Chapter 4 — Impurity Under My Shadow

“You also know it's impossible?” Luc Hoai Canh stiffened. I look at him. Turns out he knew. At least he wasn't completely ignorant. So for the past three years, he watched Trieu Thi check my Buddha pearl every day, watched everyone in the Marquis Palace guard against me like a monster, and yet he was still able to faintly say that mother was for her good. I suddenly feel tasteless. The Queen Mother retracted her hand. "It seems that this string of Buddha beads is more interesting than anyone thought." She looked towards everyone in the palace. "Today's banquet, let's start the banquet first." The palace lights lit up again the moment she finished speaking. Everyone seemed to wake up from a dream and sat back in their original seats. The sound of the flute sounded very quickly. Laughter also gradually recovered. As if nothing had just happened. But we know, it's changed. The Queen Mother no longer asked for the Buddha pearl. Trieu Thi also did not let me sit in the last chair. She personally helped me back, her palms cold as ice. Tiet Chi Lan sat on one side, her eyes red, biting her lips to death. When I raised the teacup, I saw behind the screen a little eunuch hastily leaving. He left very quickly. Half of a golden talisman appeared in his sleeve. The cinnabar handwriting on that talisman is exactly the same as the one the old monk in Tran Quoc posted on my door in the past. 05 After the banquet, the bustle in Truong Lac Palace returned. But this bustle is like a brocade covering the mouth of a deep well. The more gorgeous it is, the less it can hide the coldness underneath. Trieu sat next to me, and in the space of half a cup of tea, she looked at me seven times. For the eighth time, I tilted my eyes and asked her: "What do you want to say, mother?" The chopsticks in Trieu Thi's hand trembled. "Today when you return to the palace, you will go to the Buddha Hall to kneel." I smiled. "Why?" She lowered her voice. "Do you still dare to ask why?" I looked at the bowl of peanuts in front of me. "Buddha pearls are not loose." Trieu Thi's face turned pale. "If it wasn't you who intentionally provoked me, why would I touch it?" "Mother forgot, it was the Queen Mother who told someone to remove it." Trieu was speechless when I stopped her. Her dignity could no longer be maintained, her eyes were full of resentment and fear. Before, I was very afraid of her eyes like that. Later I understood, she feared me more than I feared her. Tiet Chi Lan suddenly picked up the cup of wine and timidly walked in front of me. "Sister, I said something wrong just now. I apologize to you." Her voice was soft, her eyes were red. The surrounding ladies immediately looked over. I don't accept her cup of wine. Tiet Chi Lan's arm stiffened, her expression even more pitiful. "Sister still refuses to forgive me?" I looked at the brooch in her hair. "The brooch Miss Tiet is wearing today, it really suits you." She was stunned. "If you like it, I can give it to you." I shook my head slightly. "I don't wear things used by the dead." As soon as the words came out, Tiet Chi Lan's face suddenly turned pale. Thi Trieu forcefully pulled my sleeve. "Tham Chieu Vi!" The surrounding women were also frightened. Tiet Chi Lan's tears rolled down. "Why are you cursing me, sister?" I looked at that golden tree. The yellow leaves hanging down from the tree swayed slightly. Behind each yellow leaf there is a light gray thread of air wrapped around it. Other people don't see it. We didn't see it that clearly before. But after the Buddha pearl had just left my body half an inch, I suddenly could see again. Like the snowy night twenty years ago. I saw behind the evil servant a black shadow lying prone, saw insects crawling out of the crazy woman's mouth, saw the blood on my hand was not red, but hot and sweet. I put down the tea cup. "I'm not cursing you." "There's a grudge on that tree." Tiet Chi Lan took a step back. "Senior sister, this is what brother Hoai Canh gave me." Luc Hoai Canh quickly came from the south, his face unsightly. "Chieu Vi, you've caused enough trouble."

yet?" I looked at him. "Where did this brooch come from?" Luc Hoai Canh frowned. "New item from the Royal Medical Department in the palace, what's the problem?" The old mother next to the Queen Mother didn't know when she had been standing nearby. She glanced at the hairpin in Tiet Chi Lan's hair, her expression changed slightly. "Miss Tiet, can I let this old slave take a look?" Tiet Chi Lan instinctively covered her hair bun. "This is a gift from the Marquis." The old voice said. The mother did not change. "This old slave obeys the Queen Mother." Tiet Chi Lan could only stiffly take down the needle. When the needle fell into the old mother's palm, there was a soft cracking sound. A little black powder rolled out from inside. The mother's face changed a bit. She used her handkerchief to dab it, gently sniffed it, and immediately knelt down. "The Queen Mother, it's Phin Cot Huong." The whole palace's eyes were stirred suddenly cold. "Who sent it?" Luc Hoai Canh's face also lost all color. "I don't know." Tiet Chi Lan's body went limp, crying and said: "Brother Hoai Canh, I really don't know anything." Thi Trieu quickly helped her. I looked at them embracing each other and suddenly wanted to laugh. Just now you said I have a strange personality and am not liked. Now this strange personality saved Tiet Chi Lan's life. The Queen Mother looked at me.