Tang Chen said: "I'm here to save your master. I'm asking you to find out something and if you don't tell me, it's putting your master in danger. You're not betraying your promise. And remember, I really don't have anything."
My purpose is to come here to help you get rid of evil spirits. Don’t look at me in that way, I’m a good person!”
"Humph, everyone says they are a good person. Where do so many good people come from in this world!" Even so, she still said: "You ask quickly, I have to prepare food later."
Tang Chen said: "Tell me specifically what happened to that palace maid."
Xiao Tao sighed and said, "I shouldn't have said anything after she died, but she really deserved to die, and she shouldn't live in this world."
"What's the meaning?"
"Her name is Xiao Cui. She was born as an alien. Who knows why she was recruited into the palace, and she was placed in Concubine Zhen's palace. This person's personality is really weird, and she likes to do weird things.
Weird things, and then she always likes to talk about traditional customs and the like, but they are just different from ordinary people."
Tang Chen frowned: "Just because some customs and people like to collect some things are different?"
"Of course not. She often hangs out in the middle of the night. We have been frightened several times. She always comes out in the middle of the night and squats at the door of Concubine Zhen and chants some curse. We all say that she is cursing Concubine Zhen to make Concubine Zhen.
She couldn't conceive Long Zi, so Concubine Zhen locked her up." Speaking of this, Xiao Tao's face changed slightly and continued: "During the time when she was locked up, the palace often heard some strange things.
She made strange noises, and sometimes she would put on makeup in the mirror in the middle of the night. We all thought she was crazy, until one day we saw her with her eyebrows painted on."
Tang Chen looked at Xiao Tao in confusion and asked, "What's wrong with drawing eyebrows? Is there anything wrong?"
"If we were to draw eyebrows, there would be nothing wrong with her, but she has never drawn them, and she has had no eyebrows since she was born."
"Are you born without eyebrows?" Tang Chen was a little interested when he heard this and said, "Are there people in this world who were born without eyebrows?"
"Yes, not only she is like this, but everyone in her village is said to be like this."
Could it be a family inheritance or something? Tang Chen didn't think about it carefully, and then said: "Then where are the strange things she collected?"
Xiao Tao pointed to the wall and said, "Isn't that hanging on the wall? Those are all."
Tang Chen suddenly broke into a cold sweat on his back, and Xiao Tao continued: "Ms. Zhenfei is kind-hearted and said that she won't throw these things away. Just to remember, she has been in the palace for more than ten years."
"What about her body?"
"Buried it. Do you think the body should be left here to stink?"
Tang Chen smiled bitterly: "Take me to her house to have a look. I want to look at her belongings to find some clues."
Xiao Tao smiled: "Here you are, aren't you pretty powerful? Can't you feel the evil energy? Can't you feel the evil energy here?"
Tang Chen coughed twice and said: "There are evil spirits all over your palace, and I can't tell where her house is, but you don't respect me very much by placing me in a dead man's house."
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"Then what do you want?" Xiao Tao said still aggressively: "It's already very good to give you this room, and I don't think it will also be conducive to your work? Okay, I'll go and you can do your own research."
Just as Xiao Tao was about to go out, Tang Chen was still sitting on the bed. She suddenly stopped and said, "By the way, Xiao Tao died on the bed where you were sitting!"
Tang Chen immediately stood up and glanced at the bed: "Please give me another room."
Xiao Tao looked like a villain and said: "If there is no other house, just make do with it. If you can't handle it, you can leave at any time and go back to the Queen Mother's place to sleep. No one will mind."
Tang Chen smiled bitterly as he watched her go out. He really wanted to lock her in here so that she could feel what it was like to live in the room of the dead. He walked to the table. There were many ornaments on the table, which were arranged very well.
Everything was neat and tidy. There was only an eyebrow pencil on the table and a mirror. Tang Chen picked up the mirror and looked at it and found nothing unusual. Then he walked to the things hanging on the wall and took off two of them and looked at them.
Seeing that most of these were musical instruments that could be played, but they were a bit strange in shape, Tang Chen took off one and put it in his hand. He had never seen these instruments before, and even had similar ones in the books he had studied before.
None of them.
Hearing some noises outside, Tang Chen went out and saw several palace maids discussing something. Tang Chen went over and said, "What are you talking about, sisters?"
"Hey, where did this little eunuch come from? He's pretty and pretty."
"I'm from the Queen Mother's Palace and I'm here to help."
When they heard that it was someone from the Queen Mother's Palace, those people immediately changed their expressions and said, "It's from the Queen Mother's Palace. That should be an adult. We have to go to work."
After saying that, they all dispersed. They seemed to be talking about something while walking. Could it be that Concubine Zhen and the Queen Mother had any other festivals? Tang Chen thought about this, sighed and planned to hang around here first before talking.
Concubine Zhen saw Tang Chen passing by and looked at Xiao Tao and said, "Do you feel that this person is different from other eunuchs?"
Xiaotao glanced outside and said, "There is indeed something different about this person. He seems to be a bit unserious. Except for his thin skin and tender flesh, he doesn't look like a good person anyway."
Concubine Zhen sighed and said, "Maybe you made a mistake and looked at him. He probably doesn't have any intentions. It would be a good thing if he could really help us get rid of evil spirits."
"My dear, you don't really feel that there is an evil spirit in our palace, do you? He is just here to deceive people!"
Concubine Zhen said with a smile: "That kind of sound comes out every night, and I also feel that there are always people following me around. This is always true."
"My dear, this is all your psychological influence. You saw with your own eyes that day that the emperor sent someone to disperse the spirit directly."
"Anyway, let him handle this matter since he's here. But you have to pay more attention to your words and deeds these days, and you must not fall into any trap."
"I understand, ma'am, I'm going to prepare dinner for you now."
"Go ahead."
Concubine Zhen coughed a few more times, and it had been going on for several days. Xiaocui died two days ago, so she didn't think about it in that way, but the cough became more and more serious and she couldn't help it.
She stopped thinking about it, and lately she seemed to hear the sound of musical instruments every night when she fell asleep. When she got up and asked others, no one else said they could hear it.