Zhao Shuang'er has been in the red embroidery workshop for three days, and she has been paying attention to everyone in the red embroidery workshop for three days, but she still hasn't found anything abnormal, only occasionally seeing Wu Piaoxu go to the palace to hand over embroidery, which is also a very normal business dealing.

A few days later, Zhao Shuang'er got up at night on this day, because the moon was better, she didn't light the lamp, through the crack in the door, she saw that a woman outside was holding a lantern and walked towards the backyard of the red embroidery workshop, Zhao Shuang went back to the room to change into night clothes, and quietly followed. This woman is a girl named Li Juan, she is not very old and is sixteen or seventeen years old, she is holding a lantern in one hand and a food box in the other, she is supposed to be delivering food to someone, but now it is the middle of the night, who will she send food to?

Zhao Shuang'er had questions, and used the light power to move around, and followed this Li Juan closely. Soon Li Juan came to the gate of a terrifying courtyard, the door of the yard was crawling with moss, a rusty lock locked the gate tightly, and a large group of fireflies around the door were dancing around Li Juan, setting off Li Juan like a female ghost. Li Juan looked left and right, carefully took out the key from her arms, opened the big lock, and the door only opened a thin gap, Li Juan quickly got in, and then closed the door again.

After a while, Zhao Shuang felt that Li Juan should go away, so she jumped down from the big tree not far away, she walked to the door lightly, and gently pushed the door with her hand, feeling that the door couldn't be pushed, she pushed it hard, but the door still couldn't be pushed, and the door should have been locked by Li Juan from the inside, so it couldn't be opened. Zhao Shuang'er returned to the tree and waited quietly, and it didn't take long for Li Juan to come out of it in rags, and the food box in her hand was gone. After she came out, she still went in, looking left and right first, and only after making sure that no one was there, did she lock the door and leave in a hurry.

The next day, Zhao Shuang asked for leave and went home, Wu Piaoxu just asked a few words lightly and let her go, the family affairs and ancestors of each palace maid have been clearly investigated by the inner guards since she entered the palace, so she is not afraid of the palace maid running away without permission.

Zhao Shuang'er returned to Qianyuan Academy and reported the situation last night to Zheng Wenbin and Wenzhu.

After discussing with the two, they decided to let Zhao Shuang'er observe for a few days and find an opportunity to steal Li Juan's key and copy it.

Li Juan still talks and laughs as usual during the day, and looks no different from ordinary girls, but at night, she will go to that yard to deliver food every few days.

Zhao Shuang'er finally took advantage of Li Juan's opportunity to follow Wu Piaoxu into the palace comprador and went to Li Juan's room to steal the key, after Zhao Shuang'er got the key, he immediately handed it over to Jin Yide, Jin Yide handed over the key to Master Liu of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Master Liu is the master, and the key was matched in less than two minutes. When Jin Yide put two identical keys in the hands of his wife Zhao Shuang'er, it took less than half an hour. Jin Yide left in a hurry, and Li Juan and Wu Piaoxu came back from the palace after two hours, and the time was not early, because Li Juan would go to that courtyard to deliver food tonight, so Zhao Shuang'er decided to go to that eerie courtyard to investigate the night after tomorrow.

Time flies, the night after tomorrow will soon arrive, Zhao Shuang'er finished eating early, went to bed, her master Yingzi was still a little puzzled at the time, thinking that Zhao Shuang'er was uncomfortable, and specially inquired about her body. Just after the hour, Zhao Shuang'er opened her eyes, took her night clothes and walked out of the room, she was as light as a wild cat shuttling on the roof, and soon she came to this dilapidated yard, the yard was still as eerie and terrifying as usual.

Zhao Shuang'er also looked left and right. Taking out the prepared key from her bosom, she gently opened the gate and entered the courtyard in a flash.

The yard was pitch black, but fortunately she was prepared, and she quietly lit a fire. When she looked ahead, she was almost scared half to death. Not far in front of her, two monsters like demons were staring at her greedily, one monster was dressed in white, with a mantle, a long tongue drooping, and snow-white eyes, and the other monster was also dressed in white, she had a bloody mouth, as if there was something in the mouth, and her big mouth kept chewing. Both monsters are women, as you can tell from their boobs. Zhao Shuang'er covered her mouth and tried not to make a sound, this scene was too terrifying. Ordinary women would definitely faint on the spot when they saw these two monsters. Zhao Shuang cautiously walked from the side of the two monsters to the room inside, and suddenly a hand stretched out, Zhao Shuang'er felt a gust of wind coming from the gap next to him, and immediately dodged. The hand was empty, and the owner of the hand asked in an eerie voice,

"Why are you hiding? Well, it's not that smell. Did your master not tell you? Since you are here, you will come here obediently. ”

"Who are you?" Zhao Shuang asked with a frosty face.

"Who am I? Hehe, good to ask? Go back and ask your master who I am. I am the king of your Far North! Who do you say I am" An old man with a wrinkled face walked out of the darkness, he looked at Zhao Shuang'er in a night suit, and laughed with a quack.

"You're not one of hers? Things are getting more and more interesting. Quack, no matter who you are, when you come, you have to call me your Yin Yuan, take off your clothes quickly. The eerie old man had a weird smile on his face, and he stared at Zhao Shuang deadly. Zhao Shuang was so frightened that he couldn't care about any tasks anymore, so he ran towards the big iron gate, and this gloomy old man didn't chase after him, just smiled weirdly and looked at Zhao Shuang.

When Zhao Shuang ran out of the yard and locked the gate, Zhao Shuang's soul that was scared away was in place.

Early the next morning, Zhao Shuang said that he had a stomachache and asked for leave to see a doctor. She hurried to Qianyuan Academy and reported what she had seen and heard yesterday to the two teachers, Zheng Wenbin and Wenzhu.

"Far north, I've mentioned it to the elders, but that place is in the north of the savage steppe, tens of thousands of kilometers away from us, so how could the old man come from? Miss Shuang'er, you have been keeping a low profile lately, don't go to that yard, so as not to startle the snake. Zheng Wenbin said with a solemn face.

In the next few days, the red embroidery workshop was as calm and peaceful as usual. Li Juan will also go to deliver food boxes according to certain rules. What was put in the specific food box, because he was afraid of startling the grass and snakes, Zhao Shuang'er didn't inquire.

According to the law on this day, Li Juan opened the door once, but this time it was different from the past, this time she didn't come out until a long, long time. Her face was obviously very dull yellow, as if she was seriously ill, and she was still limping when she walked. Behind her, a handsome young man followed. It's just that it can be seen from the silhouette and face shape of the young man that this young man should be the same person as the old man Zhao Shuang'er saw that day, but I don't know what method he used to rejuvenate himself.

The young man's face had a strange smile, and his smile was a smile at first glance, and when he looked closely, it looked like the face of an evil spirit that had been frightened to death.

After coming out, Li Juan whispered something to the young man, and the young man's body flew lightly, like a shadow floating in the direction of the palace. After Li Juan and the other young people left, she lit a stick of incense, this stick of incense was very peculiar, and the smoke it came out was actually red. Li Juan sat cross-legged beside the incense and waited silently.