All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Liu Mei and the two concubines looked at each other and shook their heads.

"I have never seen it. After those black threads wrap around our souls, we can't move. The man in black is hiding in the dark. Not to mention his appearance, he has never even seen his figure."

As Liu Meiren said, she saw Mu Huaijie floating out of the side hall and winked at Shen Lingxi.

One person and two souls stopped talking in perfect agreement.

Mu Huaijie did not notice anything strange and floated directly to Shen Lingxi, "Have you used the Netherworld Jade to drive away the fairy spirit from my brother's body?"

"Thank you for the news. The Ming Yin Jade is indeed useful and has been exorcised." Shen Lingxi said politely.

The tone sounded much more cordial than last night.

Such an attitude made Mu Huaijie feel a little relieved.

He was about to say something else——

Suddenly, Ning Fu, the eunuch in charge of the East Palace, walked into the courtyard with Eunuch Cao who was beside the emperor.

"Princess, there was a scandal in the cold palace last night. The emperor was worried that there might be evil spirits causing trouble, so he ordered the old servant Xuan Niangniang and Taoist Su Xian to go into the palace together to perform the ritual of salvation."

Shen Lingxifu said, "Please wait a moment, my father-in-law. I will change my clothes and then follow my father-in-law into the palace..."

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After half an hour.

Shen Lingxi changed into Taoist robes and followed Eunuch Cao into the palace.

Before leaving, she secretly winked at Liu Meiren in front of Mu Huaijie, and left them in the East Palace on the pretext of letting them rest.

He also took out a brocade box from the secret room of the dormitory and put it into his sleeve pocket with great care.

Mu Huaijie asked her sideways if the brocade box contained Ming Yin jade.

After receiving Shen Lingxi's precise answer, Mu Huaijie's eyebrows relaxed even more.

He was originally floating beside Shen Lingxi and entered the palace gate with Shen Lingxi.

But just before Shen Lingxi arrived at Leng Palace, he disappeared.

Shen Lingxi saw his soul floating away in the distance and curled her lips invisibly.

The cold palace has been burned into ruins due to water leakage last night.

Shen Ji led his inner guards and formed a human wall outside the cold palace, surrounding the entire ruins tightly.

More than 20 charred corpses were carried out from the burned-out main hall and placed in the open space.

There were many chambermaids and palace maids standing outside, looking inside, and they were all whispering to each other.

"I heard that many palaces sent many people to put out the fire last night. Even the Queen sent people to help."

"I also heard that if those palace servants from Kunning Palace had not rushed into the main hall to save the previous master of Furong Palace, they would not have perished in the fire so easily."

"Hey, it's really miserable. The guy from Furong Hall is already dead, and yet he has to drag such a large group of people to die with him."

"What we are saying is that the master in this palace is the most kind-hearted Queen. What kind of master has the same kind of servants. The people under Yue Fei are very skilled, and no one wants to get involved. God has pity on these people in Kunning Palace, good people are not rewarded..."

Shen Lingxi followed Eunuch Cao, listening to the discussion of the palace people, and lowered her eyes.

On the way here, Eunuch Cao had already told her that Concubine Zhao couldn't stand the torture of the cold palace last night, so she knocked over the candle in the dead of night and burned herself alive inside.

For so many years, only Concubine Zhao was imprisoned in the cold palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

She sought death, but she also dragged the chambermaids and palace maids who came to put out the fire to die with her.

And those palace people who died putting out the fire with good intentions happened to be from Kunning Palace.

As a result, Kunning Palace gained a good reputation, and Concubine Zhao was a poisonous concubine who was stabbed in the spine until her death.

Only Shen Lingxi knew that the pampered Concubine Zhao, in order to live to see the tenth prince grow up, even if she was thrown into the dark water prison of Beiya, endured the biting cold ice water, and the torture of snakes, insects, rats, and ants every day, she never found a way out. Too short-sighted.

The cold palace is nothing compared to the water prison in Beiya.

Concubine Zhao would not die easily. The corpses carried out in the yard were all people who had been secretly ordered to be executed by the emperor that night.

But now, without exception, they didn't even leave a soul behind.

"Eunuch Cao, do you have the emperor's handwriting? The emperor ordered me to lead people to guard this place, but not everyone can enter."

Shen Ji's voice reached Shen Lingxi's ears, interrupting her meditation.She raised her eyes and saw her father, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, arrogantly holding out his hand to stop the two of them.

"Marquis Shen is joking." Eunuch Cao reminded with a smile, "Please take a look and see who this is."

Shen Ji's eyes slowly turned towards Shen Lingxi, "It turns out she is the Crown Princess."

He bowed to Shen Lingxi in a cursory and perfunctory manner, with a look of disdain on his face, "I am blind and did not see that she was the Crown Princess. Please forgive me."

Shen Lingxi looked at him with a half-smile but not a smile, "Marquis Shen is old, and it is common for him to be deaf and dazzled. I will not care about Marquis Shen.

Shen Ji's face sank, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes.

He moved his lips, but still had some scruples, so he stepped aside.

Eunuch Cao was completely frightened by the tense atmosphere between father and daughter, and hurriedly led Shen Lingxi into the courtyard.

Shen Ji followed them with a gloomy face, one hand on the handle of the knife at his waist, and he had a murderous aura all over his body.

"Taoist Master Su has already sent someone to invite him. He should be on his way here. Would you like the Crown Princess to start first?" Eunuch Cao asked respectfully.

Shen Lingxi smiled.

No matter who goes to invite him now, he is afraid that Su Xian will not be found.

She said quietly: "If the Taoist priest doesn't come, I can't do this ritual. I'd better wait for him."

Shen Ji sneered, with a hint of contempt on his face.

Shen Lingxi turned her head and glanced at him.

He said calmly and calmly: "Marquis Shen has kept filial piety to his ancestors for several months. It is not obvious that he misses his ancestors much, but his temper has increased. I think that at your age, you should still pay attention to your health. Xuanping Marquis Mansion Nowadays, the Holy Family is prosperous and people live a lifetime. The word 'honor' can only be realized while living and enjoying it."

When Shen Ji heard this, his expression changed instantly.

"Are you cursing me to death?" he asked in a deep voice.

Shen Lingxi smiled and said nothing, but her expression said clearly, "You said this yourself, I didn't."

Shen Ji clenched his teeth in hatred.

Eunuch Cao has lived a long life, and he has never seen anyone in this palace.

But it was the first time for him to see someone like Shen Ji who couldn't even scold him and was always looking for someone to scold him.

Eunuch Cao really couldn't see it and reminded him, "Marquis Shen, why don't you go guard outside the courtyard? Your Majesty is here under the emperor's orders..."

Shen Ji snorted coldly, turned around and walked out angrily.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi strolled to the row of corpses.

She lifted up the white cloth covering the body on the edge and looked at it.

Even though the corpses were all burned to black charcoal, Shen Lingxi could still see at a glance the broken collarbones around their necks.

Such injuries can be found out if anyone comes to examine them. This is a corpse that was strangled first and then burned.

But precisely because it was a fire-fighting incident in full view of the palace, and there were internal guards guarding the outside, no one was allowed to approach.

With the emperor's acquiescence, the cause of death was whatever he wanted to say.

Of course, this was before Shen Lingxi came.

Today, since they were rushing to let her into the palace, they still pretended to invite her to "do it".

Naturally, Shen Lingxi would not let their efforts go in vain.

She glanced at the palace people surrounding her on the three floors outside and on the other three floors. When no one was prepared, she slipped a very thin silk thread out of her sleeve and wrapped it around the little finger of the corpse.

Then, he stood up, paced, and walked away as if nothing had happened.

She had just stood in front of the ruins of the main hall when she heard an exclamation from the crowd——

"Ah, look! Those charred corpses actually stood up on their own!"

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