Chapter 90: The Concubine and the Handmaid (12)
Just when everyone was puzzled, a strange and harsh voice suddenly came from outside the window: "Can't come back......"
The show girls subconsciously turned their heads, and when they saw the people outside the window, they immediately screamed: "Ghost-"
It wasn't a ghost, but it looked like a ghost.
It was a woman, unkempt, ragged, and covered in an unbearable stench.
She was thin, so thin that you couldn't tell her age, her eyes were sunken, her cheeks had no flesh at all, and even her hands on the windowsill were so dry that they were close to a thin layer of skin, and although she was alive, she didn't look any better than a blood-sucked corpse.
It's really no wonder that this group of show girls made a fuss, when Zhong Shaoyu looked at it for the first time, he was also frightened and chuckled in his heart.
Ye Sang was okay, he had always seemed very calm, but Mo Quinoa reacted a little bit, reflexively hugged Zhong Shaoyu's arm, and shrunk tightly beside her and didn't dare to move.
Xu is group of show female ghosts crying wolf howl is too noisy, Ye Sang raised his hand and rubbed his ears, and said impatiently: "Don't scream, that's a person." ”
When he said this, a few bold show girls mustered up the courage to look out the window again, and after being sure again, they breathed a sigh of relief: "It's a person, it's a person." ”
Hearing this, the other show girls stabilized one by one.
The man originally looked at the room of show girls with an expressionless face, but after everyone quieted down, he suddenly smiled at them with a strange face: "You will not be able to come back...... Hee-hee...... No one can escape, and they won't be able to come back......"
Everyone was terrified by her laughter, Zhong Shaoyu calmed down and asked, "What does it mean that you can't come back?" ”
As if she couldn't understand her words, she was still saying in that uncomfortable voice, "It's impossible to come back...... None of those people came back......" She said with a smile, and suddenly burst into tears: "...... Woo woo woo I don't want to sleep, I want to go home......"
The screams in the dining room just now disturbed the aunt of Chu Xiu Palace, she rushed over with a few palace maids, she saw the people outside the window, and scolded without thinking about it: "You dirty thing, what are you doing here?" ”
As she spoke, she turned her head to a palace maid beside her and reprimanded: "Don't you blow her away, didn't you say that let her take care of her, who released her!" ”
The palace maid didn't dare to speak, so she hurriedly stepped forward and dragged the dirty and crazy woman away, and along the way, everyone clearly heard the woman still reading: "Can't come back, can't come back, you won't be able to come back......"
The dirty woman didn't know where she was dragged, and soon the Chuxiu Palace returned to quiet.
My aunt stood at the door, left a sentence, "Ladies and gentlemen, please eat as soon as possible", turned around and wanted to leave.
A show girl called out to her: "Auntie, hasn't Chu Meng come back yet?" ”
The aunt stopped, "This is not something that the little master should care about. ”
Someone asked again: "What does that aunt, that woman just now, mean that she can't come back?" Are you saying that Chu Meng can't come back? ”
Aunt: "She's a madman, can you believe what a madman says?" ”
"But ......"
"Not so much." Without hesitation, my aunt interrupted the words of someone to ask again, and left without any stops.
There was silence in the dining room, and occasionally there would be a sound of one or two dishes and chopsticks trying to touch.
Not long after, someone suddenly raised his head: "Have you heard those rumors in the palace?" ”
"What rumors?"
"It is said that the Son of Heaven has a strange disease and needs to eat and drink the blood of a young woman every day to continue her life, and it is rumored that the show girl who entered the palace was not really selected by the Son of Heaven to be a concubine, but as a medicine, and also said that when the Son of Heaven drank blood, the woman could not die, and it must be fresh blood that had just flowed out of the woman's blood."
"In that case, wouldn't it be for the woman to bleed to death?"
"Not really."
"How did I hear the rumor that this is not the case, what I heard is that the Empress Dowager is a monster who specializes in eating young women......"
"How did I hear the rumor that this is not the case, what I heard is that the Empress Dowager is a monster who specializes in eating young women......"
"How did I hear about the concubine, the concubine needs the living heart of a young woman in order to maintain her appearance......"
"I've also heard of these rumors, when I saw the Son of Heaven and the concubine Niangniang yesterday, I felt that they were very noble, and they didn't look like demons, rumors are rumors after all, are they true or false?"
"Who knows, but it's a fact that Chu Meng didn't come back......"
“……”
All the show girls in Chuxiu Palace were paying attention to Chu Meng's movements all day, until the evening, everyone gathered in the dining room again for dinner, and Chu Meng had not come back.
Yesterday, because Chu Meng was summoned to sleep, the show girls who were either jealous or envious or angry in their hearts no longer have the desire to fight for the wind and be jealous at this moment, they are all thinking about whether Chu Meng is dead or alive, and whether those rumors are true or false.
Halfway through the meal, a timid show girl was a little broken by this atmosphere, and she cried loudly: "I'm afraid, what do you say that there are really man-eating monsters in the palace?" Are we all destined to be eaten? ”
It's okay that no one shows fear, but once someone shows it, other people who are afraid of it can't start to hold back.
"I'm scared, too, what if someone comes and calls us to sleep later?"
"Chu Meng hasn't come back yet, it's been a day and a night, something must have happened to her."
"I don't want to sleep ......"
“……”
More and more show girls joined the crying team, and the entire dining room was filled with the sound of sobbing and matching.
Just when everyone was looking forward to not coming tonight to summon everyone to sleep, and to be able to survive for a day, a voice suddenly came from the door of Chuxiu Palace: "Pass the emperor's edict ......"
The show girl was suddenly so frightened that she didn't dare to come out.
Everyone held their breath, secretly hoping that it would not be themselves.
“…… Summoning Jiang Yuanning to sleep tonight. ”
The show girl who didn't get her name secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and Jiang Yuanning, who was named by her name, didn't even have time to thank her, so she rolled her eyes and fainted directly in fright.
"Father-in-law, father-in-law, Jiang Yuanning fainted."
When the summoned eunuch saw the person lying on the ground, he was as anxious as ants on a hot pot: "How can I explain this to the emperor, if the emperor knows, he will be furious, and no one will be able to get benefits." ”
Sitting in the corner and looking at the messy room of Zhong Shaoyu, Ye Sang and Mo Quinoa, the three of them glanced at each other, Ye Sang got up and said, "Father-in-law, I have a way, I don't know if it's feasible or not." ”
Eunuch: "This little master, please speak." ”
Ye Sang pointed to the remote and quiet corner around him: "Father-in-law, please take a step to speak." ”
The eunuch hurried over, the two of them had their backs to a room of show girls, Ye Sang took out a gold leaf and handed it to the eunuch: "The emperor only saw everyone in a hurry in the imperial garden yesterday, and no one can necessarily recognize it, since Miss Jiang has fainted, why don't you find this girl to sleep instead of Miss Jiang?" ”
The eunuch followed Ye Sang's line of sight, looked at Mo Quinoa, and hesitated, "Can this work?" ”
Ye Sang stuffed another gold leaf: "Okay, isn't my father-in-law clearer than me?" ”
The eunuch pinched the two gold leaves in his hand, "Then I'll pick up this little master later." ”
Ye Sang: "Thank you, father-in-law." ”
(End of chapter)