Chapter 835 The blood oath stated that only two people survived.
Yuan Zheng's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets: "How is this possible?! How could Qingyuan die? Didn't he have many people protecting him? Even so, could that vengeful ghost still kill him? Does that mean I'm not safe here either?"
Shen Wantang shook her head: "There is no vengeful ghost at all. It's all just Chu Yanluo making a fuss. Xiao Qingyuan was shot to death by her people with an arrow."
"No vengeful ghosts?"
Yuan Zheng looked at Gu Qianhan: "Really? There really are no ghosts? Chu Yanluo is still alive? But when I was in the Earl's mansion, I could always hear the mournful cries of a female ghost in the middle of the night. I sent many people to look for her, but they couldn't find her. Everyone said that it was a vengeful ghost haunting me. I only stopped hearing the ghost's cries after I came to your Duke's mansion!"
Gu Qianhan didn't really want to talk to him, and he didn't want Shen Wantang to talk to him any more. He said directly, "Chu Yanluo has been arrested, and most of her men are dead. You are no longer in danger. Go back to your manor. You don't need to stay at our manor anymore."
After he finished speaking, he pulled Shen Wantang away.
Yuan Zheng immediately chased after him: "No, Qianhan, don't be so cold to me! Let me stay at the Duke's mansion a few more days. I can only sleep peacefully at your mansion. When I go back to the Earl's mansion, there's always a female ghost crying in my ear. I... wait! You said, Chu Yanluo was arrested?"
"Yes, Chu Yanluo has been arrested by the Ministry of Justice. You won't hear the female ghost's cries when you return to the Marquis's residence. Hurry back. What's the point of staying at our residence every day?"
"Qianhan, that's not very kind of you! I paid you to stay at your residence! How can you take my money and then just kick me out like that? Is that how you do business?"
"What, you think you lost out on this deal? You want me to give you a refund?"
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant. Am I that kind of petty person?"
"That's good. I saved your life. Otherwise, you would have died with Xiao Qingyuan today. How could you be here, jumping around and chattering away?"
Yuan Zheng stood there, stunned.
After Gu Qianhan and Shen Wantang had walked away, he belatedly realized, "That's right, if I hadn't moved into the Duke's mansion, Chu Yanluo might have killed me and Xiao Qingyuan together! It seems that among the names written on that blood letter, only Shen Wantang and I survived!"
He was just feeling bad about the large sum of money that Gu Qianhan had taken from him, but now that he's figured it out, he doesn't feel bad at all!
No matter how much money you have, you still need to be alive to spend it!
He's still alive, isn't he a thousand times better off than Xiao Qingyuan who's already been killed?
Yuan Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked towards the west courtyard without hesitation. He had made up his mind that he would stay at the Duke's Mansion for the next few days.
He could go home after confirming that there were no ghosts and that Chu Yanluo was locked up in jail and could no longer kill anyone!
The next day.
News of Xiao Qingyuan's murder and Chu Yanluo's arrest spread throughout the capital.
Shen Wantang acted as if nothing had happened. She put on a veil and went out to Zuixianlou for dinner with her maids, as if she wasn't the one who was ambushed and killed by Chu Yanluo last night.
She herself didn't take it seriously, but fearing that Granny Yan would be greatly frightened, she specially gave Granny Yan a day off and told her to go back and rest.
Inside Zuixianlou, the place was bustling with noise as diners drank and loudly discussed the events of the previous night.
"I told you there are no ghosts in this world, but my wife wouldn't believe me and wouldn't let me go out. I was so bored! Now it's finally proven that the vengeful ghost was just Chu Yanluo in disguise. I can go out for a drink again!"
"Oh dear, the vengeful ghost may be fake, but her killing is real! Brother Wang, you should thank your wife for not letting you go out, otherwise, if you were unlucky enough to run into Chu Yanluo, your life would be in danger!"
"That's right, that's right! Chu Yanluo has gone mad, she's completely insane. I heard it from my cousin, who works at the Ministry of Justice. He said that Chu Yanluo not only killed the person on the blood letter, but also many innocent witnesses. It's just that the government didn't announce it because they were afraid of causing panic!"
"This Chu Yanluo is truly ruthless. It's one thing to kill other people, but she even went so far as to kill the heir of the Ning Prince's mansion. Wasn't the heir of the Ning Prince's mansion supposed to love her to death? Is there anyone in the world who treats her better than the heir of the Ning Prince's mansion?"
"Brother Li, you're always buried in your books, oblivious to everything around you. Don't you know that the Prince of Ning's heir has already fallen for someone else? He doesn't like Chu Yanluo anymore!"
"Sigh, it's not just that he doesn't like Chu Yanluo anymore, the young master has also lost his mind. He insists that he was reborn. At first, he was crazy and said that he wanted to marry Liu Nanshi, the daughter of Minister Liu. Later, for some reason, he took a fancy to the wife of the second young master of the Duke's mansion. When he failed to steal her away, he even declared that he would not marry anyone but the second young lady of the Shen family!"
"Oh, by the way, speaking of this second young mistress of the Duke's mansion, I heard that she used herself as bait last night to capture Chu Yanluo and her men?"
"It's her! That second young mistress is truly brave and resourceful, a woman who is no less capable than any man. If she hadn't risked her life, Chu Yanluo would still be at large! While everyone else is afraid of that vengeful ghost, the second young mistress is fearless. No wonder she was able to marry into the Duke's mansion!"
"That's right, almost all the people mentioned in the blood letter have been killed. The only ones still alive are the second young mistress of the Duke's mansion! Oh, no, there's another one, Yuan Zheng, the eldest young master of the Yuan family!"
"I heard that Young Master Yuan also ran to the Duke's mansion for protection, which saved his life! Their mansion has been haunted for a long time, and Chu Yanluo had been planning to kill him. Unfortunately, Young Master Yuan valued his life, and as soon as he saw that the mansion was haunted, he immediately ran to the Duke's mansion to live."
"Alas, what a pity for the Prince of Ning's heir! I heard that when the Princess Consort of Ning learned that her son had been killed, she vomited blood and fainted on the spot, and she hasn't woken up yet!"
"Sigh, if you ask me, a son like Prince Xiao is better off without! He's not filial at all and does nothing but shameful and stupid things. Princess Ning has been so angry with him that she's vomited blood several times. Without Prince Xiao, Princess Ning might live a few more years!"
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Shen Wantang stood on the second-floor corridor and listened to the discussions on the first floor for a while. Seeing that there were no words that were detrimental to her, she turned around and went into the private room.
"Du Juan, send someone to tell Fang Xuning that the publicity he did for me this time was pretty good. More and more people are praising me now. Tell him to keep it up, and it would be best to make my name even more famous."
"Yes, young mistress."
In the past, Shen Wantang always helped others build their reputations and gain a good name for them. Now, it's finally her turn.
Those who praise her outside are not praising her out of thin air; it is something she does intentionally.
And this is just the beginning.
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