Ghost Festival.

Rain.

The sky was foggy, so it got dark a little faster than usual, and the fog and rain enveloped the entire Xiqi Imperial Palace.

The time of the sacrifice is at night, which is quite the same as the modern time between 7 and 9 o'clock in the evening.

Hua Lihuang and the emperor will go to the sacrificial platform to worship, and Hua Yuluo will go to the pilgrimage river to release river lanterns.

The altar is at the east gate, while the pilgrimage river is at the south gate, which is far apart.

And from Jingyang Hall to the pilgrimage river is not close, so Hua Yuluo and Miaoyin prepared the carriage early to set off. Hua Lanluo searched for a long time, but didn't see the ugly egg.

"Why don't you see ugly eggs?" Hua Lanluo asked Miao Yin.

"Maybe I flew to the lotus pond to pick lotus leaves again, I like to go to the lotus pond to pick lotus leaves when it rains, do you want to find it back?"

"I'm afraid it's too late, forget it, it knows that we are going to the pilgrimage river, and if it doesn't see us, it will fly over, so let's take the car first."

Miaoyin just helped her onto the horse: "I'll be outside." ”

"Really, it's raining!" Hua Lan held out his hand to her angrily, "You will get wet after a while while on horseback." ”

Miao Yin looked at her hand for a moment, then reached over to hold it with her, and the flower girl pulled her, and the two sat together in the carriage.

From the Jingyang Hall to the vicinity of the Taiyi Pavilion, I heard the voice of the clown: "Master, wait for me!" ”

"Look, it's back."

Hua Lan opened the car window, and the clown flew in, holding a lotus leaf as an umbrella in his hand, and poured the rain from the lotus leaf out of the window before coming in: "I almost couldn't catch up." ”

"You're so busy." Hua Lanluo said angrily.

"I'm fine, I think Princess Mirror must be too late."

"Why?"

"I picked this lotus leaf in the lotus pond behind the laundry room, when I came back, I saw that Princess Jing was still there, I just wanted to call her and she went to the house, how far do you think the laundry room is from the pilgrimage river."

Bloomer doesn't know what the laundry room is.

But Miaoyin felt strange when he heard it.

"The laundry room is at the far northwest end of the palace, that place is not very auspicious, ugly bastard, are you sure it's Princess Mirror?"

"Woo......" The clown was also a little hesitant when asked like this, "because it was raining, and that person was holding an umbrella, as if he was Princess Mirror." ”

The location of the Purple Dou Palace is in the northeast, and the laundry room is in the northwest, which is quite far away, so Miao Yin feels that Hua Lihuang should not go there at this time.

"Then I don't know, but that's not good, I can always hear crying, I picked the lotus leaf and ran away."

"Someone is crying in the laundry?" How many clothes do you have to wash to cry in despair?

"It shouldn't be from the laundry." Miao Yin explained.

"What's that?"

"The lotus pond where you are is is on the right side of the laundry room, and the place a little deeper to the left of the laundry room is the cold palace."

That's right, it's right for someone to cry, the cold palace is a place where resentment and grievances gather.

"Is the cold palace a haunted place?" Clownegg asked.

Miao Yin didn't know how to answer, so she said: "That place is really unlucky, many concubines will commit suicide if they can't bear it there, and some concubines have been given poisoned wine or something." ”

"It's horrible!" The clown held the lotus leaf and said, "I will never go anywhere to pick the lotus leaf in the future." ”

Well, the harem is fighting openly and secretly, and there are many concubines who have been wrongfully entered into the cold palace, and some of them will not attract too much attention if they are killed there.

It is indeed an unlucky place.

But if it's really Hua Lijing, what is she going to do there?

It doesn't have to be to go to the cold palace, don't make up your mind.

The carriage traveled all the way, and the flower bans arrived at the pilgrimage river before the time came.

The river lantern of the midyear festival means that the restless souls will leave the palace and go to the world of peace and happiness on the river lantern, which is probably what it means.

It all means to keep the palace safe.

Hua Yuluo waited with an umbrella, and Miao Yin went to fetch the river lantern for her, and Hua put the river lantern into the river and stood up.

Seeing other people praying, and then looking at the river lanterns floating in the river, drifting in the breeze and drizzle, the atmosphere of customs is very strong.

But fortunately, the rain is not heavy, otherwise how would the candles in the river lantern have to be extinguished?

"Hiro, let's go." Miao Yin always remembered the words of King Ning, and went back quickly.

"Okay."

Hua Lan and Miao Yin turned around, and before they had gone a few meters, the women by the river shouted, "Ah......hhhh

Nara and Miaoyin turn back.

A gust of wind blew across the river, extinguishing most of the candlelight from the lanterns.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or something, but the rain suddenly fell very hard.

"Ahh Yes! The river, the river is turning red! ”

"Blood...... Is it blood? ”

It looked like a red muddy substance that came up from the bottom of the water, and it looked like blood, but it wasn't very clear at night, but the white river lamp was stained red.

This made the women feel particularly panicked in the festival with a terrifying atmosphere of the Midyear Festival.

By this time it was already raining heavily, and the soldiers of the guard came up to check the water and remain vigilant.

After a while, the surroundings were brighter, all the palace lights were lit, and the queen, accompanied by the guards, came over to appease.

The river had gradually returned to calm, except for the sound of the rain.

The guard inspected the surroundings and said, "Back to the queen's mother, I didn't find anything unusual. ”

The queen said to the people around her: "Why are you so surprised, it's just that the river is rising on a rainy day, and you have to make a big fuss." ”

"It's the Queen's Mother."

The queen suddenly looked at the flower gardener, and the flower garden bowed her head in a bow.

Wouldn't it be comforting everyone in her mouth, and doubting her ominous things in your heart? Then she will be wronged.

On the second day, some rumors continued to come from the palace, saying that there was a problem with the Lingtai during the ancestor worship, and there was a problem with the pilgrimage river during the soul sacrifice, and several concubines in the palace fell ill after participating in last night's sacrifice.

This year's July is too weird, maybe it's a demon spirit, or maybe there are unlucky people in the sacrifice......

Although he didn't name him, he talked about the faces he hadn't seen before, and he said that he was served by Miaoyin, which seemed to be a word like Jingyang Palace, and it was obvious that Hua Yuluo had become that unlucky person again.

Hua Yuluo didn't tell Hua Lihuang about it, and he didn't know where he heard about it, so he went to investigate the matter again, but to no avail.

The queen later talked to her again, and Hua Yuluo vaguely knew that because the queen felt that her life was not good enough, she wanted to change the date of the wedding ceremony.

However, he never told her about it directly, and he didn't officially hear about the change of marriage.

The wedding ceremony is approaching.

On this day, the flowers left the desert as usual and went to the early dynasty.

Hua Lijing will still pick him when he is not in Jingyang Palace, from that day when he was caught by Hua Lihuang to her embroidering flowers with her in the backyard, and then Hua Lijing rarely talked to her alone.

This time it was the same, even if she came to meet Hua Yuluo, she just walked over with her chin and passed by her.

But after walking a few steps, I heard Chun Tao shouting, "Princess, what's wrong with you, princess!" ”

Hua Yuluo hurriedly turned around.

Chun Tao sat on the ground with the limp flower off the mirror.

"What's going on?" Hua Luo ran to Hua Lijing's side, saw her pale face, and immediately said to the clown, "Ugly, go and call Qinglan over." ”

"No need...... Hua Lijing suddenly held Hua Yuluo's hand tightly, her fingertips were cold, and she said weakly, "I just haven't slept well for days, so I don't need to trouble Qinglan." ”

"But how can you do that?"

"Can I come inside and have a cup of hot water?"

It's all on this, of course Hua Bao Luo can't refuse, and Chun Tao helped her into the side room, Hua Lijing grabbed her hand like grabbing driftwood on the water, Hua Bao Luo had to say to Chun Tao:

"Chun Tao, pour a cup of hot water for the princess."

"Yes." Chun Tao poured hot water for Hua Lijing.

"May I hold your hand a little?" Hua Lijing's eyes were full of begging.

"Of course you can, but your hands are cold, is it okay not to let Qinglan take a look?" Hua Luo felt the temperature of her palms spread to her, making her feel that her whole arm was cold.

"It's okay...... "Hua Lijing said weakly.

"Then you drink some hot water first."

"Thank you."

After a long time, Hua Lijing's face gradually recovered a little, and she timidly withdrew her hand from her palm, "I'm sorry for you." ”

"My face is a little better."

"Then I'll go back with Chun Tao first."

“…… Okay. ”

Hua Lijing said that he was leaving, but he didn't get up for a long time, and after a while, he said: "Three days later, it will be the day you and the imperial brother get married, congratulations." ”

"Ahh......h Thank you. "I didn't expect the first face-to-face blessing to come from Hua Lijing.

Hua Lijing lowered her head slightly: "I really didn't expect that Emperor Brother Ning would have such a side, I really envy you." ”

"He actually...... The essence is pretty good. "I wonder if that's a boast?

"How did you do that?"

Hua Luo doesn't know what to say, and can't it be because he saw Hua Lihuang for the first time, is it as Hua Lijing's sister? That would seem weird, starting with a brother-sister relationship, and it's such an incongruous brother and sister......

"Maybe it's been a long time together, right?" I guess that's why it's for that reason.

"If it weren't for the royal brother forcing you to sign the letter of reliantion, would you have such a choice?"

"How do you know this?" Although the people in the palace knew that King Ning was going to get married, they didn't know about Lian Lishu.

Hua Lijing's eyes moved slightly, and said, "I'm sorry, I heard your conversation once. ”

She admitted it so generously, and it was not easy to care, but which time was she heard?

Forget it, don't worry about this, anyway, the wedding is about to take place.

"It has something to do with it."

If it weren't for the constraints of the Lian Li book, maybe even if I liked to get to where I am today, it would have taken a long time, and maybe I wouldn't have chosen to spend it at all.

However, there is no possibility in life.

Only after walking through it will you think, if it is a different road, what will it be?

Hua Lijing was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked again: "That...... What about the Third Highness? ”