The embroidered messenger stepped forward vigilantly and probed the little eunuch's snort.

"It's alive."

As he spoke, he pushed the little eunuch, "Hey, get up!" ”

Unexpectedly, the little eunuch remained motionless, and there was no sign of waking up.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi walked to the bed, leaned over, and took the pulse on the side of the little eunuch's neck at the neck of the little eunuch.

Just as she was about to lift the little eunuch's eyelids to check-——

Cold, she noticed that the skin under the person's ears had a small abnormal wrinkle.

This kind of wrinkle is the most familiar to Shen Lingxi.

It's the wrinkles that come with the human skin mask if it's not pasted properly.

She reached out directly, pinched the folds, and with a "hiss", ripped off the human skin mask.

Immediately, a completely unfamiliar face was revealed.

"Who is this person?" Shen Lingxi raised his eyes and asked.

The imperial mausoleum is important, even if this courtyard is outside the mausoleum, it is definitely not ordinary people who can enter.

What's more, it's still embroidered under the nose.

The embroidered envoy obviously didn't expect that the other party would use this way to get rid of the golden cicada, and hurriedly said, "It's the little eunuch who is in the same room as Gui Sheng." ”

"It's probably drugged." Shen Lingxi directly ordered: "This matter is extraordinary, there are a number of palace people in the mausoleum, a radish and a pit, this person has Gui Sheng's appearance here, then Gui Sheng must be outside with his appearance at this moment, to find him as soon as possible, it will be too late." ”

The embroidered clothes naturally knew the urgency of the matter, and hurriedly bowed his head and walked out of the wing.

At the same time, Mu Huai'an and Su Xian also followed.

The more Shen Lingxi thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and said to Mu Huai'an: "Can Shaoqing take me to find His Highness?" ”

Mu Huai'an: "I can only take you into the outside of the mausoleum, at this time His Royal Highness will be with the emperor, the mausoleum is heavily guarded, and there are officials from Taichang Temple guarding it, it is almost impossible to get close to them." ”

"I'll take you there." Su Xian, who was on the side, suddenly opened his mouth, his eyes showed a deep expression, and he said meaningfully: "You and I, both of you and I are wearing Taoist robes." ”

*

The mausoleum ritual is to worship in the Changling Tomb of Gaozu first, and then go to the Zhaoling Tomb of the first emperor to worship.

Su Xian and Shen Lingxi, wearing magic robes, complemented each other with the Ming and Huang soul flags dotted around, and there was no disobedience.

After all, Su Xian is the most face-saving Taoist priest in front of the emperor.

The two came to the outside of the mausoleum of Changling, and as soon as the officials of Taichang Temple saw him, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute, asked a few words in a low voice, waved their hands with the internal guards, and let them enter the mausoleum.

Because the emperor came with the queen mother and the queen, and the officials and dependents followed, the ceremony was performed in separate seats for men and women.

The emperor took the hundred officials to worship first, and after they finished worshipping and exited the mausoleum, the queen mother and the queen led the officials to worship.

At this moment, in the main hall, the emperor's bowing ceremony has come to an end.

The Queen Mother, the Empress and the officials are waiting on the west side of the mausoleum, behind a special screen.

As the ceremony sang "Kneel and Worship", Shen Lingxi followed Su Xian, quickly embellished behind the crowd, and hurriedly knelt down with the emperor and hundreds of officials.

Shen Lingxi took advantage of the gap between kneeling and getting up, and hurriedly glanced at the main hall.

She didn't look at it, but this look scared her.

In the mausoleum hall, there are all the people who are gathered together, except for following Chu Yan and coming to see the lively former and later concubines.

There are also many souls of the people in this court.

Among them were eunuchs, palace maids, and women dressed in the palace clothes of the concubines.

In this solemn and quiet mausoleum, they floated high and low in the air.

Looking down at these nobles, civil and military officials.

This scene is really lively.

Also...... It's weird.

As far as Shen Lingxi knew, there was no burial system in the Great Zhou.

So what is the origin of these palace people and concubines floating in the mausoleum?

Liu Meiren was the first to spot Shen Lingxi and floated towards her with a smile.

Seeing her puzzled eyes, she explained: "Little girl, I just asked for you, these are the mausoleum guards in the imperial mausoleum, and after they passed away, their souls have been here." ”

Speaking of this, she chuckled, "It's strange to say, we are trapped in the palace by the formation, and we can't go anywhere." They weren't trapped by anything, they just died of illness and old age in this barren mountain and wilderness, and they didn't know where to go after they became ghosts. There was no ghost to take them away. ”

Shen Lingxi's heart was suddenly shocked.

Not to mention these ghosts, even if it's her, she has never seen such a thing as a "ghost difference" since she was reborn and can see ghosts.

In the past, when she met lonely souls and wild ghosts like them, wandering in the world and having no obsession, she would bring them to the Xuanqing Female Crown, and the Female Crown would reincarnate them superbly.

But after the death of the Xuanqing Female Crown, Shen Lingxi's senior brother Miaozhen Female Crown, the super-excessive spells are sometimes spiritual, sometimes not, and there are fewer lonely souls that are degreed.

Now that there is Su Xian, who has a profound Taoism, and he has met so many lonely souls and wild ghosts, he can also do it at once and send them all away.

When Shen Lingxi heard that they were the guardians of this imperial tomb, he thought of his little aunt.

Perhaps, after catching Gui Sheng, she can inquire with these dead souls about the current situation of the little aunt.

Thinking like this, Shen Lingxi cheered up even more.

Taking advantage of the interval between kneeling, he swept the faces of the eunuchs serving in the temple one by one.

Among these eunuchs, Gui Sheng was not found pretending to be that person.

On the way here, she had already inquired that an internal servant of the level of Gui Sheng must have served in the mausoleum hall when the mausoleum was sacrificed.

If it's not in sight, it's definitely there......

The afterglow of Shen Lingxi's eyes was locked on the screen on the west side of the main hall.

He must have hid behind the screen, following the concubine and the officials.

Shen Lingxi was looking for an opportunity to go to the side of the screen to find out.

I could only hear the praise from above: "The ceremony is over! ”

The emperor and the hundred officials stood up. Hundreds of officials stood on the east side, giving way for the emperor and the prince's guard of honor to go out of the palace first.

Shen Lingxi was worried about how to go behind the screen on the west side——

Suddenly, behind the screen, there was an exclamation from a female dependent, "Ah! There are snakes! ”

With this exclamation, there was an instant commotion behind the screen.

Shen Lingxi's heart sank to the bottom.

Here it comes!

On this occasion, even the ants were cleaned up by Taichang Temple and the attendants, how could there be snakes!

Chu Yan immediately sensed that something was wrong, and shouted in a deep voice: "Come on, escort, protect the emperor first!" ”

There is a riot in a crowded place, and people are most afraid of running around like headless flies.

Under his order, the secret guards who came out of nowhere protected the emperor and walked out of the hall.

The emperor is the supreme existence in the hearts of hundreds of officials.

Especially at this time, it is the best time to show loyalty to the emperor.

If you can get a "escort" work, it will be the glory of a hundred years.

As a result, the civil and military officials in the palace rushed to form a wall of flesh and protect the emperor in the innermost part and go out.

Naturally, the effect of crowd diversion is achieved.

Shen Lingxi almost effortlessly, through the crowd, collided with Chu Yan's line of sight.

The two looked at each other, and Chu Yan immediately knew that the matter in this palace should be related to the little eunuch she had just gone to.

"Ahh It's a poisonous snake! Be careful! ”

At this moment, the female dependents in the screen, who somebody screamed again, which made the riot behind the screen even worse.

The screen swayed and almost toppled.

A few female dependents even ran out from behind the screen in a panic.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi gave up the idea of entering the screen from the bottom, and walked directly against the crowd of hundreds of officials to the top of the main hall.

Chu Yan glanced at her, turned around decisively, and walked towards the main hall.

Chu Yan's position was closest to the sacrifice case above, and he had just walked in front of the sacrifice case and was about to approach the screen.

"Your Highness, be careful!" Shen Lingxi shouted in surprise.

With a "boom", the heavy screen carved from rosewood collapsed in an instant.

Chu Yan dodged and narrowly avoided it.

At the same time, the scene behind the screen was also instantly revealed in Shen Lingxi's sight!

As far as the eye could see, the ladies panicked and hugged each other in twos and threes.

On the pitch-black floor tiles, three small snakes with pitch-black bodies were spitting scarlet letters, meandering around.

Wherever the snake went, the ladies screamed one after another.

At the top, the chamberlain and the palace maid hugged the queen mother and queen in a panic, stepping on the screen and staggering out.

Shen Lingxi could see at a glance that a thin figure wearing a eunuch uniform was squeezing away the rioting female dependents and squeezing towards the Queen Mother and the Queen!

It's Gui Sheng!

Shen Lingxi hurriedly quickened his pace.

But she was too far away from the top of the main hall, and the little eunuch was getting closer and closer.

Shen Lingxi saw that he and the queen were only separated by two palace people, and he saw a cold light flash from his sleeve.

In the flash of light, Shen Lingxi understood something, and hurriedly shouted at Chu Yan: "Your Highness, Gui Sheng is going to assassinate the queen and catch him!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Chu Yan's face changed slightly, and with a light tap of his toes, he flew towards the queen's side.

And the queen, too, opened her eyes in horror, completely unaware of what the crisis was.

The little eunuch thought that his plan was seamless, but he made a thousand calculations, but he did not expect that someone would be able to unravel his plan at such a time.

He also called out his name directly!

A touch of fierceness flashed in his eyes, and he directly slapped away the palace maid who was blocking him, raised his hand and stabbed it towards the queen's heart!

At the moment when the blade in his hand was about to stab the queen's heart, Chu Yan split his blade with a hand knife.

"Ahh

The queen exclaimed.

The sharp blade brushed her clothes, cutting a long hole in her clothes.

If she was one step late, she would have to give her life here.

The little eunuch is a practitioner, and if he can't strike a blow, he knows that with his skills, he will definitely be difficult to get hands on.

In a hurry, he reached out and touched it in his sleeve, grabbed a handful of medicinal powder, and threw it in the direction of the queen!

Chu Yan flicked the sleeves of his robe, blocked most of those medicinal powders, and kicked them in the heart of the little eunuch with a flying kick.

The little eunuch snorted, was kicked aside, and fell to the ground.

At the same time, the three pitch-black poisonous snakes on the ground, as if stimulated by some strong smell, swam frantically in the direction of Chu Yan and the queen!

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi said that the secret path was not good.

Eighty percent of that medicinal powder can attract poisonous snakes, whether it is Chu Yan or the queen, as long as they are bitten by poisonous snakes, they will definitely die.

Because the mausoleum sacrifice could not bring a murder weapon, Chu Yan was concerned about the safety of the queen, and did not chase the little eunuch anymore, but picked up a copper candle handle from the side, caught the trajectory of the poisonous snake's manic wandering, and tried to nail them to the ground.

Shen Lingxi also took the opportunity to speed up his pace and ran towards Chu Yan's side.

She took out a porcelain bottle from her sleeve pocket and splashed the medicinal powder in the porcelain bottle in the direction of the poisonous snake.

Everywhere the powder reached, the snake's movements obviously slowed down.

Seeing this, Chu Yan quickly nailed them to death one by one with a copper candle.

Shen Lingxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Rokuro, kill him for the main palace, kill him quickly!" The queen said hatefully, her voice trembling.

Apparently horrified.

When Chu Yan heard this, he tightened the handle of the candle in his hand, and wanted to solve the little eunuch.

At this very moment-

"Miss Shen, be careful!"

The souls of the dead in the hall all warned Shen Lingxi.

Shen Lingxi only felt that a cold wind swept behind her ears, and before she could react, a cold and cold blade had already pressed against the side of her neck.

"Don't come, or I'll kill her." The little eunuch gritted his teeth and threatened Chu Yan.

He clamped Shen Lingxi's shoulder with one hand, as long as Shen Lingxi dared to act rashly, he would definitely let her die immediately.

Shen Lingxi frowned.

In her life, she had never been threatened with a knife against her neck.

The cold touch on her neck made her immediately think of the not very good memories of her previous life when she died.

She secretly stored her strength, just waiting for the right moment to get out with one blow.

Chu Yan's eyes suddenly cold, "Let her go, let you go." ”

When the little eunuch heard this, he chuckled.

"It seems that what the palace people have said in the past few days is right, His Royal Highness really has a deep affection for this Taoist chief, and he can openly disobey the queen's will."

As soon as these words came out, the queen immediately pursed her lips.

Seeing this, the Queen Mother shouted in a deep voice: "She is a mourning person, don't hurt her, as long as she is unharmed, the mourning family will call the shots and let you go!" ”

The smile on the little eunuch's face was even bigger.

"In this case, I bothered His Highness, threw away the things in my hand, and sent the villain out of the imperial tomb. As long as the villain can retreat with his whole body, he will naturally let this Taoist master go. ”

"Otherwise......" he pressed the dagger in his hand.

On the side of Shen Lingxi's white neck, a bright red blood mark immediately appeared.

Seeing this, Chu Yan's eyes flashed with a touch of color.

But without hesitation, he threw out the copper candle handle in his hand.

Not only that, but he also scolded the embroidered envoys and internal guards who poured in: "Stand down!" ”

Seeing this, the little eunuch's expression was slightly relaxed, and he grabbed Shen Lingxi's shoulders and stepped back.

Shen Lingxi silently calculated his steps in his heart.

Liu Meiren and the female ghosts were also full of anxiety, and followed her step by step.

The little eunuch escorted Shen Lingxi step by step.

Chu Yan gloomy eyebrows, pressing his steps, approaching step by step.

Shen Lingxi's gaze met him, and in the place where Xiaotai's surveillance line could not be seen, he silently said two words to him.

Chu Yan blinked invisibly.

Between the two, there is an indescribable tacit understanding.

Just when the little eunuch escorted Shen Lingxi and retreated to the position of the threshold.

"Leg up." The little eunuch ordered, the strength in his hand relaxed slightly.

What did he think was that Shen Lingxi was just a woman, and if one of them couldn't retreat, he tripped on the threshold and cut his throat-——

Then he will surely die.

Shen Lingxi said in a trembling voice in an extremely frightened voice: "I, my legs are weak, and I can't lift my legs." ”

Such a reaction made the little eunuch relax his vigilance a little.

The little eunuch frowned deeply, relaxed the strength in his hand a little, and urged impatiently, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up." ”

He looked at Chu Yan vigilantly.

Seeing this, Chu Yan took a few steps back to show that he had no intention of persecution at all.

Such a reaction made the strength in the little eunuch's hand even looser.

At the moment when Shen Lingxi retreated over the threshold, he looked at the gap, leaned up directly, and made a "oops" sound, making a toppling appearance.

said that it was too late, it was too fast, and the little eunuch hurriedly let go of his hand.

Everyone saw Shen Lingxi's body, spinning very flexibly, grabbing the wrist of the little eunuch, and with a "click", he removed his joints alive!