Chapter 51
Imperial Palace, Changqiu Palace.
A delicate hand with a hollowed-out floral gold armor on its little finger reached out to the potted plant by the window, carefully picked out the dead branches and leaves inside, then scooped a bucket of water from the hand of a palace maid holding water beside her and poured it into the potted plant.
The watering can was taken by someone, and she straightened up, her golden steps swaying. She looked at the beautiful flowers in front of her with satisfaction. She placed her hand on the palace maid's arm and walked out the side door with a swaying step. Her skirt swayed on the ground. As she looked at the beautiful scenery outside, she said, "The flowers are blooming so beautifully this year. It's a pity that I didn't plant many in my Changqiu Palace."
Someone nearby immediately replied with a smile, "If Your Majesty likes it, I will have someone bring back a dozen pots of flowers from somewhere else."
"Heh." The woman smiled, her red lips parted. "It's a beautiful flower, why move it? It's not like I don't have legs. I can't see it in the back garden."
Although she said it with a smile, it made people feel creepy. She knelt down hurriedly and explained, "I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that. Please punish me, Your Majesty!" She had originally wanted to say a few nice words in front of the Queen to make herself familiar, which is always good in the harem, but she had forgotten what kind of person was in front of her.
The woman bent down, lifted the maid's face with her hand, took a look, and said calmly, "You think the flowers in my palace are not as good as those elsewhere, right?"
The palace maid was bewildered, "But, but this is not what you said, Your Majesty..." It was clearly the woman who said it, what a pity, she didn't mean that at all!
The woman's expression changed. "Someone, drag her away. It makes me upset just looking at her."
"yes."
Someone came and forcibly dragged the palace maid out. The maid's wailing was heard all along the way, and no one knew what her final fate was.
Du Ruo turned sideways and watched the maid being dragged away. Then he calmly entered the palace, came to the woman, bowed, and said, "Your Highness, His Highness has returned."
Yin Jianyue was used to all of this. He walked in expressionlessly and saluted the woman casually, "Mother, I'm back."
The woman nodded, turned around and looked at him with a scrutinizing look in her eyes. She walked to the upper seat and sat down. "Prince, you were clamoring to see your uncle earlier. Why are you rushing back now?" The woman suddenly looked up at him and said with a smile, "Is there something you're rushing back for?"
Yin Jianyue remained calm and replied, "I received a letter from my uncle. He said he had important matters to attend to in the capital in a month and asked me to hold off. I decided to return and go with him."
"Oh? Yin Chengfeng is coming back?" The woman frowned when she heard the news, then lowered her eyes and thought about something.
Yin Jianyue looked at her straight. This was the method her cousin had told him to use. The current emperor was indecisive and the country was only saved by Prince Huai'an. He could just make up any excuse to fool her, but he couldn't afford to be perfunctory with the queen, so he carefully made up a reason and told it to her.
There was no secret around Prince Huai'an, so the Queen naturally could not verify the facts. It also allowed her to focus on the northern border and ignore the Prince's return to the capital.
The woman raised her inquiring gaze. Her son had always been estranged from her, and no one knew if he was lying. However, Yin Jianyue's expression was not obvious, so she could not tell anything for the time being.
"If mother is fine, I will take my leave and report to father." Yin Jianyue was afraid that Wang Sheng would be discovered by the queen's spies if he was alone in the East Palace, so she wanted to finish here quickly and go back.
There was no reason for the woman to stop him. She smiled and said, "Go quickly. You must have been exhausted from the journey. You should take a good rest when you return."
After everyone left, Du Ruo looked at the door, then bent down beside the woman and said, "My Lady, do you want me to check?"
The woman raised her arm and looked at her hand, then said slowly, "There are many talented people on the side of the Prince of Huai'an. How do you want to investigate? Just keep an eye on the Crown Prince." The woman raised her eyelids, "It doesn't matter if you play tricks on me. As long as you are useful to me, you are still my good boy."
"yes."
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In the middle of the night, a small paper man crawled out from the crack of the small door of the East Palace. There was a curfew in the palace. With the help of moonlight, the paper man jumped and skipped in the deserted corner of the wall and came to a palace.
Wang Sheng sat at the table, holding the mother talisman of the mother-child talisman in his hand, closed his eyes, and began to empathize with the paper man.
Just as he was about to control the paper figurine to climb over to Changqiu Palace, he suddenly stopped. He walked to the nearby wall, looked at the stones on the ground, and after thinking for a moment, he chose a stone in front of him and wanted to move it.
The paper man was too small, and the stone in front of it was too big, so he couldn't move it at all. Wang Sheng then reacted and chose a smaller one to move, breaking the formation, and then he climbed in.
He went straight to the Queen's bedroom. There was no light on inside, and it was completely dark. The paper figurine quietly climbed onto the bed and stood at the edge, staring at the woman lying there.
Wang Sheng clenched his hands suddenly.
Memories of the past came flooding back, and the person in the memory overlapped with this person. No one knew what method this woman had used, so that even at the age of almost forty, there was not a single fine line around her eyes or eyebrows, and she looked exactly the same as when she was a child.
The paper figure took a step forward. Perhaps the feeling was too intense, the woman turned over impatiently in her dream, rubbing her eyes and falling asleep with the paper figure on her back. The paper figure could only allow its operator to empathize with it, unable to even wield a knife. Otherwise, this would be a perfect opportunity to strike back, eliminating the problem once and for all.
Wang Sheng relaxed, let the paper figurine go, and began searching the room. He wasn't sure where to find the talisman or enchantment, so he had the paper figurine search through some books on the surface. Before they had finished searching, they heard a noise outside the door.
The paper man hid in the gap and watched the palace maid on night watch come in and add an oil lamp, and then saw her lying on the ground by the door to keep watch.
Wang Sheng carefully moved the paper man out and returned to the East Palace. He leaned back in his chair and raised his neck.
He was certain that the Queen was most likely the mastermind behind the incident.
Changqiu Palace was filled with arrays and invisible talismans. Anything with murderous intent would cause a commotion if it entered. Who would place such things in a bedroom? Unless someone had a hidden agenda and had encountered someone being murdered in their sleep in the middle of the night?
Wang Sheng knew his own limitations. Even if he found a random ghost handler to capture his evil spirit and take it to Changqiu Palace, the ghost handlers around the Queen might kill him before he even encountered the person, and they would find him along with them. He needed to think carefully about how to get close to Changqiu Palace.
He had already forgotten his promise not to act alone. But his mother and father were still lying in the cold imperial mausoleum, and the thought of his enemies being so close yet unable to kill them made him extremely upset.
Suddenly, Wang Sheng opened his eyes. He grabbed the thunder talisman he had just drawn and threw it aside. "Thunder, break!"
With a crackling sound, the thunder talisman suddenly exploded, making the person scream, "No, no, no! I'm here to deliver a letter! Master, please show mercy!"
The lightning would have blown the man's tail to pieces. If he hadn't dodged in time, he would be lying on the ground now!
Wang Sheng stood up in shock and looked at the person opposite him, no, the rat man.
The rat man has a human body but a rat head, grey palms with long sharp nails, and he even has a tail behind him!
The rat man quickly reported the letter, saying, "I'm from the Wanxiang Cave in the underworld. Master Shi from Yuntai Mountain sent me to deliver a letter. Here, this is it! I've put it on the table. I'm leaving now!"
As soon as it put the letter down, it swooshed into the ground and disappeared without a trace. Wang Sheng walked over and knocked on the ground to make sure it was solid before standing up.
"Wanxiang Cave?" This was the place the master had taken him to when they were in Fangjia Village. He suddenly remembered that cold and weird feeling and shuddered.
No, the master wrote him a letter!
Wang Sheng quickly opened the letter, and a paper figurine popped out. It stood with its hands on its hips, wandering around before finally arriving in front of Wang Sheng. A familiar, pleasant voice emanated from the figurine: "Wang Sheng, I've received the news that you've arrived in the capital. Are you all right?"
Huh? Didn't he just arrive? His letter hadn't traveled far, so how did Shi Ye know about it so quickly? But if he wanted to know something, there were always many ways.
The paper figurine sat down and rested like a real person. Wang Sheng lifted it up with his hands and stared at it. Shi Ye's voice continued to come out, "I received all the letters you sent. There were seven in total. I read them all."
Actually, Wang Sheng sent letters almost every day, but some of them hadn't arrived yet. He knew that the paper figurine was only used to deliver messages, but he couldn't help but ask it, "How are things going over there?"
As if he had deliberately waited for Wang Sheng to speak, Shi Ye finally spoke: "Things on the mountain are a bit tricky, but fortunately, I can handle them all. There are still some things that I need to discuss in detail with you when I see you."
Wang Sheng pinched the paper man's little hands and pulled them, poked its belly, and played with it as if it were Shi Ye. When he thought about the fact that Shi Ye knew nothing, Wang Sheng laughed.
"...Nanxing, I told the master about our affairs. The master said he wanted to see you. After things are over, you can come back to Yuntaishan with me." The voice on the other end was very soft. When Wang Sheng heard it, he also called out his old name. He felt that it sounded particularly good coming from his mouth.
"Okay, you better come quickly." Unfortunately, no one else heard this.
As soon as the words were spoken, the paper figure sank into obscurity. However, as long as the curse on the paper figure faded, a little more replenishment would allow him to hear the voice from it repeatedly. Wang Sheng heard it many times in succession. He only regretted that he had not told Shi that he wanted to learn how to go to the underworld, otherwise his letter would not have taken so long to reach Yuntaishan.
In the distance, in a forest shrouded in clouds and mist for twenty miles in radius, there is a high mountain. A small path extends from the bottom of the mountain. Along the way, you can see a huge stone buried in the soil with the three words "Yuntai Mountain" engraved on it. Going further up, you will reach a place where houses are lined up.
Shi Ye stood at the gate, reached out and lured down the carrier pigeon that was circling in the air, and took out the letter from it. The disciples who were responsible for guarding the master's letters looked at him curiously, wondering who had sent the letter that the junior master had come to pick up in person.
But Shi Ye took the letter and walked into the room. He opened it and found it was full of Wang Sheng's chatter. The corners of his mouth curled up, and he could imagine how Wang Sheng looked when he wrote the letter.
Without Wang Sheng by his side, he had returned to his old, taciturn self. He only smiled when he received a letter from Wang Sheng, and then he became the aloof junior master from Yuntai Mountain again. Shi Ye looked at the letter in his hand for a long time before putting it in a box for safekeeping.
If Wang Sheng were here, he would be able to see the black energy that could not be concealed from Shi Ye. Strands of ghostly energy were emanating from his body, making Shi Ye look eerie. Even his handsome face was filled with some sinister energy.
Three black lines appeared behind his ears.
Shi Ye has now summoned three evil spirits from the ghost realm, and they are all in the back mountain at the moment.
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