Chapter 210: Bones under the bed

Gu Qingcheng looked at this gloomy room, and couldn't help but feel a chill.

She walked over and opened the already worn windows to let in sunlight and fresh air.

With the help of sunlight, her courage seems to be much stronger.

The wooden bed, wardrobe, and chairs in the room seemed to have not been touched for decades, covered with a thick layer of dust and cobwebs.

She gently flicked some dust away.

The royal furniture, the materials are the finest rosewood pear or golden silk wood, even after decades, wipe it, and then maintain it, it is exquisite furniture.

Gu Tingcheng covered his nose with a handkerchief, ripped off those cobwebs, carefully looked at the house, looked at the beams, and imagined the terrifying picture of Tuoba Yu when he was a child.

That woman was hanged by Lu Zuo Zhaoyi in this room, right?

A big living person, this Zichen Palace has girls in and out of the prison every day.

Back then, if Lu Zuo Zhaoyi wanted to move that person's body out of the palace, I am afraid it would not be convenient.

That's why there is the haunting of Zichen Palace?

Thinking about it this way, the woman's corpse may be in the Ningxiang Garden of Zichen Palace, which is haunted, so no one dares to come in, and no one finds the corpse.

But where did her body go and bury it?

Could it be the bottom of the osmanthus tree with a towering mud pile outside?

Gu Tingcheng imagined the scene of Lu Zuo Zhaoyi moving the person to the bottom of the osmanthus tree for burial, which seemed to be too dangerous.

If you want to bury someone, it is easiest and quickest to bury it directly in this room.

She looked around the room, knocked on the wall, tapped the bluestone bricks of the room with her foot, and finally looked at the small rosewood bed.

There is no better place to hide a body than under a bed.

Lu Zuo Zhaoyi killed that woman, and then spread the rumor that Guan Ju Palace was haunted, so that everyone did not dare to live here, and what she did was unaware.

She walked slowly towards the large bed, trying to push it aside.

The wood of the bed was heavy, wide and thick, and she had to struggle alone, moving first from side to side, and then from side to side, and finally she moved the whole bed aside.

She walked to the bottom of the previous bed and stepped on the floor with her foot, and sure enough, she noticed that the blue bricks under the bed were a little different from the rest of the room.

The general floor is solid when stepped on, but the floor here feels empty.

She expected something to be wrong with the bottom of the bed.

If you want to hide the body, you should hide it in the middle of the bed.

Gu Tingcheng pulled out the golden hairpin on his head, carefully picked up the cracks in the bricks, and raised a few green bricks to come out.

There was no dirt under the green bricks, but several large wooden planks put together.

Gu Qingcheng did not hesitate, carefully uncovered all the green bricks one by one, and then lifted the big plank.

With the light filtering in from the window lattice, when he could see clearly below, Gu Qingcheng was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

Under the bed was a cave about a foot high, and in the cave lay a cold skeleton.

Could it be that this is the woman who Tuoba Yu saw being hanged?

Gu Qingcheng was shocked.

Suddenly, Gu Tingcheng felt that there was someone behind her, and she suddenly looked back, and by the dilapidated window lattice, it was the woman wrapped in cloth just now.

The woman stared at Gu Qingcheng with trembling eyes of fear, looking at the skeleton bones in the cave, looking terrifying and weird.

Seeing Gu Tingcheng, he found that she was peeking, and then disappeared in a flash, disappearing from Gu Tingcheng's sight.

Gu Qingcheng came back to his senses, and after calming down, he carefully looked at the skeleton.

The skeleton was small, and according to Gu Qingcheng's cognition, it should be a female corpse.

This should be what Tuoba Yu saw, the woman who was hanged?

She imagined that the woman was hanged by Lu Zuo Zhaoyi and buried here.

Wouldn't it be more time-consuming for Lu Zuo Zhaoyi to hang that man and dig such a big cave again?

Could it be that this cave was dug up in the morning?

Lu Zuo Zhaoyi dug such a big hole back then, just to hide this woman?

No wonder the earth piled up so high at the head of the laurel tree outside, it must have been moved out of this cave little by little.

After she buried the woman in the cave, it would be quite difficult to carry the earth from under the osmanthus tree to backfill, so she only covered the cave with a large wooden plank, which was naturally much more convenient.

How Lu Zuo Zhaoyi hanged people to death, and how they buried people quietly, those vivid pictures appeared in front of Gu Tingcheng's eyes one by one.

Suddenly, a long ghost figure with a fluttering body appeared in front of Gu Tingcheng, which frightened Gu Tingcheng.

She turned around suddenly, and the ghost figure was Feihong who was holding his mouth tightly so that he didn't scream.

The ghost was her body stretched by the sunlight shining in from the window.

“…… You're scaring me to death! Gu Qingcheng was angry.

Suddenly deflated and sat on the ground, as if Fang Cai's courage had been exhausted.

In fact, Fei Hong was not without footsteps, but Gu Qingcheng was too engrossed in analyzing the female corpse, so he didn't pay attention to Fei Hong's arrival.

“…… County Lord, this ......" Fei Hong trembled and pointed to the skeleton, so frightened that he couldn't speak.

"Shh Gu Qingcheng sighed lightly.

He didn't go down the cave, didn't move the skeleton, re-covered the plank, and carefully covered the green bricks on top of the plank, trying not to leave any traces of prying.

Together with Fei Hong, move the big bed back to its place and dust it.

“…… How did the county lord know that there were dead people down there? Fei Hong couldn't help but ask.

"Let's talk about it later." Gu Tingcheng interrupted her, restored all the furniture in the hall with Feihong, and then left the room.

The geese were outside, guarding the fried medicines.

It turned out that Feihong and Feiyan came back with medicine, and when they saw Gu Tingcheng go to Ningxiang Garden, Feiyan stayed outside to look at the medicine, and Feihong went in to find Gu Tingcheng.

The decoction is packed with a golden gourd for easy carrying.

Liu Siyuan also carefully marked on the gourd what kind of drug it was.

Gu Tingcheng opened the medicine gourd, sniffed the medicine, and gave it to the women to drink respectively.

When they were drinking the medicine, Gu Qingcheng saw the woman who led the way just now, huddled in a remote courtyard, looking trembling.

The eyes of anguish were filled with cloudy tears.

Gu Tingcheng walked over, slowly squatted down, held the woman's shoulder, and said in a low voice:

"Don't be afraid, it's human, there will always be a day when you will be wronged. It's a ghost, and Hades will always send a bull head and a horse to detain her. ”

The woman looked at Gu Qingcheng's calm and calm eyes, and her trembling body finally slowly quieted down.

The tears couldn't hold back any longer, rolled down one by one, and nodded gratefully to Gu Qingcheng.

"Can you tell me, what's your name?" Gu Tingcheng asked softly again.

"......" The woman looked at Gu Qingcheng, thinking in her heart, I don't know what the county lord in front of her wants.

"You're all wounded, and you're also wounded by that evil spirit?" Gu Tingcheng asked in a low voice, "Because you might know some of her secrets?" ”

The woman was even more stunned, she didn't expect Gu Qingcheng to know this.

Did she guess?

Or does she know some secrets?

She still had doubts about Gu Qingcheng, and she didn't know if she could trust this county lord.

"Were you in this incense garden back then, the person next to the evil ghost? Like the palace people? Gu Tingcheng asked again.

Long......

The woman finally nodded with difficulty, and suddenly sorrow came to her, and tears flowed down her cheeks.

looked at Gu Qingcheng miserably, as if looking at a savior, covering his mouth and sobbing.

"I know that you have endured a lot of suffering, and looking at the wounds all over your body, you know that you are nine deaths." Gu Qingcheng couldn't help but feel sad, and said with pity, "If it weren't for that evil ghost who thought you didn't know many secrets, I'm afraid you would not only be tortured by these things, but would have killed you immediately." ”

"You...... Who the hell are you? The woman asked, scared.

"I am the one who has come to exorcise demons and hunt ghosts and avenge your grievances." Gu Qingcheng smiled.

“…… It's true? The woman could barely believe it.

"You stay in peace first, I will have someone bring you food and daily use." Gu Qingcheng held her hand and said, "When the time is right, I will let you out of the sea of suffering." ”

"You, if you want to know anything, come back to me at night." The woman's hoarse voice whispered.

"Okay, thank you." Gu Qingcheng said: "You also have to take care." ”

Before leaving, Gu Qingcheng and the people in the cold palace said:

"Don't worry, I'll look for another opportunity to see you and bring you medicine and food.

Even if I don't have time, I'll have someone send it. ”

"Thank you, Lord ......"

With a glimmer of unreal hope, the women of the cold palace watched Gu Qingcheng leave.

Leaving the cold palace, Fei Hong couldn't wait to ask Gu Qingcheng: "County Lord, how do you know that there is a corpse buried under the bed, it really scares me to death." ”

Before Gu Qingcheng could answer, the flying geese beside him were already shocked.

"What, there's a body buried in it?" Feiyan was shocked and said, "Then do we have to report it quickly?" ”

"Don't worry, don't make a noise, don't tell anyone, when the time comes, I will definitely let the murderer show his true form." Gu Tingcheng Road.

"It turns out that the county lord came to the cold palace for the corpse." Flying Goose Road.

Feihong Feiyan glanced at each other, and only then did he understand why Gu Qingcheng wanted to come to the cold palace.

"How did the county lord know that there was a corpse buried under the bed?" Fei Hong couldn't help but ask curiously, "That corpse has turned into a skeleton, I'm afraid it's been a few years, right?" ”

"Well," Gu Tingcheng nodded, "I wasn't born when the body was buried." ”

"How did the county lord find out that there was a corpse there?" Fei Hong continued to ask.

"It was the corpse who told me about his dreams at night." Gu Qingcheng said with a smile.

"Oh my God, it turns out that there are really ghosts in this world!" Feihong Feiyan was suspicious, but he was still scared.

On the way back, near Xinzheku, I saw Li Yi, who had been waiting here.

"Allure, you go to the cold palace, are you okay?" Li Yi asked worriedly.

"Brother Li, don't you think I'm doing well." Gu Qingcheng said with a smile.

After a pause, she said gloomily: "Brother Li, now I really see what a cold palace is, the women there are so miserable, even if they are seriously ill, they are left to fend for themselves, and no one cares." ”

"Did you know that the cold palace is a woman's grave?" Li Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Gu Qingcheng thought for a while, and said to Li Yi:

"In this case, I'll ask Feihong Feiyan and them to get some clothes, food, and medicine.

Every once in a while, you come to Yuxiu Palace and help me send it to those women in the cold palace.

We often come to the cold palace, which is always inconvenient. ”

Gu Tingcheng was afraid that he would frequently appear in the cold palace, and he would startle the snake and arouse Lu Zuo Zhaoyi's vigilance.

"Well, whatever you ask, I will do it." Li Yi said with a smile.

"Thank you, Brother Li." Gu Qingcheng said with a smile.

Seeing Gu Qingcheng's flower-like smile, Li Yi felt that even if he guarded it silently, it was worth it.

Of course, the news of Gu Qingcheng's going to the cold palace still spread far and wide, and suddenly reached the ears of the queen and Lu Zuo Zhaoyi.

In the Yikun Palace, Empress Helian and her sister Helian were muttering in secret.

Queen Helian gritted her teeth and said:

"That Gu Qingcheng is really full of tricks and vigorous every day!

Relying on His Majesty's favor, she pleaded with Ling'er to lift the grounding, and I don't know what kind of heart she has!

Ling'er's heartless child was grateful to Dade, and when she was a good friend, she also held a banquet to entertain her.

Now the demon girl who doesn't know the height of the sky and the height of the earth even ran to the cold palace, it is a haunted place, is she really not afraid of gods and ghosts?! ”

"The person who dares to control the bamboo kite in the sky, her courage, that is not ordinary!" Helian said worriedly: "Our Ling'er is simple-minded, I'm afraid that sooner or later we will suffer the loss of Gu Allure, and the queen's sister has to let Ling'er have less dealings with her!" ”

"Do you think Hongu wants them to come and go?" Empress Helian pursed her lips and shook her head, "Your Majesty also made a special trip to order her to have more contact with that Gu Qingcheng!" ”

Helian thought about it for a while, and then said worriedly: "Sister Queen, didn't Jia Zhou say that His Majesty promised Gu Qingcheng the honor of the queen?" Whoever can resist the temptation of power is afraid that sooner or later the demon girl will replace her sister. ”

"She dares!" Queen Helian gritted her teeth and patted the case.

Helian said worriedly: "Whether she dares or not, if Your Majesty has the heart to give her the back position, no one can stop it, no one can refuse!" ”

"For the sake of today, even if you try everything you can, you will destroy her!" Queen Helian thumped her chest again.

Lu Zuo Zhaoyi of Zhong Cui Palace jumped in shock after knowing that Gu Qingcheng had gone to the Cold Palace.

nervously asked her personal maid Meizi: "Meizi, do you know why Gu Qingcheng went to the cold palace?" ”

“…… I heard that it was Living Guanyin who was kind enough to treat those poor women, and asked Liu Siyuan from Tai Hospital to help boil medicine. Meizi sneered, "She's just trying to win people's hearts!" ”

"Now that she is the lord of the county, how can she go to a ghost place like the Cold Palace to treat those filthy women?" Lu Zuo Zhaoyi said suspiciously.

Meizi said again: "According to the reply of the people below, Gu Tingcheng went in for a while, so she ordered her maid Feiyan to come back to get the medicine box, and then asked Feihong Feiyan to come back to the Tai Hospital to help decoct the medicine. It should be to see those women, she used to like to see the palace maids. ”

Lu Zuo Zhaoyi was still pacing back and forth nervously, muttering secretly in her heart: "Could it be that she is just going to treat those women?" ”

She thought in her heart that she had to quickly find Gu Qingcheng to talk to her to see why she went to the cold palace.

Now that she has retired, she still wants to retrieve those letters!

Of course, the news of Gu Qingcheng's visit to the cold palace also quickly spread back to Emperor Tuoba Tao.

He was also stunned at first, and finally sighed: "In the end, he is a kind-hearted child!" ”

I love Gu Tingcheng even more in my heart.

Originally, the false words of Taiyi Zhenren and the high priest during the day, although he reprimanded them at the time, he was still haunted in his heart, and they were gone at this moment.

And Feng Zuo Zhaoyi in Yuxiu Palace has known since Feiyan came back to get the medicine box.

She has always been suspicious, could it be that Allure went to the cold palace just to help those women who entered the cold palace to treat their diseases?

When Gu Tingcheng returned to Yuxiu Palace, he didn't dare to tell his aunt that there was a corpse hidden in the cold palace, for fear of frightening her, and for fear that she would be frightened.

simply talked about the pitiful situation of those women in the cold palace, and said that in the future, Li Yi would send them some daily necessities.

Feng Zuo Zhaoyi didn't ask any questions.

In the evening, Tuoba Ling's self-training martial arts field came back happily, humming a little song in his mouth.

As soon as she returned to Bixia Palace, the queen mother was already waiting there, drinking tea with a heavy heart.

Seeing the happy baby princess, Queen Helian put down the cup and said with a smile: "Ling'er is back." Look at what the queen mother has brought you? ”

Tuoba Ling looked at the room full of jeweled clothes and beads, and exclaimed, "What a beautiful dress! ”

Queen Helian came over and took her to carefully look at the dress ornaments: "These are all the crown clothes, hairpins, and phoenix hairpins prepared by the queen mother for Ling'er. You see, there are only 100 taels of gold used in this crown and clothes, and there are countless jewelry, and the embroidery girls have been doing it for half a year. ”

Tuoba Ling took the crown dress and said with a bitter face: "There are so many jewels, but they are sinking, how do you let Ling'er wear them?" ”

"Hey, just wear it for a while, no matter how heavy it is, you have to endure it." Empress Helian held Tuoba Ling and said dotingly, "If you don't have jewels, how can you show the royal might." ”

"Well, thank you, Queen Mother." Tuoba Ling smiled happily again.

"It's good if Ling'er likes it." Empress Helian stroked Tuobaling's face and said.

Tuoba Ling said: "Allure has promised to help Ling'er prepare for the Qushui Liuyu banquet, as for what kind of hair bun to comb, the list of other banquets to watch the ceremony and drink will be drawn up by the father and the queen mother." ”

“…… The queen mother knew that Gu Tingcheng was asking skilled craftsmen to tinker with some kind of water in the imperial garden! "Empress Helian didn't have a good air.

Tuoba Ling saw that her mother's face was full of displeasure at the mention of Allure, and she smiled disapprovingly.

He also said: "Zhengbin, naturally he is a respected ancestor, and as for the assistant who assists Zhengbin, Ling'er has to be in the city." I think that even if it is determined by the ancestors, she will choose Allure as the praiser. ”

"Alluring city! When did Ling'er start to talk about Gu Qingcheng all day long? Empress Helian said coldly again.

Tuoba Ling saw that her mother was extremely dissatisfied with Gu Qingcheng, so she took her mother's hand and said, "Mother, don't you have prejudices against Qingcheng, if she hadn't pleaded with her father, Ling'er would still be grounded now." ”

"That's what makes it suspicious!" Queen Helian gritted her teeth and said, "I don't know what kind intentions she has when she pleases you like this!" ”

"Queen Mother, how can you be so kind to Allure." Tuoba Ling stomped his feet and twisted his waist and left Empress Helian.

"The queen mother just hates her to the core!" Empress Helian said angrily.

"Queen Mother, if it weren't for Alluring's generosity and indifference, I'm afraid that the harem would still be thoroughly investigated by Commander Mu now, and it would not be peaceful!" Tuoba Ling pouted to her mother, "As the queen who leads the harem, if the palace is restless, the queen mother will not be able to escape the blame, right?" ”

"Humph!" Empress Helian snorted noncommittally, "She just wants to win the hearts of the people and win the favor of your father!" ”

Tuoba Ling looked at her queen mother, suddenly thought of something, and asked hesitantly: "Could it be that the last phosphorus powder incident was really related to the queen mother?" Is it the queen mother who misled Ling'er? ”

Empress Helian was momentarily stunned.

In an instant, the queen mother's shelf was raised and whispered: "Ling'er, how can you question your queen mother so much!" Gu Qingcheng is about to be crowned by your father, and your mother's position will soon be replaced by that demon girl! ”

“…… What the? Father Emperor actually wants to seal the city as the queen? Tuoba Ling was stunned, "How is this possible?" ”

"That demon girl can confuse men all over the world, what's impossible!" Empress Helian said fiercely, "Only you, a simple child, treat her so sincerely!" ”

“…… Even if the father has that intention, it is also a man's heart, the father and queen's palace are three thousand, and there are groups of concubines, and they are not satisfied, and they still have the idea of falling into the city! Tuoba Ling said angrily.

and tried his best to defend Gu Chengcheng: "That's not Allure's fault!" ”

"Why is it not her fault, if she hadn't charmed your father, would your father have obeyed her?" Empress Helian said resolutely.

"Nope! Ling'er believes that Allure is a good person, and his father wants Ling'er to have more dealings with Allure. Tuoba Ling said stubbornly.

Empress Helian saw that Tuoba Ling came out to press her with her father's words, and finally said coldly: "In short, you will have less dealings with her in the future, and even if you do, you can't treat each other sincerely!" ”

Empress Helian shook off her words and left.

Gu Yuqing accompanied Tuoba Ling for an afternoon, returned to the camp of the Royal Forest Army, and fell asleep with his head exhausted.

When he fell asleep, he had a great priest with a beard on his chin, got up from him, and went to the Nine Hells behind the Peach Blossom Temple.

Meng Po greeted him by the Nai He Bridge, led the way in front, and led him to meet the Hades King.

"Hades, Da Sima is here." Meng Po respectfully reported.

"The Great Priest?" The Hades King was drinking with his back to drink, and when he heard the great priest take the initiative to come to him, he stood up and said, "Rare guest! ”

The Hades King turned around, and it was Qin Shaoqing, who was elegant and handsome, full of bookish air.

Meng Po retreated with interest.

"Look!" Da Si Ming glared at the Hades King, and complained gloomily: "The Hades King tampered with the fate book and led one person to move the overall situation, even I, a pure-hearted immortal, will suffer from the love calamity and be troubled by those messy feelings. ”

The chief priest took the initiative to take the wine cup and wanted to pour himself a drink.

"Princess Kamiya is hard to deal with, isn't she?" With a wry smile on his face, the Hades poured him a glass of wine with a little apology.

"Tuoba Jun is right, the most difficult to accept the grace of the beauty!" The chief priest picked up the wine cup and drank it all.

I poured another glass of wine and was about to raise my glass......

At this moment, a crisp bell sounded outside.

As soon as the chief priest heard the bell ring, the whole person was shocked, and the wine in the wine cup spilled out.

Look out at the same time as the Immortal.

I saw a veiled woman, dressed as a princess, wearing a purple dress, and the sound of bells came from the ring on her hand.

Da Si Ming looked at the bell on the ring of the comer, and his face turned pale.

Putting down the wine cup, he looked at the masked woman angrily.

The woman gently shook the bell on the ring on her hand, and the bell suddenly became more than ten times larger.

She held the bell in her hand and said with a coquettish smile: "Hades, the great priest, the wine is even more sorrowful, as long as Nishang casts this illusion bell again, and keeps Tuoba Jun and Gu Qingcheng Lao Yan flying separately, the good couple will suddenly become a resentful couple!" The holy aunt and Bai are flawless, and they can't be married in the future! ”

Hades looked at the woman hesitantly, looking noncommittal.

But the big priest looked at the bell in the woman's hand angrily, and said angrily:

"If it weren't for Princess Ni Shang's stealing of the queen of heaven's transformation bell, she would have performed a wedding with Bai Wufeng that even the gods couldn't distinguish between the real and the fake. How could the Holy Aunt jump off Zhuxiantai heartbroken, and be frozen for 30,000 years!

Princess Nishang was beaten down by the gods and degraded from the heavenly realm to the immortal realm, which is the retribution for stealing the ancient artifact and abusing it without permission.

The fairy in the neon dress is unrepentant, and forces Fluttershy to return to her teacher and her flesh and blood in the fairy world.

You fell into an immortal and became a demon, removed the divine bones, took off the immortal book, no human and no ghost! If it weren't for the help of the Immortal King, you wouldn't even be able to transform into a human form, and you wouldn't have woken up yet.

Don't blame this company for not reminding you, if you use the transfiguration bell without authorization, it will go against the way of heaven, and I am afraid that it will be wiped out! ”

The woman known as Ni Shang was scolded by the big priest as soon as they met, and her face couldn't hold back.

“…… Hmph, Da Si Ming, you are so vigorous and angry, I am afraid that you are not only annoyed that you were confused by the illusion bell at the beginning, and miswrote the fate of Bai Wufang and the Holy Aunt, but you have long loved the Holy Aunt deeply in your bones, right? Not to be outdone, the masked woman said.

Da Si Ming was said by Ni Shang, and his face was red and white.

But it seems to be the central thing to be said by Ni Shang.

The Hades King looked at them, stretched out his hand and said, "Since the two of you have come to my Nine Netherworld, they are naturally in a bad mood, so let's have a drink together." ”

"The Tao is different, not conspiratory!" Da Si Ming glanced at the masked woman, dropped a sentence coldly, brushed his sleeves away, and left the Nine Netherworlds.

After the chief priest left, the Hades King said to Ni Shang: "Ni Shang, you can do anything, but this king does not allow you to hurt the Holy Aunt. ”

"You're more stupid than Ni Dress!" A sneer tugged at the corner of Ni Shang's mouth, and he also flicked his sleeves and left the Nine Netherworlds.

The king of Hades was left alone, pouring himself a drink.

At night, Gu Qingcheng and Feihong Feiyan quietly went to the cold palace again.

Meet the scarred woman and hear her talk about some of the tragic memories of more than 20 years ago......