"If she hadn't saved Shen Miaoqing, this matter would have gone unnoticed."
"But now...anything that has anything to do with her has never gone smoothly for me."
"My sister was like this back then, and so was my grandfather. This bitch is the natural nemesis of our Hu family."
Mrs. Hu was silent.
She hates Luo Jiuli as much as her daughter.
But she also knows that today is different from the past. The more mad she is with hatred, the more she must endure it.
"There is still a chance, we still have a chance."
She spoke and looked at her daughter.
"As long as the emperor doesn't appoint a prince, we will still have a chance."
"Mother."
Hu Hanyu frowned and scolded impatiently. His heart had been suppressed by these days and was on the verge of madness.
"Opportunities, opportunities, opportunities are created by oneself, rather than relying on others to give them opportunities."
"Hasn't mother seen clearly?"
Hu Hanyu lowered his voice.
"The Queen Mother and my aunt sent people to convey words of reproach to me."
"The Hu Mansion and us are just chess pieces on the chessboard in their eyes. They will become pawns at any time. Once they have no use value, they may be discarded, just like this time -"
"Hanyu, shut up."
Mrs. Hu opened her eyes wide in horror and covered her daughter's mouth.
How could she not know that what her daughter said was true?
But now, they are orphans and widowed. If they don't rely on the two people in the palace, who can they rely on?
She calmed down her panicked mind, and her whole body was filled with anger, and she fiercely swept towards her daughter.
"This time, the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine have already made a plan. All we have to do is wait."
"And you, you have to remember, not only for yourself, not for your mother, but also for your brother and younger brother."
"Don't let mother hear such words again."
Hu Hanyu watched as the bottom of his mother's eyes gradually turned red, her face became a little distorted due to hatred and forbearance, and even the tendons in her neck popped out.
Then they knew that their situation was getting worse.
This made her once wavering plans begin to come to mind again.
——
The night is getting darker and darker, and the wind is getting stronger and stronger.
In Qiulan Courtyard of Shen Mansion, the night was already very late. After a day of hard work, many people fell on the bed and fell asleep.
Mrs. Lu, the head of the Shen Mansion, came out to relieve herself, accompanied by her personal maid Juhua.
In fact, there is a chamber pot in her house, but she only uses it on weekdays when the master is not staying in her house.
But tonight, the master is staying at Qiulan Courtyard, and he is very particular about this kind of thing. Naturally, she cannot destroy her image in his heart.
The master and the servant passed through the corridor in a daze.
At this moment, the two of them suddenly felt a flash of white light in front of their eyes. They were frightened and suddenly became alert. Their groggy minds immediately woke up and they looked around alertly.
"Wow--wow--wow"
A strange, vague sound came from afar. It seemed to be a low cry, and it seemed to be venting anger. In short, it was extremely strange.
Mrs. Shen was so frightened that she lost her soul. Juhua was so frightened that her legs trembled. She looked around in horror, but saw that the surroundings were pitch black and she saw nothing.
Suddenly, clusters of green will-o'-the-wisps appeared in the corner not far away.
They were flying around, circling left and right, moving fast and slowly throughout the courtyard, as if there was an invisible hand controlling them!
That low and strange cry reached my ears again.
"Where is this? Woohoo! Help me, I'm dying miserably!"
Suddenly, the green will-o'-the-wisp with a long tail suddenly attacked them.
"Ah, ghost!"
"There's a ghost, help!"
Mrs. Shen screamed and squatted down holding her head, shaking like chaff.
The voices of the master and servant were sharp and shrill, which seemed particularly harsh in the silent night sky.
——
Luo Jiuli just had breakfast early in the morning and learned two exciting things.
The first thing was that the people sent by Xiao Mingxuan found out the news.
A boy at the back door of Shen's Mansion had had brief contact with a boy in Hu's Mansion the day before the accident.
And on that very day, Princess Wen Ya was also in the Hu Mansion.
This cannot be said to be a coincidence.
The second thing is that the mistress of the Shen Mansion, Mrs. Shen, was frightened half to death by a 'ghost' in the middle of the night last night. Now she still has nightmares while lying in bed.
The culprit, the 'ghost', was right now in front of Luo Jiuli, baring his teeth and vividly imitating what happened in the middle of the night last night.
"Master, I suspect that Mrs. Shen must have a guilty conscience. If she is upright, how could she be scared to death by the so-called will-o'-the-wisp?"
"Moreover, after pretending to be a ghost, my subordinate eavesdropped on the roof for a while."
"Although I didn't hear it clearly, I definitely heard Mrs. Shen say something like "it's not me, it has nothing to do with me". She calmed down after being scolded by Editor Shen."
While Nan Zhu was talking, he was about to stroke the little fox, Red God, in Nan Xing's arms.
Akagami groaned and closed his eyes, stuck his butt at her very temperamentally, and slid into Nan Xing's arms very skillfully.
As for Nan Xing, sitting on the chair, his eyes were not as cold as yesterday. When he lowered his head to look at Akagami, there was a little more warmth.
When Luo Jiuli heard what Nan Zhu said, her originally happy face slowly turned serious. She glanced at Xiao Mingxuan beside her with some thoughts.
"Your Majesty, Nan Zhu is right. In my opinion, this Mrs. Shen is very problematic?"
Xiao Mingxuan looked at her.
"What are you suspecting?"
Luo Jiuli picked up the tea cup, gently blew away the floating leaves on it, and took a sip.
"If ordinary people see this so-called will-o'-the-wisp, they will probably be frightened, but who would have nightmares and talk nonsense?"
"Not me? It has nothing to do with me?"
"What is not her? What has nothing to do with her?"
Luo Jiuli said repeatedly that she didn't think Nan Zhu was lying.
Xiao Mingxuan also heard the secret behind her words.
"Do you suspect that Mrs. Shen has a murder case in her hands?"
Luo Jiuli nodded.
"As the mistress of the back house in the capital, if her man has a group of concubines, some of them will have clean hands."
"Of course, except for my mother. My father is a decent man, and my Luo family has a decent family tradition. There is no such mess."
Xiao Mingxuan: What message are you sending to this king?
After Luo Jiuli praised his parents, he added:
"If Mrs. Shen had only harmed an ordinary maid or servant, how could she be so frightened that she even had nightmares and talked nonsense?"
Beside, Nan Zhu frowned, not understanding what his master meant yet.