The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 962 Walking Alone
Meng Shisan expressed his understanding: "A Jing was worried about me at the time, thinking that with His Highness there, he could help me clean up the mess. After all, he is the Second Prince, not just an ordinary important person."

"Then why is Xiao Yin so obedient?" Baozhu asked again.

Meng Shisan smiled slightly: "Xiao Yin is obedient because she felt that my situation was quite dangerous at the time. Having an extra help is better than me fighting alone."

"Can Miss and His Highness work together?" Baozhu finally seized the opportunity to ask the question she wanted to ask.

“We can work together, but…” Meng Shisan looked at the road outside the car through the gap in the curtains that were being blown by the wind. The scenery was passing by in a hurry, and she could not see any specific people or things. It was just a blur in her eyes. “Your Highness wants the status of a wife, but what I can give you is only the status of a strategist.”

"Is it impossible to change?" Baozhu couldn't help but ask another question.

However, Meng Shisan did not answer this question until they reached the foot of Qingbei Mountain and got off the car to take a sedan chair up the mountain.

It's not that this question is unanswerable, but Li Shou's idea differs from what she can offer. In reality, there are only two possible outcomes for the selection of the Crown Princess next year.

One was changed by him, and the other was changed by her.

Going back to when she first entered human form and became Meng Liangchen, she was full of confidence, feeling that everything was under her control and that no one could force her to do what she wanted.

Even now, her thoughts have been quietly and subtly changing.

She has entered the mortal world many times, but each time she entered it in the form of a demon. With some cultivation and some Taoist skills, no matter how unsatisfactory things are, she can always make herself happy.

Forced to enter the world as a demon soul and occupy this human body, although it is a demon soul, the body is still a mortal body. There are many things beyond its control, and coupled with the original owner's identity, there are even more limitations...

Thinking of this, Meng Yusan couldn't help but sigh.

This prompted Baozhu to ask, "What's wrong, Miss?"

"Suddenly, I feel that being the grandson of a Heavenly Official and the eldest daughter of the Meng family is really difficult." The more Meng Shisan spoke, the more she felt that it would be better to be a girl in an ordinary family, where she could do whatever she wanted, unlike her current situation, which left her with no way to move forward or backward.

“Miss, there’s no need to think too much. Didn’t you already say that His Majesty doesn’t agree?” Baozhu thought that Meng Shisan was worried about the selection of the Crown Princess next year, which was why she felt that it would be better to have the status of the eldest daughter of the Meng family.

Meng Shisan glanced at Baozhu, then smiled and said, "Yes, you're right."

Baozhu laughed along, "Miss is absolutely right!"

The sedan chair bearers were all experienced. Meng Shisan rode up the mountain in the sedan chair, while Baozhu followed beside him, chatting idly.

Eight sedan chair bearers, four carrying the sedan chair, would take turns disembarking after a while, and so on, until they reached the Zhishang Taoist Temple on Qingbei Mountain, where she finally alighted from the sedan chair.

The sedan chair and its bearers rested and ate at the Taoist temple, waiting for Meng Shisan to finish his business and come down the mountain. They still had to carry their patron down the mountain steadily.

Meng Shisan had not explained the matter of the burial mound to Baozhu in detail, but Baozhu had always been by her side. Except for the time when Baozhu was recuperating from her hand injury, Baozhu followed her wherever she went. Therefore, Baozhu was not unfamiliar with the burial mound.

Baozhu was still stopped ten steps away from the burial mound: "Didn't Miss already examine this tombstone carefully?"

“I’ve come up the mountain again today because there are other important matters to attend to.” Meng Shisan squatted in front of the tombstone, stroking the incomplete characters on the old tombstone, his thoughts in disarray. “You can’t get close, and it’s safe here. You don’t need to wait here. Go to the Taoist temple, add some incense oil, donate some money, and talk to the Taoist nun in charge to arrange for me to stay overnight at the temple.”

“Okay.” Baozhu agreed and turned to walk straight up to the Taoist temple. After taking two steps, she turned back, worried. “Miss…” “It’s alright, go ahead.” Knowing what Baozhu wanted to say, Meng Shisan cut off her worries.

"Oh." Baozhu walked away, turning back every few steps.

When Madam Shang learned that Meng Shisan had been released from confinement and would be going out the next day to Qingbei Mountain, where he would spend the night at the Zhishang Taoist Temple, she went to the main room immediately after receiving the news.

After hearing what she said, Grandma Meng didn't say anything, but just nodded: "Let her be."

“Mother…” Madam Shang did not want to restrict her eldest niece’s freedom; she was worried.

Grandma Meng raised her hand to interrupt her eldest daughter-in-law: "I know you're worried about Yaoyao, but Yaoyao has grown up. She has her own thoughts and ways of doing things. When she really marries into the Eastern Palace next year, she'll have to walk that long road ahead on her own. It's just a simple trip to Qingbei Mountain and a Taoist temple, spending the night there. If she didn't have proper arrangements, she wouldn't have the guts to do it. Since she has the guts to do it, then we don't need to worry about her."

Madam Shang understood: "Daughter-in-law understands."

The mother-in-law wanted to let her eldest niece go out and explore on her own before she truly became the Crown Princess. Not to mention spending the night alone at the Zhishang Taoist Temple, the mother-in-law would turn a blind eye to other things as well.

This is the mother-in-law's intention, and also the father-in-law's intention.

As a daughter-in-law and the matriarch of the Meng family, she simply followed in the footsteps of her father-in-law and mother-in-law.

After Meng Tianguan and Old Madam Meng finally realized that Meng Shisan was very different from the eldest granddaughter they had previously known, Shang Shi also sensed this from the two elders. Baozhu, as Meng Shisan's personal maid, was frowning as she discussed with the Taoist nun in charge the matter of the two of them staying overnight at the Taoist temple.

Meng Shisan sat cross-legged in front of the tombstone on the burial mound. She looked at it for a while and thought about it for a while, but she really couldn't figure out where that half-tailed, misty black shadow came from.

From the surface of the burial mound, it was completely undamaged and unchanged. If it weren't for the fact that the water snake had set up its own demonic circle here long ago, so that it could sense the slightest movement, she would never have believed that the dark shadow was related to the calm and peaceful grave in front of her.

The water snake swore that the shadowy figure must be related to the burial mound, and she believed it; otherwise, she wouldn't have come up the mountain herself today.

Aside from confirming that it was related, the water snake couldn't provide any other useful information.

We need to figure out exactly what happened...

Meng Shisan gazed at the mound behind the tombstone, slowly stood up, and then gathered demonic energy in his right hand, conjuring a handy iron shovel.

Although it was conjured from her demonic energy, it was a real shovel.

Without hesitation, she walked to the burial mound and began digging.

Her true form is an earthworm, and her specialty is burrowing in the soil. Right now, she's digging quite well.

I'm just a little tired.

When the soil was dug out and the coffin inside was revealed, she was covered in sweat.

Wiping the sweat from her forehead, she thought to herself that it was truly remarkable that she could sweat so much in such cold weather.

She needed to stay indoors, and the room needed to be filled with eight silver charcoal braziers for her to feel warm.