The Death of Yuhuan (XV)
The little maid replied: "The young master should be back soon, so we can only take the express train to hurry back now."
She also reminded them: "Are you going to watch the fun? Don't go yet. Although the people in their courtyard are easy to talk to, the master is still there. I don't know why the master still protects the young mistress after she did such a thing..."
She was very angry: "Just because she accompanied me to watch a few plays? Our wife also loves to listen to them!"
"It's only the master and the young master who treat her particularly well because she is a 'new-style woman'. I think she is not as good as our wife..."
After letting the little maid return to the crowd, the players were all in a dilemma.
It is now certain that Man Yue is a ghost, and now we have to find her to advance the plot, but Du Xingye is with her.
I was warned yesterday, and going there now would be courting death.
If they really wanted to go there, the players would have to flee in all directions before the plot was over and the portal appeared.
"Why don't we each check out other story lines to increase our participation in the plot and get more points," Zhang Yuan suggested.
The proposal was unanimously agreed.
So everyone agreed to gather in the west wing in the evening, leave notes if there was anything important, and then go their separate ways.
Xu Wei plans to look for Lihua.
In order to avoid attracting attention, she changed into servant's clothes, wandered around, and asked several people before finally reaching the servants' room.
The room looks very simple.
Lihua has been acting as a housekeeper for such a long time, but she still hasn't lived in a single-family house.
"Pear blossom."
Xu Wei knocked on the door.
"Pear flower?"
I knocked again, but still no one answered.
Xu Wei looked around a few times. It was a busy time and there were not many people in the yard.
Looking at the slightly open window beside me, an idea came to my mind.
Just as I was about to move, someone grabbed my shoulder and spoke behind me.
"Ms. Xu, what are you doing?"
"Lihua!" Xu Wei's eyes lit up and she turned around. The person in front of her was half a head taller than her and had curly pigtails.
He quickly grasped her hand and said seriously: "I came to see you. It's not convenient outside. Can we go in and talk?"
She thought she would be rejected, but unexpectedly Lihua was silent for a moment and actually opened the door to let her in.
Xu Wei followed in happily and looked around curiously.
The room was simply furnished with a plain bed, simple wardrobe, table and chairs, a mirror on the desk, and nothing else.
"You...are going to live like this? You're already the head housekeeper, you can enjoy your life more." Xu Wei suggested.
Learn more from Madam Fourteen.
"What do you want?" Lihua didn't answer her.
This was the first time I didn't call her Miss Xu.
Very rare.
"Ah... I almost forgot," Xu Wei fumbled in her pocket bag, took out a blue sachet and handed it over, "Here you go."
The pear blossoms were motionless, as calm as a well: "What are you doing for me? If you don't want it, just throw it away."
"Yes, yes," Xu Wei added quickly after hearing her say that, "I want the complete one. This one is not convenient to wear, but I didn't learn it when I was young, so I'm not very good at embroidery."
"Look at the purse on your waist, it's very well embroidered. Did you embroider it?"
"……Um."
Xu Wei handed the sachet forward again: "Here, please help me embroider it first. I don't have enough money on me now, and I have to go back in a few days. When you finish embroidering it, I will bring the money back to exchange it."
"but……"
Xu Wei interrupted her: "Don't think about rejecting me. I will give you the money. Just think of it as a favor. How about that? It would be embarrassing to reject a favor from our Xu family."
Lihua was silent again, and only responded after a while.
"Okay, Miss Xu."
"Okay, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first. Live a more refined life from now on." Xu Wei carefully placed the sachet on the table, clapped his hands, turned around and was about to leave.
Stepping out of the room, Lihua spoke in a muffled voice behind her.
"You don't have anything to ask me?"
Xu Wei turned around with understanding and replied with a smile: "What's there to ask? You will know what you should know, and you won't tell what you shouldn't know."
"Besides, this is my personal opinion—"
"I wish you all the best."
Lihua was stunned and stood at the doorstep, watching the woman in the red cheongsam walking away.
The red cheongsam gradually condensed into a ball of red and disappeared around the corner.
She turned around and looked at the sachet on the table.
After a while, he walked over and touched the pine and bamboo patterns on it, and smiled.
Find a brazier, light a few tinder sticks, and the fire will start burning fiercely in the brazier.
She squatted down, rubbed the sachet for a while, and combed the withered herbs inside with her fingers, with a hint of nostalgia in her eyes.
Tongues of burning flames rose up and licked her fingertips.
She felt no pain and was a little dazed.
As soon as his hand loosened, the sachet fell in and was instantly engulfed in flames, emitting bursts of gray smoke.
Soon, it became a pile of ashes, mixed with the remaining ashes of the tinderbox, and its original appearance could no longer be seen.
Xu Wei’s second stop was the Fourteenth Lady’s place.
The head maid let her in directly. When they reached the door of the inner room, Xu Wei called out through the curtain.
"Madam Fourteen."
"Hey——" A gentle reply came from inside, followed by hurried footsteps, and a slender hand lifted the bead curtain.
The Fourteenth Lady wore a white cheongsam, had her hair loose, and wore no makeup.
Without any heavy makeup on her face, she looked even more delicate and childish, and she looked only sixteen or seventeen years old.
"What are you doing standing at the door? Come in and sit down. I heard you guys are leaving soon."
"Um."
Xu Wei didn't move, leaning against the door sill and looking at her seriously: "Sister, have you avenged her?"
Madam Fourteen was stunned for a moment and touched her ear tips unconsciously. She didn’t even wear earrings today.
"Your call really confused me. I thought Wan'er had really come back." She murmured.
"Did you succeed?" Xu Wei continued to ask.
Madam Fourteen nodded, with a genuine smile on her lips: "I'm so happy."
"It feels so good to be the second wife."
Xu Wei breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sister, could you please do me a favor?"
Madam Fourteen responded at this time, covered her mouth and laughed: "So you called me sister because you remembered to ask me for help, you are really..."
There was no intention of blaming in his words.
"Come in and sit down. It's windy outside."
After coming out from Fourteenth Lady's place, it was almost evening and Xu Wei hurried back to the west wing.
As soon as Li Shaodong saw her, he quickly reported the news: "Du Qi is back!"
As soon as Xu Wei stepped into the room, he touched the teacup on the table.
After talking to Lihua, I chatted with Fourteenth Lady. Fourteenth Lady was very talkative and loved to chat about all sorts of things. She would talk about things that could be solved in just a few words for the entire afternoon, and she talked until her mouth was dry.
"He went to find Man Yue?"
Li Shaodong nodded, then shook his head: "As soon as he returned home, he went to his wife's courtyard. He came out after half an hour, then rushed to the office. He hasn't returned yet."
"Is he in such a hurry to do something? He doesn't even care that his wife got pregnant for no apparent reason?" Xu Wei was surprised.
Zhang Yuan poured her some tea: "You haven't figured it out yet?"
"Ah?" Xu Wei held the teacup, tilted his head back and drank a cup, then burped. "What?"
Taoist Jiang chuckled beside him: "It's really a strange thing."
He still had that face full of ink, which looked like it couldn't be washed off any time soon.
It looks somewhat funny.
Xu Wei raised his hand and made a "painting" gesture towards him: "Don't want to paint your face like a clown? Should I paint a big fluttering moth for you?"
Taoist Jiang immediately took three steps back, covered his face, and looked at her like he was guarding against thieves: "You two are really good at torturing people."
He also looked at Lu Fanye.
Lu Fanye sat there, with no expression on his face, but he looked innocent, with a feeling of being scammed.
Upon asking, they found out that he had not gone anywhere in the afternoon, so they grabbed Taoist Jiang and asked him all kinds of questions, sometimes about Baiyun Temple, sometimes about Xidi, and even wanted to know how he was born.
Taoist Jiang couldn't explain himself clearly, nor could he escape, so he confessed everything like pouring beans.
He really was not a native of this world. His memory only started when he was ten years old. He could hear clearly the words "trial game", "bracelet mission", "plot" and so on that other NPCs could not hear from the players.
"You're quite good at pretending, Jiang Dabao." Xu Wei couldn't imagine that he gave himself such a cute name.
Taoist Jiang snorted arrogantly and ignored her.
"So, Du Qi himself knows about this, right?" Xu Wei drank several cups of tea, finally calmed down, and continued the important topic just now.
Zhang Yuan sighed: "He knew, I guess he even anticipated the current situation before going to Jiangcheng."
"In the past, Du Xingye had invited Man Yue to the second floor to watch a play many times. At first, Du Qi would accompany her, but after a few times, Man Yue went alone."
"Isn't there a stage?"
"It's the stage!" Li Shaodong clapped his hands and said exaggeratedly: "Guess what, the stage was not built by Du Xingye. It was built for Man Yue before she got married because Du Qi found out that Man Yue loved to listen to opera. It was not completed until some time after the marriage. Before that, Du Xingye always asked her to go to the opera."
"After the stage was built, Man Yue found excuses not to go, and spent the entire day with Du Qi, avoiding Du Xingye in everything she did, until this time..."
Her protection left.
"What a piece of shit." Xu Wei cursed.
No wonder Du Qi was so reluctant to leave his beloved wife at the farewell party that day. At that time, I thought they had a good relationship, but it turned out that she knew the purpose of her elder brother sending her away.
These two brothers, one disregards human ethics, is lustful and tyrannical, and the other is cowardly and incompetent, unable to even protect his own wife.
Coward, you guys really are a family.
The fist hardened.
"I support Man Yue in killing them all!" Li Shaodong raised his hand actively, "On the premise that innocent people will not be harmed."
"I support it, but what's the point of our support?" Zhang Yuan scratched his head, looking embarrassed. "I'm afraid this dungeon will only give us two choices: either help Du Xingye kill the evil spirit, or be killed by the evil spirit."
"Can I have the best of both worlds? Sigh..." Qi Xiaopei buried his head in his arms and sighed maturely.
It was only the fourth day in the dungeon, but she had already experienced many of the joys and sorrows of an adult.
Xu Wei pulled out a white handkerchief from the shelf next to him and wiped his fingers carefully: "Yes, it is possible, but it may be a bit risky, but the points should be more."
"It's dangerous, but I can't swallow this anger. These two people must not have a good ending!" Li Shaodong clenched his fist and said angrily.
Zhang Yuan nodded with his arms folded.
Qi Xiaopei raised his hand actively: "I agree!"
Taoist Jiang looked at them in horror: "Why are you all looking at me? I must go. I won't wait here until tomorrow morning!"
Xu Wei took a deep breath: "Okay, let's do it tonight."
"Send the person to her."
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