The palace is quiet at night, with few people around.
After all, it is a heavily guarded place. If any idlers dare to make a noise, the palace guards will catch them and behead them on the spot.
Wang Fu followed Qiu Bu and went around to the southwest corner of the palace. It was a deserted open space with no large buildings. The weeds poked out of the cracks in the floor tiles, making it a good place to sneak in.
As the fifth prince, Qiu Bu had the advantage of being a local leader. Soon the four of them entered the palace and rushed towards the princess's bedroom.
"Going there is ghostly."
The four of them stopped and saw two slender figures sneaking up to the edge of the pond. They turned out to be two little palace maids.
"When I whipped you during the day, I was very aggressive. I see your arms are swollen."
The older maid took the ointment from her arms and applied it to the smaller maid.
"Sister, I'm really unwilling. It's not my fault. Why did you hit me?"
The little palace maid's wound was sore from the ointment. Pain and grievance welled up in her heart, and her tears fell down.
"We are servants. The master's fault is your fault and mine. Just accept your fate. If you are beaten, just endure it and don't say a word."
The elder palace maid thought of something terrible and whispered, "A few days ago, the little Xizi from our village stared at her father-in-law when he was hitting the board. As a result, she died in the well the next day, with both eyes dug out.
There are only bloody holes on his face."
The little palace maid applied ointment and her stomach growled, "I'm so hungry!"
Not only was she beaten during the day, but she was also punished without eating for a day. At first she was able to drink water to keep herself full, but at night she couldn't hold on any longer.
"I almost forgot, I brought you something to eat."
The older maid took a food box from behind, brought it to the younger maid and opened it.
"Look, what did I bring you?"
The little palace maid looked at the exquisite food box and guessed that there must be rice and meat inside, so she opened the food box happily.
The next moment, she screamed in terror, her petite body burst out with great force, and she threw the food box more than ten meters away.
The food box fell to the ground, and the contents rolled out. It looked like the grandma who had been beating people during the day. Only a head was left, the eyes were hollowed out, and two grapes were stuffed into it. The tongue in the mouth was cut out and replaced by red apples.
"Sister, you..."
The elderly palace maid knelt down, put the head back into the food box and placed it, staring at her with her two eyeballs made of grapes, which seemed a bit funny in the midst of horror.
"Silly sister, she bullied you and I helped you kill her. Aren't you hungry?"
"Listen to me, the flesh and blood of your enemies is the sweetest food. I have tasted it myself. Now it's your turn."
The little palace maid was so frightened that she stepped back one after another, but the other party pressed forward step by step, "Don't be stupid, what's the fun in being a human being? It's better to be a ghost with me. Whoever dares to bully you, you will eat him."
The elderly palace maid pointed to the food box and said, "This old guy was eaten all over her body by me. She was still begging for mercy before she died, but how could I let her go?"
"When I first entered the palace, I was no younger than you, and I was beaten by her. I was hungry every day. There were many nights when I was so hungry that I crammed rats, bugs and bugs into my mouth."
"Later, she took the money from those geldings and sent me to be played with after I was starved. I wanted to die many times, but I couldn't."
"You are still young now. One day, you will end up like me. Don't be stupid. Being a ghost is more enjoyable than being a human being."
The elderly palace maid spoke eloquently, without any fluctuation in her tone, but as she spoke, two lines of blood and tears fell from her eye sockets, carving two blood marks on her face.
"Sister, I don't want to die, please let me go."
"Silly sister, after you become a ghost, you will know that I am doing it for your own good."
The elder palace maid stretched out her scarlet nails and pierced the younger palace maid's forehead with force.
Ding dong!
There was a snapping sound, and something whirled over, cutting off the ghost palace maid's fingernails. The castration continued, and she was cut in half, and scattered into a cloud of gray gas on the spot.
The little palace maid watched the ointment fall to the ground, realized that her 'sister' was no longer there, and burst into tears.
"Don't cry, go hide in Diwan, and don't come out no matter what happens outside."
Before Wang Fuli left, he touched the little palace maid's head.
The little palace maid burst into tears, covered her mouth and nodded repeatedly, just looking forward to the day coming soon and getting rid of this vast night with no end in sight.
"Senior Brother Qiu."
Wang Fu followed the footsteps of the three people. He couldn't bear it. He opened his mouth to say something, but he never said it.
"Junior Brother Wang, what you are thinking about now, I was confused thirty years ago."
Qiu Bu looked at the familiar corridor of flowers and trees in front of him and the rolling terraces of the palace. This was the place where he grew up and the prison he had spent half his life to escape from. Now he took the initiative to step in again.
The group of people remained silent for the rest, walking quickly, and suddenly bumped into a group of people head-on.
"It's the ones who transport corpses from the palace."
Qiu Qiu cannot explain this to his fellow disciples.
It turned out that family practices were often practiced in the palace, and killing with sticks and poisoning were commonplace. The masters were kind-hearted and could not bear to see blood stabbed, so the body was wrapped in a cloth bag and sent outside to be cremated in a fertile field at night.
Normally, when encountering such an unexpected situation, the four of them would give way and use a cover-up to let the group of people pass.
However……
Wang Fu suddenly saw something was wrong. The two little eunuchs carrying the body bags were chewing something, dripping liquid from the corners of their mouths on the ground, and making strange laughter from time to time.
"You two rabbits, you both told me not to eat on the road, or I'll peel off your human skin."
The old eunuch leading the way shook the dust in his hand and screamed loudly.
"Ancestor, I'll give you this piece of liver."
The little eunuch held a swaying piece of meat in his bloody palm and smiled with his mouth full of red teeth.
Can't avoid it.
Qiu Bu and his three companions looked at each other. The old eunuch was an old and ferocious ghost, and the two young eunuchs were ferocious ghosts. They clearly came here to hunt for food.
"You two, deal with the two younger ones."
Qiu Bu pointed at the old eunuch and said, "Junior brother Wang, please help me solve this quickly."
The disciples of the Golden Book can cleanly deal with ordinary evil ghosts. The two young eunuchs are not old evil ghosts. In single situations, they can quickly settle the accounts.
However, Qiu couldn't believe that he could do it against the old eunuch, but it would inevitably take time, so he asked Wang Fu for help.
"No problem, I'll take care of it."
Wang Fu took the lead and said, "Ding."
The shaping spell was applied, covering the old eunuch and the two evil ghosts, and they froze on the spot.
"It's too white to be old."
Qiu Bu decisively seized the opportunity and launched his most powerful trick. With a flash of white light, the old eunuch had no time to differentiate his ghost nature, and his body was destroyed.
"seal up."
Wang Fu held up the ghost-sealing vessel and absorbed the remaining ghost nature of the fierce ghost into it, and they cooperated in a tacit understanding.
The other two Jinsei disciples were even more relaxed. They cast spells on the two evil ghosts that could not move, and they were done in three breaths.
"Junior Brother Wang, you are the first one this time."
They cooperated with Wang Fu for the first time, and then they discovered the power of the Shaping Spell as an auxiliary. The enemy stayed put and allowed you to attack. As long as the gap was not too big, the result was a sure win.
After quietly dealing with the three ghosts, the group continued to move forward.