The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 925 The Sickle is

The water snake then shut its mouth tightly, annoyed by Huang Jing and Lan Zhijin's questions, and simply crawled into Huang Jing's pocket again, closing its snake eyes and pretending to sleep.

Let Huang Jing and Lan Zhijin know, and it won't let anything slip again!
After Ma Ji and Meng Shisan finished speaking, Ming Xiaotang said, "Xu Huiren seems to have used magic repeatedly, but for some reason she suffered a backlash, which is why she vomited blood twice, and the blood had a withered smell."

“The higher one’s cultivation level and the more techniques one uses in unorthodox practices, the greater the backlash one will suffer,” Meng Shisan said.

Ma Ji understood: "Does Miss mean that Xu Huiren practices evil magic?"

Meng Shisan said, "I heard His Highness mention that before Xu Huiren, there was a female official surnamed Ming, and Xu Huiren succeeded her. This Ming Huiren fell seriously ill back then and died within a few days. The Empress Dowager De summoned the imperial physicians, but unfortunately, they could not save her. To this day, there is still no explanation for what kind of illness was so severe."

"Where is the imperial physician who examined Minghui back then?" Ma Ji thought that he might be able to find out the cause of Minghui's death by starting with the imperial physician.

“He died the day after Ming Huiren’s death, in his own home, and died quietly.” Meng Shisan felt something was wrong. “The imperial physicians from back then couldn’t investigate, but we can investigate the relationship between Ming Huiren and Xu Huiren. Ming Huiren died, but Xu Huiren is still alive.”

“Okay.” Ma Ji accepted the follow-up task. “Regarding the cause of death of the young lady’s mother and Shangchun’s family back then, we thought we would get some clues from the butterfly demon and the wolf demon, but we never expected to find something else.”

Meng Shisan asked, "Didn't you say that an old man moved to the mountains to live? Although he was far away from the village, his family members were killed while he was enjoying the spring. Did that old man still have some memory of them?"

"We found the old man, but the small part he remembered consisted of trivial matters. The only thing truly related to the death of Shangchun's family was a vague and ambiguous statement."

"What did you say?" Meng Shisan asked.

Ma Ji replied, "As dusk approaches, it seems like a wild beast, or perhaps a savage."

"Like a wild beast? Like a savage?" Meng Shisan remembered that there was no mention of savages in the previous investigation. "When the old man said that there were savages, was he still sober?"

Ma Ji understood Meng Shisan's implication: "The old man is almost sixty years old. Although he is very old, thin and short, he is still clear-headed and not confused."

He wasn't confused, which meant he wasn't talking nonsense. Meng Shisan pondered for a moment and said, "Judging from Shangchun's description of the deaths of her family members, there must have been wild animals on that country road back then, and large ones at that. As for wild men, I've never thought of that. Now that an old man has witnessed it and said there were wild men, that's a clue."

However, this clue is clearly even more difficult to find than the wild beast.

The outskirts of the capital are surrounded by green hills and clear waters, or villages and farmland. There are no wild animals there anymore, and even if there are, they have long been cleared away by government officials.

In such a peaceful environment, even wild beasts would hardly exist on the outskirts of the city, let alone so-called savages... Wait a minute!
"A savage?" Meng Shisan said hesitantly, "Could it be not a savage, but a demon or monster that has just begun to take human form?"

Upon hearing this, Ma Ji pondered for a moment and nodded, saying, "That's possible. The old man couldn't distinguish between a human and a demon. If it really is a demon that has just taken human form, then what the old man sees is sometimes a wild beast and sometimes a savage. This explanation makes sense."

"Chang'an escorted my second brother out of the capital, and he should be back soon." Meng Shisan thought and made arrangements. "What kind of relationship exists between the deceased Ming Huiren and the living Xu Huiren? This matter is not urgent. I will have Chang'an investigate when he returns. You can leave it for now. You continue to investigate the truth behind the deaths of Shangchun's family members. This is related to the truth behind my mother's sudden onset of dementia, and it is the most important thing. Just follow the directions I told you and thoroughly search the outskirts of the city."

“Okay.” Ma Ji had no objection. He did whatever Meng Shisan told him to do. After agreeing, he didn’t forget his own business. “I heard from Xiao Qing that there’s something strange going on at my young lady’s grave. I want to go to Qingbei Mountain to take a look first.”

Meng Shisan nodded: "This matter needs to be investigated carefully. Xiaoqing didn't notice anything different, but something did happen. It's just that I can't get away right now. It would be good if you could go and see what happened." "If I find anything, I'll tell you, Miss," Ma Ji said.

Meng Shisan nodded: "If you need anything from Seventh Young Master Cui, you can always go to his place and ask him for help."

This was something she had agreed upon with Cui Yu earlier.

Ma Ji also knew this and readily agreed, "Understood."

The matter had been discussed to the fullest extent, but Ma Ji still hadn't left. Meng Shisan noticed that he still had something to say: "What do you want to ask?"

"I have a question that I've always wanted to ask," Ma Ji said, stopping short of asking directly.

"Ask away." Meng Shisan realized that the question Ma Ji was about to ask was one that she would find difficult to answer, but she still allowed Ma Ji to ask.

In the past, she would not have paid any attention to it, but since Ma Ji had already recognized her as half a master and had done one thing after another for her these days, she had to be a little more accommodating.

"When you slew the demon in the well of Taiyong Palace, was the curved sickle you used your weapon, Miss?" Ma Ji had wanted to ask this question for a long time.

Meng Shisan remained silent; this was indeed a difficult question to answer.

Seeing Meng Shisan remain silent, Ma Ji immediately explained, "It's not that I'm curious and insist on asking this question, but my young lady once said that the great demon's natal weapon was a huge curved scythe."

Meng Shisan was slightly taken aback, wondering who Meng Shisi was, what their relationship was, and why he would say something that was similar to her situation.
Ma Ji waited a little while longer, then couldn't help but call out, "Young Miss?"

“…Yes.” After thinking it over, Meng Shisan chose to answer truthfully.

She and Ma Ji were both demons, and due to various worldly affairs, they had more and more dealings with each other. She might not say it now, but she would have to tell the truth in the future.

Since that's the case, and since Ma Ji asked, it wouldn't be wrong for her to admit it.

In conclusion, Ma Ji is a trustworthy companion.

"Yes?" Ma Ji was somewhat dazed by Meng Shisan's single word. "The scythe that killed Mei that night was..."

He looked at her with hopeful eyes.

Meng Shisan said, "When I say yes, I mean that my scythe is indeed my natal weapon. As for whether it is the same one that your master mentioned, I don't know."

"Th-those incredibly powerful curved scythes, there are actually several of them?" Ma Ji had almost thought that he could finally meet the great demon his young lady had mentioned by relying on the similarity of his natal weapon, but he was told that such curved scythes might not be the same one?!