Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 100 The Imperial City Nightmare (4)
It was extremely lively for a while, some said they didn't know each other, some said they looked familiar, some said that their eyebrows resembled yours and their nose resembled hers, and some said that they might grow like this when they get old.Amidst the noise, an unremarkable court lady quietly pushed aside the crowd and left without making a sound.She hurried all the way, looked around carefully, bypassed Yao Meiren's sealed bedroom, and walked for a while, it was a deserted garden.A few pieces of the rockery that had been built had collapsed, and it had been said that it was going to be repaired. It had been said for several years, but there was no movement.

Anyway, all the concubines who live here are not in a position to meet the occasion.

At the corner of the garden is a well, and many discarded household items, bricks and tiles are piled up along the well.The palace lady moved the head of the pile to the side with all her strength, revealing the square opening.

Eyes close to the opening and looking down, the well water is dark and oily, rippling and rippling.

She called softly: "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law..."

The water at the bottom of the well began to bubble, and the top of the head was exposed first.If the light at the bottom of the well was brighter, you could clearly see that the hair was in a vertical bun.

The palace maid was a little flustered, and quickly took two steps back. When she looked at it again, the two green eyes at the opening flickered with the blinking of her eyelids.

"Mother-in-law..." The court lady swallowed, and said quickly in a low voice, "Just now, Yin Zhu from the Empress Dowager's palace took your portrait to make people recognize, saying that she was helping a girl find her lost hairpin."

"See clearly?" The voice was hoarse.

The court lady was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly: "I see clearly, the painting is as real as it is, I just glanced at it and recognized it as my mother-in-law."

"Did Yin Zhu say who that girl is?"

"I just entered the palace yesterday, and said that the head of the family is kind to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother looks at her very well, so everyone must be careful."

There was no movement inside for a long time, and then, a black and thin hand like a bird's claw stretched out from the opening that was about an inch square. The nails were long and curled, and dirt was hidden. Tiny silver needles.

The maid quickly took out the brocade handkerchief she was wearing, wrapped her hands around the silver needle, and said in a low voice, "I see."

At the breach, the pair of bright green eyeballs blinked twice, and suddenly disappeared.

At the same time, there was a muffled sound of heavy objects entering the water from the bottom of the well.

The palace lady put the Jinpa in her arms, and with difficulty moved the pile at the wellhead back to its original shape.

Duanmucui was holding a big bag of Fachifabell, and when he got to the fork in the road, he forgot to turn. Looking around, Zhan Zhao, who had been hanging far behind him, sighed, and strode over: "Go west."

Duanmu Cui giggled: "The road to the emperor's harem is also winding. Hey, Zhan Zhao, do you think the emperor will get lost?"

"I don't know if the emperor will get lost," Zhan Zhao said slowly, "I only know that if you have no one to guide you, you might have gone to which hall... Going all the way to the west is the empress dowager's bedroom, remember?"

"Remember..." Before Duanmucui finished answering, she turned her head and saw that Zhan Zhao had turned around and left, "Hey, you left?"

Auntie, Mr. Zhan is a fourth-rank guard with a knife in the front of the imperial palace, but not a fourth-rank guard with a knife in the harem. He always runs around in the harem, what's the matter?

Seeing that Zhan Zhao ignored her, Duanmucui pouted, gathered up a bag of things, and followed what Zhan Zhao said, all the way west.After walking for a while, I saw Yinzhu coming out of the palace gate from afar, Yinzhu also saw her, and trotted up to meet her.

"Miss Duanmu, what are you holding here?" Yinzhu lifted the bag to look at it, and couldn't help but be speechless.

"Take it for fun." Duanmucui smiled.

"Tricking ghosts." Yin Zhu was not fooled, "Do you want me to help you?"

"Need not."

The two walked towards the hall slowly while talking, when suddenly a person rushed out from the slope and bumped into Duanmucui.Duanmucui was knocked unsteadily by her, and the things in her hand were scattered all over the floor.

"You..." Yinzhu stomped her feet, looked up and saw the man's face, and turned pale with anger, "Little bitch, who allows you to hang around in front of the Queen Mother's Palace?"

The maid was so frightened that she was trembling all over, she quickly bent down to pick up something.Duanmucui was a little dazed, and asked Yinzhu, "Who is she?"

"The one in Yao Meiren's palace is clumsy and sent to do heavy work, but Zensheng came here again. Hey, be careful!" The latter sentence was addressed to the maid.

Yinzhu scolded, and leaned over to pick it up by herself, Duanmucui was naturally not idle, so Fang squatted down to pick up two pieces, and a cautious voice came from behind: "Miss Duanmu?"

"En." Duanmucui responded subconsciously, and before she could turn her head, there was a slight pain in the back of her waist, as if she had been stabbed by something.

Duanmucui was stunned for a moment, then turned around suddenly, the maid behind her was startled, she was at a loss holding the magic weapon she picked up.

"Give it to me." Duanmucui looked around, but couldn't tell what was wrong, and reached out to take the magic weapon from the maid's arms.The court lady was dumb, saluted and left in a hurry.

Yinzhu also came over, and the two of them squatted down and wrapped the magic weapon back in their pockets.

"Just now you said that she is from Yao Meiren's palace? Is it the Yao Meiren who escaped?" Duanmucui suddenly realized.

"It's just that she was clumsy and didn't know how to serve the master, but she let the master run away under his nose. It's because the officials were kind-hearted and didn't pursue this matter, otherwise she wouldn't be able to please her."

Dinner is eaten with the Queen Mother, very homely porridge and side dishes.Although the Empress Dowager has been rich and honored for a long time, she still can't get used to the dishes in the palace, and Yu Weishi prefers the home-cooked dishes.Duanmucui didn't touch meat in the first place, she ate with relish, the Queen Mother saw it and was really happy in her heart, because she thought that this girl is really simple and not picky, it's a pity why she didn't see her sooner.

Duanmucui didn't understand that the Empress Dowager had turned around so much. After dinner, she asked the Empress Dowager to resign and go back to her room. When she got up, she frowned suddenly, and subconsciously supported her waist with her right hand.

With sharp eyes, Yinzhu hurriedly said: "Miss Duanmu, what's the matter?"

Duanmucui shook her head: "It's nothing, it hurts a little."

The Empress Dowager smiled: "You young girls, you don't take two steps outside the gate, and you are panting after taking two more steps, but you won't have a little backache, let me stay in the folk..."

Yin Zhu giggled: "The Queen Mother is going to repeat the old tune again."

"You damn girl," the queen mother glared at her, "you're getting more and more unruly."

Thinking about it, I found it funny, and my sullen face finally relaxed: "I won't play the old tune today, Miss Duanmu is not feeling well. Yinzhu, send the girl back to the room."

Yinzhu came to help Duanmucui, but Duanmucui felt that she was making a big fuss, and it was difficult to refuse in front of the queen mother, so she had to answer vaguely, and she shook off Yinzhu as soon as she left the door: "It's not that you can't leave, where do you really need someone?" Fu is so fragile?"

Yin Zhuguo withdrew her hand and looked at her with a smirk: "Miss Duanmu, why is your back hurting?"

"How do I know?" Duanmucui said angrily, "I'm not a doctor."

Seeing that she was not on the right track, Yinzhu simply pointed out: "What have you and Mr. Zhan been doing today?"

"I didn't do anything. We talked and took some things." Duanmucui answered honestly.

Yinzhu didn't believe it: "Then it will hurt your back?"

"Hey, what exactly are you trying to say?" Duanmucui felt something was wrong.

"I didn't want to say anything." Yinzhu touched her with her elbow, and lowered her voice with a chuckle, "There are no outsiders here, why are you shy, what is there to say? Honestly, don't you ..."

Yin Zhu bit her lip, and made a gesture with a smirk.

Duanmucui finally came back to her senses, she looked at Yinzhu, neither crying nor laughing, she poked her finger on the forehead: "What are you thinking about all day long!"

After finishing his speech, he turned around and left, leaving Yin Zhu on the spot.

Back in the room, thinking about it, I felt strange, lifted up my clothes and looked in the vanity mirror, there was a lot of red on the side of the waist.

I don't know when I hit it, I stretched out my hand and pressed it, it was hard and painful.Duanmucui frowned, the man from Yanggong who opened the door took the medicated oil, after applying it, it felt cool and cool, it seemed to be better, so she didn't take it to heart.

At night, I couldn't sleep for anything.

Always think of Yin Zhu's words.

"Honestly, are you..."

These words pierced my ears like a magic voice, and they kept spinning in my mind, and Yin Zhu's smirk and ambiguous expression always appeared in front of my eyes.

This palace is really a sauce vat, it will lead people to bad, people will not be strong, and they will fall into evil spirits and heretics if they are not careful... Duanmucui lamented again and again. Tossing and turning because of Yinzhu's words, tomorrow I must read Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" twice, and also, cherish life, stay away from Zhan Zhao...

Thinking of this, I turned around again...

The pain made her gasp, and all her thoughts flew away without a trace.

It seems to be pressed to the place where the medicated oil was applied before.

Duanmucui bit her lip and reached out to wipe her waist.

It was still hard, and there seemed to be a bulge in the middle. Duanmucui's fingers slowly stroked the bulge, wondering if he was bitten by some poisonous insect, and the consequences were so serious.

Just thinking about it, the blood all over his body suddenly rushed to his brain, and his whole body froze.

The lump actually squirmed - this was definitely not her hallucination.

After a while, the blood from the upward rush began to slowly fall back, Duanmucui suddenly reacted, screamed, almost jumped out of bed - but forgot that she was wrapped in a quilt, and rolled out of bed with the quilt on the spot.Ignoring the pain, she threw off the quilt and got up, stumbling towards the table.In the dark, he knocked over a few round stools. In a hurry, he also forgot that he could use magic to hold the lamp flame. With trembling hands, he used the fire torch to light the candle, and lit it three times in a row.

After lighting it up, he lifted his clothes and looked closely at the mirror. He almost fainted: under the white skin on the waist, there seemed to be a black bug, round and round, almost the same as the one she found in Yao Meiren's dormitory. Sincerely.

Duanmu Cui was stunned, and subconsciously stretched out her hand to touch it, the thing moved as if in shock, touching her flesh and blood, the pain was so painful that she almost died.

Duanmucui froze for a while, and finally came to his senses, put on his clothes and rushed out the door.There was also a palace lady on guard outside, she panicked seeing her rushing out, Duanmucui said urgently: "Where is Yinzhu, come find her quickly."

Yinzhu was on duty outside the Queen Mother's bedroom, and came very quickly.She didn't know why Duanmucui was looking for her, and she was ready to tease her with a smile, but when she looked up and saw her expression was wrong, she panicked.Duanmucui didn't speak, grabbed her wrist and hurried into the room.

After entering the room, he lifted up his clothes to show her, silver and vermilion was also blinded, and said in a low voice: "Miss Duanmu, I have been in the palace for so many years, and I have never seen such a..."

She didn't know how to describe that thing.

Duanmucui didn't speak, she took out the jasper knife she had always carried with her from the pillow and handed it to Yinzhu: "Help me dig it out."

Yin Zhu trembled in fright, almost dropped the knife on the ground: "gouge, gouge out?"

"Yes, take it out." Duanmucui leaned on the bed, brushed her hair and bit it into her mouth, her voice was vague.

Yinzhu was trembling, but she didn't dare to do anything: "Or, I'll go to the imperial doctor..."

Imperial physician?Duanmucui was stunned for a moment, this thing is not common, she never had the idea of ​​asking the imperial physician for help.

"Miss Duanmu, I, I dare not, I have never done it..." Yin Zhu cried, "You should let me go to the imperial physician."

This is the only way to go, Duanmucui sighed: "Alright."

With her approval, Yin Zhu stumbled out.Duanmucui stood up with her arms propped up, and went to the vanity mirror to take a closer look.

It would be fine if this thing stayed there peacefully, but it kept wriggling all the time, which made Duanmucui's hair stand on end.Thinking about the fact that this thing is inside his body, he couldn't help but go crazy.

The imperial doctor came very quickly, Yinzhu didn't care about the suspicion of men and women, she helped Duanmucui lift up her clothes, and suddenly let out a cry, both surprised and frightened.

Duanmucui heard something was wrong, and said anxiously: "What's wrong?"

"Just one, only one... now... three, three..."

Duanmucui's mind was buzzing: "There are three? Where are they all?"

Yin Zhu carefully reached out to touch her skin, one was on the side of the waist, and the other two were on the back.

"Is it the same size as the previous one?"

"Small, smaller."

smaller?That is, it will grow up?What will happen when you grow up?Could it be that these two small ones were born by the big one just now?After these two little ones grow up, won't they be able to regenerate, and then her body will still be her own body?Didn't it become...

Duanmucui's mind went blank, and tears flowed down her cheeks unknowingly.She gritted her teeth and turned to look at the imperial physician: "Emperor physician, move faster."

The imperial physician was a little dazed: "Do you want to use a knife? Miss, you have to boil some medicinal wine first."

Duanmucui gritted her teeth: "No need, just use the knife."

The imperial doctor couldn't figure out what was going on, but he had seen examples of leeches and the like burrowing into human skin. Although he didn't know what kind of insects he encountered this time, he took it for granted that they were all similar, so he took a sharp blade to take advantage of it. The knife came out, and after Duanmucui lay down, she signaled Yinzhu to hold her hands, held her breath, and cut down towards the lump on her waist.

The blade pierced into the flesh, and black blood flowed out immediately.Yinzhu and the imperial physician could clearly see that the insect struggled like crazy, the front half of its body got into the flesh, only its tail was swinging out.The two were so frightened that their legs became weak, Duanmucui's body convulsed violently, screamed, rolled over from the bed, and fell heavily to the ground.The imperial doctor hurriedly came to help, Duanmucui's forehead was covered with fine sweat, and gradually lost his consciousness, he vaguely saw the knife in the imperial doctor's hand, and murmured: "Don't move the knife... it will get in... if it goes in, it will go in." I can't get out..."

Yinzhu was so anxious that tears came out, she desperately helped Duanmucui onto the bed, and said with a crying voice: "Miss Duanmu, what should I do? Do you want me to go to the queen mother..."

Duanmucui shook her head weakly, her pale lips moved a few times, Yinzhu leaned forward and vaguely heard her voice: "Looking for Zhan... Zhao..."

Yin Zhu came to her senses immediately, wiped her tears with her sleeve, and said, "I'm going to find Mr. Zhan right now. Imperial doctor, take care of me."

The imperial doctor watched Yinzhu staggering away, didn't know what to say for a while, so he soaked a sweat towel to wipe Duanmucui's sweat, and then reached out to help her put down the clothes she had lifted up.Fang touched the corner of her clothes, suddenly trembled all over, and lost his voice: "Girl, on your back..."

Duanmucui almost didn't even have the strength to raise her head, she smiled miserably, and said in a low voice, "Is there more?"

The imperial physician pointed at her back, but was speechless.

But seeing under her smooth and fair skin, streaks of black air intertwined and sneaked, wherever they stopped, black lumps protruded.There were only three just now, but now there are as many as four or five.

Just as he was startled, the door suddenly slammed, and when he looked back, his silvery hair and temples were scattered, and he stood holding the door out of breath, crying: "Miss Duanmu, Mr. Zhan is not on duty tonight, he, he will come back Kaifeng mansion..."

Duanmucui only felt that his mind was empty for a moment, and for a moment, he didn't even feel the pain on his back.

"Now let someone invite you, when can you arrive?"

"This...it's hard to say." Yinzhu murmured, "I'm just a palace servant, I can't order those who run errands outside... Please hurry up and hurry up, it will take nearly an hour..."

"One hour..." Duanmucui's lips were pale, and she slowly shook her head, "It's too late."

"What?" Yinzhu didn't understand.

"It's nothing." Duanmucui smiled, slowly supported the edge of the bed and sat up, adjusted her clothes, bowed her head for a while, and said to Yinzhu, "Miss Yinzhu, send the imperial physician out."

"This... girl, your body..." The imperial doctor was still dedicated to his work, so he didn't want to leave.Duanmucui waved her hand, Yinzhu saw that she was very weak, so she quickly winked at the imperial physician.The imperial doctor really couldn't figure out the reason, stumbled and sighed for a while, and had no choice but to leave.

Yinzhu only sent the imperial physician to the outer hall, and then hurried back. As soon as he entered the door, he saw that the case was covered with talisman paper. Duanmucui bit his middle finger and wrote an inscription on the talisman paper.The pain in my back was still there, my arms trembled several times, and I could hardly write.

It is said that Yinzhu was calm when encountering problems when she was in the palace for a long time, but this time it was too weird, she couldn't hold it back, tears rolled in her eyes: "Miss Duanmu..."

Duanmucui looked up at her, and smiled lightly: "Why, I haven't cried yet, but you are crying instead?"

"Those... bugs..."

"It's a Gu worm."

"Gu worm?" Yinzhu couldn't understand.

(End of this chapter)