I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

Different from Ai Ziyi's tense and thrilling life experience, Liu Zhirou's life is so dull that it makes people want to give up.

However, Liu Zhirou did not let down her guard. Instead, she became more vigilant in this comfortable and relaxing environment.

Some things cannot be simply seen from the surface. They may appear peaceful, but in fact, they are already turbulent to the point where they are almost uncontrollable.

Liu Zhirou calmly entrusted all matters in the Cining Palace to Tanxiang. Tanxiang herself was sent by the Queen Mother. Although she might not be very loyal, she was not easily bribed by other concubines in the palace.

And even if Tan Xiang really had some ulterior motives, it didn't matter. This was in the Empress Dowager's palace anyway, and the current Empress Dowager wanted to see the birth of this child much more than Liu Zhirou herself, whether it was due to the influence of the evil Buddha or her own reasons.

Liu Zhirou has always focused most of her attention on the palace, trying to find out the cause of the Lianmeng Palace incident.

The more she investigated, the more frightened she became. Those who died in Lianmeng Palace were not only Concubine Chen, but also several ordinary concubines who depended on her, and some palace maids and eunuchs who served her.

Also buried in Lianmeng Palace was a very elite army!

Yes, the army. Although the emperor has tried his best to cover up the weirdness of Lianmeng Palace, when an army marches into the palace, there will always be a few people who find something wrong. Then, if they send some people out secretly to check the situation of the Imperial Guards, it is easy to come to the conclusion that an elite force of no less than a thousand people disappeared silently in the palace.

This made Liu Zhirou even more alert to the anomalies in Lianmeng Palace. Things seemed to be very bad, and the place where she was might be the real monster base.

Liu Zhirou understood that the relationship between Concubine Chen and the Queen Mother was extremely close, and it was definitely not what ordinary outsiders could see.

The abnormal pregnancy of Concubine Chen this time was most likely an attempt made by the evil Buddha behind the Queen Mother. The Emperor seemed to be particularly sensitive to this and was even willing to affect the balance of power in the entire palace. He was determined to wipe out Concubine Chen and the child in her belly.

However, some accidents occurred during the process, which resulted in the emperor himself being seriously injured and narrowly escaping death, and he did not achieve his desired goal.

Liu Zhirou investigated for a long time before coming to the conclusion that although Chen Fei herself had been reduced to ashes, her child might still be alive.

When Liu Zhirou came to this conclusion, she was incredulous. How could this be possible? Anyone with a little common sense would know how fragile a premature fetus is. Not to mention the previous fire, how could the child survive in the ruins of Lingmeng Palace these days without anyone to take care of it?

But when Liu Zhirou thought about the evil Buddha, she had to admit that this matter was not completely impossible.

Wang Fuhai and A'man, who had already died, could walk around the palace like normal people, and even had a great influence on the concubines. It didn't seem particularly strange that a child who shouldn't have survived unexpectedly survived.

However, Liu Zhirou still decided to send the ghost into Lianmeng Palace to investigate personally.

The bodies of ordinary ghosts are too fragile. Once they get close to Lin Meng Palace, they will be suppressed by the aura inside and unable to get up within ten feet. They can only crawl on the ground. Although Liu Zhirou can control ghosts, it is difficult to command them perfectly in this situation.

Liu Zhirou searched hard for a long time and finally found a pretty good ghost. This ghost was a little palace maid who was beaten to death by her own queen because she was wrongly accused. So she was very resentful. Liu Zhirou helped the ghost to avenge the queen who had wrongly beaten her to death. This was a very easy thing for Liu Zhirou. After all, ghosts only have past obsessions and cannot fully identify how to take revenge. But Liu Zhirou's thinking is very clear. She can make the other party suspicious and think about it for a long time by pretending to be a ghost.

After taking revenge, Liu Zhirou manipulated her to walk along the harem, on the one hand to look for possible abnormalities, and on the other hand to detect the situation in Lin Meng Palace.

After circling around a few times and making sure that there were no particularly eye-catching special circumstances, Liu Zhirou tentatively controlled the ghost to move away little by little in the Bai Lianmeng Palace.

At the west wall of Lianmeng Palace, Liu Zhirou encountered a confused wandering figure. It was a girl who looked to be about twenty years old. She was wearing the uniform of a palace maid, with her hair neatly tied up and a rather luxurious gold hairpin on her head. It could be seen that she was probably a more trusted senior palace maid.

But Liu Zhirou didn’t understand why she had to stay in such a place alone.

Liu Zhirou knew very well that the Lianmeng Palace was a very unlucky place. This unlucky saying was not only because someone died in it, so the people in the palace felt it was unlucky, but also had something to do with the strange aura. Even if ordinary people could not detect the abnormality, their instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm would not let them come here casually.

Liu Zhirou became curious, so she moved slightly toward that side, but she didn't expect that such a small movement would cause a huge reaction from the other party.

The girl turned her head suddenly, and a pair of dark eyes stared at her.