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

Liu Xueying narrowed her eyes: "Not only that, now that I'm here, if anything happens to anyone else in the manor, they won't suspect me. After all, I'm so inconspicuous right now."

As Liu Xueying spoke, a cold glint flashed in her eyes: "Especially that little hussy, Sixth Aunt, while I was under house arrest here, she tried to smear me. Ha... how could I let her have her way so easily?"

"I will thoroughly stir up this stagnant water in the backyard. Let the master see who is more suitable to be the mistress of this household, and who can manage this backyard well."

At night, a sudden clap of thunder rang out.

Then, it started raining very quickly.

Ye Qing'an was lying on the bed when she heard Zi Xiao come in and close the window of the room.

"It looks like it's going to rain heavily today."

Zixiao nodded: "This rain has the feel of summer rain. The weather has already cooled down, so why is there such a thunderstorm? Isn't autumn rain usually continuous?"

"It's mostly autumn rain, but there are always occasional surprises."

Ye Qing'an smiled and said, "I think this kind of heavy rain is quite good. It comes down cleanly and this rain shouldn't last long. By tomorrow morning, the rain should have stopped. The autumn rain has been going on for several days, which is quite annoying."

Zixiao smiled as well: "Is Miss afraid of thunder? Would you like me to turn the lamp on the table a little brighter?"

"What's there to be afraid of when it thunders? There's nothing to be afraid of."

Upon hearing Ye Qing'an's words, Zi Xiao simply nodded, lowered her head, and withdrew.

As Ye Qing'an listened to the thunder and rain outside, she felt her eyelids twitching violently, as if something bad was about to happen.

Ye Qing'an rubbed his eyes and listened to Zi Xiao's breathing in the side room gradually become steady before entering the Cloud Dreamland again.

The next morning, just as Ye Qing'an had said, the rain stopped and the sky cleared.

Ye Qing'an opened her eyes and faintly heard voices outside.

The sound seemed to be coming from the outer courtyard, so it wasn't very clear.

"Someone is coming."

Ye Qing'an called out to someone, and soon Zi Xiao came in with Ling Lan.

Linglan poured the hot water she had brought in into the wooden basin, and Zixiao came over to help Ye Qing'an get up.

"I just woke up and heard a lot of noise outside. What's going on?"

Zixiao quickly replied, "Someone died in the manor last night, and everyone downstairs is talking about it."

"Someone died? What happened?"

Zixiao glanced at Linglan and picked up on what everyone already knew: "It is said that a maid in the Sixth Concubine's courtyard died. She was the maid who served the Sixth Concubine closely."

"I heard that it was during the heavy rain last night that the maid said some of the flowers in Sixth Aunt's courtyard couldn't withstand the rain, so she got up and called a few servants from the outer courtyard to help move the flowers back into the house."

"Several servants were moving flowerpots when they suddenly heard the maid scream in fright, then shout and faint."

"The maid fell down right where there was a very sharp stone, which hit her head and killed her."

Ye Qing'an frowned: "With so many people around, what did she see or hear? Why did she react so strongly?"

Zi Xiao's hand, which was helping Ye Qing'an put on her shoes, moved slightly. She simply said truthfully, "I heard that you saw the carcass of a rabbit."

"And what that maid shouted was true, but she didn't do it herself; she was just following the orders of Sixth Madam..."

"The rabbit's... corpse?"

Ye Qing'an pursed her lips; this thing really made her think a lot.

After all, on that day, Eleven was lured to the artificial hill by a rabbit, and it was only when he saw the rabbit dead and lying on the rock that he was ambushed when he went to check on it.

"She didn't do it; she was just following the orders of Sixth Aunt?"

Zi Xiao nodded: "Just now, the people in the courtyard were saying, is it related to the young master's injury?"

"Oh?" Ye Qing'an laughed. "There's such a rumor?"

"Yes, the rabbit's corpse makes it hard not to think of the young master's accident. And I heard that the rabbit looked very similar to the one the young master chased that day. It was a gray rabbit, and the size and appearance were almost the same."

"That's what the servants in the manor are saying. They're all wondering if the young master's accident that day was..."

Although Zixiao did not finish her sentence, Ye Qing'an already understood the meaning behind her words: was it the work of the Sixth Concubine?

Ye Qing'an tapped her fingers lightly on the table. However, the household affairs of the Ye family were now managed by the Sixth Concubine, yet the servants still dared to spread such rumors so recklessly, and even the rumors reached her ears.

That's hard...it's hard not to be suspicious.

Ye Qing'an smiled. When she first returned to the Ye residence, the only people who jumped around in front of her were Liu Xueying and Ye Weilan, and the methods they used were really not very clever, which made her feel quite bored.

Lately, all sorts of strange and unsavory characters have come out of this mansion, and their antics are becoming increasingly elaborate. This Ye mansion, after all, has some interesting aspects.

Ye Qing'an then asked, "Where did you put the rabbit's carcass?"

"I told the servants to take it away and bury it. That thing is unlucky, so it's better to bury it."

Ye Qing'an clicked her tongue. Why bury it? Making cold rabbit, having it with drinks, and watching a show would have been quite nice.

Ye Qing'an dressed neatly, washed up, ate breakfast, and then prepared to leave the mansion.

Because of the National Day holiday, she hasn't visited Mr. Lingjun for a few days now.

She had only recently become an apprentice, and it wasn't good for her to keep taking leave.

As soon as Ye Qing'an stepped out of the courtyard, she saw Sixth Aunt rushing over with her servants. Perhaps because of what happened yesterday, Sixth Aunt's expression was not very good.

"Young Miss!" Seeing that Ye Qing'an was about to leave, the Sixth Madam hurriedly called out to her.

Ye Qing'an stopped and turned to look at the Sixth Madam: "Madam, you've come so early, is there something important?"

The sixth concubine was pale and pursed her lips: "Miss must have already heard about what happened in my courtyard last night."

Ye Qing'an didn't hide anything and nodded: "I have heard some things."

The sixth concubine gritted her teeth and reached out to grasp Ye Qing'an's wrist: "Miss, someone is framing me!"

“I don’t know what happened last night. My maid, Coral, is indeed dead, but no one knows what happened at the time. The servants who were moving the flowerpots were busy and didn’t notice the commotion. By the time they finished moving the flowerpots and went to look for Coral, she was already dead. There was indeed a rabbit carcass not far away…”