Late that night, there was a sound of weeping in the Shouling Hall, and Chu Zhan led people to surround the entire hall into an iron bucket.

Zhou Zhen, the commander of the forbidden army, galloped back to Beijing on a fast horse, and informed the emperor that the empress was unfortunately seriously ill when she was taking care of the crown prince and died in the palace guarding the mausoleum.

When the emperor received the news, he was grief-stricken, and decided to go to the emperor's mausoleum in person for three days.

At night on the third day, the emperor's chariot arrived in the valley where the imperial tomb was located.

Because the queen was "infected with disease and died violently", the emperor did not enter the Tomb Guarding Palace, but was stationed five miles outside the Tomb Guarding Palace.

"The emperor has decreed that he will personally see off the queen tomorrow morning and announce the news of the queen's death to the world."

The chief attendant reads the decree outside the mausoleum hall.

This means that before tomorrow morning, the imperial physician and the maidservant in the palace will pack up the "body" of the queen for the emperor to "say goodbye" to the queen.

Two more hours later—

In the hall of the mausoleum, hundreds of ever-bright lamps are swaying in the main hall.

In the middle of the bed of the ever-bright lamp, the queen's "remains" have been put on makeup.

She was dressed in a dark cyan robe, and her golden mask covered her face, looking even more solemn.

"Will he really come tonight? If he doesn't come, tomorrow the emperor will really tell the world, how will Niangniang 'live' in front of the world in the future? ”

Chu Zhan, who was pretending to be an inner servant, lowered his voice and asked Chu Yi, who was also dressed as an inner attendant.

Letting the queen cheat to death is one of the baits that Chu Yi wants to lure out the ghost master.

Three days ago, Chu Yi checked all the people in the palace that night, and confirmed that there were no comrades of the prince and the ghost master, so he sealed the entire mausoleum hall, along with the people in the mausoleum hall that night.

Zhou Zhen, the commander of the forbidden army, escorted the unconscious prince back to the capital from the secret passage of the Tomb Hall to be interrogated by the emperor.

At the same time, he also brought Chu Yi's strategy back to the palace and presented it to the emperor.

The emperor boycotted the dynasty for three days and personally tried the prince.

At this point, there is no need to read anything about father-son affection, and the emperor naturally has a way to judge all the truth from the prince's mouth.

Despite this, the origin and hiding place of the ghost master are still a mystery.

If you want to catch the ghost master, you can only act according to Chu Yi's strategy.

This is also the reason why the emperor delayed for three days before arranging for the imperial drive to leave Beijing.

Chu Yi glanced at Chu Zhan lightly and did not answer.

Shen Shu, who was still dressed as a medical woman on the side, lowered her voice and said firmly: "Ah Qiu has tested the blood poison in the prince's nails, which is the poison that Bai Jin used to train poison slaves back then. The prince used himself as bait and wanted to poison Niangniang, the purpose was naturally not Niangniang's life, but to use Niangniang's body to poison the emperor. Niangniang died because of blood poison, as long as the blood of the Bai descendants who had taken the batbird was used as medicine, the corpse was like the queen mother's string of Buddhist beads, and the emperor could trigger the residual poison in his body if he touched it slightly. Tonight is the last chance, and the ghost master will definitely come. ”

"Why is the ghost master so sure, Niangniang died violently, and the emperor will personally decorate the funeral for Niangniang?" Chu Zhan asked suspiciously.

He still hasn't figured it out.

Shen Shu pursed her lips and did not answer.

She also didn't know why.

The queen was infected with the disease and "died violently", and the emperor should avoid it. Not to mention the risk of touching the body of the queen and decorating the queen's funeral.

Isn't that the same as giving away the head of the Assassin alive?

"When the first emperor died of illness, it was the queen mother who personally decorated the funeral for the first emperor," Chu Yi explained lightly: "My father was deeply moved, so he agreed with his mother that no matter which of the two of them left first, he would personally decorate the funeral for each other." ”

Speaking of this, he paused: "Only the prince and I know about this matter. ”

Shen Shu lightly covered the back of his hand.

The emperor and queen are deeply in love, which is a good story. But who would have thought that the queen mother pretended to be a funeral for the first emperor, not for love, but just to cover up the fact that she poisoned the first emperor, and also sneered at the body of the first emperor by the way.

And now, this kind of thing has been imitated by the emperor and empress, and it has also been used by the crown prince as an opportunity to poison his parents......

It's really ironic and cold.

Chu Zhan sighed, his eyes fell on the hands of the two of them, his eyes were slightly dark, and he pursed his lips and said nothing. Standby station

And Shen Shu, looking at Chu Yi's side face, wanted to comfort two words-

Suddenly, a vague smell reached the tip of her nose.

"Here we are." Shen Shu was stunned and reminded: "He used that Ding incense burner to drug him." ”

Chu Yi and Chu Zhan's expressions were all solemn, and they lowered their heads silently.

The three of them "fainted" and fell to the ground in the increasingly strong smell of drugs, like the other attendants, maidservants and imperial doctors in the temple.

"Click......"

The door of the secret room slowly opened, and a hunched figure in a black cloak staggered out of the secret room.

He slowly walked through the flickering lanterns on the ground, and stopped in front of the queen's bed.

Shen Shu, who was lying down, hid herself in the shadow of the bed and secretly looked at the man-

The cloak obscured his face, and only a faint sign could be seen that he was an old man.

At this moment, the man was taking out a porcelain vase from his sleeve pocket, and he opened the queen's palm with one hand, and wanted to pour the contents of the porcelain vase into the queen's palm.

"Stop him!" Shen Shu shouted in a low voice.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Chu Zhan and Chu Yi, who were lying on the ground, jumped up at the same time, one locked his throat, and the other quickly grabbed his wrist.

The porcelain vase flew out of the man's hand and was caught by Shen Shu, who had been staring at him.

She put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed: "It's the blood of the Bai family descendants who have taken the batbirds." ”

However, as soon as the words fell, Shen Shu suddenly thought of something, and her face changed.

"No, how can it be blood?"

Only the blood of Bai Xin and Bai Yi, the descendants of the two descendants, can be used as a medicine guide.

Bai Yi's only descendant, Bai Jin, died outside the gate a long time ago.

And Bai Xin's branch, the only one who has served the bat bird is Shen Shu's third brother Shen Jinming.

But the poison in Shen Jinming's blood is very shallow, and it is not enough to be used as a medicine guide.

Whose blood is this? Who else?

She was shocked, and directly reached out and ripped off the man's cloak—

Revealing a wrinkled, frightened face.

It's an old man, yes.

Shen Shuxing's eyes narrowed slightly, and she quickly reached out and ripped open his neckline.

Unlike his old, thin, wrinkled face, the skin under his clothes was fair, youthful, and elastic.

is a young man, he will never be the legendary ghost master, let alone a member of the Bai family.

"Who are you? Where's the ghost master? Shen Shu asked in a deep voice.

Chu Yifeng's eyes deepened, and almost instantly, he found out the flaw in the man's sideburns and ripped off his human skin mask.

Beneath the mask, there was a pale, unremarkable face.

The man spoke in a panic, as if to ask for mercy—

But he could only make a "babbling" sound.

It's a mute.

"There is the blood of the descendants of the Bai family, and a mute was sent to be an assassin, what is the origin of the ghost master." Shen Shu muttered.

"Oh no, I've been tricked!"

Chu Yi said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid there will be an accident over there in the camp, and my father is in danger." ”

After saying this, he didn't dare to delay for a moment, and quickly ordered Chu Zhan to take care of that person, grabbed Shen Shu's hand, and went directly towards the emperor's camp.