The two of them ate a plate of tea crisps cleanly, and they didn't even let go of the puff pastry residue on the plate.

He was supposed to leave when he was full, but before he reached the door, he heard footsteps outside the door.

"Didn't you say the queen isn't here today?"

His voice was anxious, and beads of sweat the size of beans were covered on his forehead.

"I, I don't know, E-Niang said that she was unwell today and wanted to rest in the palace."

Chu Yelin, who was not a few years older than him, was naturally not much better, and he stammered and explained, unable to explain clearly what the situation in front of him was.

"Could it be, could it be that the queen's mother is getting better, so she wants to come to the Buddha Hall again?"

Listening to the footsteps getting closer and closer, he was so anxious that his feet began to tremble.

If this is discovered, the queen will definitely be unhappy.

When the time comes, tell him about his mother, and the mother will tell him thousands of times that he will not be allowed to come to the Buddha Hall.

Now it's all over.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, so much so that Chu Yelin patted his chest very boldly:

"It's okay, E-Niang has a good temper, and she won't blame us."

"No, no, can't be discovered!"

After looking around, he gritted his teeth and took the seventh brother to hide under the table where Guanyin was enshrined.

There was a yellow cloth that hung down from the ground, just enough to block the view under the desk.

"For ......"

The seventh brother wanted to ask the reason at that time, but the person at the door had obviously pushed the door in and walked in.

The man's footsteps suddenly became extremely light, and he covered the mouth of the seventh brother and motioned him to stop talking, and even the sound of his own breathing slowed down a lot.

The footsteps soon died down, and calm returned to the temple.

But I don't know if it's his delusion, he always feels that the man hasn't left.

He squatted under the desk with Brother Qi like this, and he didn't dare to go out until his legs were numb.

The hall was quiet, only the candles were burning quietly.

Suddenly there was a very small sound from somewhere, like a woman's moan, extremely depressed and painful.

But the voice only rang for a moment, and it was very short, and it seemed like something was missing, and the two of them didn't hear it clearly.

He also thought that the starling Chu Jingxuan always liked to scare him, saying that there were many ghosts in the palace who could eat people, and he would eat disobedient children at night, and told him that it was Zhao Guifei who told him.

Zhao Guifei is an adult, her words will not deceive people.

So now it's ......

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, he dragged Seventh Brother and stumbled out of the Buddhist hall, not daring to speak during the whole process.

The seventh brother didn't know the situation, but he was infected by his nervous feeling, and he didn't say a word and fled with him.

The two of them kept running, not daring to stop all the way, nor daring to look back at the dim little Buddha hall.

It was only when he fled to the door of the brightly lit Splendid Hall that he could stop.

He and Brother Qi ran out of breath, and they still had palpitations when they thought of the experience just now.

"You, what did you just run?"

The seventh brother clutched his chest and asked him panting.

Chu Hongyi only remembered that he should have shook his head, and replied in confusion: "I don't know, I don't know." ”

"I don't know you're still running?"

Brother Qi angrily shook off his hand and changed it to a waist shape with his hands crossed, and even felt that it was a waste of time to follow him just now to 'escape'.

He was not annoyed, still thinking about everything just now, swallowing his saliva carefully, and asked in a low voice:

"Seventh brother, you, just now, did you hear it just now?"

Brother Qi looked confused, he shook his head and denied:

"Hear what? I didn't hear that. ”

Hearing Seventh Brother's words, his face immediately turned cold, and he had to explain to himself that it was because he was too panicked at the time, so he had auditory hallucinations.

It was already dark when he and Seventh Brother came out, and it was strange to say that it was so dark this day, he felt that they hadn't been in the Buddha Hall for long just now.

How did they know that they had forgotten to close the door of the Buddha hall when they left, and then a pair of pale and thin hands poked out from inside, like a gust of wind, and the door closed by itself.

After calming down, the two children looked at each other without saying a word.

To be honest, both of them were quite frightened at that time, mainly him.

Thinking of this, on this quiet road in the dead of night, Chu Hongyi shivered unexpectedly, and intermittently remembered the follow-up of this incident.

He and the seventh brother quickly separated at the gate of the Splendid Palace, and the next day, the seventh brother told him that he had gone back and asked the queen mother, and the queen mother said that no one was in the Buddha hall yesterday.

Even the grandmothers who went to cut the candles and put incense on them left there before sunset, and anyway, there was no one in the temple at the point where they went.

As soon as he heard the news, he thought of the footsteps last night, coupled with his own auditory hallucinations, including the advice of his mother in the past, he was directly frightened into a high fever.

This matter was soon known by the mother and the father, and he had a high fever and said that there was a ghost, and the mother was crying and crying, and the father was naturally furious.

The queen also came to see him, and brought many pastries, among which were the tea cakes they had gone to steal.

It's a pity that those things were disposed of by the mother concubine in the end, and he still doesn't know if it tastes good or not, just like he doesn't know whether the movement he heard at that time is real or hallucination.

What he can remember is that the queen's hands were cold at that time, and people spoke very gently.

She sat on the edge of the bed and touched his forehead gently.

Chu Hongyi will always remember that the queen asked him softly at that time:

"Hongyi, tell me okay, what did you see in the Buddha Hall?"

He remembered every word and the tone of the queen's voice.

The queen did not use 'Bengong' to refer to herself, but 'me'. That's a feeling that no one else will bring him, not even a concubine, will not talk to him like this.

It's a pity that even so, he didn't say anything, not even the sound of footsteps.

He only remembered crying vigorously and clamoring to go to his mother's arms.

Thinking of this, Chu Hongyi thought of Cheng Xiaoxiao again, he remembered that he was caught here by catching ghosts, and when he told Xiaoxiao about this paragraph, he was still a little ashamed.

At that time, he was too young, and he only felt that the weak and boneless coldness was a little wet, and he was so shocked that he was so hot that he was excited.

Even the smile of the queen mother looked so stiff, he didn't dare to tell the truth anyway.

Fortunately, the queen mother did not force it, mainly because the mother concubine was crying silently, and the father directly let the queen mother and the seventh brother leave in a bad tone.

This matter is not a matter of concern to him.

But that time, Seventh Brother was greatly punished.

When he got rid of the fever from the bed and continued to play outside, there was no trace of the seventh brother.

He also inquired and heard that his father had punished the seventh brother with a one-month ban.

Later, Brother Qi rarely played with him.

As for the queen's mother, except for one lax discipline, the Buddhist hall has not been demolished.

It's just that my father ordered that the people who got rid of the queen should not go there, so that there was even more desolation from there.

"Then did you still have a relationship with your seventh brother and the queen mother?"

It's rare for him to be serious, and Cheng Xiaoxiao is also a cheer, she doesn't even accept ghosts, she just sits there and listens to his stories.

"Coming and going? What is a relationship? ”

Chu Hongyi didn't dare to forget, in the face of Cheng Xiaoxiao's words, he was a little puzzled, but he just relied on his own opinion to explain:

"The palace is so big, it's not easy to touch, let alone have a heart. As for the banqueters, after the salute, they will each sit in his own seat. ”

At that time, Xiaoxiao was infinitely embarrassed, and the originally good brotherhood was involuntarily lost contact because of these things.

As for the queen, she is just chanting the scriptures and reciting the Buddha in her duty, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Such a Buddhist person, I am afraid that he will not live happily and unhappily in this palace.

But these are all things he doesn't understand, he only knows that he and Cheng Xiaoxiao were silent for a long time, and Cheng Xiaoxiao finally remembered to ask:

"That Buddha hall, and the voice you heard at the time, did you figure out the reason later?"

He just shook his head, still familiar and confused, but he was quickly relieved.

He smiled indifferently at Cheng Xiaoxiao:

"It should have something to do with the unjust soul you said, or maybe it was really my hallucination, after all, I was too young and so frightened at that time, I guess I can't remember some things clearly."

Thinking of Cheng Xiaoxiao, Chu Hongyi's heart still unconsciously rose with warmth.

He hid all the memories in his eyes, no longer hesitated, turned around and quickly left this remote place where no one was in the middle of nowhere.

But what he didn't know was that Cheng Xiaoxiao actually disagreed, but obviously she didn't tell the truth either.

The Buddha hall is full of Buddha statues, and ghosts dare not enter at all.

This is common sense, at least common sense to exorcise ghosts.

Therefore, what Chu Hongyi met back then could not be a ghost.

What it is, Cheng Xiaoxiao is naturally not sure. Just looking at Chu Hongyi's deliberately avoided appearance, Cheng Xiaoxiao still kept silent with the attitude of 'not mentioning the past again'.

Don't talk about the past, listen to the present.

Thanks to Chu Hongyi's fast walk, otherwise it is estimated that he will be scared again after many years.

Because of the dim candlelight in the Buddhist hall, the moans he described to Cheng Xiaoxiao a long time ago came from afar.

The voice was suppressed, one after the other, accompanied by subtle sounds, sometimes tactful, sometimes extravagant.

The Buddha hall in the middle of the night is quiet with a hint of weirdness, like a rag pocket that will eat people at any time.

It's definitely not the most mysterious place in the palace, it's just one of them.

In this way, ten years have been like a day, quietly hiding in this remote place where no one is around, silently looking at everyone in the palace.

As the night deepened, Chu Hongyi had already returned to his splendid hall, but the Buddha hall was still standing in place.

Not far from where Chu Hongyi stood, under the shadow of the tree, I don't know when, there was an additional figure.

The man's robe moved slightly, and a purple robe shone with an unknown dim light in the moonlight.

The purple-clothed commander looked at the Buddha Hall lightly, intentionally or unintentionally dusting off the leaves that had been blown on him by the wind.

The pale face hidden in the dark night, with a strange smile on the corner of the mouth.

The wind was blowing, and the shadows of the trees were swaying, as if in response to the wind, and something unknown was also restlessly shouting in it.