A raincoat wind and snow to the small garden

Chapter 26 Snowy Villa ()

Chapter 26

This was the first time Huaiyu felt so bitter that he couldn't express it.

He was wondering whether it was Xie Yunxue's identity that gave Xiang Xiaoyuan too much favor, or Huaiyu's identity that treated her too well.

If he wanted Xiang Xiaoyuan to stay away from him, which identity should he use to distance himself from her?
Xie Yunxue was the crown prince after all. If he insisted on giving Xiang Xiaoyuan the cold shoulder, the Xuanqisi officials would probably follow their superiors' lead and bully Xiang Xiaoyuan privately. Huaiyu was the head of the secret guards, but that identity was too conspicuous, and there was no guarantee those enemies would come after Xiang Xiaoyuan...

Huaiyu frowned.

Somewhat embarrassing.

But Xiang Xiaoyuan actually couldn't see what Huaiyu was thinking.

She glanced at the handsome young man from the corner of her eye, and saw him leaning against the wall with his arms folded, as if thinking about something. He lowered his thick eyelashes, said nothing, and stood alone.

She blinked, but didn't bother him.

Xiang Xiaoyuan continued to hold Ruyi and said, "Alright, this person in front of you is Huai Yu, the famous secret guard of the Xuanqi Division. He is a trusted guard of the Tian family. With him as a guarantee, the prince will definitely agree to my request to retrieve the person. Now you can finally rest assured, right?"

Ruyi naturally knew that now was her perfect chance to escape from that dangerous place. She didn't try to make trouble anymore and immediately knelt down and said honestly, "Okay, I will tell you everything I know. Please save me from this misery."

Xiang Xiaoyuan took her to Huaiyu's room.

The guards here are the weakest, and it is Xie Yunxue's territory, so the Zheng family dare not place any spies to patrol.

Xiang Xiaoyuan brewed a cup of tea for Ruyi. The little maid drank it tremblingly. After warming herself up, she spoke, "Actually, there's an evil spirit living in the backyard. We've been suppressing it with a demon-suppressing formation to prevent it from killing people. She crawled out of the old lady's belly. She should have been the fifth lady of the mansion, but she..."

In fact, Ruyi only had a vague understanding of many things. After all, she was only fourteen or fifteen years old. She only learned a few things later when she heard the old women in the yard chatting.

This fifth lady was born different and so beautiful that she didn't look like a child born in the Zheng family.

However, this pretty young lady fell ill when she was six or seven years old.

When Wu Niangzi first fell ill, she used malt sugar to trick her half-brother who came to visit her into the backyard and then drowned him in the spring pond.

When my cousin's aunt came to the backyard to look for someone, she saw Wu Niang holding my cousin's pale body and fiddling with it wantonly. Her face was very calm, without a trace of panic or worry.

This cruel and ruthless girl frightened my aunt to tears and curse, repeatedly saying that the Fifth Lady was vicious. In order to calm the situation, the Zheng family gave my aunt a large sum of money as aid, which was enough to suppress the matter.

From then on, Wu Niangzi was locked in the room. Only her relatives were allowed to enter to see her, and no outside guests were allowed to come in to see her.

In the past few years, the old lady has invited many Taoists and sorcerers to come to her house to set up altars and formations to exorcise evil spirits for Wu Niangzi.

Gradually, Wu Niangzi calmed down. Everyone thought that the evil spirit in her body must have been suppressed, and the older she got, the kinder her temperament would become.

After all, Wu Niangzi was only an eight or nine-year-old girl. She was pretty and lovely, and spoke in a sweet and crisp voice. It was hard not to arouse people's sympathy.

As the days passed, the wet nurse who was taking care of her softened her heart and couldn't help but unlock Wu Niangzi's door and let her go out for some fresh air.

Unexpectedly, she came back covered in blood in just one hour... Everyone followed the blood trail to check and found out that she took the knife from the kitchen, killed a maid who was serving tea when no one was paying attention, and cut her into several pieces.

Whether it was to drink blood or something else, she actually bit the little maid's neck, tearing the skin and flesh apart, bursting blood vessels, and splashing scarlet blood on her delicate eyebrows and eyes. The lower half of her face was covered in blood, making her look like those barbarians who eat raw beef and mutton...

The servants discussed privately that this was retribution for the Zheng family.

The Zheng family fought against the enemy at the border and killed too many Hu people. They were cursed by the wizards in the barbarian tribes, and the raw meat-eating and blood-drinking Hu ghost was reborn in the old lady's womb.

Wu Niangzi has no sense of guilt, and she does not understand what filial piety and integrity are.

Duke Zheng was terrified. He was afraid that his daughter would cause trouble, so he announced to the public that his child had drowned in the lake. From then on, he hid the Fifth Lady in his mansion and never showed her to anyone.

Ruyi got goosebumps when she talked about this. She said timidly, "Fifth Lady and Fourth Master are very close. Even a maid has caught them engaging in incest. But no one in the mansion dares to say anything, because only Fourth Master can keep Fifth Lady in check. With Fourth Master around, Fifth Lady is much quieter. Every month, she'll be given a servant for her to torture and kill for fun, and she won't harm anyone else."

"But, but, now that the Fourth Master is dead, there's no one left to trap the evil spirit."

Xiang Xiaoyuan understood that the Zheng family did not believe that the gentle and virtuous young lady would kill someone, so they believed that there was an evil spirit living in her body, which was why she was causing trouble.

But Xiang Xiaoyuan knew that there was a certain type of person, born evil, uninterested in worldly affairs, and only capable of arousing their interest in things like torturing living beings. Perhaps this Fifth Lady was born with a taste for blood and gore.

Now that we know it's man-made, it's easy to deal with.

Xiang Xiaoyuan thought about it and decided to find a way to catch this evil spirit.

(End of this chapter)