The Emperor's Beloved Ugly Girl

"Where is ningguta? A barren place for prisoners! There are skeletons everywhere, but there is no place for a living person to be seen for hundreds of miles! The place is bitter and cold all the year round. There is no grass, no grain. Even mice don't want to make nests there. It's just a man! It's said that most of the people assigned to ningguta can't stand suicide before they arrive at the place! Few people can survive a year even when they arrive at the place! "

"Alas!" Ah Chou sighed a little and said a few unlucky words in his heart.

On the third day of March, the year of Jiasheng, the capital.

On March 3, before ancestor worship, on such a good day, Duan Rulan, a miss of Duan's mansion, took the carriage to ningguta in tears. There was no ready-made bride's auspicious clothes. Fortunately, Duan's wedding clothes were still there, but somehow she put on her body. Ah Chou also changed into a new dress. Although it was still coarse, it was much better than before.

Duan Rulan was escorted to the Ninggu tower by two guards of the imperial forest army, one with a darker face and the other with a whiter face. Duan Feihong put together ten liang of silver and sent it to the two men. He told them to take good care of their daughter along the way.

The white faced bodyguard accepted the silver and grinned at Duan Feihong. Then he got on the carriage with the black faced bodyguard. The whip swung, and the carriage "pedaled" towards the gate.

Duan Rulan is crying in the carriage. Ah Chou can't make people laugh. He silently takes a pad out of his arms and puts it into Duan Rulan's hand. Then Duan Rulan's cry becomes louder. The bodyguard outside may be impatient. He shouts and scolds at the carriage. Duan Rulan shivers. Then he suddenly covers his mouth. The cry is small, but the tears can't stop It's like a broken pearl.

In Duan Rulan's sobbing voice, a Chou opens the curtains, looks out the window at the numerous wine shops, restaurants, bright signboards, and a string of red lanterns. This is a prosperous brocade that a Chou has never seen. From the age of four to sixteen, she has been enslaved for 12 years. A palace wall separates her from the world. Now she finally comes out After this palace wall, we will go to the terrible place where nothing lives.

A Chou looks at an ice sugar gourd stall on the road. It is filled with all kinds of ice sugar gourds, red red red fruits, and the sweet taste of sugar. It's so tempting. It's a taste that a Chou has never tasted.

A Chou looks at the little doll in front of the stall, pouting his face to pick out the sugar gourd. His eyes are full of envy.

She stared at the doll without blinking until the carriage turned around and she could no longer see the doll. Ah Chou put down the curtains.

Duan Rulan is still crying. In the cramped carriage, full of her sadness and despair, she is so depressed that ah Chou can't breathe. Ah Chou thinks to himself that it will take at least two months from the capital to ningguta. How can we survive this journey?

On the fifth day of April, the 32nd year of Jiasheng, Tongliao City.

A Chou and his party have been on the road for a month. On the day of Qingming, they arrived in Tongliao. When they left Beijing, they returned to the earth in spring. But when they arrived in Tongliao, they were still colder than Beijing. A Chou found a cloak from the package and put it on Duan Rulan, and then he flipped out a ragged blanket and put it on his body.

A group of people stayed in the post house and asked for three rooms, two bodyguards and one room. Duan Rulan and a Chou lived in one room respectively. This young lady is a noble girl. She has been used to living in a big house since she was a child. Now, although her family is in a bad way, her morale is much higher. She has no reason to live in one room with others. What's more, she is such a humble maid.