Chapter 11: It's an illusion
The tomb of the queen and queen is located on the northern mountain range far from the palace, and it is said that this cemetery is usually used to bury concubines who made mistakes in the palace but had children.
Making mistakes in the palace is nothing more than jealousy, or resentment.
Therefore, the folk call this place the Tomb of the Resentful Woman.
The surrounding trees are shady, and as soon as you enter the range of the Resentful Woman's Mausoleum, it makes people feel cold.
The carriage stopped in front of a house that, although beautifully repaired, could not hide its loneliness.
In front of the house was a thick pile of leaves, as if it hadn't been cleaned in years.
Out of it came a devastated old woman, dressed in earth-colored coarse cloth with a few black patches on it. The old woman was hunched on her back and carried a wooden stick in her hand.
The sticks were polished to a shiny shine, and I am afraid they had been pestled for years.
Seeing that the carriage was coming, the old woman's face was still dripping with a faint amount of blood, but her expression was so indifferent: "You sent someone here again." ”
The coachman laughed: "Old lady, you are still so tough!" ”
The old lady? She's actually a concubine!
But it seems that it should be the concubine of the previous dynasty. Liu Wanyuan was only in his sixties when he died, and it was impossible to have such an old concubine.
The old lady had no expression on her face, and her tone of voice was also calm: "I won't be able to die for a while." It's God who keeps me alive. ”
The coachman helped Shan Muxi out of the carriage and left. The old lady raised her eyes and looked at Shan Muxi: "Come to guard the mausoleum at such a young age?" What did you do wrong? Mutilating the Emperor's Heir? Or did you have an affair with the Ouchi guards? ”
"If you make such a mistake, won't you be given death?"
At least that's how it is played on TV.
The old lady glanced at Shan Muxi again: "Rules are dead, but people are alive." If the emperor wants you to die, you have to die even if you don't make any mistakes, if the emperor thinks of your good, you have committed a capital crime, and you are just guarding the tomb. ”
Shan Muxi nodded, agreeing with the old lady's words.
The old lady grinned, and the sores on her face seemed to crack again, bleeding blood: "But it's not good to live in the world, I've been here for almost 60 years, and I'm really a little annoyed." ”
She didn't even wipe it when it was bleeding. Shan Muxi handed her the silk scarf, but the old lady twisted her face away and refused.
"Then why don't you get out of here?" Shan Muxi had already observed, the guards of the cemetery were not so leaky, and there were a few soldiers under the mountain, but they all seemed to be just for show.
If you want to escape, you can definitely escape.
"Get out of here?" The old lady looked at Shan Muxi in disbelief: "You are the woman who the emperor slept with, and you escaped, who would dare to live with you?" Isn't leaving here also a lonely old age? ”
She glanced back at the house behind her and added, "At least there's one more place to live here......"
It seems to make some sense.
However, Shan Muxi will not believe in evil, and the matter of escaping will be considered in the long run, and the most important thing now is that she must survive!
She was very calm and calm: "Old lady, where do I live?" ”
"Wherever you live, except for the one next to my house, the other rooms seem to have been inhabited, and none of them died well. However, the room next to me is not inhabitable. ”
"Can't live in? Why? ”
"Because my son lives in this house. I was poisoned when I was 7 months pregnant, and my son died at birth. But I don't think he left me, he lived next door to me. ”
“……”
I've seen Thai ghost movies before, about baby spirits. So hearing the old lady say this, Shan Muxi couldn't help but shudder.
Since the original owner of each room did not die well, it seems that there is nothing to pick. Shan Muxi casually entered a room and began to clean.
The whiplash wounds on his body were still painful from time to time, and after a while, Shan Muxi was already sweating profusely.
Dinner was brought by the old lady. A large soup cup is placed in the middle of the table. Shan Muxi planned to go to serve dinner, but the old lady persuaded her to drink some soup first.
When the soup cup was opened, Shan Muxi screamed in fright, and even the lid was broken.
Inside the soup cup was a snake, stewed to a pulp, but still in its original form. What's even more weird is that the old lady eats a snake and doesn't go to her head, and Shan Muxi even saw that the snake's eyes were still staring at her......
The old lady looked at her with disgust: "I'm surprised, it's already good luck to have snake meat for you to eat!" You think it's easy to catch a snake? Pick and choose here, and you wait to fend for yourself! ”
After saying that, the old lady began to drink snake soup and eat snake meat with relish.
The sound of drinking soup is so loud, this old lady has long lost the reserve of a noble lady.
Shan Muxi's hungry stomach growled, but she still couldn't eat. I ran to the kitchen and took a look: it turned out that there was no food at all, and their dinner tonight was snake soup.
Shan Muxi had no choice but to go back to the room.
In the middle of the night, she woke up from her dream tormented by the pain of the wounds on her body, and the sweat had already soaked the quilt.
Sleeping on the bed, Shan Muxi felt that his bones seemed to be unable to withstand the weight of his body, and the bones of his whole body seemed to be falling apart, sore and numb, and the pain in his heart.
There was no way to sleep, so she had to get up.
The night wind was a little cold, and Shan Muxi planned to close the window, but found a man in black standing in the courtyard.
Behind him, the old lady groveled, as if she was reporting something.
It was a little far away, and Shan Muxi couldn't see the person clearly, but he vaguely felt that he was very tall.
The figure seems to be somewhat familiar......
A gust of wind blew, and the man said, "It's not too early, I should leave." ”
This sound is also familiar!
It seems like...... It seems to be ......
Ancestral temple!
Right! This is the man in black in the ancestral hall!
"Benefactor stays!" Shan Muxi screamed in surprise and hurriedly ran out.
She was worried about returning the jade pendant, and since they saved her, she should also say "thank you".
But where is the shadow of that man in the courtyard?
Only the old lady was left sitting alone.
"What about him?"
"Who?"
"I see it! The man in black, he saved me, I want to say thank you to him. ”
The old lady grinned with her toothless mouth: "You are dazzled." I sat alone in the courtyard the whole time. ”
"Impossible! I hear you talking! ”
"Really? I'm talking to the former emperor who has been dead for many years. ”
The old lady showed a mysterious smile on her face: "Shan Yuyu, you are hallucinating, it seems that you are poisoned!" ”
"You know I'm poisoned?"
"I saw it when you got out of the carriage!" The old lady's expression was still so light: "That's a kind of poison in Miao Jiang, light green, poisoned people will fester, and then slowly die......"
"The whole body is festering...... Shan Muxi looked stunned: "It will be so miserable!" ”