The ghost-catching princess, she always pretends to be weak

Chapter 4 Is there a ghost in Zhang’s house?

Tufu's Mansion

Zisu had already lit some soothing incense in the house. Today the girl came back looking a little unhappy, fearing that her old illness would relapse.

Wen Jiu leaned on the couch and pushed all his hair to one side of his shoulder, combing it through with his slender jade-like fingers.

The incense burner on the desk slowly exhaled white smoke, tugging at the heartstrings for no reason.

"This incense was given to me by the emperor. I felt sorry for the girl, so I sent all of it to the girl's room."

Zi Su thought Wen Jiu liked the smell, so she kept staring at the incense burner.

There are not many evil things in this world that can escape from under her nose without showing their face, and the female ghost in red today is one of them.

But the ghost hunting order only arrived today
  If someone has just passed away and has such a strong aura of hostility around him, then it must be that he suffered great injustice and pain before his death.

"Zisu, tomorrow you take Banxia to the place where there are most mothers-in-law in our house, and find out what happened in Beijing recently."

Wen Jiu frowned slightly, and his mind was filled with the clouds of black energy lingering on the tree.

Since this evil thing wanted to avoid her, she had no choice but to find it on her own.

Zi Su was confused after hearing this. She told the girl that incense was rare, but the girl went back to her to ask for gossip.
  "Zisu?"

Wen didn't hear Zisu's response for a long time and thought she had gone out.

"Yes, girl."

Zi Su responded hurriedly.

The morning sun is getting higher and higher, and all the courtyards are busy.

Zisu took some melon seeds and peanuts with Banxia and walked to the kitchen. It looked like she was going to chat for a while.

The ingredients in Wenfu's kitchen are all purchased by the chef himself every day, unlike other wealthy families who specially deliver them.

It's not that the Tutor's Mansion is reluctant to part with this small amount of money for delivery.
  This is because my girl's health is in good and bad times, and she has many taboos. Secondly, there are not many people in the Taifu's house, so it is not troublesome to buy things by yourself.

So when it comes to who has the most gossip in the house, it is naturally the kitchen ladies who deal with people outside the house every day.

"Hey, have you heard? Another person died last night!"

Mrs. Zhang, who was choosing the vegetables, looked mysterious.

She just heard this from Aunt Wang, the vegetable seller, this morning.

Aunt Wang's stall is always the freshest, whether it's food or gossip.

"What? Someone died again? Are they still wearing red clothes?"

The boy who was about to go out to fetch water quickly leaned over, fearing that he might have missed something.

"Oh, isn't it! When I saw the body hanging on the tree at night, everyone was so scared that they fainted!"

Mrs. Zhang frowned and patted her thigh, as if she saw it with her own eyes.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Things are not peaceful in Beijing these days! The government has been unable to solve the case for a long time, which makes people panic!"

Uncle Liu, who was in charge of the kitchen, took over and asked, "What should we do? Uncle Liu's family runs a fabric business outside. Let's not talk about whether the red cloth can be sold. From time to time, people from the government come to check the quantity."

"Isn't it easy to use this Jin Yiwei?"

Uncle Liu, who was burning firewood, also raised his head.

"Yes, there are rumors of evil now, saying..."

Mrs. Wang lowered her voice, and everyone stopped even moving their hands, "They said there was a ghost killing people."

"Hiss~"

"Oh~"

"Tsk!"

Everyone had different expressions.

"."

Zi Su and Ban Xia outside the door were stunned and didn't dare to take a step forward. What kind of news is this?
  But the two of them were ordered by their own girl to have no choice but to listen.

The leaves in the yard were swaying gently in the wind, and occasionally a few yellow ginkgo leaves fell.

"I didn't expect autumn to be coming so soon." Wen Jiu sat on the swing in the courtyard, feeling quite emotional.

It was still summer when she came back, and it was almost autumn in a blink of an eye.

After a while, she saw Zisu and Banxia walking into the courtyard gate with strange expressions on their faces. It seemed that something had happened.

When Zisu saw her girls sitting in the courtyard waiting for her, she almost subconsciously took a step back and said, "Girl."

"Tell me, what did you find out?"

Wen Jiu walked to the stone bench and sat down, tapping the edge of the table slowly with his slender fingers, feeling somewhat clear in his heart.

"Girl, the ladies at home say that there are always mysterious deaths in Beijing recently."

Zisu originally didn't want to tell Wen Jiu. What if these strange things that disturbed the spirit scared the girl and made her sick?
  "Strange death?" Wen Jiu frowned slightly, "How bizarre is it?"

Zisu and Banxia pursed their lips and lowered their heads.

"You won't tell?"

Wen Jiu lowered his eyes, picked up the tea cup and turned it around, as if waiting for their reply.

"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. I'll go and ask myself, cough cough cough. cough cough."

As soon as Wen Jiu stood up, he coughed violently. Zisu was so frightened that he ran over to help him.

"Girl! Girl, I told you not to go, I told you not to go."

Zi Su was so anxious that she almost cried. She carefully helped Wen Jiu walk to the room.

After Wen Jiu sat down, Zisu glanced at Banxia and sighed helplessly.

Start talking.
  "Wang Po and the others said that just half a month ago, the eldest young master of the Zhang family in the east of the city fell in love with a girl from Huajian Pavilion and took her as a concubine."

"Huajian Pavilion?"

Wen Jiugang returned to the capital not long ago, so he didn't know that all the fengyuechang in the capital had such elegant names.

"It's the brothel."

There was a hint of embarrassment on Zisu's face.

"Ah, the girl from the ahem brothel can be carried to Zhang's house. It should be considered a good place to go."

Wen Jiu picked up the handkerchief and coughed a few times, trying to relieve the embarrassment.

"The Zhang family has all the three books, six rites, four betrothals, and all the hardware needed. Who has such a big battle to take in a concubine?"

Even Zi Su thought it was outrageous.

"Oh? Master Zhang actually likes this girl so much?"

Wen Jiu raised his eyes in confusion.

"I don't like it! I just want to kill her!"

There was a bit of anger in Zisu's eyebrows. "It's such a big battle, and there is a real wife at home. Just a few days after getting married, I heard that she is gone."

Gone?

"Why is it gone?" Wen Jiu motioned for Zisu to continue.

"He said he was disrespectful to his parents-in-law and disrespectful to his wife. He was accidentally beaten to death, so he was dragged out and buried."

Zi Su was a little sad because it was still a human life.

"." Does this excuse treat people as fools? Wen Jiu thought to himself.

She continued to ask: "Being beaten to death is not considered a mysterious death."

"It's not that this girl died in a strange way. It's said that this girl turned into a ghost and came back for revenge."

Zi Su felt a chill on the back of her neck.

"revenge?"

There was a trace of inquiry in Wen Jiu's eyes.

"Isn't that right? First, Mrs. Zhang went to Daxing Temple to ask for a son, but she was strangled to death in front of the Buddha statue. There were no signs of struggle. The strange thing is that Mrs. Zhang didn't like red the most, but she wore red when she went out that day."

"fortunately."

Wen Jiu breathed a sigh of relief. If a ghost kills someone, he doesn't need any external objects at all, which means it's man-made.

"what?"

Zi Su didn't know whether she heard it correctly or not, but she actually heard the girl say "lucky".

"Oh I mean, it's a good thing no more people were hurt."

Wen Jiu quickly picked up the tea cup and took a sip to cover up his gaffe.

"This matter is not over yet"

The sky was getting dark, and Zisu and Banxia went down to prepare dinner.

Wen Jiu sat back on the chair by the window, his eyes dark.

Mrs. Zhang was strangled to death in front of the Buddha statue, the matchmaker the Zhang family had found was muffled to death in her carriage, and Mrs. Zhang was hanged from the old tree last night.
  These three people seemed to be directly related to the girl who was killed.

Is that girl from Huajian Pavilion from Liujia Village?

No wonder Lu Xu appeared in Liujia Village that day.

Now all the fingers are pointed at the Zhang family. It seems that she has to go to meet this evil thing in person.

Wen Jiu lightly raised his eyelids and looked out the window coldly.

(End of this chapter)