When Eunuch Wei suddenly attacked, Lu Bai could have retreated completely to the territory.
But in the end, Lu Bai was unwilling to be cautious, took out the ghost bowl, randomly sealed a female ghost in it, and then got into the realm.
As a result, after a moment's delay, Lu Bai finally left one arm behind.
Lu Bai was filled with regret at first, feeling that he shouldn't have been so reckless, but now that his arm was intact with the help of the wine gourd, he was thankful that he had saved a hand just now and grabbed a female ghost tightly into the ghost bowl.
At this moment, he touched the edge of the bowl with his hand and released the female ghost.
The female ghost was still in panic when she suddenly appeared outside. She was so frightened that she immediately shouted, "Ah!!!"
"Shut up!" Lu Bai shouted at her.
As expected, the female ghost stopped talking.
This female ghost was caught by Lu Bai casually. She looks very timid now. Although she is a ghost, she is a coward.
"You saw it just now, your sisters are all dead." Lu Bai said.
Seeing the female ghost's eyes widening again, he hurriedly said: "I didn't do this. I almost died in that attack. The one who did it was Eunuch Wei, the ancestor of the inner study hall. Do you know him?"
The female ghost opened her eyes wide in horror, "Eunuch Wei?"
Lu Bai nodded, he knocked away the sloppy Taoist priest's hand that was thinking about his purple gold wine gourd, and asked the female ghost: "Why do you think he wants to kill you to silence you?"
Lu Bai really couldn't figure it out.
If Peach Blossom Temple used female ghosts to set fires and dig tunnels to steal money, what was the purpose of Eunuch Wei in the inner study hall?
Also for the money?
Isn't this digging one's own grave? As the ancestor of Nei Shu Tang, Nei Shu Tang also serves as the emperor's right-hand man, which is equivalent to the royal family's trump card. Incense is offered to them on weekdays, and it is a legal way to plunder the wealth of people all over the country.
Worshiper, why did Eunuch Wei bother to deal with these silver coins?
If he used silver, Lu Bai estimated that no matter how reluctant the emperor was, he would open the inner treasury door and let Eunuch Wei take it.
To the emperor, Eunuch Wei was equivalent to a nuclear bomb and had great deterrent power.
Just like Lu Bai, although the sloppy Taoist priest and the immoral monk did nothing all day long, Lu Bai served delicious food and drinks, and now he also opened the wine supply. There is no other reason. With such a person by his side, this
It's a deterrent.
Lu Bai estimated that what the sloppy Taoist priest just said was true. If the sloppy Taoist priest and the wicked monk were not around to protect him, the ancestors in the inner study hall would probably kill him.
Therefore, Eunuch Wei did not kill Lu Bai for money.
Then for what?
The female ghost shook her head blankly.
Seeing his look, Lu Bai really didn't know, so he decided to start from the beginning and said, "You set fire to the city god's order to you, right?"
The female ghost shook her head again.
Lu Bai was startled. Could it be that the information the City God told him was wrong?
The female ghost quickly clarified Lu Bai's confusion, "The city god forced us to do this. If we don't set fire to it, he will take us in."
Female ghosts do not want to be reincarnated.
The original fire in Qingxin Palace was caused by them setting fire and burning themselves to death after seeing that things were not going to work. Before burning to death, their leader, the female ghost in palace clothes who talked to Lu Bai, had sworn an oath,
They would watch helplessly as this decaying and cannibalistic palace was destroyed in a sea of fire, and they would watch the royal family of the Southern Dynasty fall into the mortal world.
It's a pity that they can't see it now.
"Okay." Lu Bai nodded and asked again, "After the City God forced you to prevent fire, they dug a tunnel under the ruins of Qingxin Palace, right?"
The female ghost nodded.
These people hid it from others when they dug tunnels, but they couldn't hide it from them.
Ghosts like them have been lingering in Qingxin Palace, whether it was in ruins or after it was built, so they knew a lot about it.
Seeing the female ghost nodding, Lu Bai hurriedly asked, "Who dug it, someone from Peach Blossom View?"
The female ghost shook her head.
She told Lu Bai that it was the craftsmen who did the work.
"About the beginning of autumn last year, a group of craftsmen escaped, but the construction period could not be delayed, because every year during the New Year, the emperor would worship the ancestors in the Qingxin Hall and perform three kowtows and nine bows to the portrait of Taizu, so they were temporarily recruited on the spot.
I hired some craftsmen." The female ghost knows these things very well.
The main reason is that they have been ghosts for some years and are really bored, so they often stay next to the craftsmen and listen to their conversations. They also listen to some outside stories and gossip, which they use as conversation topics when the sisters are together.
"After these craftsmen started work, they quietly dug a tunnel in the ruins," the female ghost said.
There were a lot of workers recruited, so things were convenient, and the work started quickly. It took almost half a year to dig out the tunnel.
"oh?"
Lu Bai frowned. He had seen those craftsmen who escaped. Fang Qianhu's son, the guard in Jinyi, met Lu Bai when he was arresting the fugitive craftsmen.
He didn't expect that the imperial court would temporarily recruit some craftsmen.
From this point of view, the escape of those craftsmen who were serving labor was also deliberate; as for these temporarily recruited craftsmen, they had been prepared long ago.
The person behind the scenes played a good game of chess.
"Have you ever seen these craftsmen moving money out?" Lu Bai asked again.
The female ghost shook her head again.
She only saw these craftsmen moving soil from inside to outside, basket by basket, and these pictures were sent outside the palace along with the wood and other things from the ruins.
Lu Bai admired him again, "Good calculation."
These were all craftsmen who worked hard. When entering and leaving the palace, even if the guards initially checked them, over time they became too lazy to check the contents. Lu Bai felt that the money in the inner treasury disappeared at that time.
Yes, it disappeared.
Lu Bai suddenly thought of a question, that is, if the silver was shipped out in this way, why was the seal of the silver box intact? After confirming that Nei Shutang was also involved, Lu Bai felt that the thief must have used it when he stole the silver.
He used the magic of retrieving objects from the air, so he didn't even notice.
"If you can use the magic of retrieving objects from the air, it means that this person is at a very high level." said the sloppy Taoist priest.
Lu Bai nodded.
A practitioner disguised himself as a craftsman, sneaked into the inner treasury through the tunnel, and then, with Eunuch Wei's acquiescence, used the magic of teleportation to take away the silver.
This is almost the process of stealing silver.
Lu Bai asked the female ghost, "Have you ever seen a practitioner who made you afraid of someone entering the tunnel?"
The female ghost said he didn't see it.
"A child did go in." The woman suddenly remembered and hurriedly said to Lu Bai.
Lu Bai was stunned, "Child? How young?"
"They are not very young. When they were still young, there were three children in total. One of them looked silly and silly, and he even played with a rattle." The female ghost remembered it very clearly. She told Lu Bai that she went in once, and later
Never came in again.
Lu Bai frowned now, "Have the three children come out?"
The female ghost shook her head again, indicating that she didn't see it.
She was very playful and was just curious when she saw the three children. After they got out of the tunnel, the female ghost went to the cold palace to play with the concubines who were locked up. These concubines were neither human nor ghosts, and were more ghosts than them.
They were still miserable, and what the female ghost liked most was to be with them and scold the emperor for his mistakes.
"Is it because I can't find a way to go somewhere and let the children do it for me?" the sloppy Taoist priest guessed next to him.
Lu Bai shook his head.
He took out the rotten rattle he picked up in the tunnel from his arms, "Nine times out of ten, these children didn't come out at all."
Lu Bai suddenly remembered something.
That was when he was on duty in Yancheng. The father-in-law of Dongchang who died in his hands often went to the monster tavern in the wild to eat boys and girls. They believed that eating the heads of boys and girls would make them grow out.
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At that time, he found out that the eunuchs were bringing evil practices from the capital.
Lu Bai looked at the rattle in his hand and thought that since this evil method was brought from the capital, the palace must be the hardest hit area.
These children may have been brought into the tunnel for this purpose.
In this way, when Lu Bai found out about this tunnel, Eunuch Wei in the inner study hall certainly didn't want Lu Bai to find out, so he killed him.
Lu Bai suddenly realized it and sighed softly, "I said so."
After all, Lu Bai was the envoy of Jinyiwei Town and was ordered by the emperor to investigate the case. He was also in the palace, and next to it was Fengqi Palace where the pregnant queen lived.
Under such circumstances, if Eunuch Wei dared to kill him, it must be because Lu Bai found out the fatal part.
This is a place where eating children is fatal.
Lu Bai felt that there might be more than just these three children. They must have other connections, but Lu Bai hadn't found out yet.
"No, what do you know?" The sloppy Taoist priest was still confused.
He reached out and tried to take the purple gourd in Lu Bai's hand, but Lu Bai slapped him away again.
Lu Bai was still waiting to go back and let Lu Qinghuan taste the wine in the purple gourd.
The sloppy Taoist priest murmured for a moment, drooled while looking at the purple gourd, and then asked Lu Bai again.
So Lu Bai told about the case he had handled in Yancheng.
"Amitabha."
Upon hearing this, the wicked monk closed his eyes, clasped his hands together and sighed softly.
Lu Bai glanced at him.
If it weren't for the word "Amitabha" that popped up today, Lu Bai would have almost forgotten that he was a monk.
The sloppy Taoist priest was pondering.
As for the female ghost, she was so surprised that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear, "No, that's not it. Then, those eunuchs are less human than the emperor?"
Lu Bai glanced at her and became curious.
The case of the palace maid poisoning the emperor and then rushing in to try to kill him has always been a mystery.
There are rumors that these maids were seduced by thieves and drugged the emperor in an attempt to assassinate him; other rumors said that these maids had been humiliated by the emperor - it was rumored that the emperor was obsessed with cultivation and had to sleep with women for thirty nights every day, and was sexually active
The thought was so disturbing that the Emperor ordered the ladies not to wear clothes no matter how cold it was in winter or hot or hot.
This rumor is not the most outrageous.
The most outrageous rumor that Lu Bai heard was that the emperor had to eat a palace maid every day in order to ascend to the throne. It was best to have the person bleed out, and cut the human flesh into slices as thin as a fish, and then eat it with the blood.
Belly.
The maids had no choice but to kill the emperor.
This rumor also depicts a palace maid who sacrificed herself. It was the palace maid who drank poison and let the emperor eat it. The emperor was poisoned and lost all his power, thus giving the palace maids the opportunity to assassinate him.
Of course, these are just rumors after all. As for the truth, I am afraid only this female ghost knows it now.
However, before Lu Bai asked, the slovenly Taoist priest who had been pondering for a long time spoke up, "As for eating boys and girls growing their heads, I have never heard of it in all my life, but I have heard something similar to it.
rumor."
"Oh?" Lu Bai came back to his senses and waited for his next words.
The sloppy Taoist priest told Lu Bai that when he was a Taoist priest, he traveled around killing demons and slaying demons. In a small town near the sea, he once killed an evildoer. "This evildoer believed in a demonic sect called the Immortality Sect."
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The Immortality Sect, as the name suggests, is a sect that teaches immortality.
From high-ranking officials to low-ranking peddlers, all seek immortality. The ultimate goal of so-called spiritual practice is to ascend to immortality. This shows how attractive this immortality is. Therefore, this immortality religion has attracted many believers.
"The reason why these believers are evil is that they believe that eating people can lead to immortality. They believe that after eating people, the life span of the people will be transferred to them, so the younger people they eat, the better, so that town at that time ate infants.
Children have become a common practice." The sloppy Taoist priest is now very old and has a lot of experience. He has seen all the disgusting and unbelievable things, but when he thinks of this past case, he still frowns and feels disgusted.
He was still a young man at the time, and with a sense of justice in his heart, he immediately took action and uprooted the cult.
The reason why the sloppy Taoist priest is thinking about it now is because he discovered a very important issue: "The eunuchs in the inner study hall practice, one is to be above others, to become strong, to hold power, and not to be humiliated by others; and the other is
For the sake of longevity——"
The sloppy Taoist priest said that except for those who are very open-minded, almost everyone wants to live forever.
Naturally the eunuchs thought so too.
"But their door to ascension does not exist from beginning to end." said the sloppy Taoist priest.
From ancient times to the present, there has never been any precedent for a eunuch to ascend.
Even the eunuchs who had great merits in history were turned into a pile of loess in the end.
"Several of the ancestors in the Neishu Hall, especially Eunuch Wei, are very old. Even if he is very high and has reached the Ascension Realm, he will soon reach the limit of the lifespan of an Ascension Realm practitioner." said the sloppy Taoist priest.
It means that they are already at the end of their lives.
"Do you think he is still alive now? Could he have used the same evil method?" asked the sloppy Taoist priest.
Lu Bai thought it was possible.
From another perspective, after excluding the factor of money, what makes the eunuchs in the inner study hall most indifferent to the theft of silver from the inner treasury is that if someone has the inside story or evidence of their cannibalism, they will definitely turn a blind eye.
"Huh~"
Lu Bai let out a long breath.
It is now the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and the weather is getting warmer, but Lu Bai is feeling cold.
If this is true as they suspected, this inner library may be rotten to the core.
The wicked monk asked Lu Bai, "What are you going to do?"
Lu Bai once again knocked off the sloppy Taoist priest's hand that was worried about his purple gourd, and said: "Of course we have to get to the bottom of it."
Lu Bai believed that if the case was found out and the panel did not reward him with promotion, he would take the panel's last name.
Of course, ascension is secondary, seeking justice is Lu Bai's purpose in continuing the investigation.
He knows that this world is not perfect, and he also knows that nothing in this world is surprising, but eating children——
This has challenged Lu Bai's bottom line as a human being.
If this case is not investigated thoroughly, he will be sorry for his cultivation.