Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 259 Ghost in the Palace (Part [-])
Li Heng smiled and said:
"What housework! It's just a way to fight for favor. You are right. People and ghosts have different ways. Letting them stay in the palace is not good for the living. You send them away to help me relieve my worries! Order people to investigate the vicinity of Longgu Mountain... You inferred that the place where the female ghost used to stay was not far from Longgu Mountain. Perhaps Prince Cheng was among them. I have ordered people to investigate, but there is no news in the past few days. It may be more difficult to find out who rescued her, so you quickly deal with the affairs in the palace, and the tricky ones will come later."

Wu Chen frowned and asked, "So Your Majesty wants to send all these... from the palace away tonight?"

"The gate of the palace has been locked right now, and you can't get out. I have ordered all the doors and windows in the harem to be closed... You always ignore the rules. I say these are superfluous, but someone will follow you. Xu Da, the deliveries should be almost finished this night, right?"

"It's not that I said goodbye to the ghosts, and they left. They must have some grievances or obsessions. They will leave only after they have cleared their grievances and lost their obsessions..."

Li Heng waved his hands impatiently and said, "You can do whatever you want, just don't disturb the Queen Mother's rest, if there are also in the Palace of Compassion and Ning... then let's keep them for now."

Seeing that Li Heng didn't want to say any more, Wu Chen could only retreat first.

Outside the hall, Liu Jinzhong bowed and said to Wu Chen, "These two little eunuchs will lead the way for Mr. Wu, and there are several imperial guards, plus these two around Mr. Wu. I don't know what magic weapon Mr. Wu needs?"

"Paper, ink, and paper." Wu Chen said, looking at the little eunuch not far away who was bowing and waiting for orders. They haven't done anything yet, but their legs have already started to tremble.

"Get something to cover the mouths of the two of them, lest they lose their lives in a sudden uncontrollable shock."

The two young eunuchs knew that Wu Chen was trying to save their lives, so they immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

When Liu Jinzhong prepared the pen, ink and paper, Gao Er and Xu Da took them, and then followed the two young eunuchs.

……

The red walls in the palace are soaring, the palace lanterns are dim, six imperial guards are waiting at the corner gate, and the group goes straight to the harem.

After walking a few steps, Wu Chen asked in a low voice, "Where are you leading me? The harem?"

The two young eunuchs held the palace lanterns, gagged and trembling, turned their heads and nodded to Wu Chen at the same time.

"You don't need to go to the harem first, it's here. I'll see if I can get her to call out all the people in the harem, and it will save us a trip."

As soon as they heard about this, the lanterns in the hands of the two little eunuchs became restless, shaking very vigorously, a guard reprimanded them in a low voice, and the two little eunuchs became stronger.

Wu Chen stood in the same place, turned his head and looked around, this is the back of Wende Hall, and there is a small corner door ahead, with corridors on both sides, Wu Chen looked into the corridor, and asked, "What do you do every day?" Are you all here to accompany the officials?"

Behind the red pillars in the corridor, a touch of white can be seen looming in the air.

Wu Chen saw that the white didn't move, so he took a step forward and raised his head and said, "I can see you, you can tell me if you have any grievances, maybe I can help you, and you can leave at ease and turn into reincarnation."

The white color slowly floated out, Wu Chen took two steps back, took a deep breath and said, "You were beaten to death by...?"

The ghost in white floated in front of Wu Chen in an instant: "Can you see me?"

Wu Chen didn't know where to keep his eyes on the female ghost. The female ghost was holding his lower body, with blue skin and black lips, and his eyes were already black holes. Wu Chen wasn't afraid, but with this appearance...he really didn't want to take a second look. But I still have to bite the bullet and look over and say: "I can see you, are there many like you in this palace? Can you please call me over and see what I can do for you... "

The female ghost immediately burst into laughter, shaking her lower body non-stop, and kept asking: "Can you help me? Can you really help me? Can you help me sew this body together?"

Before Wu Chen answered, Liu Jinzhong trotted over, stood not far away and said to Wu Chen, "Go outside the hall, don't stay here!"

Wu Chen nodded, and said to the little eunuch: "Take us to a spacious place, preferably with no one around." Then he said to the female ghost: "You go and call other ghosts, come to me, it's your business It's nothing to worry about."

……

The Royal Garden is a good place, with a few guards not far away, Wu Chen is relieved, who knows what shocking royal secrets these ghosts will tell in a while, the less people know, the better.

Wu Chen asked the two young eunuchs to place the palace lantern on the ground, and then moved away.

Along the way, the half-length female ghost brought a lot of ghosts, some with tongues sticking out, some with missing arms and legs, and some who looked quite upright.

Wu Chen began to ask questions. Most of these people were beaten to death by their masters because of the trivial matter of sesame and mung beans. They couldn't help feeling resentment in their hearts, so they didn't leave. Some of them didn't want to leave because of the severe punishment and mutilated bodies.

Wu Chen thought he would hear a lot of palace secrets, but he didn't expect that most of these ghosts died at the hands of the Queen Mother!
Wu Chen scratched his forehead, asked the ghosts when they died and where they were buried, then sighed, and first said to the first female ghost who met with her lower body:
"Your body is already a bone, and you can't sew it together, but this will not delay your reincarnation. There are several others, although your arms and legs are not with you, it will not delay your reincarnation."

Wu Chen looked at a female ghost who was dressed normally and asked, "Were you a concubine?"

The female ghost nodded and asked: "The Empress Dowager once said that what happens when you die is what happens when you live. Since you can't help them, why did you call us all here?"

Wu Chen smiled. Only then did he realize that he was being played by Li Heng. The second lady in the other courtyard was Li Heng's real aunt. Wu Chen had deduced that the second lady knew some sorcery before she was alive. Now she doesn't know that the queen mother is the eldest lady. It's still the third lady, the two sisters come from the same family, how can they be innocent?

Nowadays, the grievances of these ghosts are almost all related to the Queen Mother, and Li Heng also specially ordered that they are not allowed to go to the Palace of Compassion and Peace. How can this grievance be resolved?
"You also died because of the Queen Mother?"

"It's not just me, there are many others. Some of them have left, and some of them stay in the Empress Dowager's palace every day, only thinking that one day they can see the Empress Dowager die of illness with their own eyes."

"Besides the ghost who died because of the queen mother, are there any other ghosts in the palace?" Wu Chen asked.

"There is also an old ghost who stays in the rockery in the imperial garden every day. I don't know why he stays in the palace."

"You don't want to believe whatever the queen mother says. She has never died, so how can she know what happens after death? You can leave, the body of this life cannot carry the next life..."

"You have never died, why should we believe your words?" asked the female ghost holding her lower body.

(End of this chapter)