Madmen don't keep diaries

Chapter 205 204 The Name of the Duke's Wife

Mike was stunned.

He seemed to have heard Feng Xiuhu's voice, but he was not sure, so he looked around nervously.

At this moment, Shunzi suddenly jumped up!
"Wow wow wow——!!!"

He stood up angrily, yelling, "Brother—my brother!"

Shunzi slammed the table with a loud bang: "You died in such a miserable way!"

Mike was horrified. It was the first time he had seen someone so superficially sad.

After hesitating for a moment, Mike quickly stood up, stretched out his hand to persuade Shunzi, and suddenly heard Feng Xiuhu's voice again.

"Don't smash my huanghuali wood!"

Shunzi froze, and the fist that was about to fall suddenly softened.

He knocked gently on the table, but the sound of his voice did not weaken: "Brother! What will I do if you leave?"

This scene seemed incongruous and absurd to Mike. He couldn't help but suspect that he might be hallucinating because of too much pressure.

Am I dreaming?

Mike fell into a trance.

Shuixian cried and held Shunzi: "Brother Shunzi, don't cry..."

The housekeeper also advised: "Second Master, you still need to take care of the mansion right now, so you must not be too sad. If you also collapse, it will only make the master worry more."

Bang!

Another sound of porcelain breaking.

Everyone turned around and saw that it was Lingzhi who had just come out of the kitchen serving dishes and was standing stiffly beside the screen.

Her lips trembled: "Old, is something wrong with the master?"

Narcissus walked over with tears in her eyes and slapped Lingzhi on the face: "How can you be so careless!"

After saying this, she remembered that she had just broken the teapot, so she slapped herself hard again and burst into tears no longer.

Lingzhi panicked and quickly hugged Shuixian: "Sister, why are you doing this? If you want to punish me, punish me!"

Overwhelmed with grief, Narcissus hugged Lingzhi's shoulders tightly, and the two girls burst into tears.

Shunzi really couldn't squeeze out any tears, so he just lay down on the table, covered his head and face with his arms, and just howled.

The housekeeper stood by and kept comforting her, saying that they should hurry up to prepare for the master's funeral, and then he said that they should call Xi Yaoer back as soon as possible to hand over the financial power of the mansion.

The main hall was filled with cries of grief and was in chaos.

Amid the noise, Mike came back to his senses.

He walked over and patted Shunzi on the shoulder: "Brother Shunzi, I know you are feeling very uncomfortable right now, but please listen to me first to know the specific circumstances of Father Feng's death."

Shunzi wiped away his nonexistent tears, stood up, grabbed Mike, and walked towards the backyard: "You're right, this matter must be explained clearly. Come back to the house with me and talk."

Mike didn't suspect anything and just thought Shunzi didn't want others to hear him, so he followed Shunzi into Feng Xiuhu's main room.

Shunzi turned around and locked the door, and Mike started talking.

"What I heard is that before the banquet ended today, Father Feng followed Bishop Konate to the city gates, where they met the Duchess's wife. Father Feng was attracted by her beauty and tried to flirt with her. Bishop Konate intervened, and during the struggle, Father Feng accidentally fell off a cliff and his body was never found."

Shunzi waved his hand and said, "Impossible! My brother is even more shameless than me. I haven't seen him touch a woman in all these years."

Mike was stunned: "I don't know about that."

He held his chin in thought. "But I also think this statement is not detailed enough. Even if I take a step back, I don't think Father Feng is the kind of person who is tempted by beauty."

"Then what kind of person do you think he is?"

Feng Xiuhu asked him.

Mike said, "Well, at least he's not that bad..."

"……Eh?"

Mike froze, his hair standing on end. He screamed and jumped up into Shunzi's arms.

Shunzi maintained the princess-carrying posture, frowned and lowered his head, staring at Mike: "What's wrong with my brother?"

Mike couldn't hear anything else at this moment. He held Shunzi's neck tightly with one hand and pointed at Feng Xiuhu in the room with his other hand tremblingly: "He, he, he... ghost, it's a ghost..."

Shunzi even tried to scare him: "Why didn't I see it?" This time it was confirmed that he had seen a ghost.

Mike's eyelids drooped and he fainted.

……

When he woke up again, Mike found himself lying on the bed in the house.

Looking up, I saw two figures sitting on the edge of the bed.

Shunzi's back is easy to identify, while the other one looks like Feng Xiuhu.

Mike heard Feng Xiuhu speak again: "...Not only must the funeral be held, but it must also be done with great fanfare, otherwise my death would have been in vain."

So Mike closed his eyes again.

He took a deep breath, comforted himself that it was all an illusion, and then mustered up the courage to open his eyes again.

He met Feng Xiuhu's gaze.

Feng Xiuhu was leaning over and staring at him: "Are you awake?"

Mike sat up expressionlessly and patted Shunzi's shoulder: "If there's nothing else, I'll go back first."

Feng Xiuhu tried to persuade him, "Why are you in such a hurry? Stay for dinner."

Mike ignored him and said to Shunzi, "Handle the funeral as soon as possible so that Father Feng can pass away peacefully—most importantly, pass away quickly."

Feng Xiuhu complained, "I'm not planning on leaving yet."

Mike shuddered and quickly added, "If he's reluctant to leave, try to persuade him more while you're burning paper money. Don't forget."

Shunzi was also dissatisfied: "My brother said he has no plans to leave yet."

Mike said anxiously, "Why are you so stubborn too—huh?"

He was stunned, his eyes moving from Shunzi's face to Feng Xiuhu's, and then from Feng Xiuhu's face back to Shunzi's face. He said in disbelief, "You... can see him too?"

Shunzi said angrily, "I'm not fucking blind."

"Ha ha!"

Feng Xiuhu laughed loudly and grabbed Mike's shoulders: "Are you really looking forward to me leaving?"

Feeling the warmth of his palm, Mike finally reacted: "You're not dead!"

Feng Xiuhu nodded: "I am not dead, but someone is going to die."

"Who?"

Mike asked.

Feng Xiuhu said, "Konate Chen, not only did he want to kill me, he also had an affair with the Duke's wife."

"That's impossible!" Mike exclaimed. "Who told you that?"

Feng Xiuhu said confidently, "How can it be impossible? I saw it with my own eyes."

He told them everything that happened outside the city gate. Mike and Shunzi sighed and were frightened at times.

After finishing the last sentence, Mike still shook his head: "As you said, it is true that Konate Chen and the Duke's wife teamed up to harm you, but how can you say that they had an affair?"

Feng Xiuhu swore, "I once saw the Duke's wife come out of Konate Chen's bedroom with my own eyes, and her clothes were disheveled."

Mike hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not that I don't believe it, but this is too ridiculous."

"Firstly, the status of the Duke's wife and the Church Bishop is vastly different. Even if Konate Chen lost his mind because he coveted the Duke's wife's beauty, how could the Duke's wife still be interested in him?"

"In terms of power and appearance, how can Konate Chen compare to the Duke of Da?"

Feng Xiuhu couldn't help but mutter, "What if the Duke's wife is really blind and chose Konate Chen first?"

"That's even more impossible."

Mike said firmly: "Do you know the name of the Duke's wife?"

Feng Xiuhu was stunned - he had been calling her the Duke's wife for so long, but he really didn't know her name.

Just listen to Mike speaking slowly.

"Her name is Wei Su'e, the Wei of Wei Xuanlang."

(End of this chapter)