After crossing, she was forced to become the first assistant

Chapter 118 Danjiao
Wan Qiqian sneered twice.

He is a scientific researcher, and he is an atheist, not to mention, Wan Tuyou still has a strange fragrance on him.

"I don't believe in these things, I want you to find out the cause of the disease and prescribe the right medicine." Wan Qiqian ordered, "Come here, carefully check King Duan's diet, residence, serve him, and all the eunuchs and maids who have come into contact with him will be arrested and severely interrogated. "

"Dong Xue, you stay and take care of King Duan."

That night, just as Wan Qiqian finished approving the memorial, people from the Palace of Compassionate Ning came to report that the Palace of Prince Duan was haunted.

He grabbed his coat and went straight over.

The queen mother was so frightened that she fainted, Wan Qiyou couldn't sleep because of the fever at night, all the maids and eunuchs knelt on the ground tremblingly as if they had seen something terrifying.

"Your Majesty, this servant really heard the woman's cry. When I searched for it, I saw only a figure in red clothes. This servant fell to the ground in fright, and it took me a long time to come back to my senses..."

"Your Majesty, this servant found a hairpin beside His Highness Duan Wang's bed, it's not something from the palace."

"My lord, my lord, listening to the cries, Wei Xing knows that people are very tight. It is absolutely impossible for someone to come and go without a trace in the Palace of Compassion and Ning. There must be ghosts, Your Majesty."

Wan Qiqian looked at Dongxue, and Dongxue shook his head, "This subordinate is guarding Duan Wang. People outside said that it is haunted, so this subordinate went out to take a look. When he came back, he found that the maid was staring at the hairpin by the bed and yelled. .”

So, when the hairpin appeared beside Wan Qiyou's bed, Dongxue was not there.

Wan Chengqian took the hairpin from Dongxue's hand, put it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

"This hairpin is unique, it doesn't look like a living person, it doesn't look like a dead person wears it, and it doesn't look like a normal woman would wear it."

Dong Xue said, "All the objects in the palace will be compiled into the Treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs before entering the palace. This hairpin is obviously not, but my subordinates look at it, it looks like an old object, and it should be recorded in history books and folk manuscripts."

Old objects?Wan Chengqian looked at the group of lost palace servants kneeling below, "Li Duobao, go and pass on Wei Xingzhi."

Wei Xingzhi hurriedly put on his clothes and a cloak in the middle of the night, and rode his horse to the palace with an umbrella.

King Duan's sudden strange illness can be big or small, in order not to fall into the limelight, this matter was kept under wraps in the palace, and Wei Xingzhi only heard about it from Li Duobao.

Thinking that Wan Qiyou had lived in her home for so long, and suddenly suffered from a strange illness, she was also worried.

After entering the palace and seeing Wan Qiyou, Wan Qiqian handed the hairpin in his hand to Wei Xingzhi, "Look, do you know this thing?"

After the two confessed their identities, they were obviously not as unfamiliar as before.

Wei Xingzhi took it directly, and looked closely at the hairpin flower with his eyes. It is a bit emerald, bright in color, and equipped with low-quality water beads. It's not like anything I've seen…”

"What is ear-picking?" Wan Chengqian asked.

Wei Xingzhi replied, "It's the jewelry of Danjiao in Peking Opera."

When the two of them talked, the others were confused.

"I don't think this is too expensive, because this Diancui is slightly dull, so it should be a folk imitation." Wei Xingzhi rubbed the place where the paint had peeled off.

"emperor!"

Fang Ruo rushed in with a pale face, "Your Majesty, there is a dead body in the garden of the Palace of Compassion and Ning..."

Wan Qiqian and Wei Xingzhi looked at each other.

"Dongxue, stay and take care of You'er."

Yuanchi was covered with a layer of frost in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and it was also the place where Wan Qiyou cut ice for fishing a few days ago. At this moment, the water surface is covered with ice, and there is a female corpse frozen under the ice, wearing a red sleeveless costume. , wearing the same earcups as Wei Xingzhi's on his head, his face was so dramatic that he couldn't see his original face through the ice.

Wan Qiqian squatted by the garden pool, covering the ice with his hands, "The thickness of the ice on the edge and the ice in the middle are inconsistent, and there are obvious disconnected surfaces."

"Did anyone come to Yuanchi yesterday?" Wei Xingzhi asked.

Fangruo thought for a while, "On weekdays, King Duan often comes here, but yesterday, King Duan suddenly had an emergency, so he didn't come here, and the court ladies and eunuchs rarely come here."

Wei Xing knew, "So this corpse was broken through the ice yesterday, thrown down, and then frozen again."

Wan Cheng hummed humbly, stood up, and said, "Cutting out the ice to get the corpse."

Wei Xingzhi frowned as he looked at the delicate makeup of Danjiao opera under the ice layer. In the palaces of all dynasties, it was not allowed to dress up as opera makeup and sing in private, especially concubines and maids. Once discovered, it would be a death penalty.

Then why do some people dare to dress up the people in the palace like this and leave them in front of people?
"Your Majesty, I want to get the family history of the concubines and maids in the palace."

Wan Chengqian glanced at her, "Sure."

Soon, the guards broke through the ice and carefully fished out the corpse. The strange thing is that the makeup was not spent at all after soaking in the menstrual water for such a long time.

The surrounding ladies and concubines all shunned.

Wei Xingzhi was about to squat down and take out a handkerchief to wipe off the make-up on the man's face, when Wan Tengqian stopped her hand, "I'll do it."

He was talking about me, not me.

Fortunately, everyone fell into panic and didn't pay attention.

Wan Chengqian put his fingers directly on the makeup surface. The white base makeup was mixed with red rouge, but it didn't get on Wan Chengqian's fingers at all.

"Ah—" A concubine couldn't bear it, and yelled, "It must be a ghost, there is a ghost... There is a ghost who is here to kill... The things on her face can't be wiped off..."

Wan Chengqian frowned. He knew it just by touching it. It's not because people don't know how to take off makeup, but because people are put on makeup after they die. Water is not the main cause of makeup taking off. Grease is the direct cause. After death, the body stops secreting oil, which can reduce makeup to a certain extent. What's more, this makeup is added with some kind of waterproof chemical substance, so it is naturally not easy to take off makeup.

"Go get a pot of oil."

Wan Tengqian poured the oil on the face of the female corpse, and within a short time of incense sticks, the weird makeup on that face gradually faded away. After washing many sides with oil mixed with water, the original face of the female corpse was revealed.

"This, this is the maid next to King Duan..." Fang Ruo gasped, "Prince Duan, something dirty has entangled King Duan. Your Majesty, this is a warning. The death of this maid must be a warning, Your Majesty." !"

Wan Chengqian glanced at her coldly, "Keep this matter secret. If anyone spreads the word, be careful with your tongue."

For several days in a row, all sorts of strange things happened one after another in the Palace of Compassion and Ning. Even though Dong Xue was guarding by King Duan's side all night, the so-called ghost was not caught.

Such a commotion made people panic even more.

Wei Xingzhi checked all the concubines of Nanxiao's past dynasties, and found four concubines who liked to listen to operas before entering the palace.

Two of them are too old, and one has a good family background, is only interested in dramas, has a good reputation in the palace and died, so there is only one left...

(End of this chapter)