The system jumped to me

Xiaomian Inn

Li Lianhua removed the wooden window, inside which were sealed dead fireflies. A few more escaped through the cracks and landed by the window of Buwei's room on the second floor.

"Fireflies glow at night, so this is what ghosts are. Ugh, it almost scared me to death."

He wasn't crying from being scared last night, nor was it just because of the thunder. It was also because he saw fireflies flickering by the window in his half-awake state. He had seen a dried corpse during the day, and what he thought about during the day, he dreamed about at night. He was immediately terrified.

Hua Xiaozhou patted Buwei on the back of the head to comfort him.

"The ghostly figure and the bloody footprints have been explained, but what about 'Yu Qiushuang' last night? We saw her when she entered. Could it be that she changed skin?"

Fang Duobing suddenly realized how little he knew. Sure enough, he made the right decision to venture out into the world. He had been so ignorant before.

"What are you thinking about?"

Li Lianhua untied the small wine gourd from her waist, uncorked it, and handed it to Fang Duobing.

"smell."

"Father, I want to smell it too."

"Children are not allowed to drink alcohol."

"Do not…"

"Even smelling it is not allowed."

Fang, who was ill, took a sniff.

"Pockmarked?"

This is a herb with hallucinogenic effects. The effects are mild, but if the person who drinks it is relaxed, they can easily be fooled.

Yu Qiushuang entered the room that day wearing a veil but not removing it. She raised her head and scolded those who looked at her, revealing the scar on her cheek. After leaving a deep impression, she hurriedly covered her face.

Li Lianhua took back the wine gourd and hung it back on her waist.

"The wine and water in the shop were given by the waiter, and they all had pockmarks. While everyone was in a daze, Yun Jiao, disguised as 'Yu Qiushuang', entered the room, went upstairs, and said a few words to 'Yu Jiao'. Then Yun Jiao went downstairs back to her room and let out a cry of surprise, leading everyone upstairs to the second floor."

"There's also blood. My brother and I went downstairs just now and saw that the blood dripping from the bathtub was from the room where the cargo box was located. Aunt Ying said that the people in the box containing Miss Yu were all frozen from blood. Last night, they melted quickly, and a lot of fresh blood leaked out of the wooden box and soaked into the floor, which happened to fall into the bathtub on the first floor. That's why Yun Jiao had a reason to lead people upstairs."

"Yes, the analysis is very good."

Li Lianhua lightly lifted the hem of her robe, climbed the steps, and led the three upstairs to Yu Qiushuang's room. After looking around, she took out a shadow puppet that was about the same height as Hua Xiaozhou from under the table.

"This is Yun Jiao who was talking to Yu Qiushuang. The conversation we heard was all Yun Jiao talking to herself, reinforcing the impression that Yu Qiushuang had returned and entered the house."

Li Lianhua carried the shadow puppet and placed it next to Hua Xiaozhou.

The shadow puppets danced, tethered by the silk threads. Hua Xiaozhou followed the puppets, raising her hand and nodding. The two of them were actually playing together.

Fang Duobing snapped out of his daze, looked at the two of them, and couldn't help but sigh. So childish—

“I am not good at manipulating shadow puppets; I can only move them within a small space. But if you are from the Hujiangpu family, who made their fortune in shadow puppetry, you can train them from a young age and they can move the shadow puppets from a distance.”

Li Lianhua lost her grip, the silk thread snapped, and the shadow puppet, now unattached, fell gracefully like a butterfly with broken wings.

Hua Xiaozhou instinctively reached out to take it, but Li Lianhua grabbed her hand.

"Don't touch it, it's bad luck. More than ten years ago, the Pu family was wiped out overnight because of gambling debts."

"Yun Jiao has done so much for that person, yet she still pretends to be crazy. Zongzheng Mingzhu is truly ruthless." Fang Duobing had always thought that Zongzheng Mingzhu was a gentleman.