Glory all the way

Chapter 35 Haunted
After coming out of the gazebo, Bai Yingluo's face was a little sly and playful.

Looking back, there was no one in the gazebo at all. Bai Yingluo hummed a little tune and walked forward. After walking a few steps, a lively voice came from behind: "Yingluo..."

Turning around, it was the sixth princess.

"Why are you alone? Where are they?"

Looking around suspiciously, the sixth princess asked with a look of concern, in her heart, she probably guessed that Bai Yingluo was rejected by them.

Bai Yingluo took her hand and shook it, "They went to the pavilion first, so I will go there..."

Turning her head and pointing to the gazebo on the rockery, Bai Yingluo smiled and said, "Anyway, if you're not here, I have nothing to say when I'm with them, so it's better to be alone."

Bai Yingluo's words made the Sixth Princess look calm.

The two held hands and walked towards the woods. Bai Yingluo remembered the reason why the sixth princess left just now, and made a playful guess with the prince. Bai Yingluo turned her head and asked with concern: "Is the ninth princess okay? Has the imperial doctor seen it?"

Shaking her head angrily, the sixth princess sighed: "That bad guy, he didn't have heat stroke, he clearly wanted to skip class, so he deliberately pretended to be uncomfortable to deceive the queen mother. Fortunately, the queen mother always took pity on her, but she didn't care about it." Blame her, if the emperor is here, she will definitely not be able to escape a reprimand today."

The crown prince really hit it off, Bai Yingluo curled up her mouth and laughed.

Seeing this, the sixth princess sighed again and again: "Now, the other little princesses have also followed her. The queen mother said that the weather is really getting hot, so all the classes in the study room will be stopped first." Let’s start again when the weather is cooler. My daughter’s home is on the left and right, so I don’t need to go to the No. [-] Scholar Exam. I just played with her for a while, and when I saw that the sun was getting dark, she made a fuss about going out to play again, so I took it off. body."

Bai Yingluo smiled, and asked back: "When the princess is this old, do you still have to go to the study to do homework?"

Hearing this, she seemed to be reminded of some unbearable suffering, the sixth princess pouted and nodded, "It's better at noon, I can play in my palace for a while, but in the afternoon, I have to go to the study. Those who are older will learn from the biographies of those women who are famous for their reputation."

Then, the sixth princess sighed: "Father said that although a woman is virtuous if she is ignorant, she should also understand righteousness and learn from those women's conduct and virtues. So, before the age of 12, I was always How amazing it is to go to the study and listen to those masters shaking their heads and talking about biographies, and dozing off."

The boring past was described by the sixth princess, which made it a little more interesting. Bai Yingluo pursed her lips and laughed. When the sixth princess saw it, she also laughed happily. The two went into the woods hand in hand.

Although it was afternoon, there were towering trees planted in the woods, some of which could not be hugged by stretching out one's arms. Therefore, the deeper one walked into the woods, the cooler it became. The woods seemed to be isolated from the heat outside. It is generally opened, and it makes people feel comfortable from the heart.

Two days later, it was the fifteenth day of July.

July [-]th is the Ghost Festival, which is also commonly known as the "Ghost Festival" by the common people. According to folk customs, children under age are not allowed to go out of the house after the sun goes down on this day, so as not to be possessed by wandering ghosts. body.

The itinerary of Bai Yingluo and the six of them entering the palace to accompany them was also cancelled.

It was rare that she didn't have to get up early, so Bai Yingluo slept comfortably, had breakfast by herself after getting up, and then went to Qing'an Hall according to the usual time to pay her respects to Old Madam Bai.

Bai Yingyun was proud of that set of red gold hair, and hadn't troubled Bai Yingluo for many days. Now, the two of them were sitting together, smiling and talking, showing a bit of harmony. It passed, and I felt a little bit of Lao Huai's joy when I saw it.

In the afternoon, I nestled in the Yi'an Pavilion and read a book for a while, and drew four more paintings, palm-sized pictures of plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum. bookmark.

When a round hole was cut in the center of the top and a delicate red ribbon was put on, the four pictures that were originally simple and boring suddenly appeared a little more elegant and interesting, which was quite pleasing to look at.

"The princess must be happy when she sees it."

Taking four bookmarks from Bai Yingluo's hands and pressing them on the desk, Chen Xiang said with a smile.

Thinking of how happy the sixth princess was when she held it in her hand, Bai Yingluo smiled comfortably.

Dinner was an hour earlier than usual, and when we came out of Qing'an Hall, the afterglow of the setting sun reflected a large red cloud in the sky, which was indescribably beautiful.

"Miss, let's go quickly, the old lady said, let the young ladies and young masters go back to their respective rooms, and they are not allowed to go out again."

Xiangzhu was still young, and her grandmother, Mrs. Zhao, was close to Mrs. Bai, so she obeyed Mrs. Bai's words very much.

Nodding her head, Bai Yingluo quickened her pace, and the master and servant hurried back to Yi'an Pavilion.

Feeling sleepy after eating, Bai Yingluo leaned on the soft couch by the window and flipped through the book, before reading a few pages, she tilted her hand and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up again, it was already dark outside the window.

"Miss was going to bed at that time. I'm afraid I won't be resting so early tonight. If I had known earlier, when the lady was sleepy just now, the servants should have stopped her."

Liu Ying brought a bowl of tea to Bai Yingluo and said.

After talking and joking for a while, Bai Yingluo didn't feel sleepy until after the hour of Hai. She yawned and went to bed and fell asleep, but she didn't seem to sleep well all night. She heard some voices vaguely. The cry of a lone bird.

Waking up early, when she was dressing, Bai Yingluo saw in the bronze mirror that the face of Tassel standing behind her was a little pale.

"What's the matter? Did you not sleep well last night?"

Asked with concern, Bai Yingluo instructed in a soft voice: "I'll be leaving in a while, you leave what you're doing to Liu Ying and the others, and you go back to the room and take a nap for a while."

Bai Yingluo treats Liusu and Liuying better than the other maids. In Yi'an Pavilion, the door is closed, and the three of them are chatting, laughing and playing, not acting like a master and servant at all.

Biting her lip and hesitating for a moment, Liu Su leaned close to Bai Yingluo's ear and whispered a few words, suddenly, deep astonishment appeared in Bai Yingluo's eyes.

Liusu said that Chenghuanju was haunted last night.

If it was just a haunting, Bai Yingluo would not be surprised at all. After experiencing such a miraculous and unpredictable event from Luoniang of the Bai family to a daughter of the Jing'an Houfu, when it comes to ghosts and gods, Bai Yingluo has no fear at all.

But the haunting happened in Cheng Huanju, Bai Yingluo felt in her heart that it might not be that simple.

In a hurry to go out and enter the palace, Bai Yingluo didn't say anything more, and told Liusu to keep her ears sharp during the day, to listen to what was going on in the mansion, and the attitudes of old lady Bai, Mrs. Xue and others, Bai Yingluo He got up and left the house.

On the carriage, Dou Xiuqiao and Sun Yantong were still sitting together, while Bai Yingluo was sitting alone on the other side.

Having nothing to say, Bai Yingluo simply closed her eyes and fell asleep, but in her heart, she was thinking over and over again about the thing she heard when she woke up early.

Cheng Huanju has been vacant since Bai Shiming and Liu's early death. It has been so many years, and there is nothing unusual about it. Why is it suddenly haunted now?
Besides, the old lady Bai always hoped that her son and daughter-in-law would have a good life in the next life. Not only did they light up everlasting lanterns in several temples outside the capital, but they also specially invited a bodhisattva back to offer in Chenghuan residence.

There are no ghosts anywhere else in the huge Marquis's mansion, but Cheng Huan's Residence, which was built as a place for Bodhisattvas, was haunted. The more Bai Yingluo thought about it, the more strange it became.

Thinking wildly, the carriage stopped and had already arrived at the gate of the inner palace.

Bai Yingluo got out of the carriage behind Dou Xiuqiao and Sun Yantong, and changed into a soft sedan to Xinlan Pavilion.

Throughout the day, Bai Yingluo was a little out of her wits.

In the chess class in the afternoon, Master Mo Zhe called Bai Yingluo to play again, but Bai Yingluo lost so badly, which made Master Mo Zhe very upset, he shook his beard and reprimanded Bai Yingluo, saying she was not paying attention.

Although he sincerely apologized, when Master Mo Zhe left, he still had a dissatisfied expression on his face, and he left the door displeased with his hands behind his back.

Bai Yingluo saw it in her eyes, but felt that Mrs. Mo Zhe, who was like a child, was very interesting. When she turned her head, she was facing Dou Xiuqiao's gloating eyes, and Bai Yingluo couldn't help but suppress her smile.

After leaving the Xinlan Pavilion, Bai Yingluo bit her ear with the sixth princess, and then hurriedly left the palace without staying in the palace for long.

Back in Jing'an Hou's mansion, Liusu waited quietly in the gatehouse inside the gate.

Seeing Bai Yingluo got out of the carriage, Liusu came to help her, and as they walked towards Yi'an Pavilion, Liusu said softly, "Madam invited the Taoist priests from the Taoist temple to visit, and the Taoist priest said that Cheng Huanju has been empty for a long time. Living here, and offering the memorial tablets of the third master and the third wife, it caused the place to be too cloudy. In addition, last night was a day when hundreds of ghosts traveled intensively, so Cheng Huanju was haunted by ghosts."

Listening carefully, Bai Yingluo turned her head and asked, "Then, did the Taoist priest explain the solution?"

Liusu shook his head, "Everyone else has figured it out, but they didn't find out about this solution. The servants were also afraid that they would reveal their traces by asking too many questions, so they didn't go to Qing'an Hall and Mingya Garden anymore."

Immediately, as if thinking of something, Liusu leaned over and said in a low voice: "However, this servant heard that after the priest left, the eldest lady made a big fuss in Mingya Garden, but I don't know why."

Nodding their heads, the two had already walked around the hanging flower door and entered the east chamber, Bai Yingluo and Liusu stopped talking in a tacit understanding.

After resting in Yi'an Pavilion for a while, it was time for dinner. After Bai Yingluo changed and washed, she took tassels and Xiangzhu to Qing'an Hall.

Perhaps the haunting incident last night made everyone in the house panic, and the dinner time was extremely quiet. When the dining table was cleared, the young master and the others hurriedly left. For a while, only the old lady Bai, Bai Shizhong and Xue Xue were left in the main room. Several people.

Knowing that they had important matters to discuss, Bai Yingluo bowed and bowed, followed Bai Yingyun and the others out the door.

After returning to Yi'an Pavilion for a while, Xiangzhu came back in a hurry, saw Bai Yingluo, and said anxiously: "Miss, I went to find my grandmother to talk, but after a short delay, I heard one ear. Madam said, what the Taoist chief meant was that as long as someone moves into Chenghuanju, Chenghuanju will have yang energy, and naturally there will be no more hauntings."

Moving into Cheng Huan Ju?
Bai Yingluo instantly understood who was doing the tricks.

(End of this chapter)