In the middle of the night, there was a palace maid who was on patrol at night, holding a bang from afar, and the bell was knocking: "The world - Taiping - la" This voice has a trembling tail note, and at the end it trembles out, and people can't help but tighten their hearts when they hear it. Xu Yan said in her heart: How to pick this person, such a strange voice, no ghost can scare out the ghost. The room where Xu Yan lived was at the end of the corridor, in the courtyard of Nuoda, only the horse lantern was hung, and most of the rest was shrouded in darkness, vague and unclear. She looked up, and the hairy moon showed half of her face in the clouds, as lifeless as the lamp under the porch. Xu Yan walked to the door of Gu Yimo's room, and seeing that the lights had been turned off inside, she called softly: "Miss Gu, are you asleep?" Is the portrait finished, but you can wait tomorrow. "There's no sound, it looks like you're asleep, right? Xu Yan opened the door and took a look, and by the dim light, there was a person lying on the couch, so she closed the door lightly, walked to the porch, leaned against the railing, and looked into the dark distance. She has been taking care of Gu Yimo in Songtao Mountain House for three days, Gu Yimo reads books and sleeps peacefully every day, and occasionally asks her when she can go home. And Yu Shizhao's inventory of the child in the palace was fruitless! The child seemed to have vanished from the world, and suddenly disappeared. It was already late autumn, and the wind at night was a little cool, and the candle flame in the translucent cover was blown by a gust of wind, half light and half dark. Xu Yan wrapped the cloak on her body tightly, thinking about the matter of checking the palace with Yu Shizhao yesterday.

"My lord, you mean a five- or six-year-old? How is that possible? We haven't heard a child's cry in this palace for many years. The white-headed old palace maid shook her head and sighed, "Long live the peak of spring and autumn, but it's a pity that the spirit of Ryoma is gone." ”

"Kids. Haven't seen it. How can there be such a big child in our palace. The little palace maid shook her head vigorously.

"Kids? Oh, my lord, you're asking! There are baby spirits in our palace! I heard that our noble lord...... Oh, look at my stinky mouth, it's some of our little masters who can't sit still, and a lot of children died a few years ago. I was terrified at night, and the little boy floated behind me and blew the wind on my neck. The little boy sat on the doorway, crying and shouting for his daughter-in-law, hehe. An old eunuch in the Imperial Garden, who was in charge of the flowers and trees, had a chrysanthemum-like face, and he was chattering about it.

". Besides, what kind of god and ghost will directly lock you up and go to the criminal division. Yu Shizhao was about to get angry when he heard him mention what happened to Wang Guifei back then.

"My lord, my neck was really cold for a while." The old eunuch was stubborn.

"Believe it or not, I'm going to cut your head off. Breathe your neck directly. Yu Shizhao stared at him gloomily, and the old eunuch shrank his neck: "My lord, I'm so old, don't scare me." ”

"Scaring you? Gui San'er. You give me a word. You are also a veteran of the Three Dynasties. Where do you say you can hide children in this palace! Yu Shizhao picked up the collar of the old eunuch, who was very old and emaciated. Where can he withstand such a toss, his throat is even more like a bellows, snoring and panting, and his eyes are white.

"You're going to strangle him, let go of it quickly."

Xu Yan, who was investigating together, couldn't look at it.

"Strangulation? Hehe, Gui San'er, if you don't make it clear today, I'll take out your baby and grind it and feed it to you, do you think this idea is good? I want you to not be able to have all your beards and tails in your next life! What's wrong? Playing with the master? Yu Shizhao stared at his dry eyes viciously, and Gui San'er was relaxed by his coldness, coughed a few times, and his face was flushed: "Cheng, my lord, you still have a little bit of the momentum of Emperor Taizu." ”

Xu Yan was terrified when she listened to it, although she was an unmarried girl, she always followed the Queen Mother of Ci'an Palace, she had lived in this palace for a long time, and she also knew what the eunuch's treasure was? These old eunuchs have been trying to bury the treasure in a small jar with them when they die, and Yu Shizhao actually wants to grind Gui San'er's treasure and feed him, this trick is really vicious and indescribable.

"Don't talk nonsense, you must know something, say it, you say it, the lord will send you out of the palace now, buy you real estate, jewelry, and a maid, and then give you a few good sons to retire."

"I really want to help you, but I can't do it. I only know that there are dead boys in this palace, but I don't know that there are still alive, my lord, you can spare my old bones. ”

Yu Shizhao couldn't ask anything, and he didn't dare to really send him to the Shen Criminal Division for interrogation, this old man was shriveled and scary, and he was worried that the eunuch of the Shen Criminal Division would fall apart as soon as he swayed.

Yu Shizhao took Xu Yan and left abruptly. A eunuch next to him stepped forward and said, "Grandpa Gui, what did you say you were so old to provoke this evil star." That's not long-eyed. The eunuch stretched out his hand and crossed his neck, wiping his neck. Gui San'er opened his toothless mouth and smiled: "Isn't this a person sitting in trouble at home from the sky?" My old bones, how can I stand him swaying, oh, this neck, it must be black and numb, this adult's hands, like iron pincers. ”

The palace went through the sieve, but there was still no news of the child.

"My lord, is Gu Yimo lying?"

"She doesn't have to lie about this, that Gui San'er is not a good thing, I always think he knows something." Yu Shizhao frowned, thought about it, and whispered a few words in Xu Yan's ear, Xu Yan's eyes widened: "Is this okay?" What if someone takes advantage of this loophole and hurts Miss Gu? ”

"She is a concubine of Shangshu Mansion, what can she do if she is injured? Just do as I say. ”

In fact, what Yu Shizhao thought was that it would be better to get hurt, it would be better to die directly, and I would save trouble.

This evening, when Yu Shizhao was checking the palace maid and eunuch again, Xu Yan suddenly ran over, she seemed to have encountered something extremely happy, and her little face ran red: "Adult, adult!" It turned out that Miss Gu remembered everything. ”

Yu Shizhao frowned when he heard this, and glared at Xu Yan: "Silence." As he spoke, he strode out, Xu Yan hurriedly trotted to follow, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were left in the courtyard looked at each other: Is this so that we can all stay here, or can we go our separate ways?

"What the hell is going on?"

"Didn't Miss Gu say a few days ago that she couldn't remember what that eunuch looked like? Today, she said that she seemed to remember, it turned out that Miss Gu had drawn a good hand, she just said that she would think about it after dinner, and strive to draw the picture of the eunuch tomorrow, and the child, it turned out to be ......" The voices of the two of them became farther and farther away, and they couldn't hear what the child was. The old eunuch Gui San'er's ears seemed to move, and then he resumed his meditative posture, closed his eyes and took a nap against the tree.

People are coming, right? Xu Yan remembered that before and after, she was already very good, I don't know if I can really deceive those people?

"Hey, that's annoying. A concubine of Shangshu Mansion, does she need to guard it with such fanfare? ”

She stretched out her arm and yawned, "I'm so sleepy." So saying, he stood up and walked to his room at the end of the corridor.

A gust of wind blew, and the candle flame of the horse lamp kept swaying, after all, it was a residual candle in the wind, and a candle burst out with a few snaps and went out. The whole courtyard was extremely quiet in an instant, and there were guards at the gate leaning against the door frame, and it was extremely sleepy to think about.

A black shadow quietly climbed in from the courtyard wall, fell quietly, and moved lightly, only to reach the outside of Gu Yimo's room in a flash. The black shadow took out a small bottle from his bosom, poured some oil on the door shaft, and then gently pushed the door open, which opened without any sound because of the oil.

The dark figure reached for the bed in the middle of the room, as if it were carrying something in its hand. The man in the bed was still asleep, breathing calmly, unaware that danger was getting closer.

The man put the iron wire in his hand at the sleeping Gu Yimo, but he didn't want her to turn over and muttered, "It's so noisy." ”

The man's hand was empty, and he was about to put it on again, when he suddenly turned around and was about to rush out of the door as if he thought of something, because the muttering he heard was obviously a man's voice!

"You just want to leave, don't you sit for a while?" Yu Shizhao stretched out his hand to block his way, and then shouted: "Qianer, get up, don't pretend." (To be continued......)