Chapter 277 I don't know
Jixiang was ordered to find Rongque, and Su Qingqing stayed in the cold palace waiting.
The owner of this palace might have been of high status. The courtyard was extremely large, and apart from the collapsed main hall, there was a row of back rooms.
Coming out of the main hall, Su Qingqing dragged the skinny crazy woman into a hidden corner of the main hall and turned away.
Compared to the damage to the main hall, the back room was still intact. Although it was covered with thick dust and the carved beams were covered with cobwebs, the window paper was not even a bit torn.
The door of the back room was locked with a large rusty lock. The lock had long since become a mere decoration. Su Qingqing pulled it lightly and the lock fell off with a click.
When she pushed the door open, there was a creaking sound and dust was immediately blown up. The sunlight shone through it, making it pitch black. When the dust settled a little, Su Qingqing pushed the door a little further. She did not enter immediately, but just stood by the door and looked in.
Generally speaking, the back room is used to store either sundries or collections. Some people collect antiques, while others collect books.
But this back room is very strange.
It was a long room that was connected from beginning to end, with a row of beds placed against the back wall!
All of them were ebony step-out beds, carved with exquisite patterns, covered with bright red wedding mattresses and folded mandarin duck quilts. Each bed was hung with a green silk curtain, and at one side of the end of the bed stood a small table with a bright red dragon and phoenix beeswax on it.
All of them are decorations for a happy occasion.
There are a total of thirty-six beds in the entire back room.
In front of each bed, there is a pair of red embroidered shoes, with the toes of the embroidered shoes facing the bed, as if the owner arrived here wearing the shoes, took off the shoes and went to bed, and never left.
How could it be so weird!
Seeing such a scene, even though Su Qingqing was not afraid of ghosts or gods, she still felt creepy and her scalp tingled. She stopped and watched for a while, then turned back to the hall in front.
Before Jixiang left, he did not put the stone back to its place. Su Qingqing walked to the well and squatted down.
Perhaps because the stone had been moved away, the bugs that had been crawling on the female corpse's face had crawled out along the wall of the well and were crawling around the well. The female corpse was still holding the child tightly, looking up to the outside.
"What are you looking at? Are you waiting for someone to rescue you?"
Su Qingqing looked at this woman and felt her heart sour, swollen, numb and painful.
She felt uncomfortable at the root of her nose and wanted to cry.
She sniffed and simply shifted her gaze. Just as Su Qingqing was about to get up and leave to look around other places in the hall, she suddenly saw the words on the wall of the well.
It should be picked out with fingernails.
Safe and sound.
Four words.
The moment Su Qingqing saw these four words, she felt as if she was hit by something heavy, and her heart and internal organs ached deeply.
She no longer dared to stay by the well for a moment, and she almost fled away in panic.
Why!
Why did this well have such a great impact on her!
There is no such evil belief in ghosts and gods in this world. Even if there are, gods and ghosts have different paths and each follows its own course. Besides, she has committed so many sins, how dare that ghost haunt her?
To be frank, a ferocious person like her would scare ghosts to tears.
But why did she feel so sad and grief-stricken by the well?
Standing one meter away from the well, Su Qingqing held her chest and took two deep breaths. When she felt a little calmer, she looked at the hall again.
In fact, she had seen it once before going to the rear room. The palace looked big, but it was actually empty and there was nothing to see.
There were thirty-six beds placed end to end in the back room, but there was not a single bed here.
There was no bed, no quilt, only a small pile of hay, which might have been a bed built by the people living here using the weeds in the yard for sleeping.
Why?
Why don’t people in the front live in the back even though there are beds and quilts in the back?
Faced with life and death, would those people who were once imprisoned here prefer to freeze to death because they were afraid of so-called ghosts?
The winter here must be very tough.
The empty temple, apart from the well, also had a lot of blood-stained clothes.
It was unknown how much blood was stained or whose blood it was. The blood-stained clothes scattered on the ground were mixed with dust, bamboo silk and talisman paper, and were blown up and down by the wind blowing in from outside.
"My dear~"
After an unknown amount of time, Rong Que's voice came from outside, followed by the sound of approaching footsteps.
Rong Que stepped into the hall and went straight to Su Qingqing, "Why are you here?"
He held Su Qingqing's hand and was surprised to find that Su Qingqing's fingers were cold. "What's wrong? Are you scared?"
Su Qingqing shook her head and pulled Rong Que to the well, "Do you recognize it?"
On the way to Larongque, Su Qingqing felt like she was wading in a frying pan with every step she took.
Queer.
Queer.
The crazy woman said that Que'er had been filled with water in the well.
The woman in the well will be Rong Que's...
"I don't recognize her." Rong Que stood by the well and took a step back in disgust when he saw the woman in the well. "I don't know her at all."
Su Qingqing's anxious and doubtful heart froze, and she turned around with some disbelief, "You don't know him?"
Rong Que shook his head, "I don't know her, but judging from the clothes she's wearing, she must be of a relatively low rank in the palace."
As he said that, Rong Que pulled Su Qingqing and said, "Don't look at it either."
Su Qingqing took a step back and looked at Rong Que, who sighed, "This palace is called Cuihua Palace. It was originally occupied by a noble concubine from my grandfather's time. There are always several masters of lower status in the courtyard where the noble concubine lives. This may be one of them."
Su Qingqing was stunned.
Is this someone from the time of Emperor Rong Que’s grandfather?
"That shouldn't be the case. If it was someone who lived so long ago, the body would have been rotten to the point of being unrecognizable. But for her, we can even see clearly what she looks like."
Rong Que said, "Back then, the imperial concubine in Cuihua Palace was suspected of witchcraft, so everyone in the palace was imprisoned here. Later, this place became the cold palace. After the people in Cuihua Palace died, if they fell out of favor or committed a crime, they would be imprisoned here. This cold palace continued until my father."
Su Qingqing asked, "If a concubine commits a crime, will her children also be punished and sent to the cold palace?"
"That won't happen. The children of concubines are all the emperor's sons and grandsons. How could the emperors treat their own children in this way?"
When Rong Que said this, there was great sarcasm in his eyes and at the corners of his mouth.
"If a prince or grandson of an emperor breaks the law, he will only be ordered to reflect on his sins behind closed doors. Even if he has killed someone, he will reflect on his sins behind closed doors. The length of time he reflects on his sins symbolizes the severity of his sins."
"Then what about the child in her arms? Is there such a young child in this palace who is not a prince or grandson of the emperor?" Su Qingqing pointed into the well.
Rong Que was stunned, "Child?"
The angle he was standing at just blocked the light. He stood by the well, looked into the well, and then turned away in disgust. He did not see the child in the woman's arms, who seemed to be protecting him with her life.
Hearing Su Qingqing's words, Rong Que stepped forward again, suppressing his nausea and taking a closer look at the corpse with its skin torn and flesh exposed. As expected, he saw someone in her arms.
"Get it out!"
Rong Que immediately gave instructions.
