Yan raised her head with shame, she lowered her head again and continued to flush her toilet. Don't pay any attention to Rong Chang'an, Rong Chang'an is here to show off his power to her, the more you pay attention to her, the more embarrassing she will be.
In fact, Ziyan took a closer look, and Rong Changan's clear and lingling eyes flashed with sympathy.
A pair of gold-painted boots faced the pickled toilet, and the stale water gave off bursts of stench.
The two remained silent for a long time.
"Have you seen enough? Are you happy? Can you go?"
Rong Chang'an was touched by Ziyan's dispirited voice. She is reflecting on herself, is she being a bit cruel to Ziyan, shouldn't she design Ziyan like that, and put Ziyan in the sidelines
But a voice rang in her ears again: Look at those three thousand soldiers who died? How wronged were they to die? Has Zi Yan ever regretted her actions? When she slandered Li Hai and asked them to die, did she ever have a little sympathy
"Happiness is not my goal." Rong Changan said in a deep tone. Up to now, Ziyan still doesn't know the main reason why she has fallen into today's situation. Ziyan always thinks that others are like her, and everything they do is for a selfish purpose.
Zi Yan snorted disapprovingly: "It's not for joy? What is it for? Could it be that you want to get the emperor? I can see that you don't love the emperor at all, and you make trouble in front of the emperor because you are jealous and hate me .”
Rong Chang'an said: "You are right, and you are not right. I am making waves in front of the emperor because of you, but it is not just because of jealousy or happiness as you think. It is because of what you owed me in the previous life."