The little emperor was nowhere to be found, and he couldn't find it for a long time, and the whole palace was in chaos. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Empress Dowager Zhen and her wife gradually panicked in the face of such a situation, and finally had to urgently call a few ministers to come over to discuss countermeasures.

The dormitory was lit up, and it was bright.

In the main hall, the Empress Dowager Zhen sat on the main seat, and several ministers sat on both sides, with solemn faces.

Empress Dowager Zhen looked worried, turned her head to look at a middle-aged man dressed as a general, and asked in a serious voice: "Commander Song, what clues have the inner guards found? Where did His Majesty go?"

The middle-aged man known as the Song Commander was wearing light armor, a Chinese face, and a short beard, quite righteous, and he said when he heard it: "Back to the Queen Mother, so far, the guards have not found any clues. ”

After a pause, he continued: "However, the minister has already sent an order to let the guards go out of the palace to find His Majesty." ”

"Out of the palace?" said the Empress Dowager in surprise.

Commander Song pondered for a moment and said, "The palace has basically been searched, but His Majesty has not been found. Therefore, the minister felt that His Majesty might have left the palace, so he ordered the guards to go out of the palace to search. ”

Empress Dowager Zhen frowned: "There are many guards in the palace, and all the places in and out are tightly guarded, if Your Majesty goes out, how can no one know?"

When Commander Song heard this, his face showed embarrassment and shame: "Maybe...... Perhaps His Majesty had avoided the guards. ”

No wonder he looks like this.

You must know that the current emperor is just a teenager, and he has never practiced high-level martial arts, but he can avoid the palace guards, which shows how negligent these guards are.

The Assassin's martial arts are outstanding, and it is understandable to break in. But if a young boy who doesn't know martial arts slips out, as the commander of the guards, this face will naturally have nowhere to put it.

The Empress Dowager Zhen was silent when she heard this, and her expression was quite unsightly.

"Ahem......" Seeing this, Commander Song hurriedly coughed lightly twice and said, "Queen Mother, I don't know if Your Majesty has ever said where you want to go but didn't go?"

The Queen Mother has always been very strict in controlling the little emperor, and rarely lets him go out, he thought to himself that the little emperor might have sneaked out because of this, so he asked.

Empress Dowager Zhen said: "Outside the palace, His Majesty wants to go to a lot of places, and none of the mourning family has let him go, so I can't say anything." ”

Commander Song pondered for a moment: "Then what is the place in the palace?"

"The ....... in the Palace"

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she couldn't help frowning and thinking about it.

Thinking about it, her face turned a little pale inexplicably, and her expression was panicked, as if she suddenly remembered something terrible, and muttered: "Could it be ......?"

"The Queen Mother?" Several ministers couldn't help but be a little puzzled when they saw her like this.

Empress Dowager Zhen's face was already pale, Huo Ran got up and said, "Cold Palace!"

"My Emperor!"

Before she could finish speaking, she hurried out the door.

Seeing this, several ministers were all shocked, and hurriedly got up and shouted, "Niangniang!"

However, the Empress Dowager Zhen didn't know what terrible and urgent things she remembered, but she didn't hear about it, and she didn't care about the Empress Dowager's appearance, so she ran all the way in palace clothes.

......

Dark clouds obscured the cold moon and dark stars, like ink staining the night firmament.

The night breeze is coming slowly, and the chill hits.

The dilapidated courtyard is deep and cold, and the wooden door swayed slightly, making a low "crunch" sound, rising and falling, as if gritting teeth, and moaning in illness. It's a bit eerie to look at.

"Is this the ghost mansion you are talking about?" Shen Du said as he looked at the deserted courtyard in front of him.

"Yes, that's it. The boy nodded, "How's that, it's scary, isn't it?"

Looking at such a scene, he couldn't help but lower his voice a lot, but he was also a little stunned in his heart.

But this scene didn't scare Shen Du, not only that, but he was quite curious about it in his heart. After all, the monk had seen it a few times, but he didn't know anything about demons and monsters, and he wasn't even sure if they existed.

After a moment of silence, he finally said, "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”

With that, he walked along.

"Hey, wait for me. Seeing this, the young man hurriedly followed closely and did not leave an inch.

The two courtyard gates had long been dilapidated, staggering diagonally, missing a broken piece, and hanging a copper lock, rusted like a ball of blue and white.

Stepping through the two decaying gates and walking into the courtyard, Shen Du immediately looked around.

As soon as Fang looked up, he saw a dead tree in the courtyard, with all its branches and leaves, as if it had been dead for a long time. Despite this, its trunk is tall and thick, and it is three points taller, which shows that it was luxuriant during its lifetime.

The tree is so full of water, but it seems to have been drained of water, and the color of the dry is dim, which looks quite strange.

There was a stone table under the tree, and in front of the stone table were two stone piers, separated by each other.

In addition, there is a fence in the courtyard, which encloses a wasteland, although there is no grass, but the layout is vaguely like a flower garden.

All that remained were three houses connected together, all blackened and blackened, with the windows closed, except for the middle room, which was open and pitch black.

It stands to reason that the palace maid is an inferior person in the palace, and the place where she lives should be more shabby. But at the moment, although the courtyard is not large, the pattern is not shabby.

Seeing this, Shen Du couldn't help but be suspicious in his heart: "There was a palace maid who lived here before?"

"It's supposed to be a palace maid, I hear people say so. The boy looked left and right, scratched his head, and said with some uncertainty.

"I don't think this courtyard is for palace maids, and even if it is, how could there be only one palace maid burned to death here?" Shen Du frowned slightly.

"This ...... Maybe the others have escaped. The boy said.

Shen Du glanced at him: "But didn't you say that no one would notice this fire after burning all night?

"Then I don't know. When the young man heard this, he was a little dazed, "After you said it, this thing is really weird." ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, not knowing whether he was excited or afraid: "You say, this can't really be a ghost, right?"

"I don't know. Shen Du shook his head expressionlessly.

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the room with the door wide open.

It's pitch black, inexplicably deep, and even if you stand close, you can't see anything clearly.

Shen Du thought for a while, then reached out and took out the candle and flint from his arms, lit the candle in his hand, turned around and said, "Go in and have a look." ”

"Oh...... Good. The young man was obviously a little timid, but he still came to Shen Du's side and walked with him towards the room.

Shen Du took the candle and took advantage of the dim candlelight to walk into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, he was about to take a candle and shine it forward, but suddenly he heard a "whew", and the candle flame flickered and was suddenly extinguished.

Immediately there was darkness in front of him, and he couldn't see his fingers.

"Ahh