The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 169 Ventilator
There was a lot of commotion in the Kunning Palace that night, almost half of the imperial guards patrolling the palace were dispatched to the outside of the Kunning Palace, and the inner three floors and the outer three floors surrounded the place.

The palace people serving in the palace are used to being bored on weekdays, and a little anecdote can make them talk about it with great interest and become a topic of conversation after dinner.

Because this matter is a rumor of strange powers, and some palace officials spread it everywhere, whether it is true or false, saying that the ghost has seen it himself, which makes the rumor a little more believable.

It seemed that in just two days, the news spread throughout the palace, and the three princes, who were all said to be dead, went to Kang Fushou to find trouble with the queen, because she was inseparable from the death of the prince.

For a while, rumors and gossips in the palace were rampant, and this matter was spread more and more widely, and the more it spread, the more evil it became. Everyone in the palace was in danger, and they didn't dare to go out alone after nightfall.

When the queen woke up, she was in a very unstable mood. She was yelling that someone was going to kill her every day, and she had no intention of stopping the rumors in the palace, which made Concubine Yi invite a prestigious exorcism master outside the palace to do it day and night in Baohua Palace. Three rituals were held.

The first ghost to appear in the palace belongs to the Palace of Yanxi Palace where Yunshan and Li Xihua lived together.

Therefore, the two of them burned incense and prayed with the master in Baohua hall every day, praying for safety.

On this day, Xi Wei was still sick, and when Yunshan Zhu returned to the palace after praying, the sky suddenly changed drastically, and a thunderstorm started falling.

Ying Que held an umbrella and protected her all the way back to the palace, but before entering the palace, she saw black smoke rising from the courtyard of Yanxi Palace.Yun Shan smiled, and went back to the palace in two quick steps, and saw that it was Xi Yu holding an umbrella in the courtyard, burning a charcoal basin of fire, burning something.

Beside her, stood Yin Zhu, a court lady who served her, and Xiao Lizi, the eunuch.

The palace lady was holding a bright yellow baby swaddle on the left and right, and the swaddle was embroidered with dragon patterns, which Yunshan was most familiar with.

In the past when Chengxiang was around, he slept in this swaddling baby day and night.

What is wrapped in swaddling clothes is not a baby, but a doll made of white cloth.

Seeing that it was Yun Shan returning to the palace, Xi Wei waved to her and said with a smile: "If you can bear the choking smoke from Baohua Palace, if you go there for a few more days, I will have a cough and go to the palace." .”

Yunshan covered her mouth and laughed a few times, took a swaddling baby from Yinzhu's hand, hugged it in her arms and pretended to coax her: "Sister's handicraft is really good, looking at it from a distance, I really thought she was holding two babies." She With a certain expression in his eyes, he threw the swaddling baby and the doll into the charcoal basin, and watched them being swallowed by the scorching flames with cold eyes.

The ashes from the burned fabric flew towards the two of them like moths, and Xi Yu waved Juanzi in her hand, and said calmly, "These are all small and exquisite, how can they compare with your thoughts, sister?"

Yunshan glanced at the little Lizi who was standing respectfully at the side, and said with a smile: "If there is no such talent in my sister's palace, how can I scare the queen like a crazy woman?"

Just as he was talking, no one opened his mouth, but from nowhere came the sound of a baby crying.

The voice was extremely tight, as if lingering in front of her body, Xi Yan sneered and patted Xiao Lizi's belly lightly, and the crying stopped as expected: "They are all from our own, why are you showing off?"

Xiao Lizi folded his hands and bowed, and said in a deep voice: "Your master, it is a great honor for the servant to help you!"

His accent was very much like Kang Fushou.

After saying this, he smiled to himself, and then changed his voice and said: "When I was young, I was in the capital, and I learned ventriloquism and ventriloquism from a teacher, but I don't think it will come in handy now."

The ventriloquism and ventriloquism mentioned by Xiao Lizi are all ingenious skills handed down by strange folks.

Kouji is an onomatopoeia, using the mouth, teeth, lips, tongue, throat, nose and other articulation organs to simulate various sounds.

This technique can not only be used to imitate human voice, practice makes perfect, even birds and beasts, the sound of wind, rain, thunder and lightning can also be imitated lifelike, easy to grasp.

The ventriloquist skill is even rarer.

The so-called ventriloquism does not actually speak with the stomach, but changes the way of pronunciation through certain training.When ordinary people speak, they rely on the joint movement of the lips and teeth to squeeze the vocal cords to produce sound.

And ventriloquism, with the lips closed, relies on the force of the abdomen to reconcile the inhaled breath in the abdominal cavity, open the special position of the vocal cords, and simulate the sound of human speech.

That day in Kunning Palace, the man in white that the Empress and Qingyue saw was not Kang Fushou, but Xiao Lizi in disguise.

Because of his ventriloquist and ventriloquist skills, and the fact that Yun Shan made some ghostly talk and Xi Ye made the three puppets that are fake enough to be real, he can naturally frighten the Queen and Qing Yue who have ghosts in their hearts.

Xi Wei took the last swaddling doll and put it in the charcoal basin. Under the light of the fire, a coquettish and strange smile appeared on her face: "The queen is like this now, and everyone is full of nonsense and crazy words. I can't keep that day." I want to scare myself to death."

As she spoke, she deliberately lowered her voice, and whispered cautiously: "Did that thing be added to her soup?"

Yunshan nodded, quite complacently: "Of course, if it weren't for this, how could she continue to be crazy? I serve the queen every day, and the weight of that thing is so small that it is difficult for the imperial physician to notice. After years and months, Even if she is not poisoned to death, she will be scared to death because she has a ghost in her heart."

Xi Ye and Yun Shan looked at each other and smiled, and then ordered someone to throw away the burnt ashes in the charcoal basin: "In this way, my child will not die in vain!" A cold star flashed in her eyes, and she said cruelly: "Hesher Li Shuyu has done all the evil things, and the sky will not open her eyes, so let us let her taste the karma!"

In the days that followed, the queen had nightmares every day, and her horrifying cries often came from Kunning Palace.

In April, the grass grows and warblers fly, and the temperature gradually warms up, but the queen always feels that the palace is gloomy, and she often asks people to light a charcoal basin to warm the stove.

As a result, many of the palace servants who served in her palace couldn't bear the heat and fell ill one after another, but the queen only thought that it was Kang Fushou and the three princes who were haunted, and cast a curse in this Kunning palace.

Every day she ordered someone to hand over a letter to Chicheng and hand it over to the emperor. The Empress Dowager Renxian saw her madness and the filth in the palace, every time she stopped the letter, she would inevitably reprimand the empress.

Concubine Yi was responsible for all matters in the harem. During this period of time, the harem was weak, which contrasted with her shrewdness and ability to handle all matters appropriately, as if she was a vice queen.

Even the Empress Dowager Renxian, who had always looked down on her, looked at her differently now, which can be said to have taken the limelight.

When the queen first fell ill, the concubines of the sixth palace often went to her side to attend to the illness.

But recently her temperament has changed suddenly, she often looks coldly at others, and willfully beat up her concubines when things go wrong. After a long time, no one except Yunshan wants to come to Kunning Palace to beg for such a thankless bad luck.

She was alone in the palace all day long and went crazy, so the disease became more and more serious.

(End of this chapter)