As soon as he left, Ling Ruo immediately came to Chen Shu and asked him if he had heard any whistles last night. Chen Shu shook his head with a confused look on his face and said that he had been watching outside all night and heard nothing.
This is strange. Ling Ruo is sure that she heard it correctly. Why didn't Chen Shu hear it? As for Shui Xiu and the others, they went to bed early, so they couldn't hear it.
Auditory hallucinations? No, Ling Ruo was the first to deny this possibility. She heard it more than once last night. It could not be auditory hallucinations. What was the problem?
She sat in the chair, tapping the armrest with her fingers, puzzled. At this time, An'er said uncertainly: "When I got up last night, I vaguely seemed to hear a sound. As for whether it was a whistle."
Shengnu is not sure."
Chen Shu was already feeling guilty. When he heard An'er say this again, he was afraid that Ling Ruo would be suspicious of him, so he hurriedly lied: "My ears got wet a few days ago, and I occasionally get tinnitus. Once the tinnitus starts, I can't hear anything."
, there is only a buzzing sound, which happened several times last night. Maybe when the master heard the whistle, the slave's ears were ringing, so he didn't hear it."
Ling Ruo glanced at him suspiciously, "If you have such a disease, why didn't you tell me about it?"
Chen Shu twitched his ears and pretended to be calm: "It's not a serious illness. If the master hadn't asked about the whistle again and again, I would have almost forgotten it." For fear that Ling Ruo would still hold on to this point,
He quickly changed the subject, "I wonder what the master is asking about this whistle?"
Ling Ruo stroked the Su Luo brocade clothes she was still wearing, and said in a solemn voice: "The wire snakes appear so strangely and come in groups. I suspect there is someone behind it. In addition... what Song said just now
It makes you feel very bad."
"Master, are you referring to her unknown words?" Seeing Ling Ruo nodding, Shui Xiu said with relief: "Master, why should you take her words to heart? Song Fujin's words have never been pleasant to the ears. Just forget it if you have heard it. If you go back and think about it,
Doesn’t it make you feel uncomfortable?”
"I'm just afraid..." Ling Ruo was mid-sentence when someone knocked on the door outside. Shui Yue went over to answer the question and came back and said: "Master, the snake exorcist that the prince asked Zhou Yong to invite is here. I want to ask master if you want it."
See you?" Wire snakes appear in Jingsiju, so this is naturally the first place to visit.
"That's fine." Ling Ruo swallowed what he said, stood up and asked Shui Xiu and the others to change his clothes. He couldn't see outsiders in his pajamas. Chen Shu had already known the opportunity to leave.
After changing clothes and freshening up, Ling Ruo held Shuixiu's hand and came to the outer hall. There stood a middle-aged man with a round face. He looked honest, but he stood in the middle at a loss. When Ling Ruo came out, he still stood there stupidly.
Waiting until Zhou Yong whispered a reminder, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, saying the words Zhou Yong had just taught him, "Little Liu Fu, please give blessings to Fujin, may Fujin be blessed."
"Get up." After sitting down in the chair, Ling Ruo took a sip of the warm mare's milk pad. Her stomach was hungry due to a night of noisy, "Can you drive away snakes?"
Liu Fu hurriedly said: "Yes, my ancestors were good at driving snakes. It has been passed down to my family for the fifth generation, and I am quite famous in this industry."
Ling Ruo nodded and asked him to take action. After Liu Fu got up, he took out a lot of things from his body that others could not understand. Some of them had a strong medicinal smell. The most surprising thing was that he actually brought a bamboo leaf green with him. Woman
Shui Xiu and others were so frightened that they were always afraid of snakes, let alone a highly venomous snake. They screamed and backed away.
Upon seeing this, Liu Fu hurriedly said: "Girls, don't be afraid. I have raised Xiaoqing since she was a child. She is the most obedient person. She will never attack anyone without my words."
"Even so, you shouldn't bring a poisonous snake in. Snakes are unpredictable. What if it hurts Fujin? Throw it out quickly." Despite his repeated assurances, Shui Xiu still didn't dare to rest assured.
Liu Fu said with a bitter face: "Girl, this is not possible. Although I am good at driving snakes away, the wire snake is hidden in the soil. You cannot see it with just these eyes. You have to rely on Xiao Qing."
"Okay, Shui Xiu, let him do his work." Ling Ruo raised her hand to stop Shui Xiu who was still talking, indicating that Liu Fu could start.
Liu Fu agreed, and drove the bamboo leaf green to carefully inspect the entire yard. He found that there was no trace of the wire snake in the yard, and only a trace of fishy odor lingering in the air proved that the wire snake had appeared.
Afterwards, Zhou Yong took him with him and spent most of the day searching the entire palace, but again no snake was found. Instead, he found the shed skin of a wire snake in the garden.
Liu Fu left, but this thing seemed even more bizarre to Ling Ruo. So many poisonous wire snakes suddenly appeared, but in just half a day, they disappeared without a trace, leaving not a single one.
, coupled with the whistle she heard before, she always felt that this matter was not simple...
Facts have proved that Ling Ruo's worries were not unnecessary, because just a few days later, a rumor spread like wildfire in the house, saying that the fetus in Ling Ruo's belly was very ominous and would attract a swarm of venomous snakes before it was born. Such a child would
If he is born, he will definitely be a monster.
As if to confirm this ominous rumor, Dai Jia accidentally sprained her foot while taking a walk and was unable to get off the ground for several days. Then a boy was injured by a knife that fell from the stove for unknown reasons while working in the kitchen.
The instep, and then...
In short, there are endless things like this, and all of them are pointed at Ling Ruo and the child in her belly. Although they don't dare to speak loudly in front of her, people behind her back are constantly pointing their fingers and calling her a pest and her child.
He is a monster; he has already harmed so many people in his womb. If he is really born, I don’t know what kind of disaster he will bring to the entire Prince Yong’s Mansion.
The backyard of the deep palace has always been a breeding ground for rumors. One rumor rests and another spreads, and there is never a truly pure and peaceful time.
By now, Ling Ruo had clearly guessed the reason why the wire snakes appeared in groups that night but did not attack. Someone wanted to use this to elicit ominous words and harm the child in her belly. Their intention was better than letting the wire snakes attack her directly.
More vicious.
Both Guarjia and Wen Ruyan were worried about Ling Ruo. Although Yinzhen had great trust in Ling Ruo at the moment and even asked her to ignore these nonsense rumors. But the reason why the rumors are stronger than tigers is because of the people who tell them.
There will be more and more, until there are so many that one person can change from disbelief to belief.
If the rumors are allowed to continue unchecked, there is no guarantee that Tong Jia will not be like the original Tong Jia, but the difference is that Tong Jia deserves it, while Ling Ruo is innocent.
It's a pity that they are just concubines in the Jin Dynasty, and they are soft-spoken. They are not the most favored among Yinzhen, and their words are not of much use. Nala didn't believe it at first, but later he saw that things happened frequently in the house, and his heart was shaken. Once, while Yinzhen was resting,
Yu Hanyuanju
At that time, she asked Yinzhen whether she should let Ling Ruo stay in Jingsi Residence temporarily and not come out, so as not to panic the people in the house. Besides, Lingxi was going to get married soon. What if something unexpected happened on the wedding day?
, doesn’t it mean that the royal family has lost its dignity?