Inside the Imperial Study.

There is no one in the palace of Nuoda, the decoration inside is like a pitch black, there is no luster at all, there is no vitality at all, only the emperor is alone next to the table to review the folds, there is no one who serves beside him, in this dark palace everywhere is filled with a strange atmosphere, for a time the dark clouds are thick, surrounding the surroundings.

At this time, the little eunuch took the concubine into the palace and waited for the decree outside the door.

"Master Pony, you wait a while, and the slave will go and report it!" Now I saw the little eunuch say a word respectfully, deeply shocked.

The horse master seemed unmoved, his face was arrogant, he looked ahead, he didn't seem to hear his words, he actually broke into the palace and was stopped by the guards on the side.

He stared at the person in front of him dumbfounded, and said in a torrential voice: "Bold, do you know who I am?" But I shall be a horse, and I shall walk on the air at will: will you be able to stop me? ”

The horse master was a little angry, and shouted at the guards on the side, the sound was deafening, as if entering a noisy market, the noise was very loud, and he didn't take into account that the emperor was still in the palace.

The little eunuch hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master Horse, please be calm and don't be impatient, although you are a concubine, but if you want to see the emperor, you also need the emperor's permission, otherwise you will annoy the emperor, this crime is not easy to bear?" They are just acting on orders, don't be angry, don't be angry! The little eunuch said respectfully.

The colt did not know where to go, and stood there as if discouraged.

"Okay, you go and report first." The master said impatiently, with both hands clenched into fists, behind his back, looking proud and arrogant, and he didn't take the emperor in his eyes at all.

The little eunuch slowly came to the emperor's side and said softly: "Your Majesty, the concubine has also arrived, and he is waiting for the order outside the palace." ”

The emperor raised his head slightly, smiled and said, "Was it the master of the horse who was making noise outside the store just now?" He looked angry, his eyes wide, and he stared at the visitor with a little anger. It seems to be full of resentment in my heart.

The little eunuch hurriedly said, "Yes," and explained the situation to the emperor.

Seeing the corner of the emperor's mouth smiling slightly, revealing a disdainful expression, he slowly breathed a sigh, if it weren't for this, the guilt of angering the emperor was not something he could afford as a little eunuch.

"Since he is so arrogant, then don't let him wait a little longer, there is just something to ask you, you have to tell the truth, don't hide it, if I find out that you deceived me in the future, you know the consequences." The emperor didn't have a good face at all, his face was depressed, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and he looked at him.

"That's natural, the slave maid has only been in the palace for many years, and it can't be said that the ears and eyes are smart, but the news is also from all directions, born as a person in the palace, when the emperor shares his worries, the slave must know everything, and the words are inexhaustible, please believe in the slave." The little eunuch nodded respectfully, stammered, and looked at the emperor in fear for a year.

"Well, since you say so, I believe you."

"A few years ago, there was a secret in the palace that a concubine yelled very loudly at night, saying that she had encountered a ghost, and the next day she disappeared, I don't know if there is such a thing?" The emperor's face was melancholy, telling the one he didn't want to think of the most.

"Is the emperor talking about the Li Niangniang who lived in the cold palace a few years ago?" The little eunuch asked with a blank expression.

"Yes, it's the one in the cold palace, do you know what happened to her? Why did she disappear without a trace overnight, as if she had evaporated in the world, but why have her words been spread so far. The emperor looked at the little eunuch on the side with a depressed face.

"Get up, get up and talk back."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The Li Niangniang in the cold, the slave has also heard some, it seems that a Taoist priest in the palace came to the palace with a ball of red silk thread, praying for the queen mother, because of boredom, and felt that the red line was particularly good-looking, so she asked for a tie on the wrist, over time, she had a good temperament, harsh treatment of the palace people, for some reason, actually killed a palace maid, when others found her, she was sucking the blood of the palace maid, this scene just let the queen mother see, the queen mother was angry and beat her into the cold palace.

"No one knows, what happened to her? Since that time, the palace maids around her have disappeared unconsciously, although they were once assigned, but it didn't take long for them to die, and their bodies were like dried corpses, and they were angry and aura. The little eunuch's eyes widened, he thought carefully, and slowly explained the reason.

"You're saying they've all turned into dried corpses, so what about the mothers who can be locked up in the cold palace? Did you also suffer from this poisonous hand? The emperor asked with a puzzled expression.

The little eunuch looked at the emperor calmly, and quickly knelt on the ground, "Please forgive the emperor, the queen mother ordered, the palace is no longer allowed to discuss this matter, today the emperor asked, the slave had to speak, and asked the emperor to count the grace of the slave without sin." ”

The emperor was stunned, stepped off the dragon chair, and came to the little eunuch with a smile on his face, "Stand up, I am innocent of you, but you have to tell the ins and outs of the matter one by one." Otherwise, I will definitely earn you a crime of deception. ”

The little eunuch saw the emperor's cold expression, until the emperor's family, he said that since he spared himself, no matter what, he couldn't escape, so he could only make up his mind and report the truth to the emperor.

"No, the lady in the deep palace is still alive intact, and she is living more cheerfully and her face is more beautiful, but in the cold palace, no one is watching." The little eunuch looked around and made sure that no one dared to tell the emperor about it.

The emperor looked puzzled, looked at the little eunuch on the side and asked suspiciously, "Since she is in the palace, why does no one dare to mention her?" Could it have happened to her that something strange? I once passed by the cold palace and accidentally found that there was a black fog over the cold palace, which was constantly surrounding, could it have anything to do with her? ”

The little eunuch was stunned, looked at the emperor dumbfounded, his whole body trembled, and his face showed a surprised expression, looking at him in surprise.

"No, Your Majesty, that black fog completely imprisoned Niangniang in the cold palace, making her miserable and misunderstood, everyone said that Niangniang was related to ghosts, so naturally no one believed her." The little eunuch had a hideous face and said only resignedly.

However, this matter is true, the queen mother only blocked the news for the sake of the reputation of the palace and the lives of 10,000 people, and no one in the palace was allowed to talk about it, and violators were killed. Since then, no one dared to discuss that matter, and those palaces not far from the cold palace were deserted for a while.

The people there either died of illness, or migrated, or inexplicably became dry corpses, the Queen Mother in order to take into account the overall situation, cleaned up all the people around her, and hid and sealed the only red line inside and outside the palace, so things will not spread out, so we can spend so many days in the palace without worry.

The little eunuch told the emperor what he had seen and heard in 1510, and the emperor was stunned, he couldn't understand that such a strange thing happened when he was in power.

However, I didn't get any news at all, which shows that the Queen Mother is not generally valued, and then there are so many people in the palace, no one even said it, this must be strange.

The emperor flicked his sleeves, put his hands behind his back, raised his head and closed his eyes, looked depressed, squinted, kept thinking, puzzled, it must not be like this, he told himself in his heart that there must be something he didn't know.

The little eunuch slowly glanced up at the emperor, still knelt on the ground in fear, and kept telling him in his heart: Your Majesty, you must not investigate this matter, since it has been blocked, let him turn into nothing, as if he had never heard of it, this is a taboo in the palace.

"How can this be? No one has spread the news, which means that the people who know the inside story of this matter have all been killed and killed, and only in this way will the scandal not be spread. The emperor said to himself, with an absent-hearted face, his face was like earth, he didn't expect that such a thing could happen in the palace.

"Do you know about this matter, and the horse is also a little weird in this paragraph, has he participated in the midterm?" The emperor's firm expression for a year, his eyes glared fiercely at the door, where he kept being a horse master.

The little eunuch turned his head to look at the person at the door, the beads of sweat on his face kept rolling down, he walked to the emperor's side gently, and wrote a word lightly on the ground: Yes.

The emperor suddenly came to his senses and seemed to understand.

"Go, call the colt too."

The little eunuch understood what he had to do, and hurriedly said goodbye to the emperor, walked to the door, and said respectfully, "The emperor is invited." ”

"Why, it's been so long." The master said impatiently, looking at him angrily.

Suddenly, he felt a little chill behind him, and seemed to hear the emperor's voice, "I am resting, why does the master seem to be very angry." ”

"Erchen doesn't dare!" Seeing this scene, the horse hurriedly knelt down and bowed, "Spare my father's rest, and hope that my father will forgive my sins." He looked surprised and bowed his head.

"Since you're here, I have something to ask you, come in." The emperor walked slowly to the dragon chair and sat there quietly.

"You know that there is a red line in the palace, and I want to know what the red line is and what it is for. I've heard that the word red line has also appeared among the people, and I'm a little interested in it, can you tell me? The emperor looked at him with a smile on his face and said slowly.

As soon as he heard the red line, the horse's body kept trembling, and he knew that the emperor would not say these words for no reason.

However, he knew the emperor's temper, but we didn't wait for the emperor's words for so long, he thought for a long time, nodded slightly, and said softly: "Erchen has heard it." ”

The emperor was a little shocked, "You actually heard it, what the hell is going on." ”

The colt was also fixed, and he kept telling himself in his heart that he must not say that he had slipped his mouth.

At this moment, since a breeze is blowing, I feel that everyone can't open their eyes, they can't bear it, and they are dumped in a different place.

Only the pony was now calm, standing still like a pine and cypress, motionless, as if the black mist had been summoned by him, or rather had come to look for him.

It didn't take long for the black fog to gradually float through the palace like a ghost, and the fog was steaming for a while.