"Its voice is whining, like resentment and admiration, like weeping and complaining." Former Red Cliff Poem
"Back then, Emperor Gao's favorite concubine, Mrs. Qi, was chopped into pigeons and thrown into this cave. She died within a few days..." The guard's voice gradually faded away, and the content of his words was ghastly and terrifying.
Feng Fangnu was so frightened that her whole body was shaking, and her pretty little face had lost all color. Before she could react, another guard couldn't stand it anymore: "Don't say it so horribly.
Speak out and say..."
"What's even scarier is that it is said that the sound of pounding rice can be heard here from time to time, and there are also women singing..."
"Okay, okay... I feel more and more cold after hearing what you say."
"Don't leave!" Feng Fangnu mustered up her greatest courage and slapped the fence violently. Her delicate hands were red from the slaps, and tears were streaming down her face. She begged in the dark for an unknown amount of time before replying to her.
There is only unfathomable darkness.
Fortunately, there was still a light left in the dark cave. That weak light undoubtedly became Feng Fangnu's last hope. She tried her best to get close to the only light, as if being close to it would bring warmth.
will be afraid.
I don’t know how much time passed, but Feng Fangnu slowly woke up from a dream she no longer remembered. I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the temperature in the cave was a little lower than when she came in. I remembered that it was still daytime when she came in.
, it should be night now, right? The lamp is about to run out of oil at this time, and the lamp is like a dozing eye, shrinking very small for a while, and opening a little wider for a while, barely flickering.
Suddenly, Feng Fangnu's whole heart was stirred up.
She curled up her body into a ball and leaned tightly in the corner, her eyes pleading and helplessly staring at the dying light. Feng Fangnu silently recited the various gods she remembered, praying to the heaven and earth to protect her through the difficulties.
, and then remembered that not long ago, I was staying in the bright and warm Yuanluan Palace, joking with the Zou family, teasing the eldest son of the emperor, or serving Fu Guiren... How could I have imagined that I would encounter this at that time?
It was getting colder and biting in the cave. Feng Fangnu hadn't eaten much at first. She was hungry and cold, and white flowers were floating in front of her eyes.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but there seemed to be a faint singing voice coming from a corner where the oil lamp couldn’t shine.
The song was eerie and ethereal, as if weeping and complaining. Feng Fangnu remembered the bad rumors and shuddered.
The son is the king and the mother is the captive.
He works all day long in the dusk, and is always with death.
We are three thousand miles apart, who should tell you?
Feng Fangnu's teeth began to chatter uncontrollably. She seemed to have fallen into the coldest winter, and her whole body was shaking. At the last moment when the lights went out, the light dimly illuminated a corner of the cave, and that
The ethereal singing also brought Feng Fangnu's sight there.
Click, click, click.
A half-person-high clay pot placed in the corner shook slightly, as if something was trying to come out.
Feng Fangnu suddenly screamed, and at this moment, the oil lamp flashed, and the last bit of light went out instantly. In the blur of light and shadow that remained at that moment, Feng Fangnu clearly saw the clay pot.
He suddenly fell to the ground, and a man with a human head but no limbs slowly squirmed out of the dark jar...
"ah"
The next day, Fu Shou, who had asked the emperor to speak, urged the Zou family to go to Yongxiang to rescue Feng Fangnu early in the morning. The evidence was conclusive. Feng Fangnu could not escape the crime of stealing the queen's jewelry, although in the end Fu Shou still had to ask Dong.
The queen lowered her head to plead for mercy and made some concessions, but it was still better than being locked up in the dark Yongxiang cave room all the time.
But when Zou rushed to Yongxiang full of hope, she saw two guards with troubled faces and learned of a shocking incident.
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Feng Fangnu went crazy.
"Nv Fang, Nv Fang!" Ms. Zou ran into the cave room quickly and saw Feng Fangnv lying on the straw mat with unkempt hair and an unkempt face.
Her eyes were wide open, looking at a certain place in the sky with a hollow gaze, and occasionally muttering some incoherent words in her mouth. Feng Fangnu didn't even care that Zou was coming, she seemed to let Zou unconscious.
Zou held her in his arms, tilting her head back heavily, revealing her jade-white and slender neck in Zou's arms.
Feng Fangnu has always been a person who likes to dress up and pays attention to appearance, but now she seems to have lost her former high spirits and vitality overnight, like a walking corpse. Zou felt the cold body temperature of the other party, and her tone was trembling
"Ghost! There is a ghost! There is a ghost!" Feng Fangnu rolled her eyes, looked at Zou, and suddenly shouted out of control, struggling: "Go away, go away!"
Mrs. Zou hugged her tighter. She was crying and her tears couldn't stop flowing down: "Fang Nu... there is nothing here, just you and me! There are no ghosts here!"
"Yes, yes..." Feng Fangnu tried to curl up in Zou's arms, and timidly pointed to a corner of the wall, where the guard who was following her stood. The guard innocently extended his hand to Zou,
She moved to the side, revealing the big clay pot that had been tipped over in the corner: "Right there, she said she was the Queen Mother of Zhao, and her surname was Qi... She could also sing, she sang that the son is the king and the mother is the prisoner.
...She also taught me to sing like this..." As she said that, Feng Fangnu showed a strange expression of joy on her face.
Zou couldn't help but shook Feng Fangnu's shoulder. She emphasized her tone, forcing the other party to focus on her: "Besides this, what else did you see? What did you do last night? Why are they so harmful?
You? Did you see..."
"Turning around... hee hee... spinning around..." Feng Fangnu smiled crazily, as if she understood, but she didn't seem to understand.
"What are you spinning about?" Ms. Zou continued to coax, and she whispered in Feng Fangnu's ear in a gentle voice: "Who do you see spinning around?"
Gululu...
The clay pot seemed to be kicked by someone and suddenly rolled towards Feng Fangnu.
Feng Fangnu was frightened immediately. She jumped out of Zou's arms, fell to the corner and hid, trembling all over, her face turned pale, and she was about to die.
"Fang Nu!" Ms. Zou called out, and went over to hold her tightly in her arms. She kept comforting her, then turned around and scolded: "What are you doing!"
The guard cupped his fists and said with a smile: "I touched her accidentally, please forgive me."
"Get out." Zou ordered with a cold face.
The guard did not want to obey the order: "I'm afraid this won't work."
"The Emperor ordered me to inquire in detail about the circumstances of this man's crime that day. No one else is allowed to intervene. Do you want to disobey?" Zou had no scruples about this matter and directly carried the emperor out.
The guard's expression changed. Seeing that Mr. Zou's face was serious and did not appear to be hypocritical, he left angrily.
"Nv Fang, it's okay, they are all gone." Mrs. Zou softened her tone, put her chin on Feng Fangnv's head, and whispered comfort for a while: "Tell me, what else did you see that day?"
"I saw...I saw..." Feng Fangnu held her head in her hands, recalling with difficulty: "...turning in circles...Your Majesty, and Chang Yu...turning in circles by the well...hehe, turning in circles...
I also want to spin in circles..." Feng Fangnu continued to laugh, her mind completely lost.
Zou was shocked and speechless. How could the emperor and Chang Yu walk together? She couldn't believe it and asked, "Did you really see clearly? It's His Majesty and Chang Yu who are walking around the well?"