Hong Zhou's legs were weak, and he just stood there, horrified, and muttered to himself, "It's her... it's really her..."
The shadows and fears hidden in his heart clung to him at this moment, reminding him of what he had done. Hong Zhou staggered two steps and fell into the muddy water. When he opened his eyes again, the maid on the wall was gone. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he saw a pair of wet embroidered shoes in front of him in the blink of an eye. He raised his head sharply, only revealing a snow-white chin, bright red lips, and a plum blossom tie around his waist, swaying gently in the wind.
Hong Zhou shouted in panic, "It's you! I'm not afraid of you! Don't come here! Don't come here! I'm not afraid of anything!" He shouted, grabbing the umbrella and waving it desperately, not wanting the female ghost to approach.
In the wind and rain, someone suddenly grabbed his arm and pulled him up. Fu Heng said, "Hong Zhou! Hong Zhou! Please wake up!"
Hong Zhou was completely overwhelmed with fear, and shouted: "Ghost! Ghost! There is a female ghost!"
Fu Heng wiped the rainwater and asked, "Where is it?" Hong Zhou pointed at the wall with his eyes closed: "It's there, on the wall!"
Fu Heng walked quickly to the wall. The wall was very flat, and there was nothing unusual about it. He stretched out his hand and stroked the place. Under the rain, only a little sticky object remained.
Hai Lancha walked over quickly and asked, "How is it, what did you find?"
Fu Heng turned his hand away to prevent Hailancha from discovering the sticky substance on his hand, and said without changing his face, "Not yet."
Hong Zhou rushed forward and slammed against the wall in disbelief, repeating again and again like a madman: "It's here! Just now, just before you came, there was a palace maid with her hair covering her face, and I saw it with my own eyes. It's her! How could it not be there! Come out! Come out quickly!"
Hailancha asked in surprise, "She? Fifth Master, who are you talking about, do you know that female ghost?"
The next moment, Hong Zhou's voice stopped abruptly.
Fu Heng held down Hong Zhou's shoulder and said, "Hong Zhou, I checked just now, it's just a wall, there's nothing."
Hai Lancha also said: "Five masters, you must have read it wrong."
Hong Zhou kicked the wall with a hostile expression: "I wasn't the only one present, so many people saw it with their own eyes!"
Fu Heng said loudly, "Enough!"
Hailancha asked in surprise, "Fu Heng, what's wrong with you?"
Fu Heng exhaled and said, "You go back first, I still have things to do!" After speaking, Fu Heng got into the rain without turning his head.
The rain stopped.
Fu Heng waited for Wei Yingluo, who came back, outside Changchun Palace. His eyes were dark as night, and he asked, "Where have you been?"
Wei Yingluo avoided his gaze and replied, "I'm bored, go out for a walk."
Fu Heng was silent for a moment and asked, "Is it you who pretended to be a ghost just now?"
Wei Yingluo said calmly, "I don't understand what you said."
Fu Heng said: "I found glue on the palace wall, and the clansmen said they saw ghosts. Obviously, it was not a ghost, but someone stuck something that could reflect light on the wall. , Because it is the night of thunderstorms, the light flickers on and off, and everyone can't see clearly, so they will believe it!"
Wei Yingluo burst out laughing, and finally looked at Fu Heng and said, "Reflective? You are talking about a bronze mirror. Why is the mirror attached to the palace wall, Fucha guard, your imagination is too rich?"
Fu Heng took out a glass piece and showed it to Wei Yingluo, and said, "It's not a bronze mirror, it's a glass piece. I went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs just now, and you took the glass piece."
Wei Yingluo said amusedly: "Fucha guard, you really misunderstood, I took the glass sheet to replace the broken glass on the palace lantern for the empress, how could I pretend to be a ghost to scare people! The guards should go back to Qianqingmen as soon as possible. , so as not to attract people's tongues." After speaking, he quickly entered the Changchun Palace.
Fu Heng stood on the spot and pleaded with a suppressed tone: "Yingluo, don't rashly attack Hong Zhou! Hong Zhou is the emperor's closest brother. As long as he does not commit the crime of treason, the emperor will forgive him for the rest of his life!"
Wei Yingluo entered the door without hesitation.
Hong Zhou was still standing in front of the haunted palace wall and said to himself, "Impossible, there must be a problem."
A hand suddenly patted his shoulder from behind, Hong Zhou jumped up in fright, turned around and saw that it was Fu Heng, patted his chest and said, "Can you stop standing behind me, you think I'm frightened? Not enough!"
Fu Heng looked at him with a strange look and asked, "What are you doing?"
Hong Zhou patted the wall and said, "Last night I thought it was a ghost, but after thinking about it, it's not right, someone is pretending to be a ghost, trying to dig up the past! Hmph, when I catch someone, I will definitely Get her cramped and skinned!"
Fu Heng raised his eyebrows and asked slowly, "Did you mean the night of the tenth day of the first lunar month?"
Hong Zhou froze and stared at Fu Heng in horror.
Fu Heng's expression was heavy and cold, and he said, "I was supposed to be on duty that night, but E-niang was ill, so I had to change shifts with others, and I left all my clothes at the guard's place, because I walked too quickly, You even forgot to take off the jade pendant, you went to the guard's office that night and changed my clothes, didn't you?"
Hong Zhou touched his nose with a guilty conscience: "Fu Heng—"
Fu Heng interrupted him impatiently: "Don't say it, I don't want to hear it! Do you want to know who was behind the scenes yesterday?" Hong Zhou immediately said, "Of course!"
Fu Heng said calmly, "I can tell you, come with me."
As soon as Wei Yingluo stepped into the main hall, she knew something was wrong. The queen was looking at her with a worried expression, and Hong Zhou was staring at her. She rushed up and said indignantly, "Oh, so it's you who are behind your back! "Wei Yingluo immediately took a step back.
Hong Zhou was about to get closer, but Fu Heng raised his hand to block him, frowned and said, "Enough!"
Hong Zhou said unwillingly: "Last night, she scared me enough, I haven't done anything yet, so you protect her like this?"
Fu Heng said sternly, "Hong Zhou, don't forget what you promised me!"
Hong Zhou let out a sigh, took a step back, and said, "I remember, let's settle this matter peacefully! I promise you won't embarrass her again, and I will never take action! As for her sister..." Hong Zhou clapped his hands, and the eunuch held a The tray only covered with red silk, Hong Zhou pulled the red silk, and the bright gold illuminated the hall.
Wei Yingluo's eyes swept across the gold, and she thought about it and asked, "What does this mean?"
Hong Zhou smiled and said, "I apologize to you and your sister."
Wei Yingluo asked coldly, "With gold?"
Fu Heng spoke with difficulty: "Yingluo, Hong Zhou was greedy for cups and made a mistake at the time, and he lost control for a while, and then he got into a big disaster, Hong Zhou!"
Hong Zhou reluctantly raised his hands and said: "Okay, sorry, I was too drunk and hurt your sister, and I regretted it afterwards, and I went back to find her! It's just that I sneaked away to avoid the guards patrolling. Entering the imperial garden to admire the Epiphyllum, I deliberately changed Fu Heng's clothes, the name is not right, so I can't make a big splash! By the time I find it, the person has already left the palace!"
The queen frowned and said unhappily, "Hong Zhou, do you know that after Aman was expelled from the palace, he was strangled to death."
Hong Zhou hurriedly said: "I can swear to God, that's not what I did! I'm going straight, I really want to kill people, I don't have to be sneaky at all, let alone pretend to commit suicide!"
Wei Yingluo looked at Hong Zhou and asked in a cold voice, "What's the difference between tarnishing a palace maid's innocence and killing her! My sister died, and even the ancestral grave of the Wei family can't be entered, so she can only be buried in a mass grave!"
Hong Zhou immediately said, "I'll make up for it!"
Wei Yingluo asked angrily, "It's a life now, how do you make it up?"
Hong Zhou thought for a while and said, "Miss Wei, I have accepted your sister and gave her a name, that's it!"
Wei Yingluo said incredulously, "What did you say to accept her?!"
Hong Zhou seemed to have thought of a great idea, slapped his fan and said: "Yes! I accepted her, and Fang Fujin is going to be on a jade plate. The Wei family is not qualified, but you can be a concubine! Come on, no one will ever say that she was unmarried and lost her life and doubt her integrity!"
Wei Yingluo stared at Hong Zhou, suddenly sneered, and turned to leave. Hong Zhou asked strangely, "Hey, where are you going!"
As soon as Wei Yingluo went out, she bumped into Wei Qingtai and shouted, "Dad..."
Wei Qingtai didn't look at her, but just greeted her: "The servant greets the empress and the prince!"
The Empress glanced at Wei Yingluo in surprise, and then said, "No gift."
Wei Yingluo asked, "Why did you come here?"
Wei Qingtai didn't speak, and Hong Zhou couldn't wait to show off: "Didn't your father always find a good job? I wrote a letter of recommendation myself, and today I will let him serve as the internal supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Get up!"
Wei Yingluo looked at Wei Qingtai and asked with a complicated expression, "You agree?"
Hong Zhou added next to him: "I have already taken office!"
Wei Yingluo gave a short laugh and asked, "Dad, how does it feel to trade your daughter's life for a splendid future?"
Wei Qingtai sighed fiercely and asked, "Yingluo! You are still so stubborn, do you really want to watch your sister's soul have nowhere to rely on!"
Wei Yingluo was shocked and froze.
Wei Qingtai's eyes were full of sadness, and he said, "Yingning did not end well, and he has a bad reputation, and he will never be buried in the ancestral grave, and our family will never be able to lift our heads! But the Prince agreed to welcome Yingning's tablet. Enter the palace! In this way, no one in the Wei clan dares to criticize, and she can rest her eyes in the spring!"
Hong Zhou chirped beside him again: "Yeah, I will definitely find a feng shui treasure for her, bury her well, and don't call her a lonely ghost, it is my sincere apology!"
Fu Heng looked at Yingluo worriedly and read her name: "Yingluo..."
Wei Qingtai looked at his little daughter and said, "Yingluo, if you are willing to give up today, my father will forgive you for your reckless behavior, and if you are obsessed with it, my father will have to kick you out of the house to prevent you from causing trouble again. Think about it clearly, is it more important to be emotional, or is it your sister's peace and our father-daughter relationship more important!"
Wei Yingluo bit her lip and ignored the crowd. Instead, she looked at the queen and sought refuge from a child who was in charge of her: "Empress Empress, you have always taught Yingluo to be tolerant, but this time the servant wants to ask you if tolerance is possible. ?"
The queen took a deep breath, looked at her with pity, and said, "Yingluo, this palace is not you, there is no way to forgive someone on your behalf."
Wei Yingluo lowered her head and thought for a moment, then said, "The servant understands." She turned to look at Hong Zhou, and said, "For the sake of my sister and the prince, I can forgive you, but you must keep your promise today. , never forget!"
Hong Zhou squinted his eyes with a smile, and said, "Is that right! It's not a good idea to resolve an enemy, but from now on, the Wei family will also count as half of my in-laws, Lord Wei's promotion, and when you leave the palace when you are old My marriage is all wrapped up in me!"
Wei Yingluo smiled lightly: "In that case, thank you and the prince!" After speaking, she seemed a little bit unbearable, turned around and left, and Fu Heng hurriedly said, "Yingluo!"
Wei Yingluo ignored her and left quickly. Fu Heng was about to catch up, but the queen said, "Stop!"
Fu Heng had to stop, looked back at his sister, and asked suspiciously, "Empress—"
The queen looked angry and asked, "Who allowed you to do this!"
Fu Heng knew what the queen was asking, and replied calmly: "Sister, you can see the emperor's preference and trust in Hong Zhou. If Yingluo insists on taking revenge, what will happen? Now, Yingluo is willing to let go of her hatred, not just one. Is it a happy event?"
The queen said disappointedly: "Coercion and temptation are not the actions of a gentleman."
Fu Heng suddenly raised his voice: "I just want her to be safe!"
The queen was shocked, and Er Qing even showed a shocked expression.
Fu Heng looked at the direction that Wei Yingluo and Wei Yingluo were leaving, and repeated: "Even if she hates me or blames me, I will definitely want her to be safe!"