Granny Cai returned to the mansion with a heavy heart, even forgetting to carry out the task that Li Junyao had instructed her to do.
Li Junyao had been locked up before and later she was used as a human shield by Ji Xinhe. Because of all this her anger had never subsided. Seeing Granny Cai enter with a death-like expression, her fury immediately flared up again.
"Who are you showing that expression to? Have you booked the private room like I asked you to?" Li Junyao snapped.
Granny Cai remained as pale as a sheet, and after trembling for a long time, she barely managed to say, "Old servant... forgot."
"Forgot?!" Li Junyao’s voice raised, her sharp tone almost pierced Granny Cai’s eardrum, "You’re getting more and more disrespectful. Don’t think I won’t punish you!"
Before she could finish her words, Granny Cai knelt down with a "thud", her face full of fear as she exclaimed, "Miss, she’s coming for us, she must be coming for us!"
"What are you babbling about?"
"Lady Hou, Lady Hou must be coming for us. The Taoist said that every sixteen years a cycle repeats, and the resentment-filled ghost will seize the opportunity to escape from the underworld to seek revenge. He also said that I have the aura of a vengeful ghost surrounding me. Therefore, she... she is definitely coming for us!" Granny Cai’s face turned red in her excitement and panic, tripping over her words.
Li Junyao’s eyes widened, taken aback by Granny Cai’s unreserved words. She raised her hand and slapped Granny Cai’s face: "You insolent fool! What nonsense are you spreading? Lady Hou went out just fine, what would she want with you?!"
As she spoke, she uneasily glanced at the other maids and women serving in the room. At that moment, all of them were lowering their heads, shivering in fear, obviously scared by Li Junyao’s scolding.
Li Junyao guessed they probably didn’t dare to listen to Granny Cai’s words, so she shouted vehemently, "All of you, get out! You’re in my way standing here!"
The maids and women couldn’t wait to leave the room hastily.
Finally, only Li Junyao and Granny Cai were left in the room. Li Junyao scolded furiously, "You damn fool! How dare you bring up such a thing? Do you want to get me killed or yourself?!"
Li Junyao was both angry and scared. Over the years, she had intentionally tried to forget these matters and everyone else followed suit, not daring to mention it casually. Even people from the Wang family, she hardly wanted to meet. She had almost forgotten about it when Granny Cai inexplicably brought it up again today, driving her mad with anger.
Granny Cai immediately knelt on the ground begging for mercy, wailing, "Miss, miss, I am truly afraid of being haunted by ghosts. Will it take my life? The Taoist said that as long as I sincerely beg for mercy and confess my sins, the ghost will not seek revenge..."
Li Junyao slapped her face again in frustration, "You spineless thing! Do you believe in all this nonsense? Just some charlatan’s lies, and you got scared like this?"
Granny Cai desperately replied, "It’s not a scam, he knows everything, even about Lady Hou sixteen years ago..."
Li Junyao kicked her away, exasperatedly shouting, "Shut your mouth!"
Granny Cai who had been kicked felt a dull pain in her chest. She fearfully looked at Li Junyao, hesitating to speak.
Li Junyao pointed at her nose menacingly and said: "Today’s affair, you are speaking in front of me now, it’s fine. But if I ever find out that you spoke a single word of this to someone else, don’t wait for the ghost from the underworld to come and take you, I will ensure you don’t die a natural death!"
Granny Cai shivered all over, her face turning as white as a sheet. She was so scared that she couldn’t speak and could only collapse helplessly on the floor. Facing death in either way, what could she possibly do?
"Get out!" Li Junyao gritted her teeth.
Only when Granny Cai left the room, trembling and tottering, did Li Junyao finally vent her pent-up anger, overturning the table. These days, she really had had enough of frustration.
Ever since that scoundrel came to the capital, her smooth-sailing days have been fraught with problems. Why is that?
"You’re nothing but a lowly merchant girl, what gives you the right?!" Li Junyao cursed through gritted teeth, her eyes filled with resentment.
Although Granny Cai had stepped down and become obedient, her heart grew more restless with each passing day. As the fifteenth approached, her heart was in turmoil. She feared she wouldn’t last, and worry had led her to fall ill, bedridden with sickness.
With Granny Cai sick and out of sight, Li Junyao felt a bit more at ease. She could only wish that Granny Cai would just die from her illness.
These past few days had been peaceful, and in the blink of an eye, it was already the fifteenth.
Granny Cai spent the whole day in fear, her heart in turmoil. Hiding under the covers, trembling, she was afraid that the ghost really would come for her.
Li Junyao, in fact, was also somewhat scared. However, she forced herself to stay calm, always feeling that these were just schemes cooked up by Jianghu fraudsters.
But who could have known that the whole day would pass without incident?
While Li Junyao was extremely nervous, Ji Xinhe seemed utterly relaxed, lounging on a soft couch the entire day while randomly reading a book.
Until Fuquan came in and said, "Miss, it is getting dark outside. Are you planning to set out now?"
Ji Xinhe curved the corner of her mouth, "It’s about time. Have you prepared the items I asked for?"
Fuquan hurriedly replied, "I prepared them long ago. They are placed in the courtyard outside."
"Hmm." Ji Xinhe casually tossed the book aside and got up to go out.
But just as she reached the doorway, she saw Marquis Mu Houchu already waiting for her in the courtyard, "Where are you going?"
Thinking about the state of Duan Lan when she visited a few days ago, Ji Xinhe was overcome with anger. For the past few days, she didn’t even give Marquis Mu Houchu a hint of a smile, and she left without a word.
She sidestepped him and went to pick up the bucket of thick, red liquid from the courtyard.
Marquis Mu Houchu bent over and grabbed it before her, "I’ll go with you."
Even though she didn’t tell him anything, he seemed to know her plan perfectly well. This man was terrifyingly smart and had an unfathomably deep plot.
"There’s no need." Ji Xinhe said coldly.
But Marquis Mu Houchu had already picked up the bucket and started to walk ahead, "Either you come with me, or you stay at home and don’t go anywhere." How could he let her venture into the Le Yuanhou’s Mansion all by herself to do this dangerous work?
Ji Xinhe grinded her teeth, but she didn’t have time to argue with him and hastily followed.
By the time their horse carriage reached Le Yuanhou’s Mansion, it was completely dark.
Marquis Mu Houchu wrapped one arm around her waist and held the bucket in his other hand. With a light tap of his toes, he deftly leaped over the tall walls of the Le Yuanhou’s Mansion without alerting any of the guards inside.
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