Concubine Li took Li Huilin back to the Jiang residence and arranged for her to stay in Jiang Jiulu's courtyard.
Li Huilin had visited the Jiang family a few times when she was a child and knew that the Jiang family was wealthy. Everything in the Jiang family was excellent; their food, clothing, and daily necessities were all of the highest quality.
Jiang Jiulu couldn't stand her shallowness; she would try on every single one of her clothes.
Li Huilin tried on several outfits, and each one fit her perfectly.
"Cousin, look at you, you have so many clothes you can't wear them all, and the fabric is so nice. I, on the other hand, wear the same few outfits over and over again, they're all out of style. Why don't you give me these few outfits?"
Jiang Jiulu rolled her eyes. She didn't want to wear the clothes she'd worn before anymore. Suppressing her anger, she said, "You can have them."
Li Huilin happily told the maid to put it away, and then began rummaging through Jiang Jiulu's jewelry box.
Jiang Jiulu was speechless. She stormed out of the house.
Yuan Qi was sipping tea, a top-grade Biluochun tea that Jiang Junjing had just personally delivered, and it was this year's new tea.
Green Bamboo presented Yuan Qi with a cup of fragrant tea: "Miss, please try it! The Second Young Master said that there is no such good tea in the palace."
Yuan Qi likes good things and enjoys a high-quality life, so drinking this kind of tea should be a regular part of her life.
When she saw Jiang Jiulu come in, she invited her to have tea together.
Jiang Jiulu complained to Yuan Qi, "My cousin wants everything she sees. She wants to stuff all my things into her bag. I don't know why my aunt brought her along."
Green Bamboo poured a cup of tea, gently placed it in front of Jiang Jiulu, and then withdrew.
Wen Zhujun was still with Yuan Qi when she saw the tea and wanted to have a sip.
The two had barely exchanged a few words when He Xiang arrived, asking Jiang Jiulu to go to Xiangli Mingzhu's place, saying that Xiangli Mingzhu wanted to see her about something.
Dinner was eaten together by the Jiang family. Yuan Qi glanced at Jiang Juncai by chance and found that he had a face full of bad luck and a faint aura of malevolence about him. He wondered where he had picked it up from.
She asked Jiang Juncai directly, "Brother, where did you go today?"
Jiang Juncai answered without hesitation, "I didn't go anywhere, I just stayed in the palace on duty."
Yuan Qi frowned in surprise and said, "That shouldn't be the case. How could it have been tainted by evil energy? Think again, did anything special happen today?"
Jiang Juncai dared not be careless. This seventh sister was quite capable. He put down his chopsticks and thought for a moment: "Speaking of special matters, there is one. The palace's protective array was attacked today by a cloud of black energy. The array broke open, and a lot of malevolent energy came in. I led my men to help the Grand Preceptor resist for a while. Perhaps I was tainted by the malevolent energy at that time."
He took out his amulet: "Look, the cinnabar on the amulet has lost its color."
He chuckled and said, "How about you give me another one?"
Yuan Qi didn't think much of it and took out a protective talisman and a talisman from his cloth bag, handing them to him.
Jiang Juncai sighed, "After all, you're my own sister. You wouldn't stand idly by if I were in trouble. For that alone, you're my real sister from now on."
Yuan Qi knew that the palace's protective array had existed for many years and had always been guarded by the Imperial Advisor, so she asked curiously, "Is the protective array frequently attacked?"
Jiang Juncai didn't keep it from Yuan Qi just because she was young. He said frankly, "It's not often. I've been the commander of the Imperial Guards for three years, and including today, it's only twice. But both times were very dangerous. Today, the murderous aura almost attacked the Emperor."
Yuan Qi still couldn't understand what was so interesting about attacking the imperial palace.
Do you know what that black mist is?
Jiang Juncai's expression turned serious: "I asked the Imperial Advisor about this matter. He's usually a man of few words, but today, because I helped him, he said a few more words to me. He said that the black aura was a ghost king, something like..."
It wasn't that he didn't remember; it was that the Imperial Preceptor was injured and spoke unclearly, so he didn't hear him clearly.
Yuan Qi asked, "Haoyuan?"
Jiang Juncai nodded and said, "That's right, it's Ghost King Haoyuan. How did you know?"
Yuan Qi sighed with a maturity beyond his years: "The Imperial Preceptor has met his match. Ghost King Haoyuan is very powerful, and there is no person or thing that he sets his sights on that he cannot obtain."
Jiang Juncai still didn't understand who Ghost King Haoyuan was, but he sounded very powerful.
Jiang Zhengqing asked Yuan Qi curiously, "How do you know about Ghost King Haoyuan?"
Yuan Qi rolled his eyes at his father: "Everyone in the Daoist sect knows this, and they turn pale at the mention of him. He is the mountain king of the Netherworld, and even the King of the Underworld can't do anything about him. He has sent people to capture him for many years without any results. If you encounter this person in the future, run as far away as you can."
“This is getting more and more outrageous. The underworld, the King of the Underworld…” Jiang Zhengqing glared at Yuan Qi and muttered, “It’s like you’ve been to the underworld.”
Yuan Qi was speechless, but she couldn't say that she was very familiar with Hades.
She could only manage a very perfunctory smile, and just chuckled it off.
Jiang Juncai, however, thought differently: "Father, I did see that black mist transform into a human form several times today, and it even spoke, saying something about handing over the Heaven-Turning Seal. I'm just wondering, this thing doesn't sound like an ordinary object, so how come it's in the palace?"
Yuan Qi immediately perked up: "The Heaven-Turning Seal is in the palace?"
Jiang Juncai and Jiang Zhengqing asked almost simultaneously, "What is the Heaven-Turning Seal?"
Yuan Qi immediately wilted: "It's something capable of destroying the heavens and the earth, but how could it be in the palace? It's said that this thing is a treasure of the demon realm, lost for thousands of years. How could it be here? It shouldn't be."
It seems she has to go to Wuxiang Temple and have a talk with the Venerable Huineng.
The Jiang family found it unbelievable and thought Yuan Qi was talking nonsense. They thought that the demon realm, the underworld, the King of the Underworld and the Ghost King did not exist at all.
However, it is a fact that the palace was attacked by black energy today, which Jiang Juncai witnessed with his own eyes.
Jiang Zhengqing and his son couldn't tell whether Yuan Qi was speaking seriously or talking nonsense, and they finished the meal with heavy hearts.
Back at Peony Residence, Green Bamboo and Red Fir stood fearfully at the door, too afraid to go in.
Sequoia was even more timid and couldn't even speak.
Green Bamboo pointed at the teapot on the table, trembling and pale: "Miss, just now the teapot poured water by itself, the teacup floated into the air by itself, and the water was gone."
Both of them were terrified. Green Bamboo had experienced what happened to Du Haitang a few days ago, and immediately thought that there was a ghost involved.
"Miss, is our house haunted? You should catch it!"
"Don't be afraid, he's a friend." Yuan Qi stepped into the house, but the two of them still didn't dare to come in.
Yuan Qi then opened the Yin Eyes of the two of them.
Wen Zhujun sat in Yuan Qi's seat, poured herself some tea, and even turned her head to smile at the two of them.
The two men were immediately terrified and dared not go in; there really was something ghostly about them!
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