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When Wen Yining opened his eyes again, what caught his eyes was Ruyi's magnified face many times.Seeing that he opened his eyes, Ruyi stroked his chin and shouted back in surprise, "Peace, master is awake, but—how strange!"

Ping An was standing not far away at the moment, also frowning and looking at himself.

Wen Yining is funny, why is this little Ruyi crazy.

"Why, what's so strange?"

"Master, it's very strange! It's really strange! You actually slept so, so deeply, and so well! It's unbelievable!" Ruyi retracted herself, and helped Wen Yining get up from the bed.

Sitting up now, Wen Yining found himself lying in Zhongshidian's own bedroom.

Wen Yining was a little surprised:

"Ruyi, are you the one who picked me up from the surveillance hall?"

"That's not it!" Ruyi shook her head, and looked at Wen Yining with wide eyes, "Master, you ordered me to wait in the hall, how could I run out. Besides, it rained so much last night, the electricity It's thundering, I don't dare to go to the south gate to find you alone if I'm safe!"

"Then..." Wen Yining was stunned, "How did I get back to the bedroom?"

"When the rain stopped at Yinshi, Mr. Wei brought you here in a black car."

"Black car?" Wen Yining asked subconsciously.

Concubines in the harem carry eunuchs outside the palace or men into the palace for business, and they often use a special sedan chair.Dirty things need to be concealed from people's eyes and ears, so the windows of the car are secretly covered, and there are no lights when traveling at night, so it is called "black-car", also known as "black sedan chair".

For example, Wen Yining was silent and opened up the chatterbox again:

"Master, I'm surprised, do you know?! Over the years, you have dreams and sleepless nights when it rains. It's the first time I've seen you sleep so deeply and comfortably! And, and, the most powerful Yes——the distance from Jinlang to our place is so, so long, the palace carriage swayed, and Eunuch Wei helped carry you into the bedroom. After such a long journey, you have never woken up from the beginning to the end!"

Wen Yining frowned, he had been insomnia in the rainy night, so many things happened last night, he was really unconscious.

"I said master," Ruyi looked at him worriedly, "you are really exhausted, right? Could it be a sign of exhaustion, I should go to the imperial hospital and invite an imperial doctor to show you?"

"If you don't need it," Wen Yining lifted the quilt and got out of bed, "I'm fine, probably because I haven't slept well for a long time, so I just slept a little deeper. By the way, Ping An—"

It was already light outside.Day, it's bright again.

For Wen Yining, once the sun rises, it always means that there is something to do.

Wen Yining looked up at Ping An, and asked Ruyi to help him get dressed, "I ordered you to check yesterday..."

"Master, let's have breakfast first." Ping An said with a blank expression.

Knowing that Ruyi and Ping An both care about their own bodies, Wen Yining smiled helplessly.

After being pushed to the table by Ruyi and Pingan for breakfast, Wen Yining made Pingan willing to speak up and tell the truth about the visit to the mass grave last night:

There are mass graves everywhere in the world, but the mass graves in the Imperial Palace in the capital are even more different.Just because there are grievances everywhere in the world, but it is far from possible that there are as many as there are in the palace.

Moreover, most of those who died unjustly in the palace and were buried in mass graves were women or eunuchs.The eunuchs and women were very negative, and at the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the empress of the former dynasty jumped to her death from the falling star platform in a red phoenix robe, which was a bad omen.

Palace people like to play on rumors and spread rumors, and now the mass graves outside the palace have become a place where evil spirits and ghosts haunt.

The child is silent, strange, powerful, chaotic, and godly.

Wen Yining didn't think there were so many monsters in this world, so he sent Ping An to investigate.

What scares people is often not the ghosts, but the people who pretend to be ghosts.

"Li Meiren's body is the same," Ping An said the result flatly, "It's just that my subordinates will be Zishi by then, but after a while, they will see Empress Concubine Shu."

"..."

Hearing the word Concubine Shu, Wen Yining's complexion changed, he subconsciously recognized it, and did not speak.

"Zishi?" Ruyi couldn't hold her breath, and exclaimed loudly, "Isn't the imperial confinement always in Xushi? And she, she is in the cold palace, how can she come out?! Did you misread Ping An?"

Ping An shook his head, "It can't be wrong."

"The subordinate saw Concubine Shu coming, and hid her figure. Concubine Shu saw that there was no one around, so she went to the side of Li Meiren's corpse, and said something with a big smile. The subordinate was far away, and couldn't hear clearly."

"anything else?"

"Concubine Shu should have expected to stay longer, but after a while it started to rain, and Concubine Shu left in disappointment. The subordinates were worried, so they quietly followed all the way, and only returned when they saw Concubine Shu return to Tingzhu Pavilion."

After hearing this, Wen Yining frowned, thought for a while, and then murmured in pain, "What did she go to the mass grave for so many years, she, why is she still so, so ignorant... "

Ruyi spoke bluntly, and said with a sneer, "Hmph—Ms. Concubine Shu is not a sensible master. If she was sensible, the imperial concubine and the second prince would not have died in vain! You have caused so many and such big disasters, and you still need to give me your help." She is carrying it around and protecting her, does she really think that she is still Miss Wen Family?!"

"Ruyi!" Ping'an stopped Ruyi's words, and Ruyi gave Ping'an a dissatisfied look, but when she looked back, she found Wen Yining's face full of helplessness and sadness.

Ruyi was taken aback by this expression, and called out cautiously:

"Master, master?"

"She... is indeed high-minded, but there are more than a hundred people in the Wen family..." Wen Yining was dumbfounded, his brows were red and his eyes were red, and he endured hatred and heartache for a long time before trembling, "I am the only one left With her, if I don't protect her... I will have no relatives in this world."

Ruyi immediately knew that she was about to say the wrong thing, which brought up Wen Yining's sadness, and bit her lips in annoyance, thinking about how to make Wen Yining happy, but a little girl who answered the door today hurriedly ran in from outside the hall. fellow.

"Master, the eunuch in charge of the office, the stewards of Xueyang Palace and Yuecheng Palace, please see me."

"Let's pass it on." Wen Yining took a deep breath, turned his head to wipe away the tears in his eyes, and then turned his face to face the outside of the hall.Three or five eunuchs and palace servants came hurriedly outside the hall, and as soon as they entered the entrance of the hall, they plopped down to Wen Yining and knelt down.

"My lord, you have to make the decision for us! We are just palace people in the first palace, and we have never done anything harmful! Please save our lives, my lord!"

"What's the matter, get up and talk."

"There are ghosts in the palace!" The mother of Xueyang Palace opened the mouth first. This woman likes gossip in the palace the most, and most of the rumors in the palace are her participation. As soon as she speaks, Wen Yining is dissatisfied His face fell.

The theory of ghosts and gods relies most on the nonsense of these people.

"Master, it's true! The servants and the maids of Yuxiu Palace have seen it! It's true! I'm afraid it's Li Meiren's wronged soul who came to claim her life!" Seeing that Wen Yining didn't believe it, the steward of Lecheng Palace next to him also sympathized.

"Master," said the office, who is in charge of the important affairs of the harem, and the eunuch in charge has more experience.

"If only these three palaces were rumored to be haunted, the servant would not dare to come to disturb the Queen's master, and the servant could decide on his own and invite the mage from the Shangyuan Hall to do the work. However, in the West Twelve Palaces, Qutai, Xihe, People from Yongxin and Yuxiu four palaces came to report, and people in the remaining palaces also said they had seen ghosts. Among them, the steward of Liangfengtai was frightened and passed out last night. The servant felt that this matter was serious, so he boldly reported it to the queen master .”

Wen Yining listened and nodded in agreement with the manager's handling.Then he turned to look at the eunuch in Lecheng Hall:

"You just said, Li Meiren's 'grievance', soul?"

"Yes Yes."

"How do you know that Li Meiren died unjustly?" Wen Yining squinted at the other party.

The eunuch was timid at first, but when Wen Yining asked, he immediately fell to his knees, slapped his own big mouth, and said in a crying voice, "It's a slave talking nonsense, a slave talking nonsense, Li Meiren deserves what she deserves, what she deserves! "

Seeing the other party's stern look, Wen Yining shook his head, annoyed, and waved his hand to make them retreat first, leaving only the manager of the performance office behind:

"The manager just said, the West Twelve Palaces? I don't know if it includes Zhaoyang Hall and Tingzhu Hall?"

Zhaoyang Hall and Zhongshi Hall are opposite to each other, and it is the head of the West Twelve Palaces. It was originally the place where the imperial concubine lived, but it has been vacant since the imperial concubine died of illness.And Tingzhu Pavilion...

Tingzhu Pavilion is the farthest from Mingguang Hall and the closest to Xinzheku. In addition to the shade, it is the most remote and deserted place in the palace.No one wants to live there, and over time, it will naturally become a waste palace and a cold palace.

Wen Yining saw that the manager of the performance office was stunned for a moment, his face changed slightly, he shook his head and said, "The empress is wise, there is no one to report in Zhaoyang Palace, and there is no one in Tingzhu Pavilion...."

After hearing this, Wen Yining stared at the steward for a while, until he lowered his head unnaturally and looked away, then said, "The steward doesn't need to coax me, the emperor forbids anyone to serve Concubine Shu, and grounds her. Since there is no one to take care of it, if it is really a ghost, how can I report it."

Seeing that he couldn't hide the truth, the manager of the performance office could only kneel down and plead guilty, "The slave is confused!"

Wen Yining glanced at the other party helplessly - not all people in the palace are like this, playing tricks on the wind and following others.He had no intention of blaming him for anything.People who are confined to the cold palace are of no use, let alone her...

The emperor's willingness to keep her up to now has been regarded as an extrajudicial grace and mercy. How could these palace people think about her.

"Forget it, you go back first." Wen Yining asked the boy to send him out, the hot summer and the annoyance due to the early arrival of the rainy season are even worse now.

Wen Yining got up, took a step, and staggered.

If it wasn't for Ping An's sharp eyes and quick hands to support Wen Yining, Wen Yining might fall down.

Ruyi looked at Wen Yining like that, and felt even more sad, holding back her tears and said, "Master, don't think about so many things, at worst we run away now! This world belongs to his Ling family after all, master, you don't owe them anything !"

When Wen Yining heard Ruyi's willful words, the corners of his mouth curled up. He didn't owe them anything, but the complicated relationship between them could be clarified by saying whether he owed them or not.

"Forget it, she can be regarded as the person who accompanied me into the palace. I'm not the emperor. If something like this happens, if I don't go to see her again, I'm afraid no one will know if she died in the cold palace."

Moreover, Wen Yining also wanted to ask this cold concubine Shu Concubine something.

"But she used to treat you that way!" Ruyi yelled unhappily, "She, she was so heartless and ungrateful, she—"

Before Ruyi finished speaking, Wen Yining glanced at Ruyi with his usual indifferent expression, and Ruyi was subconsciously stunned by that gaze, unable to utter a word.

After Ruyi closed her mouth, Wen Yining slowly opened her mouth:

"Concubine Shu is wrong in every possible way..."

"But Ruyi, she is my own sister."

As soon as Wen Yining finished speaking, a strong wind blew up outside.

The scorching heat brought by the summer wind from the capital rushes into the house, but it makes Ruyi shiver for no reason.