Chapter 069: Sure enough, they came to my door

Being stared at by Ji Yunhuan with questioning eyes, Chen seemed to feel a little guilty and did not dare to look him in the eye.

At this time, Uncle Chen said in a deep voice, "Huan'er, just listen to your mother. Will your mother harm you?"

Ji Yunhuan was also anxious, "But uncle, if someone sees me, I'll be completely finished!"

Hearing this, Chen immediately assured: "Huan'er, don't worry, when you make your move, I will get everyone in the backyard out of the way, so no one will see it!"

Uncle Chen also echoed, "Yes, yes, send everyone away and no one will see it!"

The two looked at Ji Yunhuan anxiously, fearing that she would change her mind at the last minute.

Seeing Ji Yunhuan didn't say anything, Chen held her hand again and said seriously: "Huan'er, you should know better than anyone that if Shen Ningyuan doesn't die, she will never give up and will definitely force your father to send you to the temple to become a monk."

Ji Yunhuan's eyes trembled.

Seeing that she seemed to be loosening up, Chen raised her hand and made a gesture of wiping her neck, and said coldly: “So, Shen Ningyuan must die!”

Ji Yunhuan's eyes trembled again, and he stared at Chen in a daze.

…

At this time, Shen Ningyuan also got the news that Chen had taken Uncle Chen to Ji Yunhuan’s yard.

Lan Yin frowned and looked at Shen Ningyuan nervously, "Miss, Chen was just stopped from taking blood ginseng and bird's nest by Miss. Instead of coming to Miss's place first, she went to Ji Yunhuan's yard. I think there must be something fishy going on."

Shen Ningyuan curled her lips and sneered, "Of course she won't come to me. What she wanted to calculate from the beginning was my life."

"Miss, I don't understand." Lan Yin looked puzzled and asked, "Why did Chen want to plot against you, Miss, and go to Ji Yunhuan?"

"A selfish mother and a stupid and brainless daughter, what do you think?" Shen Ningyuan curled her lips and raised her eyebrows to look at Lan Yin.

Hearing this, Lan Yin was still a little confused.

Seeing that she didn’t understand, Shen Ningyuan patiently explained: “You just returned to the Marquis’ Mansion, and you don’t know that Chen instructed Ji Yunhuan to poison me at the funeral, so it’s normal that you don’t know.”

"What?" Lan Yin was shocked again. "Poisoning at a funeral? How dare they do that! It was at my son-in-law's funeral. Aren't they afraid of being exposed?"

"Of course they are not afraid of being exposed. They are just afraid that they can't poison me to death."

“…”

Lan Yin was speechless again, opening her mouth not knowing what to say.

Obviously, she didn't expect that such great changes would take place in the Marquis' Mansion in just one year.

The Ji family's plot against Shen Ningyuan has escalated from money to human life.

"What should we do then?" Lan Yin looked at Shen Ningyuan with worry on her face.

Shen Ningyuan spoke in a low voice, with a hint of certainty in her eyes, "Just wait, it won't be long before Ji Yunhuan will come to me on his own."

Although Chen Ningyuan looked calm, Lan Yin was still nervous, fearing that something might happen to Chen Ningyuan.

Two hours passed, but it was still dusk and the sun had not yet set.

Lan Yin kept pacing in the yard, not daring to leave the yard at all.

She was afraid that the Ji family would take advantage of her inattention and do something to hurt Shen Ningyuan.

After a while, just after Shen Ningyuan had finished dinner, Ji Yunhuan ran to Xiyuanju with an anxious look on his face.

As soon as he entered the room, he put his hand on Lan Yin's sleeve and said, "Quick, quick, ask my sister-in-law to go to the ancestral hall and take a look. I don't know what's going on, but there are suddenly so many snakes around my brother's coffin!"

Lan Yin was stunned. "What? Miss, please explain clearly. Isn't there someone watching over the ancestral hall? How did a snake suddenly enter?"

Ji Yunhuan quickly explained: "We don't know either. The servants guarding the ancestral hall didn't leave, but a lot of snakes appeared around the coffin inexplicably, as if..."

"Like what?" Lan Yin asked quickly.

Ji Yunhuan replied in panic, "It's like it appeared out of thin air!"

"!" Lan Yin was so shocked that she dared not speak.

Ji Yunhuan continued to speak in a mysterious tone, "I think that this is because my eldest brother's spirit in heaven died with his eyes open, so he deliberately possessed the snake and came to the Marquis' Mansion to warn my sister-in-law. After all, what my sister-in-law did to the Ji family during this period was really too much!"

"Impossible!" Lan Yin denied it without even thinking, "This is totally nonsense!"

Hearing this, Ji Yunhuan glared at Lan Yin in a warning tone, and said quietly, "If it wasn't my eldest brother's spirit that appeared, how can you explain why the animals surrounding the coffin weren't other animals, but snakes? My eldest brother's zodiac sign is the snake, you know that, right?"

“…”

Lan Yin was speechless, glanced at Ji Yunhuan hesitantly, and immediately turned around and walked towards Shen Ningyuan's room.

Who knew that just as I stepped onto the stairs, the door opened with a creak.

Shen Ningyuan appeared in the door with a very calm expression.

As soon as she saw Shen Ningyuan, Lan Yin quickly said, "Young Madam, over at the ancestral hall—"

"Don't worry, I've heard it."

Shen Ningyuan's expression was still calm, as if she was talking about something insignificant.

Ji Yunhuan had been staring at Shen Ningyuan's face, and seeing her expression so calm, he couldn't help but feel puzzled.

This Shen Ningyuan is a little too calm.

Why didn't she react at all when she heard that her eldest brother's coffin was surrounded by snakes?

While Ji Yunhuan was suspicious, Shen Ningyuan had already closed the door and walked down the stairs to Ji Yunhuan.

He asked coldly, "Aren't you under house arrest?"

Ji Yunhuan paused, and explained in an embarrassed tone: "I was confined to the yard, but when I heard that there were many snakes surrounding my eldest brother's coffin, I was anxious and ran to inform my sister-in-law."

As he spoke, Ji Yunhuan raised his hand, pressed Shen Ningyuan's shoulder, and said seriously: "Sister-in-law, now is not the time to worry about these things, you should go and have a look, those snakes can't be driven away no matter how hard you try, it's like they have become spirits..."

Hearing this, Shen Ningyuan said nothing more.

After glancing at the place where Ji Yunhuan had touched, he calmly withdrew his gaze and walked straight out of the yard.

Lan Yin followed closely behind, occasionally turning her head to look at Shen Ningyuan with a hint of worry in her eyes.

A moment later, the three of them arrived at the ancestral hall.

At this time, the ancestral hall had been surrounded by servants from the Marquis's Mansion, and many of them were craning their necks to look inside.

Just this scene, Shen Ningyuan's face suddenly darkened.

Look at this battle...

Are there really snakes?

While thinking, Lan Yin had already asked the crowd to disperse.

"Quickly move aside, the young lady is coming, stand aside and don't block the way."

After the words fell, everyone dispersed to both sides, making way for Shen Ningyuan.

At this time, Ji Yunhuan reached out and pulled Shen Ningyuan’s sleeve again, and whispered: “Sister-in-law, there are really a lot of snakes in there. I am most afraid of snakes, so I won’t go in with my sister-in-law.”

As he spoke, Ji Yunhuan acted timidly and kept backing away.

But Shen Ningyuan didn't give her a chance to refuse. She stretched out her hand, grabbed her neck, and dragged Ji Yunhuan into the ancestral hall.

While pulling, he said coldly: "Didn't you say that these snakes were possessed by your eldest brother? Your eldest brother loves you so much, how could he hurt you?"