Beast Taming Mad Concubine: The Useless Young Lady is Back!

Abbot Jieran gritted his teeth, gripping his staff even tighter. He was seething with anger, but his face remained calm and composed. "As I just said, I don't know who I'm talking about. I'm just providing Lord Ye with a clue. Lord Ye can use this clue to find the person."

Ye Qing'an raised an eyebrow: "Ah, that's true. Abbot Jieran didn't seem to have mentioned it was me. It's just that everyone assumed it was me..."

"In that case, it shouldn't be my problem, right?" Ye Qing'an still had a smile on his face. "However, I can indeed reproduce all the phenomena that Abbot Jieran called 'heavenly omens.' Would you like to take a look, Abbot?"

Abbot Jieran's expression grew increasingly grim.

Seeing this situation, Ye Qinghao understood what was going on. However, Abbot Jieran was extremely prestigious in the Siyou Kingdom. As some had said before, even the Emperor respected him greatly. If he completely lost face here, it would be detrimental to Ye Qing'an, and even to the Ye family.

Ye Qing'an is a Holy Spirit Body, and she is still somewhat useful to him, so he naturally cannot stand by and watch her get into trouble.

"Alright." Ye Qinghao spoke up: "The abbot only told us what happened, the characteristics and birth date of that femme fatale who brought ruin to the country, but didn't say anything else, nor did he say that the person was you. Those strange phenomena cannot be manipulated by humans."

Ye Qinghao turned his head: "Thank you very much, Abbot. I will personally go to Ju'an Temple to donate some incense money in a while."

Abbot Jieran's reputation and prestige, which he had built up over decades, were almost ruined by the Ye family mansion. However, since the matter had already occurred, he had not yet thought of a way to turn the situation around. Naturally, he was eager to leave as soon as possible, so he put his hands together and chanted a Buddhist prayer with Ye Qinghao: "Amitabha."

"I'll see the abbot off."

After Ye Qinghao saw Abbot Jieran off, the room became noisy.

The sixth concubine raised her hand to wipe the fine sweat from her forehead: "I was so scared! Every word that Abbot Jieran said seemed to be directed at Miss. If it weren't for Madam's exceptional wisdom back then, Miss would have been harmed by that Abbot Jieran today!"

"Has the young lady offended this Abbot Jiran before?" someone asked.

Ye Qing'an shook her head and sighed softly: "I had been staying in the backyard of the mansion the whole time and had never seen this solitary abbot, so how could I have offended him?"

"I think someone bribed Abbot Jieran to frame the young lady. But someone who can bribe Abbot Jieran must be no ordinary person. I wonder who it is that would go to such lengths to target the young lady?"

Ye Qing'an smiled and said, "I also want to know. I am just a woman, a woman raising a child alone. At most, I am the eldest daughter of the Ye family. I don't know who I have offended that would make him willing to set up such a big show to frame me?"

As Ye Qing'an spoke, her gaze swept lightly over Ye Zirui.

Ye Zirui remained as gentle and refined as ever. When she looked over, he simply smiled and said softly, "Fortunately, sister is alright."

Ye Qing'an's eyes held a meaningful look: "Yes, thankfully I'm alright. But if I'm alright, then the person who instructed Abbot Jieran to put on this show is probably in trouble?"

"Huh? Why do you say that, Miss?"

Ye Qing'an smiled and said, "Think about it, who is Abbot Jieran? He is the former national teacher of our Siyou Kingdom. He is trusted by the emperor, has countless followers, and the people of Siyou Kingdom respect him very much."

"If he was instructed by someone to perform this play to frame me, but because the person who instructed him gave him the wrong birth date and time, he lost face in front of so many of us, do you think he will hold a grudge against the person who instructed him to come?"

"Too."

Ye Qing'an noticed that the person in the room's expression immediately turned ugly, and the smile on her lips couldn't help but deepen.

"The young lady said that the strange phenomena that occurred in the manor the night before last were not the will of heaven, but man-made. She also said that you can recreate those phenomena. Is that true?"

All eyes then fell on Ye Qing'an's face.

Ye Qing'an smiled and nodded: "Of course it's true, and in fact, it's not too difficult."

Ye Qinghao had just returned from seeing Abbot Jieran off when he heard Ye Qing'an's gentle voice coming from the main hall.

"The bloody footprints on the wall are nothing to worry about; just have someone secretly smear them over."

"The blood seeping into the well and the blood beads seeping onto the spirit-testing stone are the same principle; they are actually made of cinnabar."

"Cinnabar?" someone exclaimed.

Ye Qing'an nodded: "Grind the cinnabar into a fine powder, put it into the well water, and apply it to the spirit-testing stone. The cinnabar will turn red when it comes into contact with water. Since the well is full of water, the cinnabar will naturally dye the well water red."

"The Spirit Testing Stone stood in the courtyard of the ancestral hall overnight. Now that the weather is getting colder and the dew is heavy, there will naturally be dew on the Spirit Testing Stone when we get up in the morning. Because the Spirit Testing Stone was coated with cinnabar, the dew naturally turned into red water droplets."

"In fact, if you use the things you usually use to dye clothes, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, you can make any color you want for the well water and the water droplets on the spirit-testing stone."

The people in the room seemed to be thinking: "That seems to be the case. It's not a clever method, but it looks very scary. Some people say it's a celestial phenomenon, and then people follow the rumor, and it gets more and more exaggerated."

"But the red water is cinnabar water, and the well water all looks like it's boiling. What's going on?"

Ye Qing'an curled the corners of her mouth: "That's even simpler. It's also stone, just limestone powder. When you put limestone powder into water, the water will bubble and smoke continuously, as if it's boiling."

"And there were flocks of birds flying low? I heard that there were tens of thousands of birds, a dark mass, like a lid covering the top of our Ye Mansion. It was terrifying."

Ye Qing'an turned to look at the Seventh Aunt who had spoken: "I would like to ask everyone, did you hear about the flock of birds flying low, or did you see it with your own eyes? Has anyone here seen it with their own eyes?"

"No, not at all."

Ye Qing'an sneered: "I asked many people, and they all saw the well water boil and turn red. But the flock of birds flying low was only mentioned by a few servants. Apart from those few people, no one else has seen it. It's just hearsay, and the rumors are getting stronger and stronger."

"What if those servants had planned this beforehand and were just making things up?"

"I don't think anyone has personally verified it, right? Because many strange phenomena occurred in the mansion that night, so many people naturally believed what they said."

"But...where's the evidence?"