Chen Miaoyi walked over and took a look. In the empty inner room, there were twelve pictures of beauties hanging. What was the same was that all the beauties in these pictures were wearing red wedding dresses.
"Chun Niang, isn't this you?" Chen Miaoyi asked, pointing to the last painting.
The painter has great skills and the painting is very lifelike. Chunniang's slightly red eyes are almost like a real person.
"Ah, are these the women the city lord married before?" Chun Niang covered her mouth in fear.
The Buddha statue in the jade pendant on Chen Miaoyi's waist also pointed at these pictures of beauties.
Chen Miaoyi first sent a message to Tan Jing, telling him about the beauty painting, and then placed restrictions on the study and set up a barrier. Since the city lord had not returned, no one should find out.
"Mrs. Chun, I'm actually a monk. Don't be afraid for a moment."
She concentrated her spiritual power on the first picture of a beauty. Under the influence of the spiritual power, the woman in the picture actually blinked.
"She, she's alive!" Chunniang stood behind Chen Miaoyi in fear.
"Do you still remember who you are?"
The beauty was a little confused, "I'm Ah Ming."
She looked around and suddenly remembered something. There was black smoke filling the portrait.
"Where's the city lord? He killed me! I want revenge on him!"
Chen Miaoyi quickly used her spiritual power to calm her down. The magic power in the beauty picture was weak, but the resentment was quite heavy.
"The city lord is not here. This girl, like you, was just married. Can you tell her what happened?"
Chen Miaoyi pointed at Chun Niang and said, everyone here looks the same, it can be seen that the city lord's aesthetic taste has not changed over the years.
"Hurry up, run! Don't wait for him to come back, or you'll die..."
Ah Ming looked down and saw that she was in the painting, unable to get out or escape.
"Sister A Ming, please tell me what is going on, okay?" Chun Niang asked bravely. Chen Miaoyi had immortal skills and might be able to rescue her...
"I don't know. I just wanted to live a good life so I married into the City Lord's Mansion. But on the wedding night, the City Lord only drew a portrait for me and praised my beauty.
The city lord's wife didn't like me. Later, when I became pregnant, the city lord's wife insisted on having an abortion, but the city lord refused.
Later, one night, someone said that the city lord and his wife wanted to ask me to come over.
After I left, I couldn't remember anything, and when I woke up, I was here."
Ah Ming held his head, feeling that he had forgotten something important.
It's a child. Chen Miaoyi looked at the resentful spirit of hers and saw that her belly was flat. So where did the child go?
"A Ming, what did the city lord's wife look like when you met her?" Chen Miaoyi asked.
"About my mother's age, in her forties, and looks fierce."
Chunniang and Chen Miaoyi looked at each other. The city lord's wife they saw was not like that at all!
Chen Miaoyi suddenly realized that someone was approaching. Could there be other cultivators in this mansion?
She waved her hand to restore the beauty painting to its original state, and took Chunniang's hand, "Hurry up, someone is coming."
With a teleportation, the two returned to Chunniang's small courtyard, and the restrictions and barriers in the study were also removed.
Chunniang was still in a daze. This was too magical. She was in the study one second and back the next.
"Girl, how can I become a monk? You are amazing."
She looked at Chen Miaoyi with admiration.
Chen Miaoyi choked, feeling that the name of Hehuan Sect was a bit unpleasant to hear.
"As long as you have spiritual roots, you can practice cultivation. Chunniang, please don't reveal that I am a cultivator."
Just as Chen Miaoyi finished giving her instructions, she heard a noise outside the yard. It was the maidservant beside the city lord's wife.
"Auntie Chun, Miss, have you seen any strange people?"
The two shook their heads and said, "What's wrong? We have been in the yard and haven't seen anyone."
"Nothing, you two should have a good rest." The maid turned around and couldn't help but look down on them. She was worthy of being a concubine, as they could play together so quickly.
Chen Miaoyi quickly sent a message to Tan Jing, saying that there was something strange about the City Lord's wife. She had a bold guess, and the women in the portraits were all killed by the City Lord and his wife.
It was a pity that there was no chance for them all to speak.
Tan Jing replied with four words: Be patient.
"Tell me, how come the City Lord's wife she met was older than the one we met?"
Chunniang asked fearfully, the city lord's wife is obviously a young and beautiful woman, and she doesn't look fierce at all, just a little cold.
But when people get old and their skin sags, don’t they look old?
"I don't know. Maybe she takes good care of herself."
That day, Chen Miaoyi met the city lord, a handsome monk in his forties.
"Miss Chen, since you have come from so far away, please stay in Luofeng City for a while."
The city lord looked at her appearance and found her very pleasing. It had been a long time since he had found someone so beautiful.
"That's not good, City Lord. I'm already disturbing you by just staying here. How can I have the nerve to stay here for a long time?"
The city lord suddenly reached out, lifted a strand of her hair and tucked it behind her ear. Chen Miaoyi felt a chill.
But this time, he also saw a black mark on the city lord's wrist.
She was very familiar with the appearance of this mark, it was a pattern of Albizia julibrissin.
"If you want to stay here for a long time, why don't you marry me?" the city lord said in a self-consciously sexy tone.
"Be a concubine? But I don't want to be a concubine."
Disgust flashed in the city lord's eyes. "Madam is virtuous, and I cannot abandon her as a concubine. If you give birth to a child in the future, I will make you my equal wife."
Chen Miaoyi's mind was full of black cassia flowers at this moment, and she had no time to argue with him.
"Let me think about it. I'm going back first."
After she left, the city lord wiped his hands vigorously with a handkerchief.
Chen Miaoyi was certain that it was the symbol of the Hehuan Sect. The Hehuan flowers of the Hehuan Sect were different from ordinary ones.
But the sect's disciples all use a pendant to represent their identity, so why does the city lord have a black mark on his wrist?
She dug out the sect's jade slip from her storage bag, which she hadn't used for a long time. There was a lot of information on it, but she had never read it.
Senior Brother: Junior Sister, are you okay?
Senior Sister: Junior Sister, have you met a man who is willing to practice dual cultivation with you? Senior Sister, I am about to break through.
Master: You are not allowed to return to the sect until your Yuan Yin is broken. Choose a man with high cultivation level to practice dual cultivation with you.
Chen Miaoyi chose to ask the master what the black acacia flower on her wrist meant.
I received a reply very quickly.
"Where did you see it? Stay away from people like this. The black Albizia Julibrissin flower engraved on his wrist means he has been expelled from the sect. The Albizia Julibrissin flower turned black, which means he has practiced forbidden techniques."
The other person's tone was a little anxious, as if he was really worried that she was in danger.
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