Good morning Mr. Zhongtang

Chapter 34

After Tong Wanrou had lunch, the sedan chair from the palace arrived as scheduled.Yuan Fu Heng also wanted to talk to those little eunuchs to let Tong Wanrou stay at home for a while, but Tong Wanrou refused. She said that it was the first time she entered and left the palace. Get together more, but she can't really just go in the moment before the Zhengyang Gate is closed.

Immediately cleaned up, took a bright red fruit from the fruit plate, and asked Fu Heng to send her out.

Tong Wanrou returned to Shuiyun Palace, changed into her palace attire, and then went to the main hall to pay respects to the nobles.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered, she saw Nanny Gui coming out of the room and gestured to her to silence, Tong Wanrou nodded, and Nanny Gui pulled her out of the hall together, Tong Wanrou asked softly:

"Is your lord still asleep?"

Nanny Gui nodded, "Yes, I just fell asleep."

Tong Wanrou expressed her puzzlement, looked at the sun, it was almost [-] o'clock, why is the nobleman still sleeping, Nanny Gui seemed to have guessed what Tong Wanrou was thinking, and waved to her, making sure she was far away from the main hall. He leaned close to her ear and said:

"That thing came out again last night. The nobleman just got up at night, and bumped into him. His face turned pale with fright, and he backed away. Fortunately, you laid thick blankets in the nobleman's room before you left, otherwise If the nobleman fell down, he must have moved his fetus."

Tong Wanrou was shocked: "What? How dare it enter the palace this time?"

Nanny Gui felt sorry for the virtuous person, after all, she was the girl she watched and grew up, and she always couldn't bear her being wronged, but there was nothing she could do.

"Although there are so many people serving in this palace, the nobleman is not at ease. She is pregnant now, and she has to suffer this kind of pain every day. I see her getting thinner and thinner, and I feel anxious."

Tong Wanrou sighed heavily, feeling a little guilty in her heart: "If I had known this, I wouldn't have gone back yesterday, at least I have someone to take care of me."

Nanny Gui also sighed: "Oh, what's the use of taking care of it? The key is that we can't stop it. We don't even know whether the other party is a human or a ghost. Let alone find out who is behind the scenes, we can do it even if we catch it." not."

"..."

Tong Wanrou touched the purse at her waist, thinking about what was in it, if this powder is really as miraculous as Xianggong said, then... Maybe you can really try it.

When she said a few words in Nanny Gui's ear, Nanny Gui's eyes widened, and she wanted to ask Tong Wanrou more excitedly, but Tong Wanrou held her mouth and waved to Nanny Gui, The two walked into the main hall side by side.

As night fell, Tong Wanrou took advantage of the night and the slight moonlight to cover the guardrails outside the Shuiyun Palace and searched around the Shuiyun Palace. Turning the corridor, inserting the lantern into the socket at the bridgehead, withdrawing the shift guard at the bridgehead today, because of the haunting incident, all the maidservants in the Shuiyun Palace were scared out of their wits. , the guards from the imperial garden patrolled, and the maids in the palace didn't want to be placed on duty at the head of this cold and dark bridge. After hearing what Tong Wanrou said, they all happily agreed.

Tong Wanrou returned to the palace with the servants.

The virtuous man was drinking the soup, and when he saw Tong Wanrou coming in, he gave Tong Wanrou a look, and Tong Wanrou returned it calmly, then the virtuous man gulped down the soup and handed it back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and then took the hand from Nanny Gui. The handkerchief that came, tucked it at the corner of his lips, and went inside to rest.

It is night, and everything is silent.

From a distance, Shuiyun Temple looks like a fairy palace floating on the water. The water is vast and vast, making people linger like floating in a fairyland.

The two maidservants on duty at night were drowsy by the door, and the main hall was filled with silver moonlight.

The virtuous man tossed and turned on the bed, and called out Nanny Gui, who was serving at the bedside, to pour water for her. Nanny Gui only lit a small lamp, and then turned around to pour tea for the virtuous man, but found that the water in the kettle When it got colder, he said to the virtuous man:
"My lord, the people below can't do anything. The tea is cold. I'll go outside and ask them to bring water."

The virtuous man lay under the quilt, and responded softly, and then saw Nanny Gui holding the cold water bottle, opened the door and walked out, kicked the two maids who were on duty outside to wake up, and then followed her cursingly. They went to the kitchenette together.

In the main hall, only the virtuous man was left with his back turned and lying on the bed.

The quiet environment already makes people feel deep fear.

I saw a white shadow floating from the darkness, revealing a pale face with seven holes bleeding. If you look carefully, this face is not the real face, but a human skin mask painted like this. It opened its wide white shirt, and made a weeping sound, like a woman's mournful cry.

The sage's body seemed to move, the white shadow was getting closer and closer to her, and the sound of crying and mourning was also getting closer, so close that it seemed to be right next to her ears.

The white shadow was about to continue approaching, but suddenly he saw the virtuous man turn over, lift up all the quilts on his body, and buckle the white shadow's head like a fishing net.

"Come on! Catch it!" Tong Wanrou turned over from the bed of the virtuous man, and shouted to Nanny Gui who was playing by ear outside the door.

I saw Nanny Gui rushing in with a stick and three or five courageous eunuchs, the white shadow was still struggling under the quilt, Tong Wanrou didn't care, and sat on the white shadow, trying to Hold him down with your own strength.

But the white shadow was too strong, and before Mammy Gui and the others came, it had already lifted Tong Wanrou and the quilt away, and then disappeared into the dark place of the palace like a ghost, Mammy Gui quickly threw it away. Dropping the stick in her hand, she ran to help Tong Wanrou, who fell badly, Tong Wanrou's arm and back hurt terribly, but she didn't have time to pay attention to the wound, and said to the stunned eunuchs:
"What are you still doing in a daze? That thing is not a ghost at all, it's a person pretending to be, why don't you hurry up and chase after it!"

The four eunuchs were enlightened by what she said, and ran out in a daze.

The virtuous man walked in from the outside wearing a thin blanket. Tonight, Tong Wanrou independently suggested that she should sleep in the side hall. The virtuous man was indeed afraid of that grimace, so he agreed. Seeing Tong Wanrou rubbing his arm, he hurried over to check , Tong Wanrou shook her head and said:

"Your Majesty, don't panic, the servants are fine. Let me ask you, if there is an assassin in the palace, where will I know?"

The virtuous man asked Nanny Gui to get the bruises, and then replied to Tong Wanrou:

"Naturally, the patrolling guards should be called first, and then reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which will send someone to conduct a thorough investigation."

Tong Wanrou nodded, and said to Nanny Gui: "I will send someone to report to the House of Internal Affairs later, and then I will also alert the patrolling guards, and let them search the palace first to see if there is any suspicious person. "

The virtuous man was still a little worried: "However, we didn't catch anyone, and we couldn't clearly point out where the assassin was hiding. If the Ministry of Internal Affairs asks, we don't know. If we can't catch him in the end, wouldn't we be caught Say that nothing happens in our Shuiyun Palace."

It's not that Tong Wanrou didn't think of what the virtuous person said, but she felt that it was not a solution to keep the matter dragging on like this. If the matter of the ghost image was not resolved for a day, His Royal Highness Shuiyun would not be at peace. , It is a good thing not to be scared to death.

After whispering something to the virtuous person, the virtuous person looked at her and nodded clearly, and said:
"So, you just let go and do it."

Tong Wanrou nodded, her eyes showed an unprecedented fighting spirit.

There was a stir in the palace because of the Shuiyun Palace incident. Everyone heard that the Shuiyun Palace was haunted, and most of them had the mentality of watching the fun, so this matter quickly became the most popular topic in the palace. Even if gossip is forbidden by the superiors, they still cannot control the private delivery of news by the palace servants and eunuchs.

However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs invited a team of imperial guards to investigate all the shores around the Shuiyun Palace, and found nothing special. After all, the owner of the Shuiyun Palace is just a nobleman, and they really can't do it for a nobleman. And go to the other concubine's palace to kill and search, isn't it just looking for trouble and dying.

This matter made a fuss, and it reached the ears of the emperor. The emperor did not come to visit the frightened virtuous person in person, but asked Li Dequan, the chief executive, to come over with supplements in person. No matter how much Li Dequan was favored, he was just How could a slave be able to replace Sheng Jia's visitation in person?

However, it was later discovered that they were wrong.The emperor still took a fancy to this pregnant nobleman, because while Li Dequan brought supplements to the virtuous nobleman, he also brought the imperial decree of the Long Live Lord. The Long Live Lord said that there must be no strange things in the palace. At the same time as the government's thorough investigation, 50 people were also transferred from the imperial guards to temporarily station around the Shuiyun Temple. Although they could not control the entire water surface, their deterrent power was extraordinary.

Let the servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who look down on people dare not neglect at all.

On the third day after the incident, things finally had a clue.

On this day, Tong Wanrou was serving soup for the virtuous and noble, so Nanny Gui rushed in rashly and shouted at them:

"My lord, I have it."

Seeing her anxious look, Tong Wanrou knew in her heart that some fish must have taken the bait on the line released a few days ago.

Seeing Nanny Gui being so panicked, she couldn't help but joked:

"Gui Momo, the nobleman just has it. You can go now, don't fall."

Tong Wanrou and Nanny Gui have been getting along for a long time, and they have long been familiar with each other. When Tong Wanrou teased herself, she was not angry. She spat at her with anger and resentment, and then said to them:
"Your Majesty, I heard today that there is a young eunuch in the Construction Department who has gone insane for a few days and has scratched his face, hands and feet until he is bloody. Could this be the effect of the medicine?"

Tong Wanrou and the virtuous man looked at each other, Tong Wanrou nodded and said:

"According to what Xianggong said, as long as you touch the powder, your whole body will itch, and you will scratch yourself beyond recognition."

After finishing speaking, he looked at the virtuous person and said to her: "Your lord, look, is it time to close the net?"

The virtuous person's eyes moved, and she was full of beauty. She took a deep breath and said:
"Okay, just get the net up and see what kind of big fish it is."

(End of this chapter)