Chapter Twenty-Five: A Shocking Secret

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Driven by curiosity, I squinted one eye and looked at the ghost again, unkempt, ragged, and emaciated, her face full of wrinkles and deeply intertwined scars, one eye shining, the other black and hollow.

When she saw me looking at her, she grinned at me, revealing a few lonely black teeth, which was really no different from the ghost in the TV series, and she was still a very old ghost. "Holy!" I clenched my fists and yelled again.

"Hell!" she yelled at me again.

"Miss, don't make a fuss, go back to your room!" Frightened again and I screamed, "Ahh

"In the middle of the night, what is the noise?

"Ma'am, don't scream, we're not ghosts!" said to me helplessly.

I stopped screaming and looked at her carefully, though she was unkempt, ragged, thin, and wrinkled, like an old witch from a fairy tale, but she was just an old woman in a bad situation. I breathed a sigh of relief, so it seemed that although these two people looked terrible, they were not ghosts.

"This dress is so pretty!" the one-eyed old woman was fiddling with the pearls and bells on my dress with her blackened, bone-like hands, and I instinctively clutched my chest and pulled back.

"Miss, don't make a fuss, come back to the room with me!" the old witch took the one-eyed old woman's hand away and led her to the main room. The one-eyed old woman turned around three times in one step, and was very reluctant to be pulled away by her.

When she walked to Wu Meiren's side, the one-eyed old woman said in fear: "Scary, so scared!", leaning close to the witch and the old woman.

Looking at the backs of the two walking away hand in hand, it made me feel warm. It seems that the people in the garden are not terrible, what is terrible is the people who control everything, the face of the Empress Dowager flashed in my mind, my spine was cold, I shivered, shouted at them: "Wait for me!", chased over. Although she walked past Wu Meiren with her head pinned, she still couldn't stop hairing in her heart.

Followed them into the middle room, the tattered doors and windows have lost their original function, there is no furniture and furnishings in the room, the yellowed wall skin has fallen off mottled, and there are some water stains formed by rainwater, I think the house is formed by rain leakage. There were candles lit on the floor, and black enamel bowls and jars were placed, and there were some rancid leftovers in the bowls. Two old women sat on the hay bunk on the east side.

"There's nothing here, you can pick up a clean place and sit down!", the witch said coldly without even looking at me.

"Oh! good!" I sat down somewhere, crossed my arms around my legs, and stole into them.

The one-eyed old woman fiddled with the grass and caught some worms on the grass, and every time she caught one she showed to the witch and the old woman: "Look!

The witch would also smile happily and respond to her, "Miss, that's amazing!", and then the one-eyed old woman would be very satisfied to catch another one, and so on, and never get tired of it.

The relationship between these two people is really good, and people say that adversity sees true love, and I think the truth is nothing more than that! Seeing that these two people are so old, they must have lived in the Garden of Dethronement for a long time, which makes me want to explore how the two of them entered the Garden of Dethronement, or what happened to them, especially the one who was more curious about what happened to the one-eyed old woman.

"Ask whatever you want!" said the old witch again.

"Oh, no, no!" I hurriedly denied, although I couldn't resist the urge to know, but I didn't dare to ask, after all, it was not good to snoop on other people's privacy.

"Then tell me what happened to you!" the old witch looked at me with a sharp look.

I didn't do anything, I was imprisoned because I covered a dress for Wu Meiren. "I ...... may have offended the Empress Dowager!", which is such a reason.

"It's strange, the people who come in are either confusing the emperor and causing trouble to the society, or they are restless and self-conscious. When they came in, they either said that they had been wronged, or begged the emperor to spare their lives. I've been here for so long, and you're the first to say that you offended that poisonous woman. The old witch said suspiciously and sarcastically, and I was even more surprised that she actually called Jiang a poisonous woman. Although I also think that Jiang's human nature is a little distorted, I haven't heard of her deeds as a poisonous woman.

"How long has Grandma been living here?" I asked cautiously.

"Fifty years!" said the old witch in such a light surprise that my jaw almost dropped.

"Fifty years?" blurted out in disbelief. She glanced at me, and then said: "This place used to be called the Garden, and it was the residence of Emperor Taizu who took out the water hibiscus and gave it to the young lady. She said, looking softly at the one-eyed old woman.

I looked at the one-eyed old woman and asked her, "Then who is she?"

"My young lady's name is Jiang Shuxian, and she is the sister of the poisonous woman!", I was shocked when I heard this, how could the queen mother's own sister be so miserable, and then I heard her continue: "The poisonous woman has been married to Taizu for twelve years and has nothing to do, and when she saw that other concubines had children and her status was in danger, she came to ask my young lady to give birth to a prince for her. My young lady already had a marriage contract, but because she couldn't give up this sisterhood, she quit the marriage and entered the palace, and in the second year of entering the palace, she was taken away by a poisonous woman just after giving birth to the prince. The poisonous woman had a prince who wanted to send the young lady out of the imperial city, but Taizu made the young lady the imperial concubine and left the young lady, and since then she has buried her resentment. In the first few years, the poisonous woman treated the young lady like a sister, and three years later, the young lady gave birth to the little prince, as the little prince grew up, Taizu became more and more fond of the little prince, but ignored the eldest prince with the poisonous woman, she was not as good as the young lady day by day, and at first she just came to scold her. Until the little prince was six years old, the poisonous woman was so vicious that she harmed someone else's prince and blamed the young lady. Taizu didn't know the truth and ordered him to be locked out of the garden and imprisoned the young lady in the garden forever. As she said this, her eyes were already red.

If what she said is true, then this one-eyed old woman is the real queen mother, but there is no way to verify the truth of this, and it is even more unbelievable. She cleared her throat, and then said: "Taizu is worried about Miss, often secretly go to the garden to see Miss, after being known by the poisonous woman, she actually threatened the life of the little prince, asking Miss to disfigure herself and poke herself in the left eye, my poor young lady actually listened to her words, and really did it!", she hugged the one-eyed old woman and cried, seeing this scene, my eyes were also moist.

"She doesn't kill us, but she takes pleasure in torturing us, but poor God is blind, good people don't live well, but wicked people sit and enjoy glory and wealth!"

She wailed and cried, accusing Heaven of injustice. When the one-eyed old woman saw her crying, she began to weep with her, like a child.

I felt broken just by listening to their cries, and when their emotions eased, I asked her again, "Then how can your young lady be crazy?"

Not long after the young lady did what she said, the poisonous woman came to her and told her that the little prince had drowned. The young lady was extremely struck and became like this. She replied, with an unforgettable hatred.

The Jiang family had two sons, one of whom died, but the other one was still alive, that is, the king of the west. If what she said was true, then the king of the west was not her own son, and which concubine's child was robbed? Or maybe the little prince was not dead at all, and it was she who lied to her sister. But the old woman has been locked up for so long, and whether she is still mentally normal is another question, so I asked her confidently: "You said these things yourself, so how can I believe you?"

She laughed, goosebumps all over my body, and said to me disdainfully, "Joke! What do I want you to believe in, do you think you can get out alive?"

I suddenly remembered Jiang's words: "A woman who has entered the Garden of Dethronement cannot come out alive!". At this time, I think this old woman's words are somewhat credible, the problem is that if the Jiang family is really so vicious, I will not live tomorrow.

No, I can't die in vain in this hellish place, "Why don't you escape?" I asked her hurriedly.

"Run, do you think we'll be able to get out?" she asked rhetorically. Their situation is indeed very special, and it is indeed difficult to escape. But that doesn't mean you can't escape, think about it and there must be a way, I bit my nails and paced back and forth. I thought of the dead tree outside, and went out to look around it, and this tree was more than a man thick, and the thick branches on the left side stretched just to the roof of the west wing, and if you could climb the tree, you could go up to the roof, and you could escape from the garden. It's easy for me to go out by myself, but it's hard for two old women to get out. Forget it, I can't care so much, it's important to run for my life.

I ran back into the house and said to the witch with a smile on my face, "Mama, lend me some grass to use!"

She looked at me in surprise and said, "There's a lot of grass here, if you use it, use it!"

"Thank you, Mama!" I happily pulled the hay and rolled up the rope. The one-eyed old woman also rubbed like me and me, but she couldn't make one. After a while, I had already rubbed a rope several meters long, and after thinking that it was long enough, I ended it, hung it diagonally on my body in a circle, and said to them: "Mama, I'll try!", and went to climb the tree in a hurry.

Although I was scratched and dusted, I eventually climbed to the trunk of the tree that reached the roof. As long as I tie the rope well, I can slip out of the wall along the rope.

I heard the one-eyed old woman shouting, "It's fun to climb a tree! I'm going to climb it too!", and I looked back at them, and the old witch at the door of the main room was trying to hold the one-eyed old woman who was dancing with her hands, and she looked at me with a blank eye, which made me feel sad for a while.

If I give up on them today, it may take me a lifetime to repent, and I may always wake up in such a nightmare, and my heart is not strong enough to withstand such pressure. It's said that it's easy to go up the mountain and hard to go down, and it's the same for climbing trees, but it's finally down.

When the old witch saw me coming down, her eyes lit up and she asked, "Why did you come down?"

"Let's think about how we can get out together!" I said to her, and she was already in tears.

"In the last forty years, we have only met two good people, the first is Emperor Wen's concubine, she was sent in twenty years ago. We live here without people or ghosts, and there are countless people who come into the garden, but she is the only one who takes care of us in every way. Later, Queen Su sent people to humiliate her in every way, and she was so humiliated that she hanged herself on this hundred-year-old ginkgo tree, which also slowly withered after her death. The old woman said to me excitedly.

"This concubine is really a good person!", after listening to her words, I said, and only really good people are willing to take care of these two old women.

"It's a pity that a good person can't be rewarded! Madam, you are also a good person, so you might as well run away by yourself! Don't tell Miss I can't escape, even if I escape, I won't have a few days to live, don't let two useless old women trouble you again!" said the old woman.

"Give me time to think about it, we'll be able to get out!" I said to her.

"Madam, I don't have time to think about it, I don't know how much I've seen in the garden over the years, and if the poisonous woman wants to kill you, she will definitely do it when you're ugly, and now it's time to be a child, how far can you escape yourself!" said the old woman to me anxiously.

I bit my nails and paced back and forth anxiously. Strange, where did this strange smell come from? I was busy running away just now, and I smelled it but didn't care. I sniffed hard with my nose, and the scent came from the north. Squinting his eyes and looking north, there seemed to be something more on the gatehouse of the gatehouse.

"It's a man or a ghost, come down and see it!" I cried out, boldly, as if a white shadow had floated down in the darkness.