Chapter 63 The Secret Has Been Revealed

"Since that's the case, let's find a pretext to punish Granny Ma and send her far away, so you won't always be living in fear."

Yuan Hongqu's expression was indifferent.

She is a law-abiding citizen who doesn't like to meddle in other people's business.

Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the matter of acting on behalf of Heaven is something that Heaven will do; she felt it was not her place to do it.

But this time, she wanted to do it.

According to the original book, Granny Ma was a charlatan who used her knowledge of some evil magic to harm many people.

When Ma Daopo's misdeeds were exposed, a lot of harmful things were found in her house.

If we don't teach her a lesson this time, in a few years, she and Aunt Zhao will conspire to cause Wang Xifeng and Jia Baoyu a huge disaster.

Before its claws reach out, chop them off early to prevent future trouble!

Wang Xifeng felt uneasy and whispered,

"Sister, it's not right to wrongfully frame a monk like this. I've heard that Taoists are very powerful; what if..."

Wang Xifeng had heard that many Taoist practitioners were arrogant and self-important, and possessed great abilities; she feared being retaliated against.

"People like Granny Ma are called 'demonic Taoists.' They're like the Deer Power Immortal and Sheep Power Immortal in Journey to the West."

When Wang Xifeng heard about Journey to the West, her eyes lit up. Ask any child, which one of them hadn't read Journey to the West when they were young, and which one didn't know the plot of Journey to the West by heart?

After Yuan Hongqu said that, Wang Xifeng understood, and she no longer had any psychological burden in dealing with a sorcerer.

“Over the years she has done a lot of immoral things, including taking people’s lives. You might as well have someone pretend to be the victim and file a complaint with the Shuntian Prefecture... You can have someone point out the key areas to search her house. There must be a lot of evidence in her house.”

Yuan Hongqu looked up and saw that Wang Xifeng was listening attentively but didn't seem to be taking it all in. She sighed inwardly, realizing that she couldn't rely on this person to do this.

“If you think you can’t do it, then let Jia Lian do it. Just say that after you sent someone to invite Granny Ma today, you felt uneasy and uncomfortable all over, and you were afraid that you were cursed. Have Jia Lian send someone to investigate secretly. That Granny Ma is always going from house to house, she can’t possibly do things so thoroughly, we’ll eventually find her out.”

Yuan Hongqu originally intended to resolve the matter quickly and cleanly, but she noticed that Wang Xifeng didn't seem to understand, and if she were to mess it up, it would be even more troublesome!

So I simply told her to go directly to Jia Lian.

While Wang Xifeng might lack the skill to deal with others, she has Jia Lian completely under her thumb.

Wang Xifeng nodded, her expression no longer showing the same fear she had when she arrived.

Yuan Hongqu felt that she needed to add more fuel to the fire to burn away the ghost in her heart; some things just needed someone else's help to break through.

So she said earnestly:

"Feng'er, think back to when Jia Lian first arrived. What was he like? How did he treat Wang Xifeng back then?"

Wang Xifeng thought carefully for a moment before speaking: "At that time, he had Ping'er as a concubine, and he was also having affairs outside. During my confinement period, I overheard Ping'er whispering with him about some girl outside who had bewitched Jia Lian..."

As she spoke, she felt inexplicably saddened and couldn't help but lower her head.

"I had just arrived then and was terrified, so I wouldn't let him near me and didn't give him a kind look... But he seemed to realize his mistake and tried to coax me in every way, and I fell for his tricks..."

Wang Xifeng's face flushed red, then she felt both ashamed and angry.

"But I never expected that he would pass on that venereal disease to me. After I realized it, I ignored him for several months until my sister came and treated me for a long time before I recovered..."

"Later, I don't know when it started, he stopped going to Ping'er's side altogether. He told me he went to see a doctor and said he's much better now, and that from now on he only needs me..."

Yuan Hongqu listened quietly to what she had said before speaking.

"You two had been married for so many years, and you still couldn't tame him. But in such a short time, he's completely submissive to you. Tell me, who does he love?"

As the saying goes, an outsider sees things more clearly. Wang Xifeng, who was involved in the situation, actually saw things less clearly than Yuan Hongqu, who had only been in the Rongguo Mansion for a few months.

"Sister Yuan, he..." Wang Xifeng was surprised and couldn't believe it.

“He’s the one you tamed, hurry back! If you’re any later he’ll come back demanding him again!” Yuan Hongqu said with a smile.

Wang Xifeng's upturned lips couldn't be suppressed.

Sure enough, less than three days after Wang Xifeng went back and pretended to be sick, Jia Lian sent people to search Ma Daopo's house and then reported it directly to the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

The Imperial Guards found numerous clay and straw figures at Granny Ma's house, some with headbands, some with nails piercing their chests, and others with chains around their necks; there were also countless paper figures and cloth dolls covered in needles, some with talismans drawn on them and names and birth dates written on them—all things she used to perform evil deeds. There were also many sleeping potions and incense sticks; it's unknown how many people she harmed with these!

The claim that she often used sea lanterns and needed money for lamp oil was also false; after searching everywhere, not a single oil lamp could be found!

The cost of the oil for those sea lamps was countless, and we still keep a small account of it!

At this time, several families who had been in contact with Granny Ma came out to accuse her of using witchcraft to harm people's lives.

There were three households involved, each with someone dying mysteriously.

The cause of death was always the same: they would first go crazy, suffer from terrible headaches, causing chaos in the house, then fall into a coma and lose consciousness, and die within three to five days.

The Ministry of Justice interrogated Ma Daopo repeatedly and, after verifying that the plaintiff's statement was true, directly sentenced Ma Daopo to death.

Granny Ma died without ever knowing who she had wronged to suffer this calamity.

When Wang Xifeng learned that Granny Ma had been sentenced to immediate execution, she felt relieved and walked with a brisk pace, feeling completely at ease.

Yuan Hongqu couldn't bear to tell her that Granny Ma was just a minor character, and that there were real gods in Dream of the Red Chamber, namely the lame Taoist priest and the bald-headed monk.

But those two probably won't bother with small fry like them, right?

A monk and a Taoist priest at the foot of Qinggeng Peak in the Great Wilderness Mountain spent a long time calculating and then exchanged a glance.

"We can't control this anymore, let them be."

"So in this life, we won't go and guide Fairy Crimson Pearl and Attendant Divine Stone back to their immortal positions?"

"The secrets of heaven have already been revealed, so let's just forget about it in this life."

"Everyone knows that immortals are good, but they can't forget fame and fortune! Where are the great figures of the past and present? They're just overgrown graves."

"No matter how successful she became, in the end she was nothing more than a lonely soul, a handful of dust..."