At this moment, Xiao Shen seemed to have suddenly lost the ability to control himself, and all his senses were focused on that one point.
The white jade-like feet were stepping on his thighs. Even through two thin layers of cloth, he could still clearly feel the warmth and smoothness of the soles of the feet.
The petal-like small nails are white with pink, and the toes are slightly curled and arched. If he moves a little bit inward…
However, Shen Qingzhuo just stepped on it casually without paying attention to where he stepped. He quickly retracted his foot and said with a smile, “Forget it, it may not be suitable for Master to enjoy it.” A low cry came from his little disciple, who was kneeling on one knee and suddenly reached out and grabbed his ankle.
“Master.” The youth called him with his eyelashes drooping, breathing rapidly, and a slightly hoarse voice.
“En? What’s wrong?” Shen Qingzhuo was pulled to one side and half fell on the bed, his long and smooth black hair falling from his shoulders, and his whole body exuded an indescribable lazy style.
The youth’s adam apple moved up and down, and he let go of his hand in a slightly embarrassed manner, straightened up with a hunched back, and quickly said, “Master, take a rest, I’ll go wash up.”
After saying that, he turned around quickly and rushed out like a gust of wind.
His little disciple’s reaction was very strange. Shen Qingzhuo blinked his eyelashes in confusion, but sleepiness came again, so he didn’t care much and fell asleep.
About an incense stick of time later, Xiao Shen returned to the bedroom again and saw that his master had indeed fallen asleep.
The youth couldn’t help but lower his footsteps, tiptoed to the bed, and then carefully crawled in.
Over the years, whenever they slept together, his master would always sleep outside, saying that he was afraid that he would not be well behaved in the middle of the night and roll off the bed if he turned over.
His master is always like this. He cannot help being moved by the subtleties that others fail to notice.
Xiao Shen lifted the thin quilt and gazed at his master’s beautiful and peaceful sleeping face unscrupulously under the moonlight outside the window.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered the first time he woke up from a dream three years ago and was shocked to see such a beautiful face on the pillow.
At that time, he could not read or write, and he could only use simple words like “good-looking” and “pretty” to describe his master.
Unlike today, “Ice-like skin and jade-like bones, graceful as a fairy”, “the piled-up stones are like jade, and the rows of pines are like emerald green1This sentence uses the cultivation of jade and the temperament of pine to metaphorically represent the noble moral integrity of a gentleman.”, he could use all the beautiful poems and songs he had learned in his life to praise the person in front of him.
No, that’s still not enough.
As the youth looked at it, he couldn’t help but tentatively stretch out his hand and slowly approach that bewitching face.
“Hmm…” Shen Qingzhuo, who was soundly asleep, uttered a very light mutter.
Xiao Shen’s outstretched hand suddenly froze in midair, not daring to move.
After a while, after confirming that his master had not woken up, his bony hands moved again, using his fingertips to trace the ink-like facial features.
“Have a good dream, Master.” After a moment, he withdrew his fingers, lay on his side facing his master with satisfaction, and secretly taught himself not to do anything excessive to his master in his dream tonight; otherwise, he would be caught by his master tomorrow morning.
There is a long time to go, and he never indulges in temporary pleasures.
What he wants is day and night, forever and ever.
A few days later, rumors suddenly spread in the peaceful palace that the palace was haunted.
It is said that the first palace maid who saw the ghost went crazy with fear on the spot and kept muttering incoherently, “A female ghost in red in the lotus pond of the Imperial Garden is seeking revenge” all day long. The imperial physician failed to cure her, so they simply threw her out of the palace to fend for herself.
The masters cannot bear to hear such filthy and obscure words. But the rumor still spread privately. The imperial garden, the lotus pond, and the female ghost in red immediately made the older palace servants think of that old case.
When Concubine Li was fished out of the lotus pond in the Imperial Garden by the Jinyiwei, she was wearing a red dress!
A few days later, the young palace maid who passed by the imperial garden at night encountered a ghost again. This time, the matter of the ghost finally reached the Empress’s ears.
At that time, the Empress was embroidering a handkerchief for Emperor Guangxi. When she heard this, her expression tensed up, and the embroidery needle pierced her index finger.
“Hiss” She gasped in pain, and a drop of blood suddenly appeared on her index finger.
“Someone, come quickly, Niangniang is bleeding!” The senior maid took out a handkerchief and stepped forward to wrap the Empress’s index finger, saying with a distressed tone, “Niangniang, the needle has no eye, you must be careful ah!”
The Empress looked dazed for a moment and asked, “Where did the rumor come from?”
The maid who came to pass on the message replied, “The young maid who encountered the ghost at the beginning was from Concubine Xian’s palace.”
“Concubine Xian?” The Empress frowned. “How is this matter related to her?”
“Niangniang, this is clearly a fraud.” The senior maid cursed with a bad face, “That lowly maid has been dead for many years. Even if she has turned into a ghost now, can she still turn the table?”
The Empress rebuked: “Hong Ying, don’t talk nonsense.”
Hong Ying lowered her head: “Yes, Niangniang.”
“Haunted?” The Empress sneered and stood up to pace, “Bengong2Bengong means I, used by the royal family members, Empress or high-rank consorts. wants to see who is playing tricks.”
As the saying goes, the central palace was haunted that night.
In order to serve their master at any time, the maids of Kunning Palace lived in the side rooms so that the Empress could summon them at any time.
As the senior palace maid who had served the Empress the longest, Hong Ying lived in a separate wing room. After her routine inspection of other wing rooms, she returned to her own bedroom.
After blowing out the candle, she lay on the bed, and suddenly she heard a rustling sound. Then, a gust of cold wind blew, and the half-open window made a creaking sound.
Hong Ying’s arms got goosebumps, and she got out of bed in confusion, wondering why the wind on a summer night could be so cold.
She walked to the window and was about to close it when her eyes suddenly met the figure outside the window.
Just as she let out a half-scream of “Ah”, a female ghost in red floated in from the window and grabbed her throat.
The female ghost in red was soaking wet as if she had just been pulled out of the water. Her long, wet black hair hung down in front of her body, with water dripping down from it, making it impossible to tell the front and back of her head.
Her hands were pale and swollen, with swollen red nails. She pinched Hong Ying tightly and easily lifted her up.
Hong Ying desperately slapped those hands with both hands. As she was suffocating, a strange and hoarse female voice echoed in her ears: “The water is so cold. I die so miserably ah. Give me back my life.”
“No, it’s not me.” The desire to survive made Hong Ying squeeze out the sound, “It’s not me who killed you.”
The female ghost loosened her hand, and Hong Ying fell to the ground.
“Cough, cough.” She covered her throat and begged for mercy with tears, “Concubine Li, every wrong has its perpetrator, and I am not the one who killed you ah!”
The dripping sound did not stop, and the water dripping on the ground had turned blood red at some point.
The blood gathered together and flowed to Hong Ying’s feet, which was extremely horrifying.
Hong Ying was so frightened that she lost control of her bladder. She immediately closed her eyes and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, “It was Cai Yue, it was the Empress who ordered Cai Yue to kill you! It has nothing to do with me, Concubine Li! Please let me go.”
Before one problem was solved, another one arose. The palace was haunted, and the Empress’s maid was scared crazy. The matter could no longer be suppressed and was reported to Emperor Guangxi.
“Ridiculous!” Emperor Guangxi, who was meditating in the swirling smoke, opened his eyes upon hearing this and cursed, “Zhen has lived in the palace for more than forty years and has never heard of ghosts in the palace!”
Shen Qingzhuo said at the right time: “Your Majesty is the son of heaven, and there is a real dragon protecting the palace. The evil and crooked things will definitely not dare to show up. Someone must be playing tricks.”
Emperor Guangxi has been obsessed with cultivating immortals recently and was very pleased to hear these words. He waved his hand and said, “Qingzhuo, go check and find out who was so bold and presumptuous that he dares to play tricks under Zhen’s nose!”
“Yes, Your Majesty.” Shen Qingzhuo accepted the order.
But the trouble was that the female ghost in red disappeared out of thin air. The Jinyiwei waited in the Imperial Garden and Kunning Palace for several days but did not see any trace of ghost.
In desperation, Shen Qingzhuo had to take advantage of the Empress’s carelessness and unexpectedly brought the crazy Hong Ying back to the Beizhen Fushi.
After this period of adaptation, Lord Zhenfu’s skills in interrogating prisoners have become more profound.
With a slender, jade-like hand holding a cup of tea, he sat on the iron chair with an upright and elegant posture. He turned a deaf ear to Hong Ying’s screams, and even his brows did not move as he lowered his eyes and sipped the tea.
“The red-clothed female ghost is scary, but what’s scarier is actually the Beizhen Fushi.” Shen Qingzhuo casually handed the teacup to the Jinyiwei beside him with a faint smile on his face. “The female ghost can at most strangle you to death, but the Beizhen Fushi has a hundred ways to make you unable to live nor die.”
Hong Ying was tied to the rack, her hair disheveled, her body covered in blood, and she let out intermittent cries, looking no different from a female ghost.
“You can’t get away with pretending to be crazy or stupid.” Shen Qingzhuo stood up, walked to her slowly, ordered someone to lift her face up, and whispered softly, “Tell me, what is your connection with the case of Concubine Li falling into the water?”
In Zichen Palace.
Emperor Guangxi had a dark complexion and sat high on the dragon throne with a large group of people kneeling below him.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please understand ah!” The Empress, dressed in gorgeous clothes, fell to the ground and cried, beating her chest with both hands, “Your Majesty and Chenqie3Chenqie means I, it’s a form of self-address used by a woman, especially a concubine when speaking to the emperor. have been married for many years, don’t Your Majesty know Chenqie’s character? Chenqie would never do such a vicious thing!”
Concubine Xian stood to one side, her tone extremely distressed: “Chenqie also never expected that, Niangniang, are the real murderer who killed Concubine Li!”
“Concubine Xian, Bengong has no grudge against you in the past nor in the present, why are you framing me?” The Empress pointed at her angrily, “The ghost story in the palace started from your palace, you are not innocent of this matter!”
“Niangniang, please do not accuse Chenqie without any evidence.” Concubine Xian retorted, wiping the tears from her eyes with a handkerchief. “Your Majesty, Li Pin died so unjustly. Now that we have the evidence, you must give justice to Sister Li Pin ah!”
The Empress turned to Emperor Guangxi and continued to cry, “Your Majesty! Your Majesty, Chenqie is innocent ah!”
“Enough!” Emperor Guangxi slammed the armrest of the dragon throne with his palm, “Empress, Zhen has high hopes of you, but you are so cruel!”
The Empress cried bitterly, completely losing her usual dignified and virtuous demeanor. She shouted, “Your Majesty, that maid must have been bribed to give false testimony to frame Chenqie. Your Majesty must not be deceived by this treacherous person!”
“Emperor Father!” At this time, the Crown Prince, who was kneeling beside her, suddenly pleaded, “Mother Empress has always been kind-hearted and treats Erchen4I, used by the prince. as her own son. There may be other hidden reasons behind this matter. Emperor Father, please investigate!”
“Crown Prince!” Emperor Guangxi cast his gaze towards Xiao Yichen, who was hanging his head, and asked in an ambiguous tone, “Do your words imply that you believe the Empress was wrongly accused?”
Xiao Yichen gritted his teeth and replied, “Yes.”
“Your Highness, Empress Niangniang murdered your biological mother!” Concubine Xian added fuel to the fire: “Now that the evidence is irrefutable, you still believe in Empress Niangniang. This is…”
“Concubine Xian, shut up!” Emperor Guangxi shouted coldly, “It’s not your turn to speak!”
Hearing this, Concubine Xian had no choice but to shut up in disappointment.
“Shen Qingzhuo, cough, cough, cough.” Emperor Guangxi coughed violently a few times and asked, “You handled the case, what do you think?”
Shen Qingzhuo had been watching the argument coldly. Hearing this, he bowed and said, “Your Majesty, the minister just received another confession. Hong Ying accused Niangniang of murdering four heirs between the first and seventh years of Guangxi.”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was in an uproar.
“Cough, cough, cough, cough.” Emperor Guangxi coughed so hard that the ground shook.
Concubine Yuan didn’t care about being rude anymore, she stepped forward and patted Emperor Guangxi’s back and gently advised, “Your Majesty, calm down, take care of your dragon’s health.”
“Unfair! Chenqie is innocent!” The Empress was so anxious that she almost fainted when she heard this. “Lord Shen, that lowly maid framed Bengong! This testimony cannot be trusted ah!”
Concubine Xian said in disbelief, “So the first prince Chenqie’s was pregnant with was killed by Niangniang!”
At this moment, Concubine Yuan, who was standing beside Emperor Guangxi, froze, obviously thinking of her lost child.
Concubine Xian immediately knelt down and kowtowed: “Your Majesty, Chenqie begs you to seek justice for her dead child!”
At this point, the Empress knew that the situation was hopeless, and she collapsed to the ground with a look of despair on her face, crying, “Your Majesty, Your Majesty, do you think that Chenqie doesn’t want to always be the virtuous mother of the country in your heart?”
“You… cough, cough!” Emperor Guangxi threw the Buddhist beads in his hand down and said, “You vicious woman, blame Zhen for misjudging you!”
“Misjudging? Hahahaha, Your Majesty, isn’t it because Chenqie is alone and helpless, no one to rely on in my mother’s family, that you canonized Chenqie as the Empress?” The Empress cried and laughed, “You canonized Chenqie as the Empress, but you didn’t even want to leave Chenqie a child, so that Chenqie can only watch other concubines bear children for you!”
Emperor Guangxi shouted, “What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Back then, I ordered people to push Concubine Li into the lotus pond. Was Your Majesty really kept in the dark?” The Empress’s eyes widened as she asked sternly, “Kill the mother and save the child. Didn’t what Chenqie did conform to Your Majesty’s wishes?”
“What nonsense!” Emperor Guangxi was so angry that he said, “Someone come! Someone, take this vicious woman away quickly!”
At the same time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was kneeling in the center of the hall, closed his eyes and stopped begging for mercy.
A moment later, not far from the palace gate, Shen Qingzhuo, dressed in a bright red Feiyu uniform, gently stroked the scabbard of the Xiuchun Sword with his tender fingertips, as gentle as if he were stroking a loved one.
“Shen Junnuo!” A gritting voice came from behind him, and then a big hand grabbed his arm fiercely.
“My Lord!” Kong Shang hurriedly took a step forward anxiously but retreated after being comforted by his lord’s eyes.
Shen Qingzhuo let him do what he wanted and said calmly, “Your Highness, may I ask what you may advise me?”
Xiao Yichen’s face was gloomy, and he lowered his voice and said, “You clearly said that you would not interfere in this matter!”
“Your Highness, the minister really didn’t want to get involved in this matter.” Shen Qingzhuo explained calmly, “It’s just that someone is playing tricks in the palace, and the minister has to investigate on His Majesty’s order.”
Xiao Yichen frowned and said coldly, “Aren’t you the one who is playing tricks?”
“Of course it’s not the minister.” Shen Qingzhuo gently pulled out his arm. “Originally, only Your Highness and I knew about this matter. How did the news leak out? Your Highness might as well go back and check on your own people.”
Xiao Yichen was stunned: “What do you mean?”
“The minister would like to remind Your Highness. Which palace did the maid who first discovered the haunted palace come from?” Shen Qingzhuo took a step back. “Who was the one who benefited from the Empress’s dethronement?”
The answer is obvious.
Once the Empress is deposed, it means that the Crown Prince’s status will be downgraded to that of a concubine’s son.
In the short term, Xiao Yichen’s position as the Crown Prince will not be threatened, but if Emperor Guangxi appoints a new Empress, then the son of the new Empress will be the legitimate son.
This was also the reason why Xiao Yichen gritted his teeth and pleaded for the Empress in the hall just now.
Shen Qingzhuo bowed and said, “The minister still has official business to attend to, so he will take his leave first.”
Once Empress Sun was demoted to a commoner and sent to the cold palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so overwhelmed that he had no time to notice that a maid in the Eastern Palace had quietly disappeared.
“Godfather, I’ve got the little beauty you like for you.” The young eunuch knelt at Pan Chong’s feet like a lackey and massaged his legs diligently.
“En?” Pan Chong opened his eyes and said sharply, “That maidservant belongs to the Crown Prince’s palace. How dare you bring her here?”
“Aiya, as long as it’s something that Godfather wants, even if it’s the stars in the sky and the moon in the water, son will have to find a way to get it to honor Godfather!” Pan Dongsheng changed from hitting to kneading, “Besides, the Empress has been deposed now, and it’s hard to say whether the Eastern Palace will change hands in the future or not!”
“Bold!” Pan Chong kicked him, but there was no blame in his tone. “How can you say that?”
“Son knows his mistake, Son knows his mistake!” Pan Dongsheng slapped himself in the face and said, “Godfather, Son only dare to say this in front of you!”
Pan Chong laughed in a weird way, “But you are right. I am afraid that things are going to change in the palace ah.”
Pan Dongsheng continued to massage his legs, “Godfather, what should we do with that beauty?”
Pan Chong took a sip of ginseng tea and asked, “How did you get this person?”
“Commander Qi helped get it!” Pan Dongsheng replied immediately.
Pan Chong narrowed his sinister triangular eyes. “Qi Xianlin?”
“Exactly!” Pan Dongsheng explained, “Isn’t he in charge of the Imperial Guards? In order to show his goodwill to me, to Godfather, he took the initiative to intercept that beauty and send her to you, Godfather.”
Pan Chong laughed and said, “This Qi Xianlin is the Empress Dowager’s nephew.”
Pan Dongsheng flattered, “Whoever nephew he is, now Grandfather and Godfather are the people that His Majesty trusts the most. Who in the palace doesn’t want to curry favor with Godfather?”
Pan Chong nodded with great satisfaction, stood up from the recliner, and said with a strange smile, “Come, let Zanjia take a look at this beauty, is she frightened ah?”
So Pan Dongsheng deliberately sent away the other eunuchs on duty and followed his godfather into the room happily.
The lower rooms where the eunuchs lived in the palace were damp and dirty, but Pan Chong not only had an exclusive house in the imperial city, but even the room where he stayed while on duty in the palace was much more spacious and brighter than those for ordinary palace servants.
When the door was pushed open, there was a sack lying across the bed in the room, and the beauty inside was lying motionless.
Pan Chong’s expression became more and more excited. He rubbed his hands together and said with a lewd smile, “How can you, a bunch of idiots who don’t know how to be gentle with women, be so rude to a beauty?”
Pan Dongsheng’s face froze, and he cursed in his heart, How dare you, a pervert who loves to torture beauties, say such a thing? Aren’t you afraid of getting your tongue sprained?
“Yes, yes, yes, Godfather is right!” He smiled and bowed. “Son was wrong. Next time I will gently send the beauty to Godfather’s bed.”
Pan Chong walked to the sack and suddenly said, “This little maid is really good-looking, but when it comes to the ability to seduce people, she is still a little lacking.”
“What does Godfather mean?” Pan Dongsheng asked tentatively, “Does Godfather have other goals in mind?”
“Ai.” Pan Chong said with a sarcastic smile, “Come to think of it, you also know this person.”
Pan Dongsheng: “Please tell me clearly, Godfather.”
Pan Chong pinched his throat and replied, “It’s the Seventh Prince’s master, now he is a popular figure in front of His Majesty, the Lord Zhenfu of the Beizhen Fushi ah!”
As soon as these words were spoken, the person wrapped in the sack moved imperceptibly.
Xiao Shen was concentrating and holding his breath, but upon hearing this, his dark eyes suddenly turned cold, and an extremely cold murderous aura flashed across his eyes, then was hidden in the depths of his dark pupils.
Pan Dongsheng was surprised and said, “I didn’t-didn’t expect that Godfather was actually thinking about Young Master Shen…”
“This Young Master Shen ah, he is a rare and stunning beauty.” Pan Chong’s smile was extremely vulgar, and he had obviously molested him countless times already in his mind. “Especially those eyes, they are as seductive as a fox. But he is not only born with that evil appearance but also likes to act pretentiously. Just think about it, the Lord Zhenfu, who cannot be molested during the day, was on the bed at night…”
Pan Dongsheng was sweating profusely after hearing this. He glanced at the sack subconsciously and said timidly, “But His Majesty values Young Master Shen very much right now, so Son dares not…”
“Godfather also doesn’t have the guts.” Pan Chong glanced at him and started to untie the sack. “We are not in a hurry. Things will change over time. What if he gets into trouble someday?”
Before he could finish his words, a dark shadow flashed before his eyes. He felt a chill on his neck, followed by a stream of blood spurting out rapidly.
Pan Chong’s eyes widened, and he stared at the Seventh Prince in women’s clothing in front of him as if he had seen a ghost. “You…”
Just as he uttered a word, the heavy body fell to the ground with a bang. Until his death, Pan Chong never understood how the beauty in the sack suddenly turned into the Seventh Prince, who was seeking his life.
Xiao Shen held a sharp dagger in his hand and wiped the blood splattered on his handsome face expressionlessly. He then lowered his eyes and looked at the corpse with an extremely strong disgust in his eyes.
He was wearing the pink palace dress of the palace maids, with long jet-black hair hanging down. The handsome youth was so beautiful that it was hard to tell whether he was a man or a woman. However, he exuded a creepy hostility, and his bloodstained face was like that of a Shura demon, making people dare not even look at him for a second.
“Your Highness the Seventh-Seventh Prince…” Pan Dongsheng had never seen such a bloody and cruel killing scene. His legs softened, and he knelt on the ground, stammering and kowtowing. He replied, “The humble-humble have followed your instructions…”
“Eunuch, you lowly dog, this highness thinks that you die too easily.” Xiao Shen turned a deaf ear to him, still not satisfied. He kicked the corpse hard, then bent down, with a cold look in his eyes. He used the sharp dagger to cut the dead eunuch’s disgusting face, bit by bit.
Except for himself, anyone who dares to covet him will be cut into pieces and their bones will be crushed to ashes!
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The Little Wolf Cub: Pink women’s clothes, do you like it? The kind that will kill you.
The double-standard little wolf cub that killed people is online, babies shouldn’t be scared, right? Wuwu…
