Chapter 376 There's a Ghost
Su Ying listened and slowly shook her head, "Perhaps he didn't expect that the Queen Mother would commit suicide."
She felt that the Queen Mother's appearance and the actions of the King of Horse must have been discussed in advance. "Is there a possibility that he wanted the Queen Mother to frame you after killing the Emperor, but he didn't expect the Queen Mother to hang herself."
"You are right."
"What would you have done if the Queen Mother hadn't hanged herself?"
A dark color flashed across Xiao Jin's dark eyes. "Then help her hang herself."
The Queen Mother not only resented the Emperor Retired, she resented all the royal family members. Xiao Jin had no feelings for this so-called grandmother, and even when she saw him being bullied as a child, she pretended not to see it.
How could he have any psychological burden to kill such a person when she became his enemy?
But whether it is Emperor Kangze or the Empress Dowager, their era will eventually end with their fall.
After eating, Su Ying saw that the two children's eyes were red from the burning incense, so she let them rest in the side hall and left Wang Su to guard it. She followed Xiao Jin back to the mourning hall.
On the other side, Concubine De and Xiao Li were sent back to Concubine De's palace.
The imperial guards put them in the house and closed the door. The moment Concubine De got up from the ground and slammed the door vigorously, "Open the door, open the door, open the door for me quickly, does the prince want to kill people to silence them?"
But no matter how she shouted, there was no response from outside.
After Defei made sure that there was no one outside, the angry expression on her face gradually faded, and she no longer had the ferocious and angry look she had just had. She turned around and sat back in her chair.
"This Xiao Jin is so abominable. It's bad enough that he killed my father and grandmother, but now he has locked us up. I think he wants to get rid of us after the storm has passed!"
"He won't."
Xiao Li looked at Concubine De's confident look in surprise and couldn't help but wonder, "Mother, how can you be sure that Xiao Jin won't do this? Didn't you say that he wanted to kill all of us?"
De Fei glanced at him and said, "That's why mother asked you to make such a scene today. If something happens to us in the future, it will naturally be blamed on Xiao Jin. As a newly enthroned emperor, does he dare to bear such doubts and insults?"
Xiao Li suddenly realized, "Mother, what you mean is that you deliberately asked me to go to the mourning hall to cause trouble?"
De Fei nodded, "That's right, your grandfather said that after this incident, Xiao Jin would never dare to touch us again no matter what."
Xiao Li always listened to Concubine De, but he felt that this matter was a little risky.
"Your grandfather will go to the court and ask Xiao Jin to give you a fief. Once you get the fief, you should take your mother and leave immediately. The emperor is far away, so who can do anything to you?"
Xiao Li nodded doubtfully, but for some reason, he always felt that things might not go so smoothly.
Night falls.
Darkness enveloped the entire palace, making the white banners hung inside the palace appear particularly eerie.
Xiao Jin, Su Ying and some concubines from Emperor Kangze's harem were still guarding in front of the coffin.
The ministers who came to the palace to kowtow could only wait in the side hall outside the mourning hall.
When the bang sounded, it was already the first watch of the night.
Xiao Jin asked the concubines to go down and rest first, and asked another group to come over and kneel.
"Go take a rest if you're tired."
Xiao Jin looked at Su Ying, only to see her kneeling on the mat with her eyes lowered. When he raised his eyes, he thought she was too sad and had no energy.
But when Xiao Jin got closer, he found that Su Ying had actually fallen asleep.
But as soon as he got close to her, he woke up instantly.
Su Ying glanced at him sideways, "What's wrong?" Although her eyes were bright, a closer look revealed a hint of fatigue.
There was a trace of heartache in Xiao Jin's eyes. "Go to the side hall with the palace maid to rest."
Su Ying yawned, "I've been asleep for a while. I'll stay a little longer and come over when I'm almost done. You go check on the child."
Xiao Jin nodded when he heard that, and only after he realized that the palace maid had brought tea to Su Ying did he get up and go to the side hall.
Wang Su had been guarding outside the side hall. When he saw Xiao Jin coming, he opened the door and let him in.
Only after making sure that the two children were sleeping soundly did Xiao Jin walk out of the house.
"Prince, Prince Jiangning has arrived." The eunuch quickly walked up to Xiao Jin and reported.
Prince Jiangning was the half-brother of Emperor Kangze. After being crowned king, he did not go to his fiefdom, but stayed in the capital as an idle prince.
Normally, given his status as King of Jiangning, he should have arrived early in the morning, but for some reason he only hurried over at this hour.
"Where are the people?"
"I have already entered the palace."
Xiao Jin nodded when he heard this and stood up to greet him. This was the proper etiquette for elders.
As soon as Xiao Jin left, Su Ying took the paper money and threw it into the brazier out of boredom.
The flames instantly engulfed the thin paper money.
At this moment, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew through the mourning hall and went straight into people's spines, giving them goose bumps all over their bodies.
Su Ying straightened her back with a start, and looked outside the door. She saw white flags fluttering outside the door, and a sinister aura.
The concubines kneeling in the inner hall had their sleepiness instantly blown away by the cold wind, and were frightened awake.
"Bang"
Suddenly there was a knocking sound from inside the coffin.
"ah!"
The concubines were frightened and screamed.
Su Yingmei's heart skipped a beat and she stood up from the cushion.
The concubines huddled in fear, looking around in horror.
The cold wind was getting stronger and stronger, and a chill went straight to the top of my head.
"Bang"
There was a noise again in the coffin, and some concubines were frightened to tears.
Su Ying stared in the direction of Emperor Kangze's coffin, making sure that the noise came from there.
She walked slowly to the coffin and waited.
"Bang!"
When the third sound was heard, Su Ying pushed the coffin lid open.
"ah!"
The concubines were so frightened that they ran out.
Su Ying stood by with an expressionless face, looking at Emperor Kangze who seemed to be asleep in the coffin, and did not notice anything unusual.
She waited for a moment, and the strange noise never came again.
Just as she was about to close the coffin lid, the voice came again.
Only this time, the sound came from the Queen Mother's coffin nearby.
The imperial guards and eunuchs guarding outside the door heard the noise and gathered outside the mourning hall. They did not dare to go in.
Su Ying pursed her lips, then walked to the Queen Mother's coffin and opened the lid of the coffin.
The Queen Mother lay quietly inside, without any abnormality.
Su Ying quickly scanned the empress dowager's body before turning to look at the person outside the door.
"What are you afraid of? They are just two dead men."
Su Ying turned around and faced the coffin with her back. Just as she was about to let the imperial guards come in and close the coffin lid, she saw extremely frightened looks on their faces.
"Ah, ah! Yes, there is a ghost, there is a ghost!"
"Help! There's a ghost!"
Su Ying frowned slightly, turned her head slowly, and saw Emperor Kangze and the Queen Mother sitting up straight from the coffin.
(End of this chapter)
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