Suddenly, they heard an unusual noise on the edge of the grass, and the master and servant took a closer look, and it turned out to be an injured white snake! Under the moonlight, the scales on the entire white snake's body were glistening.

Zhiqiu, who has always been timid, jumped three feet high, but he didn't expect to be covered by Shu Wan just as he was about to scream, "Don't scream, do you want to attract all the guards?" ”

Zhiqiu hurriedly turned his head and didn't even dare to look at the white snake again, "The slave is guilty, but the little master's thing is too scary." ”

"It's okay, this snake is injured and dying, I'm going to go over and take a look, if you're afraid, just stand here."

"No, no, the minion must not let the little master take this risk." Zhiqiu's head shook like a rattle, and he pulled Shu Wan's sleeve and walked back, "Little master, let's go back quickly, presumably someone will deal with it later." ”

"Oh, don't worry, I'm not afraid of snakes, and besides, there must be something strange in this matter, I must go and see, don't make a noise, do you know?" Shu Wan made a silent gesture towards Zhiqiu.

"But little lord, aren't you really afraid of snakes?"

"Of course it's true, can I risk my life?"

"Okay, then, that minion will come with you." Zhiqiu wiped the tears from his face and desperately put on a look of death.

"No, you can just give me the wind here, and let me know if you see someone coming."

"Yes."

Shu Wan stepped forward to take a closer look at the snake, and saw that except for a thin black line on the top of the snake's head, the rest of the snake was snow-white and snow-white, without a trace of impurities.

Originally, the snake's eyes were half-closed, it should have smelled the smell of strangers, and its eyes opened suddenly, and it quickly retreated half a foot away, but unfortunately the snake was really seriously injured, and it fell to the ground and lost its vitality after not supporting it for a while.

Shu Wan picked up a branch and poked it gently, but didn't move, thinking that it was really dead, Shu Wan turned over the body of the snake with a branch, only to see that the snake had been disemboweled, and the snake blood in the stomach flowed out again after being turned over like this, and when she smelled the bloody smell, she couldn't help but come up with a stream of sour water from her stomach, and Shu Wan squatted down and retched.

Suppressing this nausea, Shu Wan looked around again, it was too strange for such a snake to appear at this time and place.

Suddenly, there was a faint light emitting from the snake's belly, Shu Wan rubbed her eyes to make sure it was not an illusion, so she looked at it again, and saw that a round thing like a "bead" was still stuck to the snake's belly, and it was full of blood, and if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't find it at all.

Just as he was about to step forward to pick up the "bead", there was a faint sound of his heart beating from his fingertips, but the voice was extremely weak as if it was about to disappear, Shu Wan wiped the blood on it, and then found that it turned out to be a snake egg in his hand.

"Little master, hurry up, it seems that someone is coming this way."

"Oh, good." Before she could take a closer look, Shu Wan hurriedly threw the snake egg into the space.

"Alright, let's get out of here and not be discovered." Shu Wan looked around, and saw two lanterns swaying in the distance, so she hurriedly trotted with Zhiqiu to leave this place.

"You can't talk about today's events, you know?"

"Yes, the minion understands."

The two walked to the light, and Shu Wan asked Zhiqiu to carefully check her clothes again, and only after making sure that there was nothing wrong with her before returning to the banquet.

Shu Wan has always been absent-minded at the banquet, as a modern person who has received scientific education since she was a child, she naturally doesn't believe in any ghosts, but now she has come to the Qing Dynasty, and there are still many anecdotes and legends stored in the memory of the original body, including many sayings about the White Snake.

For example, the Liu Xian believed in shamanism is actually transformed by a white snake, and there is a huge white snake buried under the Forbidden City, which is in charge of the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty, etc., all of which inevitably make her a little jealous.

And the time and place of the snake's appearance is too strange to make people not doubt it, it is not strange that there are snakes in the palace, after all, there are so many flowers and plants and cats and dogs in the palace.

But what time is it? In the cold winter wax moon, usually snakes have hibernation at this time and do not come out to move, which is one of the doubts; The second suspicion is that the snake has always disliked light and voices, and has always lived away from the crowd, so why did he come to the vicinity of the Qianqing Palace today? You must know that this Qianqing Palace is the most densely populated place in the palace every day.

Shu Wan thought about it, could it be that someone deliberately put this snake in? As for why, it must be the intention to murder someone in the palace, as for who is the one who wants to murder? The first thing that came to Shu Wan's mind was the current saint.

But who had the courage to murder Kangxi? Besides, who can have the ability to do this? And why is the serpent in such a miserable state? What's the matter with the snake egg? There are more and more questions, and they become a mess in my mind...

At the palace banquet, Kangxi was laughing with the queen, Liang Jiugong next to him came to him and said a word, and the emperor's face was instantly covered with a layer of frost, and this kind of thing happened again? Although he was unhappy, Kangxi knew that now was not the time to have an attack, so he bowed his head and explained a few words and continued to talk and laugh with everyone.

The banquet lasted until midnight, and I heard a loud noise outside the hall, it was time to set off fireworks, and the fireworks bloomed in the air in clusters and suddenly illuminated the whole sky in all colors, which was indeed very beautiful and dazzling.

After the fireworks is the highlight of the whole palace banquet to eat dumplings, dumplings are the name of the full people, in fact, the appearance of dumplings is similar to modern dumplings, everyone gets together to eat dumplings is an auspicious picture, symbolizing that the new year can be happy.

After eating the dumplings, even if it entered the end of the banquet, at this time, people left one after another, the first to leave was the elderly Queen Mother and the Queen Mother, then the Emperor and the Empress, and finally the remaining Yingying Yanyan.

When I returned to the palace, it was already the end of the ugly day of the first day of the new year, although I was physically and mentally exhausted, Shu Wan could not rest, at most she could only rest for an hour, because the queen mother and the emperor believed in Buddhism, so now there are small Buddha halls in each palace, and all the palace concubines have to copy scriptures and pray for the new year in the first three days of the first three days of the new year.

For these three days, not only do you have to get up at midnight every day, but you also have to be vegetarian, and as for the scriptures that are copied, the Empress Dowager will send someone to collect them and then pile them up in the shape of a stupa and burn them.

Of course, this is also a good opportunity to show her face in the Empress Dowager, whoever copies more scriptures and copies well, will get a reward from Cining Palace, which is a great honor, so every year there are many palace concubines to work hard in this regard.

No matter how strong Shu Wan's body is, after three days of tossing, the whole person has lost a lot of weight, and considering that she still has one in her stomach now, she has to sneak into the space to eat something in the dead of night every night, and every day she will use her divine sense to check the development of the little fetus to ensure that everything is safe and sound.

As for the snake egg that was thrown in on the night of the palace banquet, when Shu Wan remembered to look for it again, it was no longer found, although she turned over the entire space, but the snake egg disappeared out of thin air so magically, which couldn't help but make her wonder if the space had absorbed the snake egg?

But Shu Wan didn't know all this, after all, she still didn't know how this space worked.

Back to business, the emperor has been resting in Kunning Palace in the past few days of the New Year, after all, you have to give the queen face, right? However, after the third day of the Lunar New Year, the emperor can start flopping, which means that a new round of competition for favor has begun.

If the emperor wants to turn over the brand, he will not turn it so casually, the first one to turn is Tong Guifei's brand, the Tong family is the emperor's mother's family, and Tong Guifei is in a high position, so the first one is certain.

Then there is Yi Concubine, and now the deputy general who leads the army on the battlefield of the Three Feudatories is the uncle of the Guo Luoluo clan, and putting Yi Concubine behind Tong Guifei is also a means of comforting the Guo Luoluo family, saying that I remember your merits, do a good job, and I will definitely not treat you badly.

See, this is the so-called former dynasty and harem are closely related, especially now that Kangxi is employing people in addition to the three feudatories, so most of the things considered when turning over the cards are related to the court.

After the emperor turned over the concubines Tong Guifei and the seven concubines in the high position, it was already the end of the first month, and it was the turn of the nobles under the bottom to always be there and promise something.

In fact, the queen's health has not been very good since she entered the palace, but no one expected that this time the queen would be so sick that she couldn't get up, and she could only lie on the bed every day, and even eat and drink to be served, which shows that the condition has really reached a very serious point.

The queen is critically ill and has not improved for a long time, and after learning the news, Kangxi is not in the mood to turn over the cards, and runs back and forth between the two palaces of Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace every day, and the empress dowager directly ordered all the palace concubines to copy scriptures and pray for the queen.

On the evening of February 25, Shu Wan was copying scriptures and praying for the queen in the small Buddha hall, when suddenly the news came that the queen was seriously ill and in a coma, and that the emperor and the empress dowager had now rushed to Kunning Palace.

Shu Wan crossed her fingers and calculated, in history, Queen Niu Colu died on February 26, and now it is late at night on the 25th, I am afraid that this time the queen is really more than lucky.

Hurriedly called Zhiqiu and Zhixing in, and instructed the two of them to put away the red and green decorations and furnishings during the New Year, and everything should be as pure as possible.

The queen was in critical condition, and the palace concubines naturally couldn't sleep peacefully, and Shu Wan only took a nap in the space for a while, and then quickly came out to continue to copy scriptures and pray for the queen, but fortunately, she still had spiritual support, so she didn't feel too tired.