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The maid screamed and rushed out. Poor Zhao Gupan was left unattended. The joy that had just risen in her heart turned into disappointment. Fortunately, the lid of the box was opened. She struggled to get out of the box, but unfortunately, because she had been curled up, her legs were numb. When she stood up, her head was heavy and she rolled out directly. Then she fell heavily to the ground and broke her head. The pain made her tears flow again.

The maid rushed out of the yard and started yelling, "There's a ghost! There's a ghost in the young lady's yard..."

Because there were only women in the harem, and Zhao Gupan's courtyard was remote, none of the maids who heard the noise dared to go over and check. In the end, it was Madam Zhao, who was in the commotion in the courtyard, who angrily scolded them, "How can you be so loud and shouting? There are fewer people in this house, and no one is watching over you, so you are becoming even more unruly."

The maid rushed to Madam Zhao as if she had seen a savior, knelt down in front of her, trembling, and pointed at Zhao Gupan's yard and cried, "Madam, there's a ghost in the young lady's yard."

Mrs. Zhao frowned and said, "What nonsense! What's going on in broad daylight?"

"Really, ma'am, I was ordered to clean up the eldest lady's yard, and then I heard a strange noise. I looked around and found that it came from a box. Then I bravely went forward to open the box and check, and there, a female ghost crawled out."

The maid was probably really scared, her speech was intermittent and her voice was shaking. Madam Zhao had been upset by the many things going on in the Zhao Mansion these days and hadn't slept well for several days. She was already in a bad mood, and when she heard the maid's nonsense, she was even more furious. She raised her leg and kicked the maid in the chest: "Asshole, you are spreading rumors here to confuse people. How could our mansion be haunted?"

The maidservant was kicked in pain but she could only groan and endure it, not daring to shout. She sobbed in grievance: "Madam, I didn't lie. If you don't believe me, send someone to check it out."

Mrs. Zhao saw that she really didn't seem to be lying, so she said to the nanny beside her, "Go and take a look."

The nanny had just taken two steps when she called her again: "Wait, go to the front yard and call two guards first, to prevent some scoundrels from sneaking in while there are few people in our house.

When the group arrived at Zhao Gupan's yard, they saw a woman with disheveled hair crawling on the ground in a strange posture, which frightened everyone present and made them step back.

Zhao Gupan heard footsteps and looked up to see someone approaching. He stretched out his hand to shout for help, but before he could open his mouth, a tall guard bravely raised his stick and struck him down: "What kind of monster has come here to cause trouble? I'll beat you to death."

Zhao Gupan's pupils shrank as he looked at the stick falling down. He screamed and passed out again.

Seeing Zhao Gupan motionless, the others dared to slowly approach: "What kind of monster is this?"

"It must be a female ghost. Look at her. She looks just like the female ghost in storytelling books."

"It's not even dark yet, and the female ghost has already come out? Isn't it said that ghosts can't see sunlight?"

"This must be a thousand-year-old female ghost with great spiritual power. She's not afraid of sunlight. We have to be careful."

The guard who knocked Zhao Gupan unconscious looked at the others with some pride, as if to say: See, I am still the most powerful one, I can even tame female ghosts.

No one else dared to touch Zhao Gupan, so the security guard used a stick to lift up Zhao Gupan's hair to check. He didn't recognize him at first glance because Zhao Gupan's head was broken and his face was covered with blood.

Seeing the woman with blood all over her face, the guard frowned and poked her face with a wooden stick. It felt soft and didn't look like a ghost. He bent down and took a closer look and asked curiously, "Why does this woman look so familiar?"

Seeing that there was no danger, the others dared to approach. The nanny beside Madam Zhao also squatted down to check. She recognized Zhao Gupan at a glance and shouted in shock, "Miss?"

When the guard heard it was the young lady, he dropped his stick in shock and looked at the maid in panic: "Mammy, are you looking carefully? Is this the young lady?"

The nanny's face was also not looking good, because she believed that so many servants had run away from the mansion because of Zhao Gupan, but she was the eldest daughter after all, and it was not her place as a servant to say whether she was guilty or not.

So she turned around and ordered, "Go and inform the mistress and the master quickly, and have someone carry the young lady to the bed."

When everyone heard it was the young lady, they immediately stopped being afraid. Two maids came to carry Zhao Gupan. As soon as they held Zhao Gupan, one of them felt that her lower body was wet. She looked down and smelled a strong smell of urine. She couldn't help but exclaimed: "The young lady is incontinent."

Mammy glared at her and said, "Shut up."

Zhao Gupan is a young lady and represents the reputation of the girls in the Zhao family. If this matter of wetting her pants gets out, even Mrs. Zhao’s daughter will be affected.

The maid also knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she quickly shut up.

After Zhao Gupan was carried to the bed, the nanny looked at her miserable appearance and ordered the maid to fetch water to clean Zhao Gupan's wounds and wash her body.

When Mrs. Zhao and Zhao Jian arrived, Zhao Gupan had already been cleaned up.

Madam Zhao looked at the wounds on Zhao Gupan's head and face and frowned as she asked, "What happened?"

The nanny described to her how miserable Zhao Gupan looked when she first saw her, and then said, "It seems to me that the young lady has been beaten by someone."

Zhao Jian didn't care who beat her, but was concerned: "How did she come back?"

No one knew that the maid who first discovered Zhao Gupan was called in for questioning again. When she knew that Zhao Gupan was not a female ghost, the maid was obviously much calmer. She pointed to the box in the corner and recounted how she discovered Zhao Gupan.

The nanny went to check the box and found that it smelled of urine and some clothes at the bottom were wrinkled.

She turned around and said to Madam Zhao, "Madam, the eldest lady must be imprisoned in here."

Zhao Jian asked sullenly, "Who locked her up?"

Mrs. Zhao's expression was also very unhappy: "You have to ask her yourself. Wake her up."

Everyone was in a dilemma. She was knocked unconscious, so how could they wake her up? Her wounds had not been treated yet. The mansion used to have a doctor, but he ran away the night before. It was not realistic to go out and invite a doctor. Now everyone knew that Zhao Jian was under house arrest, and no one came to give him any holiday gifts, let alone a doctor.

In the end, the nanny was cruel and found a needle and stabbed it directly into Zhao Gupan's philtrum. Zhao Gupan screamed and woke up.

When she regained consciousness and saw Madam Zhao and Zhao Jian, she started crying again, but her tears stung her wounds and hurt her, and her throat was hoarse, so few people could understand what she said.

Zhao Jian was annoyed when he saw her like this: "Why are you crying? Speak properly. How did you get back? Who locked you up?"

Zhao Gupan didn't dare to cry anymore. She could only look at the nanny and point at her throat. The nanny understood what she meant. She found the kettle in the room and poured a cup of cold tea for Zhao Gupan without caring how many days old it was.

Zhao Gupan was so hungry and thirsty that she didn't care when the water came. She drank two glasses of water before she could barely speak.

As Zhao Liangchen said, she blamed all the mistakes on the maid Xing'er, saying that after she learned that something might have happened in the mansion, she wanted to sneak away, but was discovered and stopped by Zhao Gupan. She then had an argument with Zhao Gupan, who was knocked unconscious and found himself in the box when he woke up.

Of course, Mrs. Zhao and Zhao Jian didn't believe what she said. They questioned her several times but couldn't find any flaws. The main reason was that even if Zhao Gupan sneaked back, she couldn't have made herself so miserable by locking herself up. It was obvious from her appearance that she had been locked up for a long time.

Suddenly Zhao Jian remembered something and told his servant, "Go find Liangchen."