Due to her physical discomfort, Mrs. Duan stayed up almost all night, dizzy and heartbroken. In the middle of the night, she had a fever in a daze. She couldn't make a sound when she wanted to ask someone to pour a cup of tea. She didn't pass out until the middle of the night. He fell asleep deeply.
Unexpectedly, he just fell asleep, and before he could fall asleep, he was woken up by a woman.
"Madam, get up, the carriage is ready, just waiting for Madam to set off."
Madam Duan reluctantly opened her eyelids and said weakly, "I have a headache...a fever...I'm afraid I can't go..."
Seeing that her cheeks were flushed, her lips were dry and cracked, and her eyes were staring and empty, she stretched out her hand and tried it on her forehead. It didn't matter, and she was taken aback.
"Oh, I really have a fever, it's so hot!"
The mother-in-law exclaimed, at this moment, Mrs. Duan was burning like coals, and her hands were hot.
"Wait a minute, I'll report to the Young Master."
Madam is sick like this, and as a servant, the mother-in-law has to report it quickly, otherwise she will not be able to take responsibility if something happens.
At this time, Duan Yuanhuan was immersing himself in his sleep with Hua Meier in his arms, and was woken up by the old lady's fuss, and heard about Mrs. Duan, and couldn't help feeling upset.
"Why are you sick at this time? Didn't you give her medicine yesterday?" He lay in the tent and complained, his voice still full of getting up breath.
The mother-in-law replied cautiously, "Eat, after the madam went back yesterday, the servant girl invited Dr. Sun over according to the master's instructions, checked the pulse of the madam, and prescribed the medicine. After taking the medicine, the servant girl immediately decocted the medicine. , I personally served my wife and ate it, but it didn’t work. The servant girl thought, everyone said that the disease comes like a mountain, and the disease goes like a silk thread. I guess this disease can’t be cured with a single dose of medicine... "
Mrs. Hua also woke up, and when she heard them talking, she slipped into Duan Yuanhuan's arms and muttered, "It's really weird, she was fine when she came back yesterday, why is she suddenly so sick today? ? Don’t you just pretend to be sick because you don’t want to go…”
The woman was about to say that Madam had a severe fever, but just as she was on the verge of speaking, she suddenly thought that saying that would definitely make Madam Hua unhappy, so she swallowed the words that came to her lips.
When Duan Yuanhuan heard Mrs. Hua's words, he also felt somewhat puzzled. She was really fine yesterday, so why can't she wake up today? So he said to the woman, "Go and tell Madam, just say that I said it. This matter is of great importance. Tell her to persevere. Be sure to understand the matter. When she finishes the matter, I will reward you heavily." her!"
The mother-in-law knew that the wife would not be able to get up, but in order not to offend Mrs. Hua, she had no choice but to agree to go.
Here, Mrs. Duan fell into a drowsy sleep again, and just fell asleep when she was woken up again by the woman.
The mother-in-law said: "Madam, the young master tells you to persevere, you must understand the matter, I think you should get up, otherwise the young master will be very difficult to handle when he is angry!"
Mrs. Duan didn't speak or move. It wasn't that she didn't want to say she didn't want to move, but that she really didn't have the energy to speak or move.
Seeing that she was not moving, the mother-in-law said in a low voice: "Even if Madam doesn't think about herself, she should also think about the young lady and the young master. If you disobey the young master's order, I'm afraid it will not only be bad for you, but also for the young master and the young ladies." Not good either!"
Hearing this, Mrs. Duan could no longer remain indifferent. Although Miss Shen promised that she would deal with Hua, she had to obey them before she really dealt with them. It would be bad for her children, don't do it for anything else, for the sake of the children, she must obey them, if they told her to go, she had to go!
She slowly opened her eyes, gritted her teeth and sat up. As soon as she got up, she felt dizzy for a while, sparks collided in front of her eyes, and she almost fell down again. She quickly closed her eyes and rested for a while, and the symptoms of dizziness were slightly better.
"Come on, dress me up..." she said angrily.
Seeing her getting up, the mother-in-law hurried forward to help her put on her clothes, wash and tidy her up.
Mrs. Duan was really uncomfortable, her whole body felt like burning coals, she was dizzy and weak, and when she combed her hair halfway, she collapsed on the dressing table due to exhaustion and couldn't get up.
Even so, in order to please Mrs. Hua, the woman still cleaned up for her, and then let two maids help her, and walked outside.
Mrs. Duan was almost put into the car. After getting on the car, the driver didn't drive slowly because she was still sick. In order to hurry, as soon as Madam Duan got into the car, he slammed the whip hard. He rushed out like a horse arrow.
Mrs. Duan was already on the verge of falling and fainted, but being bumped by the carriage made it even worse. As soon as she walked out of the county town, she passed out completely, fell off her seat, and was jolted outside by the speeding carriage, "Gudong ' With a sound, it fell on the frozen road, and it was smashed and bloody, and it was almost crushed by the car behind.
The girls and women who went with her were sitting in the car behind. When they saw the lady bumped out of the car and passed out, they were frightened and stopped the car to save people.
Everyone hurriedly carried Mrs. Duan to the car, stopped the bleeding, pinched some people, and some hurriedly told the driver to go back quickly and go to the nearest medical clinic to find a doctor!
It was still dark at this time, and just after knocking on the clapper on the fourth watch, the group of people knocked on the door of the nearest medical center in a panic, and carried Madam Duan inside.
Fortunately, there was a doctor in the medical hall, seeing that Mrs. Duan was injured, the doctor rushed to bandage and treat her.
During the bandaging process, the doctor felt that Mrs. Duan was having a high fever. After the bandaging was finished, he rushed to prescribe her a medicine to reduce the fever.
After a lot of busy recording, Madam Duan's fever finally subsided, but she still didn't wake up. She couldn't go to the mountain village in this state, and even if she went, it was useless. She was unconscious, so what could she do if she went there
The woman in charge thought it over and over again, and decided to take his wife back to the mansion first, otherwise she would be killed, and she would be saved.
When I returned to Duan's house, it was already dawn. At that time, Duan Yuanhuan and Mrs. Hua had already woken up, and they were sitting at the table eating breakfast leisurely. Father please.
When the mother-in-law went in to report, the Fuling siblings heard that the mother was injured and was still unconscious. They were so frightened that they cried and rushed to see the mother. Seeing his children like this, Duan Yuanhuan couldn't help worrying for a while, unexpectedly, Mrs. Hua sneered and said, "In order not to help me, she really went all out!"
What this means is that Mrs. Duan deliberately fell down and knocked herself unconscious in order not to go to the mountain village.
After hearing this, Fuling cried and said, "My mother's illness has lasted for a day or two. Doctor Sun can testify to whether it is real or fake. In fact, my mother went to the countryside yesterday by force, and she was already exhausted when she came back." Overdraft, I didn't even eat dinner last night, today, I wish I could ask her to go..."
She implicitly complained about her father's ruthlessness. Brother Run, the second child, is only nine years old, and he would not be as reserved as his sister. He had always felt annoyed at being bullied by Hua's servant before, if it wasn't for his mother and sister Under pressure, he has long since come to find Hua to settle accounts. Today, when I heard that my mother was forced to go out with illness to intercede for Mrs. Hua, and that my mother was thrown out of the carriage and was injured, I couldn't help but feel hatred and anger. It ignited Brother Run's anger.
Xiaowazi widened his eyes, pointed at Mrs. Hua and condemned loudly: "You have the face to say it? Isn't it all because you offended Miss Shen and caused the disaster! You have the ability to cause trouble, but you have the ability to bear it? Why? Forcing my mother to do things for you, my mother will be tortured to death by you, and you still force her to do things for you, and she dragged her sick body to do things for you, and you still say that about her, are you still human? ?”
Mrs. Hua did not expect that this little kid would dare to point at the tip of his nose and scold him. She couldn't accept it for a while, and pulled Duan Yuanhuan and cried: "Husband, please listen quickly, how does Madam teach the child? Good child She taught her to be disrespectful and disrespectful. I am your ordinary wife, just like his mother. How could he treat me like this? It must be that the wife always said something in the child's ear, which made the child behave like this If you miss me, I'm afraid you have a grudge against your father, so please take care of it!"
Duan Yuanhuan was quite ashamed when he heard his son's complaint. He also knew that the child was right, and he also knew that the child had a grudge against him and Hua, but he had no choice. Between the child and Hua, he still liked Hua more. Some. He has more than a dozen children, and there will be more in the future, but the only woman he loves deeply is Mei'er!
Therefore, even though he knew that the child was right, he still lowered his face and spoke for Mei'er.
"Presumptuous, at such a young age, how dare you be so rebellious and disrespectful to your elders. Have you read all the books that Mr. Pingri taught you to read? You don't even understand the rules? Why don't you go back to your own room? Think about it!"
Seeing her father getting angry, Fu Ling was afraid that he would punish Brother Run, so she hurriedly stepped forward and took Brother Run's hand, saying, "Stop talking, brother, mother is still lying there not knowing what's going on, come and see mother with me!"
Brother Run has a stubborn temper. Seeing that his father was blindly favoring the Hua family regardless of indiscriminately, he hugged Poria cocos and cried loudly: "Sister, sir once said that in ancient times, there was a foolish king who killed his wife and son for a demon concubine. It’s all ruined, I don’t believe that there are such foolish people in this world, and now I believe it!”
Seeing his unrestrained speech, Fu Ling was terribly frightened. In desperation, she covered his mouth and stopped him from speaking.
However, the words had already been spoken, and when Hua Meier heard it, she immediately raised her brows, opened her almond eyes, and said, "Well, you little bastard, are you comparing your father with a foolish king? How dare you compare your father with a king of subjugation?" , if this gets out, and others hear that you, a son, treat your father like this, your father will no longer need to be a man, and the spittle of the world will drown him... "
Originally, Duan Yuanhuan blushed with embarrassment when Brother Run cried and said those words again, but after hearing Hua's instigation, he felt that he was right, not only right, but also became angry from embarrassment .
"You rebellious little bastard, it seems that I have really spoiled you, and even I will be taught by you. Come here, take him down for me, beat him twenty boards, lock him in the woodshed, He is not allowed to eat or drink, when will he know he is wrong, and when will he be released."
When Fu Ling heard this, she was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and cried, "Father, my brother is still young, how can he stand up to these 20 boards? I beg my father to forgive him for his first mistake." Let's go once..."
Hua sneered and said, "I thought the eldest girl was sensible, but she is just as stupid as Brother Run. He made a big mistake of disobedience to his elders. It would be light to beat him with twenty boards, so he should be dragged away." Go down and kneel in the ancestral hall! The eldest girl is so partial to him, do you blame your father for not punishing him? Or do you think what he said was right?"
When Duan Yuanhuan heard this, he immediately felt displeased with this daughter, and said angrily, "Take the eldest lady back to her room, and tell her to face the wall and think about her past, and don't give her food without my permission."
Fu Ling and Brother Run were dragged down crying, and the youngest sister, Qiao, also followed the nanny away crying and howling this morning, which made Duan Yuanhuan's heart in a mess, almost annoying to death .
In fact, he was still somewhat annoyed, he blamed Hua for causing trouble for him, and also blamed the children for not being merciful to him, he didn't know who to blame. Just as he was depressed, a report came from outside, saying that Ying's guards were begging to see him.
When Duan Yuanhuan heard that Ying Zhan was coming, Duan Yuanhuan felt a 'thump' in his heart, secretly said that he was not good, and immediately ignored the complaints about the child and Hua Shi, and hurriedly called 'Please. '
Although he said "please," his heart was beating like a drum, and his intuition told him that Ying Zhan came here so early in the morning, there must be nothing good!
Soon, Yingzhan came in, followed by two men in black with the same expression as him.
Seeing that these people were dressed in the same attire as the one sent by King Zhan, Hua was shocked and hid behind Duan Yuanhuan tremblingly, almost peeing his pants in fear.
"Hey, the Ying guards are here. Duan didn't know the Ying guards were here, so he was far away to welcome them. I hope the Ying guards will forgive me..." Duan Yuanhuan arched his hands and slid his beard politely to Ying Zhan.
Ying Zhan didn't have time to chat with him, so he said coldly, "Mr. Duan, you don't have to be polite. I was ordered by King Zhan to punish Hua, and I forgot to cooperate with Mr. Duan."
When Duan Yuanhuan heard that King Zhan directly ordered Hua Meier to be punished, his heart suddenly raised his throat, and he said reluctantly, "Dare to ask the guards, how King Zhan plans to punish... Hua?"
Yingzhan said, "Hua's family framed her, the dirty people were innocent first, soliciting right and wrong, and her beloved was killed later, King Zhan originally planned to give her death, but because of the virtue of good life in heaven, he spared her life and only gave her a life. It's enough for her to get a tattoo."
Tattoo punishment [qingxing], also known as ink punishment, is the punishment of engraving words on the face. It is one of the lightest tortures in ancient times, but it is also the most humiliating punishment. It will never fall off. Although it is not as cruel and bloody as broken arms and legs, it is extremely insulting. People can tell that they have committed a crime at a glance. Once this sign of humiliation is engraved, it must be carried All my life, this life is spent in the eyes of others.
When Hua heard that King Zhan was about to impose tattoo on herself, she immediately collapsed. She grabbed Duan Yuanhuan's arm and shouted, "Husband save me, I don't want to be tattooed, I don't want..."
However, this is not something she can do if she wants to. The prestige of King Zhan cannot be resisted by Duan Yuanhuan and his like.
At this moment, although Duan Yuanhuan was very distressed, he also knew that he could not change anything, so he clenched his fists tightly and tried to remain calm and said, "Thank you King Zhan for not killing me. In the future, my subordinates will go to thank you in person in front of the prince. "
Ying Zhan was too lazy to deal with him, so he ignored him, and only said to the two people behind, "Execution!"
Those two people strode forward, dragged Huashi out from behind Duan Yuanhuan like a finch like a falcon, ignored Huashi's crying and begging for mercy, directly pressed to the ground, drew out a knife and carved her face.
Some tattoos are performed with knives, and some with needles. Human facial nerves are extremely sensitive, and those who use needles are better. One can imagine the pain of those who use knives when they are tattooed.
Huashi has always been spoiled and spoiled, and she would scream for a long time after being pricked by a needle. Now that someone slashed her face with a knife, she couldn't help feeling pain and fear. She yelled like a pig and urinated in her pants. However, she The yelling and begging for mercy did not change her fate at all, and the two men in black quickly carved two words on his white and smooth face.
On the left cheek is a character "ow", and on the right cheek is a character "cheap", which is carved deep into the cheekbone, and the flesh is turned out after the carving.
Duan Yuanhuan watched helplessly that his most beloved little face, under the knives of the two guards, turned into a bloody face, and his heart was so painful that it almost broke. Knowing that he had no room to resist, he had no choice but to endure it.