Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 234 Haunted House

When Aunt Meng finished her third pot of tea and was about to find a place to go to the toilet, Daiyu came out from another Zen room.

"Aunt, shall we go?" Daiyu smiled slightly.

Aunt Meng looked at her steadily for several times and snorted, "I have too much tea, wait a minute!"

Daiyu laughed, and then smiled at the four maids, "If you want to go, hurry up and follow aunt. We have things to do later, so it's still early for us to return."

The four maids pushed each other and followed Aunt Meng.

Jueqin now found Daiyu very pleasing to the eye, and seeing this, he hurriedly invited them to have lunch before leaving: "Why don't you have some vegetarian food in the small nunnery? Those stalls outside are all in the open air, and I'm afraid it will be inconvenient for the princess."

Daiyu thought about it and agreed: "A simple meal will do. We have two grooms and four followers outside."

"We have Jiangnan steamed buns stuffed with mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and dried tofu! I'll have the stove steam two more for you guys to take with you!

"Princess and the other girls, would you like some plain noodles?" Juexin asked hurriedly, and asked Jueqin to accompany Daiyu, while he personally went to light the stove and started cooking immediately.

The group then ate their meal before coming out.

Outside the temple, Lin Jing, Chu Qian and two grooms and two bodyguards had been waiting anxiously. They were amazed to see them come out safely and even bring lunch.

After getting on the carriage, Daiyu asked for a seat, and two local grooms were shocked: "That's a haunted house! What are you doing there, young lady?"

"Oh, the master in the temple sent some peace incense. They are all women, so it is not easy for them to leave the temple. We bodyguards were asked to burn some for them."

Qingwen lied without changing her expression. She glanced at Daiyu again and saw a look of approval. She immediately became proud and added hurriedly,

"We won't go over there. We'll just stop far away and let them go over there."

After hearing this, Aunt Meng smiled and secretly gave her a thumbs up.

Daiyu looked at her helplessly and sighed.

She really wanted to go to the house, but after Qingwen said this, in order to cover up her lie, she had no choice but to look outside.

Aunt Meng looked at her expression, smiled and whispered in her ear: "Have you forgotten what Chu Qian's job was before?"

Daiyu was stunned: "Gong Zhengsi..."

"He is the one who investigates cases and interrogates people! There are so many secretive and careful people in the palace, but none of them can escape his eyes.

"That house was a case from many years ago. If there is still evidence left now, even he can't find it. How can you do that?!"

Aunt Meng sneered, her eyes full of "I absolutely look down on you in this regard."

Daiyu was choked by her words, but after thinking about it, she felt that it made sense and gave up in disappointment.

The carriage bumped along the mountain road.

To go from Shangpanxiang to Miaoyu's old house by the main road, you have to go down the mountain and then up the mountain.

But if you want to go through the mountain, you only need to go through two small paths on the mountainside.

The carriage swayed back and forth, almost making the people in it vomit.

Xiaohong's face was pale, and she clutched the car window tightly with both hands. Relying on the mountains outside, she rested her face on the window and pursed her lips into a straight line.

After finally arriving, the carriage stopped half a mile away from the house and refused to move forward.

Xiaohong jumped off the cart without saying a word, and didn't care whether the two drivers were shouting in panic. She rushed to the side of the road and vomited all over the place.

Daiyu saw from the car window that the three maids in the car behind all got out with pale faces. Her eyes rolled, and she pulled Qingwen and shouted that she was dizzy. She got out of the car smoothly and stood there to catch her breath.

Qingwen understood and asked the two drivers to stand further away and not look back: "Why is the road like this? It's really shaking our girl!"

Looking at the house in the distance, it was about the same size as his own house in the capital, and he could vaguely see that it had three entrances and two sides. If he searched it carefully, it would probably take a day or two.

Daiyu called Chu Kui over and told him in a low voice to just walk around the house and take a quick look. "When you have time, come and take a closer look."

He also asked Qingwen to quietly wrap the bundle for him, "and then pretend to bring it out from there later."

Chu Kai agreed woodenly, turned around and called two bodyguards to go inside.

Seeing the three men striding into the farm, the two grooms couldn't help but look terrified and admired, shaking their heads repeatedly:

"You are truly an outsider! You have no idea how dangerous this house is!"

"It's just a manor where someone died." Lin Jing stroked his beard and sneered, "The three of us in my family are all martial artists. This kind of place is nothing!"

The two grooms immediately started to make a fuss: "You think it's just a death? It's a haunted house, it's haunted!"

"What's going on?!" Aunt Meng and Qingwen came over at some point, their four eyes round and watery.

The two drivers were frightened by the two of them and screamed in pain. Then they became embarrassed when they were looked down upon and scorned by the whole group of people, young and old, women and children.

He could only say hastily, "No living person is allowed to approach this house!

“Because his family was originally very wealthy and had countless antiques, people had often hoped that the robbery was not thorough and that they would pick up some bargains.

“But whenever I entered this house, I would faint for no apparent reason and then wake up at three in the morning. After waking up, I couldn’t get out and just wandered around in the mountains.

"In the early years, if there was a corpse in the mountains for no apparent reason, it was probably a bold thief who came here to dig for treasures!"

Daiyu listened, thoughtful.

Aunt Meng muttered in a low voice: "How is this fierce? Knock him down with one punch and release drugs and smoke, it's no big deal!"

Qingwen also thought it was normal: "Yes! Look at that house, the front door faces the main road, and the side door faces our small road. But the back door and the other side, aren't they blocking the mountain pass?

"If someone who went in fainted, they would be placed at those two doors. Once they stepped out, they would be in the mountains. In the middle of the night, the mountains and forests are similar. It is not uncommon to get lost after wandering around."

Several people were muttering to each other here, which actually made the two coachmen's eyes gradually brighten up, and even a twinkle of lust appeared in their eyes!

Daiyu sighed softly.

Zijuan suddenly spoke up and said gently, "However, I heard that the people inside all died unjustly.

"It is common for the earthbound spirits here to sense the greed of human beings and cast a spell to make them suffer a little."

The driver suddenly became timid again.

After a while, three shadowy figures strode out again. The leader was still Chu Qian, with a blank expression on his face, but he was holding an extra bag in his hands than when he went in first.

The driver's eyes were full of excitement!

"What is this?" Aunt Meng frowned pretentiously.

Chu Qia hung it on the side of his saddle: "Clothes. Found at the crime scene. I think the murderer came back once."

The driver's face was filled with fear and was extremely horrified!

Aunt Meng: "Oh? What are you going to do with it?"

"Go back and give it to the Suzhou prefect." As Chu Qian said this, he had already moved the saddle and stirrups to mount the horse.

The driver breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly told the girls to get on the car and leave this dangerous place!

Daiyu listened to the two of them singing the same tune and felt annoyed in her heart: They had already decided where this thing should go without even discussing it with her!

She got on the carriage and pouted angrily.

Aunt Meng looked at her and deliberately asked her, "Princess, is this arrangement appropriate?"

“……”Daiyu snorted.

He turned around and leaned on Qingwen: "I feel dizzy. I fell asleep."

When Daiyu and her companions finally came down from Xuanmu Mountain and walked towards Suzhou City, someone quietly followed them.

Among the people riding horses further back, Feng Ziying tilted his head and said to the people behind him, "Follow the princess back to the city, and come back when you get home safely.

"I have to go see which old turtle sent this stinky shrimp!"