Chapter 96: The Skin Corpse Seeks Revenge
"Madam, I offended you last night. Please forgive me."
After dawn, Luzhu knelt down and apologized immediately. The incident happened suddenly last night, and in order to prevent Ji Rong from running away, she had to bite the other party.
Ji Rong's eyes paused, and she suddenly raised her hand to touch her arm. She remembered that Luzhu had bitten off a piece of her flesh last night, and the pain almost made her faint.
But now - now the arm is surprisingly intact.
There wasn't even a scratch visible.
Ji Rong reached out and helped Lu Zhu up from the ground. As gentle and virtuous as ever, she smiled at Lu Zhu and said, "Hurry up, it was just a dream. You didn't bite me, and it wouldn't matter even if you did."
She slowly lowered her head, and her long eyelashes cast a shadow under her eyes.
"That corpse is so vicious that he actually created an illusion to lure you and me out. If that were true, and you didn't try your best to stop me, then something terrible would have happened."
Luzhu breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the young lady didn't care about these things.
But - Luzhu frowned. Was everything that happened last night really just a dream?
The sunlight pouring in from outside was so bright that it was a little dazzling.
Lu Zhu found some clothes for Ji Rong to wash herself. Seeing that the maid outside hadn't come in with any water, she frowned. "These little girls are really getting lazy. They don't even come to help the young lady wash herself at any time. They've delayed the young lady's time to pay her respects to the mistress. Can they afford it?"
Ji Rong clenched her fingers together. "Normally, if someone does this, they will definitely be punished. Otherwise, if everyone follows suit, it will disrupt the rules. But today..."
She didn't say anything else, but Luzhu was shocked.
There was a skinned corpse haunting the house last night, maybe...
Maybe those people didn't even survive.
Luzhu was a little confused for a moment, and a strong sense of uneasiness surged in her heart.
Ji Rong closed her eyes and called the names of several maids, but received no response.
There was a hint of compassion in her eyes. She had always been virtuous and a good daughter-in-law in Madam Yu's eyes, and a good master in the eyes of the servants.
It’s a pity that she didn’t meet a good husband who cherished her.
Ji Rong sighed, put on her clothes, and put her hand on Luzhu's hand.
"Help me out and take a look..."
No matter what the situation is outside, she has to face it.
Tears welled up in Luzhu's eyes. Among the dead maids, there were her good sisters. They were all very young, but they were brutally killed by the corpses.
Luzhu supported Ji Rong and walked out of the house step by step. When they opened the door, the night outside was as dark as ink, and there was no sign of dawn.
Luzhu's expression suddenly changed, "Not good!"
"Young Madam, we've been fooled!"
Ji Rong's face suddenly turned pale, and she turned around to run into the house. A strong wind blew out from inside, and with a bang, it closed the door, cutting off the master and servant's way of life.
Ji Rong was trembling all over, clutching the amulet tightly in her hand. Her legs and feet became weak and she collapsed to the ground powerlessly.
"hehe……"
A melodious female voice sounded, as charming and pleasant as a silver bell. A charming figure walked up to Ji Rong step by step, half squatted, and pinched Ji Rong's chin.
The corners of the woman's eyes were slightly raised, and her beautiful face was so close that it was truly captivating.
This person was none other than Wange, who was called a vixen by everyone in the Yu family.
"Sister, why don't you just stay in the house?"
Wange's cold hand gently stroked Ji Rong's cheek.
Ji Rong felt cold all over and trembled uncontrollably, "Wan...Sister Wange..."
Luzhu looked terrified. She stumbled to her feet from the ground, her face pale. She clenched the amulet in her hand and wanted to run away.
Wange's eyes remained unchanged. He stretched out his hand and broke Luzhu's neck.
Luzhu's pupils were wide open, she was completely dead, and she died with her eyes open.
"Although my sister is a fool, the maidservant beside her is really overly vigilant. I really put a lot of thought into luring you out~"
Wange smiled sweetly and spoke into Ji Rong's ear, but her breath was ice-cold, making people feel like they were falling into an ice cave.
Ji Rong was trembling all over, tears falling one by one, and she kept shaking her head, "Wan...Sister Wange, why...why don't you stay in your own yard?"
Wange sneered. This woman was still pretending to be ignorant even now. She was really good at pretending. No wonder so many people in the capital praised Ji Rong's virtue. "Why shouldn't I stay in my own courtyard? Isn't it clear to me, sister?"
She slowly took out a green 'amulet' and smiled at Ji Rong. "It's hard for you to deliberately tamper with the amulet. Master Su specifically warned you not to get it wet, otherwise my face will easily attract the skin corpses to harm me. I've done a great job quietly sprinkling some water on it."
Ji Rong's eyes trembled and she didn't dare to look into Wange's eyes.
"I...I didn't mean to..."
"I was... I fell down!"
Ji Rong kept groping and finally touched the amulet. Suddenly, she gritted her teeth and stuck the amulet hard on Wange's body.
She thought she could at least hear Dirge's shrill screams.
But Wange's expression did not change at all, he even looked at her with a smile, but there was a hint of contempt in his eyes.
"What should I do, sister? Your amulet is useless~"
The amulet burned to ash.
Ji Rong's face suddenly turned pale.
How...how could this happen!
It shouldn't be like this!
It shouldn't be like this!
Master Su clearly said, clearly said that this amulet can protect her safety!
Ji Rong burst into tears, stretched out her hands to grab Wange's clothes, and begged bitterly, "Sister Wange, I know I was wrong!"
"I really know I was wrong!"
"I didn't mean to do that. I didn't mean to hurt you... I was really scared at the time. I just fell down, and the amulet got stained with snow because of my fall. I... I thought I was fine. I beg you, please let me go!"
Ji Rong cried, tears falling one by one, "Sister Wange, I have always treated you well since you came into the mansion, right?"
"Just...just for the sake of our past friendship, please let me go..."
Elegy waved the round fan in her hand slowly and steadily.
It was as if she had never known cold.
She smiled, suddenly leaned closer, and said something in Ji Rong's ear.
Ji Rong's whole body stiffened, her eyes suddenly widened, and she stared blankly at Wangge, like a puppet with its soul drained out.
Elegy says...
She said...
"Sister, actually that is not a talisman, it is a talisman to suppress ghosts."
"The Sus have long since figured out that I'm a skin corpse, but even the sisters combined are no match for me. If we had exposed them then, we would all have died."
"She hinted to you several times, telling you to give me this 'amulet' and specifically told you not to let it get wet. If you had listened to her, it would have at least trapped me for two days, and your Yu family would still be saved."
"What a pity, sister, because of your own selfish desires, you have harmed the entire Yu family and yourself."
As the saying goes, cleverness always leads to mistakes.
Ji Rong thought that by tampering with the "amulet" and attracting the corpse to kill her, she could kill someone with a borrowed knife and get rid of her biggest threat.
But from beginning to end, there was no other corpse in this house.
She is the only real corpse.
Ji Rong's eyes were dull, and she bit her lip hard. "I should have thought of this earlier... How could an ordinary woman be so beautiful? It turns out... It turns out that the corpse who harmed my husband from the beginning was you!"
Ji Rong looked puzzled. She could understand that Wange wanted to harm her because she was the wife of the main wife and was blocking Wange's way.
But why did Wange want to kill Yu Yao as well?
Ji Rong's eyes flickered, tears welled up in her eyes, and she looked at Wange unwillingly, "I... our Yu family has no grudges against you, why are you trying to harm us!"
Su Tan said that the corpse came to seek revenge.
But she believed that she was kind and virtuous, and had never wronged anyone.
Her husband only favors his concubine over his wife. If he has to say who he is sorry to, it is her.
Elegy is the one that is favored from beginning to end!
"You are totally ungrateful!"
"If you didn't have a husband, you would still be staying in the brothel! We have no grudges against you, how dare you treat us like this!"
"No grudges or hatred?" Wange chewed on these words, suddenly sneered, and stared at Ji Rong intently, "You are really forgetful. How dare you say that you, the Yu family, have no grudges or hatred against me?!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
