In the imperial study, Huangfu Yingming glared at the skull in front of him, and Long Yan was furious.

"Who the hell is it! How dare you pretend to be a ghost in the palace?! ”

Huangfu Shenwu took off the hair on the skull's head and presented it to Huangfu Yingming with both hands.

"Brother Huang, the hair on this skull is a woman's hair, and there is a little white strand on the hair, which should be the hair of an old woman between forty and fifty years old."

Huangfu Yingming took the pile of hair, and found that the hair was wrapped around a red rope, and his long fingers rubbed the red rope that was already slightly dirty, looking out of the gods, and the familiar touch made him have mixed feelings, this is the acacia satin he gave to her when Dongfang Bining first married him twenty-three years ago.

He said that their relationship was as strong as this lovesick satin.

However, eleven years ago, he saw Dongfang Bining and Imperial Doctor Ling cheating with his own eyes.

Huangfu's wise hand squeezed the acacia satin tightly, and he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't speak again for a long time.

……

Quinine Palace

Huangfu Shao Qi stood in front of the spiritual seat of Dongfang Bining and put on three sticks of incense.

Today, it is the death day of Dongfang Bining, she was beheaded for cheating, this matter disgraced the royal family, the queen mother ordered not to bury Dongfang Bining's body in the imperial mausoleum, and not to pay tribute to Dongfang Bining's spiritual position in the royal ancestral hall, so the emperor Shao Qi secretly placed Dongfang Bining's spiritual position in his own palace.

Huangfu Shao Qi stared at the spiritual position of the queen mother, the man did not flick the tears, he held back the tears in his eyes, and did not want the sadness to spread, but whenever he remembered the moment when the queen mother's head fell to the ground, he couldn't stop the sadness in his heart, he burst into tears: "Queen mother, it has been eleven years since you left Shao Qi." ”

Recalling the time when he was coquettish beside his mother in the past, it seems that it was still yesterday, but now he can only see things and think about people.

"King Duanxian has arrived—" Outside the Quinine Palace, the eunuch's shrill voice interrupted the imperial master Shao Qi's thoughts.

Huangfu Shao Qi gently wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, and when he turned around, he saw Huangfu Hongyi who stepped into the dormitory.

"Hongyi, are you here?"

I heard that Fengqi Palace is haunted, and people who want to come to Huguo Villa will also investigate.

Huangfu Hongyi is like a brother and sister to him, and he also knows that he secretly placed the spiritual seat of Dongfang Bining in the dormitory.

Huangfu Hongyi walked to Dongfang Bining's spiritual seat, put on a few sticks of incense, and then asked, "Shao Qi, have you heard about the haunting of Fengqi Palace?" ”

Huangfu Hongyi and Huangfu Shao Qi have a familiar relationship, and they also call each other by their names in private.

Huangfu Shao Qi nodded: "I already know, and I don't know who is pretending to be a ghost." ”

In the past, he often thought that if there were ghosts in this world, it would be good if the queen mother could be by his side. It's just that the ghost talk is nonsense, and his previous ideas are nothing more than whimsical.

"Then do you know who the former queen had a good relationship with in the palace when she was alive?" Huangfu Hongyi suspected that if someone pretended to be a ghost in the name of the queen, it might be the person who served by the queen's side before.

Huangfu Shao Qi thought for a while and said: "When the queen mother was alive, I was by her side, and the queen mother treated people generously, the virtuous concubine Niangniang, Nan Mama, Chen Gonggong, and the queen mother's personal maid A Ying all had a good relationship with her. ”

The people that Huangfu Shao Qi said also knew Huangfu Hongyi. Back then, Dongfang Bining and his mother Bai Zhiyun were like sisters, and when she was young, she often came to the palace with her mother to visit the queen and the emperor Shao Qi, and he knew everyone who served the former queen.

The night before Huangfu Shao Yan's accident, he and Shangguan Yutang also heard a woman's crying outside Fengqi Palace, so the suspects among them may be Nan Mama and palace maid A Ying.

……

The backyard of Fengqi Palace

Dugu Shaobai squatted beside the wellhead, and some falling stones were sprinkled on the ground around him, all of which were caused by the broken masonry at the wellhead.

"There is no sign of man-made damage to the masonry at the mouth of this well, it seems that it is in disrepair, resulting in unstable masonry, and it should be an accident for the eldest prince and Xu Fu to fall into the well."

Shangguan Yutang looked at the bottom of the well: "The night before yesterday, Hongyi and I also heard the woman's crying in Fengqi Palace, when we came in, the sound stopped abruptly, the eldest prince and Xu Fu said that the voice came from the bottom of the well, it seems that there is a mystery at the bottom of the well." ”

Dugu Shaobai jumped lightly, flew down to the bottom of the well, his legs were propped up on the wall of the well on the side to stabilize his body, his hands groped on the wall of the well, and his fingers tapped on the wall of the well.

The sound of a brick on the wall of the well is very crisp, as if it is empty, Dugu Shaobai pushed it with his hand, and with a "bang" sound, the small brick was pushed away, and after the small brick fell on the wall of the well, a palm-sized hole appeared in the wall of the well, and Dugu Shaobai looked into the hole, and it was black.

Behind the wall of the well, there should be a tunnel or a hole in the ground.

……

Three hours later, the ground next to this well has been dug up by Dugu Shaobai, and the wall of the well on the side of the hole has also been chiseled, and a tunnel has appeared in front of everyone.

This tunnel can accommodate the next prostrate man, and in the tunnel, there is also a hollow short bamboo pole.

Now that the tunnel has been dug up, a big pit has formed, and Shangguan Yutang and Dugu Shaobai jumped into the dirt pit.

Shangguan Yutang picked up the short bamboo pole and said, "It should be someone talking at the mouth of the bamboo pole, and the other end of the bamboo pole is placed on the small hole in the wall of the well that was just discovered by the eldest brother, so that the sound can be concentrated at the bottom of the well, so that people can hear the sound coming from the bottom of the well." ”

Dugu Shaobai responded: "Well, it should be so." ”

The tunnel extended to Fengqi Palace, and they came to the end of the tunnel, which was not dug up, and the top of their heads was blocked by a stone slab, Dugu Shaobai raised his hand and gently topped it, and the stone slab was opened.

The two flew up and found that the floor was in Dongfang Bining's bedroom.

Only then did they know that there was such a tunnel in Fengqi Palace.

Huangfu Yingming and Huangfu Shenwu stepped into Fengqi Palace, outside Fengqi Palace, the guards behind Huangfu Hongyi escorted a fifty-year-old woman with vicissitudes of life and gray hair and sideburns.

Dugu Shaobai and Shangguan Yutang bowed in unison and said, "The ministers have seen the emperor and the owner!" ”

Huangfu Yingming waved his hand, signaling them to excuse themselves, he walked to the entrance of the tunnel that the two of them found, and frowned: "I never knew that there was a tunnel in Fengqi Palace? ”

Since Dongfang Bining's death, Fengqi Palace has also been empty, and there is not even a palace maid and eunuch who is in charge of cleaning on weekdays, but he never thought that a tunnel had been carved out here.

Hu Yanzhen heard that Huguo Villa had caught the person who pretended to be a ghost and scared the emperor Shao Yan, so she specially came to Fengqi Palace and wanted to teach the "ghost" a lesson in person.

The fifty-year-old woman saw Concubine Zhen walking in front of her, and laughed unscrupulously: "Hahahaha...... It's a pity...... Concubine Zhen didn't die...... What a pity...... Hahaha! ”

"Shut up! You wretch! Hu Yanzhen was annoyed and ashamed, and was about to raise her hand to teach this woman who spoke wildly, but was scolded loudly by the emperor: "Concubine Zhen, stop!" ”

Hu Yanzhen was already furious, glaring at the fifty-year-old woman viciously, but she had to listen to the emperor's words, she retracted the slap that was about to fall in resentment, and she was very angry.