Chapter 396: Penglai Lanyue (4)
In order to prove that she was not an auditory hallucination, she decided to let the two palace maids sleep in the cubicle of her house that night to help her testify.
That night, Wei Nong went to bed early, and it was between half sleep and half awake that she heard the voice again.
She sat up suddenly, hurriedly called two palace maids, and asked, "Did you hear that?" That voice is loud again! β
One of the two palace maids ran to the window, and the other lay on the ground, both desperately trying to discern it, but they didn't hear anything. Only slightly thick, I heard that voice twice in one night, bones, bones...... It's like a nightmare that can't be shaken off.
Could it be that I am really hallucinating? Her brow furrowed, only to feel a more headache.
It was another early morning, and Wei Nong was obviously more haggard than yesterday, and after careful listening by the two palace maids last night, everyone thought that it was her auditory hallucination. The eunuch, the leader of Penglai Pavilion, even asked her sideways if she needed to ask the imperial doctor to take a pulse of peace for her. Wei Nong refused, but she still firmly believed that she was not hallucinating.
In the afternoon of the same day, King Ning summoned her again and told her that the matter of releasing the Yan army had been decided, and that 50,000 horses could leave the city and return to Yan at any time. After hearing this, Wei Nong decided to leave early tomorrow morning, and King Ning did not say anything against it. After finishing the business, King Ning seemed to notice that she was haggard, so he asked a perfunctory question and summoned an imperial doctor for her.
Wei Nong described the situation of the past two days to the imperial doctor, and after taking the pulse, the imperial doctor concluded that she was suffering from insomnia and auditory hallucinations caused by excessive worry. Wei Nong herself has read medical books and does not agree with this opinion, at least she feels that she can fall asleep quickly every night, and she is always woken up by that voice. For this reason, she and the imperial doctor had a heated argument, and both sides had their own opinions, and naturally they couldn't get any results. In the end, the imperial doctor prescribed her a lot of drugs to calm her nerves and help her sleep, and personally sent them to Penglai Pavilion.
After dinner, the palace maids dutifully boiled the medicine and brought it up, and there were three or four of them, and they didn't eat any of them, and they all poured them out. Because of an argument with the imperial doctor in the afternoon, she felt a little depressed, and she didn't sleep well for several days, and her temper became a little irritable. So she decided to go out for a walk, and by the way, to observe what was strange near Penglai Pavilion, at least she wanted to find out whether the sound was accidental or artificial.
Since the decision was made, Wei Nong did not delay for a moment, and immediately went out with the palace people. She took a closer look around Penglai Pavilion, but found nothing, and stood in front of the main gate and looked around, and finally fell on the adjacent Lanyue Tower.
In the dark, there seemed to be something pulling Weinong, prompting her to involuntarily walk towards Lanyue Tower. She knew that Yunchen was still in Cangshan and had not come back, and she also knew that Lanyue Tower had been lit by lights, but for some reason, she just wanted to go over and have a look.
When she came to Lanyue Tower, she found that the building was still heavily guarded, and she only had to look inward to see heavy guards guarding both sides of the stairs. But this Lanyue Tower looks lifeless, dusk has passed but there is not even a lamp, looking up, only the eunuch is holding a pole to hang the palace lantern on the octagonal eaves of each floor.
This didn't look like someone living in it at all, Wei Nong felt very strange, and couldn't help but ask the guards: "Is there anyone living here?" β
The guards didn't mean to reply at all.
Wei Nong was not angry, he just wanted to go in and have a look, but at this moment, the eunuch, the leader of Penglai Pavilion, suddenly ran over in a hurry, panting to stop her: "The county lord forgives the sins, the county lord forgives the sins, this Lanyue Tower is now inhabited by the king's distinguished guests, and no one can enter without the king's edict." β
It turned out that there were really people, and I don't know what kind of "distinguished guest" it was, and it needed so many Praetorian Guards to guard it, it didn't look like protection at all, but like house arrest. Wei Nong thought so, and was not interested in asking more, so he said: "Since there are distinguished guests, I won't bother." β
As she spoke, she wanted to go back the way she came, but the moment she turned around, she casually swept the ground and saw a strange placeβthe three steps that had been taken into the building had been leveled and replaced by a smooth slope.
This is strange, the entrance to the general pavilion is built steps, she vaguely remembers the last time she came to Lanyue Tower to find Yunchen, here is also a step, why seven months later, the steps have become a slope?
"This guest has leg problems?" Wei Nong asked casually. The only explanation is this - turning the steps into a ramp to make it easier for wheelchairs to get in and out.
Wait, wheelchair? Wei Nong suddenly thought of the strange sound that had plagued him for several days, if the sound of "bones" was not the sound of wheels, could it be the sound of a wheelchair? And the sound came from this moon building?
Could it be that the place where the distinguished guest frequented was closer to her house, and because of the location, she was too sensitive to such sounds, so that only she could hear it, and no one else could hear it? Could this be the case?
Wei Nong was analyzing himself, but when he heard the chief eunuch, he replied embarrassedly: "County master, the slave doesn't know who that noble guest is, and the slave has never seen him at all, only heard of it." β
"Really?" Wei Nong didn't ask anything more, and went straight back to Penglai Pavilion. She vaguely felt that this was a major discovery, and she wanted to send someone to inquire about who lived in Lanyue Tower, but this was King Ning's Palace, she had no henchmen, no power, and she didn't want to alarm King Ning.
She decided to be self-reliant.
After two or three days of observation, she found a pattern - the sound only appeared at night, not during the day, and could only be heard in the room where she slept. So this night, she secretly drank a few cups of strong tea to refresh herself, but on the surface she pretended to be sleepy, claiming that she would leave for Youzhou early tomorrow morning, and used this as an excuse to rest on the second floor early. As soon as she entered the house, she blew out the lights, then quietly opened the window a gap, moved a chair and sat by the window, and waited.
Just after the ugly hour, that strange voice really appeared again! Wei Nong's eyes widened, and he quietly looked out the window, and found that it was still pitch black in the Lanyue Building, and from the second floor, there was still no half a figure.
What kind of guest is it that never lights up at night? Or is the palace light on the octagonal eaves too bright? Is it enough for him to borrow light?
Wei Nong was guessing wildly in her heart, but suddenly there was a light in front of her, it was a team of Praetorian Guards patrolling the night carrying palace lanterns, which happened to pass under her window. She involuntarily glanced down, and at this glance, there was a major discovery-
That team of no less than 100 Praetorian Guards was escorting two people! One person is in a wheelchair, the other is pushing him from behind, and the two are moving in the direction of Lanyue Tower! And the slight sound of "bones" came from the two of them! Sure enough, it's a wheelchair!
Wei Nong immediately looked over, but unfortunately the night was too dark and the light and shadow were too dark, and her perspective was not dominant, so she couldn't see the faces of the two people at all, and could only see the top of their heads.
The only thing that could be seen was that the person pushing the wheelchair was a man, and the one in the wheelchair was unknown, because he was so tightly wrapped, wearing a hat and a wide and heavy robe, and the whole person was hidden in it like a rice dumpling.
Now the season has just arrived in July, it is the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, and the summer is still in full swing. However, why did the guest in the wheelchair seem to be very afraid of the cold? However, Wei Nong thought again, since he was in a wheelchair, it was estimated that his body bones were not very good, and it was normal to be afraid of cold.
Seeing the two of them enter the Lanyue Tower, she waited for a while, and found that there was still no candle flame on any of the floors. However, now that she had found the "culprit" who disturbed her dreams, she finally settled down, and although she was still curious about what was sacred, her patience had run out, so she closed the window and planned to sleep. After all, she has to leave for Youzhou early tomorrow morning, and she needs to nourish her spirits.
Strange to say, this night, the sound of "Gu Lulu" disappeared, but she couldn't sleep anyway, always thinking about the person in a wheelchair and the slope in front of Lanyue Tower. She felt very puzzled, why did that distinguished guest live in Lanyue Building since his legs and feet were inconvenient? There are so many palaces in King Ning's Palace, most of them are spacious courtyards, but Lanyue Tower is the highest place in the palace, and there are stairs on all floors, which is simply a lame nightmare.
Thinking of this, Wei Nong couldn't help but laugh at himself for being too worried. Since he is a "distinguished guest", there will always be someone who will carry him up the stairs, and he does not need to spend any effort on his own. Maybe that guest likes to live on high ground? People who are hidden often have some quirks.
Thinking like this, Wei Nong finally fell asleep on the bed. Although this sleep was not long, she slept soundly, swept away the fatigue of the day, and was refreshed the next morning.
When the palace maids saw her ruddy face, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and asked her at breakfast, "Did the county lord sleep well last night?" β
"Good." Smiled back.
"The strange sound was found?" Everyone hurriedly asked.
He groaned for a moment, and then smiled back: "No, maybe it's really my auditory hallucination." She wouldn't be so stupid to admit that she was spying on King Ning's "honored guest" in the middle of the night.
Before the breakfast was finished, someone came to the Imperial Medical Office again, it was the imperial doctor who learned that Wei Nong was going to Youzhou today, and he was afraid that she would lose sleep on the way, so he specially prepared a few large bags of medicinal materials and sent them over. Now her identity has already been spread in King Ning's palace, and everyone knows that she is the future granddaughter-in-law of King Ning, and they have rushed to scold her.
The imperial doctor didn't dare to disturb Wei Nong's meal, waited in the main hall for a while, and when he saw her in person, he immediately asked with a smile: "County Lord, how do you use the few patches of medicine that Wei Chen prescribed to you yesterday?" Can it work? β
Wei Nong nodded perfunctorily: "The effect is good." β
The imperial doctor looked at her face and saw that her complexion was indeed much better, and he couldn't help but get proud: "Look, Weichen said that this medicine is useful, you only used it once, and your spirit looks much better today!" β
Wei Min smiled and nodded: "Yes, thank you very much." β
Only a few palace maids serving on the side knew that the county lord had poured all the medicine, and they couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
The imperial doctor didn't notice it at all, stretched out his hand and pointed to the package he brought, and said, "This is the medicine that Weichen prepared for you on the road, in case you don't have a good rest after a long journey, the dosage and usage will not change." β
Wei Nong couldn't bear to brush off his kindness, so he had to accept it and thank him.