Hongzhou's legs were weak, and he stood there in a daze, muttering to himself: "It's her... it's her..."

The gloom and fear hidden in his heart caught him in this moment, reminding him of what he had done. Hongzhou staggered two steps and fell into the mud. When he opened his eyes wide, he saw that the palace maid on the wall had disappeared. He was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but he saw a pair of wet embroidered shoes coming to him in the blink of an eye. He looked up suddenly, and the other party only showed his snow-white chin, bright red lips, and a plum blossom mesh tied around his waist, shaking gently in the wind.

Hongzhou shouted in panic: "It's you! I'm not afraid of you! Don't come over! Don't come over! I'm not afraid of anything!" He shouted, grabbing the umbrella and waving it desperately, not wanting the female ghost to get close.

In the storm, someone suddenly grabbed his arm and pulled him up. Fu Heng said, "Hongzhou! Hongzhou! Be more awake!"

Hongzhou was completely frightened and shouted: "Ghost! Ghost! There is a female ghost!"

Fu Heng wiped the rain and asked, "Where is it?" Hongzhou closed his eyes and pointed at the wall: "It's right there, on the wall!"

Fu Heng quickly walked to the wall. The wall was very flat and there was no sign of anything unusual. He reached out to touch the place. Under the rain, only a little sticky object was left.

Hailancha walked quickly and asked, "How are you? What did you find?"

Fu Heng turned his hand back and prevented Hailancha from discovering the sticky objects on his hands. He said without changing his face: "Not yet."

Hongzhou rushed forward and patted the wall in disbelief. Again and again, repeating repeatedly, like crazy: "It's here! Just now, just before you came, there was a palace maid with a covered face. I saw it with my own eyes, it's her! How could it be that there wasn't! Come out! Come out quickly!"

Hailancha asked in surprise, ": She? Fifth Master, who are you talking about? Do you know that female ghost?"

The next moment, Hongzhou's voice came to an abrupt end.

Fu Heng pressed Hongzhou's shoulder and said, "Hongzhou, I've checked it just now. It's just a wall, nothing."

Hailancha also said: "Fifth Master, you must have read it wrong."

Hongzhou kicked the wall with a resentful look on his face: "I was not the only one here just now, so many people saw it with their own eyes!"

Fu Heng shouted: "Enough!"

Hailancha asked in surprise: "Fu Heng, what's wrong with you?"

Fu Heng exhaled and said, "You go back first, I have something to do!" After that, Fu Heng got into the rain without looking back.

The rain stopped.

Fu Heng waited for Wei Yingluo who had returned outside Changchun Palace. His eyes were as heavy as the night, and he asked, "Where have you been?"

Wei Yingluo avoided his gaze and replied, "I feel depressed, go out for a walk."

Fu Heng was silent for a moment and asked, "Is it you who pretended to be a ghost just now?"

Wei Yingluo said lightly: "I don't understand what you said."

Fu Heng said: "I found glue on the palace wall, and the royal family said they saw ghosts. Obviously, it was not a ghost, but someone posted something reflective on the wall to illuminate the so-called ghost. Because it was a thunderstorm night, the light flickered and dark, and everyone couldn't see clearly, so they believed it true!"

Wei Yingluo burst out laughing, finally looked at Fu Heng and said, "Reflective? You are talking about a bronze mirror. Why is the mirror attached to the palace wall? Fu Cha Guard, your imagination is too rich, right?"

Fu Heng took out a piece of glass for Wei Yingluo to show it and said, "It's not a bronze mirror, it's a piece of glass. I just went to the Office of the Internal Affairs. You used the piece of glass."

Wei Yingluo said with a funny look: "You are really misunderstood by the Guardian Fucha. I used the glass piece to replace the broken glass on the palace lantern for the Empress. How could I pretend to be a ghost and scare people? The guards should go back to the Ganqing Gate as soon as possible to avoid quarrel." After saying that, he quickly stepped into Changchun Palace.

Fu Heng stood there, begging in a depressed tone: "Yingluo, don't act rashly at Hongzhou! Hongzhou is the emperor's closest brother. As long as he does not commit a serious crime of treason, the emperor will tolerate him for the rest of his life!"

Wei Yingluo's eyes entered the door without hesitation.

Hongzhou was still standing in front of the haunted palace wall and murmured to himself: "It's impossible, there must be a problem."

A hand suddenly patted his shoulder from behind. Hongzhou jumped up in fear. When he turned around, he saw that it was Fu Heng, patted his chest and said, "Can you stop standing behind me? You still think I was not frightened enough!"

Fu Heng looked at him with a strange look and asked, "What are you doing?"

Hongzhou patted the wall and said, "I thought it was a ghost last night, but after thinking about it carefully, this matter was wrong. Someone was pretending to be a ghost, intending to dig out the past! Humph, when I catch someone, I must peel her cramps and skin her!"

Fu Heng raised his eyebrows and asked slowly: "Are you talking about the night of the tenth day of the first lunar month?"

Hongzhou froze and stared at Fu Heng in horror.

Fu Heng's expression was dark and cold, and he said, "I should have been on duty that night, but my mother was sick, so I had to change shifts with others. My clothes were left in the guard office. Because I walked too fast, I forgot to take off the jade pendant. That night, you went to the guard office and changed my clothes, right?"

Hongzhou touched his nose with guilt: "Fu Heng——"

Fu Heng interrupted him impatiently: "No need to say it, I don't want to hear it! Do you want to know who was behind the scenes yesterday?" Hongzhou immediately said: "Of course!"

Fu Heng said calmly: "I can tell you, come with me."

As soon as Wei Yingluo stepped into the main hall, she knew something was wrong. The queen was looking at her with a worried look. Hongzhou was staring at her and rushed forward and said angrily: "Oh, it turns out that you are making trouble behind your back!" Wei Yingluo immediately took a step back.

Hongzhou was about to approach again, Fu Heng raised his hand to block him, frowned and said, "Enough!"

Hongzhou said unwillingly: "She scared me so much last night. I'm not so much, are you protecting her like this?"

Fu Heng said sternly: "Hongzhou, don't forget what you promised me!"

Hongzhou blew, took a step back, and said, "I remember, let's solve this problem! I promise you that you will not make things difficult for her anymore, and you will never take action! As for her sister..." Hongzhou clapped his hands, and the eunuch brought a tray covered with red silk. Hongzhou pulled open the red silk, and the shiny gold illuminated the hall.

Wei Yingluo's eyes swept over the gold, and she became scheming in her heart and asked, "What does this mean?"

Hongzhou said with a smile: "Apologize to you and your sister."

Wei Yingluo asked coldly: "Use gold?"

Fu Heng said with difficulty: "Yingluo, Hongzhou was a greedy cup at that time and was out of control for a while, so he caused a big disaster, Hongzhou!"

Hongzhou raised his hands helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, sorry, I was so drunk that I hurt your sister. I regretted it afterwards. I turned back to find her! But in order to avoid patrol by the guards, I sneaked into the imperial garden to appreciate the flash of cereus, and I specially changed Fu Heng's clothes. It was not just that I couldn't make a big fuss! When I found it, the person had already left the palace!"

The queen frowned and said unhappily: "Hongzhou, do you know that Aman was strangled to death after being expelled from the palace."

Hongzhou hurriedly said, "I can swear to the gods that it was not what I did! I am a straightforward person. If I really want to kill someone, I don't have to sneak in, let alone pretending to commit suicide!"

Wei Yingluo looked at Hongzhou and asked coldly: "What's the difference between defiling the innocence of a palace maid and killing her! My sister is dead, and she can't even enter the Wei family's ancestral grave, so she can only be buried in a mass grave!"

Hongzhou immediately said: "I will compensate!"

Wei Yingluo asked angrily: "It's a life now, how do you compensate?"

Hongzhou thought for a while and said, "Miss Wei, I'll take your sister and give her a title. This is OK!"

Wei Yingluo said in disbelief: "What did you say? Take her?"

Hongzhou seemed to have thought of a great idea, and slapped his fan and said, "Yes! I took her, and the concubine wants to be on the jade plate. The Wei family is not qualified, but she can be a concubine! In this way, no one will say that she has not been married and doubts her ethics!"

Wei Yingluo looked at Hongzhou regularly, suddenly sneered and turned around to leave. Hongzhou asked strangely: "Hey, where are you going!"

As soon as Wei Yingluo went out, she ran into Wei Qingtai and shouted in a daze: "Dad..."

Wei Qingtai didn't look at her, but just greeted her: "I wish the Empress and the Prince!"

The queen glanced at Wei Yingluo in surprise and said, "Don't give me a gift."

Wei Yingluo asked: "Why are you here?"

Wei Qingtai didn't speak, and Hongzhou couldn't wait to show off: "Have you not found a good errand? I wrote a letter of recommendation myself. Today I will let him serve as the internal supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As long as the errand is done well, I will not be afraid of not being promoted in the future!"

Wei Yingluo looked at Wei Qingtai and asked with a complicated expression: "Did you agree?"

Hongzhou added next to him: "I have already taken office!"

Wei Yingluo smiled briefly and asked, "Dad, how do you feel when you exchange your biological daughter's life for a bright future?"

Wei Qingtai sighed fiercely and asked, "Yingluo! You are still so stubborn. Do you really have to watch your sister's soul have nowhere to rely on?"

Wei Yingluo was shocked and stunned.

Wei Qingtai said with sadness, "Ying Ning did not die well, and she was notorious for being innocent. She would never be buried in the ancestral grave. Our family would never be able to raise their heads for the rest of their lives! But I agreed with the prince and wanted to welcome Yingning's tablet into the mansion! In this way, no one in the Wei clan dared to criticize her again, and she could rest in peace in the spring!"

Hongzhou whined beside him again: "Yes, I will definitely find her a Feng Shui treasure land and bury her well. If you don't call her a lonely ghost, I can be considered a sincere apology!"

Fu Heng looked at Yingluo worriedly and said her name: "Yingluo..."

Wei Qingtai looked at his little daughter and said, "Yingluo, if you are willing to stop today, your father will forgive you for your willfulness and arrogance. If you are obsessed with it, your father will have to drive you out of the house so that you will not cause trouble again! Think clearly whether it is the momentary spirit or the peace of your sister, our father-daughter relationship is more important!"

Wei Yingluo bit her lip, ignored everyone, but looked at the queen and sought shelter from a child who was looking for protection: "Empress, you have always taught Yingluo to be tolerant. This time I want to ask you, is it feasible to be tolerant?"

The queen took a deep breath, looked at her with care, and said, "Yingluo, I am not you, I can't forgive someone for you."

Wei Yingluo lowered her head and thought for a moment, and said, "I understand." She turned to look at Hongzhou and said, "For my sister to get peace and the prince, I can forgive you, but you must keep your promise today and never forget it!"

Hongzhou narrowed his eyes with a smile and said, "That's right! Enemies should be resolved rather than made. From now on, the Wei family will be half of my in-laws. Lord Wei's promotion, and your marriage after leaving the palace for the first time will be covered by me!"

Wei Yingluo smiled faintly: "For this, I'll thank you and the prince!" After saying that, he seemed a little overwhelmed and turned around and left. Fu Heng hurriedly said: "Yingluo!"

Wei Yingluo ignored it and left quickly. Fu Heng wanted to chase after him, but the queen said, "Stop!"

Fu Heng had to stop, looked at his sister back to his senses, and asked in confusion: "Queen——"

The queen looked angry and asked, "Who is allowed to do this!"

Fu Heng knew what the queen was asking and replied calmly: "Sister, you see the emperor's favoritism and trust in Hongzhou. If Yingluo insists on taking revenge, what will end up? Now, isn't Yingluo willing to let go of her hatred? Isn't it a happy thing for everyone to let go of her hatred?"

The queen said disappointedly: "Coercion and temptation are not done by gentlemen."

But Fu Heng suddenly raised his voice: "I just want her to be safe!"

The queen was shocked, and Erqing even showed a shocked expression.

Fu Heng looked at the direction where Wei Yingluo left and repeated: "Even if she hates me and blames me, I must have her peace and safety!"
Chapter completed!