Gu Xinyue's face was grim, and she got straight to the point: "Call everyone here. I have only one thing to say: the Gu family doesn't like gossipers! If I find out that someone is gossiping and spreading rumors that are bad for our Gu family, you know the consequences!"
As she spoke, she shook the ruler in her hand, scaring a male gardener so much that he almost fell down.
It was obvious that he was one of the onlookers before, and he loved gossiping the most.
Even Gu Xing, who was standing by and watching the show, was so frightened that his legs were shaking. He thought to himself, "I shouldn't have told tattling if I had known. If something really went wrong, wouldn't I be in trouble?"
After dealing with this matter, Gu Xinyue just felt tired.
Then a new problem arose. Neither Gu Jiu nor Gu Xiaoxiao could be woken up.
Especially Gu Jiu, even Gu Xinyue poured water on him, but it was useless and he was still snoring.
Old Man Gu felt sorry for his son and quickly changed Gu Jiu into clean clothes, unable to hold back his tears.
In this world where girls are valued more than boys, Gu Xiaoxiao was treated much better. Not only was she not poured cold water on, but Gu Xinyue also personally took Gu Xiaoxiao's pulse and was relieved only after confirming that she was indeed just in a coma.
After Gu Ningshuang left home, she was the only daughter left at home, and nothing could happen to her.
……
Shortly after noon, several families came to the government office in Linshui Town. Their family members had mysteriously disappeared the night before.
According to these people's accounts, they were gone when they woke up in the morning.
If only one family reported the case, the government office could naturally refuse to look for the person on the grounds that the person had been missing for less than a day. However, since five families came at once, the case had to be taken seriously.
Only two of these five families are familiar with each other. They are scattered throughout Linshui Town and seem to have no connection.
However, the detectives soon discovered a common point, that is, the five missing people had all attended the Liu family's banquet the day before yesterday.
Some strange things have happened in the Liu family recently. The guard leader Shen Zhu had his eyes gouged out. No one in the town knew about it, but the government office knew it clearly, so the county magistrate couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
Not long after, several constables arrived at Liu's house. When they found that no one answered the door, they sent someone to climb over the wall and open the door.
Then these detectives discovered that there was no one in Liu's mansion, and they quickly sent someone back to report.
Soon, the town's head constable, Lü Qingfang, arrived with a dozen or so constables outside Liu's residence. However, they found the door tightly shut. They couldn't help but whisper, "Who locked the door again?"
The constable who had reported earlier couldn't understand and could only shake his head.
Lu Qingfang had witnessed two supernatural events before, and felt something was amiss. Instead of sending people to rush in, he first sent two people with good martial arts skills to check it out, and set off fireworks to warn people if anything happened.
Unfortunately, the two female detectives went in and did not come back for a full hour, and there was no news at all. Just like the detectives who had investigated before, it seemed as if they had been eaten by the Liu Mansion.
There was something weird about the Liu Mansion, and even the detectives were a little frightened.
Several of them had seen Shen Zhu's hideous appearance after his eyes were gouged out a few days ago.
Just when everyone was at a loss, a nun in plain clothes came over, looked at Lu Qingfang, and saluted, "Master Lu, is this the residence of Master Liu Hongying?"
Lu Qingfang had dealt with Taohua Nunnery before, so she recognized the nun immediately and asked hurriedly, "Master Suyun, why are you here?"
The nun named Suyun stroked her sleeves and said, "Yesterday I heard that a fellow Taoist named Lingyu had come to the Liu Mansion in Linshui Town, claiming to be from Taohua Nunnery. However, there is no such person in my nunnery. I was worried about something going on, so I rushed here overnight."
After hearing these words, several timid constables couldn't help but cry out in surprise.
If what the nun said was true, then who was the person pretending to be the nun from Taohua Nunnery? And were their colleagues who had entered before them killed?
……
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At this time, Gu Xiaoxiao, who had been in a coma, finally yawned and woke up. She was suddenly startled when she found her mother sitting next to her.
She looked at Gu Xinyue's gloomy face and said nervously: "Mother, I said I don't want to eat breakfast, so don't wait for me."
Gu Xinyue's face was filled with black lines. She said, "Breakfast? You're talking about breakfast at this time? I think you've encountered a ghost!"
In her excitement, Gu Xinyue couldn't help but speak in her hometown dialect.
Chapter 18 Girls Should Act Like Girls (Additional Update)
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Inside the Liu Mansion, the nun Suyun was in front, and the constables led by Lu Qingfang were behind. The atmosphere was very solemn.
This group of female detectives from Linshui Town, dressed in snow-white dresses, with green cloaks on their shoulders and steel knives in their hands, are naturally majestic and beautiful in Gu Jiu's aesthetic sense.
But now they are very nervous, with sweat on their foreheads, fearing that they will be in fatal danger.
Because the colleague who just entered the Liu Mansion was also majestic and good-looking, but there is still no news until now, maybe he has been tricked.
The nun Suyun was about forty years old, with some fine lines at the corners of her eyes, and looked very calm.
She silently looked at the structure of the house, and without much investigation, she walked towards the southwest corner of Liu's mansion.
As soon as the group passed through the corridor on the water, several constables couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise, and the sound of drawing swords became continuous.
Hanging on the door of the attic were the bodies of five female detectives.
They were nailed to the outer wall, their eyes gouged out, and even their clothes were half stripped off, making them look like torn sacks.
For a moment, the constables behind were in chaos, some were frightened, and some were angry.
Several of the constables, with red eyes, couldn't help but want to rush in with their swords drawn, but were stopped by Lu Qingfang.
She didn't want to send any more of her extra men to die.
Even though she was so angry that she wanted to tear the murderer into pieces, she knew that human power was limited because she had experienced supernatural events.
Nun Suyun nodded to everyone, pushed open the attic door and walked in first. Then Lu Qingfang signaled the rest of her men to wait outside and followed her in.
The room was very dark. Nun Suyun went straight to the second floor and found traces of fighting along the way. She couldn't help but raise her brows slightly.
In the shadows, Lu Qingfang couldn't see the expression on the nun's face. She just felt very nervous, and her hand holding the handle of the knife was trembling slightly.
When she reached the second floor, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and wanted to vomit.
I saw a lot of eyeballs scattered on the ground on the second floor. At first glance, it looked like a pile of chess pieces that had been knocked to the ground.
Lu Qingfang forced herself to suppress the feeling of horror and nausea in her heart, and found that the smell of blood was not as strong as she had imagined.
This is because there is no blood in these eyeballs, as if they have been washed.
The eyeballs scattered all over the floor made Lu Qingfang feel horrified, but the nun Suyun just frowned and went to the third floor.
There was no door on the third floor, or rather, the door had been knocked open. After seeing the room full of eyeless corpses, Lu Qingfang felt a chill all over her body.
This is probably what humans feel powerless when facing unknown monsters.
So many people died here.
She has been gifted since childhood. At the age of 28, she had reached the peak of the second level of the Body Tempering Realm. Looking at the area within a few hundred miles, she was considered one of the top masters.
Apart from those who can enter the prestigious sects to practice, Lu Qingfang's combat power is already at the top of the ordinary people, but she felt very powerless when facing supernatural events several times.
Now, looking at this room full of eyeless corpses, this feeling is even more obvious.
If the nun from Taohua An had not arrived, she would not even have the courage to enter here.
Linshui Town hasn't had any incidents in many years, but I didn't expect that the first one would be such a tragedy.
Looking at the twisted, eyeless corpses on the ground and thinking of her sisters hanging outside, Lu Qingfang's eyes turned red and she was covered in cold sweat.
Nun Suyun looked around the third floor, opened one of the windows, looked outside the courtyard wall, and said lightly, "That dirty thing has left."
Lu Qingfang wiped her eyes, adjusted her mood, and said, "Thank you, Master."
Nun Suyun also had a gloomy expression on her face and sighed, "This world is becoming increasingly chaotic."
Soon, the constables below were called up and began to carry the body.
Such a tragedy with hundreds of lives lost is not something that a small county government can handle.
The entire Liu family, including the relatives and friends who attended the banquet that day, were all killed.
After everyone went downstairs, Nun Suyun looked up at the dark corner of the roof beam above her head.
At this time, the "Lingyu Nun" suddenly showed her head, looked at the other party with a pale face, and an evil smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
The nun Suyun looked at the other person and showed an equally evil smile.
Suddenly, this nun Suyun no longer looked like a human...
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When Gu Jiu woke up, it was already noon the next day.
The moment he woke up, he found himself sleeping on the cold floor. He quickly sat up and saw Gu Xinyue with a dark face, and Gu Xiaoxiao standing beside Gu Xinyue anxiously.
Gu Jiu frowned when he saw this, and when he found out that this was the family's ancestral hall, his brows furrowed even tighter.
Apart from worship, this place often uses family rules, which is not beautiful at all.
He had been put in solitary confinement here before, and there was no big bed or rattan chair, so sleeping was very uncomfortable.
Gu Xinyue looked at Gu Jiu coldly, holding the black ruler in her hand, and said coldly: "Is there anything you want to say?"
Gu Jiu recalled the last scene before he fainted yesterday, and immediately figured out why he was here. He couldn't help but stretch and yawn, saying, "Xiaoxiao, didn't you tell your mother what happened?"
Gu Xiaoxiao's cheeks flushed, and she lowered her head and said, "I just remember sleeping in my room. I don't remember anything else you did to me."
Seeing that Gu Xinyue's hands were shaking with anger, Gu Jiu hurriedly said, "Mother, don't you think this is very strange? Why is Xiaoxiao in my bed?"
After hearing this, Gu Xiaoxiao's face turned even redder and she whispered, "Pervert!"
Gu Xinyue stood up and said coldly, "I'll give you a cup of tea. If you can't explain clearly, no one can save you today."
Gu Jiu couldn't help but look out the door. Gu Xinyue said directly, "Don't look. Your father won't be able to get out of bed today."
After hearing this, Gu Jiu couldn't help but feel a headache and asked, "How long have I been sleeping?"
"One day and one night." Gu Xinyue said.
"It's only been a day and a night." Gu Jiu couldn't help but sigh.
He thought that after all the energy he had consumed yesterday, he would need to sleep for at least two days and two nights.
Seeing his mother's murderous look, Gu Jiu immediately said seriously: "Mother, I can only tell you about this. Xiaoxiao can't listen."
Gu Xiaoxiao was so angry that she stamped her feet and said with tears in her eyes: "You did that to me, and you won't let me listen?"
Gu Xinyue frowned and said coldly, "Shut up! Girls should behave like girls!"
Yes, Gu Xiaoxiao’s current reaction is very normal in Gu Jiu’s eyes, but it is a little abnormal in this world.
When a man and a woman sleep in the same bed, it is usually the man who suffers and the one who cries, never the woman's turn.
However, the relationship between the two is brother and sister, so it is hard to say whether they will suffer any loss. If the news gets out, they will all be doomed.
The most direct consequence is that Gu Jiu cannot get married, Gu Xiaoxiao will have a hard time finding a husband in the future, and the Gu family will lose face.
In the end, Gu Xiaoxiao was kicked out by Gu Xinyue with a look of grievance, leaving Gu Jiu alone to face Gu Xinyue.
After Gu Xiaoxiao left, Gu Jiu got straight to the point and said, "Mom, if I said Xiaoxiao was possessed by a ghost, would you believe me?"
After hearing these words, Gu Xinyue couldn't help but frown, as if she remembered something, and her face turned pale as paper.
Ghosts, what a terrifying existence they are.
Could it be that Xiaoxiao really encountered a ghost?
It's a dog day!
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Chapter 19 This nun is weird
Gu Xinyue knew that there were ghosts in this world, and she even knew that there were demons lurking outside Shanhaiguan, otherwise the court would not have allocated so many resources to support the cultivation sects. But when Gu Jiu said this, she still felt a chill on her back.
Linshui Town is located in the northern part of the Tang Kingdom. It is far less prosperous than the Central Plains. The area is vast and sparsely populated. Therefore, even though the sects here are not weak, they are still overwhelmed when faced with strange things.
For example, within a radius of 500 miles of Linshui Town, there is only one Taohua Temple with some capabilities.
Gu Xinyue had seen a ghost once in her life, which was the water ghost in Gu Jiu's house shortly after he was born. However, when she arrived, the water ghost was already dead.
Even after all these years, she could still remember clearly that damp human skin covered with aquatic plants.
So over the years, Gu Xinyue would remind Gu Ningshuang to bring back some things to ward off evil spirits every year, but Gu Ningshuang only brought back the sword hanging in the main hall, saying that it was enough to scare away most ghosts.
The swords of the Yunshan Sword Sect are made of spiritual iron ore and are imbued with spiritual energy. If they have been used to kill humans or demons, they will be filled with even more evil energy, enough to scare away ordinary evil spirits and ghosts.
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