Chapter 128: Muttering quietly
Seeing that she probably didn't have the spirit to speak, she coaxed her to fall asleep in the evening of the first moon and called other palace maids to take over.
Coming out of Kunci Palace, Chu Yuewan slowed down.
"Fleur."
She asked, "Do you know what the Queen Mother mentioned about the dead maid?" ”
"Yes, the slave has heard of it."
Fu Hui said, "Your Highness, you stumbled and fell from the city tower, and soon after what happened, the palace maid cleaned up the offering table, stole snacks, and choked to death. ”
The first moon stopped in the evening.
She repeated: "Choking? ”
"Yes, it sounds a little strange, but that's how the hospital diagnoses it."
"I choked to death, too."
Chu Yuewan lowered her head and muttered quietly.
Furao didn't hear clearly: "Your Highness, what did you say?" Chu Yuewan looked at her: "The food offered that day...... Isn't it ......" Fluff suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
Was there something wrong with the food that day? I only heard Chu Yuewan say: "Isn't it too dry?" Fleur: "? Chu Yuewan thought back carefully about that day, and she also ate the dim sum on the table, and I still remember the specific category, but I don't know which bite went wrong.
However, there are some things on the offering table that are not perishable, and there are indeed a lot of dry ones.
That palace maid is so pitiful.
I can be reborn as a baby after being choked to death, and I don't know if the other party can still have a good baby after choking to death.
"Your Highness."
Fleur was still afraid," the slave maid suddenly thought...... It may not be that simple. ”
"That's?" Chu Yuewan believed in her in her previous life and this life, and since she said so, it may not be simple.
"That snack...... Will it be toxic? "Chu Yuewan really didn't think about it.
"Why poison the offerings?" Chu Yuewan was puzzled, "After supplying these foods for a while, I don't know where they will be delivered."
This poison ...... To whom? Fleur looked at her worriedly.
The early moon was late and pointed at himself.
That's right! Who would go hungry and eat the offerings? Of course, it's a guy who can't be constrained by etiquette at all! The palace maid may have accidentally eaten a poisonous offering when she went to clean.
And the person who really wants to be poisoned is himself.
The first moon was on the back of the night.
No wonder the queen mother told her not to eat indiscriminately.
But in fact, he had already eaten it and was poisoned, but what the person who poisoned him couldn't imagine was that he could still come back to life.
If that time didn't work out, will there be another assassination? "Fleur."
Chu Yuewan hurriedly said to her, "Don't eat indiscriminately." ”
Only you can eat indiscriminately, okay? "Don't worry, Your Highness, the slaves and maids only eat the food we make ourselves in our small kitchen."
Fleur comforted her helplessly.
"I have to tell the royal brother about this."
Chu Yuewan immediately became worried, "But if it is poisoned, how can the hospital say that it is just choking?" Fleur didn't dare to speculate any further this time.
I don't know where to start.
"Have you lost the offering after so long?" She remembered.
It's been a while since I fell from the castle tower, and the time in my previous life passed very slowly.
"Your Highness, the offerings on the offering table have been changed every three days, and they have been thrown away."
"Then there's no way."
Without evidence, it cannot be said to be poisoning.
"Perhaps, it's really too dry."
Chu Yuewan turned her head and smiled at her.
Fleur couldn't laugh, helped her into the soft sedan chair, and slowly walked towards the palace where she lived.
In the dead of night, the cry of a night owl suddenly sounded, and a cloudy wind blew around.
There was a whirlwind on the ground, and it was very strange, and the palace maids accompanying it were faintly afraid.
Fu Hui didn't believe in evil, and said calmly: "There is no one blocking this road, hurry up, it's getting late, and cool Your Highness carefully." ”
The sedan chair man's feet immediately sped up, and the early moon was swaying on it in the evening, and he was thinking about how to return to the crown ceremony of the prince's brother as soon as possible, when he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't think about it anymore.
"How far is it?" She asked, sober.
Before Fleur could reply, suddenly the palanquin bearers stopped, and there was a small and frightened cry in the group.
Chu Yuewan looked over there and saw a person standing in the middle of the road, blocking the way.
Fleur immediately sensed the danger: "Escort ......!" ”
"Wait a minute."
Chu Yuewan looked at the figure, "Let me down." ”
She stepped out of the sedan chair, took the lantern and walked forward.
"Your Highness!" Fleur hurried in front of her.
"Look."
At the end of the first moon, the lantern was pointed to, and the figure in front of him was illuminated.
It was a paper man.
In the middle of the night, a paper figure appeared out of thin air on the road in the palace.
"What the hell!!" The palace maids in the rear screamed and hugged each other, and the eunuchs who carried the sedan chair also panicked.
"Your Highness is coming back soon, we won't go over there, let's go back to Kunci Palace!" Fleur grabbed her and brought her back.
Chu Yuewan stared at the paper figure without moving, and gently pushed her hand away: "It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm the 'Heavenly Blessing General', and a hundred ghosts will not invade." ”
Where had Furao heard of the "lucky general", but she still didn't dare to let her go by herself, and when she refused to retreat, she also helped her up and followed.
The paper man was the size of an ordinary person, and the light was particularly terrifying at night.
Chu Yuewan looked at the face and oil paint, and said: "This is a puppet on the street float during the festival, not for funeral." ”
Fleur listened to what she said, and looked at it more carefully, but she couldn't see any difference.
"Somebody is here to scare me."
The early moon night was surprisingly calm.
I also felt a little surprised, and I was more afraid of some living people than such things.
I'm dead after all.
I'm just a ghost, how many more times can I kill a ghost? In the practice of another life, so many exorcism spells have been done, but they have not dispelled themselves, and if they meet the same kind, what is it.
And this is obviously a trick on the part of someone.
"If you want to do the assassination, it's good to do it directly, why do you want to get this thing to scare people."
Chu Yuewan was puzzled, "I have the ability to enter the palace, and I must be able to start directly at a high place." ”
Isn't it from outside, but the people in the palace who made it themselves? She stepped forward and poked the paper man in the face.
Different from the funeral paper figure, this kind of lantern used to put it on the float is actually a part of the lantern, which is hollowed out and placed with candles, supported by a wooden shelf on the outside, and sometimes used paper on the outer layer, sometimes with silk silk, all soaked in processed water, which is not easy to burn.
This paper is not easy to break, and it is a little slippery to the touch, and it is a high-quality paper for writing in the palace.
It should have been done by someone in the palace.
There are only the concubines of the former emperor left in the palace, and everyone has been familiar with them for decades, so why do you have these? Chu Yuewan was touching the paper, and suddenly a flame burst out of the paper figure, which frightened her to take a step back.
In an instant, small candles in the paper figurines lit up and lit them.
Paper figures squeak in the wind.
The frightened palace maids and eunuchs couldn't stand it, and Fu Rui said sharply: "Dare to escape!?" The emperor can't spare any of you! Before the words fell, none of those people dared to run, and one of the palace maids was so frightened on both sides that she fainted.
The early moon is late.
The crown prince brother who became the emperor is more terrible than a ghost...... The illuminated paper figure could see more clearly, its hair tied high, but it did not wear a crown, but only made a ponytail and fell out.
The face of the depiction is hideous, as if it is suffering from pain.
A few big words shone out of the light on its body: "Self-inflicted, do not live."
Is this a threat? A whirlwind blows the paper figures.
Tiny silver threads flashed beside it, and the early moon swept it with a lamp pole, and the paper figure followed.
Like silk threads, the paper figures do not appear out of thin air, but are dragged to this place.
"There are other people around here, they have to be called Tiger Benjun."
Fleur said busily.
"No, you don't."
Chu Yuewan said, looking at the left and right palace walls.
She stood in the middle of the road, her clothes blown by the wind, and her splinted leg was a little numb after standing for a long time.
"I don't know if you're here for me, or if you're trying to do something else."
Chu Yuewan suddenly let go of her voice and said, "But I have already discovered you, the night watchman will come in a while, whether to go or stay, or to do it, you can do it." ”
The leaves rustle and the paper figures sway.
Chu Yuewan stood for a while, and suddenly approached the paper figure again, her fingers swiped the six big characters, and she pierced the paper with all her might.
Hey, it's not as sturdy as I thought.
The wooden shelves inside are still made of bamboo strips, no wonder the wind blows, and the hanging wire can be fixed here, it turns out that it is really lightweight.
That's easy to do.