Deep Palace past events

In the next few days, the food was really good, with four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables.

However, the fly in the ointment is that the soup is obviously half less than the previous two days, and drinking water is also restricted.

Everyone saw that everything was the same as Peng Xiaowan introduced, and there was no doubt in their hearts, knowing that the day before the cleansing was only about ten days away.

Although Yang Fan has been paying attention to looking for opportunities to escape, the closer the boat is to Jinling, the tighter the defense of Daojiazhuang will be on them. The number of Zhuang Ding who is on the night shift every night has also increased from one to six. Midnight and late night.

Not to mention that Yang Fan can't swim, even if he can, he has no chance to jump into the river and escape.

After dinner that day, before the sunset glow faded, Zhuang Ding locked the doors of each cabin early.

The children, as usual, were lying or sitting on their beds chatting.

Zhang Xiaomao suddenly found that Peng Xiaowan, who usually talks a lot, seemed relatively silent today, so he asked: "Why don't you like to talk today, is there anything unhappy?"

Peng Xiaowan forced a smile and said, "It's nothing, just tell me, I'm listening."

Suddenly Gao Zhaohui, who was sleeping on the bottom left bunk in the innermost room, said: "Peng Xiaowan, I know why you are in a bad mood. Is it because we are going to Jinling soon?"

Peng Xiaowan was startled and asked, "How do you know? Could it be that you have been to Jinling before?"

"No. Just like you, I count the days in my mind every day. Today is the No. 11 day that our food has been improved, so it should not be far from Jinling."

Although Gao Zhaohui is the shortest among these children, he has the most eyes, so he looks older than the other children.Although he voluntarily wants to enter the palace as a eunuch, but his future is uncertain after all. In addition, he has heard several children talk about the pain of undergoing body purification surgery during this period of time, and he feels very frightened in his heart.Every day in my mind cranky and count the days.

When everyone heard that Peng Xiaowan was disturbed by this matter, his emotions were immediately affected, and they stopped talking at the same time.

After being silent for a while, the heartless Zhang Xiaomao suddenly said loudly: "What do you want to do so much? At worst, you will be stabbed! Maybe you won't be afraid of being stabbed? After you get through this hardship, you can enter the palace! "

Peng Xiaowan let out a long sigh, and said as if thinking about it: "Yes, I'm afraid it's a knife, and I'm not afraid it's a knife. I don't think so much! It doesn't matter if I go to Jinling today or tomorrow, I'll go to bed first!" He said while taking off his clothes and pants, and got into the quilt.

Seeing this, several other children also undressed and lay down one after another.

It was less than half a stick of incense, and there were snores in the cabin one after another.

Yang Fan fell asleep later than the other children, and finally fell asleep, but was suddenly awakened by the noise next door, watching the night outside the window. Wei Zhi said: "Hey, did you hear that? I heard Zhang San from the next room say that the boat has arrived in Jinling!" .

At this moment, the cabin door was suddenly opened, and a Zhuang Ding entered the room and said: "Everyone, don't sleep, the boat has arrived in Jinling, you should put on your clothes and get ready to go ashore." After speaking, he locked the door and went out.

When the children heard that they had really arrived in Jinling, no matter whether they wanted to be eunuchs or not, they were a little uneasy. Although there were fires and candles on the table, none of them lit them. Everyone just groped in the dark to get dressed. underwear.

After everyone sat on their beds in silence for a while, Wei Zhi suddenly said, "The boat doesn't seem to be moving?"

Peng Xiaowan said: "Yes, I'm also wondering." He jumped out of bed while talking, moved the small square table to the door, stood on it and looked out of the protective window.

I saw the boat was parked in the middle of the river, far away from the river bank.

There are many pavilions on the shore, because it is already late at night, so most of the houses in the city have already turned off their lights.

There are countless large and small boats moored on the banks of the river, and each boat is lit with lanterns. There are dozens of them, and only three or four or even one. The continuous long dragon can neither see the starting point nor the end point.

Most of the lantern lights are red, yellow and white, and a few are green, purple, blue and other colors. They shine between the dark iron land and the river, looking both lively and quiet.

Because it was late at night, all kinds of hustle and bustle during the day could not be heard, so the flowing sound of the river water was especially clear and terrifying. The roaring sound was like thousands of water ghosts screaming together.

Peng Xiaowan said: "It seems that we have arrived at Jinling Port, there are many ships and lanterns!"

"Ah, let me see!" Wei Zhi heard that there were many ships and lanterns, so he jumped off the bed and rushed to the table.

"Why didn't the boat leave? Maybe you don't want to dock?" Zhang Xiaomao also muttered and grabbed it.

Peng Xiaowan and Wei Zhi had the best friendship, seeing Zhang Xiaomao coming to fight, he hurriedly said: "Don't worry, let me come down first." He deliberately jumped down from Zhang Xiaomao's side, blocking him, and let Wei Zhi take the opportunity to climb up first table.

Wei Zhi grew up in a small village deep in the mountains, and had never even been to a place fifty miles away from home, so it is the most rare and strange. Although he traveled far this time and learned a lot, Jinling is the old capital of the Six Dynasties after all. Land rouge, Southern Dynasties gold powder" reputation, how can the prosperity be comparable to other places?

Seeing the invisible "Lantern Snake Formation", Wei Zhi was dumbfounded and clicked his tongue in amazement.

Zhang Xiaomao was getting impatient and wanted to urge him down, when Wei Zhi suddenly beeped, as if he had seen something strange.

Peng Xiaowan asked: "What did you see? It's such a fuss."

"There are two Zhuang Ding who are paddling towards the pier in that boat."

Under the left side of the ship near the stern, there is a spare boat hanging in the air by two thick iron chains. The children have naturally seen it, but because there are two big locks on the iron chains, everyone is very concerned about this boat. The boat was ignored, and no one had the luxury of stealing it to escape.

"They parked the boat in the middle of the river, but let the small boat into the port first. What do they mean?" Peng Xiaowan asked puzzled.

The other children also felt strange, and rushed to the table one after another.Seeing this, Zhang Xiaomao said anxiously: "Let's not make a mess first: everyone is on the ground one by one on the wheel!"

Seeing that no one objected, he urged Wei Zhi to come down quickly.

Although Wei Zhi was reluctant, but fearing that the public would be outraged, he had no choice but to jump off the ground.

Just as they took turns watching, the boat began to move forward slowly again, and when Yang Fan stood on the table, the boat had already landed.

However, the boat did not dock at the barge, but at an area far from the front and rear boats.Because I was locked in the house, I couldn't stick my head out, and my vision was limited, so I couldn't see the ships in front and behind.And there is a wild grassland on the shore, so it gives people the illusion that they are not in a big port, but in the wilderness.

A fishy river wind blows down from upstream, and in the wind, the sound of orchestral strings and opera singing from a prostitute boat in the distance can be faintly heard, and occasionally even the laughter of a few guests can be heard.

It sounds a bit illusory and unreal in a dark world. If you don't know that this is actually a pier, you will almost suspect that those sounds are not the sounds of the world, but the laughter of ghosts.

Yang Fan was in a trance when he suddenly saw someone walking quickly with a lantern in the distance, and it was vaguely discernible that there were three people in total.

In a short time, the faces of the three people could be seen clearly, two of them were the two Zhuang Ding who went ashore by the fast boat just now, and the man walking in the middle was a strange man, about thirty years old, with a slight build. Fat, judging from his clothes and hats, he looks a bit like a businessman and a bit like a doctor.

Yang Fan couldn't help thinking to himself: "Could it be that this person is the knife maker that Peng Buwan talked about?"