Chapter 39: The palace is haunted
This Nanyang palace is said to have been the old residence of the rebellious King of Ningyang, and more than 30 members of the King of Ningyang's family were executed. Some people say that this house is gloomy, and it is gloomy and terrifying during the day, and there is often the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling at night, which is terrifying! There are also people who say that they have seen ghosts haunt in the middle of the night! Murong Chong was demoted to the king of Nanyang, and most of the slaves who originally followed him chose another master, and the remaining few still followed him, but after serving in this palace for a few days, some slaves were scared away by this gloomy mansion, and only Liao Liao was left!
Because of the death of Jiao Nu, Murong Chong was inevitably depressed, he was already weak, and this time he was even more sentimental, and often persuaded me to leave, for fear that I would be affected by him by his side. In this Yan Palace, it was Murong Chong who saved me again and again, how could I leave him at such a moment!
Every time it was time to go to bed, there would be strange cries in the palace, bursts of silence, Murong Chong couldn't sleep well every day, but recently, he actually hallucinated, and at night he said that there was a ghost, and he was very afraid. Due to poor sleep for days, Murong Chong became more and more haggard, the whole person was in a trance, and he didn't go out much during the day. I was anxious in my eyes and determined to find out.
Everyone said that at night, there was a ghost crying in this palace, and I had heard strange noises, so in that case, I would like to meet this ghost for a while! It was night, I was by the prince's side with my eyes open, Murong Chong was obviously entangled in the nightmare, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and the whole person rolled around uneasily! I hurriedly sat on the edge of the bed, patted him gently, and covered him with the quilt, and he was a little better, curled up in the quilt, hugging the pillow like a child, which was very distressing.
I changed into my night clothes, took my dagger, and went out of the room, and went to the voice!
The voice is sometimes miserable, sometimes resentful, and the closer you get, the more miserable and terrible the voice is, giving you goosebumps! Frightened, I took out my wine and drank it to strengthen my courage. I leaned on the roof of the house and looked at the place where the strange noise was made, and saw a female ghost in white dancing in an abandoned courtyard behind the palace. Why does a female ghost wield a wooden stick? I was puzzled, and shot the bow and crossbow in my hand, hitting the female ghost's shoulder, only to see her fall to the ground with an "oops", since it hurts, it is not a female ghost! I jumped out of the house and walked in, and the ghost pulled out a dagger and stabbed me, and I easily dodged it, subduing her in a few blows. I found that the "ghost" was subdued, but the ghost's screams were still there, and when I looked closely, they came from the black bag on the ground. It was the bag that the female ghost beat with a wooden stick. I ordered the man to open the bag, and when I opened it, I couldn't help but be shocked, it turned out that the black bag contained dozens of cats, they had been beaten to the flesh, the flesh was blurred, and several cats were still kittens, which was really disgusting. It turned out that these ghost screams were caused by the fake ghost who locked the cat in a bag and beat it with a stick! Thinking that the cat had extremely poor eyesight, and was beaten in a closed bag, it would definitely stretch out its paws and scratch each other, and the flesh and blood would inevitably be blurred, and the cats could only make miserable screams because of the pain, which was really cruel! The person who can come up with such a cruel trick must also be a veteran in the palace!
I took this man down with the bag of cats, and prepared to present him to the prince the next day. When I returned to Murong Chong's dormitory, I found a person sneakily doing something in the incense burner. I silently walked behind her and grabbed her hand, and she fell to her knees in fright. It turned out to be a pretty girl who had been serving by Murong Chong's side. She followed her from the East Palace to the Nanyang Palace.
"What are you doing here in the middle of the night?" I asked her.
"I, I, I'm not doing anything, I'm just adding fragrance." She stammered.
"Then why are you sneaking around here in the middle of the night?"
"I didn't! I didn't...... I'm looking at the prince's restless sleep...... So......" pretty is still quibbling.
I threw the bag of cats in front of her.
"Open!"
She hesitantly opened the bag, and after only one glance, she took a few steps back in fright.
"Ah...... Bloody...... What is that? ”
"This is someone deliberately whipped these cats to imitate the sound of ghost meows, the purpose is to scare the prince, there are all human and material evidence, and you still don't recruit from the truth."
"I didn't, I didn't know about it! I didn't do it! ”
"And what exactly did you do?" I drew my dagger and pointed it against her.
Qiao'er cried out all of a sudden: "Girl, please don't tell the prince!" I don't want to do that! It's Lou Lan next to the queen, she forced me! She said that if I didn't comply, she would kill my mother. I can't help it......"
"What did she make you do? Say it! ”
"She asked me to put this into the incense burner every day while the prince was asleep!" She showed me the packet of powdered medicine in her hand.
I put the powder in my nose and smelled it, and I immediately felt dizzy. Could this be the dementor grass produced in the Western Regions, and smelling the incense of this for a long time will make people prone to hallucinations. Over time, people will become neurologically abnormal.
"Bold! Do you know that this could lead to the death of the prince......"
"No, it won't! No, it won't! That Lou Lan only said that this medicine would make the prince feel drowsy at most, and it would not be fatal! ”
"Look at what the prince is like now!"
Qiao'er was so frightened that she fell to her knees and cried bitterly: "I have been serving the prince with Sister Jiaonu since I was a child, I will never hurt the prince, the girl believes me!" ”
"You're so confused......"
"That's it......" Murong Chong walked out from behind the curtain, his face pale and his eyes blank.
"Lord Wang......" Qiao'er shouted guiltily.
Murong Chong helped Qiao'er up: "You were also coerced and helpless." You have been with me for so long, I can't even protect you, the slave has died because of me, tomorrow I will give you some silver taels, you also go out of this palace, find a good family to live in! ”
"Nope! Slaves and maids are not going anywhere! The slave and maid will follow the prince! "Pretty tears bitterly." The slave knows it's wrong! The slave and maid should not believe Lou Lan's words, as long as you let me stay by your side, let me do anything. ”
"It's not impossible for you to stay with the prince!" I say.
"How could the queen let her go!" Murong Chong said.
"I have a good idea, you just listen to me." I said.
"As long as I can stay with the prince, I am willing to do whatever the girl asks me to do." Pretty begged bitterly.
"You go and tell Lou Lan that the king of Nanyang has gone crazy....." I said in her ear, and she kept nodding her head in agreement......