Splendid concubine

Chapter 90 Died
"Ai's family is exhausted, it's enough for Dingguo to serve by his side, you go back first." Those concubines bid farewell and left one after another.

"Your concubine, you stay."

The Empress Dowager said in a strange way: "These two new little girls are not bad. They will copy Buddhist scriptures for me in the future. They don't come from the countryside and don't even use words?"

Only then did Liu Ruyi figure it out. It seems that since the Empress Dowager became the Empress Dowager, her words became more and more vitriolic, and she didn't even save any face.

The imperial concubine wanted to stop it, and when the queen mother didn't speak any more, she thought that the queen mother couldn't remember for a while, so she hurriedly wanted to send Liu Ruyi and Mu Zitan out of the palace.

As a result, Liu Ruyi and Mu Zitan had already reached the gate of the palace, and the queen mother sent a close-knit old lady, with an inexplicable smile on her face, to stop Liu Ruyi and Mu Zitan.

"You two young ladies, the Empress Dowager asked you to copy Buddhist scriptures. Is there some rush to leave the palace? It is not so fun to disobey the Empress Dowager's will."

Liu Ruyi tugged at Mu Zitan, and the two reluctantly followed the old mother to the Empress Dowager's palace.

I don't know if the Buddhist hall in the Empress Dowager's Palace has just been decorated. Most of the Buddhist halls of ordinary people are clean and fresh, and there is sunlight shining in. It is said that the scriptures are copied under the sun, and the power of the scriptures is particularly powerful.

But in the Queen Mother's small Buddhist hall, not only was there no sunlight, but it also felt cold and damp. There was nothing in the Buddhist hall except the altar and a statue like a Bodhisattva on it.

After the old mother locked Liu Ruyi and Mu Zitan into the Buddhist hall, she gave them a stack of rice paper, but because each of them had a bald writing brush, they went out without even giving them Buddhist scriptures.

Liu Ruyi walked around the Buddhist hall, and found that the Buddhist hall was full of dust. Obviously, the Buddhist hall had just been decorated, and then looked at the statue on the altar table. The material of the statue was unknown, it looked like stone.

However, Liu Ruyi has never seen this kind of stone material, so it is not very expensive. Ordinary people enshrine Buddha statues, either made of jade or carved of wood, or a golden body. The Buddha statue carved out of stone by the Empress Dowager is very rough , The eyebrows and eyes are indescribably weird.

Looking carefully at the kindly smile, it seemed a bit ferocious, and the open eyes were not the usual benevolence, but rather strange, there were no futons, and no Buddhist scriptures, so Liu Ruyi and Mu Zitan could only lie down on the altar and write.

Fortunately, Liu Ruyi often copied Buddhist scriptures, and had already memorized the common Buddhist scriptures, almost, the queen mother just wanted to find fault.

If you find fault, it will be the same whichever copy you copy, and the right and wrong copies are also the same. From the time I just had dinner in the morning, I went to greet the Queen Mother and copied it until the sky was getting dark, and no one came to deliver the meal. Zitan was already yawning in spite of the heat and sleepiness, yet he only copied three pages of scriptures.

Liu Ruyi also felt very sleepy. She was originally a martial artist, and her physique was very good. She shouldn't feel sleepy after copying such a little.

With doubts in her heart, Liu Ruyi looked up at the incense burnt on the altar table, leaned over to identify it carefully, and felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the incense. At this time, Mu Zitan was already sleepy and closed her eyes. fall asleep,

"Zitan, Zitan, wake up." Liu Ruyi desperately shook Mu Zitan.

Mu Zitan yawned for a long time, squinted his eyes, rubbed them, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong?"

"Don't go to sleep, there is something weird in this fragrance, I'm afraid the Empress Dowager is trying to design us, be more vigilant."

Mu Zitan also opened her eyes immediately, and thrust her arm hard, the pain brought tears to her eyes.

At this time, hearing footsteps outside, Liu Ruyi quickly pulled Mu Zitan, turned over and hid under the altar. There was nothing in the Buddhist hall, and only under the altar could people hide.

Before the owner came in after hearing the footsteps, Liu Ruyi quickly wiped the traces left by her and Mu Zitan with the cloth curtain hanging on the altar table.

Just after wiping, she let go of the cloth and gestured to Mu Zitan to tell her not to make a sound. Liu Ruyi calmly listened to the footsteps outside, and then heard a creak as the door was pushed open, " What about people? Where did people go?"

A voice shouted loudly, and then heard a crisp applause, "The person who showed you, why is he gone now? Are you lazy and slippery? Dodged to play? The Queen Mother personally ordered, I think you are I don't want to die."

The little maid who had been guarding the door just now was so frightened that she cried out. She was beaten and said tremblingly: "I'm afraid the Bodhisattva has appeared!"

The person who came slapped him again, "Fuck your mother's apparition, what is it just an evil god showing? I think you don't want to live, and you dare to talk nonsense."

The little palace maid screamed twice in fright, and immediately became tired and cried on the ground. Liu Ruyi and Mu Zitan under the altar table were also terrified. It turned out that the queen mother was really disturbed and kind. No wonder the statue of the Bodhisattva was so weird just now. It turned out to be an evil god.

But what is the purpose of the Empress Dowager to worship evil gods in the palace?

Outside the door, someone came and slapped the little maid again, "Did you leave just now?"

The little maid stammered and said: "No, no, I, I have been watching here and no one has come out."

The visitor said to himself: "There is no window here, and there is only this door. They can't disappear under your nose. They must still be in this room. There is only one altar in this room. It's probably hidden. It's under the altar."

Just after finishing speaking, the footsteps of someone came towards the altar, Mu Zitan was so frightened that she almost screamed, Liu Ruyi quickly covered her mouth.

When the two were struggling a little, the floor under the altar suddenly turned over, and Liu Ruyi and Mu Zitan fell into the hole. In mid-air, Liu Ruyi hugged Mu Zitan in her arms and protected Holding her head, the other arm protects his head.

I thought it would be a hard fall, but when I fell down, I landed on a pile of soft things.

Is it?

There is a basement under this altar, and there are often people in the basement. Several thoughts flashed through Liu Ruyi's mind in an instant, but she stretched out her hand to touch it again. Liu Ruyi relaxed a little bit, and what she reached out to touch was a piece of straw. , The straw is very dry, not at all like what this underground should have.

At this time, Mu Zitan snorted, and Liu Ruyi quickly asked her if she hurt from the fall.

Mu Zitan shook his head, remembering that Liu Ruyi couldn't see her in the dark, and quickly said: "It doesn't hurt anywhere, but I'm a little scared, it's dark here."

"What's there to be afraid of? It's better than being in the Buddhist hall above where evil gods are enshrined."

Mu Zitan thought for a while, "That's it, with you here, I won't be afraid."

After speaking with a silly smile, Liu Ruyi was also amused by her, remembering that when she entered the palace and when she was just summoned by the queen mother, she didn't have a capable maid by her side, which was considered a lack, but I don't know if Yanyan has any come with me.

Liu Ruyi sighed, and pulled Mu Zitan to support the wall and walked towards another place slowly. There was an altar on top. If the people on it were a little smarter and discovered the mystery under the altar, someone might jump down to check it in a while. Their situation is no better.

The wall is very dry and seems to have been polished smooth. It doesn't look like it was dug out in a hurry, and it has been groped for a short distance.

Liu Ruyi touched what seemed to be a wall lamp on the wall, and quickly took out a fire pocket from her arms, shook the fire pocket, lit the wall lamp, and the surroundings immediately lit up, and a wall lamp was lit, and a series of wall lamps turned on. They all lit up.

Liu Ruyi secretly rejoiced that because of the experience in her previous life, life-saving things like Huozhezi were always with her.

Liu Ruyi squinted her eyes and looked around. It seemed to be a long passage, and she didn't know where it led. Outside, there are only wall lamps.

At this moment, Liu Ruyi seemed to vaguely hear someone's voice behind her, and Liu Ruyi pulled Mu Zitan, "We will be tortured by the Queen Mother when we go back. Besides, we don't seem to be able to go up. There is no good fruit to eat, so it is better to go ahead, but the distance is probably very long, you must hold on, if you can't hold on, tell me quickly, I'm carrying you behind my back."

Mu Zitan nodded quickly.

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from the front, and Mu Zitan firmly held Liu Ruyi's arm, and said in a trembling voice, "Ruyi, did you hear any sound, I'm so scared!"

Liu Ruyi stopped her behind her, and rubbed her way forward bit by bit, only to realize that there were some strangely shaped bugs crawling over the wall in front of her, and Liu Ruyi quickly took out a handkerchief, Soak the handkerchief in the lamp oil, and use the hairpin on the head to make a small torch.

Then lit it, handed one to Mu Zitan, took off the gold hairpin from Mu Zitan's head, and made one as usual, and waved this forward as a sign to Mu Zitan, the insects would not come over, most of these All the bugs in the ground are afraid of fire, Mu Zitan waved it quickly after hearing her words, the bugs really retreated a bit, they walked by, there was no fire, only light, and the bugs surrounded them again.

Mu Zitan was so frightened that he tightly grabbed Liu Ruyi's arm, causing Liu Ruyi a painful pinch. Liu Ruyi smiled wryly, "Red sandalwood? I'm afraid you're going to pinch my arm green."

Mu Zitan smiled embarrassingly, and Liu Ruyi said: "How about this, let's take turns to open the way one by one, one by one, and one by one, and there will be no bugs around. After we have gone through this section of the road, it will be fine. It will be any channel."

In this way, I walked for a long time with my back on my back, and finally walked out of the worm's way.

Seeing that there were no more bugs around, the two young ladies finally breathed a sigh of relief. Mu Zitan also let go of Liu Ruyi's arm, which had been holding her all along.

(End of this chapter)