Just in time, a cold wind blew through the room, and Xi Yu was shivered by the cold. Only then did she notice that the screen window around her was thin and only covered with a patched coarse cloth, making the already cramped room look even colder and damper. , even the wood smelled of decay, almost completely covering up the fresh smell of blood in the room.
The maid dressed in classic Qing-style costume didn't move a step, didn't even blink her eyes, and stood there against the wind like a wooden sculpture.
Xi Yu calmly turned his head and looked at himself in the bronze mirror.
The face is hers, but her hair is styled in a simple bun. There are two silver hairpins inserted between the buns, a light-colored silk flower is slanted on the hairpin, and a golden step is engraved on the tail. The golden step symbolizes that this body is not a slave. The simple hair ornament also means that the person's status is not high, and he is probably a low-ranking concubine.
There was no charcoal for heating, and the dress on her body was not too thick. Xi Yu stood up and found her backpack that appeared in the corner. She coughed lightly and had no intention of changing anything for the time being, so she tentatively asked the maid : "Are there any palace rules or other rules?"
The maid nodded mechanically and stiffly, but said: "In another hour, Grandma will read out the palace rules in the lotus pond of Yonghe Palace. You and the other five masters must be there on time."
There are five other concubines?
No wonder this room is small and dark. How many people must be crammed into this palace?
Xi Yu was thinking about what to do, and said with a smile: "We can't go out?"
"With your rank, you are not allowed to leave Yonghe Palace unless summoned by His Majesty. If you violate it, you will be punished according to the palace rules."
The maid's tone was serious, and she probably had no relationship with the original owner. Looking at the condition of the house, it was obvious that there was a previous owner. As for the vague smell of blood in the air...
Xi Yu stopped talking. She counted the time, put her backpack under the bed, hid the bamboo flute and mirror in her sleeves, put on the only thick cloak on her body, and walked out of the house in advance against the wind.
Seeing that the maid who didn't even have a thick cloak followed her out of the room obediently, she couldn't help but said: "It's cold outside, you can stay in the room. Anyway, it's me who wants to learn the palace rules, and I won't leave Yonghe Palace." Gongmen, it’s not against the rules if you don’t follow.”
The maid was stunned, as if she was being cared about for the first time. She hesitated for a moment, and then said in a voice that almost melted into the wind: "Nanny is wearing a brown flag uniform, and her cloak has dark patterns. If someone else calls herself Nanny, If I want to take you away, never agree."
This warning was reciprocated by Xi Yu, so Xi Yu didn't ask any questions. He smiled and thanked her, then carefully walked to the courtyard where a lotus pond was dug. Seeing no one around, Xi Yu found a place to take shelter from the wind. He stood in the corridor and trotted in place.
Looking at the sky, it's probably afternoon now. Most of the other masters are from the real world, but this world is too strange. Do the debts of the harem hundreds of years ago also have to be counted on them?
Xi Yu retracted her hands into her sleeves, and the white breath she exhaled quickly turned into frost. She was so cold that she almost froze, and she counted the time silently in her heart.
It wasn't Xi Yu who wanted to go out and get cold, but who knew whether grandma would come on time? If grandma arrived first and they didn't, wouldn't they have violated the rule of not arriving on time?
It was her first time here, and it was completely different from the strange stories that Xi Yu was familiar with. She didn't want to violate the rules inadvertently.
Xi Yu's worry was obviously justified. Not long after she came out, four more women in the same palace attire walked out of the room. Some of them had similar hair accessories to Xi Yu's, but they looked more sophisticated. The amount of gold and silver is also more abundant, and some of them can clearly show that their status is higher than jade, and they are accompanied by one or two maids.
Xi Yu took advantage of her concealment and silently wrote down their appearance and corresponding rooms.
In less than forty minutes, a middle-aged woman, followed by four maids, wearing a dark blue flag dress and a dark brown cloak, walked slowly from outside the palace gate. Her face was like a silver plate, and her mouth was smiling. He looks so kind and kind, making people feel close to him.
Such a person has hands as skinny as firewood, and his neck is full of wrinkles and veins, making his round and amiable face seem to be glued to it.
The middle-aged woman introduced herself: "I am your nun. I am responsible for teaching the young masters the rules. When the seven days of teaching are over, you can meet the Holy Master."
"Now, all the masters, please follow me to the courtyard where you can learn the rules. Don't disturb the Yonghe Palace Empress from her afternoon nap."
"But, everyone isn't here yet, right?"
The capable woman wearing a goose down cloak and a gold hairpin looked at the nanny up and down: "Aren't we temporarily unable to leave the palace?"
"You are not allowed to leave the palace privately, but you are allowed to leave the palace when you are learning the palace rules. If you young masters do not know the palace rules before the sun goes down... haha."
Grandma laughed softly twice, and her tone suddenly became gloomy, which was incompatible with her still kind face: "I believe you don't want to break the rules, right?"
The fake nun kept dodging the question about the number of people.
In addition to Xi Yu, there is another concubine who is not there. According to the strange rumors in the past, if the nanny is really here, then that concubine should be punished now.
The four people in the courtyard were not idiots. Even if they didn't expect this, they realized that something was wrong with this nanny. They looked at each other in confusion, and no one had any intention of leaving.
"In other words, the young masters are not willing to learn the palace rules?"
Mammy continued to threaten: "I might as well tell you that you only have this chance to learn the palace rules. If you don't follow me now, I'm afraid no one will survive tonight!"
Seeing the hesitation of these people, Mammy immediately snorted coldly and turned around to leave. However, a younger girl was frightened by her and followed her involuntarily, and was about to step out of the palace gate before her eyes.
"Wait!"
Xi Yu walked out of the corridor and walked up to her grandma in two steps. When she looked closely, she saw that her ears were not connected to her face.
There are countless finely connected blood vessels at the junction, and these blood vessels rise and fall rhythmically as if they are breathing, as if this face is just another creature attached to Grandma's face.
She was heartbroken, and before anyone could react, she tore off this fair and kind face.
Everyone heard countless screams at the same time.
It was obvious that her face had been torn off, but there was no blood on her face or body. In the cold wind, there was only the sound of thick green mucus dripping from her head, and the part that should have been her face was... There was only a huge black hole left, with no bones or organs under the face, just pale eyeballs hanging on the scalp one after another and mucus that kept leaking out.
