Chapter 54: Concubine Du Shu died tragically
She walked on the palace road, always feeling uneasy, if she really died in the courtyard of the Shangfu Bureau, what would happen to the palace now, would she mourn?
It's too dangerous! After several lives and deaths! Does no one care about their own lives?
She was sad for her fate, and she didn't know what the queen and Qin Yun were planning right now, so she could only take one step at a time and make adequate preparations, so as not to die in these open guns and hidden arrows next time.
Everything is as usual in the palace, the palace people passing by are polite, she always feels that this harem is always dead and silent, lacking human touch, who will not go crazy under this huge depression?
There is a huge palace with thousands of palace people, but now there are only a few real masters, and they are fighting openly and secretly with each other.
She thought, unconsciously walked to Jianzhang Palace, and when she came back to her senses, she was already at the closed gate of Jianzhang Palace, and she looked up.
Solemn and desolate, the black lacquer gate where there is obviously nothing actually makes the viewer desolate.
I heard that since the incident in Liyuan, Concubine Du Shu was locked up in Jianzhang Palace, and all the palace people in the palace were sent away, leaving only a loyal maid who did not want to leave, which was found by Zhou Yang to testify at that time.
Jianzhang Palace has always been a blessed land, the favorite concubine of the first emperor once lived, and Jianzhang Palace was also brilliant, and now it has become like this.
Suddenly there was a gust of wind, nearly a hundred black crows flew out of the palace wall of Jianzhang Palace, filling a little depression, she frowned at the palace road, the black crow in the lead spread its wings, and the others flew away.
She had a bad premonition in her heart, it was really strange for so many black crows to appear in the palace, as if she was attracted by something from afar.
The black crow eats carrion and often appears at graves or mass graves, and she hurriedly pushes the palace door with several layers of locks.
Hearing only a 'squeak', as the door of the Gray Palace was pushed open half of the crack of her face, which was already the maximum amount of opening, she squatted under the chains that blocked her view, and her hands vigorously grabbed the crack in the door.
A face squeezed into the gap, trying to capture more of the perspective of Jianzhang Palace, she tried several times that both eyes could not exist in the crack of the door at the same time.
So she closed her right eye and let her left eye peek at the scenery of Jianzhang Palace, but even so, there were still dead ends, and she squeezed it hard, desperately trying to see the direction where the crow flew out.
I vaguely saw a touch of pink clothes, which no longer looked like pink, dyed with black and red and dust on the ground, like something paralyzed on the ground....
At this time, Chu Yunjing's heart was shocked, as if he had seen something like hair, and the connection was an unrecognizable human face that had been eaten a long time ago, and only the broken white bones and erosive flesh and blood were exposed.
She confirmed it again, and withdrew her face from the crack in the door, and on the left side of where she was, on the flat ground five or six steps from the palace wall, there was a female corpse in pink clothes.
Judging from her hair and clothes, she could tell that it was a female corpse, and she guessed that it should be the maid next to Concubine Du Shu, but what about Concubine Du Shu? Whether it is more auspicious or less...
Looking at the corpse of this maid, it seems that she has been dead for many days, but why has no one reported it, the harem diet has always been reported, and she did not listen to the eunuch who sent food to Jianzhang Palace to say that there was anything wrong.
At this time, Si Yu looked at Chu Yunjing's lost soul and wandered, and asked what she saw, which dragged her thoughts back, and she comforted Si Yu and said that it was nothing.
The two of them immediately got up, closed the palace door that was more than ten times the length and width of hers, and then left as if nothing happened.
But she didn't give up, she wanted to go in and have a look.
So Zhou Yang was called in the evening, and she changed into a black robe with narrow sleeves and close to the body, and the two of them were light and covered their faces.
Zhou Yang is from the forbidden army in the end, and he knows the frequency of the forbidden army's inspections very well, and quickly evades the guards who patrol and the palace people who walk in order.
Jianzhang Palace has long been unmanned to inspect the handles, and no one dares to come to the desolate and dead place, they are a little bolder here, swaggering from the ring road outside Jianzhang Palace that they walk during the day.
Walking to the dark lacquered door that she was peeking at during the day, she took out the fire fold and shone it left and right, and pushed the crack open as if it were daytime, and it was pitch black, and she couldn't see anything.
She followed her memory to the approximate location of the corpse and pointed to the black wall: "This is it, the corpse I found during the day is probably this location, can I go in?" β
Chu Yunjing placed the fire fold in front of the two of them, and was able to see each other's faces clearly.
In Zhou Yang's eyes, the eyes of the person in front of him at the moment were always so sincere, and with the beating of the flames, Chu Yunjing's eyes were radiant, as clear as a rumor that he had not seen a star for a long time.
He was stunned for a moment, then raised his lips, grabbed Chu Yunjing's slender waist with one hand, touched the ground with both feet, and left the ground with his left hand, flying lightly over the palace wall.
When Chu Yunjing reacted, the two had already entered Jianzhang Palace, and after settling down, Zhou Yang let go of his right hand that was holding her waist.
She came out of the panic that had just feitian, and looked left and right with the fire fold, but it was still pitch black.
The fact that Jianzhang Palace does not light up at night is even deeper than the speculation of no one in the palace, and now he can't see his five fingers, he can only rely on a slight fire fold to explore the way, and the pink-clothed corpse he saw during the day is probably in this area.
I was bending down and poking forward cautiously, when suddenly I stepped on something!
Frightened, she hurriedly retracted her feet, took two steps back, and crashed into Zhou Yang's body.
Zhou Yang caught her and felt her trembling.
Zhou Yang picked up the fire fold in Chu Yunjing's hand and took a picture on the ground just now.
Really! I saw the giant corpse!!
The pink coat on this corpse has long been torn to pieces, and it is spread out messily around the corpse, and all the places where the flesh is exposed have been eaten up, and countless maggots are crawling....
The flesh and blood were blurred, and the ten fingers and face were the first to be exposed.
Therefore, it was also the first to be eaten only the white bones.....
In addition to the color of the clothes and the length of the hair, as well as the hairpins inserted in the hair, it can be concluded that the corpse was a woman.
The rest could not be seen at all, but they probably judged from the style of these fragmentary clothes that it belonged to the palace maid, but this kind of clothing was inferior linen cotton.
This person probably died in winter, and he has been lying here for more than two months, and the palace maid will not wear such inferior materials, but there are no other women in the palace except the palace maid and concubines.
What's more, she was still in Jianzhang Palace, and she dared to guess: "This is probably the maid next to Concubine Du." β
After hearing this, Zhou Yang cautiously checked it again, but still found nothing.
"Let's go in and take a look, maybe Concubine Du Shu is still alive." Zhou Yang pointed the fire fold at the main hall in front of him.
The two of them relied on the faint fire fold to find their way, Zhou Yang naturally walked steadily, as if he had night vision, maybe a master like him already had the ability to perceive all directions.
Chu Yunjing suffered, and he had the courage to grab the arm of the person leading the way.
After groping for more than a hundred steps, he came to the bottom of the steps, and at this time, a terrible yin wind blew in the entire Jianzhang Palace.
Frightened, her hairs stood on end, and she suddenly didn't dare to leave, closing her eyes tightly, Zhou Yang noticed the reaction of the person behind her, and her arm was pinched by Chu Yunjing.
So he stopped, and when the gust of wind passed, he comforted him softly: "It's just a gust of wind, it's already passed, let's go in quickly!" β
Hearing such a gentle voice, her fear was instantly dispelled, she opened her eyes tremblingly, and followed Zhou Yang up the steps.
She has begged the Bodhisattva Buddha a hundred times in her heart at the moment, the queen's disrespectful thing, she Chu Yunjing didn't dare to be disrespectful, and begged the Bodhisattva Buddha to protect her....
walked up dozens of steps and came to the main hall of Jianzhang Palace, the entire Jianzhang Palace was locked except for the main hall, and only Du Shufei's residence still had a door.
She hid behind Zhou Yang, and for some reason completely lost the momentum of the day, perhaps because it was dark, when the fear of the unknown was most obvious.
Zhou Yang pushed the door open, 'squeak,
They hurriedly stepped back and covered their faces, and waited until the dust had almost fallen before the two of them would go in.
Cautiously entering the hall, experience is a trick, Zhou Yang first went to find a candlestick and lit a lamp, and then hastily lit a few lamps, so that they can see the furnishings in the hall.
At this time, Chu Yunjing lost his sense of fear, and there was no surprise in patrolling the hall, and there was no figure of Concubine Du Shu.
She didn't dare to unload the tense string, because Concubine Du Shu might be in the back room, she had the courage to pick up a candlestick and walk to the inner room....
The closer she got to the inner room, the more she could smell a foul smell, which grew stronger, and she covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve.
I thought it wouldn't be the smell of Du Shufei's corpse!
The candlestick in the inner room was lit by the stench, and a heinous scene came into view.....
Concubine Du Shu lay on the bed in an extremely tragic way of death!
The body is arranged in a large figure, the head and arms hang down on the side of the bed, and the body is half-hidden with a brocade quilt full of maggots!
Concubine Du's mouth, nose and eyes were also crawling with disgusting maggots, and her eyeballs had already been eaten, with only a pair of fleshy eye sockets.....
When Chu Yunjing saw this tragic situation, he couldn't hold back the tumbling in his stomach anymore.
She hugged the vase on the table and tore off the black cloth on her face, and as the black cloth was pulled off, the stench of rotting corpses hit...
She sprayed the stinky smell directly into the vase, vomited for a while, and vomited all the things in her stomach and was still angry.
As long as she gasped a little, she still wanted to vomit when she smelled the stench, and she was about to vomit out the bitter bile.
Zhou Yang wrapped the black cloth in her hand and folded all the parts that covered her face to her nose.
Then he quickly caught her and tied her to her nose at the moment she stopped, and Zhou Yang pulled her out of the hall so that she could take a few breaths of fresh air.
After Chu Yunjing came out, he didn't have the intention of spitting, he breathed out the fresh air outside the hall, and looked at the room behind him with palpitations.
"This.... This, this, thisβ" She put one hand on her knee and pointed to the room with the other, panting and unable to say a word.
"It's her retribution." Zhou Yang looked disapproving, very calm.
She looked at the man who didn't react, and she could still talk calmly and calmly, secretly calling monsters!
"Was this killed?" Chu Yunjing finally connected the sentences.