Taohuaxi

Chapter 99
hurt.

Full of injuries.

Some were scabbed, and some were still bleeding.

Bruises from beatings, burns from the smoking pot, injuries from blunt objects... This body is not living in the human world, it is clearly in purgatory.

Her face is still in the flowering stage, but her body is rotting in a place where no one can see it.

She looked at Feng Gao with a smile: "Mr. Factory Master, is this enough?"

The class leader received 1000 taels of silver from the Zheng family, and she became Zheng Tai's concubine.Zheng Tai never regarded her as a human being, only as an object.He enjoyed torturing her.He dressed her up as the person he wanted, stepped on her face, her chest, and her belly with his shoes. He smiled and said, Zhu Sangyu, you are nothing more than that.

She is not a chaste and fierce woman.

She doesn't want a memorial arch, she just wants to survive.

She used her suffering to convince Feng Gao of her determination to do business with him.

Feng Gao turned away and didn't look at her.He stretched out his palm, and as he turned, an internal force was like wind, blowing up the clothes on the ground and draping them on her body.

After a while, he asked: "Since we are doing business, tell me what you can do for me?"

Ning Yue said: "I overheard the conversation between the Zheng family and his son last night."

She approached Feng Gao, and Feng Gao instinctively took a step back.

Over a cup of tea, she finished describing the plot of the Zheng family and his son word by word.

Feng Gao suddenly stepped forward and grabbed her neck: "Do you know who I am?"

Ning Yue said: "You are the current Chief of Ceremonies, the Chief Attendant of the Inner Court, the Governor of the East Factory, His Majesty's confidant, Feng Gao who makes the officials in the court frightened. Your nickname is Hei Wuchang. You have countless lives on your hands. .”

Feng Gao's eyes were stained with a thin layer of frost: "Then do you know what the consequences will be if you cheat on me?"

Ningyue smiled.

She smiles so much like Sang Yu.

The same gentleness, the same calmness.Even the little dimple at the corner of the lip is exactly the same.

"The factory master is always so suspicious," she said.

She moved forward to meet his hand, and her clothes fell off again.

"Mr. Factory Master, why don't you dare to look at me? Did you forget that you called me sister in my uncle's house? You called me sister so dearly and so carefully. No one has ever called me that way in this life. You call me sister again? A sound——"

Feng Gao pushed her away violently.

"You have said so much, what do you want?" Feng Gao asked.

Ning Yue said: "I want to leave Zheng Mansion safely."

It’s snowing again in Meihua Ridge.

Outside the inn, the sound of falling snow could be heard.

Ning Yue leisurely said: "I have no home, I have never had a home, but would you believe it, I regard many places in this world as my home. Beside the stove where a street vendor roasts sweet potatoes, in a thatched hut in the gurgling spring rain , a certain tavern at dusk, as long as I leave this prison, anywhere can be my home. I just want freedom. Mr. Factory Master, I just want freedom."

"I promise to help you leave Zheng Mansion."

After Feng Gao finished speaking, he turned around and hurried out the door.

He didn't want to stay in this room any longer.He couldn't say why.

Ning Yue stepped forward and put her hands around his waist.

He is as tall as a crane.

Her face was pressed against his back.

"Mr. Factory Master, would you like to take one look at me? Just one look."

She treats him like a normal man.

No one has ever been like this.

Feng Gao lowered his head, his long eyelashes like reeds swaying in the water in his eyes.He is so cowardly.He is timid in front of his true sister.He is just as cowardly in front of his fake sister.He didn't dare to face the face that was carved into his bones.

He dare not.

"Please respect yourself." Feng Gao said.

Ning Yue walked around in front of him and blocked the door bolt.

Ningyue raised her face, dusty and confused.

She could hear the trembling that he was trying to suppress in his words.

Awakening from a big dream.He had no power to fight back or parry.

He pushed her away and strode out of the room.

The wind rushed into his neck.He didn't look back at the woman.

He took one of his factory guards to the stable nearby.

"Put on my clothes, get on my horse, take the brothers, and return to Beijing via the official road as originally planned."

"Follow the factory's orders."

The factory guard didn't ask Feng Gao why. When working in the East Factory, the first priority is not to say too much and to obey absolutely.

He put on Feng Gao's black robe, lowered the brim of his hat, mounted Feng Gao's horse, and headed north.

Over there, Feng Gao issued a secret order to Jin Yiwei: dispatch a thousand supervisors and guards to Yangzhou to conduct an inventory of water transportation taxes at the end of the year.

After doing all this, he put on the woolen cloak and bamboo hat of an ordinary merchant and walked back to Yangzhou City on a small road.

He walked in the snow, but after only half a stick of incense, he turned gray together with Meihua Ridge.

Qin Mansion.

I caressed my bulging belly and held the book, Cherry nestled next to me.

I read a poem to the cherry and the baby in my belly: "Everywhere in life, there are similarities, it should be like a flying dragon stepping on the snow mud. Occasionally, there are fingers and claws left on the mud, Hong Fei's many things. The old monk has died and become a new tower, and the broken wall has no trace. Seeing an old topic. Do you still remember the rugged past? The road was long, people were trapped, and donkeys neighed..."

Feng Gao invited a stable woman for me to rub my feet.

As the month progresses, the swelling of the legs and feet becomes more and more obvious.

Wenpo's techniques are skillful and deft.

"Mrs. Qin's pregnancy is twins." Po Wen said.

Cherry clapped her hands and jumped around the room: "Mother Yu is going to have two babies, Mother Yu is going to have two babies!"

"Is it true?" I really couldn't believe that Bodhisattva would give me such good luck.

Po Wen said firmly: "I have delivered as many as eight hundred babies, not one thousand, in most of my lifetime. You can't go wrong if you know what you're going to do."

She is a very steady person. When she first came here, she hesitated several times and seemed to want to say something, but she didn't.After looking at it carefully for several days, I dared to make such a conclusion.

There are footsteps outside.

Cherry ran over quickly.

Zhu Xifeng walked in holding Hua Lian's hand.Hua Lian held up several pieces of baby clothes. It seemed that she had made them all with her own hands.

When Cherry saw them, she hurriedly said: "Uncle, aunt, let me tell you, Po Wen said that Mrs. Yu is pregnant with twins!"

Zhu Xifeng grinned and said, "Good thing! Good thing! If my brother-in-law knew that my sister was pregnant with twins, I don't know how happy he would be."

Hua Lian put down his clothes, held my hand, and leaned on my knees, saying, "I am pregnant with twins, so my boss will have even more hardships."

After getting married, she still called me boss.

Twins are certainly a blessing.But she was only worried about my body and my safety.

I smiled and said, "I haven't been to the counter for a few days. How is the business?"

Zhu Xifeng said: "Very good. Extremely good. Today, the royal tribute wine has just been distributed. I was at the dock and watched them finish loading the ship and sending it away. I just came back."

"Tribute wine? Now is not the day to distribute tribute wine." I said.

According to the practice of the Ministry of Household Affairs, royal tributes will not be sent out until at least the middle of the twelfth lunar month.

Zhu Xifeng said casually: "Yes, there are still seven or eight days left, but yesterday the Royal Supervisor came and said that this year is different from previous years. Because Concubine Zheng gave birth, there were banquets in the palace almost every day, and the tribute wine was sent out early."

"Who did the counting at the ferry?" I asked.

"Sister, why are you so nervous? Are you still afraid that I won't do anything good?" Zhu Xifeng said with a smile: "The people from the imperial prison checked it out clearly and got it done. Even though my sister is peacefully raising her baby, there is nothing on the cabinet now." I'm familiar with everything."

I nodded: "Just get it done."

Hua Lian comforted him: "Don't worry, boss, I will do this together with Xifeng."

After listening to Hua Lian's words, I felt at ease and called the servants to bring soup and vegetables. We had dinner around the fire.

They stayed for a while, then said goodbye and left.

At the second watch, Cherry and I freshened up and went to bed.

Qin Mingxu went to Fuliang to collect accounts a few days ago and will return in about half a month.He was not at home, so my mother and I went to bed earlier and earlier.The child in her belly rolled mischievously from time to time.

Cherry lay next to me and soon fell asleep.

I flipped through the book for a while, turned off the light, and tucked in the quilt.

Suddenly, I heard the sleeping Cherry talking in her sleep: "My foster father has killed someone, my foster father has killed someone..."

(End of this chapter)