As soon as the words fell, Shen Ci walked in. She said to the chief female official of the Yangxin Palace, "Your Majesty has been ill for a long time and the doctors in the Imperial Hospital are unable to find the cause. This shows that Your Majesty's illness is not an ordinary one.
Please ask Lady Yang to go in and tell His Majesty that I have invited the Xuanming Fairy from Xinghua Alley on the north street of the capital. I am sure you have all heard of her great name. Let her remove the evil spirits from Your Majesty's surroundings, and Your Majesty's health will surely recover."
Shen Ci did not directly say that this evil villain was the Queen, but considering the meaning of her previous sentence, anyone could guess who she was targeting.
Yang, a female official, relayed Shen Ci's words to the emperor in the inner room. The emperor originally didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but her illness was strange and never healed. Now, desperate and desperate, he agreed to let Xuanming Fairy perform a ritual.
Xuanming Fairy was quickly ushered in. She wore a dark blue robe, and her features were also obscured by a black and gold mask. Her right eye was silvery white, with a blue, unidentified mass in the white of her eye. Her left eye was normal.
Fairy Xuanming knelt down to pay her respects to the emperor. When her skirt dragged on the ground, purple-blue smoke rose.
The emperor frowned involuntarily. In people's impression, fairies should be ethereal, but the Xuanming Fairy in front of him gave people the feeling that she was born in the underworld hell.
Shen Ci explained, "Your Majesty, the right eye of the Xuanming Fairy can communicate with ghosts and gods. It would be abnormal for someone who has been dealing with the underworld's yin officials for a long time not to have some evil spirit on him."
That made sense. The emperor nodded, "Then may I ask what you will do next, Fairy? Is there anything I can do to help you?"
Xuan Ming Xian Gu's hands were so white that even the veins were invisible. People couldn't see her face beneath the mask, so they presumed she was a young woman. But when she spoke, her voice was as hoarse as an old woman with one foot halfway in a coffin. "Your Majesty, I have sensed that the evil spirit that has made you sick is in this room. He may be your man, or perhaps a child of your same blood."
Xuanming Fairy pulled a dark red bell from her waist pocket. The black surface of the bell had a silver-white hole carved into it. "This bell is called the Soul-Calling Bell. Later, I will go to each master and shake it."
If the bell sounds normally, it means that the original soul is in the body. If the bell is silent, a blazing flame will burst out from the hole in the eye socket, and the divine fire will burn to death the evil spirits that are parasitic in the body.
At this time, the princess and prince who were waiting outside the inner room, as well as several high-ranking ladies in the harem were invited in.
Xuanming Fairy first walked towards the Fifth Princess who was closest to her, and she held the bell in front of the Fifth Princess.
Everyone in the room held their breath, and the fifth princess could even clearly hear her own heartbeat.
The hand of the Immortal Xuanming shook gently.
The bell made a crisp sound.
The Fifth Princess heaved a sigh of relief. Her mother had been feeling unwell for the past few days, and her temper had been worsening. If the witch's bell went silent in front of her, she was truly afraid the Emperor would chop her in half.
To the left of the fifth princess is the third princess Ling Shulan, and after that is the seventh prince. The bells are ringing normally.
Xuanming Fairy came in front of Ling Shumo, her silver eyes staring at Ling Shumo without blinking, and the hand holding the bell shook gently, making a crisp "ding-dong" sound.
The next few princesses and princes were also fine. In the blink of an eye, the Immortal Xuanming was standing before the Queen. The bandage on the Queen's left eye had not yet been removed. He and the Immortal Xuanming stood face to face, her silvery right eye meeting his missing left eye. The two of them looked eerie no matter how they looked at each other.
The smile in Shen Ci's eyes was almost uncontrollable. Soon, the eye sockets on the bell's head would burst into flames, and the queen would be condemned by the emperor. Ling Shumo had a father whose body was occupied by an evil spirit, so her position as the crown princess of the Eastern Palace was not secure.
Shen Hefeng sat beside the emperor's bed, tightly gripping his hand, his face filled with fear and nervousness. It seemed as if the half-human, half-ghost appearance of Xuanming Fairy had terrified him. No one could doubt that he and Xuanming Fairy were related.
The emperor held Shen Hefeng's hand tightly and comforted him softly, "Don't be afraid, no matter what happens, I will protect you."
A shy look appeared on Shen Hefeng's face. He didn't care that there were so many outsiders in the room and kissed the emperor on the cheek, "With Your Majesty by my side, I am not afraid even if the sky falls." Of course he wouldn't be afraid. When the bell stopped ringing, the people who should be afraid should be the Queen and Ling Shumo.
Thinking of Ling Shumo, Shen Hefeng gritted his teeth in hatred. He had been so foolish in the past, actually harboring fantasies about this princess. And she had locked him up in the Lanxin Palace, which was like a cold palace, and threatened to make him "unable to live or die."
He would never forget that time, when he was starving, and the servants always brought only rice and vegetables to the table. One night, he took a cold breath and his stomach ached terribly. A servant brought him a glass of water, and he thought the servant had finally had a change of heart. But when he drank it in one gulp, he found only ice in the glass.
He made a big fuss just to see Her Royal Highness the Princess. He wanted to ask Ling Shumo face to face what he had done wrong. But no one paid any attention to him.
When he was finally released, he finally met his elder sister Shen Ci. He knelt on the ground and begged Shen Ci to save him from leaving the East Palace, but Shen Ci didn't believe that Ling Shumo had abused him.
Because he was wearing gold and silver, he looked many times more respectable than when he was in the Shen Mansion.
One day, he would make Ling Shumo, who had been so high and mighty and treated him like dirt, pay the price. He would make her taste the pain of living in constant fear.
His sister told him to rest assured and give birth to the princess in her belly. He was favored by the emperor in the harem, and his sister had made great military achievements in the previous dynasty. The princess with their Shen family blood could also fight for the position of the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace.
By then, he would be able to see Ling Shumo kneeling on the ground, wagging her tail and begging for mercy from him.
Ling Shumo used the gorgeous but cold palace as a cage to imprison him. When his daughter became the crown princess, he would have Ling Shumo's hands and feet chopped off, and then build her the most exquisite and gorgeous wheelchair in the world.
Just thinking about it, Shen Hefeng felt refreshed all over, and the unhappiness in his heart was almost swept away.
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