On the day Xue Nuo entered the palace, it snowed heavily in Beijing, so she changed into the clothes of a little eunuch in the palace and entered the Guangning Hall at night.

When the man who led her came to the gate of the temple, he bowed down in the darkness of the night and said:

"The Buddha hall is in this hall, Gonggong Liu has been led away, and the dumb slaves outside dare not enter the main hall, so they will not hinder the son. Only Father-in-law Liu is not easy to fool, and Gongzi only has tea time, remember not to touch the things in the hall, and come out quickly. ”

Xue Nuo nodded and turned to enter the hall behind him, while the man glanced around, rose into the air, grabbed the beam and turned over, and disappeared in the shadows of the high place for a moment.

The light in the Quang Ninh Hall is dim, and the rich sandalwood lingers throughout the hall.

The hall had already been rearranged once, not in the elegant and luxurious appearance she had seen when she was a child, but with prayer flags hanging all around.

The dark yellow banner cloth was densely covered with Buddhist texts, Xue Nuo reached out and stroked it for a moment and couldn't help but laugh mockingly, and when he passed through the hanging prayer flags to the middle of the Buddhist hall, he saw the statue of the god on the altar at a glance.

The huge statue looked strange and terrifying at first glance, with a red body, half dressed in a dark helmet, with eyes wide open on its red and blue face, and a red rope vaguely wrapped around its arm holding the sword halberd, which looked like a giant snake wrapped around the angry King Kong with its bloody mouth open.

The dim light was intimidating when it fell on the face of the idol, but Xerno only watched it quietly for a moment, and then walked to the alcove.

The lamps and candles in front of the table are full of lamp oil, and the incense burner next to it is full of burnt black incense sticks, and the incense ash is still hot, and the wooden fish and the Gandhi on the side are engraved with complex scriptures, and even the altar and table, and the incense burner can be seen to cover the scriptures.

Xue Nuo touched the Buddha platform: "Mother, how afraid of you is Ying Xun?" ”

I am afraid that I will be uneasy day and night, and I am afraid that people who never ask God to worship Buddha have people worship this Buddha hall every day to suppress the soul of their mother, afraid that she will become an evil ghost, and afraid that she will enter reincarnation.

The hall was empty and quiet, and no one answered.

Xue Nuo flipped through the unburned Buddhist scriptures on the side, looked at the neat scriptures on them, and was silent for a moment before putting things back in their place, retreating to the futon, kneeling down and kowtowing three times in the direction of the altar.

"Mother, you wait, wait a few days."

Ah Yao will take you out......

Ah Yao will wash away your grievances for you, will ask Ying Xun to kowtow to you personally to make amends, will destroy what he cares about the most and make him stink for 10,000 years, and cut off his bones to repay everything you suffered at the beginning.

The temple was dark and silent, except for the shadows of the oil lamps flickering as they burned.

I don't know how long it took, but the door of the outer hall was suddenly pushed open, and the banners in the room were blown and shaken, and the lamps in front of the Buddha statues were also flickering.

"Childe, Grandpa Liu is back."

Xue Nuo didn't speak.

The people outside didn't respond for a long time, and urged urgently: "Childe, it's time to go!" ”

Only then did Xue Nuo get up: "It's here." ”

Outside, Liu Hai carried a lantern and led people to approach this side, and the person who led the way was afraid of bumping into Liu Hai, so he hurriedly led Xue Nuo and walked away quickly towards the shadows on the side.

When the two of them climbed over the wall, Xue Nuo couldn't help but glance back, and just happened to see the old eunuch walking in from the front door.

The old eunuch was wrapped in a thick cloak, and his hat covered his entire face, and he could only be seen that his figure was a little rickety, and he walked with a limp.

The dumb slave who followed him wanted to step forward to help him, but Liu Hai only waved his hand and pushed it away, quickly walked to the front of the hall, pushed open the door of the hall, and strode in.

After passing through the prayer flags and entering the hall, he swept around the Buddhist hall with sharp eyes, and saw that it was still the same inside, and the Buddhist hall was extremely quiet.

The ever-bright lamp was still burning, and the scriptures in front of the Buddha were still there, he frowned and wanted to look away, but the next moment the whole person paused suddenly, and quickly turned his head to look at the few pillars of incense that had just been lit in the incense burner.

"You've been in?" Bangs turned his head and said in a deep voice.

The dumb slave hurriedly shook his head, gesturing in his hand: There is no father-in-law in this hall, and the slave does not dare to come in.

"What about the others?"

Dumb slave comparison: They all keep watch outside,

Bangs looked cold.

The dumb slave was a little scared: Father-in-law, but what happened?

Bangs pursed his lips and frowned for a moment, his eyes fixed on the three sticks of incense, and when he got closer, he found that the position of the futon had moved half an inch.

He looked down at the futon, then quietly looked at the niche not far away, and waited for a while to look at it before shaking his head and whispering, "It's okay, you go down first." ”

The dumb slave didn't know what was going on, but he always felt that Gonggong Liu's mood seemed to be something wrong today, but he had already understood not to ask what he shouldn't ask, and he also knew the rules of staying in this Guangning Palace to save his life.

He retreated quietly, and closed the door of the temple as he had done before.

After Liu Hai and the others left, they limped to the Buddha, touched the scriptures placed aside, and added some sesame oil to the ever-bright lamp with the oil cup next to them.

The incense in the incense burner on the side was burning just right, and he took three more sticks of incense, lit them and inserted them next to the incense.

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"How long has Gonggong Liu been in this Guangning Palace?" After coming out of the Guangning Palace, Xue Nuo asked.

The person next to him replied: "It's been many years, not long after the princess's accident, His Majesty had nightmares for several days in a row, and invited the monks to enter the palace to expel the evil spirits, and he came here. ”

Xue Nuo's expression was indifferent: "Evil? ”

Scold!

The people around him were quiet and didn't dare to say anything, Xue Nuo's face was angry for a moment, and he said coldly: "Go to Fengling Palace." ”

Fengling Palace was originally the middle palace, and it was also the most honorable place in the palace except for the Queen Mother's Shou'an Palace and the Emperor's Zhengyang Palace, but since the queen was grounded, the Zheng family and the three princes had accidents, and this Fengling Palace has become an almost cold palace.

The emperor was reluctant to set foot in it, and the palace concubine regarded it as unlucky, and the guards around him were not even comparable to the Guangning Palace, which was like a wasteland.

When Xue Nuo bypassed the outer guards and entered the dormitory, the queen was leaning on the couch with a sickly face, and there was only a grandmother in plain clothes beside her, and there was not even a palace maid in the palace.

Mama Gong took the medicine bowl and sent it to the queen: "Niangniang, take the medicine first." ”

The queen obediently took the medicine bowl, but her eyes touched Mama's hand: "Your hand ......"

"The slave is fine, but I accidentally touched it."

Mama Gong hurriedly wanted to hide her hand, but was grabbed by the queen, and when she saw the hot bubbles on the back of her hand, and her fingers were red and swollen due to sores.

The queen couldn't help but pull up her sleeves, and saw that there was also a large series of burned wounds on Mama Gong's arms, and her eyes instantly turned red: "Who hurt you?" ”

The palace grandmother lowered her eyes and her throat was bitter, since the queen was grounded a few months ago, their situation has been bad, the palace maids and eunuchs in this palace began to slacken, but at that time, the three princes were still there, although the Zheng family did not have the position of the prince of the country, they still had a foundation, and no one dared to bully them too much.

But since the grandfather of the country had a stroke, and His Majesty abolished the three princes and the Zheng family, the people who were originally serving in the Fengling Palace ran away, or found another way out, or were afraid of being dragged to death, and tried their best to step on the queen mother to please their new master.