Chen Miaoyi said to the maid left to her by the housekeeper.
"Yes, come with me." The maid looked at this stunning woman, and considering the housekeeper's behavior, it was not difficult to guess that this would be the next concubine.
Walking through the long corridor, I found that the City Lord's Mansion covers a large area and the courtyard is not small.
"This is the residence of the city lord's new concubine who was accepted yesterday." The maid pointed to the front and said.
Chen Miaoyi walked in and found that there were no servants guarding the yard.
"You go back first, I'll be back soon." Chen Miaoyi sent the maid away, and the maid didn't say much. Anyway, they were already in the city lord's mansion and there was no way they could talk about leaving.
"Is anyone there? Is anyone there?"
As she walked and shouted, a person suddenly emerged from the flowers. It was the woman under the veil yesterday.
"Who are you looking for?" The woman's eyes were red, and it seemed that she had cried a lot. She was holding a small flower hoe in her hand.
Chen Miaoyi looked down at the jade pendant and saw no movement. She saw that the woman was just an ordinary person, or had not yet been invaded by the evil spirit.
"I'm new here. I heard you just arrived yesterday too? What do you think of the City Lord's Mansion?"
The woman was in a daze for a moment. Was such a beautiful person also captured?
"You, why aren't you sad at all?" she asked in surprise.
Chen Miaoyi spread her hands and said, "Why should you be sad? We provide food and accommodation here, and we also give you money to spend."
The woman was shocked by her words, "Are you stupid——where did you come from?"
"I'm not from here. What's wrong? Is this place bad? If it's not good, why did you come here?"
The woman looked outside and saw no servant coming in, so she pulled Chen Miaoyi into the house and closed the door.
"You'd better run away quickly. You're not from here, so you don't know that any woman who enters the City Lord's Mansion won't survive long."
She said solemnly.
"Why? Then why don't you run?"
The woman sighed softly, "This is my home. If I leave, my parents and brother will suffer.
Where can I go? The world is so big, but there is no place where I can live well. "
Chen Miaoyi sighed that this girl was so nice and stupid. Her family squandered the money she had saved her life, but she was still worried about her family's safety.
"Then why do you have to die after entering the City Lord's Mansion? Aren't you alive and well?"
"I've only been married for a day. All the girls who came before me have died, some even after a year. But now, new people die every few months. The City Lord's Mansion will give the family a sum of money so that the family members won't cause trouble."
Chen Miaoyi thought about how she was planting flowers with a hoe just now. She knew she was about to die, but she still had the mood to plant flowers. She was a person who loved life and loved living.
"Who would kill us in the City Lord's Mansion? Did you see any strange people?" Chen Miaoyi asked. As soon as the girl entered the door, the City Lord would definitely take action.
"I don't know. I've only met the City Lord and his wife since I came here. The City Lord's wife seems difficult to get along with. She refused to drink the tea I offered her."
The city lord’s wife?
"Let me ask you a question. Did you spend your wedding night with the City Lord last night?"
The woman was stunned, her face flushed, and she shook her head. "The city lord just drew a portrait of me and then left. This morning was the second time I saw him. He was there when I served tea to my wife."
Why do you paint a portrait? Who would marry a beautiful woman just to look at her?
"I understand. Take care of yourself. I'm going to go meet the City Lord's wife."
Chen Miaoyi was walking towards another road when she suddenly felt something move around her waist.
When she looked, she saw that the Buddha statue's clasped hands in the jade pendant were now facing forward, instead of upwards.
Could it be that the evil demon we are looking for is just ahead?
She walked along the road and saw the luxury of the city lord's mansion. It was filled with wealth, trees, and rockery, all of which were exquisite and luxurious.
Compared to here, the place where the concubine lives looks like a maid's residence.
"Young lady, are you new here? But would you like to meet the Madam?"
Before I even entered the door, I was stopped by a maid. No wonder there were no maids in other places. They all came here.
"Yes, I'm here as a guest at the City Lord's Mansion. Logically, I should also pay my respects to the City Lord's wife."
"Then please follow me." The maidservant seemed to have known it for a long time and took her to the garden.
What others live in is at best a yard, but what the city lord's wife lives in is a garden.
The jade pendant on her waist and the Buddha statue's hand were always pointing forward. She was sure that the city lord's wife was the source they were looking for.
"Madam, a guest has arrived."
The city lord’s wife is not old, she looks like she is eighteen or nineteen years old. You have to know that the city lord is already in his forties.
She looks like a weak willow, young and delicate.
"Hello, ma'am. I'm here as a guest. Thank you for taking me in. I'll be leaving in a few days."
The city lord's wife looked at her face, and a hint of barely perceptible jealousy flashed in her eyes.
"It doesn't matter. Since you are here, you can stay for a while."
She picked up the teacup and drank tea, but the back of her hand that was exposed did not look as young as her appearance, but rather looked a little old.
It looks like the hand of a normal person in his forties.
If there is no problem with this, she would never believe it even if you beat her to death. Which good person has a face of eighteen or nineteen years old and hands of a man in his forties?
"Madam, I will take my leave now."
Chen Miaoyi returned to her room, took out the jade slip, and told Tan Jing what she had seen.
At this time, Tan Jing returned to his original village and was living in a farmer's house.
"Donor, don't be sad, your sweetheart is still alive."
There was only an earthen kang in the room. Tan Jing was sitting on a rough wooden stool counting Buddhist beads. His elegant appearance seemed out of place in the earthen-walled room.
"Master, are you telling the truth? Please, please save Chunniang!"
The man cried and begged him. That day he had wanted to sneak into the city lord's mansion to rescue Chunniang, even if he died, he would have no regrets.
But he was stopped by the monk, who told him that he could not enter the City Lord's Mansion and could not save Chunniang.
He had seen this monk before. He was one of the female knights who taught Chunniang's parents a lesson that day, so he believed it.
"Donor Qiu Sheng, I have calculated your marriage fate. She will be fine."
After Chen Miaoyi delivered the message, she took Chunniang to walk around the mansion. Except for the courtyard where the lord's wife lived, which had servants serving her, other places in the mansion were very relaxed.
As we walked, the Buddha statue's hand suddenly pointed to the left. Could it be that there was more than one evil spirit in the mansion?
Chen Miaoyi remembered what Tan Jing had said, that there were more than just monsters in the mansion.
"Let's go over there and take a look."
"That's the city lord's study." Chunniang said.
Fortunately, there was no one guarding outside the study.
The study was very large. Based on her experience, such a place must have secret passages, secret rooms, and the like.
"Knock and feel around to see if there is any mechanism." Chen Miaoyi said, and the two of them began to feel around the study.
"What is this?" Chunniang pointed to the compartment in the study. She didn't even trigger any mechanism.
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