Zhou Sheng Cuobai made a gesture to signal that Female Master Liu didn't need so much courtesy, and now that people are outside with so many etiquette, it is easier to expose their true identities to others.

Female Master Liu finally knew why she saw Xu Zhaohua so different from ordinary people in the Daduan Palace at that time, and she should have guessed it with her noble temperament, thinking that at that time she was suspected by the guards of being the murderer of the woman in the grove, and immediately took off her shoes to prove herself, this kind of courage and courage in the world, not to mention women, there are not even a few men, she should have guessed.

Originally, she was still curious about why the old lady treated her differently from ordinary palace maids, and she also dined with her, originally she felt that this was a blessing that Xu Zhaohua had cultivated for hundreds of years, but now she felt that this was a blessing that she had cultivated for several lifetimes. All mysteries are now answered.

"Female Master Liu, you sit down first." Xu Zhaohua pulled Female Master Liu and motioned for her to sit down: "Why aren't you in Daduan at the moment?" ”

"The old lady was arrested by Sui Chen, although he didn't do it himself, but I can speculate that the only person who can do such a thing to the old lady in this palace is Sui Chen, and now he has a lot of power, and he may hold the old lady hostage to threaten Prince Feng to rebel on their side." Female Master Liu guessed.

Xu Zhaohua's expression was a little unnatural: "Female Master Liu, in fact, I was the one who captured the old lady that day." ”

Nushi Liu looked at her in surprise, he felt that it was impossible, Xu Zhaohua had no reason to do this, and besides, the old lady took her well, she had no motive at all.

"At that time, Sui Chen instructed Xianyue to give me a witch trick, and I listened to his orders uncontrollably to kidnap the old lady." Xu Zhaohua said with a gloomy expression that this matter was a hurdle in her heart, and she mentioned it herself thousands of times every time.

Female Master Liu understood, nodded and thought about it, and felt that being a witch Gu really couldn't control her consciousness, which really couldn't Xu Zhaohua.

"Actually, I escaped from the Daduan Palace this time for this matter, since Prince Feng was imprisoned in the dungeon, the old lady was overly worried about her illness and then became more and more serious, and then the old lady was held hostage by Sui Chen, now I just want to quickly find King Feng to rescue the old lady, fortunately, I met Queen Xu, the old slave hopes that you are willing to help save the old lady." As she spoke, Female Master Liu's eyes gradually turned red.

Xu Zhaohua patted Female Teacher Liu on the shoulder and told her not to worry: "Female Teacher Liu still calls me Zhaohua, so as not to make people suspicious when they hear it." ”

Female Master Liu nodded, and Xu Zhaohua was very thoughtful.

"The Feng Wang you are looking for is here" Xu Zhaohua pointed to the room inside: "I will rescue the old lady, don't worry." ”

Female Master Liu stood up and looked at the room inside, she slowly approached, pushed open the door, and saw the pale Sui Feng lying on the bed, looking at Xu Zhaohua with questioning eyes, wanting to ask her what was going on.

Xu Zhaohua gently closed the door again after she saw it, and took Female Master Liu aside to speak, so as not to disturb Sui Feng's rest and recuperation.

"This matter is a long story, now I can only tell you that Sui Feng has lost a lot of blood and his body has become extremely weak, and the doctor here has made him recuperate and give these medicines to drink on time." As he spoke, Xu Zhaohua pointed to the packets of medicinal herbs on the table.

Female Master Liu glanced at the medicinal herbs on the table, and the corners of her mouth moved: "Zhaohua, do you think this medicine hall is weird?" ”

Xu Zhaohua looked around and nodded, originally she thought that she was alone in this feeling, but now it seems that Female Master Liu also said the same, which means that this medicine hall is indeed not ordinary, it seems that she is not too careful.

Xu Zhaohua nodded, and everyone began to feel that things were not ordinary when they heard Female Master Liu say this, if Xu Zhaohua had this feeling alone, it might be accidental, but if other people also felt this way, it wasn't necessarily accidental, could it be that there was something strange about this medicine hall?

"When I first entered this medicine hall, I asked about a familiar smell." Female Teacher Liu said.

"Familiar taste, what taste? There's nothing else but the herb flavor, right? Su Mingtuo asked.

"No, there are other herbs in the medicine hall, for example, patients." Xu Zhaohua looked at the herbal medicine bag on the table and said, Female Master Liu nodded: "That's right, this familiar smell is emanating from those sick saints, this smell will never be forgotten, it often reminds me that this is the taste of death, and it used to have this taste in the West Third Palace of Daduan." ”

Nishisannomiya? Everyone wondered, what is the connection between the two?

"Zhaohua, you must have been to the vicinity of the West Third Palace in the past few days in Daduan, do you think there is anything unusual?" Female Master Liu asked Xu Zhaohua.

Xu Zhaohua thought about it, when she first entered the West Third Palace, it was empty, only a mess and a woman who took over the food handed in from outside every day, which was a trick made by Sui Chen in order to hide people's eyes.

"Isn't it terrible to be empty?"

Xu Zhaohua nodded and replied to Female Master Liu's words.

"The West Third Palace is clear that it is the cold palace of the Daduan Palace, the king of Sui Yue has just ascended the throne, and there are not many concubines canonized, so most of the cold palace is locked up in the harem where the first emperor made a mistake, after the death of the first emperor, the new emperor ascended the throne, and gradually there are not many people who pay attention to them, until one day someone was surprised to find that there was a burst of peculiar smell near the West Third Palace, and soon after people found that there was no movement in the West Third Palace for many days, and no one even touched the food that was put in the window a few days ago. A few days later, I will talk about the West Third Palace, which is the matter of those old harems being carried out from inside. ”

"Are they all dead?" Zhou Shengcuo asked.

Nushi Liu nodded: "Yes, they are all dead." When he examined the bodies, he found that they had been dead for some time, but the strange thing was that their bodies showed no signs of decomposing. ”

"What's going on?" Su Mingtuo was puzzled.

"At first, the palace people said that the first emperor had appeared and asked these old harems to accompany him underground, but then the two Western Regions mages came to Daduan, and when they were invited to the palace, they happened to encounter this thing, and after looking at the corpse, they concluded that it was someone who had been tricked."

"Xiagu?" Xu Zhaohua felt a little puzzled: "Female Master Liu, is the strange smell you said the smell of people being tricked?" ”

"I'm not sure, but one thing is for sure that this smell is exactly the same as the smell near the West Third Palace, when those corpses were carried out, she went to see it in the name of office work, and as soon as the door of the West Third Palace was opened, the smell came to her face, not to mention that it smelled, after all, the corpses had not decomposed, but in short, it was a very strange smell." Female Master Liu replied.

Xu Zhaohua slowly sat down and analyzed the ins and outs of all this by himself, if what Female Master Liu said was correct, then almost all of these underground patients were caught in the witchcraft of those old harems in the three palaces to the west, but who would target a group of ordinary people for no reason? And those old harems who died inexplicably didn't provoke anyone collectively, so why did they kill them?

Combining these two things, it seems that it is definitely not a hatred to do these things, there must be other reasons, Xu Zhaohua held his head and wanted to know what this reason was.

The West Third Palace, the Old Harem, the Medicine Hall, the Sick, the Strange Taste, the Witchcraft......

These things are spinning quickly in Xu Zhaohua's mind, witchcraft? Sorcery! Yes, it's witchcraft, Xu Zhaohua sat up suddenly.

"It's witchcraft, this thing was done by someone in the palace of Daduan, and this person knows witchcraft, no, to be precise, he is in contact with witchcraft, learning witchcraft." Xu Zhaohua said excitedly.

"Why?" The Ghost Lady asked curiously.

"Because according to the words of Lady Liu, this kind of witchcraft first appeared in the palace of Daduan, and it is difficult for outsiders to enter the palace, and the person who does witchcraft knows that the West Third Palace has never attracted people's attention, so he chose to start there, so it can be seen that this person must have a certain understanding of the geographical location of the Daduan Palace, and it is very likely that he is a person in the palace. And now this strange smell has appeared in this medicine hall, if nothing else, it must be some kind of witchcraft again. Xu Zhaohua analyzed.

The ghost lady nodded, Xu Zhaohua's analysis of the logic is very clear, so that people can understand it as soon as they hear it.

"If that's the case, then why did that person do it?" Zhou Sheng raised his own questions in frustration.

"For practice."

"Practice?" Zhou Shengcuobai did not understand Xu Zhaohua's answer.

"Yes, I just said that this must be a matter of people who have not been in contact with witchcraft for a long time, because since there is no grievance with these people in the West Third Palace and the medicine hall, the reason for doing this must be to achieve some purpose, but Female Master Liu said that those old harem gates died in the end, which shows that the people who perform witchcraft do not want to use them to do something, and after thinking about it, they can only speculate that they have just learned witchcraft, so they have found some inconspicuous people to practice."

After Xu Zhaohua's explanation, everyone immediately understood, Zhou Shengcuobai nodded, and Mrs. Ghost's eyes changed when she looked at Xu Zhaohua, what she didn't expect was that since Xu Zhaohua was picked up by Zhou Shengcuobai from the Medicine King Valley, she had changed a lot, and she was already very smart and now had some other things on her.

"So, the lives of those people in the cottage are in danger now?" Female Teacher Liu was a little worried.

Xu Zhaohua was silent, according to her speculation, it was indeed like this, but at present, they could only speculate about the reason for the matter, and they could not find a good solution to their witchcraft.

"Not good! So what is the situation of these people who live around us now? Xu Zhaohua was shocked.

"Where? Could it be that Crispy is talking about these people above the attic. Zhou Shengcuo asked.

Xu Zhaohua nodded quickly, and said the strangeness of the attic that he had discovered at that time, his own speculation, and what the old Chinese medicine doctor with a white beard had said again.

"So, according to Crispy's analysis, the main street of this town is not open, so it must be a small town, and it is really inappropriate for so many people to come to see a doctor in one town." Zhou Shengcuobai said.

Su Mingtuo put his finger on the sword and rubbed it repeatedly: "Yes, and according to what the old man said, these people are not only the townspeople in the town where we are now, but also the townspeople in the surrounding towns nearby, so why are they so familiar with each other?" At first glance, I have known each other for a long time. ”

"Why don't we go to the surrounding rooms and inquire now?" Zhou Shengcuobai proposed, but this proposal was immediately rejected by Xu Zhaohua.

"No, it's daytime, maybe the white-bearded old man is sending someone to watch over us, now let's not act rashly, wait for the best time, that is, one night to act quietly, so as not to startle the snake." Xu Zhaohua said.

After that, Zhou Sheng Cuobai realized his recklessness, and he was too anxious.

"So what do we do next?" Lady Ghost asked.

"There are a lot of people on the first floor of the underground medicine hall, and the voices of people there are noisy, so we can use this to ask those patients about the situation, at least they won't lie to us." Xu Zhaohua said, so he arranged for Su Mingtuo to guard Sui Feng here, and the others divided into several ways to ask about the situation of various patients in the pharmacy in the shape of a hollow zigzag.

Xu Zhaohua and Lady Liu saw a woman sitting on the bench at the foot of the wall in the pharmacy, the lady was leaning on the bed with a yellow face and thin muscles, Xu Zhaohua couldn't help but look at her more when she passed by, but suddenly Lady Liu on the side pulled her back.

Xu Zhaohua glanced at the hand holding her cuff strangely: "Female Master Liu, ..... this?"

"Zhaohua, I smelled the smell of the West Third Palace here, it was very strong." Female Master Liu whispered in Xu Zhaohua's ear.

After hearing this, Xu Zhaohua glanced at the woman in front of her a few times, she was now too sick to open her eyes, and Female Master Liu was about to wake her up, but Xu Zhaohua stopped her: "Let's go to another place to see." ”

So the two continued to walk forward, and then Lady Liu stopped again and pointed to an old man sitting on the bench in the distance, his symptoms were the same as the woman in Fangcai, Xu Zhaohua looked at Lady Liu next to her, and Lady Liu nodded at her.

"Same taste." Female Master Liu told Xu Zhaohua.

Then the two of them looked to the side all the way, their pace slowed down a lot, when they first came in, they were too anxious to see Sui Feng's condition, so she didn't look at this grass hall and the patients in it by herself, and now it seems that the weirdness here is really big.

"Zhaohua, look!" Female Master Liu pulled Xu Zhaohua's cuffs a little anxiously and pointed to a bunch of people in the distance, Xu Zhaohua looked in the direction of her finger, there were a bunch of people sitting there, there were three-year-old children, there were septuagenarians, some were holding women who had just been born, and there were also seven-foot men, they were made there, their faces were sallow, their eyes were dull and looking ahead, some were looking at the sky, and some people were closed and didn't know what the situation was.

"Did they all fall for witchcraft?" Xu Zhaohua asked.

Female Master Liu nodded, Xu Zhaohua walked in and smelled them, there is indeed a strange smell here, but it is not too strong, otherwise she will not easily ignore it. Female Master Liu pulled Xu Zhaohua back a few steps and signaled her not to approach these people, she still didn't know the status of their condition, so she shouldn't approach easily.

Xu Zhaohua turned around and nodded at her, signaling that Female Master Liu had nothing to do, and Female Master Liu had no choice but to follow Xu Zhaohua and approach those people.

Xu Zhaohua walked to the woman leaning against the corner and squatted down and asked her, "Are you okay?" ”

The woman turned her head and looked at her weakly, and saw that although Xu Zhaohua's clothes were simple, the fabric of the clothes was not simple, and the temperament of her body was different from ordinary people, she grabbed Xu Zhaohua's cuffs: "Help me, please save me." ”

Xu Zhaohua grabbed the woman's hand: "Okay, we will save you, but we need you to answer a few of our questions." ”

"Noble, what is the problem, you say." The woman's voice was a little weak, and Xu Zhaohua sat next to her and talked to her.

"When did you become like this?"

"A month ago, our entire town was sick with this disease."

Xu Zhaohua and Female Teacher Liu looked at each other.

"Do you know what the reason is?" Xu Zhaohua asked.

The woman shook her head.

"Has your whole town become like this?"

The woman nodded in acquiescence, and then Xu Zhaohua got up, and the woman told her that she would be here every day, and if there was anything, she would come to her, and after speaking, she looked at her with expectant eyes, and Xu Zhaohua saw that her eyes were shining, and they were tears.

"Don't worry, we'll save you."

On the way back, Xu and Liu were both recalling what the woman said, Xu Zhaohua thought for a while and asked Female Teacher Liu: "Female Teacher, what do you think of this matter." Because Female Master Liu didn't dare to make a judgment, she could only shake her head and say that she didn't know.

Nushi Liu and Xu Zhaohua returned to the room, and at this time, Zhou Shengcuobai and Mrs. Ghost had already returned.

"How about it, how is the situation of the investigation, let's summarize it to facilitate the next step." Xu Zhaohua said this after pushing open the door and seeing that they had returned.

"Just now I asked a big man, he said that their whole family has a strange disease, the body is not painful or itchy, but it feels like something has been smoked, and over time, a strange smell gradually appears on the body, but this smell is not smelled by ordinary people, only they can smell it, but slowly the smell on the body will get bigger and bigger, and others will find out sooner or later." Zhou Shengcuobai said.

"Why do they do this, you ask?" Xu Zhaohua was a little anxious, probably only in front of Zhou Shengcuobai, she would be like this.

"No, they don't know why it's happening."

"I'm probably in the same situation as him, many of the townspeople are sick themselves but don't know why they're like this." Lady Ghost said.

Xu Zhaohua sighed, sat on the bench and held his head: "Let's analyze, let's sit down first." After speaking, Xu Zhaohua pointed to the stool next to him, and everyone sat down.

"Otherwise, let's just grab that whitebeard and ask!" Su Mingtuo mentioned.

"Uncle, no. It's best not to ask anyone about this until you're completely sure, and don't let anyone know that we're investigating, because it's not good if you get caught in the air. Xu Zhaohua stopped.

"What is it that causes all the townspeople of a town to get this disease all of a sudden, and how do the witchcraft practitioners do it?"

"Isn't it the same thing as in the illusion, thinking about the water source like us?" The Ghost Lady asked.

Zhou Shengcuobai thought about it and felt that it was not unreasonable, looked at Xu Zhaohua and asked, "Crispy, what do you think?" ”

Xu Zhaohua shook his head: "If it is a water source, there is no guarantee that only the people in this town can drink the water, and the people in other towns can also drink the water that has been subjected to witchcraft. I asked just now, and the patients here all said that they were from one town, and the people in other towns knew that they had a strange disease in one town, and they didn't dare to come in at all. So that white-bearded old man is a liar. ”

Finally had some eyebrows, and now it has been denied again, and everyone is confused again, what is the answer?

"It could be that this is the case where the witchcraft people gathered the townspeople together and then performed the witchcraft, and that's why they got sick." Zhou Sheng Cuobai guessed.

Xu Zhaohua thought about it and sat up: "No, I asked the woman, I asked her if something different happened before she got sick, and she didn't say it." ”

"Zhaohua, maybe we shouldn't be so decisive, isn't it just that this woman didn't notice, we might as well ask a few more people?" Su Mingtuo proposed.

Xu Zhaohua sighed after thinking about it, sure enough, she was too anxious, Su Mingtuo was right, she shouldn't be so arbitrary.

"Okay, I'll go down there and find out." After that, I was ready to go out.

"Crispy, I'll go with you." Zhou Sheng Cuobai stood up and followed behind her.

"Without him, I'll go alone, there are too many people to attract attention, just now our movement is not small, it's best not to try again, many people act again." Xu Zhaohua grabbed Zhou Sheng Cuobai's hand and said, after speaking, he went straight away, Zhou Sheng Cuobai looked at her back as she went downstairs and sighed.

Crispy is resolute, and sometimes he doesn't want her to be so strong and strong, too tired. But on the other hand, isn't this also part of my love for her.

Xu Zhaohua came downstairs, and now it is sunset, but there are still so many people here, do they all have to spend the night here? Recall that since they came here early this morning, they haven't seen anyone go out, and no new people have come in.

The sunlight disappeared little by little, and the medicine hall gradually dimmed, but no one lit the lamp, and now it was strange to see those patients lying in various corners without making a sound.

Xu Zhaohua slowly walked through them, and many faces were skimmed around, all of them emaciated and desperate. She saw a bright color in the lying crowd, and when she looked closer, it turned out to be a little boy dressed in red.

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