The First Empress - Chapter 116

Chapter 116 Red Line Guanyin
Lan Sou Yu opened her bag. Lan Sou Yu did not hesitate to wrap a red thread around her hand and tie it around Red Line Guan Yin’s body. Then, she continued to circle around her body and tied the thread in her hand to Song Zi Guan Yin’s finger. Only then did she complete the sacred and complicated Mass.

Linglong hurriedly prepared to leave. Red-stringed Guan Yin was a method of suppressing victory. It was made by an old witch outside the palace using a secret technique. It was said that by binding Guan Yin with such red strings, one could control the minds of the opposite sex and achieve the result of reproduction. This kind of Guan Yin was exquisite and exquisite, but she had never seen it before. Today was the first time she had witnessed it with her own eyes. She couldn’t help but feel a bit of fear.

Linglong’s palms were sweating.

The red thread had already been handed over. “Sister Jie Yu can give it a try. This one is much more effective.”

Linglong waved her hand repeatedly and stood up from the prayer mat in panic, “Lan Sou Yu, you are so bold! How dare you win in the palace?”

“Overwhelming?” Lan Sou Yu slowly put away the red threads. At this time, she put away all the threads. All she could see was this sandalwood carved Guan Yin smiling kindly. There was a strange style in her smile.

“This is also a gift to Guanyin. Who knew that this palace uses the red line Guanyin? Open your eyes and take a look.” Lan Shuyu approached Linglong with high spirits. Linglong could almost feel the baleful aura coming from Lan Shuyu. She took a step back and stabilized herself. Linglong was not a person in a state of chaos.

After thinking for a while, he said, “I didn’t see anything today. Take care of yourself. I’ll just muddle along with the matter of winning in the palace. Don’t let me encounter it in the future.”

Lan Shuyu sighed. Her tone was faint, like a piece of spring silk. “You and I are just the same people. We just want children. As long as we have children in the end, no one will care about how this child came to be, right?”

Linglong didn’t need to think to know what Lan Sou Yu was saying, but she still slightly resisted, “But you shouldn’t use magic.”

“Magic?” Lan Sou Yu widened her eyes and looked cold and heartless. “Compared to other people using aphrodisiacs, this palace’s methods are truly brilliant, don’t you think?”

This was the first time Linglong had seen such a thing, so she couldn’t help but feel a little flustered. She used her hand to scratch her hair and sneered, “This kind of thing is noble? This kind of thing can only make people disdain it. Take your red line, Guanyin, and pretend that I didn’t see anything.”

“Sister Jieyu is indeed a person who knows nothing?” Lan Sou Yu was half convinced and half doubtful, her eyes flashing with a kind of resistance.

Linglong slowly stood up and smiled, “This palace feels that Your Highness needs to read more books of sages. What does Your Highness think?”

“This palace thinks that you should kowtow to Red-Line Guanyin as well, Your Highness. The people believe in Red-Line Guanyin very much.” Lan Sou Yu said coldly, without any emotion.

Linglong frowned slightly and said, “Farewell, I won’t worship this strange fellow.” Linglong almost felt that Red Line Guanyin was a little hateful, and she didn’t want to look at that seemingly hypocritical face that actually had a little bit of terror.

Lan Sou Yu sneered, “It’s just that we each get what we need. Your Highness, I wonder if Your Highness has thought about what happened last time. This old woman, the Empress, can’t let you soar. There will be a day when the Empress will kill you. Think about Chongyuan Li, isn’t that a coincidence?”

No, no, Linglong didn’t want to be misguided. Although the Empress sometimes didn’t understand what she was doing, Linglong believed that Ji Zhuhua wasn’t the culprit who harbored evil intentions. The matter regarding Li Chongyuan had already been settled. Linglong didn’t want to think about it any further.

Lan Shuyu looked at Linglong’s slightly stiff face and sneered, “It’s better for Your Highness to think carefully about what I said. Your Highness knows that she doesn’t want to believe in me, right?”

“No, you’re crazy!” Linglong brushed her sleeves away. Lan Sou Yu chased after her from behind and said, “Even if you don’t believe in Red Line Guan Yin, you should still believe in this palace. Sister Jieyu, the door of this palace is always open for my sister. As long as my sister is willing to surrender one day, this palace will welcome my sister with a smile.”

Linglong was filled with grievances, and the words that Lan Sou Yu said just now were even more perturbed. She looked at Lan Sou Yu behind her and said, “Since I don’t believe in the Red Snitch, I won’t believe in you. Your Highness, please do it yourself. The Imperial Palace is full of spies. Isn’t Your Highness afraid of being caught?” “You must know that these are the things that Dali Chao hates the most. Does Your Highness still remember about Grand Master Pang?”

In the previous dynasty, Grand Master Pang said that he could pray for the heavens to descend on him and be killed by Huiqi because of his victory in the palace. At that time, there was a written rule that no matter what level of people in the palace were, they must stop winning and must not engage in feudal superstition.

That was why even the Zi Hua Temple had the intention of cutting off the incense, let alone something as strange as the red line.

After Linglong finished speaking, He hurriedly turned around and said, Three steps and two steps later, he disappeared from the courtyard wall of Zi Hua Temple. Being exposed to the blazing sun outside, Linglong trembled slightly. Only then did she understand that she had already sunk deep into the mud and decided not to come here again. These strange powers were all deceptive. It was still possible to deceive a foolish woman. Even Linglong should not have been deceived. Thinking of this, Linglong quickened her pace.

He had originally thought that this matter had already ended, but who would have thought that the night would have an even more intense trend?

In the evening, Lan Sou Yu anxiously brought a group of Yu Lin Lang to smash Ling Long’s bedroom hall. Ling Long did not know why, so she asked Qin’er to open the door. Qin’er looked at the scene outside and quickly reported Ling Long. Ling Long had prevaricated in a few words, but did not ask any questions or reasons.

The next day, Linglong found out about the theft of Red Line Guanyin. Ji Zhu Hua comforted Lan Sou Yu and said that she would find it. Lan Sou Yu naturally kowtowed gratefully and said, “Your Highness, can you let me search the palace?”

“What kind of important thing is it? I have to work hard to move the crowd. It would be bad if the Emperor found out about it.” Ji Zhu Hua would not help Lan Sou Yu at all. Lan Sou Yu nodded her head and disappeared. After she went down, she gritted her teeth and wished she could tear Ling Long and Ji Zhu Hua apart.

In the evening, it was Lan Sou Yu who was sleeping again. Lan Sou Yu was extremely sad. When she saw Huiqi, she cried bitterly. Huiqi asked, “What’s wrong? What’s the meaning of this?”

Lan Shuyu nodded her head and said, “Your Majesty doesn’t know. A few days ago, this concubine asked my father to buy a glowing Guanyin from my family. This Guanyin was sculpted by an old carpenter from the previous dynasty. It was carved from a whole piece of sandalwood. This concubine is a Buddhist cultivator, so she naturally does not leave.” After looking at the Emperor’s expression, Huiqi did not express his stance. He only nodded and said, “You and Concubine De are exactly the same. Buddhist cultivators are originally good and have the heart of a Bodhisattva.”

Hearing this, Lan Sou Yu became even more unscrupulous. Even without her tears, she still had to squeeze out two drops of crocodile tears. Huiqi saw that Lan Sou Yu was wronged and asked, “What exactly happened?”

Lan Shuyu nodded. She swallowed her tears and said, “This concubine has always known that our dynasty does not allow any religious beliefs. However, this concubine only believes in Buddhism and says that Buddhism can be seen clearly. This concubine is naturally happy. However, this concubine’s good sandalwood Guanyin has actually disappeared. Your Majesty, you must make the decision for this concubine!” As he spoke, tears were about to spill out of his eyes. Huiqi naturally needed to preside over it, but he was afraid that Lan Shuyu would make a name for herself. So, he said, “What do you plan to do?”

Lan Sou Yu nodded her head in grievance. “Right now, only the various palaces have investigated. That red sandalwood Guan Yin was placed in the concubine’s side hall. In the past few days, it must be impossible to say who accidentally took it away.”

Hui Qi didn’t want to pay attention to these trivial matters and nodded, “Just do as you say.”

Lan Sou Yu immediately rebuked and kowtowed to Huiqi one after another on the ground. Huiqi pulled Lan Sou Yu up.

On this side, Linglong was also embarrassed in the room. She looked at Qin’er and asked, “What do you mean by Lan Sou Yu? She clearly didn’t think that her things were missing, but the first one to be searched last night was our Yunluan Palace. What does that mean?”

Qin’er frowned and said, “Your Highness doesn’t know anything. She didn’t say that she was searching for Guanyin on the red line last night. She just pointed it out and told this servant to take a good look to see if there is a sandalwood Guanyin at home. She didn’t say that she was sending a child to Guanyin.”

Linglong sneered. This was Lan Sou Yu’s cleverness. “That’s right. I presume she even said that this is a priceless Guan Yin, right?”

“Isn’t that so?” Qin’er nodded her head repeatedly. “It was said that the celebrities in the capital had spent their entire lives and painstaking effort to finish the carving. They went to Baohua Temple to open up the light again. In short, it was priceless.”

Linglong was afraid that Lan Sou Yu would set a trap for her, so she hurriedly ordered her servants to go down to He Palace to take a look. It was true that there wasn’t such a Guan Yin, so she was slightly relieved.

Qin’er reminded Linglong, “Concubine, it’s obvious that this is for you. Don’t you know?”

Linglong gritted her teeth and laughed sweetly like a silver bell. “She is not afraid of the shadows, so I won’t be afraid. The soldiers came to block the water and cover the earth. In the end, I told everyone that Lan Sou Yu went to the people to ask for a method to suppress her victory. Isn’t it worth it?”

Qin’er said, “She must have also left a hand. As for the matter of the Red Line Guanyin, other than the Empress and herself, no one else can see it. The Empress should not say it out loud unless she has no other choice.”

Thinking of this, Linglong suddenly frowned and said, “Go to Zi Hua Temple and make sure to find the cut red line in the ash. Also, take a look to see if there are any wounds on the index finger of Song Zi Guan Yin’s right hand.”

Qin’er knew that Zi Hua Temple was in big trouble, so she hurriedly ran to Zi Hua Temple. Linglong sat upright, the corner of her mouth slightly maintaining this sneer, her gaze as if she did not have a focal length.

Seeing Linglong like this, Li Sheng brought over a cup of ginseng tea. “Your Highness, use some tea. Don’t trouble yourself to think about it. The boat will definitely be straight at the end of the bridge.” Linglong took a sip and sneered, “This palace wants to see who is jumping over the wall. Could it be that this palace is still afraid of her?”

Li Sheng secretly nodded and said, “It seems like Lan Sou Yu just wants you to be with her and take down some people. Your Highness must be careful. Some people don’t seem to be that powerful. Your Highness must remember one thing. Those who don’t show their mountains and don’t show their waters are usually the most powerful.”

“Sheng, did she come here first last night to make this palace immediately express her attitude and position? If her attitude and position were to stand on her side, she would be calm, if not,” Linglong nodded her head repeatedly as she understood this logic from a young age. “Sheng, did she come here first last night to make this palace express her attitude and position immediately? If not, then she would be calm!” Linglong gritted her teeth and said, “She will kill them all?”

Li Sheng nodded slightly. “Your Highness is a smart person. She has already thought of a way to deal with it, hasn’t she?”

Linglong nodded and said, “If the Emperor hadn’t kept the Lan Sou Yu useful, this palace would have greatly injured Lan Sou Yu’s Yuan Qi this time. However, this is meaningless. Let’s proceed step by step. One day, I think we would have completely broken apart.”

After a while, Qin’er had already run back. Seeing Qin’er return, Linglong asked, “Is there any?”

Qin’er handed over a paper bag in her hand. “There are all red threads inside. Just ask the Shanggong Bureau who used these red threads. Don’t worry, Your Highness.”

“Sheng, you go and find Empress Han Shanggong. Tell her that I want to catch up with her.” As Linglong spoke, she tightened her grip on the thread in her hand.