Chapter 140: The Secret of the Back Waist

That night, the heavy snow fell silently again, wrapping a thick layer of white wool for the luxurious but extraordinarily low harem......

The palace people who are responsible for cleaning the palace halls and halls have no time to wait for the dawn, so they have to get up at the end of the day, and they are ready to start cleaning while the masters and ladies of the palaces and halls have not yet gotten up.

And this is the coldest time of the winter night, and the drowsiness is thick. In the world and all things, except for the 'rustling' and non-stop snowfall, there is no other sound to be heard, and everything is quiet!

However, at this moment, a frightened scream resounded throughout the harem, shocking everyone who was still asleep and waking up one after another.

However, in an instant, the lights were lit up in each room and hall one after another, and everyone who was awakened inquired about the source of the sound.

And the first one to wake up was Queen Chen in Chuxiu Palace.

Because, the sound came from the direction of the apse of Chuxiu Palace.

Moreover, the voice was also very familiar to her, but it was the frightened scream of Red Sleeves!

It turned out that after Empress Chen mentioned Sheng Yu as a first-class palace maid, she asked Sheng Yu to keep vigil that night, so Red Sleeves went back to her room to rest much earlier than usual.

These days, in order to wait for Queen Chen, who is not depressed, Red Sleeves is also worried and cautious, plus he has been worried about the scars on his lower back, Red Sleeves is even more restless day and night, and his heart is panicked like a rabbit chased by a vicious wolf, panicked!

After returning to the house, the red sleeves were so tired that the little palace maid called her to bathe in hot water.

When she came out of the bath, the little palace maid had already laid a mattress for her, and specially smoked incense in the bed tent.

Red Sleeves enjoys the service of the little palace maid.

At this time, it is the most comfortable time of her day, serving others all day long, and at this time she feels like a master, being served, which is really comfortable!

After the tired red sleeves lay on the bed, smelling the faint, vague sweet incense, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, but his mind became more and more chaotic.

It seems to be asleep, but my mind is constantly messed up.

She has been tossing and turning on the bed for most of the night, and the red sleeves are half asleep and half awake, but she feels the biting north wind blowing her shivering, and when she turns her eyes and looks at the door, she finds that the door that is obviously closed well is silently open, and the biting cold wind carries the snow wool in, and even the lights and candles left by the bed at night are blown out.

The wind is biting, and if it blows like this all night, it will definitely get a cold.

Thinking of this, the red sleeves in the haze couldn't help but sit up, lifted the curtains, stomped on the shoes, and went down to close the door.

However, before she could reach the door, she was startled by the curtain in front of her.

At the door of the open room, through the reflected silver snow light, I don't know when, a figure appeared silently.

The red sleeves who came back to their senses, thinking that it was the little palace maid who got up in the middle of the night and passed by, couldn't help but say coldly: "Who is where?" Three watches in the middle of the night, don't sleep and run out to hang around, be careful aunt, I peel your skin! ”

"I-I'm coming-exposing-your-skin!"

The voice at the door, stiff and cold, without a trace of temperature, was even more freezing than the wind and snow blowing in, making Red Sleeves shiver all over his body.

Strange in her heart, she couldn't help shaking her confused brain heavily, and looked at the person at the door with wide eyes.

However, the next moment, when Red Sleeves saw the description of the person at the door, and the legs floating in the air without touching the ground, he was so frightened that the blood in his whole body coagulated in an instant, and the screams were stuck in his throat-

The person standing at the door, dressed in miserable white clothes, covered most of his face with his hair scattered, and only a pair of cold and emotionless dead eyes, staring at her deadly.

What scared Red Sleeves the most was that her legs didn't hit the ground, but she was floating in the air......

Red Sleeves' first reaction was to meet a ghost, she was so frightened that she couldn't move, her face turned white, and she watched the female ghost at the door walking towards her step by step.

"I'll Peel Your Skin ......"

"Peel off the ...... on your back"

"There's a secret ...... there"

The female ghost stepped over the threshold and walked towards the frightened Red Sleeves step by step, speaking coldly and emotionlessly as she walked, and the miserable white fingers raised on her chest stretched straight towards the Red Sleeves.

Red Sleeves was already trembling with fright, and when he heard what the female ghost said, he was even more frightened, his lips trembled, his teeth fought up and down, and his voice trembled so much that he couldn't make a appearance.

"You...... Who are you? What did you come to me for? Please...... You go quickly......"

Red Sleeves fell to the ground with her head in her arms, her eyes looked at the female ghost who was getting closer and closer to her in horror, and said in a trembling voice: "I have no grudge against you...... Please go quickly, don't scare me......"

"I'm a poor aunt, you made me fall off the cliff, I hurt so much, my bones are scattered, and the flesh is stuck into the mud......"

"No one cares about me, Lord Yama refuses to accept me, and I have become a lonely ghost...... I'm so pitiful, I'm going to ask you for my life......"

Hearing the words of the female ghost, Red Sleeves suddenly looked up at the female ghost in front of him in disbelief, only to find that the female ghost in front of him, the face was really the appearance of a poor aunt, but there were many criss-crossing scars on the face, looking at it, it was as if the whole head had been broken and put back together, which was extremely terrifying!

"Poor aunt?! It's not me who hurt you, it's the Yang family...... They killed you, so go to them and ask for your life...... I'll burn a lot of paper money for you tomorrow, and I'll ask the mage to give you a lot of overbirth...... Go away, don't come looking for me again......"

Red Sleeves thought of the news that Aunt Pity had fallen off the cliff and died without seeing her body before, and then saw the female ghost who came to her in front of her to ask for her life, she couldn't help screaming in horror anymore, holding her body and retreating desperately, screaming while retreating.

Such a scream was particularly noticeable in the silent snowy night, and in an instant, most of the people in the harem were awakened.

However, Red Sleeves didn't know anything about it, and her screams became more and more terrifying, because the cold hands of the female ghost and the poor aunt ripped off her thin bedclothes, and wanted to peel off the skin on her waist.

To be precise, to remove the scarred skin on her waist.

When Aunt Pian's cold hand touched Redsleeves' frightened body, she let out a scream that almost lifted the roof.

And it was her frightened screams one after another, one after another, that finally woke up the entire harem......

In the dormitory of the main hall of Chuxiu Palace, Queen Chen, who was already unstable and had a very unstable sleep, was awakened by the first exclamation of the red sleeves.

When she heard the first sound, Queen Chen thought that she had misheard it in her nightmare, and when she heard clearly that it was the voice of the red sleeves, and it was a miserable sound, Queen Chen was also so shocked that her heart beat and panicked, and she got up without thinking about it, while letting Sheng Yu wait for her to change her clothes, while asking the little palace maid outside to go to the room with red sleeves in the apse to have a look.

After a while, Empress Chen was able to put on her outer robe, and a little palace maid was across the palace door, whispering something to Sheng Yu.

While listening, Sheng Yu's little face was frightened by the screams of the red sleeves, and his little face couldn't help but become more and more miserable.

After hesitating for a moment, she walked quickly to Queen Chen, and said in a trembling voice: "Niangniang, Aunt Red-sleeved has an accident, and she screams and jumps alone in the room, it looks like a ...... It's like a crazy demon, and you can't stop it......"

Empress Chen's face turned pale, and she hurriedly held the stove, and the umbrella couldn't be put on, and she hurriedly walked to the red-sleeved room behind her with heavy snow.

Sheng Yu followed closely behind her, clutching something tightly in her hand, and her whole body was so tense that she couldn't breathe......

When Empress Chen arrived, she looked at everything in front of her, but she was stunned!

I saw the red-sleeved unkempt hair running around the house, wearing thin bedclothes, shoes on his feet fell off, his feet were blue from the cold, his face was blue from the cold, and his eyes were full of horror.

Red Sleeves has been by Queen Chen's side since she was a child, and married into the East Palace with Queen Chen from the Chen Guogong Mansion, and then from the East Palace to the Middle Palace, and has always been the most face-saving aunt in this harem. is also a man with a calm style, and he is more majestic than the average little lord in the harem.

But now, looking at her description, Queen Chen was surprised and angry at the same time.

When I waited for her to go to bed before, she was fine, why did she suddenly become like this?!

But no matter what the reason, Empress Chen felt that as a first-class palace maid beside her, how could she make such an earth-shattering abnormal move?!

If it reaches the ears of the emperor, won't it cause other troubles?

Thinking of this, instead of being curious about what happened to her, Empress Chen stepped forward coldly and said coldly to Sheng Yu, who was frightened: "Are you crazy, you don't sleep well at night, what are you shouting and shouting here?!" ”

The red sleeves, who had been frightened, did not settle down for half a minute until they saw Empress Chen appear, stepped forward and knelt in front of Empress Chen, grabbed the corner of Empress Chen's skirt, and cried with trembling lips: "Niangniang, my poor aunt has become a ghost who has come to me to ask for my life...... Her appearance is terrifying, and her hands are even more terrifying...... Niangniang, please ask the mage to help her do it tomorrow, let her rest in peace and don't come to us again to seek revenge......"

"Bastard!"

Hearing Aunt Pian's name from the red sleeves' mouth, Queen Chen suddenly felt cold, and she had a bad premonition in her heart.

When she heard what she said behind the red sleeves again, Queen Chen's heart became more and more cold, and her heart was even more angry, but she angrily raised her foot and kicked her over, and said angrily: "Take a good look, Lang Lang Qiankun, what ghosts are there in this house, in this courtyard, and there is no pity for my aunt...... You're going to go crazy again! ”

After that, Empress Chen turned around and said fiercely to Sheng Yu, who was standing aside in fright: "Drag her to the snow, freeze her well, and let her wake up." ”

After getting Empress Chen's order, Sheng Yu hurriedly stepped forward with the other two palace maids, dragged up the red sleeves that had collapsed on the ground and walked towards the courtyard.

"Ah...... Yes!! ”

Unbeknownst to him, as soon as he arrived in the courtyard, Red Sleeves screamed even more in horror.

It turned out that when the queen and her entourage came, they carried a wind lantern, and at this time they hung it under the eaves at the door, illuminating the courtyard brightly.

In the light of the lights, Red Sleeves saw two lines of words written bloodially on the snow-covered courtyard wall-

"I'm going to peel off the skin of your back—

There are secrets there! ”

The bloody two lines of big characters once again frightened Red Sleeves into holding his head and screaming.

"Niangniang, it's really a pity for my aunt...... Come and see, I didn't lie to you, she left blood on the wall......"

And Sheng Yu and the other two palace maids who dragged her to the courtyard also saw the blood words on the wall with their red sleeves, and their faces suddenly turned pale and they were shocked by fright.

Queen Chen, who was in the house, heard the screams in the courtyard, her brows couldn't help frowning even tighter, and the look on her face was eager to cut off her red sleeves' tongue, lest she create a panic here again and disturb people's hearts.

However, without waiting for Empress Chen to walk into the courtyard, the frightened red sleeves suddenly remembered something, broke free from the shackles of Sheng Yu and others like crazy, and ran towards the courtyard wall where the words were written in blood, not caring about the cold of stepping on the snow barefoot, and even more so the thin and cold of the body, and desperately wiped the words on the wall with both hands, trying to erase the words written on it so that Queen Chen would not see it.

However, although she erased the words on it, Queen Chen still noticed the strangeness on the wall, and couldn't help standing under the eaves and coldly reprimanded: "What are you doing?" What is written on it? ”

Red Sleeves didn't seem to hear what Queen Chen said, but just smeared the blood words on it like crazy, and just wanted to wipe it clean and not be seen.

Empress Chen couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted at the palace people who were guarding the side: "What are you still doing to catch her!" ”

After that, he turned his head and asked Sheng Yu, who was trembling with fright, "What did you just see?!" ”

Sheng Yu has been pampered by his family since he was a child, when he has seen such a terrible scene, he has long been frightened by everything tonight, and his heart is even more violently struggling, his face is blue and white, and he stands with his lips curled.

Red Sleeves turned his head and glared at her fiercely, and said fiercely: "Don't say it, you don't have to say a word...... I'll kill you! ”

Empress Chen laughed angrily and said angrily: "What a big dog, dare to start disobeying the orders of this palace-do you really think that this palace will not beat you to death because of its old feelings?!" ”

Sheng Yu shrank and stood aside, looking at the red sleeves with a crazy and terrifying face, and then at the murderous Empress Chen, her heart trembled.

The next moment, her eyes sank, as if she had made up her mind, she pointed to the wall and said to Queen Chen: "Niangniang, there are blood words written on the wall just now - I want to peel off the skin of your waist, there is a secret there!" ”

Hearing this, Red Sleeves' whole body suddenly froze, his eyes widened in horror and despair, and his body fell into the snow and could not get up again.

As shrewd as Queen Chen heard Sheng Yu's words, she immediately understood the meaning of the blood words, and then looked at the series of abnormal actions of the red sleeves today, and her heart was already cold.

The next moment, her eyes swept around the courtyard with cold light, and finally landed on Red Sleeves, and said coldly: "Someone, drag Red Sleeves into the door, pick off her clothes, and then send someone to check the surroundings - this palace wants to see who is pretending to be a ghost here?!" What's the secret of her back?! ”

Red Sleeves desperately wanted to beg for mercy, but Fang Cai's tossing seemed to have consumed all her strength, and she was dragged into the house by the grandmothers like a dead dog, and she couldn't cry anymore.

Empress Chen's heart was cold, and she described it as terrifyingly gloomy-

Tonight's events were too weird, whether it was Red Sleeves' unusual behavior or everything that happened in this courtyard, it was too unusual.

And in the harem, whenever such a thing happens, nine times out of ten, something big happens.

If something happened to Red Sleeves, it means that something big is going to happen to her......

Thinking of this, Empress Chen's hands in her sleeves were clenched into fists, and her teeth were so hateful that she wanted to bite out blood.

The next moment, she flicked her robe and walked towards the house, to see what secrets were on the back of the red sleeves,

Inside the house, a group of palace maids held down the red sleeves, and at the order of Queen Chen, they took off the thin bedclothes on her body by dividing them by two, leaving only a turquoise belly pocket and a pair of obscene pants.

And the scar in the shape of a blue brick on her back was finally clearly displayed in front of everyone under the bright lights.

Empress Chen stepped into the house, her eyes fell coldly on the bare back of the red sleeves, and in the next moment, the eyes saw the scar on the back of the red sleeves, but the whole person was stunned!

Others may not know what the scar on the back of the red sleeves is, but Queen Chen does, and knows what this scar means with what happened tonight.

Her face turned white in an instant, and Empress Chen looked at the pattern on the scar on the back of her red sleeves in disbelief, and her eyes were about to fall out in shock.

"You...... You ......"

Empress Chen trembled and pointed to the scar on the back of the red sleeve, and her mind exploded instantly, and it was blank.

Red Sleeves turned around in horror, looked at Queen Chen's shocked appearance with her eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Niangniang, I didn't mean to lie to you...... Forgive me......"

"You all get out!"

A coldness spread from her footsteps to her whole body, thinking of what happened tonight, Empress Chen's heart was already clear.

Thinking of the arson being discovered and discovered twenty years ago, Empress Chen's whole body was like falling into the abyss, her body trembled, and the golden steps on her forehead trembled and beat, just like her panicked heart at the moment.

Without thinking about it, Empress Chen immediately drank vigorously and asked everyone in the room to retreat.

Sheng Yu, who entered the house with Queen Chen, also saw the scar on the back of the red sleeves, but she suddenly thought of the silk cloth she had received from Xiaoxi before, and a bright light flashed in her mind.

However, before she could see it clearly, Empress Chen had already ordered them to retreat, Sheng Yu hurriedly withdrew from the red-sleeved room with a group of palace people, and even turned her back, quietly stuffed the paper ball in the palm of her hand into her mouth, and swallowed it raw......

The door was slammed shut, and the noisy room suddenly fell silent, leaving only Empress Chen and the red-sleeved master and servant.

Empress Chen approached the red sleeves step by step, looked at her condescendingly, and said coldly word by word: "This scar, but you dare to hide it from the palace when it was left that time?!" ”

Red Sleeves was bruised from the cold, but the chill in his heart was better than the coldness of his body.

She said in a trembling voice: "Niangniang, I didn't mean to hide it from you...... So long has passed since then, and the slave maid thinks that everything is over and will not be known, so she ......"

"Since you didn't let people know, how do you explain all this tonight, and the blood on the wall?"

Empress Chen's voice was cold, her heart was even colder, and her eyes fell on the sharp scissors in the sewing basket next to her.

Moving with her heart, Empress Chen walked over coldly, and easily held the sharp scissors glowing with cold light in her hand.

Red Sleeves knelt on the ground and cowered red. The naked cried: "Mother, the slave doesn't know what's going on tonight...... The scar on the back of the slave has never been told to anyone, let alone known...... For the sake of my hard work for so many years, I beg my mother to spare the slave and maid this time......"

"Naturally, this palace will spare you. But today's matter must be solved - since the secret of your body has been discovered, this secret can no longer exist in the world, right? ”

The red sleeves looked up at Queen Chen blankly, and when she saw the sharp scissors in her hand, she trembled and stepped back in horror, "Niangniang, you ...... Do you want to kill slaves and slaves? ”

Empress Chen pressed step by step, and sighed: "Don't talk about this palace so ruthlessly, this palace just wants to take down this piece of evidence from you and destroy it - in this way, there will be no more evidence about the old things of twenty years ago." You're fine with Hongu, aren't you? ”

Red Sleeves looked at the sharp scissors in Empress Chen's hand, and couldn't help but think of the heart-rending pain in her back when she was burned twenty years ago.

What kind of pain would it be if you had to tear off such a big piece of skin and flesh from your lower back?!

But Red Sleeves also knows that now, except for the method that Queen Chen said, before the incident of twenty years ago was exposed, there was no other way to cut off this piece of scarred flesh and skin.

In this way, the red sleeves no longer flinched, gritted his teeth with a white face and said tremblingly: "Thank you for your forgiveness, the slave obeys all the arrangements of the mother......"

After that, he turned his back to Queen Chen, and willingly asked her to cut the flesh and skin on her body.

However, the cold light flashed in front of her, and the sharp scissors in Queen Chen's hand did not cut her back, but stabbed her heart.

"Mother's ......"

Red Sleeves hid back in horror, unable to believe that Empress Chen suddenly turned around and asked for her life, her eyes were full of horror and pain, and even deep disappointment!

"Cutting the skin and flesh is very painful, and this palace knows that you have always been the most afraid of pain, so this palace will help you finish it first, and when you die, you won't feel such severe pain......"

Empress Chen rushed forward, and the sharp scissors in her hand kept piercing the fleeing red sleeves, and her eyes were blood-red.

While running for his life, Red Sleeves cried in despair and collapsed: "Niangniang spare her life, the slave will definitely be obedient and obedient, and will not betray Niangniang...... Mother, let me go! ”

But since Empress Chen has already made a move, how can she stop again?!

Seeing that the red sleeves were pierced with several blood holes, he was about to die at the hands of Queen Chen, but at this time, some palace people panicked outside the door to tell that Concubine Xian Niangniang broke into the palace on the orders of the emperor.

Hearing this, Empress Chen's whole body trembled, and the scissors in her hand almost couldn't hold it and fell to the ground.

When Red Sleeves heard the words of the palace people, there was a glimmer of hope in his desperate expression, and when Empress Chen was stunned, he suddenly opened the door and fled outside.

When Empress Chen came back to her senses and ordered someone to grab the red sleeves in a hurry, Concubine Xian had already led a huge crowd of people into the courtyard where the red sleeves lived and appeared in front of Queen Chen......