Chapter 1 Unlucky Chou
Great Zhou Dynasty.
The first day of March in the thirty-second year of Jiasheng.
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"I've never seen anyone more unlucky than you!" In the chilly spring, Ah Chou was sitting by the well, rubbing his clothes with cracked hands, and whispering to his own reflection in the big wooden basin. Looking at the hill-like pile of clothes beside the tub, Ah Chou couldn't help but sigh, "When will this be washed?"
Ah Chou was right, she was really unlucky.
You said that she was a good daughter of an official family, but her father was a stubborn speaker who offended the superiors. In one night, her parents died, and Ah Chou, who was only four years old in the whole family, survived. However, he was sent to the Clothes Bureau as a slave. After washing clothes in the Clothes Bureau for ten years, at the age of fourteen, Ah Chou finally had a lucky day. The Yanxi Palace of the most favored concubine Zhao Gui.
It's just that Ah Chou is used to being unlucky, and this time's good luck didn't last long. Within two years, Ah Chou accidentally offended Concubine Zhao, and was bestowed by Concubine Zhao as an unlucky sixth-rank Hanlin It was edited and compiled by Duan Chenghong.
What kind of character is Duan Chenghong?
At the beginning of the thirty-second period of Jiasheng, when the Great Zhou Dynasty opened, the world changed. The eldest prince born to the late Zhenxian Empress and the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, Zhong Mingwei, was rude in front of the emperor at the New Year's Eve dinner. The Long Live Lord was furious and locked him in. In the clan's mansion, within a few days, several important ministers in the court jointly wrote a letter to report the evidence of the prince's years of immorality. The Long Live Lord was furious, and the court ordered a thorough investigation. The result was that the prince was deposed and demoted to a commoner before the first month. He was demoted directly to Ninggu Pagoda, while his quasi-father-in-law and right minister Duan Chenghong fell six ranks in a row in a day, and became a mere editor from the Sixth Rank Imperial Academy.
The crown prince was abolished, among them, the Zhao family behind Concubine Zhao made a lot of effort. Duan Chenghong naturally hated Concubine Zhao so much that he gritted his teeth, but at this time Concubine Zhao still put such a girl beside him, Duan Chenghong naturally Think that A Chou is Zhao Guifei's eyes and ears, so can A Chou not be unlucky?
Poor Ah Chou, just like that, became the thorn in the side of Duan Chenghong's family. They didn't dare to kill the people who were rewarded by Concubine Zhao Gui, but there were many ways to torture people. There was no time off at all. At the house of a sixteen-year-old girl, before dawn, she had to get up to chop firewood, cook, clean and do laundry, especially clothes. Chou had to spend at least four or five hours washing in such a cold day every day. I don't know why the Duan family has so many clothes to wash, even more clothes than she washes every day at the Clothes Bureau. It's not that Ah Chou has never complained, but since Ah Chou washed the same clothes for several days in a row, Ah Chou Just stop complaining.
Well, people are waiting to treat her, so is it possible that she will take the initiative to send it to her door?
Finally finished washing the clothes, it was nearly midnight, Ah Chou felt that her waist was going to be broken, she struggled to dry the clothes, and was about to go back to the firewood house, yes, Ah Chou lived in the firewood house, this small Duan's family of more than a dozen people living in the quadrangle courtyard is already tight, and she, a slave, can settle in the firewood house, which is already good.
Ah Chou rubbed his waist, and was about to push open the door of the firewood room when he heard a hysterical cry from the lady's room.
"I don't want to marry that paralyzed man! I don't want to go to Ningguta! Mother, you... If you force me again, I will die for you!"