“You go back first, I have something to say to the Princess.” Wenren Si’s eyes swept down and issued an order to evict the guests.
Zong Zhitang reluctantly pouted and said aggrievedly, “Cousin, Tang’er doesn’t dare to go to the front hall, I feel very uncomfortable when I see the mourning hall.”
“Then go back to the house.” Wenren Si said seriously with a cold face.
Zong Zhitang was afraid of offending him and making him unhappy, so she walked away slowly with the lunch box.
“Don’t want to calculate?” Chu Jingyue sat down, glanced at the empty bowl on the table, and frowned slightly.
Wenren Si ignored her words, but took out the sandalwood box that the dark guards had dug up and handed it over, “Dug out from under the octagonal pavilion.”
Chu Jingyue touched the wooden box. Even though it was not opened, she already knew what was inside.
And it was really related to her other life treasure.
It was no wonder that the bone ghost mistakenly regarded Wenren Si as the existence that suppressed them, after all, the auras of the life treasures were similar.
Chu Jingyue threw the sandalwood box into the brazier, and casually threw out a talisman paper. The yellow paper slowly fell on the wooden box, and the flames jumped up instantly.
“Don’t open it and take a look?” Wenren Si looked at the wooden box, he should see with his own eyes what was inside.
Chu Jingyue raised her eyes and glanced at him, “Are you interested in bugs?”
Wenren Si squinted his eyes, he sometimes couldn’t understand her style of doing things.
The fire in the brazier gradually extinguished, leaving only ashes, not even a trace of wood residue.
Only a few dark red bloodstains could be vaguely seen in the ashes.
“In the end, it was not found out who made the grievance Gu worm.” Wenren Si said in a deep voice, only knowing that this worm was nourished in the Ning’an Earl’s Mansion, but there was no clue to prove that this matter was still related to the Earl’s Mansion.
Chu Jingyue supported her face with one hand and said, “Isn’t there still a clue?”
“Huh?” Wenren Si was secretly puzzled in his heart, was there still a clue?
Chu Jingyue said lightly, “The temple incense, didn’t your grandfather ask people to bring it back from the temple? If it was a real temple, how could it not even be able to stop the bone ghost?”
As soon as she finished speaking, the nanny politely came to invite Wenren Si and Chu Jingyue to the backyard to see the old lady.
Wenren Si was unwilling to go, he had interfered with his grandfather’s death after all, so why bother to make his grandmother sad for nothing.
The nanny immediately said, “The old lady’s body is afraid that it won’t work, she just wants to see the King.”
“Go and see.”
Wenren Si got up and strode out, Chu Jingyue twitched her mouth, the old lady’s life span was still hard.
Re-entering the old lady’s courtyard, the faint stench in the hall had completely dissipated, she was sitting listlessly with her thin body, her eyes without energy.
“There is no one in charge in your mansion. Although there is a marriage bestowed by the Emperor, there is now the Princess by your side, but after getting along for this period of time, the Second Miss Chu lacks etiquette and education, and it is afraid that sitting in the position of princess will damage the face of the Qi Royal Mansion. Now, taking advantage of the funeral, you can mention a word to the Emperor about this, and the Emperor will agree.”
When Wenren Si heard that she came for this matter, and the grandmother’s body didn’t look like there was a problem, he said in a deep voice, “I will take care of the affairs of the Royal Mansion, grandmother doesn’t have to worry.”
“Humph!” The old lady slapped the table and said, “Now that your grandfather is gone, you don’t have me, your grandmother, in your eyes anymore, do you? You should know what I mean, what are you pushing back?”
The old lady meant that she wanted to take advantage of his grandfather’s funeral to inform the Emperor that Chu Jingyue was ominous and to withdraw from the marriage, so that the position of Qi Princess could be vacated.
“You not only knew about the life-borrowing, but you were also an accomplice. Do you think you can escape karma?” Chu Jingyue sat down by herself, her clear eyes without any emotion, as if she was just narrating a very ordinary thing.
The old lady’s face changed drastically, “Presumptuous! You are arrogant and disrespectful to your elders, I have to ask the Chu family well, how did you teach your daughter!”
Chu Jingyue withdrew her gaze with a blank expression, got up and said, “There is nothing for me to do in the mansion, I’m leaving.”
She walked away gracefully and neatly, and Wenren Si looked at her back with a cold face, her eyes with an ambiguous meaning.
The old lady covered her heart and fell back into the chair, wailing, “Oh, I’m really going to be angered to death. How can the Chu family’s daughter be so rude? With this virtue, how can she be the mistress of the Qi Royal Mansion?”
“Grandmother, you should think about how to handle grandfather’s funeral first.” The implication was to let her not care about the affairs of the Qi Royal Mansion.
After speaking, Wenren Si turned and left. Since she was going back to the mansion, shouldn’t she wait for him, the King?
Seeing Wenren Si leaving neatly, the old lady slowly sat up from the chair, and angrily slammed the teacup on the ground.
“What a Chu Jingyue! She forced my Earl’s Mansion into such a desperate situation, killed my old Earl, and cut off my glorious road, I will never spare her!”
Although Wenren Si chased out, he didn’t return to the Royal Mansion with Chu Jingyue.
He wanted to stay in the Earl’s Mansion to help with the funeral arrangements until the funeral seven days later.
And Chu Jingyue returned to the Royal Mansion, and she would also go to the Earl’s Mansion with the Grand Madam on the day of the funeral.
“Alas, what’s wrong with our family? First Si’er had an accident, and now the old Earl is again… Alas.” The Grand Madam sighed sadly.
Chu Jingyue said lightly, “I found the grievance Gu worm that hadn’t grown up yet in the Earl’s Mansion.”
The Grand Madam was shocked, “How is that possible? Do you mean that the people of the Earl’s Mansion want to harm me?”
“I don’t know, investigating the case is not what I should be in charge of.” Chu Jingyue herself didn’t bother to think about investigating this matter.
The Grand Madam looked at her with a displeased face, “Now that Si’er is going to Mourning，you must remember not to sleep with him for five months.”
“Oh.” Chu Jingyue was as indifferent as ever, she couldn’t sleep in the same room for five months?
The human soul would have entered the underworld in five months, and she didn’t know who the so-called Mourning was for.
“And the old Concubine is coming back soon. You are kind to Si’er, it’s okay if you are not polite to the people in the Royal Mansion, but you have to understand some etiquette when facing the elders.” The Grand Madam whispered.
Chu Jingyue’s fingertips moved slightly, and a sentence came to her mind.
The old lady of the Earl’s Mansion seemed to have said that Wenren Si’s grandfather and grandmother seemed to be burning incense and worshiping Buddha in the same place.
She raised her eyes and looked at the Grand Madam’s face, and after a long time, she said, “The Grand Madam should take care of herself, and be careful of disaster.”
After Chu Jingyue finished speaking, she turned and left, she was in a hurry to go back to check Wenren Si’s mother’s human soul.
When she Soul retrieval that day, she also sensed a trace of life treasure aura.
If she couldn’t figure out the inside and outside key, she would have to use some means.
She left in a hurry, leaving the Grand Madam and Zhao Mama looking at each other.
“What does she mean by that?” The Grand Madam said angrily.
Zhao Mama thought for a moment and said, “Perhaps the Princess has calculated something, but it’s not good to say it directly, so she’s reminding you in a roundabout way?”
The Grand Madam’s face softened when she heard the words, but after thinking about it carefully, she said, “I don’t go out of the door or the second door now, what disaster can I provoke? In my opinion, that girl just saw that I was teaching her, and deliberately scared me out of dissatisfaction, wanting to see me look restless.”
She didn’t take Chu Jingyue’s words to heart. She didn’t see the grievance Gu worm with her own eyes, and even though she hated it very much at first, she now thought that she was just poisoned at that time.
On the other hand, Zhao Mama was worried, and thought that she must find a chance to get the truth from the Princess’s mouth when she had time.
“By the way, that child Siyu is also coming back, she must be sad when she finds out that Si’er is married.”
“You should send someone to send a message and let her go to the Earl’s Mansion to offer condolences first.”