Start with detective Li Yuanfang

Chapter 59 Mourning Hall
"what--!!"

Hearing Cao An's shrill cry from inside the hall, Li Yan, who used his lightness kung fu to flit out, frowned helplessly.

The little eunuch kept his head down, and when he looked up to see that he was gone, he might be scared to death.

He said to the guards guarding outside the hall: "Please go in and appease the servants, so that they don't panic and disturb His Highness the Crown Prince to rest."

The imperial guards were not his responsibility, but seeing the prince's attitude towards Li Yan, the guards immediately responded, "Yes!"

Li Yan said again: "Just now I heard a strange sound. It seems that there is a traitor pretending to be a ghost. It must be thoroughly investigated. As an internal guard, I have a duty to do so."

His eyes swept across the imperial guards: "I entered the palace for the first time, and I don't know the way, so I can't intrude. I hope that two imperial guards who are familiar with the environment in Shaoyang courtyard will lead me around the outer court."

The imperial guards showed admiration, no wonder the prince valued him at such a young age, just look at this cautiousness, it is different.

Soon, the two stood up and announced their names: "Zhang Huan and Xu Hong are willing to serve Li Wuwei!"

Li Yan was slightly startled, looked at Zhang Huan, thought that the name was quite popular, nodded and said, "Thank you!"

Together with two guards holding torches, Li Yan went in the direction of the sound of water drops.

Not long after, the three of them came to the southwest of the main hall, and their voices had disappeared.

Li Yan lowered his head, checked the green brick floor, and found puddles of water, and said, "Bring the torch closer!"

The two imperial guards approached, Zhang Huan raised the torch, took a closer look, and felt excited.

Because of the water marks, it took on a strange appearance.

Almost like the footprints of a person walking barefoot.

"It's not like, this is what people walked past after taking off their shoes."

Li Yan gestured with his hands, and found that the footprints were not long, rather small and exquisite, which should be the footprints of a woman.

And the traces of water stretched all the way until darkness.

In the place where you can't see your fingers, there seems to be a woman in white clothes with disheveled hair, waving gently, and walking all the way.

Li Yan narrowed his eyes, his legs didn't move, and he sneered, "Pretending to be a ghost!"

Hearing what he said firmly, the two guards couldn't help but cheer up: "Has Li Wuwei seen through the ghost's identity?"

Li Yandao: "This is not a ghost. Someone must be pretending. The sound I just heard in the hall is not the sound of walking."

He didn't chase after him, but just looked at the spot, and he found something suspicious: "Look, the water has dried up a little, I'm afraid that the person stepped on the footprints first, and then made a sound to lead us over."

Zhang Huan and Xu Hong were convinced: "Li Wuwei is wise!"

Seeing that Xu Hong was more clever, Li Yan ordered: "You go and call more people, but don't disturb the inner palace prince to rest, just conduct normal patrols."

"Yes!"

Xu Hong took the order and left, and brought eight guards over after a while.

A group of vigorous young men gathered together, and the torches illuminated a radius of more than ten meters. Li Yan was courageous and waved his hand: "Let's go!"

Everyone followed the trail of the water.

Soon leave the area of ​​the side hall and head west.

The traces of water on the ground became weaker and weaker, and soon disappeared completely.

Li Yan looked forward: "Where is that place?"

Zhang Huan said, "That's the West Garden."

Li Yan thought of what the little eunuch Cao An said just now, the place where he first saw the figure of the female ghost in white and the shadow of the servant girl in the headless palace were all in the West Garden.

Right.

Li Yan said without thinking: "All get together, don't separate!"

The imperial guards responded in unison: "Yes!"

People entered the West Garden in groups, Li Yan sized it up, and said doubtfully, "This place seems to be a bit desolate, aren't the palace people diligent in cleaning it?"

Zhang Huan said in a low voice: "Your Highness doesn't like this place very much, and almost never comes to the West Garden..."

Li Yan frowned, feeling strange.

In the Taiji Palace, half of the area is occupied by the emperor, Ye Ting occupies about a quarter, and the remaining quarter is the East Palace, which has three gates, twenty halls, and hundreds of corridors.

In comparison, Shaoyang Courtyard is only about one-tenth of the original East Palace. Moving from a spacious old house to a small new one, such a large area has been abandoned?

But it's hard to say what people like and dislike, especially the prince, the prince of a country.

Countless people tried to figure out the Prince's mind, and showed a little bit of disgust. It is not surprising that Xiyuan has become a place where grandma doesn't love and uncle doesn't love.

Reining in his thoughts, Li Yan took the lead towards the first room, pushed the door open and entered.

The inside is also clean, without any sundries, but because of the lack of popularity, it looks more and more empty.

second room.

third room.

fourth room...

The buildings of the Tang Dynasty were not overly pursuing exquisiteness and magnificence, but they were all built tall, wide, square, and very majestic.

The pavilions and pavilions in the palace stood more firmly, and more than a dozen people walked in it, and even felt a sense of insignificance.

Under the shroud of night, the imperial guards became more and more uneasy, while Li Yan held his breath and searched room by room.

Don't give the enemy a chance to defeat each one, and don't give up halfway.

This place belongs to the outer court and is the place where the guards are active. He is responsible for the internal guards, which is also in accordance with the rules of etiquette.

The safety of the prince is the most important thing. If something happens to the prince, he will be unlucky.

Finally, when they came to a room in the corner, everyone pushed the door open and immediately felt something was wrong.

"Hey, where did the pottery puppets and wooden figures come from?"

In the deep room, there is a curtain hanging in the center, and there are rows of pottery puppets and wooden figures in front.

The pottery puppets are the famous Tang Sancai in later generations, with gorgeous colors, and the wooden figures are also painted with oil paint, with gorgeous shapes.

They stood quietly, with exaggerated facial features depicted on the faces of the wooden figurines, looking towards the gate intentionally or unintentionally, as if welcoming visitors.

Li Yan listened carefully, and judged that there was no sound of breathing in the room, so he was fully on guard, and stretched out his hand to lift the curtain.

The scene in front of him caused the pupils to constrict and the face to change dramatically.

"The mourning hall?"

Behind the curtain, there is a standard mourning hall arrangement, with an incense table for sacrifices, and there are three tributes on it.

In front of the censer and wax stand, there is a brazier with the remaining gold and silver kè (kè) inside.

It seemed that someone had just worshiped.

Or a ghost just used it.

The hair is creepy.

A guard was so frightened that he sat down on the ground and screamed: "That female ghost lives here, she came back all the way, and led us here!"

Some guards burst into tears and snot: "Has she already entangled me? I will never go to Pingkangfang again without giving money, please forgive me!"

Everyone looked over.

Li Yan calmed down completely, knowing that it was definitely not caused by ghosts.

He walked around the mourning hall, looked at the tablet on the incense case, and found that there was only the birth date on it, but no name, and asked, "Who of you know the birth date of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Everyone was shocked, and looked at him in unison.

Li Yan pointed at the tablet: "I want to be sure, is this a victory!"

Press to win, press to win, the press here means to suppress, block, and suppress, it is to use magic to suppress the target and win.

This is the biggest taboo in the ancient palace.

The scourge of witchcraft by Emperor Wu of the distant Han Dynasty shook the foundation of the country. More than ten years ago, Li Zhi wanted to abolish the king and queen because he used the technique of suppressing victory in the harem.

Queen Wang was infertile, and was stopped by Changsun Wuji and other Guanlong gentry on the grounds that the noble girl was innocent, but she and Concubine Xiao Shu used the curse to win Wu and flattered her to death, which was the fifth crime among the ten evils of Tang law. After being abolished, she was bestowed to death together with Concubine Xiao Shu.

That was still a dispute in the harem, and now it involves the prince of a country!
Li Hong was weak and sick, and could pass away at any time. A mourning hall was set up in his uterus. If his birth date was written on the memorial tablet, it was obvious that he was cursed to die early, and it would definitely cause a huge earthquake!

The quick-reacting guard also realized it, his face changed drastically, and he almost trembled in fright.

As the guards of Shaoyang Palace, if they really tried to cast a magic spell, they would all be unable to escape their ties, and they would all be doomed.

Female ghosts are not scary, but people's hearts are even more vicious!
In the almost dead silence, a guard came out with trembling lips:
"I...I know..."

(End of this chapter)