Chapter 5 — Impurity Under My Shadow

“Miss Shen, how do you know that that brooch is strange?” Everyone's eyes fell on me again. Luc Hoai Canh's eyes were extremely complicated. Thi Trieu wished to silence me even more. I stroked the Buddha necklace around my neck. "Your Majesty smelled it." The Queen Mother squinted her eyes. "Smell it?" "The smell of dead ashes." Tiet Chi Lan screamed, almost fainting. Luc Hoai Canh supported her, but looked at me. "Why didn't you say before that you could smell these things?" I asked him back. "Did Marquis ever ask me before?" Luc Hoai Canh was stunned. Over the past three years, he had asked Tiet Chi Lan how many meals a day he had, asked Trieu Thi if her headache was better, and asked the housekeeper about rice and horse grass. Just don't ask if I'm scared, if I'm in pain, if I have nightmares. The Queen Mother suddenly opened her mouth. "Mrs. Shen, follow Ai to the heavenly palace." Trieu Thi stood up in horror. "Niang Niang, you don't understand palace rules." The Queen Mother coldly looked at her. "I think she is much more useful than you." I stood up and followed. When passing Tiet Chi Lan, she suddenly reached out and grabbed my sleeve. There were tears in her eyes, her voice was so low that only I could hear. "Sister, did you already know that someone wanted to harm me?" I looked at her. "I don't know." She breathed a sigh of relief. I bent down and leaned close to her ear. "But now I know." Tiet Chi Lan's pupils suddenly contracted. Because the gray strand of gas in her hair has not yet dissipated. It was crawling out of the broken golden tree, slowly wrapping around her neck.06The Heavenly Palace was much quieter than the Truong Lac Palace. As soon as the electric door closed, the sound of the flute outside was like a layer of water. The Queen Mother let the palace staff retreat, leaving only the old mother. Thi Trieu and Luc Hoai Canh wanted to follow in, but were blocked outside the door. I stand in the middle of the palace, not kneeling. The Queen Mother also did not tell me to kneel. She sat on the low bed, her fingertips gently tapping the armrest. "Tham Chieu Vi." This was the first time she called me by my full name. "Do you know why today everyone insisted on seeing your Buddha pearl?" I replied: "The Queen Mother recognizes it." The Queen Mother laughed. "Who recognized that it was not the Buddha pearl, but the person who wore the Buddha pearl for you?" My eyelashes moved slightly. "High monk Tran Quoc Tu?" "Liu Tran." As soon as those two words were uttered, the Buddha pearl on my neck suddenly became hot. I felt like I was being pricked by a needle, my fingertips immediately tightened. The Queen Mother saw clearly. "It looks like it's him." I haven't heard this name for many years. People in the world call him a noble monk, a holy monk, and a living Buddha. Only I remember, when he pressed down the three-year-old child, me, and put the hot Buddha necklace around my neck, his voice was cold and without any compassion. He said, karma, if it weren't for the destiny of heaven, the poor monks should eliminate you today. At that time I did not understand. Just feels pain. It hurt so much that I rolled all over the ground, it hurt so much that I bit my tongue. Later we learn to be obedient. Because as long as we cry, as long as we are angry, as long as we want to bite someone, the Buddha pearl will be hot to the bone. I looked at the Queen Mother. "Do you have an old grudge against him?" The Queen Mother's eyes darkened slightly. The old mother immediately said in a low voice: "Mrs. Shen is careful." The Queen Mother raised her hand to stop her. "Yes." She admitted too decisively, which on the contrary surprised me. The Queen Mother looked out the window. "Twenty years ago, there was a prince in the palace who was born with the ability to see impure things." I said nothing. "The five children were three years old. He pointed at the back of the first emperor and said, there was a faceless woman lying on his shoulder crying every day." The Queen Mother's voice was calm. But her knuckles were already white. "Seven days later, the Emperor became seriously ill." "The whole palace invited Taoists, witch doctors, and finally invited Lieu Tran of Tran Quoc Temple." I heard my heartbeat.

half a beat slow. The Queen Mother continued: "Lieu Tran said that the child was born with an evil eye, and if not sealed, it would disrupt the country's fortunes." "So he put a Bodhi Vajra necklace on that child." "On the third day after wearing it, the child no longer spoke nonsense." "On the tenth day, he also stopped talking." "A month later, he died." The incense smoke in the heavenly hall swayed slightly. I suddenly understood why the Queen Mother looked at my Buddha pearl like that just now. She didn't want to enjoy it. She wanted to confirm whether I was another person suppressed by Lieu Tran. I asked: "Is that prince your daughter's son?" The Queen Mother closed her eyes. "Who's the eldest son?" The old mother's eyes turned red. "For the past few years, your highness has always suspected that that year, your little highness was not haunted by evil spirits, but saw something you shouldn't see." The Queen mother opened her eyes and looked at me. "Today in Truong Lac, the lights went out, and Ai was sure, that year Lieu Tran was not saving people." "He was covering his mouth." I touched the Buddha pearl. "Your highness wanted me to do it." What?” The Queen Mother looked at me and slowly said: “Let's see what else is left in this palace.” As soon as he finished speaking, the door suddenly rang. It's like someone gently scratched the wooden frame with their fingernails. The old mother's face was pale. The Queen Mother also raised her eyes to look over. I smell a smell. Moist ash.