Before Xue Hengzhao returned to Xianwuyuan, Chi Su was already waiting for her halfway.
He took the food box and said, "It's really cloudy today. It's going to snow soon."
Xue Hengzhao also looked up at the sky covered with leaden clouds, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "Then God is really helping you and me."
Chi Su immediately understood: "It's snowing, it's really a good day for hunting."
After they returned, they sharpened the chopsticks they got from Lin Fufei one by one, and they were all finished by the time they turned on the lamp.
Chi Su shook his sore arm and said, "Okay, these should be enough."
"It's been snowing outside for a while, and it looks like it won't stop for a while." Xue Hengzhao looked out the window and said.
"Do you think they will come tonight?" Chi Su had some doubts. "After all, it's snowing. If they are afraid of leaving traces, they probably won't come tonight."
"They will definitely strike while the iron is hot. They were frightened when they heard us last night, and they will not let us go easily today." Xue Hengzhao said, "It's okay if we don't come tonight, we just put the trap away before dawn.
In addition, it is very easy for them to cover up the traces. They only need to send a few people to walk around in the yard and cover up the previous traces. "
"I'm good at making traps. You don't have to go out. It's too cold outside." Chi Su said, "Don't worry!"
When Chi Su came back from her work outside, they blew out the lights and took a rest.
In the middle of the night, the crying started again.
The sound was getting closer and closer, but it was always vague.
Chi Su remembered Xue Hengzhao's instructions and pretended to be frightened and shouted: "That thing is here again!"
Xue Hengzhao also said: "Every injustice has its own owner, and it's not us who harmed you. Don't bother us all the time!"
When people outside heard what they were doing, they naturally became proud and pretended to be more like them.
Not only was she crying, she also sobbed and said: "I am so unjust! My death is so unjust! I am not willing to accept it!"
Then he grunted and stepped on the sharpened bamboo chopsticks, apparently unprepared.
Chi Su covered her mouth and laughed, cursing secretly: "You deserve it!"
The man outside was probably in severe pain and was trying not to make a sound. Naturally, he couldn't imitate the ghost anymore.
"Don't rush out yet," Xue Hengzhao said, grabbing Chi Su who was about to go out to check. "We can't break up with each other right now. Be careful of dogs jumping over the wall."
Chi Su listened to her and waited patiently for a while before lighting the lamp.
After putting on my clothes and opening the door, I saw blood stains dripping on the white snow under the window, dragging all the way to the door.
"What a retribution!" Chi Su said in relief as he took in all the things outside.
"In this case, he must know that we can't scare him anymore." Xue Hengzhao was lying on his side on the bed, his hair was untied, and green satin was spread out on the pillow mat, making his face even more small and delicate.
Chi Su looked at her and couldn't help but think of a delicate white jade bowl she once had at home. It was delicate, warm, and as thin as rice paper, as if it would break if pinched lightly.
"According to you, what will happen to them next?" Chi Su tilted her head and asked, "Do you still have these chopsticks?"
"Burn them all! It's just a little extra firewood. It's really cold tonight." Xue Hengzhao tucked the quilt in, "Have a good sleep. You'll probably have something to do tomorrow."
Chi Su didn't ask any further. Although she was not as resourceful as Xue Hengzhao, she had already made up her mind to cope with all changes by staying the same.
That's how people are, once they've made up their mind, there's nothing to fear.
The snow outside didn't know when it stopped early the next morning, but it had already covered up the bloodstains.
Someone came over early to clean the yard. Those same people had been cleaning here since they arrived. They said nothing and had dull expressions, as if they were puppets.
After the people cleaning the yard left, Baishun, the young eunuch in front of Qian Sanchun, came over and said to the two of them with a straight face: "Chief Qian asked you to come over! Be quick and don't delay."
Chi Su glanced at Xue Hengzhao, which meant, "You are really right."
It was said that Qian Sanchun was looking for them, but it was Deng Bao who came forward.
It's just that this time Deng Bao was not as polite to them as before.
"Mr. Qian is busy with something, so let me tell you this." Deng Bao sat there, holding a bowl of tea in his hand, "I heard that you two were very restless after going to Xiaowuyuan. , what? Are you trying to figure out what we can do to you?!
Let me advise you again: don’t drink wine as a penalty if you don’t eat the toast.
Mr. Qian, we are out of pity and have not taken any serious action against you. You must not think that you have any abilities.
Apart from anything else, several things have been lost in Miwuyuan recently, and you have been on duty there. This is your responsibility!
If you can't explain, you will be sent to the Criminal Punishment Department. In that place, let alone you, even Nezha, who has three heads and six arms, has to cry for father and mother. "
"Why do you mean to give in?" Chi Su asked back, "Don't say that Miwuyuan didn't lose anything. Even if it did, it's not just the two of us."
"Don't argue with me. If you have the guts, go to the Shenxing Department!" Deng Bao waved his hand impatiently and spilled some of the tea in his hand. "I really can't cry until I see the coffin! Come two people and take them to the Shenxing Department." Go, Si! Let them learn a lot!"
It turned out that Qian Sanchun and others saw that they were still unwilling to submit, so they came up with this trick.
The Department of Punishment is the most frightening place in the palace.
Almost no one who went in came out alive, and some even couldn't survive and died directly inside.
Even those who were lucky enough to escape with their lives were mostly crippled and crazy.
Xue Chi and the two were taken to the punishment department, where there happened to be several palace maids and eunuchs being tortured.
The dark prison cell was filled with the smell of blood and burnt gas, as well as an indescribable mixed stench.
"You don't have to watch the torture of the eunuchs, just watch the maids!" Deng Bao said coldly from behind.
The palace maid was only about twenty years old. She was tied to a wooden frame, and the eunuch who executed the execution repeatedly hit her on the lower abdomen with a large wooden stick.
The palace maid screamed in agony.
The eunuch who carried out the execution smiled evilly and said: "The name of this punishment is called Bald Gourd. It is to beat the woman's uterus to hang down and block the orifice, as if a gourd is hanging on it.
People who undergo this punishment will be disabled for the rest of their lives. I could never straighten my back, and it would get bruised and bleed when I walked.
It feels like there is a piece of thousand-year-old ice in my stomach, especially when it is cloudy and raining, the feeling... is really worse than death!
This is our favorite way to deal with palace maids! "
Chi Su's eyes widened with anger, while Xue Hengzhao's face was cold and his eyes were full of chill.
"You two saw it too." Deng Bao whispered in a low voice, "Are you still unwilling to agree?"
What Chi Su wanted to say was stopped by Xue Hengzhao: "Deputy General Manager, can we go back and discuss it?"
