The useless second daughter of the Hua family

Hua Miaomiao and Miao Yizhuo both heard the noise outside the house. She left Hua Miaomiao in the house and rushed over alone.

Lin Wei and Mr. Zhu stood outside the door with awkward looks on their faces.

"What are you doing?" Miao Yizhui asked.

Mr. Zhu avoided the question and did not answer.

Lin Wei explained to her: "It's not convenient for us to go in."

"Inconvenient? Where is Xiaoyu?"

"Miss Xiaoyu is in the room."

Miao Yizhui became curious and looked inside.

I saw a woman lying on the bed, her frail body looming under the thin blanket. Her skin was as pale as snow, revealing a sickly look, and her eyes were as bright as a deep lake, yet fragile and brittle.

Xiaoyu stood beside the bed, feeling a little helpless, with a hint of apology in her eyes.

"This is what you are doing?"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind. It was Yu Yao who had just gone out. He saw everyone gathered in front of his room and looked at them with some confusion.

"Is my husband back?" A woman's weak and hoarse voice came from inside the room. It sounded like Mrs. Yu was really ill.

Yu Yao didn't care about anyone else and went straight into the room and walked to the bed. The worry on his face didn't seem fake.

"Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. I just drank too much and disturbed several guests' rest."

"No, no." Xiaoyu waved her hands repeatedly.

It was clearly me who suddenly barged in and disturbed her. But she spoke for me instead. Looking at the weak Madam Yu, Xiaoyu felt guilty and quickly left the room.

"Madam, please have a good rest. We won't disturb you for now.

The four of them returned to the room, and Hua Miaomiao hurriedly asked about the situation. The five of them sat around a table and communicated with pen and paper.

After knowing what Xiaoyu had experienced, Lin Wei was skeptical. He was the only one among the five who had never come into contact with supernatural powers. Regarding these things, he even wondered if Xiaoyu was scaring herself.

Hua Miaomiao didn't care about Lin Wei's attitude. She didn't forget that Lin Wei was a spy sent by the Regent. Reminding him was her duty as a fellow traveler.

At dinner time, Yu Yao came to invite people. After discussion, they decided to let Hua Miaomiao stay in the room on the grounds of being unwell, and Xiaoyu would help her get the dishes.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, someone couldn't hold back any longer. The room suddenly became damp and cold, and Hua Miaomiao felt her eyes were foggy. This sudden inability to see clearly made her panic, as if she had fallen back into that childhood nightmare.

A faint cold touch wrapped around her neck, and the veil that was originally brushing her face turned into a life-threatening rope that strangled her mouth and nose.

Hua Miaomiao fell into her inner demons, her expression dazed, and she completely forgot to resist, allowing the feeling of restraint to become tighter and tighter.

Suddenly, there was a flash of golden light on Hua Miaomiao's chest. The thing that was clinging to her groaned and was instantly bounced away, falling to the ground, knocking over everything in the room.

Hua Miaomiao came back to her senses and took out the red string from around her neck. It was the Warm Jade Guanyin that Ge Qinglan had given her.

The noise was so loud that people outside the house heard it.

When everyone arrived, they saw the mess and the person crawling on the ground. It couldn't even be called a person. Under her long hair, she had a pale, almost blue face, and her whole body was translucent, as if it could disappear at any time.

Yu Yao's eyes were full of worry. While everyone's attention was on Hua Miaomiao, he took out a wooden box, put the figure into it, and then disappeared in front of everyone out of thin air.

Xiaoyu and Miao Yizhui checked on Hua Miaomiao's condition. Fortunately, she only had some bruises on her neck and no other injuries.

Mr. Zhu looked at Lin Wei who was stunned beside him and joked, "Hearing is not as good as seeing. You should believe it this time. If you follow that girl, such things will happen to you in the future."

Lin Wei ignored his teasing and turned to Hua Miaomiao and said, "I'll be on guard outside the door tonight, you guys get some rest. I'll go to the river tomorrow morning to check, if we still can't cross the river, we'll find another way around. It's not safe here, and we don't know if they will come back, so we shouldn't stay here for long."

"I do not go."

Hua Miaomiao blurted out, and seeing everyone's disapproving looks, she explained: "Just now I was caught by mistake because I was not careful. After all, I am also a member of the Hua family. If they really did something against the will of heaven and earth, can we just turn a blind eye and leave?"

Besides, if she had seen it right, the wooden box in Yu Yao's hand was a "hidden treasure". This thing was originally given to Xiaoyu, so why did it fall into the hands of this couple? Did something happen to them again? When she thought of the two crying little ones, Hua Miaomiao wanted to catch the Yu couple and ask them clearly.

Lin Wei wanted to persuade her, but Mr. Zhu spoke first, "How are you going to find it?"

Xiaoyu and Miao Yizhuo have always listened to Hua Miaomiao, and now even Mr. Zhu has no objection, so Lin Wei has no choice but to give up.

"Zang" was originally made by Master Qingyuan, so it naturally has his unique flavor. Hua Miaomiao took out the Buddhist beads bracelet given to her when she became a disciple, and under the guidance of the tracking star disk, she found a cave on a 100-meter-high cliff halfway up the smooth mountain.

"Mr. Yu, please come out and have a chat. Although my Hua family is a family of sorcerers, we never kill or capture anyone in vain. If you really have any difficulties, you may as well be frank with me. I promise not to embarrass you and your wife."

The voice was not loud, but it was resounding. For a moment, Miao Yizhu seemed to see another shadow in her, which made her feel a kind of admiration from the bottom of her heart.

A moment later, Yu Yao came with his hands behind his back. He walked towards Hua Miaomiao step by step with a probing look in his eyes.

Hua Miaomiao simply pulled off her veil so that he could see clearly.

"It's really you!"

The fleeting joy in Yu Yao's eyes surprised Hua Miaomiao. Then he turned around and tried to escape, which made her even more confused.

How could Hua Miaomiao let him go like this? She didn't care about the difference between men and women, and hugged him tightly. Seeing that the other people were about to surround him, Yu Yao couldn't break free, and didn't want to hurt him, so he simply hugged Hua Miaomiao's waist and took her away.

The cliff was 100 meters high, the stone wall was smooth and there was nowhere to climb. The rest of the people could only anxiously look for other ways to climb up the mountain.

Hua Miaomiao was somewhat speechless. After being captured, she was left aside. The other party seemed unwilling to be her enemy, but did not want to pay attention to her either.

"I say, wasn't I the one tied up? Why do you look so sad?"

Mr. Yu did not reply, but continued to face the wall, away from her.

"Let's talk. Where did you get that treasure box?"

Master Yu looked back at her cautiously, then quickly turned back.

"..."

Hua Miaomiao felt like he was going to drive her crazy. He wanted to kill her or cut her into pieces, just to make her happy. Was he tying her up and throwing her into the cave in order to let the cold wind freeze her to death?

"Where did you steal the box from? What did you do to them?"

Yu Yao finally reacted this time. He turned around and looked at Hua Miaomiao helplessly.

“It wasn’t stolen.”

His voice was very soft, but Hua Miaomiao could actually hear a hint of grievance in it.

"What about them?"

"..."

Okay, I'm dumb again.

"So what do you want to do to me?"

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you." Yu Yao promised sincerely.

Hua Miaomiao laughed angrily, "Have you forgotten that not long ago, your wife almost killed me?"

"That's because I didn't recognize you. You were wearing a veil, and the aura you exuded was different from before." His face was filled with confusion and entanglement, as if he was annoyed about how things had turned out like this.

Hua Miaomiao was only then really sure that this person knew her. But who was he? She wanted to ask more questions, but the other party retreated into the corner and ignored her completely.

Yu Yao didn't move until a ray of dawn light came in from outside the cave. Hua Miaomiao had been tied up for a whole night, and her back ached and her limbs were stiff.

"If you don't intend to kill me, can you let me go? It's too uncomfortable to be tied up like this."

After she mentioned it, the other party seemed to realize it. He looked apologetic, stretched out his hand and untied her rope.

"I'll go find you something to eat. You... just stay still. This is a cliff. It's very dangerous for a mortal like you to go out."

After saying that, he was about to leave, but Hua Miaomiao stopped him in disbelief.

"Hey, hey...you're just leaving like that? Are you comfortable leaving me with your wife? Aren't you afraid that I'll take her life while she's sick?"

Yu Yao looked at her for a long time before saying, "I believe you won't bully the weak."

Hua Miaomiao felt mixed emotions. This trend was different from what she had imagined.