As the saying goes, people who harm others should not exist, but one must be on guard against others. /huotxt/. -79- With Feng Yuheng's caution, how could she not hear the gradually approaching footsteps, and how could she not notice that the man dodged and dodged, but squatted behind her, pushed her back with one hand, and grabbed her ankle with the other. If it was the real Xiaoya, I'm afraid she would definitely surrender after this push and push.
Unfortunately, it was also Feng Yuheng.
The man behind the scenes had watched Feng Yuheng being pushed into the well, with her head sunk in and her feet off the ground, but for some reason, she felt a trance coming over her. When she came to her senses, she suddenly realized that she was the one who had fallen into the well, with half of her body submerged in the water. Outside the well, a hand was grabbing her wrist, and a smiling face was bending over, smiling to the point of making people tremble.
"Miss Qi, is the temperature under the water suitable?" Feng Yuheng raised her lips wickedly, her eyes revealing murderous intent without any concealment.
The person underwater was none other than the young lady of the Qi family who had argued with her before. It would have been fine if she hadn't mentioned the water temperature. As soon as she mentioned it, the young lady of the Qi family immediately felt the cold invading her whole body. The half of her body underwater was frozen numb, as if it had been separated from the upper body and she had no feeling at all.
Her lips and teeth were trembling, her face was blue, and in such a short time, she had already shown a strong desire to die. She begged Feng Yuheng, "I was wrong, please let me go, okay?" Her voice was weak and faded as soon as it came out.
Feng Yuheng asked her in return, "If you had successfully pushed me into the well just now, would you have pulled me out and tried your best to rescue me?" Then, without waiting for her answer, she continued, "Don't be a person who intends to harm others. You and I have no grudge against each other, but you had to come to my door. I am not a good person, how can I allow someone who wants to kill me to continue to live?" After she finished speaking, she suddenly let go of her hand and stood up, "Miss Qi, goodbye forever." With a plop, the person fell into the well and there was no sound.
She clapped her hands in disdain, her eyes becoming colder. She thought that the people of the Northern Realm were indeed cruel and ruthless. After just a few words of argument, they turned around and wanted to kill her. To what extent were their hearts twisted?
She had no intention of getting into trouble with a little girl, but that didn't mean she could tolerate someone threatening her life. Man-eating northern land, let's see who can eat whom.
Feng Yuheng glanced at the bucket, then at the well. His expression suddenly changed into one of anxiety and fear. He turned around and ran quickly to the backyard, shouting, "Oh no! Miss Qi has fallen into the well!"
She ran and shouted all the way, and when she arrived at the small courtyard where she had trained illusions before, everyone was startled out by her shouting. The two girls who had been following Miss Qi panicked and asked anxiously, "Which well did you fall into?"
Feng Yuheng said, "It's the well where I fetch water. I don't know why she went there too. As soon as I turned around, she rushed forward and fell into the well. You guys go and take a look!"
Everyone rushed to the well, and the guards of the hall also rushed over. A strong guard put a hook into the well, stirred it a few times, and it seemed to hook something, then wrapped it around the well rope, and pulled it out in a few seconds.
When people saw it, they wondered who else could it be if it wasn't the young lady from the Qi family? The hook went straight down to the woman's collarbone, piercing through it alive, hanging her like a piece of pork, and she was already dead.
The onlookers gasped, and the girls turned their heads away, not daring to look at the corpse. Chen Yuning and Zhang Lingxi stood on both sides of Feng Yuheng, comforting her, "Don't be afraid, Xiaoya, she was supposed to be fetching water from the ice well, but she ran over here, obviously wanting to cause trouble for you, but she didn't get any trouble and ended up losing her life, so she deserved it."
The two girls who followed Miss Qi heard this and wanted to argue, but after thinking about it, they kept their mouths shut. They were indeed familiar with Miss Qi, and they wanted to take advantage of her sister's status in the Winter Palace to get some care, but now that Miss Qi was dead, there was no need for them to stand up for her.
Soon, the woman surnamed Qi also rushed over, followed by several old men from the Illusion House. But these people were not surprised by the death of a girl. The woman surnamed Qi just waved her hand and told the guards to "roll up the mat and send it back to her family, and give them some silver. If her family has any doubts, let them come to the Illusion House to talk."
The matter was dismissed lightly, as if the dead person was not a person, but a cat or dog. However, after the guards took the body away, the woman surnamed Qi looked at Feng Yuheng meaningfully, and then said faintly, "Fu Ya, very good."
Feng Yuheng's expression was normal. He just bowed slightly and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Sister Qi."
The woman surnamed Qi nodded and said, "Since there is a dead person in the well, let's seal it! Forget about fetching water. Children, the ten who first learned the Ice Flower Fire Technique, follow me to the front hall. As for those with less talent, it's up to you to make your own choices."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and left. Shen Yuning and Zhang Lingxi quickly pulled Feng Yuheng to follow. Some other children also followed quickly, while the others stood still.
Feng Yuheng heard someone behind him say loudly to the girls, "Ice Flower and Fire Technique is the simplest magic in my Illusion House. If you can't even understand this, there is really no need to stay. Now there are two paths in front of you. One is to leave home on your own. The second is to choose to stay in the Illusion House and do odd jobs. Please consider it."
On this New Year's Eve, some were happy and some were worried. The girls who passed the initial test and were able to stay were naturally happy, even though they could not learn illusion in a short period of time and were just a foil for the illusionist. But after all, their purpose was not illusion, but to fight for a chance to enter the Winter Palace, so as long as they could stay, it was a good thing.
Those who had no choice but to go home, and those who became servants, could only spend the New Year with sad faces.
Chen Yuning said to Feng Yuheng, "Xiao Ya, I heard that not everyone who enters the Winter Palace can be favored by Lord Duanmu. After all, he is old. In the past two or three years, I heard that he has been too busy to take care of the concubines in the mansion, and he can't take care of the concubines in the Winter Palace. This is why this rule has always existed, just to save face. Secondly, he just wants to have fun. Otherwise, I would not come to this fantasy house. After all, even if I have to participate in the selection when I am thirteen, I am mixed in when there are more people, so the chance of not being selected is higher."
Feng Yuheng asked her, "Is your family also short of money?"
Chen Yuning shook her head. "I don't lack money, but my stepmother dislikes me more and more. I overheard her conversation with my father a few days ago. She said she wanted to marry me to her nephew. You don't know, her nephew can do nothing but gamble and drink. I don't want to marry that kind of person. I would rather spend the rest of my life in the Winter Palace."
Zhang Lingxi also sighed and said, "We three sisters have our own difficulties. If we can really enter the Winter Palace, we must support each other. I heard that the cruelty in the Winter Palace is no different from that in the Dashun Palace."
Feng Yuheng said helplessly, "How can there be peace in a place with so many women?" As she spoke, she thought of something, paused and said, "There are really people who want to enter the palace. If they fail in one year, they will come back the next year. Some of them may have come for several years in a row." She had seen that some of the people who came to register for the Illusion Hall were obviously a few years older than her, and she had this idea at that time;
"That's right." Chen Yuning said, "There are people here who are over fifteen years old and have reached the age of marriage. They are the ones who have fought for many years but still refuse to give up. Xiaoya, we should stay away from such people. An old maid who has not been able to get married for many years may have some twisted hearts."
Feng Yuheng smiled bitterly. She was only fifteen years old, but she was already an old maid in this era. This concept really made her unable to accept it until now. Tomorrow is the first day of the Chinese New Year. She is really looking forward to the Winter Palace.
Feng Yuheng entered the Fantasy Hall under Fu Ya's name. At this time in the Fu Mansion, the real Fu Ya was still serving her mother's bedside as usual. The only difference was that the medicine she handed to the woman today was no longer a bowl of black bitter medicine soup, but a very small tablet medicine, the size of a woman's little fingernail. Take two tablets at a time, twice a day, and it is said that this will make her well.
As Fu Ya fed the medicine to her mother, she thought about the woman who suddenly appeared in the room yesterday. She looked very much like her. It was like a fairy who suddenly appeared in front of her. Not only did she use strange methods to treat her mother, but she also left a lot of strange medicines. What was even more strange was that after her mother had been diagnosed and treated by her and took these medicines, although it was only one day, her condition actually improved. Even she could see that her mother's face had redness, and her coughing was not as frequent as usual.
But Fu Ya couldn't understand why that woman, who had such advanced medical skills, would go to such great lengths to join the Illusion House? A capable person should avoid the Winter Palace, right?
As soon as she was distracted, her mother noticed it immediately. The woman said to Fu Ya, "Mother knows what you are thinking, but no matter what, that girl is our benefactor. Xiaoya, no matter what happens in the future, you must not betray your benefactor. You must do everything possible to help your benefactor. Remember?"
Fu Ya nodded solemnly, "Don't worry, mother. I've made note of it. As long as mother gets better, I'll be willing to repay that girl for her kindness even if I have to spend my whole life to repay her."
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Songzhou did its best to cover up the disaster that occurred in the Dutong Mansion on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month with festive noise and the sound of firecrackers. People avoided mentioning the fire as if it had never happened. They only wished each other a happy new year and asked each other which girls were going to participate in the selection of winter concubines after the Lunar New Year.
On this day, Feng Yuheng, along with the illusionists of the Illusion House, finally arrived at the western end of Songzhou City and entered the winter palace that faced south. What greeted her was a familiar face - mobile phone
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