The Imperial Guard’s Revenge

The Empress Dowager Jiang was weak and panting, and persuaded: "After all, she has a kindness for you to be registered. You have done too much, and outsiders want to talk about you. Go and have a look."

Empress Dowager Jiang persuaded that the emperor could not bear to worry his mother, so he had to go to the East Palace. After the emperor left, the palace maid knelt on her feet, carefully taking care of Empress Dowager Jiang: "Empress Dowager, the medicine is here."

Empress Dowager Jiang sat up with the hand of the palace maid and tried her best to drink the medicine. Seeing that Empress Dowager Jiang was seriously ill, the palace maid couldn't help but complain: "Empress Dowager, it is rare for the emperor to come here. Why did you send the emperor to the palace to the east?"

The Empress Dowager Jiang swallowed the dark soup and said weakly: "I know my body, and most of it will be this year. I am old, but the emperor is still young, so I can't let it go."

The palace maid wanted to comfort Empress Dowager Jiang, but she couldn't say what she said, only a long sigh. Empress Dowager Jiang drank the medicine with difficulty, and leaned on the pillow to ease her breath. She looked at the young and bright palace maids who were going back and forth in front of her, and said faintly: "That one, she went so smoothly, she felt that everyone in the world should hold her. She has a longer life than me, and I'm afraid she may not necessarily die when she dies. It's more comfortable than me. It's not that you don't report it, the time has not come, you should look at her. "

The Empress Dowager Zhang and the emperor didn't know what they said, but they broke up in the end anyway. When the emperor came out of the Ciqing Palace, his face was very bad, and there was no follow-up to the matter of removing the foreign relatives.

Everyone in Gong Wei thought this matter was over. After all, Empress Dowager Zhang was the empress dowager of the two dynasties, the benefactor of the emperor, and the emperor could not clearly disobey Empress Dowager Zhang.

The courtiers, brothers Zhang Heling and even the Empress Dowager Zhang all thought so.

At the end of the first month, the weather gradually warmed up. One night, Empress Dowager Zhang felt cold and woke up in the middle of the night. She opened her eyes and found that the room was cold and her throat was sore. Empress Dowager Zhang was displeased. Who was on duty today, why was she so negligent?

Empress Dowager Zhang called for water, but after shouting several times, no one came in. Empress Dowager Zhang became more and more angry, but she was so thirsty that she could only get up by herself and go to the ground to pour water to drink.

The teapot on the table had been left in the middle of the night and had already cooled down. Now that Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't take it any longer, she groped in the dark to pour out a glass of water and a cup of cold tea into her throat. The gān astringency in her throat finally eased, and Empress Dowager Zhang felt a little cold. Empress Dowager Zhang looked around and found that the window was open, and cold wind was constantly pouring in. No wonder she felt cold.

Now that there is no palace maid, the Empress Dowager Zhang can only close the window by herself. When Empress Dowager Zhang approached, she vaguely glanced out of the window and flashed a white shadow. The Empress Dowager Zhang was startled, and when she looked closely, she found that a white ribbon had come from somewhere, hanging on the eaves of the window, swaying with the wind.

The shadow that Empress Dowager Zhang saw just now was this ribbon.

The Empress Dowager Zhang breathed a long sigh of relief, then she was furious, and had already sentenced the palace maid to the night vigil to death. The palace maid on duty at night was so neglectful that she deserved death. Empress Dowager Zhang closed the window, turned around in anger, and suddenly saw a woman in white standing behind her.

Her hair was disheveled, her body was covered in blood, her tongue stuck out from her mouth, and her bloody eyes were staring at the Queen Mother Zhang motionlessly.

The Empress Dowager Zhang was so frightened that she couldn't even speak. At this time, the white-clothed female ghost approached step by step, and said: "How did I offend you, why did you kill me?"

The female ghost in white said that she stretched out her long fingernails, almost scratching the Queen Mother Zhang's face. Empress Dowager Zhang finally reacted, screamed wow, took two steps back one after another, fell to the ground and fainted.

The Empress Dowager Zhang fainted on the ground in the middle of the night. The next day the maid of the night vigil got up to check, only to find that the Empress Dowager had fallen to the ground. They hurriedly moved Empress Dowager Zhang back to the shop, and hurriedly called the imperial doctor. Unexpectedly, when Empress Dowager Zhang woke up, she said that there was a ghost in the palace, and any palace maid she saw would scold "How dare you hurt me". The maids were very frightened by the Queen Mother Zhang's abnormality, and soon, the news of the haunted Ciqing Palace spread like wildfire.

The emperor laughed disdainfully when he heard that Empress Dowager Zhang hit the ghost and fell ill. It would be too stupid to threaten him by pretending to be sick. However, after ten or so days, the rumors of haunting in the palace not only did not subside, but intensified.

Since Empress Dowager Zhang encountered a ghost, she kept the maids from leaving at night, and asked five or six people to take turns to watch the night. She even asked the eunuchs to carry lamps and patrol outside Ciqing Palace day and night. The maids did not dare to disobey the queen mother, so they had to work during the day and wait in the palace at night to serve the queen mother.

The palace maids were having fun, thinking that they were not bad, but the eunuchs outside couldn't sleep because of the cold all night, so they were miserable.

Unexpectedly, the guards of Ciqing Palace were so strict that they bumped into a ghost again. This time, five or six people hit the ghost together. The Empress Dowager Zhang fainted with fright, and the maids were in a state of panic. Rumors of haunting were rampant in the palace, and even the Empress Dowager Jiang heard it.

After listening to the eunuch's report, the emperor frowned and asked, "Are you sure it's not someone from Ciqing Palace who is doing the trick?"

"No." The eunuch who reported the matter was also very flustered and said tremblingly, "The eunuch of Ciqing Palace is patrolling outside all day long, and even if he wants to play a ghost, he can't escape. Besides, Empress Dowager Zhang and the five palace maids heard the female ghost cry together. You can't be fake."

The emperor believed, and he was a little shaken after hearing what the eunuch said was so true. The emperor thought for a while and said, "Go and call Lu Heng."

Chapter 40 Haunted

Lu Heng entered the hall and saluted, "Long live my minister."

The emperor waved his hand, motioning Lu Heng to omit the ceremony. Lu Heng stood up, and the emperor asked, "Do you know what happened in the East Palace recently?"

Lu Heng had already anticipated it, and when he heard this, he did not completely deny it, but he did not admit it, but said, "I have heard a little about it."