Xia Jieyu was still calm, and when she saw a bucket of water under the corridor, she quickly lifted it and splashed it on the waiter, which extinguished the flames on his body. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, the fire on the clothes was not very big, and for a while, it could not hurt anyone, but it was accompanied by an explosion, so it was scary.

The waiter was soaked, but still not possessed, and his mouth was still talking nonsense, Xia Jieyu said "useless things" to herself, and then instructed the people below: "What are you still doing?" Don't pull him down quickly, don't be embarrassed here! ”

And there was a chamberlain who dragged the man away.

Xia Jieyu snorted coldly, cleared her throat, raised her voice, and shouted calmly: "Calm me down, there are no ghosts at all, someone is deliberately playing tricks on our Zixia Pavilion, now, you immediately open the door of the backyard to chase me, you must catch this thief for me!" ”

The bold ones quickly calmed down and went out to chase the phantom!

Xia Jieyu came to the tree where the phantom was hanging just now, and said to the bottom: "Give me the lantern!" ”

Xiaohuan hurriedly handed the lantern to Xia Jieyu's hand, Xia Jieyu held the lantern high and looked towards the tree!

There was nothing in the trees, the night breeze was faintly blowing, and the leaves swayed slightly, making a rustling sound.

Xia Jieyu walked around the tree again, picked up the light and looked carefully, the tree was still empty, there was nothing!

This is strange, just look like that, the ghost image is hanging on the tree while fluttering while opening teeth and claws, this hanging tree must be tied with a rope, there must be a knot or something, there is always a trace, right? The phantom withdrew so quickly, and there was not even a shadow left, how could it be possible to clean up everything so quickly? There is not a trace left! Wasn't the phantom hanging from a tree with a rope? How did that hang on the tree?

Xia Jieyu looked towards the location of the explosion spark just now, and walked along the way to the courtyard wall.

Xia Jieyu took a lantern carefully, and saw that there was a spark tube cover left under the wall, and there was still saltpeter powder left in it, Xia Jieyu picked it up, displayed it in front of everyone, and said with a cold face: "See, there is no ghost at all, it was a firecracker thrown by someone!" This saltpeter powder is used to make firecrackers! ”

Everyone nodded, and Xiaohuan asked a little puzzled: "Could it be that someone threw firecrackers in yesterday's incident?" Why didn't the slave and the little master see who threw it? Didn't even hear a sound! ”

Xia Jieyu gathered her hand, held the remnant, and said: "This should be a special firecracker, and it takes a long time from ignition to explosion, so when others threw it in, we didn't notice it!" When it explodes, we find it again, and we think it's very strange, and if we can't see the origin, it's easy for people to misunderstand that there are ghosts! ”

Hearing this, Xiaohuan nodded thoughtfully!

At this moment, an attendant from outside came in through the courtyard gate of the backyard and reported: "Little master, the slave found that there is a row of fresh footprints leading to other palaces outside the courtyard, which should be left just now!" ”

When Xia Jieyu heard this, she snorted coldly and said, "I just said that there are no ghosts, if it is really a ghost, how can there be footprints?" Someone is pretending to be a ghost! Follow those footprints for me and see where he finally disappears! ”

"Yes!" The chamberlain received the order and quickly retreated!

After working all night, everyone was already very tired, and Xia Jieyu saw that it was not too early, so she took a nap on the couch for a while.

In the early morning, Zixia Pavilion was still busy in an orderly manner, and there was nothing unusual to see.

Xia Jieyu still got up early, as if she had the spirit of endless flowers, while she was grooming herself, Xiaohuan reported to her: "Little master, the news is here, and the footprints have been investigated!" ”

When Xia Jieyu heard this, she paused for a moment, turned her head, looked at Xiaohuan fixedly, and asked, "Which palace?" ”

Xiaohuan replied: "Weiyang Palace! ”

When Xia Jieyu heard this, her eyes shone with a bright brilliance, hatred flashed, and her eyes narrowed slightly: "I knew it was a ghost from Weiyang Palace!" In addition to Weiyang Palace, which palace dares to move the Zixia Pavilion of Xia Mansion with our back? ”

Xiaohuan asked, "Little master, what should we do then?" If you endure this breath, I'm afraid you won't be at peace every night! ”

"Forbearance? Why endure? Xia Jieyu said with hatred.

"The little lord...... Are you really ready to confront Weiyang Palace head-on? Do you want to send a message to Xia Mansion to ask for support? ”

Xia Jieyu snorted coldly and said, "Of course we can't go like this, we must have conclusive evidence to bring down Weiyang Palace, otherwise, the emperor won't believe it at all!" Xia Jieyu asked again, "Can you catch someone?" ”

Xiaohuan lowered his eyebrows and replied in a low voice: "No! ”

"Rubbish!" Xia Jieyu scolded angrily, "So many people went out to catch them, but they didn't catch them, what's the use of our Xia family raising your group of rice buckets?!" ”

Xiaohuan hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Little lord forgive the sin, if that person comes again tonight, the slave will definitely catch him!" ”

Xia Jieyu listened even more angrily: "Come back tonight?" We made such a big move to catch ghosts last night, will that person come again tonight? Are you just waiting for you to catch it? Do you think he's as stupid as you are? ”

Xiaohuan's face was red, and he nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes......"

Xia Jieyu ordered: "Send someone to keep an eye on Weiyang Palace, if you see someone quietly handling firecrackers, you will catch me!" ”

Xiaohuan hurriedly said: "The little master is wise, the slave and maid will go!" ”

"Remember!" Xia Jieyu instructed, "Don't alarm the imperial concubine at will, your hands and feet are sharp!" ”

Xiaohuan hurriedly said: "Yes! ”

Sure enough, in the afternoon, news came, Xiaohuan brought back a person, that person was an internal servant, tied with his backhand, his mouth was covered with a cloth, Xiaohuan said to Xia Jieyu, who was sitting at the top: "Little master, someone has been caught, it's him!" ”

Xia Jieyu raised her eyes, looked up and down, and asked, "Weiyang Palace?" What's the name? ”

Xiaohuan hurriedly replied: "That's right, he is Xiao Huizi, the rough slave of Weiyang Palace, our people saw him handling firecrackers in the back of Weiyang Palace today, and there are firecrackers on him that he didn't have time to destroy, all of which were intercepted by our people!" ”

Xia Jieyu asked, "What about the things?" ”

The attendant below presented the firecrackers found from Xiao Huizi.

Xia Jieyu picked it up and looked at it, and it was really exactly the same as the thing she picked up last night, and the ingredients were all saltpeter powder.

Xia Jieyu put down her things, her eyes flashed slightly, and asked, "Did you bring him to alarm the imperial concubine?" ”

Xia Jieyu is shrewd in the end, and the leading chamberlain said: "He is dealing with things under the tree outside Weiyang Palace, not in the inner courtyard, our people covered his mouth when they caught him, dragged him here, and did not alarm anyone in Weiyang Palace!" ”