As soon as the front foot stepped into the gate of the palace, there was a cold and humid air blowing in the face, and the air was mixed with a strong smell of dust.

The architectural pattern of the palace is almost the same as that of other royal compounds, and it is decent.

I had just taken a few steps forward when I stepped on a plank that had long since lost its original appearance. The plank had been eroded by the rain and overgrown with moss, and the interior was also covered with termite larvae.

The planks could not withstand the pressure of the moment, and all at once they were split in half.

"Excuse me! Why is this thing so unsturdy?"

"Brother Yi, are you okay?"

As soon as he stretched his feet back, he lowered his head, trying to see what this board was, "This seems to be a plaque, right? Lin Chen, come and take a look!"

"It's supposed to be a door plaque, but the words on it are a little illegible. Tan ...... Tan Wangfu?"

Once he also twisted his face to the same position as Lin Chen, he leaned closer to his face to see the words on it, "This residual character in front seems to be a Tan character, and the word Wangfu in the back is still very recognizable." You say, could this be the Tan Wang's Mansion written on this plaque?"

Lin Chen shook his head, he said that this place had been abandoned for ten years, and now few people mentioned anything about this palace, so he couldn't confirm which palace it was.

"Don't worry about this for now, it's important to find someone, let's go!"

The center of the palace is a courtyard cloister building, with a corridor to the left and right leading to the front yard.

The weeds under the edge of the wall have grown to the corridor, and there are some vine-like plants, which surround the painted columns and climb high to the top of the corridor.

The roof of the narrow corridor was broken several large openings, and the sunlight shone through the gaps, shining on the debris that could be seen everywhere.

"How long has it been since no one lived here? It's a mess, there's no place to put your feet. ”

As I walked, I used my shoes to sweep away the debris that blocked the walkway, and under the debris was some stagnant water and mud, and from time to time a few centipedes and some unnamed pests would emerge.

"The front should be the main hall of the palace. Let's go, go in and take a look!" once took the lead and led Lin Chen into the main hall.

The main hall was empty, not a single piece of furniture was furnished, only eight pillars stood alone on the left and right sides. The emptiness of the hall makes it easy to imagine the original style of this place.

Lin Chen looked around and sighed repeatedly: "This place is more spacious than my house." ”

"I said, don't compare, whose walls can be so wide and the roof so high?

"Hey, brother, look at it, what are the carvings on those pillars?"

He walked to one of the pillars and touched the carved pattern on the pillar, "This is a dragon carved on it, right?" One, two, three...... There are like three dragons coiled on each pillar!"

These pillars are made of solid wood, not painted, and retain their original wood color. The dragons on the pillars, each form is very different, although each dragon has a mutilated head, few heads and tails, but all of them lose the beauty of their carvings.

"This is really a ghost father's divine skill!Lin Chen, look at this ......"

He didn't notice for a while, Lin Chen went somewhere else, he stood under the wall in front of the hall, staring at the wall, as if he was hooked by something, standing there motionless.

"What are you looking at?"

Lin Chen didn't hear the call, he just stared intently at the pattern on the wall, and kept whispering in his mouth, "This is really beautiful, so beautiful......"

"Lin Chen, Lin Chen......."

It wasn't until he shook his arm that Lin Chen reacted.

"What's wrong with you?"

Lin Chen didn't turn his head, just pointed to the wall and said, "Look! how beautiful this painting is......"

What was painted on this wall that could make Lin Chen look so fascinated?

In most large households, paint and color paintings are used, one is to decorate ornately and indicate the relevant status level, and the other is to protect the building wood from corrosion and moisture.

The murals on the walls of this hall are also painted in lacquer, from right to left, there are seven in total.

In the first picture, a man in a dragon robe is depicted sitting on the edge of the bed, holding a swaddling baby in his arms, and next to him a haggard woman leaning against the head of the bed, looking at the man affectionately. The imperial physicians and the palace maids all knelt to the side to welcome the arrival of this new life.

The second painting moves to the palace, and the baby in the swaddling clothes is now the child of the prime of life. The palace compound is full of flowers, butterflies are dancing, and he is innocent and fluttering butterflies, playing and playing.

In the third painting, the child has grown up, and when he is old enough to get married, he is wearing a red wedding dress, sitting on the edge of the bed, his face is a little shy, and he has not dared to look at the bride sitting next to him. The bride sat upright with a red hijab, and although she could not see the bride's face, it was evident from her interlocking hands, which she did not know where to put them, that she was more nervous than the groom.

In the fourth picture, the wind and sun outside the house are beautiful, spring and Jingming, and the newlywed Yan'er in the house, the man and the woman are smiling, and the affection is lingering, everything seems so happy!

The fifth is a hunting picture, in which a man leads a group of cavalry to hunt outside the fortress. Seeing that a prey appeared, the man stretched out his bow and pulled arrows, wounded the white fox that stood in the way, and returned with a full load.

The colors of this sixth lacquer painting are noticeably darker, and the picture is not as vibrant as before. In the painting, the man has a new love, and he is constantly entangled with it, and he does not leave the house all day long. His wife, on the other hand, was unbearable and lonely, hiding her face in the yard and crying secretly, and the flowers in the yard seemed to feel the woman's sadness and became withered and degraded.

The most different is this last one. There is no scene in the painting, only the dignity of a woman. The woman in the painting is graceful and graceful, and her appearance is beautiful and moving, like a heavenly maiden descending to earth. Lin Chen was standing in front of this seventh painting, his eyes were blurred, and he was fascinated, "This woman is so beautiful! I have never seen such a beautiful woman......"

Lin Chen couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, he reached out to touch the face of the woman in the painting, just as his finger touched the wall, the lacquer painting on the wall started from the point where his finger touched, and it was burned by the fire, and the fire spread rapidly, and the woman's face was immediately engulfed by the fire!

The strange thing is that the woman's head was not burned black and mushy, but only a layer of skin was burned, revealing the white bones on her face!

"What the hell—"

Just now, this was a beautiful and beautiful woman, but in an instant, she turned into a pile of white bones!

Lin Chen didn't react for a while, he was so frightened that he stepped back, and he grabbed Lin Chen with his hand, so he didn't let him fall to the ground.

"Are you alright?"

"It's scary, it's scary......"

In the hole in the white bone-like eye, the burnt embers, like a pair of red eyes, stared directly at the two of them.

I once thought this painting was very weird, and I wanted to use the "vision" of "hell's eyes" to see what was so strange about it.

Just when the "ghost eye" of the first day and the eyes of the human bones in the painting met each other, a red shadow suddenly emerged from the two reddened eye holes, flew straight out through the body of the first day, hovered in the air in the hall, and let out a miserable and strange cry, echoing endlessly.

"Beware, this thing is a ghost. ”

The ghost had no face, and even the palm of his hand could not see the flesh and skin, like a human skeleton wearing a red dress.

Once he pulled out his wooden sword and slashed at the ghost flying in the air, the ghost flew too high to get close to it.

"Lin Chen, you hide. Chaos, ready to possess. ”

The ghost was wounded, and seeing that it was not a rival for the first time, he flew out of the temple through the door.

Seeing that the ghost was running away, and let it go like this if it didn't count, he asked Lin Chen to follow immediately, and he chased it out first.

However, the ghost floated in the air in a straight line, and once it had to turn around the building on the ground, and in a short time, the ghost was lost.

Seeing that Lin Chen didn't follow, he was worried that the red-clothed ghost would return the same way to hurt Lin Chen, so he immediately turned around and went back to find Lin Chen.

Fortunately, the worries of the past did not work, and on the way back, the two met.

"How's it going, brother, did you catch that thing?"

"It flew so fast that it disappeared in a puff of smoke. ”

"Then what should we do now?"

"The only clue at the moment is to find this ghost in red. The last time I saw it, it was flying in that direction. Let's go over there and have a look!"

The direction in which the ghost floated was on the northwest side of the palace, where there was originally a lotus pond.

As soon as he and Lin Chen chased here, they stopped, and they hesitated on the bank of the pond, looking for any other way.

Lin Chen found a big stone and sat down, "Hey, hey, we've been chasing for so long, let's rest for a while." ”

"Hmm. No matter how you look at it, there is no other way here, it should be the northwest corner of the palace. ”

"Why does this look familiar?"

Lin Chen suddenly remembered something, he told Yi Chao that he had seen something dirty in this neighborhood two nights ago.

"What do you see?"

"Uh...... Strictly speaking, I hear it. It was a little dark that night, and when I passed by, I faintly heard the sound of a piano, which was melodious and beautiful. Later, I could still hear the girl singing. At first, the woman's singing voice was very pleasant, but as she sang, the song turned into a cry, and the more she cried, the more miserable it became, and her voice became more and more sharp. ”

"Did you remember what you heard around here?"

"I can't be mistaken. I still remember that the sound was so harsh, even if I covered my ears, I could feel as if there were worms biting in the piercings, and needles piercing your flesh. At that time, I was in a panic, and when I was escaping, I accidentally slipped and stepped into this lotus pond with one foot, and when I got home, I realized that half of my left leg had been stained with this sludge. So, I can't be mistaken. In retrospect, my jade pendant probably fell here. ”

Lin Chen struggled to recall the approximate location of the slip at the beginning, and bent down to find out if his jade pendant had fallen here.

The lotus pond has dried up for the most part, and no one has taken care of it, and it has turned into a pool of muddy water, slightly exuding a smell of decay.