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Chapter 133 Smoke rising from ancestral graves
Hao Duanzhuang flew to the top of the coffin, and the black mist master took out the pigeon that fell into the jade bottle.
"It's not a ghost, don't scare yourself."
Hao Duanzhuang put the pigeon in Emperor Jingming's hand. The pigeon flapped its wings and kept stretching its little head towards Zhang Liang.
Trying to get his help.
When Zhang Liang saw the red spots on the pigeon's feathers, he felt anxious but could only pretend he didn't hear anything.
At the same time, I kept praying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would not mention any names and just send a short message.
Ye Shengxin had sharp eyes and immediately took down the small bamboo tube and opened it when he saw it.
——Severe drought in Baishan Prefecture.
Just five short words.
"This news should be very important. Why did the delivery pigeon fly into the grave?" Ye Shengxin touched the pigeon's head.
“Isn’t this pigeon a person with poor direction?”
The prince who released the best pigeons that were carefully trained:
"Ah!"
Hao Duanzhuang did this suddenly, and the sound was quite loud, and all four of them were startled.
Emperor Jingming frowned as he looked at the white mist coming out of his black mouth and asked hurriedly, "What's wrong with you?"
"Ah!"
Hao Duanzhuang roared again, causing cracks to appear on his black body. At the same time, there was more white mist in the tomb.
He looked at the pigeon and waved his hands: "It's okay, maybe it's an old problem again."
Ye Xingxin was curious: "You are already a mirror spirit, what old problems do you still have?"
"When I was alive, I would sneeze whenever I touched a pigeon, and my whole body would turn red and itch whenever I ate pigeon meat. I never thought it was all a ghost, and this old illness has not been cured yet."
As Hao Duanzhuang spoke, his voice was extremely loud, and more white mist came out of his mouth.
This made it difficult for the four of them to see each other's faces clearly. As the sound spread, there was a dead person's coffin placed next to them, which was quite eerie.
Ye Xingxin's body shuddered, and she belatedly asked, "Hao Duanzhuang, are you a ghost?"
She was about to cry, "Aren't you a mirror spirit? I'm afraid of ghosts!"
Ye Shengxin was so angry. Why did she realize this only now?
She always thought that Hao Duanzhuang became a mirror spirit because his soul merged with the mirror after his death.
As a result, his brain went haywire and he didn't realize at all that the dark-skinned guy Hao Duanzhuang was the scary ghost.
She has been threatening me calmly for so many days. It's such a sin!
Ye Xingxin's expression at this moment was even more painful than Hao Duanzhuang's, who was about to burst. Emperor Jingming noticed something was wrong and asked with concern:
"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Zhang Liang probably knew what was going on and was not worried. Instead, he took the opportunity to take the pigeon from Emperor Jingming.
Ye Xingxin's lips turned pale. As Hao Duanzhuang sneezed, she said, "It's okay. Just let me slow down my cognition."
"It's a bit cold here, let's grab our things and go back quickly."
Hao Duanzhuang put away the coffin and the treasure, and left with everyone while sneezing and spitting out white mist.
After the four people got out of the tomb and covered it with soil, the white fog inside could no longer block their way.
Instead, it seeped out through the soil in strands.
Cui Luoshan looked embarrassed: "This thing can't be handled. What we are doing here may be discovered tomorrow."
Emperor Jingming didn't care: "It's only a matter of time, but the Zhang family's behavior can reveal the news to Pingqing Hou."
"Even if the Zhang family finds out that their ancestral tomb has been robbed, they will be charged with corruption and won't be able to get away with it for more than a few days."
"We can get away with it."
Zhang Liang nodded: "Da Ya's move can be regarded as getting rid of harm to the court."
"But we still need to go to the Zhang family. Lord Rong has the account book of the Zhang family's corruption and bribery, so he has more reason to deal with them."
Zhang Huaishui listened to all this expressionlessly. After Zhang Liang finished speaking, he knelt down deeply in front of the prince.
"Your Highness, I have nothing to say."
He still knew some of the family secrets, and now he had to accept this fate.
After Emperor Jingming decided on the punishment, the Crown Prince knew what was going to happen and spoke coldly:
"Come here, throw Zhang Huaishui into the Tianlao Prison, and after we capture the Zhang family members, we will execute them on a chosen day."
The imperial guards came in and dragged Zhang Huaishui away.
The prince turned around and instructed Eunuch Lin to send a cup of poisoned wine to Concubine Yan, who had damaged the royal family's reputation, in order to save the late emperor's face.
Eunuch Lin took the order and left.
After Ye Shengxin and others dealt with the coffin of Zhang Hongye’s wife, they sat on the seesaw that made people swing up and down again.
This time, Ye Shengxin sat at the back. Until she got over the hurdle in her heart, she refused to have close contact with Hao Duanzhuang.
Hao Duanzhuang: ...
Hao Duanzhuang controlled the black fog and caused the seesaw to rise suddenly, causing it to sway violently up and down.
"Ah ah ah..."
Ye Xingxin's sharp explosion echoed throughout the mountains.
When the guards in charge of guarding the Zhang family's ancestral tomb heard the noise, they were startled and immediately ran out of the house with swords in hand to the entrance of the ancestral tomb.
Seeing the white mist coming out of the entrance, everyone was stunned.
"This...is this...the spirit of our ancestors appearing?"
"Isn't this the work of a ghost?" Some yamen runners disagreed.
"Snapped!"
The head guard slapped his younger brother on the head and said, "What nonsense! This is clearly smoke coming out of the master's ancestral grave."
"If we don't report this good news quickly, we might get a lot of reward." The guard leader tightened his belt.
"You stay here and I'll report to the Zhang family. I'll make sure you guys get some benefits."
The younger brothers quickly said yes.
The ministers who saw this scene: ...
Can this really be made up?
But isn't that how the servants at home were fooled?
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The guards acted quickly, and the maids and servants in the Huang family's kitchen were also quick to spread the news.
While having lunch, Ye Shengxin and his companions heard the news that green smoke was coming out of the Zhang family's ancestral tomb. The old man of the Zhang family, despite his illness, took a group of family members to the tomb to pay homage.
This matter was too coincidental. Rong Ping and Rong Anle immediately guessed that it was closely related to His Majesty.
I went to see it too.
When Huang Changsheng, the head of the family, learned about it, he was afraid of missing out on the opportunity to seek immortality, so he hurriedly called his family members and got on the carriage to rush over.
The masters of the mansion had all gone out, taking with them many maids, servants and the main stewards. For a moment, the mansion was a little deserted.
The servants who stayed behind were distracted and no longer worked hard.
There were several maids in the big kitchen who were doing small chores and took the opportunity to go home to visit their parents.
Ye Shengxin thought that he could not miss this joke, so he followed suit and took two taels of silver.
He got half a day off from the steward under the pretext of visiting his two donkeys.
Then, he endured the discomfort and asked Hao Duanzhuang to take the four of them to the scene again.
This time, the four of them stayed on a hillside, using grass and trees as cover, and looked at the hilarious scene below where the Zhang family members were holding incense and candles and worshiping, praying for blessings from their ancestors.
They all smiled.
These dignitaries are so easy to deceive.