Chapter 245: Ghost by the River

"If you have nothing to do, you can go and take a look. This ghost might have lost its obsession." After Su Nuobai finished speaking, he saw a little girl sitting down opposite him.

The little girl was not very old, probably only seven or eight years old.

Guan Daya felt a little awkward sitting on the small stool, not knowing how to start the conversation.

Su Nuobai looked at her clothes, which were all patched and her face was yellow. She must be from a poor family. "Little sister, is there something wrong with you?"

"Master Su, I want to find my father." Guan Daya's voice was a little low.

"Is your father in Shengjing City?" Su Nuobai said and then looked at her face.

The girl's face has damaged sun and moon corners. Her mother has passed away, but her father is still alive.

"My mother said he was there and asked me to come find him." Guan Daya stopped talking after she said that.

"Do you know your own fortune?" Su Nuobai looked at her and asked.

Guan Daya pulled out a crumpled piece of yellow paper from her clothes: "This is what my mother gave me."

Su Nuobai took it and looked at it. It was a birth chart. She counted on her fingers and looked at Guan Daya's face.

"Your father doesn't know you exist. If you go looking for him now, it may not be a good thing."

"My father doesn't recognize me?" Guan Daya looked at her in surprise.

"Not really, it's just that he had his own family, and his relationship with your mother was just a fleeting one. Who knew your mother was pregnant with you at that time?"

"She doesn't even know your father's name. She only knows that he's from Shengjing. If you go find him now, he might not recognize you."

Su Nuobai calculated that even if she went there, she might not be able to enter the house, and might even be kicked out.

I'm afraid his father's wife won't let her go.

Guan Daya was a little overwhelmed: "Master Su, I have nowhere to go. I just want to find my father."

"Think it over carefully. If you don't want to go find him, you can come to my farm and learn some skills so that you can support yourself in the future."

Su Nuobai gave a final word of advice.

"I've made up my mind. I just want to see my father." Guan Daya was very stubborn.

Su Nuobai sighed and told her an address: "Let's forget about the divination fee today!"

"Thank you, Master Su." Guan Daya thanked her with a smile on her face.

Feng Zhi frowned as he watched her leaving. There was some death on the girl's face just now, but it was not obvious.

But when she made the decision, the deathly aura was so thick that it could not be dispelled. This was an inevitable death.

"Miss."

"I persuaded her and offered her help, but she refused." After saying this, Su Nuobai stood up, packed up his stall and prepared to leave.

Uncle Jia and the others were confused by what they heard. Not long after, the girl's body was found lying in the alley.

Su Nuobai sat in the yard drinking tea. Seeing that the weather was starting to warm up, he decided to buy some things and go back to see his mother.

"Miss, when do you plan to come back to see Madam?" Feng Zhi sat next to her.

"After we finish dealing with things on the river tonight, we'll go back." Su Nuobai wanted to relax for a while and sort out some ideas.

"Nuonuo, come to our house for the New Year this year!" Lu Lingyan sat next to her and invited her.

"No, I'm going back tomorrow to spend the New Year with my mother and grandfather. I heard the village is more lively than the city."

Su Nuobai poured her a cup of tea.

"Ah! Is it fun in the village?" Lu Lingyan was quite curious.

"It's fun, killing the New Year pig, pasting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, pounding rice cakes, etc." Su Nuobai heard it when he went back last time.

The Luo family also hoped that she could go back and celebrate the New Year with them. After all, there was nothing to do, and she also wanted to go back and stay for a while.

"It sounds like a lot of fun, and I'd like to go with you. But there's always a palace banquet every New Year. Aren't you going to attend?"

Lu Lingyan remembered that she also held an official position.

"I probably won't attend. They will probably feel even more uncomfortable seeing me." Su Nuobai smiled faintly.

When I was about to go out in the evening, I ran into Lu Heyu who had just returned home. It had been many days since we last saw each other.

"It's a good thing you didn't go out." Lu Heyu said with a smile.

"Do you have something to talk to me about?" Su Nuobai looked at him curiously.

"Let's talk while we walk." Lu Heyu got on the carriage first.

Su Nuobai got on the carriage without saying anything: "Is it related to the lights on the river?"

Lu Heyu nodded: "Speaking of which, it should have happened during the reign of the late emperor."

"Three ships carrying government silver disappeared on this river, and the officials escorting them vanished without a trace, as if they had vanished from the face of the earth."

"The silver on these three ships represented a year's worth of tax revenue, excluding that of Shengjing City. It disappeared without a trace, and the late emperor was furious. He suspected the escorting officials of embezzlement."

"Issue an order to arrest all relatives of thirteen important officials and put them in prison."

"They wanted to use this to force out the person who stole the official silver, but even after the news was released, no one showed up. The late emperor ordered the execution of all the officials' relatives and launched a massive search for the whereabouts of the official silver."

Su Nuobai raised his eyebrows slightly: "You mean the twelve lights and the white-robed male ghost on the face are the officials who escorted the official silver back then."

Lu Heyu nodded. "At first, I had my doubts too. But then I heard about the male ghost in white, and I remembered seeing in the files that the leading official always loved to wear white clothes."

"If they were really the officials being escorted back then, even if the late emperor misunderstood them, and they had no place to appeal, it's understandable that they would refuse to leave."

Su Nuobai looked at him after he finished speaking: "What does your majesty mean?"

"If there is any injustice, it must be redressed." Lu Heyu said as the carriage stopped.

Several people got off the carriage one after another and walked towards the river.

At this moment, twelve white lanterns slowly rose above the river, looking a little weird and scary.

Su Nuobai turned his head to look at the big rock by the river. There sat a man in white clothes with an iron chain extending from his neck to the bottom of the river.

"Do you want me to open your third eye?"

She turned around and asked Lu Heyu and others beside her.

Qi Yu and the others took a few deep breaths before nodding, "Thank you, Master Su."

Su Nuobai raised his hand and swept it in front of their eyes, opening their third eye.

"Looking for you, sir." Lu Heyu called out tentatively.

The male ghost reacted and turned to look at the few people, the chains on his body making a clanging sound: "You, you can see me."

He looked at them excitedly: "After all these years, someone finally recognized me."

"Master Xun, what exactly happened back then?" Lu Heyu asked.

Lord Xun looked towards the river: "Do you see those twelve lights?"

Lu Heyu nodded: "I see."

"Where are my colleagues buried? Back then, several of us were ordered to escort tax silver to the capital. All our itineraries and routes were kept secret."

"But something went wrong just as we were about to reach Shengjing. We encountered a lot of pirates and were chased all the way here."

"We had already suffered heavy casualties, but we were still some distance away from Shengjing City. Given our situation at the time, we simply couldn't make it to Shengjing City."