Chapter 40 It hurts, it hurts, who will save me
Abao woke up in the middle of the night and turned over, feeling that the spiritual power in her body was disappearing.
As the Lord of the Underworld, she controls the Book of Life and Death, and it is no big deal to increase her fortune and longevity.
But she is still young now, and the spiritual power she accumulated through Feng Zhuo has been used up.
Abao pouted her lips, and Defei felt that Abao woke up.
"Are you hungry, Abao?" Defei picked Abao up and fed her breast milk.
[Sweet and fragrant mother, I love it so much]
Abao gradually fell asleep with breast milk in her little mouth.
Yuxiang Palace.
In the middle of the night, Roufei was awakened by a nightmare.
She sat at the head of the bed absent-mindedly, her face pale, breathing heavily.
A thin layer of sweat was on her forehead.
"Yuxue, Yuxue..." Concubine Rou called the maid several times, but the maid didn't come in.
Concubine Rou rubbed her eyebrows, "This girl, she sleeps so soundly at night."
Concubine Rou lifted the quilt and walked down barefoot, feeling dry mouth.
She poured herself a cup of warm water, drank it gulply, and then felt dizzy.
She irritably turned on the light, and when she caught a glimpse of a string of Buddhist beads on the table in the dim candlelight, she was so scared that she stepped back repeatedly.
"This... Buddhist... Buddhist beads?"
Concubine Rou looked like she had seen a ghost.
This string of Buddhist beads has 108 beads, and the first one is a red bead. She couldn't be more familiar with it. Isn't this the string of Buddhist beads that Concubine De dropped on the ground during the day?
Later, Concubine De gave it to the Queen Mother, but it was scattered on the ground, making the Queen Mother very unhappy.
"How...how could it be here?" Concubine Rou rubbed her eyes to make sure she was not seeing things.
She took a deep breath, walked over nervously, picked up the string of Buddhist beads, and looked at it carefully. "It is exactly the same as the string of Buddhist beads that Concubine De had during the day."
At this moment, Concubine Rou's mind was no longer dizzy, and she was no longer afraid. It was as if she was holding a talisman.
"Strange, shouldn't this string of Buddhist beads be kept by Madam Yun in Cining Palace? How could it appear in my palace?" Concubine Rou thought this was very strange. She
remembered that Empress Dowager Bai Tian said that Concubine De might have taken the wrong Buddhist beads.
"How could there be two identical strings of Buddhist beads in Huguo Temple? If the one in Cining Palace is fake, then this one must be real? It's over! It's over!"
Concubine Rou was instantly frightened.
During the day, she mocked Concubine De, saying that she had taken fake Buddhist beads. Now that the real Buddhist beads were here, if others saw them, wouldn’t they think that she had swapped Concubine De’s Buddhist beads? Would
n’t this be a trap for her!
Concubine Rou instantly felt that this string of Buddhist beads was a hot potato.
After all, she was the only one who had touched Concubine De’s Buddhist beads during the day. If she really investigated, with witnesses and evidence, she would not be able to explain even if she had a hundred mouths.
Concubine Rou quickly put on her cloak, opened the palace door, walked out of the palace quietly, picked up a hoe and dug a hole under the sycamore tree in the courtyard.
She wanted to bury this string of Buddhist beads!
If she couldn’t explain it, she simply didn’t say it. Anyway, she would not let others find out that she had Concubine De’s Buddhist beads in her palace.
Concubine Rou had just picked up the hoe, but before she started shoveling, she found a red thread wrapped around the sycamore tree.
Concubine Rou was shocked, "Strange, who tied a red thread on my tree?"
Is this a red thread?
Concubine Rou went to touch it, and as soon as she touched the red thread, a scream suddenly rang in her ears, "Bitch! I want you to die! I want you to die!!"
Concubine Rou screamed in fear!
"Ghost-ghost!" Concubine Rou was shaking all over, and even the Buddhist beads in her hand fell down, right under the roots of the sycamore tree.
The scream in her ears suddenly became miserable, "Ah! It hurts! Go away! Go away! Ah ah ah!"
Concubine Rou was so scared that she paralyzed on the ground.
She heard the cry of a female ghost again.
Concubine Rou crawled back to the palace and closed the door.
The ghost's voice became weaker and weaker, "It hurts so much! It's okay to be kicked, but where can I find a string of big Buddhist beads? Ah, it's burning me to death, it hurts, someone come and save me!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Yuxue heard the voice and hurried out of the maid's room. She found that Concubine Rou's palace door was closed. "Your Majesty, what happened?"
Concubine Rou covered her ears, "There's a ghost! There's a ghost!"
Yuxue patted the palace door and pushed it open. She saw Concubine Rou sitting on the floor in a wolf's nest, with mud on her feet and tears in her eyes.
Yuxue felt distressed and quickly went forward to hug Concubine Rou, "Did your majesty have a nightmare? Don't be afraid, it's my fault. I overslept tonight."
"Tsk... Yuxue, there's a ghost outside, did you hear it? She said she was kicked by someone, but I didn't kick her."
Yuxue felt that her majesty had a problem with her brain.
After all, since the fifth prince was demoted, Concubine Rou has often been in a trance.
Now she is even awake in the middle of the night and talking about ghosts.
She has lived in Yuxiang Palace for many years, how could it be haunted?
"Oh, right, Buddhist beads!" Concubine Rou seemed to have suddenly figured out something, and she pushed Yuxue away and ran out of the palace, came to the parasol tree, picked up the string of Buddhist beads, and then hit the red silk wrapped around the parasol tree with all her might.
"I told you not to scare me! I'll smash you to death!"
Sure enough, there was a loud wail in her ear.
It was still the voice of a female ghost.
But why did the voice of this female ghost sound so familiar?
It seemed to be the voice of the deceased Concubine Li.
Concubine Rou was even more numb! She
didn't dare to let go of the Buddhist beads until the ball of red silk was completely scattered by the Buddhist beads. Concubine Rou sat on the ground in fear.
The Buddhist beads in her hand were held tightly by her.
The moonlight shone on the first red bead of the Buddhist beads, as if blood was surging in the Buddhist beads.
...
The next day.
It was a sunny day with a nice breeze.
Defei carried Abao to the Yu Garden to bask in the sun.
Abao lazily turned over in the cradle. Today was a wonderful day.
"Your Majesty, that seems to be...Empress Roufei." Zhilan saw someone not far away and reported in a low voice.
Defei was playing with Abao and looked in the direction of Zhilan's sight.
Roufei was walking towards here.
"Sister De...Sister Defei?" Roufei was stunned when she saw Defei.
"Roufei, what's wrong with you?" Defei frowned. When she saw Roufei yesterday, she was fine, but after only one night, Roufei's face turned yellow and her eyes were dark.
Although she had exquisite makeup, it couldn't hide her haggardness at this time.
Roufei was good at dancing and usually cared a lot about her figure and appearance. She was beautiful every time she went out.
Concubine Rou lowered her head and curled her lips, "I'm fine, I'm fine."
[Concubine Rou didn't sleep all night last night]
[There's more evil spirits on her head]
A Bao lay in the cradle, staring at the faint gray air on Concubine Rou's head with his big eyes.
[Well...but there's a little more Buddha light on her body, which wasn't there yesterday]
Concubine De picked up A Bao, feeling uneasy.
I don't know if Concubine Rou can be saved.
When she was banished to the cold palace, many concubines pointed fingers at her and took advantage of her misfortune.
But Concubine Rou was the only one who didn't say anything.
She wanted to remind Concubine Rou to pay more attention to her body, and if it didn't work, she could go and ask Taoist Baiyun to see her.
But Concubine De didn't know how to start for a while.
Concubine Rou was a little anxious. She held a wooden box in her hand and put it on the stone table after a struggle. "Sister Defei, this thing is..."
As Concubine Rou was talking, she heard a sobbing sound not far away.
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