Don't provoke mentally ill people in the infinite flow genre!

Four wedding gowns and four phoenix crowns—Yi Zanglan and her three companions worked from day to night, finally managing to finish their task before dark.

Steward Jia brought people to inspect the results. He was fairly satisfied with the two pieces that Yan Zhao was in charge of, but he was extremely disgusted with the aesthetics of the other two pieces and the beadwork on the phoenix crown. He angrily scolded them.

But just as they guessed, whether the wedding dress was beautiful or not was not that important. What the Zhu family wanted was for them to go through the whole process and give up their lives smoothly.

So, despite the scolding, Steward Jia didn't punish them or make them redo their work. He simply told them to finish dinner and then go back to their rooms to take care of their respective young masters.

Before parting, Yi Zanglan gave a special reminder.

"You should be able to hear the night watchman's drum outside the courtyard wall from your rooms. When the drum strikes three times, the patrol will change shifts, and we'll meet under the crooked willow tree next to the rockery in the backyard."

"Also, arrange all the offerings properly, and try not to anger the spirits in the house."

……

As night fell, the two remaining candles in the room were still burning.

Tang Yunxi stood by the bed, frowning as she observed the unconscious Fourth Young Master.

The stench on this unfortunate fellow seemed to have gotten even worse, and his cheeks were sunken even more, as if he were covered with a layer of wrinkled tree bark, making him increasingly gruesome to look at.

Judging from the current situation, it looks like he might die at any moment. Will he be able to make it to the wedding the day after tomorrow?

After thinking it over and over, she couldn't come up with any other solution, so she could only sit there and waste time.

Until the groans from the bed started again.

"Water...water...give me water..."

"Water, right? Yes, yes, yes!"

Tang Yunxi immediately perked up. She hadn't forgotten that last night, it was because Bai Xian complained that the Zhu family's things weren't clean that she had her candles extinguished.

Fortunately, she had made ample preparations, and this time she was determined to satisfy the immortal.

She had hidden a pair of scissors in the embroidery room beforehand, and had just peeled some of the fruit, squeezing the juice into the teacup.

"Please try this. It's freshly squeezed juice. If you'd like some fruit, I have some in my pocket too." She brought the teacup closer, then added after a moment's thought, "Don't worry, this isn't from the Zhu family at all. I bought it from town as a gift for you. It's absolutely clean."

"..."

The sweet fruit juice, with her gentle movements, slowly seeped into the fourth young master's chapped lips, drop by drop.

The fourth young master remained lying there stiffly, motionless and unresponsive, but he did not rise up to protest like he had risen from the dead the previous night.

He was very quiet, and everything in the room was quiet, except for the candle on the table that flickered for a moment without any wind.

However, the candle did not go out, as if nothing had happened.

Tang Yunxi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Just then, the sound of the night watchman striking his clapper came from afar outside the courtyard wall, exactly three times.

The time that the four of them had agreed upon had arrived.

She instinctively tried to run to the door, but hesitated for a moment when she reached it. Then she quickly turned back to the bedside and respectfully bowed three times to the bed.

"Lord Bai Xian, I don't know if you're here right now, but I just wanted to let you know that I need to go out to see someone."

"Of course, I'm not going out to seek pleasure. I'm going to investigate what kind of outrageous things this despicable Master Zhu has done in the past, so that I can give you all an explanation."

"If you like the fruit on the table, please enjoy it slowly. I will serve you more when I return. Please don't mind."

After she finished speaking, she cautiously backed away from the room step by step, and pushed open the door behind her.

* * * * * *

When Tang Yunxi arrived near the crooked willow tree, she saw Yi Zanglan already standing there. Soon after, Yan Zhao also arrived, and the three of them successfully reunited.

It was during the shift change of the guards in the Zhu family mansion, so it was relatively safe. Roughly estimated, they had about five to ten minutes to sneak out.

"Lanlan, we're probably not very good at climbing trees or walls."

"It's alright. Considering this issue, we've created a new area." Yi Zanglan calmly pointed to a spot not far away, "Just follow this path, there's a dog hole in the weeds by the corner of the wall. Squeeze in there, it should be fine."

This was a completely accidental discovery; she and Wu Ying saw it on their way to the embroidery room today.

"A dog hole is great!"

"A dog hole is good; no one will notice." Yan Zhao nodded, then looked around. "Where's Wu Ying? Logically, someone like her shouldn't be late. Could she have run into some trouble?"

The white fairy is simply clean-loving and has a good temper; the gray fairy, although occasionally mischievous, will be lenient when given offerings she likes, and won't continue to cause trouble.

Huang Xian had an eccentric temper, but she was quite lenient once she had enough money. In particular, the person in the room already found Yi Canglan's nagging annoying, and tonight he was too lazy to waste any more words with her. Seeing that she had scattered a handful of money by the bedside, he simply let her go.

Only Liu Xian, this immortal, strangled Wu Ying's neck last night. If Wu Ying hadn't had strong willpower, both candles might have gone out.

So, who can be sure what kind of trouble the other party will give Wu Ying tonight?

"You two wait here, don't wander off." Yi Zanglan hesitated for a moment, then decided to go and see for herself. "There's still time, I'll go find her."

Before she could take more than a few steps toward the side room, she suddenly saw a flash of green light in the dim moonlight. It was Wu Ying, wearing that long robe, swaying as she came.

She vaguely sensed that the other person's expression and posture were not quite right, and suspected that they were possessed by a ghost or something, and were impersonating her teammates to deceive her. So she temporarily retreated to her original spot, and the three of them secretly observed each other.

However, Wu Ying still found her, and with a clear goal in mind, walked straight towards her.

"Captain, so you're here~" Wu Ying smiled, reaching out to wrap her arms around her neck and cleverly entwining herself around her. "Sorry I'm late, you won't be mad at me, will you? Actually, you can't really blame me, that damn young master, he's practically turned into a snake spirit, and he still wanted to drink with me, that whole jar of bamboo leaf green... hiccup!"

Startled, Yan Zhao quickly covered her mouth and warned in a low voice, "Keep your voice down, or you'll attract the patrol!"

"..."

Yi Zanglan understood. Judging from Wu Ying's strong smell of alcohol and bloodshot eyelids, he probably drank quite a bit with Liu Xian.

It's definitely not a ghost pretending to be a person. Why would a perfectly normal person pretend to be a drunken lamb? That makes no sense at all.

"...Come on, keep up."

In this situation, sending Wu Ying back to her room is definitely not an option, as it might even pose a danger. The only solution is to take her with us and leave as soon as possible.

Seeing that Wu Ying was a bit excited and couldn't be persuaded, Yi Zanglan simply picked her up by her legs and strode towards the target dog hole.

"You two go over there first and help me pull her up."

"it is good."

Yan Zhao and Tang Yunxi cleared away the nearby weeds and broken bricks to fully expose the hole, and then quickly climbed out one after the other.

Just as Yi Zanglan was about to put Wu Ying down, he saw Wu Ying rest her head on his shoulder and mutter in his ear.

"Captain, drinking with you is still the most fun..."

"Forget it, you should just quit drinking from now on."

She forcibly pried Wu Ying's hands apart and shoved the latter into the dog hole.