After a cold glance, Rong Changan just left the imperial garden.
Chuntao said to the stunned Liu'er: "Hurry up and save your master!"
Liu'er went to the side to find a penny, and stretched it out to the surface of the water: "Imperial Concubine, grab the penny and come up!"
The water was very shallow, only reaching Ziyan's waist, she floated for a while, and then she realized that the water could not drown her. But the two legs were stuck in the deep mud, and it was very difficult to pull them out.
Liu'er couldn't drag Ziyan up by herself, so she went to find a few maidservants, and finally rescued Ziyan with difficulty. I saw wet, smelly sludge on both legs, how can there be a noble concubine!
Zi Yan trembled like a flag in the wind, and she didn't know whether it was chilled after soaking in the water for a long time, or because of anger. She grasped two small fists, and the veins on the back of her hands were exposed.
"Rong Chang'an, please remember, I, Ziyan, will not just let it go!"
At night, Rong Changan couldn't help laughing when thinking of the tranquility of Ziyan falling into the water today. She was in a good mood, and the moon was in full bloom, so she enjoyed the coolness of the moon in the back garden of Fengming Palace.
Rong Changan shook his cattail fan, remembering that there are melons to eat in the back mountain, so he said to Chuntao: "In this weather, it is best to have a melon to eat! Chuntao, there is a melon field in the back mountain, which is specially for the harem. You Take a maid to pick two, soak them in water, and when the melons are cold, break them open and eat them."
When Chuntao heard this, she shrank her head into her neck. Even though she didn't believe the words of the two maids in the ice cellar, she was a little scared to go there to pick melons at night.
"Queen, do you have to eat melons? How about I go to the imperial dining room and bring you a glass of sour plum soup with ice cubes?"
Rong Changan looked at Chuntao, shrunk his body, his face turned pale, and smiled: "Chuntao, do you really take what Ziyan said today seriously? Do you think the back mountain is really haunted?"
Chuntao lowered her head and twisted her hands, said in a low voice: "I... I didn't take her words seriously."
"Since you don't take it seriously, then go pick melons."
Chuntao was very reluctant: "Do I really have to eat melons?"
Rong Changan's face became serious: "If you don't go, I will be angry!"
Chuntao had no choice but to bite the bullet, took a maidservant with her and carried a lantern, and the two meandered out of the palace, across the back street, and into the back mountain.
Few people come to the back mountain. If the country meets a festival, the emperor invites monks and Taoist priests to set up a water and land dojo in the hall of the king and Bodhisattva. If the emperor died, or the queen and other concubines died, they would also be placed in the main hall on the back mountain after encoffining. The back mountain at night is really gloomy. If it is a person, very few people dare to come in.
As soon as she stepped into the gate of the back mountain, Chuntao's scalp felt numb, as if there were ghosts and ghosts hidden in the dense bushes on both sides of the narrow road.
The closer she got to the main hall, the slower Chuntao's footsteps became, as if her feet had grown roots on the ground, making it extremely difficult to move.
"How far is that melon patch?" Chuntao felt her voice trembling.
The servant girl was also worried: "You will see it after passing the King Bodhisattva Hall."
When she heard "Wang Bodhisattva Hall", Chuntao was even more frightened. Even if there was gold in the melon field in front of her, she didn't want it anymore.
Suddenly, a faint voice came from the air, the distance was a little far away, and it was hard to hear clearly. Chuntao looked towards the main hall and saw faint lights shining in the main hall. In the shadow of the lights, there were two people standing, one was thinner and the other was taller, with disheveled hair and white clothes, it seemed that they were holding a gun in their hands. Fife, blowing the tune leisurely.
“Changji Taoyuan Deep Cave…”
Upon hearing such a voice, Chuntao and the maidservant hugged together, not daring to breathe.
"Sister Chuntao, let's go back! I'd rather be punished by the queen than pick melons."
Why didn't Chuntao think so: "Then let's go quickly!"
As soon as they said they were going, the two of them ran across the corridor at the foot of the mountain with a crackling sound, their little feet kicked up, and they were higher than the back of their heads.
They were not so afraid until they left the back mountain.
Chuntao wiped her chest, panting: "My God, I was scared to death! From now on, I will never come to the back mountain to pick melons."
The maid was also out of breath: "Sister Chuntao, do you think that ghost is really Li Hai? If it's really him, why is he playing the flute and singing?"
"Who knows! Let's hurry back to Fengming Palace and report back!"
The two then walked through the back street, entered the palace, and returned to Fengming Palace.
Seeing Chuntao come back so quickly, Rong Changan couldn't help asking: "Why, picking watermelon so fast? Where's the watermelon?"
Chuntao knelt on the ground: "Queen, hit us!"
Rong Changan glanced sharply, and said with a smile, "Why did I hit you for no reason. What happened?"
Chuntao and the maid looked at each other, both felt that it would be embarrassing to say it, but they didn't explain it clearly and were afraid that Chang'an would blame them.
"We really saw... a ghost in the back mountain!"
"Ghost?" Rong Changan still didn't believe there was a ghost, "Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Chuntao said loudly: "We saw it! One of them is the scariest, maybe... maybe he is Li Hai! He is playing the flute and singing faintly! It's terrible! It's terrible!"
Even though Chun Tao and the maid were kneeling on the ground, they were still trembling, which was enough to show that they were not lying. Is Houshan really haunted? Or are some people playing tricks to achieve ulterior motives
Having lived in the army for many years, Rong Changan has seen a lot of magic, but she has never seen ghosts. She faintly felt that this ghost from the back mountain had something to do with Zi Yan.
"Perhaps, those things are just staged by Zi Yan, confusing people's eyes and ears, diverting the attention of me and the emperor, so that I can't concentrate on investigating the miscarriage of the child." Rong Changan stretched out his hand, "Chuntao, give me the lantern. "
"What are you doing with the lantern?" Chuntao asked.
There was no fear on Rong Changan's face, it seemed that there was a trace of joy hanging on the corner of her mouth.
"I'd like to see how divine this flute player and singer is!"
Rong Changan picked up the lantern and left, Zi Yan grabbed the hem of Rong Changan's clothes: "Queen, you can't go! There are really ghosts there!"
Rong Changan said with a smile: "It would be great if there are ghosts! I will catch a ghost and parade it in the streets tomorrow, so that the people in the capital can come and see what the ghost looks like."
Chuntao shouted: "The queen can't go, ghosts can suck human blood and drink human brains..."
Blinking and blinking, Rong Changan is no longer in Fengming Palace.
"We can't let Empress Rong take risks alone, we have to tell the emperor!"
Chuntao made up her mind, and ran to Shang's study with her maidservant to see Yan Li.
When Rong Changan came to the gate of the back mountain, she saw the gate was wide open, and the two soldiers guarding the gate hurriedly saluted her.
"Queen, what are you doing here at Houshan so late?"
Rong Changan couldn't say he was here to catch ghosts, but he just smiled softly: "I'm thirsty at night, so I want to pick a melon to eat."
The soldier was very surprised: "Queen, you can't go to this back mountain at night!"
Rong Changan asked: "Why can't you go?"
The soldier said: "Now the back mountain is haunted by ghosts. Just now, two girls also went to pick melons, and they ran back in fright."
"Really?" Rong Changan said, "It's just right, I learned the art of catching ghosts from some Taoist monks in the military camp. If I see ghosts, I will catch them and see if they still make trouble."