The official version of the first chapter forty-seventh chapter
While taking everyone for a morning run, I heard the sound of powerful bugles coming from outside the high palace wall, as well as the sound of a uniform army marching. If I am not mistaken, they must be the most elite troops in our kingdom.
Troop - Royal Guard. Sure enough, it seems that Sister Ayame's information is absolutely correct.
Thinking of this, I got over my head, got on the pig, and continued to distribute everyone's breakfast.
Sister Ayame's room is built in a purple bamboo forest. According to the palace standards, it is a middle-lower house. However, the courtyard here is the only place I don't clean. Due to my sister's careful decoration, it can be seen from a distance.
There was an indescribable tranquility and elegance about it. In order not to disturb the silence, I asked the other beasts to stay outside the bamboo forest and do two sets of radio gymnastics.
Speaking of which, although the concubines are all the wives of the late king, they are still divided into three, six or nine levels. Although [Ayame] has a low status, she is not a high-class person at the level of imperial concubine. If you look at it by official title
Sister Ayame can probably be counted as the mayor of a medium-sized city. (Concubines also correspond to official titles. For example, a first-class wife is of the same rank as a first-class official in the court)
But what’s strangest to me is that Sister Ayame doesn’t seem to know her real name, and only remembers the code name [Ayame]. But when I think about it carefully, except for Her Majesty the Queen and the two generals, everyone else in our country seems to use
are all code names? The difference is that the upper-class people use official titles and honorifics as code names, such as prime minister, concubine, empress... while ordinary people use status, numerical values, letters or heavenly branches to make code names. For example, passerby A
, Boy A, Soldier B, and me, the palace maid 2138... In this way, Dead Brain is quite special, but its name was also given by me, a person without a name.
After placing the milk bottle outside Sister Ayame's room, I wanted to leave immediately, but in the end I couldn't help but knock on the door twice.
"Sister Ayame, are you in there?" I asked softly, "Breakfast has been brought to you."
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There was no answer, and she seemed to be still angry. Maybe it was my last sentence that day that offended her? Alas, a woman's heart is like a needle in the sea, and I, who is neither a man nor a woman, can never figure it out.
"I know you're in there. It doesn't matter if you don't speak, just listen to me quietly." I said that there was still no sound, but I believed in my intuition: "I don't know when I will leave, but there is one thing
I'm sure, as long as the gate of the royal capital catches fire, I will take action. I will never regret the things I decide, even if I have to face mountains of swords and seas of fire." Having said this, there is still no trace of it.
echo.
"Sister Ayame, can you understand the meaning of what I just said? Yes, I want to say that even if my sister uses silence and indifference to admonish me, I will not look back." After a slight pause, I continued.
Continue:
"You once said to me that even though I have been in the palace for more than ten years, I have only left an impression on you for less than three months. What does the long ten years and the short few months mean?
What? Sister, do you know? If I hadn’t met you, I would have felt that everything around me was like an arranged data flow... Only you and Dead Brain gave me evidence that there is still life in this world...
That is the warmth of love and the persistence of ideals. If there is anything I miss in this gorgeous palace, it is probably you, my sister."
Having said this, I can no longer speak. At the same time, I seem to feel a burst of emotional fluctuations in the air. I am also very surprised why I have suddenly become sensitive recently and can catch such other people's emotional fluctuations from time to time.
The space vibration caused by it? But there is still no echo inside, maybe there is really no one.
"Goodbye, Sister Ayame." I helplessly ended my previous soliloquy.
But just as I turned around, I felt a strange impulse in my heart, so I turned towards the door and shouted:
"I want to be strong and protect my sister Ayame! Maybe you still don't want to believe it, but I will definitely prove to you that I am a man who stands upright."
After that, I turned around and ran away... But when I was walking through the bamboo forest, I seemed to hear a low sigh coming from a corner. And I seemed to be very familiar with that voice.
The palace is very heavily guarded, with sentries armed with live ammunition inside and out. The walls are high and thick, and there is an electric grid on them. In addition, there is a moat outside that is filled with piranhas and requires rowing to cross... Of course, it is not open to the outside.
For people, this is to protect the safety of the palace so that the imperial city will not fall too quickly when attacked by enemy countries or rebels. But for us slaves inside, this is completely a prison. For example, we
If there is no personal approval from Her Majesty the Queen, the creatures in Nangong will be killed as soon as they leave the palace gate of Nangong. The strangest thing is that if you go out, you will be immediately discovered by the guards and killing agencies who are more alert than dogs? Last time I fed
A pig accidentally jumped out and was immediately pierced by thousands of arrows... But if I want to go out of the palace, there are only two options - fly out from the sky (I will also be pierced by thousands of arrows), or pass through the Zhengde Gate.
But before I get to Zhengde Gate, I first have to go out of the Nangong Gate or the back gate, and there is a full mile from Nangong Gate to Zhengde Gate...
Maybe for everyone, a mile is nothing, and it takes about three minutes to walk, but for me, it is simply three desperate minutes.
There is a folk saying in our country that is not very eye-catching - "Three minutes on stage, ten years of work off stage." I didn't pay much attention to these two words before, because I had no idea of going on stage in the past. But today, for
With these two simple words, "escape", Dead Brain and I, a pair of poor actors, were forced to go on stage. In the words of Sister Ayame, it was a death stage [death stage]. Because we were afraid of death.
, I have to arrange countless boring and boring self-qualification exercises for myself.
I often hear the concubines in the palace often complain that they are unlucky, so they are not favored by the late king, but every time I hear this, I don't take it seriously. In fact, opportunities are dead, but people are alive.
. So we should not let opportunities take hold of us, but should seize opportunities by ourselves. For example, if I were a palace maid, I am afraid that the [opportunity] to be favored by the king would never appear in my lifetime. But this does not prove that I am worthless, but it just proves that I am worthless.
It proves that I am not suitable to be a palace maid at all, which proves that the stage of my life will never be as narrow as the palace. I firmly believe that I am born to be useful, but before that, I must become a person strong enough to intercept opportunities.
Before a person really takes big action, he may behave very normally, like me. After that day, I never saw Sister Ayame again. I worked step by step and honestly every day. The only difference from before was that I
Every day, I hope that the clouds in the sky will burn up soon.
In the early morning of February 26th, 328th year of the Taiyi calendar, the red morning glow reflected my eyes. A huge legion of monsters fell from the sky, and rainy ice arrows were shot down from the sky. The screams of the dead were everywhere, and those towering monsters that reached into the clouds were everywhere.
The towers collapsed one by one before my eyes, and the capital fell into chaos...
