After giving way to my husband's sweetheart

Chapter 159 Retribution
After the Empress Dowager Guo settled down in the palace, she felt at ease. After dinner, she walked around the garden surrounded by palace people, and then went back to the palace to sleep.

The personal female officer served soothing soup and said, "It's quiet in this garden, the Empress Dowager will surely sleep well tonight."

Queen Mother Guo has a weakness, that is, she often falls into nightmares at night.

She took the calming soup, raised her head slightly and drank it all, then said: "It's quiet here, it's really suitable for a good night's sleep. Thinking that the traitor who opened up is about to be wiped out, I feel very happy, haha, so tonight, I'm going to have a good sleep." Gong is destined to be able to sleep well."

Xu Shi was a bit tired from tossing and tossing this day. Queen Mother Guo, who has always had a bad sleep, drank soothing soup, closed her eyes and fell asleep drowsily, but she was still haunted by nightmares, and her sleep was not sound.

In the dream, she saw those people who were killed by her again.

Those concubines who died inexplicably in the deep palace, or were wronged to death, turned into mummies and rushed towards her, and those princes who were murdered by her also turned into floating ghosts. fucked her.

In the dream, the Queen Mother Guo was frightened and ran desperately. She dreamed that she ran into a palace, and she closed the palace door tightly, trying to stop the ghosts chasing her, but when she looked up, she saw a stone in the middle of the palace. On the huge stele, there are several blood-red characters engraved on it: Great Zhou Tai Fu Luo Zhengyong.

It was the old matriarch who had been murdered to death by him, the most respected figure among the courtiers who had been murdered by her.

Mrs. Guo was shocked. She was so frightened that her knees limp and knelt down on the ground, chanting words of forgiveness, but saw a puff of white smoke rising up. The old lady stood in front of her on a cloud and scolded: Sir, you have harmed Zhongliang, and your crime is unforgivable."

Immediately afterwards, many unjust souls dressed in official uniforms appeared in the hall one after another, some raised their bloody heads, some grinned and stuck their tongues at her, and they came to demand their lives one after another.

Guo Shi was frightened out of her wits. She screamed and broke free from the nightmare. When she opened her eyes, she was sweating profusely.

A court lady came in to inquire, but was waved back by Mrs. Guo.

She had to get used to it, and she didn't want anyone to see her embarrassed side.

Guo-shi lay on her back on the bed, recalling the nightmare just now, the dream was too real, even when she woke up, she still had lingering fears in her heart.

Because she was too frightened, she kept sweating, Guo Shi gradually calmed down, she took out a brocade handkerchief to try to sweat, and slowly sat up.

Vaguely, she heard the sound of the piano intermittently coming from outside the window, and Guo Shi couldn't help being startled again. She stared out of the dark window, only feeling the fear in her heart subconsciously rise up again.

"Come here!" She finally couldn't help calling the palace servant.

The two palace servants rushed in, bent down and asked, "What orders does the Empress Dowager have?"

Empress Dowager Guo tried the sweat and asked, "What's that sound?"

The two palace servants looked at each other in blank dismay, and replied: "The night is quiet, there is no sound at all."

Guo frowned, and asked again impatiently: "Didn't you hear it?" Her queen mother pointed out the window: "It's outside, intermittently."

The two palace servants looked out of the window following what Mrs. Guo pointed out. In the middle of the night, the two young maids couldn't help being frightened when they were disturbed by the Queen Mother Guo. They replied tremblingly: "It seems that there is a voice."

One said: "It looks like someone is crying."

Another said: "It's scary."

Empress Dowager Guo had just had a nightmare and was feeling uneasy. After hearing the words of the two palace servants, she felt even more unhappy and shouted sharply: "Useless things, get the hell out of here."

At this time, a female official came to hear the sound, it was the one named A Li that Guo relied on the most, he entered the palace and dismissed the two maids, stepped forward and asked: "Is the queen mother having nightmares again?"

The Empress Dowager Guo nodded, and then leaned weakly on the soft pillow. She tried to break out of sweat due to the fright, and asked in a murmur, "A Li, do you think there are really ghosts in this world?"

A Li replied: "Weird powers, how can there be such things in this world, they are all made up by storytellers to deceive people, the Queen Mother must not believe this."

Queen Mother Guo sighed slightly, and asked again: "Then tell me, is there karmic reincarnation in this world?"

A Li followed Queen Mother Guo's wishes to comfort her and said, "The only way to survive is for the weak to eat the strong. This world has always been ruled by the strong, so there is no karma."

As soon as she finished speaking, she glanced at Empress Dowager Guo's face from the corner of her eye, and couldn't help saying in amazement: "Empress Dowager, your face."

Seeing her panicked expression, Queen Mother Guo hurriedly reached out to touch her face and asked, "What's wrong with my face?"

As she spoke, she felt a pustule on one side of her hand, Queen Mother Guo was shocked: "What's going on?"

Ah Li hurried out of the inner hall to send someone to invite the imperial physician over, and after a while when he returned to the inner hall, he saw the pustules on Queen Mother Guo's face had swollen as big as chicken eggs, Queen Mother Guo tightly covered her face, excruciating pain Started screaming uncontrollably.

In less than a quarter of an hour, two imperial physicians rushed over with the medicine box. When they saw Empress Dowager Guo's face, it was swollen like a pig's head, and she fainted from the pain.

But for Sima Chao's side, he brought a group of elite Jinyi guards to Jinshan Temple, surrounded the temple, and then ordered all the people in the temple to be detained together and investigated one by one.

This Jinshan Temple is a royal temple. The front hall is exclusively for nobles in the palace. It was the dignitaries who came to offer incense in the back hall. There were two or three thousand people in the whole temple.

Jin Yiwei's detailed investigation found that Sunset West Mountain was only half of the number.

But everyone is not in a hurry, the entire temple has been surrounded, and it will be a matter of time before the rebels in this temple are caught.

Sima Chao in the hall was a little restless, he asked one of his subordinates, "After checking all these people, is there no one suspicious?"

The man replied: "It's only half of the investigation, my lord, don't worry, the outside world is already under martial law, and those rebels can't escape even if they have wings."

Sima Rui was also at Sima Chao's side. Although the two brothers had an unpleasant quarrel just two days ago, neither of them would bring this unhappiness to business matters.

Sima Rui smiled slightly when he heard the words, and comforted Sima Chao: "Cousin has always been calm in doing things, why is he so impetuous today? Since martial law has been imposed outside, let's just close the net carefully."

Sima Chao looked at Sima Rui and said worriedly, "For some reason, I always feel like we've been tricked."

Leaning on the railing, he looked out at the dense crowd who were being scrutinized, and said to himself: "I have a feeling that these thieves are not here at all."

(End of this chapter)