Traitor and Concubine Quan

When Ruan Xixi changed her clothes and walked out of the palace gate, she saw the people around her looking at her enviously.Ruan Xixi was helpless, when she was a washerwoman by Yangshui, those people also looked at her with this kind of eyes.

Seeing that Ruan Xixi came out first, the emperor's eyes darkened.There was still silence on his face, and he asked kindly, "Is Cui Sheng here?"

Someone outside immediately replied, "Just arrived."

The emperor said, "Xuan—"

Ruan Xixi and the others lined up on both sides, all dressed in red.

When Cui Sheng came in with his head down, he saw the red color on both sides out of the corner of his eye.I only felt a few red shadows flashing in front of my eyes, the long black hair was thickly entangled like algae, covering the face of the red shadows, but the neck was too pale, like a dead person.

Cui Sheng was afraid in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak out, and thought that there would be no ghosts haunting so many people here, so he calmed down a little, and reported to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is already outside the palace."

A younger concubine next to Ruan Xixi sat down on the ground with a "gudong".Ruan Xixi looked sideways at her, and the people around them unconsciously covered their hearts and took a few steps back, fearing that they would be infected with her unknown, only Ruan Xixi stepped forward to help her, and asked her, "Are you okay?"

The young concubine's eyes were lax, and she said anxiously, "The Queen Mother... Hasn't the Queen Mother left long ago? Why... Why did you say that you have arrived and are still outside the palace? Could it be that there is really..."

Seeing that she was about to say some taboo words, Ruan Xixi immediately covered her mouth and nose, glanced at the emperor from the corner of her eye, saw that he was looking at this side with great interest, was startled, and secretly said: This matter happened because of me , but I can't casually get involved and kill someone...

So he whispered to the concubine, "Don't talk nonsense-there is nothing like what you said here. It doesn't matter who is outside or who is here. The important thing is that you keep your mouth shut. Next No matter what you see or hear, you can't talk about it, do you understand?"

The young concubine's big watery eyes fluttered, and it took a while to recover, and she nodded vigorously.Ruan Xixi then let go of her.

A ruthless light flashed in Tianzi's eyes, then he focused on Cui Sheng, and said calmly and forcefully, "Xuan——"

The altar placed by the invited Taoist priest is still in the middle. The Taoist priest has been walking around the altar with a wooden sword, muttering something in his mouth. On the incense table in the center of the altar, there are three heads of pigs, cattle and sheep, and a group of ordinary offerings. .Incomprehensible strange characters were engraved on the mahogany sword, like ghostly drawn symbols.

After a sudden gust of evil wind, the originally blue sky and daylight gradually darkened.

Everyone felt that the atmosphere was unusual, and they all tightened their clothes.

"Sister Ruan, that Taoist priest seems to be looking at you all the time." The young concubine noticed the strange look in Taoist priest's eyes, and secretly reminded Ruan Xixi.

Ruan Xixi chuckled, "I know."

The Taoist priests were invited by the emperor, and the emperor also made them change into red clothes, which shows that he had already made up his mind.

The wind and sand blinded the eyes, and after a while, they saw a group of more than ten imperial guards walking in with a black lacquered coffin in the hazy black air.

The coffin is extremely precious, and the surface is engraved with a phoenix pattern in plain text, and the phoenix holds a bead in its mouth, which is lifelike.The coffin was exceptionally clean, with a gloomy, gloomy light shining on the surface.

When the Imperial Army lowered the coffin, it seemed that the whole ground moved.

Cui Sheng was standing not far from the coffin. Although he knew that behind him was the coffin of the mother of the emperor, the empress dowager, but he wanted to escape in fear, but he could only stand calmly and continue to hold his fists at the emperor and play Said, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has arrived."

The emperor stared fixedly at the dark coffin, like a stone statue, for a long time.Everyone waited with bated breath, no one could guess what he was thinking at the moment.

The weather is gloomy and gloomy, making people feel depressed and dull.

No one knows what kind of actions such a mad emperor who even dug out his own mother's coffin from the ground will do.

Although they don't know what he wants to do, no matter what he wants to do, everyone will not be surprised.Because they clearly know that the Son of Heaven is crazy enough to lose his humanity.

"Are you ready—" the emperor asked the Taoist priest.

Everyone present was stunned for a moment, as if the air was frozen.

Cui Sheng was stunned on the spot and didn't know how to react. It was the Taoist priest who walked to the edge of the coffin and knocked three times in a row on the northwest of the coffin with a mahogany sword.

"Your Majesty, you can start." The Taoist said respectfully.

The official of the Ministry of Rituals in charge of royal etiquette was not present, otherwise, seeing such a scene, I don't know what kind of remonstrance would be.

"That's good—" Tianzi only paused for a moment, and then said lightly, "Open the coffin."

The Taoist went around the coffin three times, and actually started to direct the forbidden army to do it. The forbidden army was also hesitant, but seeing Cui Sheng nodded at the side, these forbidden soldiers dared to pick up the sticks to pry the nails in the coffin.

Ruan Xixi looked at all this with eyes as calm as water.

But all the concubines and concubines around her were ashen-colored, and they were all trembling with fear.Such a thing has never happened since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, and I am afraid there will be no such thing in the future!

"Clatter—" the coffin was opened, and a cloud of dust rose up.

Facing the inner coffin, the forbidden army continued to hesitate. If this continues, the stigma on them may be carried on for the rest of their lives, and even their own children and grandchildren will suffer shame.

But the emperor said sharply, "What are you waiting for, keep driving, I want to see the queen mother's face!"

Seeing his emotions getting agitated gradually, the Imperial Army had no choice but to continue to open the coffin.

There was only a "click—" and the lid of the innermost inner coffin was also opened.

No one dared to look inside, the emperor slowly stood up from the throne, and he stood there blankly watching from a distance, with a complicated expression on his face.I don't know how long he stopped, but he still took a step and walked towards the coffin step by step, first hurriedly and then slowly, but stopped suddenly before reaching the coffin.

Holding the edge of the coffin, he didn't look down at his mother, but turned to ask the Taoist priest, "How, are there any ghosts and spirits?"

The Taoist stuck the mahogany sword into the ground and stood upright. He closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, and said, "It will take some time for the impoverished Taoist priest. Please order all the ladies in red to stand around this coffin. After a while, we will have a conclusion."

The emperor said, "Come here and stand according to what the Taoist priest said."

When Ruan Xixi was walking, she saw that timid concubine following her nervously, Ruan Xixi couldn't help laughing.She thought that the more she followed her, the more she could protect herself, but she didn't know that the person the emperor wanted to deal with was Ruan Xixi herself, so the fact would be exactly the opposite of what this concubine thought, the closer she was to herself, the more dangerous she would be.

Xiaoxia, the court lady sent by the emperor to watch Ruan Xixi, is still waiting in the crowd, and she is also very concerned about Ruan Xixi's situation.

The Taoist drew out the sword again and placed it flat on the coffin lid, the tip of the sword was now stained with some dirt.

"Your Majesty, wait for the poor way to do it, whoever the sword is pointed at will be the person possessed by the Empress Dowager."

The emperor nodded, "Okay."

"He doesn't care about our lives so much," said the concubine standing beside Ruan Xixi, her eyes were full of fear, with tears in her eyes, "just find a Taoist priest to turn a broken sword indiscriminately to take the life of one of us gone……"

Ruan Xixi didn't comfort her, but just sighed slightly in her heart.

The Taoist started to practice, and the sword on the ground turned by itself out of thin air.The emperor smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, watching the big play brought by the Taoist priest like a spectator watching a play.

The fear in Cui Sheng's heart had dissipated at this time, he looked at the side face of the emperor, and felt more and more chilling.What is the future of climbing such a irrational person no matter how high he climbs?Life and death, power and status are not just a matter of his words?

The wooden sword had a tendency to stop after turning, and slowly stopped in circles...

Everyone was worried, deeply afraid of being hit by this mahogany sword.

The Taoist yelled, "The Taomu sword is fixed! Part of the hostility of the empress dowager has possessed this woman, and it must be removed immediately!"

Everyone followed the direction pointed by the mahogany sword and looked towards the northeast, but saw a woman's face was pale and bloodless, her lips were blue and her eyes were full of panic.She shivered all over, knelt down as soon as her knees softened, and kowtowed to the emperor continuously, begging, "Your Majesty, it's not me, I'm not possessed, it's not me!"

The emperor's eyes fell on Ruan Xixi with special meaning, and then looked at Xiaoxia, the palace maid who was kneeling on the ground without any color in palace attire, "What do you have to argue with, as pointed by Taoist Taoist sword? "

Xiaoxia said, "Your Majesty, it's really not me!" Then she seemed to suddenly remember something, pointed at Ruan Xixi with a wave of her hand, and resolutely said, "But I know who is possessed by the empress dowager, it's her! It's Empress Ruan!"

Ruan Xixi was surprised, "Xiaoxia, why did you slander me?"

Xiaoxia said coldly, "If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can search her body, there must be some clues on her body."

The Son of Heaven smiled and said, "I want to search for it myself."

Ruan Xixi said, "If Your Majesty listened to a court lady's groundless accusation and searched me, would it be too hasty? According to my concubine, I can do a body search, but for the sake of fairness, Your Majesty will also search her body. "

The emperor raised his eyebrows and seemed more interested, "That's fine."

But the Taoist priest suddenly interjected, "Your Majesty, there is no need to search the body. The wraith is on this maid. If you don't believe me, Your Majesty can look at her forehead."