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Eunuch Dong was slow and unhurried, and was very picky about choosing a day, thinking only of a useless sunny day.
After Ru Di left, I looked at the chess record and found that I had already learned the two moves of black and white. I wanted to sit down and play chess with Ru Di in the Taiji Palace.
I can't wait.
Regardless of whether it was sunny or rainy, Ah Xiang and I went to Feng's house again at noon the next day. Mr. Dong had a fish token tied around his waist, and he had no choice but to lead the palace maids and eunuchs to go with us.
Concubine Dong knocked on the door personally.
The cunning slave drove him for several feet, but the noble servant turned a blind eye.
Several junior eunuchs asked the Feng family to drive them away, and they threw them all over the place, and even knocked Mr. Dong down.
The palace maids and eunuchs hurriedly helped Concubine Dong first. She was an envoy from the royal family and a close minister of the empress, and the Feng family had bullied her too much.
"I was following the Empress's orders, but a group of treacherous servants have openly framed me. I will report this to the Empress and the Emperor!"
Mr. Dong was furious and started cursing.
Concubine Dong is young and holds a high official position.
He used to work in the palace, and now he works for the Queen. He has never suffered such humiliation under the rule of the Li family or the Guo family.
The injustice I suffered today is something I have rarely seen in years.
In front of the Feng family's house, even the nobleman is like this, and inside the house, I... am becoming more and more worried.
The king's uncle bullies the weak and fears the strong, and never takes the Empress of the Central Palace and the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace seriously.
The Feng family only fears the power of the king.
Eunuch Dong wants to return to the palace to sue the emperor's uncle.
The Jinwu patrol, guarding Chang'an, was inspecting in front of the Feng family's house.
The leading general was very imposing. I pointed at him and asked, "Who is this?"
A young eunuch who often walked around Chang'an City told me, "My lady, don't you know? That's General Zuo Xiaowei, the second son of the Cheng family, a soldier under the general."
Since he was my brother's subordinate, I ordered the young eunuch and Ah Xiang to intercept the Left Guard together. Ah Xiang took a few steps forward, lifted a corner of his veil, and introduced himself as a member of the Yan family.
After a few words, Cheng Erlang looked over at me, put down his bow and arrows, and saluted me. I bowed in return.
I asked General Cheng to take a break and asked them to take a break in front of, behind, inside and outside the Feng family's house.
"There are thieves hiding here. Follow me to search for them." Cheng Erlang gave an order and Jinwu responded.
The Jinwu raided my house, and I know it’s against the rules.
The Feng family deserves a lesson for daring to disobey the Queen's order.
Mr. Dong also knew that it was against the rules. What would happen if he couldn't carry out the Queen's order?
Eunuch Dong and I were completely unaware of what was happening.
Rules are dead, but Rudi is alive.
Eunuch Dong knocked on the door again, followed by Jinwu. Seeing that the situation was not good, the servants of the Feng family no longer dared to close the door.
I said, "If the Feng family doesn't release me, I'll ask my brother to come and pick me up personally."
With Leng Ge's sword pointed at their faces, the Feng family finally calmed down.
The servant led everyone to a woodshed.
Outside the woodshed, Mr. Dong heard a mother and daughter talking inside the house, and the group lowered their voices.
I heard the Feng family's daughter say, "Do you want to drink it? Do you want to drink it? This medicine is precious. You are the ancestor who swallowed gold. We Feng family can't afford to pamper you. Grandpa was half killed by the Li family. You are the dog of the Li family. You are not worthy of taking this medicine again! This is the last dose. There will be no more. You may not know it while you are locked up here, but you won't live for many days anyway. I am telling you out of mercy. My aunt is the queen. My cousins are the crown prince, the Prince of Fu, and the Prince of Yue. They are either crown princes or kings. Even my cousin who is only a few years old has become a princess. The queen is blind and looks down on me. She picked you up and adopted you. You ate at the queen's side for two days and you think you are superior to me. It's a pipe dream! Who would look down on you? Now, who will save you? You will die in my hands anyway?"
"Mother, she is really alive. Why hasn't she died yet?" asked the daughter.
"Mother, I feel sick looking at her, and my heart is uncomfortable. When will she die? If the Queen takes her into the palace and lets her enjoy wealth and glory, she will not be able to survive. Only when she dies can the Queen see me. Why not bury her alive and strangle her with a rope?" The daughter said coquettishly.
"Shu'er, how could he be buried alive? How could he be strangled to death?" the mother asked in surprise.
"That person in the palace raised her after all. If one day, the Empress suddenly feels kind and asks about this little bitch and wants to take a look at her, if she sees bloodstains and bruises all over her body and realizes that we have treated her harshly, then that Empress Feng who doesn't know Feng will lead the Li family to harm our Feng family first. Don't leave scars on her body, don't kill her cruelly, give her fake non-toxic medicine, let her die of illness, and the medical officer can't find the cause. Only then can our family live in peace." The mother said calmly.
Ru Di's stepmother gave birth to three sons and one daughter.
At the moment, the ones speaking should be her stepmother and half-sister.
"Quickly feed her the medicine, give some food to the cats and dogs, leave some dirty water to sustain her life, and keep a close eye on the door. Don't be careless and let this bitch run out and knock on the palace gate to complain, then let her destroy herself..." The stepmother ordered the maid in the house.
Concubine Dong kicked the door open and saw a maid feeding Rudi "poison". The palace maid spilled the medicine and Cheng Erlang subdued the Feng family.
There were constant screams and roars in the house.
"Li'er, are you here to see me?"
I could only hear Rudi calling me.
Like a reed, it no longer had any human form, but was just mumbling about me.
"I came too late. I knew your parents were not kind...it's all my fault..." I couldn't stop crying, and Rudi also cried out loud.
"Oh, Taoist Bodhisattva! Oh, immortals and true Buddhas! What should I do? What should I do? Why am I dawdling? In Chang'an, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, with the Empress in power, how dare you wreak such havoc?" Eunuch Dong, a long-time official, exclaimed at the sight of Ru Di's miserable condition, "Back then, Guo Shi was no better than this!"
From the day Zi Rudi returned home, the Feng family gave her less food and drink. In winter, they made her live in a dilapidated house where the snow would soak her, and in summer, they made her live in a hot little compartment where the fire would roast her.
The Queen Mother did not allow the Feng family to obtain high positions and generous salaries. The Feng family could not take revenge on the Empress Dowager, so everyone bullied Rudi. Her stepmother's daughter pricked her with a needle and twisted her black hair with scissors. Her brothers punched her stomach and kicked her heart. They wanted Rudi to die quietly and painfully.
When Rudi fell ill, the Feng family called a doctor to see her and replaced some of the herbs in the medicine.
The therapeutic effect has changed. It was originally a blood-replenishing medicine, but became a blood-worshiping object.
The ones that soothe the throat and relieve gas have been changed to those that cause gas reflux and stick to the throat.
His vicious heart and cruel methods are beyond human imagination.
The Feng family is full of black hearts and is not afraid of death at all.
That was the first time I felt that the mistress of the Yan family had a kind heart.
Ah Xiang and I carried Ru Di out of Feng's house and onto the carriage.
It’s not that Ah Xiang and I have much strength, but Rudi is too sick and too thin, with only a bag of bones left in her body.
Rudi's frail and sickly body was completely afraid of my skin, and I was afraid that my flesh would cut her thin bones.
Concubine Dong was driving the car, and I was holding Rudi. She was also holding the red carp I gave her in her arms.
I can't stop crying.
We did not return to Taiji Palace, but instead searched for local Chinese medicine doctors to treat Ru Di.
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