The queen's face flashed with a hint of impatience, but Lin Shi had been recovering from her injuries for nearly half a month now. Although she was still not fully recovered, she could still manage to bow her head and pay respects without any issues. However, today wasn't the time to be nitpicking about these things. She sat down directly in the main seat, glanced sideways at the people of Mirror Moon Pavilion, and slowly began to speak: "Gongzhu has been resting for many days, so naturally she wouldn't blame you. This palace came here today also because there is an urgent matter - Ye Liangyu's affair has caused a huge stir, I'm afraid you're also aware of it? Don't know if Gonggong has arrived at Mirror Moon Pavilion?"

  Lin Yan has not yet performed the ceremonial rites, and although others address her as "Gui Fei", in reality she is still only a Gui Yi. Chu Xue, who was standing beside her, bowed to the Empress Dowager and replied: "Just now, Guigong Gong searched thoroughly but did not find anything..."

  "Marquis Gui only searched the inner palace, perhaps there was an oversight elsewhere." The empress interrupted Chuyue with a cold tone. Before Lin Yuan could speak, she raised her hand to the palace maid behind her, and Daguang Chun immediately led a group of people towards the rear hall's side chamber.

  The ladies in the Mirror Moon Pavilion were suddenly flustered, unsure why the Empress wanted to search the palace for a second time. Lin Wan's hand grasped her teacup tightly, her calm tone and expression barely concealing her suppressed anxiety: "This is truly troubling Your Majesty. This is the first time Your Majesty has deigned to visit the Mirror Moon Pavilion, and yet you have come again, despite the heavy condition of Consort Sheng...the consorts are all filled with regret..."

  "This palace also heard the report from others, saying that there might be something in the Mirror Moon Pavilion, so I came to take a look." The empress half-closed her eyes, and a faint smile with an inexplicable meaning appeared at the corner of her lips.

  The gentle and quiet Xiang Fei, who had not spoken until now, let out a soft sigh and said indifferently: "This palace is getting more and more unsettling."

  Only Xiang Fei dared to say that the harem was not peaceful in front of the empress, and Xiang Fei's arrogance had not been restrained in the slightest due to her illness for several months.

  Lin Wan couldn't help but look at her. Xiang Fei's complexion was not as bad as Lin Wan had imagined, but she spoke and acted with a lazy demeanor, and the bright and charming appearance of the past seemed to have disappeared. The makeup on her face was not thick, and her clothes were not as luxurious as those of the Empress Dowager, except for the large Dong pearl inlaid on the gold hairpin on her hair bun, which was probably unmatched in the entire palace, and its grandeur made people glance at it sideways.

  Perhaps due to morning sickness, Lin Yin noticed that she was noticeably thinner than three months ago, yet her belly was surprisingly large, its protruding shape not like eight months, but rather as if she were about to give birth. The thinness of her face and the unusually large size of her abdomen gave Empress Xiang a startling appearance at this moment. Lin Yin's right hand trembled slightly, and the teacup lightly knocked against the small table before she raised her eyes and fixed them steadily on Empress Xiang: "The palace is full of people and things are complicated, naturally it's not peaceful. Empress Xiang should understand this point, and it would be best for her to calm down and quietly recuperate in the palace."

  Xiang Fei let out a cold laugh, seemingly even too lazy to speak, but didn't get angry.

  Lin Wan's eyes were still stuck on Xiang Fei and couldn't move away.

  She always felt that something was off about Shangguan Li...

  The hall was quiet for a moment, with only the sound of rummaging coming from the back hall. After a brief moment, the eunuchs who had been searching came out, and Quan Qiu held a small package wrapped in red silk cloth in his hand, his face looked strange as he bowed to the empress, his voice was low but loud enough for the masters in the hall to hear: "Everything is here, please take a look, Your Majesty."

  The package was covered in mud, and the red satin was filthy. A little palace maid came forward to open it, kneeling down to present it to the empress. The empress only glanced at it, but her face turned pale with rage, and she swept the teacup on the table to the ground, shouting: "What a dirty thing!"

  The queen had never been so angry, and everyone in the room was shocked. They all looked at the package, and suddenly a little palace maid let out a terrified scream. Everyone who saw it was frightened pale, gasping for breath. Lin Yu tightly clenched her fists, she also saw - she saw that the red cloth package revealed a white edge with several thick silver needles inserted, reflecting a chilling light in the winter sun.

  "Impossible!" Lin Wan looked up at the empress without fear: "It's impossible for such a thing to be in the Mirror Moon Pavilion, where did Your Majesty find it?"

  "Lin, and let's not mention whether this thing is related to you or not." The empress's face turned iron-green, obviously extremely angry: "Master Huiji indeed spoke the truth, Kui Mu Lang, Kui Mu Lang occupies the northwest... In the palace, only those with 'wood' in their surname are in the northwest corner of the palace. Master Huiji's words were mysterious, and at first, this palace didn't believe it, but this thing in front of us is truly shocking to this palace!"

  The palace maid, Autumn, also said: "Last night, Ye Liangyu had abdominal pain that wouldn't stop and bled again. The imperial physician was called in but couldn't find anything wrong with her. Fortunately, the wise Master Huici, who was still in the palace after praying for blessings yesterday, was summoned by the Empress to pray for Ye Xiaozhu. As a result, Master Huici took one look at Ye Xiaozhu and saw signs of evil spirits surrounding her body. After divining and calculating, he inferred that someone in the northwest corner of the imperial palace had cast a curse, intending to defy heaven and change the celestial phenomena, harming the children of the inner palace."

  The disaster of witchcraft started with Emperor Wu of Han, who was a brutal emperor by nature. Due to unfounded curses, he executed the crown prince, forced Empress Wei Zifu to hang herself, and beheaded the eldest princess. The number of people involved reached tens of thousands. People in this era had a crazy superstition about this thing, even if they were as talented as Tuoba Hong, they couldn't escape it.

  Moreover, several imperial physicians could not diagnose Ye's condition, and Huiji's words were reasonable, so Tuoba Hong naturally believed them somewhat. However, the fact that the imperial family was cursed was something that absolutely could not be spread, so Tuoba Hong ordered it to be kept secret, and then used Ye's poisoning as a reason to thoroughly search the six palaces.

  Wan Qiu said, a faintly discernible evil excitement seeping onto her face. Her lips curled into a cold smile as she looked at Lin Yuan, yet her expression remained respectful: "The situation is severe, since this object was found in the Mirror Moon Pavilion, Concubine Xiao must have some knowledge of it, please inform the Empress truthfully."

  Lin Wan no longer wanted to listen to the words of Huang Hou and others. Her eyes stared straight at the package that had been thrown on the ground, and then slowly walked forward, squatting down to open the outermost layer of silk cloth. Her fingers seemed to want to touch the wooden puppet. Chu Xue suddenly knelt down in front of her, hastily blocking her way: "Young Master, absolutely not! Witchcraft is untouchable!"

  "What sorcery!" Lin Yu shook off Chu Xue's hand: "I don't believe it, this Mirror Moon Pavilion can still produce ghosts! Ha, is this a curse?" She picked up the object and examined it up and down: "Ye Shi embroidered heart, is this a curse on Ye Liangyuan? May 28th is indeed Ye Shi's birthday, and the eight characters of her birthdate all have forty-nine steel needles inserted, which does seem like a real deal. Ha! So last night Ye Liangyuan wasn't poisoned, but was cursed? This is really strange!"

  A wooden puppet made of white silk was held in Lin Wan's hand for examination, and the people around her were so frightened that their souls flew away. The palace maids and eunuchs all hid three feet away from Lin Wan, afraid of being infected with evil spirits. But Lin Wan was not deterred at all, and coldly smiled at the crowd: "Witchcraft is a taboo for generations of royal families. According to the Great Qin Code, whoever made this wooden puppet should be executed along with their entire family! Following the Empress's meaning, if this thing was found in my palace, then it must have been me who made it, and I used witchcraft to harm Concubine Xiang and Ye Liangyu?"

  The queen's expression calmed down a bit, and she sighed: "Lin Shi, don't panic for now. The thing was dug up from the soil in your back palace Mei Lin, looking at you like this, maybe it really wasn't buried by you. Witchcraft is the most terrifying curse, the real evil person must be afraid of evil spirits invading their body and dare not put it near themselves, but instead found you. This thing was searched out in your palace, which can actually explain that it wasn't done by your own hands. But no matter what, it was discovered in the Mirror Moon Pavilion. This is an evil object, very ominous."

  Lin Yan's eyes narrowed slightly.

  Xiao Yueyi is not a superficial woman. Lin Wan's old wounds have not yet healed, and Xiao Yueyi understands that it would be difficult to get rid of Lin Wan at this time. If she insisted that the doll on the ground was made by Lin Wan's own hands, Tuoba Hong would only think that there were other hidden circumstances, that the Empress was being wronged or even framing Lin Wan. But if it is said that Lin Wan had no knowledge of this matter, but the object was dug up from Jingyue Pavilion, then regardless of whether this matter has anything to do with Lin Wan, Jingyue Pavilion would still be an inauspicious place, and Lin Wan would also be an inauspicious person.

  Especially this matter was proposed by Master Hui Ci of the Da Jue Temple, and the empress searched according to Master Hui Ci's words, and indeed found it. It can be seen that Master Hui Ci's Dharma power is profound. In this way, as long as Master Hui Ci says that Lin Yuan is unlucky, even Emperor Tuoba Hong cannot turn things around for her.

  "Empress, you're really good at joking!" Lin Yan sneered repeatedly: "According to the Empress and Master Huiji's meaning, is this Mirror Moon Pavilion a haunted house? Then wouldn't the concubines who have been living here for so long also be unlucky, with misfortune befalling them?" She turned around and swept her gaze across the palace servants in the hall, suddenly tossing the wooden puppet several meters away, startling everyone into screaming and jumping out of the way: "I'm puzzled, if I were an unlucky person, how could I have received a revelation from heaven when the Emperor was stabbed, and saw that assassin shooting arrows? Now it seems, I don't even know whether I'm a lucky or an unlucky person!"

  "Lin, you, you..." Lin Yu's words were sharp and pressing, showing no respect for the Empress's position. Even though the Empress was normally composed, this conversation had already made her face turn purple with rage, pointing at Lin Yu but unable to speak. She had never thought that there would be a woman like Lin Yu in the palace, who after being found guilty of serious crimes, not only didn't show any remorse or anxiety to defend herself, but instead brazenly accused the Empress, the mistress of the harem.

  The queen pointed at Lin Wan's hand for a long time before putting it down. She fiercely smashed the second cup of tea in her hand to the ground beside Lin Wan, and then angrily shouted: "Put Hui Xieyu under house arrest! Wrap this thing on the ground with red silk and take it away, and go invite Master Hui Ci to come and perform rituals to exorcise the evil spirit!"

  The queen could no longer bear it, she didn't want to look at Lin Wan again, nor did she want to stay in the Mirror Moon Pavilion for a moment, so she stepped out with a swish of her sleeves.

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