Chapter 156: We, mother and son, will die in front of you
This time, Jing'er ignored Cheng Jin's obstruction and knelt on the ground.
She buried her head deeply and answered seriously: "I am willing to follow the queen, and I will not refuse."
Cheng Jin seemed to have not expected that Jing'er would come to her camp so easily.
However, Cheng Jin did not think much about it. After all, Jing'er had been forced to do everything since she entered the palace. The lives of her mother and brother were in Xu Jilin's hands, and she had no choice.
Now that she has promised Jing'er to let their relatives meet, it is tacitly agreed that she will help Jing'er protect her family.
For Jing'er, Cheng Jin has always seen sadness.
Cheng Jin is lucky. She was born in a great era and lived in a peaceful country since she was a child. Even if she accidentally traveled through the book, she has become a vested interest in this feudal system.
She had a tragic end in the novel, but compared to Jing'er and others who died tragically without even their names being mentioned, Cheng Jin was much luckier.
Cheng Jin admitted that she was not a kind person. She took the initiative to pull Jing'er to her because she wanted to use a spies to find out Xu Jilin's true thoughts.
Cheng Jin nodded and helped Jing'er up. "Since you said so, I believe you. If someone outside sends you a message next time, you must tell me first."
Jing'er quickly agreed, hesitated for a second, and then asked hesitantly: "Then, Madam, my family?"
Cheng Jin said: "I promised you, and I will definitely not break my promise."
Jing'er looked at Cheng Jin with gratitude.
Cheng Jin did not stay with Jing'er for long. Since she had promised Jing'er, she would find a way to get Jing'er's relatives out of Xu Jilin's control.
It's not just for Jing'er to submit to her and stop working for Xu Jilin, but more importantly, Jing'er is also a victim, and Cheng Jin can't just leave it alone.
Cheng Jin had sent people to find out clearly a long time ago. Jing'er's family was placed in a courtyard outside the palace. It seemed that they were well treated, but in fact they were imprisoned.
Now Jing'er's Li Mingsheng is seriously ill, and the guards in charge of the courtyard didn't even hire a doctor. Someone only delivered some meals to the courtyard on time every day. It seemed that they were just waiting for Jing'er to be disobedient and then directly threatened Jing'er with the two people in the courtyard.
Now it is very difficult to let Jing'er's mother and brother come out under such circumstances.
They didn't let Jing'er's mother and brother come out, nor did they let other people in.
When Jing'er knew the situation of her mother and brother, she was so anxious that she knelt down to Cheng Jin again.
"My brother is seriously ill now. If there is no doctor, he may die."
Cheng Jin knew that the medical conditions in ancient times were backward. Just a cold could kill people, not to mention that Jing'er's brother had been running a fever for several days.
But Jing'er didn't know all this. She only knew from the correspondence with her mother Jiang that Li Ming was ill. She didn't know what it was or whether it was serious. It was probably that Xu Jilin deliberately let Jing'er pass on this information. As long as Jing'er didn't obey, she could easily kill them.
Jing'er cried like rain, and Cuizhu, who had always been at odds with her, was also moved.
"When I entered the palace, the Empress Dowager repeatedly promised me that as long as I listened to her, she would treat my mother and brother well."
"My mother and I also wrote in our correspondence that someone treated them well, so I thought the Empress Dowager was keeping her promise, but who knew they would do such a thing behind my back."
"I didn't want to enter the palace, let alone pass on the message to the Queen Mother in the palace. I just want my mother and brother outside the palace to be well."
After listening to Jing'er's words, Cheng Jin said thoughtfully: "It's not that there is no way, but you need to write a letter to your mother and tell her that your brother is already terminally ill. Only in this way can I have the opportunity to treat your brother and bring them into the palace to escape the Queen Mother's imprisonment."
Jing'er nodded repeatedly, "I will do whatever the Queen Mother says."
Cheng Jin told Jing'er all the plans.
Jing'er also quickly wrote a letter to see Jiang, but this time, the letter was not passed through Xu Jilin's hands, but Cheng Jin secretly sent someone to throw the letter into Jiang's yard at night.
Jiang had seen through their situation clearly. When she saw a letter dropped in the courtyard, she picked it up without anyone noticing.
She also understood what Jing'er meant in the letter. After returning to her room, she hugged her son and cried, looking grief-stricken, shouting for him to wake up.
The guards outside the door were frightened when they heard the noise in the house.
The Queen Mother had already arranged to treat the mother and child in the courtyard well, and all their requests, except for going out, should be met.
They naturally took Xu Jilin's words to heart and did not neglect them for a moment.
But Li Ming in the courtyard suddenly fell ill these days, and they were afraid that Xu Jilin would blame them for not taking good care of him, so they thought of hiding it secretly.
The woman in the house was clamoring to go out to find a doctor, which put them in a difficult position. They were afraid that the matter would be exposed to Xu Jilin, and they were also afraid that the mother and son would be held responsible.
In the entanglement, they unanimously chose not to let them go out.
They thought it was just a normal fever, and Li Ming was not young at the age of a teenager, so they just took some medicine and threw it to the woman in the yard and left it alone.
But for several days in a row, Jiang kept clamoring that Li Ming was still having a fever and insisted on going out to find a doctor. She had patiently persuaded her to find a solution before, but in the end she just pretended not to know.
Anyway, even if the person died, it was because of illness and they could not take care of him.
But now the noise made by the woman in the house was that Li Ming had fainted and might have died.
They could no longer care about anything else and rushed into the house. They saw Li Ming lying in Jiang's arms, curled up in a ball, without any reaction. He had obviously fainted.
When Jiang saw someone coming in, she shouted at the guards, "Let me out quickly, my son has fainted. He has had a fever for so many days, it's fatal!"
The guards were also scared out of their wits, but they still remembered Xu Jilin's words and did not let them out.
Jiang sighed and took a step back, "It's not that you are all children, you don't know how to feel sorry for them. I beg you, even if you don't let us out, at least send a doctor from outside to check on my son."
The guards looked at each other, and no one could make up their minds.
Xu Jilin had issued a strict order that no one was allowed to enter or leave, and the doctor certainly wasn't allowed to enter either.
Jiang knelt on the ground, "I don't know who wants to imprison us mother and son, but you are so good to us, I think the person who ordered you to take care of us mother and son must want you to take good care of us mother and son, not our two corpses."
Jiang suddenly raised her hand and put the hairpin on her neck.
"If you don't call a doctor, we mother and son will die in front of you today."