The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 181 Blue Fire
Li Yin got Wanyan's order, and quietly followed a few young eunuchs out of the palace. Seeing that the queen ordered someone to throw Yunshan's body in the mass grave, even omitting the burial. Wrapped in a bamboo mat, it was still in the ravine like a pool of carrion.

Waiting for people to walk a little further, Li Yin lifted the bamboo mat to take a look, and his stomach couldn't help but churn.

Yunshan suffered from Lingchi shape, where is there a piece of good meat all over her body?She was stripped of her clothes and lay naked. Her body was already stinking, and dried blood was condensed on the densely packed incisions.

According to Wanyu's instructions, several people worked together to carry the spruce to a remote place and burn it, and the remaining ashes were entrusted to an old Taoist priest to find a feng shui place for burial.

But after that day, another strange thing happened in this palace.

The queen's illness was apparently caused by taking Hanshi powder, and she was very frightened by the ghost.

Now that the poison has been stopped, and the ghost rumors have been dispelled, the body naturally recovers faster.

On this day, Hegong came to Kunning Palace to pay his respects, when he left, the sky was full of gloomy clouds, and it was about to rain.

The queen returned to the bedroom, thinking of Chenghu who was killed by Yunshan, she couldn't help being hurt for a while, and Qingyue had to comfort her for a long time before she fell asleep on the pillow.

In August, the capital was extremely hot and stuffy, but this thunderstorm dropped the temperature instantly like rain from the sky.

Dark clouds covered the sky, and even at noon, the temple was still dimly lit. Qingyue lighted up a candle cage gauze lantern, and the candle flames flickered inside, adding to the weirdness with the thunder outside the window.

Suddenly a thunderstorm ripped through the sky, the queen woke up suddenly from her dream, she hurriedly opened the curtain and called out: "Qingyue."

After hearing the queen's voice, Qingyue rushed over: "Why did your empress wake up after resting for so long?"

The queen stared out of the Ling window, seeing the pouring rain mixed with lightning and thunder, she felt a little apprehensive, so she ordered Qingyue to close the window, and took more ice to offer in the hall.

Qingyue Nuosheng should go down to the window, but before reaching out her hand, she backed up a few steps with a cry of surprise, staggered and fell to the ground.Her expression was terrified, her eyes were rounded, she pointed out the window with a slightly trembling hand, and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, look quickly!"

The queen frowned, and went down to the window, but the scene in front of her almost took her soul away.

A blue-green flame in front of the window was beating like a ghost, endlessly, and seeing the queen standing at the window, she rushed towards her as if she had a spirituality.

The queen knew that the thing was a will-o'-the-wisp, but such a large group of will-o'-the-wisps gathered in Kunning Palace was really frightening.

She was so shocked that she hurriedly closed the window, huddled in a corner of the bedroom, hugged her head and murmured: "It's Yunshan, it's Yunshan who came to find me! Her soul is still alive, it must be her!"

That day, Qi Qi went to the imperial physician several times in the queen's palace, but she was in good health, but after being frightened like this, she fell ill again.

It's true, there used to be Yunshan, and it can be explained by saying that she was pretending to be a ghost, but now that she is dead, these will-o'-the-wisps, aren't they formed by the condensation of her resentment?

Later, this matter was reported to the Changchun Palace by Bai Changqing, who was begging for Wanlao's pulse. Yun Chan and Shuang Ruo were secretly terrified when they heard it. "Your Majesty." She lowered her voice, leaned towards Wanyu and whispered softly, "You went to see Yunshan before she died. She is such a lingering ghost, please don't haunt us."

Wan Yu smiled disapprovingly, stared at the rain falling outside the window, and said quietly: "She will go to whoever hurt her, it's not the punishment we gave her, why is she looking for us?"

Bai Changqing, who was on the side to check the pulse, packed the medicine box and said with a vigilant expression: "Your Majesty, you must believe this. When I went to the Queen's Palace, I saw it with my own eyes, and there were still some sporadic will-o'-the-wisps burning in the rain. It's very scary." The father-in-law who was serving outside the palace was frightened, and kept talking about the will-o’-the-wisps, which is scarier than the mass graves at night."

Wan Lai said 'Oh', and was about to ask more questions, but Shuang Ruo screamed in fright, pointed out the window and said, "Your Majesty, look!"

Everyone looked in the direction of Shuangruo's finger, and sure enough, a piece of faint blue-green flame ignited at some point, and it was densely packed into one piece, as terrifying as a graveyard.

Everyone was so frightened that they lost their minds, Pian Wanyu sneered, took an oil umbrella and opened the door to go out.

Seeing this, Yun Chan and Shuang Ruo hurried to stop her, and Li Yin, who was guarding outside, also retreated into the house, gasping heavily in fright, "Mother, I'm afraid Yun Shan's evil spirit has come to haunt her."

"When she was a human, I wasn't afraid of her, but now that she's a ghost, how can she do that?" Wan Yu pushed the door out regardless of everyone's obstruction, and stood alone among the will-o'-the-wisps with an umbrella.

Others did not dare to go forward, even Dong Wenyin and Nala Yuwen who lived in the side hall saw this scene, and shouted to Wanyu through the window: "Sister Wan, go back quickly, be careful not to be hurt by this ghost!"

Wan Yu ignored them, but glanced around the will-o'-the-wisps, and suddenly caught a glimpse of some red powder under a long corridor.She dipped some of the juanzi in her hand, then returned to the hall, handed it to Bai Changqing and asked, "Lord Bai, let's see what this is."

Bai Changqing put the powder under the tip of his nose and sniffed, then frowned and said, "It's red phosphorus."

Wan Lai raised her eyebrows and sighed: "At first I thought only Yun Shan was thinking about it, but I didn't want anyone else."

Seeing what Wanyan said, Yun Chan wondered, "What do you mean?"

Wanyu took some clear water and sprinkled it on the red phosphorus, but saw that the red phosphorus ignited immediately, flashing a faint blue-green light that was fleeting.

Yun Chan was startled at first, then seemed to understand something, and wondered: "Could it be that ghost fire, or this thing?"

Wanyu nodded and said: "I read something in the "Strange Records" before, saying that red phosphorus is flammable when it meets water, and it produces blue-green fire, which is ghost fire."

"Whoever wants to play such a big joke with us, in the blue sky and broad daylight, it will scare people to death." Shuangruo held her chest and was still in shock: "You have to tell the empress about this, otherwise she will be suspicious again."

"If it hadn't been for such a thunderstorm today, we wouldn't have seen this rare event." Wan Yu glanced at the courtyard again, seeing that the will-o'-the-wisps had burned out, a gloomy look rose between her brows: "There are countless concubines who come and go to the Changchun Palace every day, let alone the Kunning Palace. Tell the queen about this, and according to her temperament, we are the first to be suspicious. She often says that she will never do anything wrong in her life, and knock at midnight. The door is not surprised. She has ghosts in her heart, so it is natural to be frightened by such ordinary things. Even if you tell her, she will always worry about it day and night. On the contrary, if you don't say it, it will make the thoughtful person behind it even more indifferent Be on guard and show yourself."

She lit the juanzi stained with red phosphorous on the candlestick, and then said with a long sigh of relief: "There are only two places in Hegong Palace where this strange thing happened, Kunning Palace and our palace. It is someone who is close to us who has made a mistake."

(End of this chapter)