Chapter 9 Awaken from the dream
“What?!” Nie Wushuang lost her voice and asked, “You’re going to lock me up in the woodshed for a groundless crime?” Gu Qinghong, aren’t you both talented and intelligent? Just think about it, how could I possibly know Shen Rumei was coming beforehand. Even if I want to harm her, I can’t poison her in my room…”
She wanted to struggle and argue again, but the servants rushed in, grabbed her and dragged her out.
“Not me, not me… Qinghong, I do not her hurting her…” She looked at his cold figure stand still, desperation suddenly poured into the body.
In the blurred tears, she saw a very pale anomaly in his deep eyes, like guilt and pity…
When the darkness came, she was thrown into the cold, musty woodshed.
“Not me, not me…” She woke up with a sudden shock. It was dark all around. It was already dark. She has been sitting on the ground for several hours since she was thrown out of the Prime Minister’s fu in the afternoon.
“Guniang, wake up!” A pair of old hands patted her cheek. Under the blurred lantern light, an old woman is looking down at her.
Nie Wushuang screamed and hugged herself. But as soon as she moved, the blood flowed out more rapidly.
“Poor guniang, why are you sitting here? Wearing such thin cloths.” The old lady wanted to pull her up, but when the lantern was shining in her hand, she could not help crying, “Guniang, why did you bleed so much?”
Nie Wushuang only felt that she would have a hot and cold shiver and the pain in her abdomen would be like a knife cut in.
It turned out that it was not a dream. I was really got divorced and I was given medicine to aborted the child. The tears on her face flowed down again.
“Grandma, you let me die here, don’t care about me….” Nie Wushuang couldn’t push the old woman’s hand and choked: “You just go, go…”
“Hey, poor guniang, life is so precious why do you have to say death. Go home with granny, I will help you, Oh my! What kind of medicine do you have? Is it safflower! (15) Heaven! I see clearly that You’re clearly being given medicine in this way.” The old woman could not allow her to say more, pull her up.
The old woman was used to working hard, and her strength was not small. Nie Wushuang struggled, and she could only let her drag back when she cried. On the edge of the back lane of Prime minister's fu was an old simple house where ordinary people lived. The night was getting darker, and no one will pay attention to them.
When they arrived home, even a short distance made Nie Wushuang lose all her strength.
The old woman put her on a dry bed, lit a candle, she took off her blood cloths without listening to her protests, and used hot water to wash her body with white spirit and ginger to drive out the cold.
The hot water warmed the limbs that had already been frozen and numb, and the tears flowed like rivers never run dry.
“Guniang, if you live in infamy it is better than dying with honour. Look like you’ve been driven out from a big family. If you suffer any grievances, you must have to endure them. Otherwise, if you die, the bad guys will succeed. One day God opened his eyes and gave you a chance to revenge, you can’t…”
The old woman's words of inculcated were like chanting. Nie Wushuang's tears gradually stopped. She opened her eyes and stared at the thatched roof above her head. She thought coldly: Yes, how could she die? She also has a father who loves her dearly, he will help her out, wash her grievances…
Child! And her child! She wants to Shen Rumei buried with her child!
(15) 红花 (hóng huā) or safflower's properties is helping the circulatory system, haemagogue and dissolve a blood clot.
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