In Changle Palace.

Chu Qiong's bedroom was burning with tranquilizing incense, but she was lying on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

She has not been out of Changle Palace for three days, Chu Aotian is determined to imprison her this time to change her temper, but she has nothing else except feeling bored and not being able to see the Sixth Brother Feel.

Anyway, when she was young, she was often shut up in Changle Palace because of her mistakes. Sometimes Chu Aotian even dismissed other people just to make her admit her mistakes.

She was worried about another thing.

Although she didn't think there was anything wrong with her punishing the servant, she subconsciously didn't want Brother Liu to know about it, and she didn't want Brother Liu to alienate her because of such a trivial matter.

She also knows that many people are afraid of her, so she doesn't want Liuhuang brother to be afraid of her too, she hopes that Liuhuang brother can always look at her with gentle eyes, not disgusted eyes.

She turned over on the bed, biting her nails and thinking how she must find a chance to listen to the bamboo building.

Thinking of this, her consciousness gradually became blurred in the dense tranquilizing incense, and between half-dream and half-awake, a gust of cold wind blew past her and woke her up again.

She frowned and half got up, lifted the bed curtain to see where the wind was coming from, only to find that one of the windows was not closed properly due to the maid's carelessness, and the heavy golden nanmu window was blown out by the wind. the sound of.

The shadows of the trees outside were indistinct, and the black shadows mottled into black spots in front of the window, swaying and rustling.

Just as Chu Qiong was about to fall asleep, she was woken up by the blow. She was so irritable that she had nowhere to vent her anger, and shouted at the top of her voice, "Xiuxiu!"

When Xiuxiu comes over, she must scold her badly, and then teach that careless court lady a lesson.

After shouting several times in a row, she realized that it was a little strange. Not only did she not call Xiuxiu, but also the palace maids who usually kept watch at night had gone to nowhere. The entire Changle Palace seemed to be silently left alone.

Only then did she realize that she was afraid, and carefully pulled up the bed curtain, sat up, hugged her knees, her voice was a little trembling, and she forced herself to shout loudly, "Xiuxiu! Come here! Get out of here, princess!"

She yelled so hard that no one came, and her voice became smaller and smaller.

After all, she was still a child, and she was held in the hands of others on weekdays. As long as she made a sound, someone would catch up to her in fear. This was the first time she was treated coldly, and she suddenly panicked.

Just as she plucked up the courage to go out to find someone, a black shadow suddenly appeared outside the bed curtain, like a woman with draped hair, beating on the head of her bed.

The shadow dangled around, like a person without legs floating around her bed.

Chu Qiong screamed, rolled and crawled to the other corner of the bed, looked at the shadow vigilantly, "What are you!!!"

After a while, the shadow ignored her, and she closed her mouth, only to realize that there seemed to be the faint sound of a woman weeping outside and the sharp noise of nails scratching on the head of the bed.

Chu Qiong was so scared that she shivered, curled up into a small ball, buried her head in her arms, and whispered, "Don't come here, don't come here, don't come here."

A hand was placed on her arm, she screamed again, she was so frightened that she crawled back a few steps, and after a closer look, she realized that it was Xiuxiu, looking at her with a worried face.

Xiuxiu looked at her anxiously, "Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Did you have a nightmare?"

At this time, Chu Qiong didn't care about anything else, she crawled over and hugged Xiuxiu's waist, trembling in her arms, "Xiuxiu, Xiuxiu."

Xiuxiu comforted her with one hand, "It's okay, it's okay, Your Highness the Princess."

Chu Qiong choked with sobs and punched her hard, "Why did you come here?"

Xiuxiu whispered, "Your Highness, I wanted to come in to see what's going on because I heard your cry. Your Highness, did you have a nightmare?"

Chu Qiong raised her head with tears in her eyes, "Where are all the maids who watch the night on weekdays? Are you all deaf?!"

Xiuxiu was stunned for a while, then looked at her in embarrassment, "Well, Your Royal Highness, the maids who watch the night are always outside your palace?"

Seeing what she said, Chu Qiong's eyes widened with anger, and while shouting "You're talking nonsense," she pushed her away and poked her head out cautiously.

Only then did she realize that the window that had been blown open at unknown times had been closed, the lights in the palace were flickeringly lit, and two little maids were standing outside the moon gate.

Chu Qiong was stunned, rubbed her eyes in disbelief, crawled to Xiuxiu's side, grabbed her clothes tightly with both hands and shook them, "Xiuxiu, there are ghosts in Changle Palace, there must be ghosts in Changle Palace!!"

Xiuxiu was staggered by her and didn't dare to resist. She could only carefully support her body with her hands, and comforted her, "Your Highness, what nonsense are you talking about? How can there be ghosts in this world?"

She touched Chu Qiong's forehead with one hand, "Your Highness, are you okay, do you want to call the imperial doctor for you?"

Chu Qiong slapped her hand away, and said coldly, "No, the princess is fine."

Xiuxiu secretly glanced at her face, lowered her voice and said, "Your Highness, would you like to invite His Highness Sixth Prince to accompany you for a while?"

Chu Qiong was startled and suspicious, when she suddenly heard Xiuxiu mention Chu Yu, she was about to see Chu Yu, she nodded quickly, "Hurry up, get someone to find Brother Liu Huang."

Xiuxiu responded and turned to leave, but Chu Qiong grabbed her by the corner of her clothes.

Chu Qiong hadn't recovered from the weird incident just now, she managed to calm herself down, "You stay here with me, just ask any maid to invite Brother Six."

Xiuxiu nodded, called a night watch maid, handed her a palace card, and told her to invite Chu Yu, then sat on Chu Qiong's bedside, let Chu Qiong's head rest on her shoulder, He stroked her hair with one hand, "Don't be afraid, Your Highness, the Sixth Prince will be here soon."

Chu Qiong sniffed, and let out a muffled "hmm".

It didn't take long for Chu Yu to come over. There was still a sleep mark on his face, his eyes were sleepy, his cloak was loosely draped behind him, and he was wearing thin clothes. Seeing that Chu Qiong was in a trance, he patted her head comfortingly, " What's the matter? Why did you call me over so late?"

As he said that, he took a strange look at Xiuxiu beside Chu Qiong.

Xiuxiu lowered her head shyly after being glanced at by him, not daring to look at him again.

When Chu Qiong heard Chu Yu's voice, she jumped up from Xiuxiu's side, and threw herself into Chu Yu's arms with tears in her eyes, her voice was still trembling, "Brother Huang."

Chu Yu was startled, and quickly hugged her, coaxing her softly while comforting her, "Brother Huang is here, Qiong'er is not afraid, tell Brother Huang, what's wrong?"

He still had the cold frost of the late autumn night on his body, but his voice hit Chu Qiong's heart like a tranquilizer.

She slowly calmed down in Chu Yu's arms, and when she raised her head, she saw Chu Yu's worried eyes.

She choked with sobs, hesitated for a while, and then shook her head, "It's okay, Brother Huang, I'm just having a nightmare."

Chu Yu was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

He sat down at the head of Chu Qiong's bed, took off his cloak and handed it to Xiuxiu who was standing aside, while letting Chu Qiong hug him tightly, with a smile, "Is Qiong'er still afraid of having nightmares? Tell the emperor Brother, what did you dream about?"

Chu Qiong leaned on his chest, was silent for a long time, and then whispered, "I dreamed that the emperor hated me, and said that I was a little monster and would never play with me again."

Chu Yu lazily closed her eyes halfway, and after listening to her words, her chest trembled with laughter.

He touched Chu Qiong's hair, "Don't be afraid, Brother Huang will never hate you, and will never stop playing with you."

Chu Qiong shrank back into his arms, nodded vigorously, and let out a muffled "um".

Chu Yu was silent for a while, probably because she was afraid that she would fall asleep, so while coaxing Chu Qiong, she chatted with Xiuxiu who was beside her.

At first, Xiuxiu was very shy and didn't dare to say too much. After a while, she found that Chu Yu was really approachable and easy to talk to, so she started to talk more.

Chu Yu asked a few irrelevant things, and suddenly changed the topic, "By the way, Xiuxiu, do you know anything about the incident that has been rumored in the palace recently?"

Xiuxiu thought for a while and asked, "Could it be that His Highness the Sixth Prince is talking about Xin Zheku being haunted by ghosts?"

Chu Yu seemed to be very interested in this matter, even Chu Qiong's body trembled as if he didn't feel it, he nodded, "That's right, I only found out when Lan'er was chatting with the wit , has there been a lot of rumors in the palace recently?"

Xiuxiu hesitated for a moment, and said, "Returning to His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince, the servant has indeed heard something. It is said that a bad-tempered lady sent several court ladies into Xin Zhe's library. Looking back afterwards, I feel puzzled. They found a few more eunuchs to torture and kill those maids, and Xin Zheku has been haunted since then, and the maids said, "

Xiuxiu paused for a moment, then glanced at Chu Qiong, who buried her head in Chu Yu's arms and eavesdropped on them, "All the maids said, this is the ghost of the dead maid who has grievances, so the evil spirit has been lingering." , to seek revenge on that empress."

Chu Yu glanced at her appreciatively, but quickly lowered his face, and reprimanded her sharply, "Don't talk nonsense, this kind of rumor is just a falsehood, so don't say it again in the future."

Xiuxiu lowered her head, "Yes, His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince."

Chu Qiong clenched Chu Yu's clothes tightly, and for a long time, she showed a pitiful little face, "Brother Huang, can you stay with me here tonight? I'm still scared."

Chu Yu nodded helplessly, "I really can't do anything about you."

Xiuxiu went to bring another brocade quilt, so that Chu Yu would not catch cold when resting here, so Chu Yu simply slept next to Chu Qiong with her clothes on.

After finally surviving the night, when Chu Qiong woke up in the morning, her eyes were black and blue, and she still looked sleepy after washing up.

Chu Yu was going to listen to Zhulou, but seeing that she was not in good spirits, she decided to stay with her.

At noon, a little eunuch came in to announce that it was Chu Rui who went to hear that Chu Yu was not found in the bamboo building, and knew that he had come to Changle Palace, so he also came to have a look.

Chu Qiong also looked listless when she heard Chu Rui coming, and Chu Yu persuaded her a few words before she reluctantly got up and went out to meet Chu Rui.

Just when he went out, he heard a commotion, Chu Rui was holding a bamboo whip in his hand, and was looking at a court lady kneeling at his feet trembling with a livid face.

Seeing this scene, Chu Yu froze for a moment, and quickly asked, "Brother Huang, what's the matter?"

With a cold face, Chu Rui kicked the court lady, "This blind thing hit me with soup, and my court clothes were ruined by her!"

His lips were pursed into a line, his eyes were full of anger, and he looked really angry, as if he wanted to cut the person in front of him to pieces.

Only then did Chu Qiong and Chu Yu realize that the hem of his court clothes was wet and stained.

This is Chu Yu asking the maids of Changle Palace to prepare some soup for Chu Qiong to soothe the nerves and nourish the body. When they brought it in, they didn't see Chu Rui who happened to enter the door, and just bumped into him.

The little maid seemed to be dying, lying on the ground dying.

As if he was still angry, Chu Rui raised his hand, and with a snap, the bamboo whip hit the palace maid. Before Chu Qiong could react, why the second brother, who was usually not talkative, suddenly became so angry, and a stream of blood flew It went out and splashed on her face.

She froze in place, staring at the little maid on the ground who was writhing in agony without blinking her eyes.

A living person, with welts all over his body, blood flowing everywhere, his face was swollen so that he couldn't see the original, he was crying softly, and he wanted to call for the second prince to spare his life.

After a while, Chu Yu worriedly called her name, and she seemed to have just realized it, her face was pale, she turned around and supported her waist and retched.

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