Zheng Yuzhu floated in and said, "My father passed away, so I came back."
Xue Huan took in her expression and asked cautiously, "Mr. Zheng passed away? Are you okay?"
Zheng Yuzhu shook her head and said calmly, "My father passed away peacefully. It was a happy funeral. I left after the seventh day."
Without her father, the home is no longer her home. Her eldest brother and his family are living well now, so there is no need for her to stay there anymore.
"So what are your plans next?" Xue Huan asked. Although she had signed a contract with Zheng Yuzhu, her original intention was not to restrict her freedom, but to prevent her from going astray again.
Zheng Yuzhu: "Of course I'll follow you. I agreed to help you. You won't dislike me, right?"
"Of course not, but I don't have anything for you to do for the time being—"
Before she could finish her words, Zheng Yuzhu suddenly passed by her and came to the bedside. She stared at the Qiongqi lantern with a serious expression and asked, "Where did you get this lantern?"
"I bought it at a stall during the Lantern Festival. What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this lantern?"
Zheng Yuzhu said slowly: "This lantern is made of human skin."
Xue Huan: “!!!”
Aren't human skin lanterns just something that exists in ghost stories? Could it be that someone actually made lanterns out of human skin? No wonder she always felt like something was wrong with this lantern!
Now I finally know the reason.
Thinking about having this thing hanging on the head of the bed for the past few days, Xue Huan got goosebumps and quickly took down the lantern.
"I originally said I didn't have anything for you to do, but now I have. Yuzhu, I want you to help me find the person who made the human-skin lantern."
"good."
Xue Huan burned the human-skin lantern, took out a tracking talisman and threw it into the ashes. The talisman transformed into a faintly glowing blue butterfly. "Follow this butterfly, and you'll be able to find who the human skin was taken from. Perhaps you can follow that person's trail and find the person behind it."
Zheng Yuzhu nodded, stretched out a hand, and the butterfly landed in her palm.
Xue Huan handed her a treasure bag, which contained many items she could use. Now Zheng Yuzhu's cultivation had made some progress and she could touch real objects.
"Be careful on the road. Once you find that person, you don't have to do anything. Just remember their identity and appearance."
Zheng Yuzhu took the treasure bag and hung it around her waist. "Well, I won't alert the enemy."
After she left, Xue Huan immediately left the room and went to Xue Jun's room, knocking on the door: "Jun'er? Are you asleep?"
It was already late. Xue Jun usually went to bed early and was already fast asleep. He woke up when she knocked on the door. Thinking something had happened, he quickly got up and opened the door for her. "Sister, what's wrong?"
"Do you still have the lanterns we won from the stall during the Lantern Festival?"
"It's still there." Xue Jun put the lantern carefully in the box. When she asked, he opened the box and took out the lantern.
Xue Huan touched the surface of the lantern, feeling it smooth and delicate. Her heart trembled. This lantern felt exactly like her own! It was obviously made of human skin.
When she touched it originally, she just thought that the paper used to make the lantern was special and of good quality. Now that she knew it was human skin, she felt as if her hands that had touched the lantern were stained with blood, with an indescribable sticky and slippery feeling.
She couldn't tell Xue Jun the truth, lest she scare her. "Jun'er, can you lend me the lantern for two days?"
Xue Jun naturally had no reason to refuse, "There's no need for us sisters to borrow it, just take it directly."
Xue Huan tapped her nose and said, "That won't do. Okay, go to bed now. I'm leaving."
She closed the door and went to Xue Yao's room.
I also "borrowed" the lantern from him.
All three lanterns are made of human skin! And they were taken from different people. You can imagine how crazy the person who did this was.
Now, there is only one left with Pei Ji.
Xue Huan came to his door and knocked, "Akang? Are you asleep?"
There was no movement inside.
Could it be that he is fast asleep?
If it was for something else, it would be fine, but since it involved the human skin lantern, Xue Huan would never let this thing stay in his house any longer.
She called out twice more, but there was no response from inside. Pei Ji had never slept so soundly before. Although his memory had regressed to that of a child, his body was that of an adult and he was always alert. How could he not respond even after she called out to him several times?
Did something happen to him?
Xue Huan suddenly became anxious and disappeared from the spot. When she reappeared, she was already standing in front of Pei Ji's bed, "Akang——"
Where is his figure on the bed? Where is he?
Kidnapped? She had set up a formation throughout the Xue residence. Any outsider entering would trigger the formation, except for those inside. She couldn't have been unaware of this, so he had left on his own initiative?
The bedding on the bed was still neatly folded, not at all messy, which seemed to further confirm this.
Xue Huan was extremely confused for a moment, and couldn't help but think of a possibility, that is - he had recovered his memory, so he left.
The memories of the past flashed through her mind one by one: the way he smiled foolishly at her, the way he held her and rocked her coquettishly, the way he said he would never leave her...
It turned out that he had already taken deep root in her heart without her realizing it. She didn't notice it before, but now that he suddenly left, she realized that her feelings for him had changed.
Pawnshops all over the world.
Pei Ji walked into the underground cell, where a man was imprisoned. Wasn't he the owner of the lantern stall from before?
On the night of the Lantern Festival, Xue Jun was kidnapped right under his nose. Although he was found later, Pei Ji was still very angry. For this, Wang Yan was punished and received thirty lashes.
Afterwards, Pei Ji asked him to atone for his sins and find out who kidnapped Xue Jun.
Unlike Xue Huan, Wang Yan found out more. That group of human traffickers were just working for others, and their superior was the owner of the lantern stall!
The stall owner was not selling lanterns, but was secretly looking for a girl who met the requirements.
In fact, he had targeted both sisters Xue Huan and Xue Jun, but Pei Ji protected Xue Huan very well at that time. Even when he was caught up in the crowd, Pei Ji never let Xue Huan go, so the human traffickers didn't find an opportunity to attack.
But Xue Jun was pushed away, which gave them an opportunity to take advantage of.
After finding out the truth about the stall owner, Wang Yan ordered his men to capture him and torture him. Unfortunately, the stall owner only revealed some irrelevant information. He had already found out those things, so why did he need to say more?
What Wang Yan wanted to know was the person behind the stall owner.
But the stall owner gritted his teeth and refused to give in.
Today is the deadline for Pei Ji to report to Wang Yan, so he came to see how things are progressing.
Wang Yan felt quite ashamed, "Master, I haven't asked yet."
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