The room is a little dark.

I sat at the table and stared blankly at the only ray of sunlight coming in from the partially concealed window, but it could no longer illuminate the dark room. I could only see a lot of dust flying in the light, which became more and more chaotic.

, the quieter.

The wind blew again outside, and the half-closed window lattice made a clanking sound when it hit the window frame. In the empty yard outside, the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves and rustled in the corners, but it became increasingly quiet and quiet.

It has to make people feel like they want to go crazy.

Following those sounds, there was also the cry of a girl.

This voice is a bit unfamiliar, like a new one.

An old nun stood outside and asked loudly: "What's going on? Who is she?"

Another slightly younger nun said: "This damn girl, when she was serving the concubine in the Chonghua Palace yesterday, she accidentally broke the concubine's Guanyin, which was used to send children. The concubine didn't peel off her skin. It's considered a good deed by her ancestors."

Got it!"

"Oh, who doesn't know that the most important thing for the imperial concubine is the Guanyin who gives birth to children, and she actually broke it into pieces? Huh, no wonder she is sent here now."

"Once you're here, don't even think about leaving."

The two of them were still talking, and the girl was already crying so hard that she begged for mercy: "Mommy, please do a good job, help me, please help me, Nanny."

"Pleading for mercy? Huh, you are still dreaming. You are already here. Even if the King of Heaven begs for mercy for you, you can't even think about going out again."

Hearing this, I lowered my eyes.

The two nuns outside were still talking coldly. The girl cried for a long time, and her crying finally subsided. After listening to the nuns' words, she seemed to have accepted her fate. After a long time, she

Said: "Then, mama, what on earth do you want to do by sending me here?"

"Well, you are so good. You should accept your fate when you come here. In fact, there is nothing to do here. Just go and deliver three meals to the crazy woman in that house every day."

"Crazy woman?!"

The girl's voice suddenly dropped, as if she was frightened: "What kind of crazy woman?"

The older grandma said: "This crazy woman was imprisoned more than two years ago. At the beginning, she was sick every day. She cried and shouted in there all day long, calling her daughter and San'er. She didn't have a day.

The noise lasted all night and kept us awake. Afterwards, I beat her several times before she behaved better."

"Then, where did she come from as a crazy woman? Why not drive her out?"

"Kick her out? Hey, it would be great if she could really be kicked out, but this crazy woman has committed a capital crime. How can it be so easy to throw her out?"

"Death penalty? What did she do?"

"I heard that she actually dared to assassinate the emperor in Dezhou Mansion in front of everyone!"

"Ah?! Really?"

"I've heard about it too," the younger nanny added: "My nephew was working as an errand in Texas. He told me that this crazy woman didn't know what she had done to anger the emperor, and the emperor wouldn't let her go.

She left, she actually insisted on leaving, and when the emperor caught her, this crazy woman pulled out a knife from nowhere and stabbed the emperor. If it hadn't been for the Crown Princess——"

"What nonsense!" Before she could finish her words, another nun immediately interrupted her. Although she couldn't see her, she could hear her stern look in her voice: "Are you looking for death? You have forgotten the emperor.

It’s such a taboo!”

The nun hurriedly changed her words and said: "Oh, yes, yes, I deserve to die, it's Empress Li Fei. If Empress Li Fei hadn't gone up to help the emperor block the knife at that time, I'm afraid now——"

"Ah? She is so brave, then why doesn't the emperor kill her head?"

"Hey, it's true. If you say that the emperor loves Concubine Li so much, no one else would dare to flick a fingernail. This crazy woman dared to assassinate the emperor, and injured Concubine Li so badly that she was afraid of being cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.

They all deserved their death. I'm just surprised that the emperor didn't chop her head off, but just locked her up here. She is really kind-hearted."

"Yeah..."

"Okay, okay, stop gossiping. This is her lunch today. You can quickly bring it to her and leave it at the door."

"...Yes."

I sat quietly by the window, listening to the timid gasping sound of the girl outside. She seemed to hesitate for a long time before picking up the tray and walked in cautiously. I listened to her gently walking up the steps, seemingly even

I'm holding my breath.

The tray was placed on the ground, and the girl didn't dare to look inside, so she turned around and left.

Just when she was about to take her hand back, suddenly, a pale, thin hand with protruding joints stretched out from the fence and grabbed her wrist. She was caught off guard and let out a low cry in fright. She turned around and saw the fence.

Inside, I was grabbing her wrist hard, leaning on the fence, looking at her and saying, "Can you do me a favor?"

The girl suddenly saw my face clearly and screamed in fright: "Ah! There's a ghost! There's a ghost!"

I tried my best to look kind and said softly: "Help me, okay?"

She struggled desperately to get rid of me, but I still grabbed her wrist hard and didn't let go. I just tried to keep my voice as soft as possible and said: "Help me, help me, okay?"
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"Let me go, let go!" She screamed in fright, while hitting my hand with her other hand. The pale hand was red and swollen, but I didn't seem to feel it at all, so I still held her seriously.

He said: "Help me, help me ask if I have found my daughter, her name is Li'er... My daughter, have you found..."

At this moment, the two nuns had heard the sound and rushed over. When they saw this scene, they immediately cursed: "She is crazy again!"

After saying that, the young nun came up, picked up a wooden stick at the door and hit it hard on the back of my hand. Suddenly, there was a sharp pain. I finally let go of my hand, and there was a large swelling on the back of my hand.

The girl was so frightened that she fell to the ground and started crying.

Before I could retract my hand, the nanny hit me a few more times and scolded me: "If I don't hit you for a few days, you will cause trouble again. Believe it or not, I will beat you so hard that you won't be able to get into bed for three days!"

I retracted my hand, but it hurt so much it felt like it was about to break.

The girl was so frightened by me that she couldn't even stand up. The two nuns pulled her out and scolded her: "It's really useless. She scared me like this. Let's see how you live in the future!"

The girl almost collapsed and said: "Mommy, I can't stand it anymore, it's too scary!"

Mammy said coldly: "What kind of place do you think this is that you can choose? Also, in the future, keep your mouth shut and don't go around saying that there is a crazy woman locked up here. Not many people in the palace know."

Do you know why you can come here? The girl from before said too much to others, and her tongue was cut out by the emperor. If you don’t want to die, just be good!"

The girl was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she only agreed, and the others left.

I was still lying on the wooden fence, but I could do nothing. I could only watch the three of them cursing and closing the door of the small courtyard and leaving. In this empty courtyard, only the wind was blowing withered yellow leaves.

The rustling of fallen leaves made everything return to the dead silence of dead water.

I don’t know how long it took before I slowly stood up and sat back at the table.

When I looked up, I saw my face reflected in the dusty bronze mirror.

The cheeks have become so thin that they are sunken, and so are the eyes. The cheekbones are slightly raised, giving a skinny and sharp look, but the eyes are still very bright. Even in such a dimly lit room, it's just that kind of brightness.

Just like the winter sun shining on the ice, although it is bright and brilliant, it still cannot melt the thousand-year-old ice.

The long hair hangs down, somewhat covering up the embarrassment of the thin cheeks, but the hair that was once as black and shiny as silk has also lost its luster at this time, with a hint of haggard.

No wonder, that girl was scared to tears by me, didn’t I look like a ghost?

I picked up the comb and slowly combed it down. There was a lot of fallen hair wrapped around the teeth of the comb.

It's autumn, even the leaves outside are falling, not to mention human hair?

I slowly turned my head and looked at the gate. Although the gate was open, the light could not shine in, because outside the gate, there was a row of wooden fences added later, which were tightly locked with iron chains.

Only rarely does it open to let me go out for some air, but more often than not, I can only spend the day looking at the light pouring down from the middle of the wooden fence.

I don’t know how long I sat there, but the light slowly dimmed in front of me.

It’s another day.

I was awakened by a strange noise.

When I opened my eyes, I realized that I had slept on the table all night again, and my arms were aching from the pillow. But before I had time to think about it, I heard the small door of the yard outside being pushed open.

There was a sound of very light footsteps walking in slowly.

It's not those nuns and maids who always curse each other when they come here, and when other people come here, they don't have such footsteps. I'm too familiar with that footsteps.

The footsteps seemed very light and cautious, as if they were exploring something unknown. Every step was taken so carefully. Step by step, they walked from the entrance of the courtyard, stepped on the dead leaves in the courtyard, and walked up the steps.

, and finally stopped in front of the house.

"Huh?"

The visitor made a confused voice. The voice was soft and unfamiliar, with an emotion of surprise, as if he had never known such a place existed in the palace.

After being quiet for a while, a small hand passed through the gap in the fence and gently pushed open the ajar door.

I sat at the table and slowly watched the door being pushed open. The early morning sunlight shone into the dark room. I squinted my eyes slightly, and a strange figure appeared in my sight, standing there.
Chapter completed!