I don't know how long it took, but when the three men were still wondering, Xiao Yue opened her mouth and said again, this time her voice was significantly higher: "Monkey! "Dream talk? Li Zesi thought, did she see the monkey in her dream? Before he could finish thinking, someone suddenly screamed and rushed out of the door. The girls' frightened voices followed, and many of them ran out of the room. Shen Luo's eyes are fast, and with a wave of his hand, the door is closed in response, and it is automatically locked and closed. The girls who couldn't escape were all huddled in the corner farthest from Xiaoyue, blindfolded and crying mournfully.

Zhou Hui sighed and pulled up one of the girls who seemed to be a little bolder: "Xiaoyou, what's the matter?" While struggling in Zhou Hui's hands, Xiaoyou cried and said, "Monkey Daddy has appeared!" He must have come back to us with a vengeance! Zhou Hui was stunned for a moment and let go of his hand: "This is impossible." Xiaoyou wiped his face with his sleeve: "How is it impossible?" Last night, I heard Xiaoxi and them say, "It seems that they saw a living creature enter the kitchen, and they just passed!" ”

What the? Could it be that I didn't dream of a monkey, but saw it in reality? Zhou Hui unexpectedly glanced back at Shen Luo and Li Zesi: from Xiaoxi Xiaoyue breaking up with them to sudden changes, it was just the work of two rounds of wine. Another person had the courage to add: "Xiaoxi's lamp has grown, and we have heard it when we go back to the house to cut it." At the time, I thought it was a cat or a dog or something. ”

A group of people nodded their heads in response: "It must be the monkey daddy who is attached to the monkey!" "Yes, yes! Definitely! "Woo woo......" "Shut up." Zhou Hui's voice was not high, but the deterrent effect was unexpected, and the crying of a group of girls stopped abruptly. "Under the stars, where is the soul? These rural superstitions, you dare to bring them into the palace, and you don't want to live? ”

Li Zesi looked at King Wu who suddenly became serious in surprise, and wondered how his face changed. At this time, King Wu was not at all amused by them, and became stern and almost harsh: "This time, I won't pursue it first." In short, the next time I hear relevant remarks, I will send them to the department for punishment. You guys take a good look at Xiao Yue and stop talking nonsense. The girls sobbed and nodded. Zhou Hui flicked his sleeves, Shen Luo rushed over and opened the door, and several people left.

Li Zesi followed behind Zhou Hui, unable to figure out King Wu's thoughts. I don't know how long I walked, Zhou Hui suddenly stopped, it seemed to be asking a question, but it didn't look like it, and his voice was dull: "They were wrong, right?" Li Zesi hesitated for a moment and did not answer. Shen Luo responded: "It's a complete random association. Late at night, two glimmers, wicks shaking, who knows what. Xiaoxi and Xiaoyue must have been harmed by the wild crab. ”

Zhou Hui glanced back at them, and Li Zesi found that his eyes were red. He pondered for a moment, struggled for a moment, and then spoke, "You might as well check." It's not good to make a fuss. Zhou Hui's eyes lit up: "That's it!" Shen Luo stared at Li Zesi meaningfully, and didn't say much, just nodded yes. After sending King Wu back to Concubine Ji to make up for sleep, Shen Luo took two steps closer to Li Zesi, who lowered his head, and asked, "Why didn't you stop this time?" ”

Li Zesi's expression was solemn: "I can't find out the reason, there will be sacrifices." Shen Luo played with the meaning of these words: "Li Zesi, I thought I was the one who was curious." "Why be too modest. I'm just a little more responsible than you. Shen Luo's eyebrows immediately rose up: "There is a sentence for you, you will kill yourself if you think you are." Li Zesi sneered: "Do you guess which of the two of us will die first?" "If nothing else," Shen Luo smiled enthusiastically, "I bet it's you." At this point, both of them fell into a tense silence, and each strode forward. When he was about to leave the Drinking Dew Palace, he suddenly heard a commotion from behind, mixed with the screams of a woman. Li Zesi frowned, his heart said that the palace is trouble, either women or eunuchs, they are all a group of weak people, any small thing may be a big commotion, if there is really a drastic change, I don't know what it will become.

Before they could escape, someone had already rushed out and shouted, "Shen Gongzi! As soon as Shen Luo turned around, he was pounced on by two girls in the chest, and shouted in his mouth: "Help!" Behind them were a few embarrassed eunuchs, holding brooms and teapots in their hands, etc., and at first glance, they looked like the household goods that were temporarily in their hands, and threw them behind them indiscriminately: "Get out of the way!" Move! Li Zesi originally wanted to see Shen Luo's joke, but as a voice came, he suddenly changed his mind, it was a continuous, distorted cat meow. Whether it is a dump or a fight, it is impossible to make an extremely terrifying cry.

He flashed past the girl's grasp, walked through the eunuchs, looked towards the room where the accident had happened, and before his eyes could adjust to the darkness, a yellow figure swooped down on his door like lightning! Li Zesi's eyes were quick, he dodged sideways, and waited for the wind to pass before he fixed his eyes on a fat tabby cat. At this moment, he was clinging to the pillar of the corridor, staring at a pair of green cat's eyes, baring his teeth and growling low. The eunuchs hiding behind Li Zesi explained tremblingly: "Rhubarb is usually very well-behaved, but I don't know why, and suddenly he went crazy......

Shen Luo was fiddled by the girl and couldn't get out, so he had to shout: "What's the matter, Li Zesi?" What's wrong? Li Zesi walked a few steps around the cat, and the hair on the back of the cat was all up, and his eyes followed him vigilantly and fiercely, maintaining a state of confrontation. A little off. Li Zesi replied in a medium volume. Shen Luo's curiosity was aroused, but he really couldn't shake off the two burdens on his body, so he was so anxious that he was sweating. Li Zesi slowly approached the cat's position, and the eunuchs kindly reminded: "Rhubarb can catch mice!" Watch out for its sharp claws! ”

Li Zesi continued to lean forward cautiously, and the cat kept growling at him. The Mystic kept his eye on it, staring at the green eyes. Ordinary animals, under this level of staring, have long turned their heads to avoid it. However, the cat, strangely, did not look away, but glared at it even more arrogantly. Suddenly, a man and a cat stood still like two stones. How is it not afraid of people? Li Zesi added pressure to his sight, trying to force the cat to run away with a wail. However, he was wrong. After a few moments, the tabby's gaze suddenly lost its brilliance, and it fell straight from the pillar. There was an uproar. Li Zesi leaned over and found that the cat's fur and muscles had already stiffened, as if they were ...... As if it was long dead?

At this time, Shen Luo finally broke free from the shackles and rushed over to watch, but he was also shocked. Before he could finish thinking about it, another girl behind him threw herself on her back, complaining: "It's terrible! Since this morning, it's been so weird! "Xiaojie's parrot also went crazy for a while, and died." "My hamster, too!" "Huh? Do you actually keep hamsters? "yes, that's cute...... How so...... Woowoo woo ......"

Before Li Zesi could finish listening, he straightened up and asked, "This cat is used to catch mice?" "Yes......" "Take me to the most infested place with rats." Although everyone is not familiar with Li Zesi, since there is a common acquaintance of Shen Luo, everything is easy to say. A eunuch led Li Zesi and Shen Luo to the small warehouse behind the kitchen: "This is the place where Her Royal Highness Concubine Ji usually puts grain and dry goods, and there are often rat infestations." "Although the warehouse is not large, it is densely packed, from the ground to the roof, it is full of rice, white flour and all kinds of dried and fresh ingredients, and the place is very narrow as far as the eye can see. Li Zesi asked the eunuchs to withdraw, and made a gesture of inviting Shen Luo with his hand, who snorted from his nose and casually pulled his hand around.

All the sacks and bundles of items jumped lightly from the ground and flew up to the ceiling in a haphazard manner. After they all flew off the ground, what appeared in front of Li Zesi and Shen Luo was an astonishing sight: nearly 100 rats, all lying on the ground. It's black and pressed, and it's almost all around the corner. Yet not a single fly was there. Li Zesi kicked the nearest one, the rat head with two red eyes open, and then rolled off its body. The blood had already clotted. But with a gentle touch with his foot, the mouse's internal organs and limbs, like broken parts, all fell apart. Li Zesi patrolled among the rat corpses with a calm face, pulling with his feet from time to time, and more rat corpses were broken bones.

Shen Luo frowned: "Don't kick." It's disgusting. Li Zesi returned to the door, and his voice did not fluctuate at all: "Put it down." After saying that, he turned around and left. Before Shen Luo threw the thing down, he had an extra heart, and with a whistle, the dead body of the mouse suddenly decomposed on the spot and disappeared. Only then did he follow Li Zesi out and asked, "Have an idea?" Li Zesi replied with a sullen head as he walked quickly: "Hurry up and go to bed." Go catch that monkey at night. Something big could happen. ”

However, when Li Zesi got up after sleeping for two or three hours, and then rushed to the Drinking Dew Palace, things had become more difficult to clean up than he expected. Zhou Hui waited in the middle hall with bloodshot eyes, and the usual light smile on Shen Luo's face beside him was gone. When King Wu saw Li Zesi coming in, he said, "Why didn't you wake me up earlier?!" Li Zesi was quite surprised: "Yesterday all night, I also ......" Shen Luo interrupted him, and his tone was unprecedentedly urgent: "Xiaoyue is dead." Following the violent death of Xiao Xi, Xiao Yue, who struggled for most of the day, did not escape this catastrophe after all. Li Zesi's voice seemed shaken: "How did you die?" Isn't someone watching? ”

Shen Luo replied: "I don't know what's going on, the few people around her actually fell asleep, and then when I went to visit with His Highness, the people were already cold all over their bodies, and they had already lost their breath." "Call the men up, and ask them when they went to sleep, and if they heard or saw anything?" Shen Luo groaned for a while, looked at King Wu with his eyes, and then said, "I'm afraid...... Work. "Why?" "Because, they are in the same situation as Xiaoyue, they can't wake up."

Li Zesi was stunned. In the subsequent check, it was found that not only did someone fall asleep around the dead Xiaoyue, but also people fell asleep in other rooms. According to witnesses, the men, who, no matter what they were doing, without warning, suddenly stiffened, and no matter where they were, they fell to the ground as if they had fainted, and then they could not wake up again. Their breathing and heartbeats are there, and their bodies are soft, and they can see that they are sleeping very deeply, their closed eyes beating rapidly, and their expressions change from time to time, as if they are having all kinds of dreams.

Then, without exception, they all called out clearly in a dream-like tone: monkey. The atmosphere of terror suddenly spread in the Drinking Dew Palace, and everyone up and down stopped their work, and several people gathered together, crouching in the corridor and crying, waiting in extreme fear and anxiety for the nightmare of slumber to come. Zhou Hui hurriedly lifted the curtain and went out: "Mother, why did you come here?" Didn't I let you rest in the lobby? ”

Zhou Hui gathered all the candles, the hall was brightly lit, and at the same time, Shen Luo and Li Zesi wrote countless talismans and pasted them all over the wall. All those who are still awake are waiting in the lobby to avoid the invasion of lethargy. However, Concubine Ji, who couldn't sit still, still took the risk and walked out. By Concubine Ji's side, there were only two most loyal and bold eunuchs left. The old man looked sad, and when he saw his son, he grabbed it tightly: "I'm not at ease." ”

"What's not to worry about? I've seen a lot of this! Zhou Hui didn't blink his eyes, and sprinkled his mother's hands to reassure him. He put his hand on his mother's gray hair and stroked it gently like a child: "I will definitely find out the culprit and save everyone!" Concubine Ji raised her head, her eyes flashing with tears: "If it's really a monkey father, please say sorry to him for me." "Mother, please don't say such superstitious things." "I've tried my best, but I haven't been able to keep him." "You can't be blamed for that." "I can't keep his monkeys, and I can't keep him, mother, am I useless?" "Not so."

"The saint doesn't like to have pets in the palace, and he hates pets even more, so they are small...... They are all drowned......" Although Zhou Hui was surprised, he still sighed and persuaded his mother: "The holy will is like this, and it cannot be disobeyed." It's better to drown in water than to bury your belly, isn't it? Concubine Ji choked and nodded, and then instructed her son a few more words, and then turned to leave, but just as she took the first step towards the door, the two eunuchs walking in front of her, as if they had tripped something under their feet, stumbled two steps, and suddenly fell down.

Things happened too fast, Concubine Ji only had time to reflexively take a step back, and then as if she had been hit on the head by something heavy, her body suddenly stiffened, and then slowly softened. Zhou Hui stood right behind her, and he instinctively snatched forward, letting the unconscious old man fall into his arms. Zhou Hui was pressed forward by Concubine Ji's weight, and in the crook of his arm, the eyes of his mother, who were full of tenderness and concern just now, lost their luster in an instant. The black pupils are covered by gradually heavier eyelids.