Jiao Jiao woke up from hunger. The sun was blazing outside the house, and the sun was scorching the earth. The green pines in the courtyard were wilting, and the pine needles were curled by the sun, but it was cold inside the house.
In the haze, there was a faint sound of a flute.
She rubbed her sleepy eyes and saw Ji Yun who was still unconscious on the couch. She was immediately annoyed: "Hey, why did I fall asleep?"
Ji Yun's eyebrows were locked together tightly, his breath was very disordered, but he no longer cried out that he was cold.
She pushed and tried to wake him up again: "Second brother..."
After calling for a while, but with no success, her bright eyes were full of worry, so she grabbed his hand and put it to her lips, blowing on it, hoping that he would get better as soon as possible.
Gu Gu!
With her stomach singing about the empty city plan, she turned her head and glanced around the room, put down Ji Yun's hand, and prepared to go down to get the snacks on the table. Just as she was about to stretch out her feet to put on her shoes, she suddenly saw a thin black and red snake crawling from the threshold. Come in.
She froze for an instant and sat on the bedside, not daring to move. Her heart was pounding and almost jumping out of her chest. She wanted to shout, but her throat seemed to be strangled and no sound came out.
The venomous snake crept towards this side, passed through the table and chairs, and came to the bed. The ferocious snake's head suddenly stood up slowly and turned around, as if it was checking something.
After a moment, the snake lowered its head again, crawled to the end of the bed, and climbed up from the bed legs to the couch.
A drop of cold sweat dripped down her bright and smooth forehead, falling on the back of her hand holding the mattress, splashing with desperate water.
don't want! do not come……
She shouted desperately in her heart, but God did not hear her prayer, and the poisonous snake crawled to Ji Yun's feet.
What's even more frightening is that Ji Yun, who was tortured by Yin Qi, slept in an irregular position, with one foot exposed outside the quilt.
It's getting closer, it's close to his ankles!
Its slender tail is wrapped around!
The ugly snake head came closer...
His eyes were wide open, his pupils were dilated, and fear was accumulating in his eyes...
Finally, she accumulated her strength to the extreme and developed a fierceness. Just when the snake's head was about to bite, she suddenly leaned forward, pinched the poisonous snake like lightning, and caught it.
The venomous snake was frightened, and twisted its head and bit her wrist hard, but she didn't notice it at all. As if she couldn't feel the pain, she blinked her eyelashes quickly, then held the venomous snake with both hands, broke it hard, and threw it out. …
With a crisp snapping sound, the two pieces of the venomous snake fell to the ground and slid for a distance. One piece stopped at the edge of the threshold, and the other piece lay beside the table leg. A small amount of light red blood oozed from the broken part.
The fierceness in her bright eyes dissipated, and she looked down at her hands blankly. The cold and smooth feeling soaked into the bone marrow seemed to still remain on her hands.
She screamed and put her hands on the mattress and rubbed it frantically, trying to wipe away those terrible residues. However, the cold and slippery feeling seemed to be embedded in the palm of her hands and could not be wiped off. Instead, it became clearer as time went by.
Not only that, the cold and smooth feeling seemed to come to life, turning into countless thin snakes, spreading and entwining from the palm of her hand.
Suddenly, her whole body seemed to be covered with snakes, and before her eyes were all kinds of ferocious snakes, and the sticky coldness was everywhere.
She couldn't move and didn't dare to move...
Time passed slowly, and the scorching sun moved across the sky and slowly fell into the horizon.
When the last ray of light disappeared in the hall, a strong wind suddenly blew, the trees in the courtyard rustled, the doors and windows clanged, and dense footsteps sounded, but no one came in.
swish swish...
It seemed like someone was whispering or crying, and a boundless chill enveloped Linhua Hall.
The broken snake on the ground seemed to be twisting. Something flew out from it, met in mid-air, and turned into a giant python with red and black circles. It roared and rushed towards this side, but it stopped beside the bed and struggled for a while. ,Disappear.
In the Baohua Hall not far from Linhua Hall, Bifu's face was as pale as paper and she said in a trembling voice: "What should I do? It's dark and the princess hasn't come out yet."
Xiaochunzi swallowed, holding Bi Fu in one hand and Huang Tao in the other, her whole body shaking: "Today is the most dangerous night, and the princess cannot stay in it."
"Then go in and pick up the princess?" Huang Tao has always been courageous and relatively calm.
"I don't dare." Xiao Chunzi almost cried. Today is Zhongyuan, and there are so many people who die tragically in the palace every year. There may be many ghosts gathered in Linhua Palace at this moment.
Bi Fu said anxiously: "What should we do? If the princess is evil, we will not survive."
Huang Tao frowned and thought for a while, then said: "We can find ways to resolve the evil ghost. If something happens to the princess, we will definitely die. We must go in and take her out. Let's go together so that the three of us can take care of her."
Bifu struggled for a moment and agreed. Although Xiaochunzi was extremely frightened, she had to agree at this time. If the two of them left, wouldn't he want to stay here alone?
He trembled and said, "I want to walk in the middle."
"I also want to go in the middle." Bif also fought for it with a trembling voice.
Although Huang Tao was also afraid, seeing the timid appearance of these two people, he could only bite the bullet and said: "I'll go ahead and lead the charge. You guys hurry up and discuss it. The later the time is, the more dangerous it will be."
Bifu and Xiaochunzi immediately began to fight for the middle position. The two brought out all the small favors they had helped in the past. In the end, Bifu was not as shameless as Xiaochunzi, and she tearfully agreed to go last.
The three of them were almost touching each other from chest to back, moving little by little towards Linhua Hall.
I don't know when, a vague hairy moon appeared in the eastern sky. Under the pale moonlight, the palace walls, branches and flowers cast countless hidden shadows.
Xiaochunzi's heart was about to jump out of his throat. He shrank his neck, looked at his nose and heart, and tried hard to hide himself behind Huang Tao.
As he walked, he found that the person in front of him had stopped moving. His heart skipped a beat and he asked in a trembling voice, "Why don't you leave?"
The person in front didn't answer, just stood there.
Xiao Chunzi calmed down and was about to ask again, but suddenly she felt something was wrong with Huang Tao's clothes under the moonlight. This season's palace maid's clothes were gray-pink, with gray-green tangled branches embroidered on the cuffs, skirt, and shoulders. It’s a pattern, but if you look closely, the color is wrong!
Xiao Chunzi felt a cold air rush up from the soles of his feet to Tianling Gai. He swallowed hard and slowly raised his head. Before he could say "Sister Huangtao", he was faced with a pale and swollen face, as if he had been soaked in blisters. Pass.
"ah--"
Xiao Chunzi let out a shocking scream, not caring to think about how the female ghost could see the other person's face when her back was clearly turned to her. She started to run away, but found that the three or three people in the palace alley were all "human".
Hearing his movement, they all looked over. A tall headless ghost dressed as a guard turned around and asked quietly: "Have you seen my head?"
"Ahhhh——"
Xiao Chunzi couldn't bear it anymore, covered her eyes with her hands, turned around and ran for her life regardless.
Turning around the palace alley, I plunged into Baohua Hall, got under the Buddhist niche, buried my head on the ground, clasped my hands on top of my head, and kept chanting: "Buddha bless, Buddha bless..."
Suddenly, a hand was placed on his right shoulder. Xiaochunzi froze. Just as he was about to scream, a hand from the left stretched out to cover his mouth, "Don't scream, I am Bif."
The voice was low and trembling violently, but a familiar voice could still be heard. It was indeed Bi Fu, and a gentle body temperature was conveyed to her.
Xiaochunzi collapsed on the ground: "Sister Bifu, why are you here?"
"As soon as we walked out of Baohua Palace, we found that there were many ghosts in the palace alley, so we retreated. Unexpectedly, you didn't notice it and just followed a female ghost. We didn't dare to call you."
It was Huang Tao's voice. Xiao Chunzi turned his head and saw that the person squatting on his right was Huang Tao.
He was so frightened that Bi Fu and Huang Tao had retreated early, so he had been following two ghosts all the way!
Bifu felt a little sorry and said sarcastically: "We thought you would find it soon, but we didn't expect you to find it until you were almost out of the alley."
Xiaochunzi burst into tears: "When I looked up, I saw a soaked face, and my neck was twisted to the back. I was scared to death."
Bi Fu shivered: "That's the Lotus Picker from Qiongguang Palace. She entered the palace in the same batch as me. She suddenly disappeared on the Guyu day. She was found in the well of the cold palace two months later. I heard that her neck was turned in a different direction. .”
Huang Tao also said: "The hanged female ghost is Lan Guiren, the white silk given by your Majesty three months ago."
"Sisters, can we stop talking about this? It's so scary." Xiao Chunzi trembled with fear.
Bi Fu and Huang Tao said silently, and the palace fell into silence. The wind outside became louder and louder. The roof seemed to be overturned. The lamps and candles on the Buddhist niches were swaying, and the light spots on the ground were extinguishing brightly, as if they were fighting evil spirits.
After a while, Xiao Chunzi couldn't bear it anymore and said with chattering teeth: "Are they going to Linhua Palace?"
Huang Tao hummed and said, "I've heard that every year during the Zhongyuan Period, the ghosts in the palace who have not yet been reincarnated will go to the Second Highness. I used to think it was a rumor, but I didn't expect it to be true."
Bifu tightened her skirt helplessly and said with a trembling voice: "Of course it's true. I heard Aunt Rong say that it was terrifying when the Second Highness was born. There was a strong wind outside and ghosts were crying and wolves were howling.
The rare and exotic beasts in the Beast Garden howled all night long. In the dog days of summer, the delivery room was as cold as an ice cellar, and she almost didn't give birth.
In the past, His Majesty doted on our empress very much. Since His Highness was born, His Majesty did not like to come to our Changxin Palace and avoided our empress whenever he could. "
Xiao Chunzi nodded and added: "If our queen hadn't come from the Changping Marquis Mansion and the old Marquis had worked so hard and accomplished so much, my queen and the Second Highness would have been burned to death long ago."
After a pause, he continued: "I heard from Xiao Xizi that the Hou Mansion was preparing to send the seventh lady to the palace, and the empress Qian'er lost her temper."
Bi Fu cried out: "Then our Changxin Palace wants to..."
The situation in the palace was of personal concern. Xiaochunzi gradually forgot about his fear and sighed softly. Now, the fact that Changxin Palace can remain standing depends entirely on the support of the Marquis Mansion.
His Highness the Second Highness is a 'devil' and cannot inherit the throne. If the Seventh Miss enters the palace and gives birth to a prince, the Marquis Mansion will naturally support the Seventh Miss' birth, and the Empress and the Second Highness will become abandoned sons. Life will not be easy for people.
But Huang Tao didn't care: "What are you afraid of? We are serving the third princess. She is the direct descendant of the first empress. Your Majesty values her the most. She will be fine.
In my opinion, you are just thinking too much. Since Your Majesty left the Third Princess to be raised by the Empress, you have not forgotten the Empress. Moreover, His Highness has been running errands all the time, and the eldest prince cannot compare with her. "
Xiao Chunzi shook his head. This was all for the sake of Changping Houfu. If Changpinghoufu gave up on His Highness, His Majesty would naturally not take His Highness seriously anymore.
The night seemed to be endless. When the morning light fell on the earth, Xiaochunzi and the three of them cried with joy, hugging and celebrating the rest of their lives after the disaster.
"Go and see the princess!" Bi Fu crawled out from under the Buddhist niche with difficulty, rubbed her stiff legs, and stumbled towards Linhua Hall. Xiao Chunzi Huang Tao quickly followed.
From a distance, one could see Jiao Jiao sitting on the head of the bed with one leg straight and one bent, his eyes wide open as he stared at the door in horror.
The three of them felt excited and asked quickly: "Princess, are you okay?"
Jiao Jiao didn't answer, still looking at the door.
As they got closer, the three of them realized that what she was looking at was the snake corpse at the door.
"Why is there a snake? It's still a venomous snake!"
Xiaochunzi exclaimed, and took three steps at a time to reach the bed. She carefully stretched out her hand to check her bright nose, and found that she was still breathing. She was relieved.
The princess was fine, and their lives were saved.
From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Ji Yun showing signs of waking up. He was even more happy and cheered: "Your Highness is about to wake up!"
Ji Yun woke up and blinked his eyes. He turned around and saw Jiao Jiao sitting stiffly. He suddenly panicked. She said she was afraid of ghosts a few days ago, but she stayed in Linhua Hall all day. This night, she was definitely scared. broken.
He hurriedly sat up, took her into his arms, patted her back, and comforted her softly: "Don't be afraid, it's all over, it's all over!"
At this time, Bi Fu and Huang Tao also gathered around. The three of them were like a wall blocking the bedside, unable to see the snake corpse. Bright tears flowed out immediately. They buried their heads in Ji Yun's chest and cried miserably: "Second brother, you finally woke up. There is a snake, wuwu..."
Ji Yun wondered, what kind of snake is it? Isn’t it a ghost?
When Xiaochunzi and the others got out of the way, he saw the snake corpse broken in two on the ground. He was even more surprised. Who would throw the snake corpse in?
Is the goal bright? To scare her?
No, no one dares to enter Linhua Hall on Zhongyuan Day. The snake crawled in alive!
Thinking of this, he quickly pushed Jiao Jiao away: "Have you been bitten by a snake? Let my brother take a look."
Jiao Jiao struggled and refused to raise his head, crying: "I don't want it, I'm afraid!"
As she struggled, Ji Yun quickly discovered the bite mark on her wrist. The wound was red and faintly stained with blood.
There was a thump in his heart, and he shouted in a low voice: "Quick! Go and ask for the doctor!"
This kind of snake is highly venomous. If you cannot suck out the venom in time after being bitten, you will definitely die.
Seeing that she was still shrinking into his arms, remembering what she said that day, she ordered Bi Fu and Huang Tao to take out the snake corpse.
Without the disgusting snake corpse nearby, Jiao Jiao was finally willing to let him go, sobbing and recounting yesterday's horrific experience.
Ji Yun was stunned: "Did you break the snake? Aren't you afraid of snakes?"
Jiao Jiao shook and cried, "It's going to bite you."
Ji Yun felt warm in his heart, and the remaining coldness in his body seemed to dissipate in an instant. He said softly: "Jiao Jiao is very brave, but you must not be reckless next time. How can you grab it with your hands? It is poisonous."
