Su Youyi shook her head, "Don't be afraid, keep going." ”

She has never been afraid of these, not to mention that it is just a house in disrepair, even if a ghost stands in front of her, she will calmly compare the strength of the two sides, thinking about how to defeat and catch the other party.

It's Shuya-

She glanced at Shuya beside her, and saw that Shuya had been following her sedan chair, her face calm and square, without the slightest fear.

Su Youyi couldn't help but the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, and she said in her heart that these little palace maids and eunuchs around her had grown into unique characters in the palace at some point, and they were also generous and respected when they went out.

Even the little girl Shuya, who was afraid of ghosts back then, can not change her face now.

After walking for a long time, Duofu waved his hand at the palace people who carried the sedan chair, and then looked ahead, saw the most dilapidated place in this palace, and then turned back and said: "Niangniang, the cold palace is ahead." ”

Su Youyi also saw the ruin in front of her, and nodded lightly, "Go in." ”

Duofu was in front of him, and when he opened the door, countless fine dust rushed in front of him, flying in the white snow light.

It's like the resentment that countless women have accumulated for a long time, accumulating too much pain and curse, like a dark and bottomless abyss, which makes people shudder. The sun is stagnant here, the remnants of rain dripping under the dilapidated eaves, and the faint but lingering stench of rancid and damp musty in the air.

A picture seemed to pop up in Su Youyi's mind, and those women who used to be like flowers were crying and shouting, or curled up on the ground half-asleep, or laughing like crazy......

This is the cold palace, right?

However, it was a little different from what she imagined, and there didn't seem to be many traces of people's lives here, only the two guards in the courtyard sat under the porch drinking tea, and immediately got up when they saw people coming.

After discovering that there were many people and the woman at the head was very kind, they saluted in surprise, "Meet the concubine!" ”

Su Youyi glanced down the corridor, thinking that it would be lonely here for a long time, no one came, and these guards were useless, so on a snowy day, she would cook tea to keep warm, right?

When the two guards saw Su Youyi looking at their tea table, they hurriedly knelt down in fright.

The corners of Su Youyi's mouth curled slightly, "Get up, this palace is not here to find fault with you, but to ask people about some private matters." Is this huge cold palace only guarded by the two of you? ”

She spoke in a soft tone, although the two guards were doing hard and remote errands, and had heard that the noble concubine Niangniang was the most kind master, so she said boldly: "Hui Niangniang, the two of us are ...... It was the one who came to guard it, and there were no guards here, only a few old mothers who cooked, and they were also born as slaves. ”

"That one?"

Su Youyi thought about it, and knew who the "one" in their mouths was.

The queen's external statement is that she is dead and buried, but in fact she is in the cold palace, so the guards call the queen no, and they don't call anything else, so they have to use that person to call her.

She said: "If there is no guard, aren't you afraid that the criminal concubine of the cold palace will run out?" ”

The guard said: "Don't worry, I can't run out." The concubines who came to the cold palace would basically go crazy and stupid within a few days, so that they couldn't run. What's more, those old mothers who cook are all powerful, and they are not at all worthy of the pampered concubines. ”

"Yes, the 'one' was already stupid when she was sent in, but the boss was worried that her status was valuable in the past, and it would be bad if something happened, so I still ordered the two of us to guard it."

Su Youyi said: "Then where is she now?" ”

The two guards looked at the apse in unison, "It's all inside, do you need us to take Niangniang in?" ”

Su Youyi glanced at Shuya, Shuya stepped forward and gave him a silver ingot, "This silver rewards you for tea, our mother is easy to talk to, you just watch here, you don't need to be busy with anything else." ”

The two guards who did the drudgery here in the cold palace didn't expect them to receive such a rich reward, and this piece of silver ingot was enough to pay them half a year!

was overjoyed, bowed and stepped aside, "Niangniang, please Niangniang." ”

Everyone flocked to Su Youyi to the apse, and as soon as they entered, a foul smell came to their nostrils.

Su Youyi subconsciously covered her nose, only then did she realize why the front looked different from what she imagined, because those concubines were all in the apse, densely huddled together for warmth.

Su Youyi frowned, those concubines were indifferent to their arrival, almost turning a blind eye.

The old mothers who took care of the cold palace had no intention of caring for the women abandoned by the emperor, but only regularly distributed some rotten food to them so that they could continue to live, or brandished sticks and whips to silence them when they were too noisy. And the most they did was to drag the bodies of these women who committed suicide because they couldn't stand the torture to a mass grave outside the city and burn them with a blank face.

Everyone hugged each other, tearing and sharing thin and worn blankets, and their clothes were as thin as a summer day.

There was not a single charcoal fire in the temple, nor any other heating objects.

Su Youyi searched through the crowd, and in the only corner where there was snow, two women sat and lay on a pile of moldy and damp straw, which was already black and rotten.

The two women were ragged and shabby, unkempt. The woman seated had a plate of fish bones that had not yet been licked up, and flies were buzzing and whirling. In front of her was a mirror with a broken corner, and she carefully applied it to her face and neck with a few pieces of flour, not daring to neglect it at all, as if it were the finest rouge gouache. After applying the flour, she groped with her hands in the straw for a moment, and took out a thin wooden stick that had been burned with fire, and burned one end into black coal, which was the magic weapon she used to draw her eyebrows.

Su Youyi frowned more and more.

I saw Duofu coming in from outside, with a few old mothers from the cold palace behind him, and came up to salute respectfully.

"See the concubine."

Su Youyi saw that she was carrying an incense burner in her hands, as if she knew that the smell of the cold palace was not good, so she specially smoked it.

The incense burner was their own, and the spices in it were about the blessings of the blessings, and the fragrance that came out was very strange, like fine agarwood mixed with the residue of the bottom of the incense burner, and the two smells were not the same in one place.

Better than nothing.

Su Youyi frowned, but two of the women who were huddled together shouted with a smile, "Flat, flat!" Ben Guifei let you be flat! ”

It turned out that the sentence "See the concubine Niangniang" was regarded by them as saluting them.

Several old mothers suddenly changed their faces, picked up the bamboo poles placed behind the door, and hit them, "Phew! What kind of Ah Wu'er dares to call herself a concubine here? Collided with the concubine, be careful of your skin! ”