The Daily Life Of Mei Furen Doting On Her Husband - Chapter 36

Li Yuanzhen was about to fly. “Can I still see him?!”

Wu Zhen said, “Wait for a while. When he recovers a little, ask him to come out. If he is willing, he will show up.”

Li Yuanzhen was quiet for a while, then suddenly squatted down, holding her head and yelling, “Ahhhhhhh!”

Wu Zhen was so scared that she covered Li Yuanzhen’s mouth with her hand. “Little ancestor, you shouted so loudly you will alert the people patrolling outside. Where can I hide as your aunt?”

Li Yuanzhen was so happy that her eyes sparkled. She held the jade hairpin tightly and jumped up to hug Wu Zhen. “Aunt! Aunt! I can see him now!”

Seeing her so full of joy, Wu Zhen couldn’t help but be infected by her enthusiasm and laughed as well. Well, her little niece was so happy, it was worth her effort to get this wood. Although she owed the monster a big favor, at least everything went well, and God also made it happen.

“Thank you, Auntie! If you have any problems in the future, I will definitely try my best to help!”

“Okay,” Wu Zhen said with a smile. “I need your help with something, but you should thank the full moon tonight. Such pure moonlight has helped you a lot.”

After Wu Zhen left, Li Yuanzhen lay on the bed holding the hairpin to calm down. Finally, she remembered a question and sat up suddenly. Wait, why did her aunt know magic?!

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The sun shone in from the window, and the lights in the house were all off, leaving only a faint smell of lamp oil. Mei Si stared at the unchanged painting on the table in front of him, his eyes red, and his arm also red. To prevent himself from falling asleep in the middle of the night, he pinched his arm hard every time he was too sleepy, and his whole arm was pinched red.

He spent the whole night thinking about what posture he should use to chop up the painting if the evil ghost in the painting came out. But when he waited until morning, there was still no change in the painting, and none of the ten postures he thought of worked.

Mei Si stood up with his sword in hand, his legs trembling. After sitting all night, his legs were numb. He walked around the table, looking at the painting on the table from time to time, hesitant.

He felt that there was something wrong with the painting, but he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, so he was unwilling to destroy it. After hesitating for a long time, Mei Si finally made up his mind. He took out the basin he used to throw waste paper, gritted his teeth, rolled up the painting on the table, threw it into the basin, lit a tinder, and threw it down. When he saw the brush on the table, he had an idea and threw the brush into the fire as well.

Watching the flames devour the evil spirit, Mei Si let out a long sigh and sat down dejectedly on a mat beside him.

At that moment, a stream of purple smoke suddenly emerged from the flames and rushed towards Mei Si like lightning. Before Mei Si could react, it rushed into his body. Mei Si paused and fell backwards.

Only a moment later, Mei Si opened his eyes again, but this time he no longer had the usual innocent sincerity. His eyes were darker than before and could not reflect even a little light.

‘Mei Si’ got up from the ground, looked at his current body, and gave an uncomfortable smile. Soon, he left Mei Si’s home and disappeared into a corner of Chang’an City.

Mei Zhuyu was signing an official document in the Ministry of Justice when he suddenly felt his eyelids twitch, as if something had happened. He subconsciously turned his head to look out the window. It was a sunny day with warm sunshine. Putting down his pen, Mei Zhuyu was just about to do a simple calculation with his fingers when suddenly a clerk hurried in.

“Officer Mei, there has been a murder in Yongfufang, and Officer Xu asked you to take someone there immediately.”

Mei Zhuyu put away the work in his hands, took the document the clerk handed over, looked at it, and said, “Got it.”

Two corpses were found in an abandoned old house in Yongfufang. The corpses died in a horrible way, as if they were torn apart by a huge wild animal. However, how could there be a huge man-eating wild animal in the vast city of Chang’an?

Yongfufang was the former residence of Guo Cunzhong, the former Shangshu Ling. The house had been abandoned for many years and no one had taken care of it. From the outer wall of the square to the inner wall of the inner house, the place in the middle where horses were originally stored was overgrown with weeds.

Mei Zhuyu brought several clerks from the Ministry of Justice, a coroner clerk, and several soldiers, and entered the house directly through the opened door. When they entered, the shaky door collapsed to the side with a bang, raising a cloud of dust.

Guo Cunzhong was very powerful more than a decade ago. He built a large house with carved beams and painted rafters. It was said that everything exceeded the regulations. Later, his house was confiscated overnight, and this magnificent and spacious house was abandoned. Guo Cunzhong was a second-rank official. If he wanted to sell the house after it was vacated, he had to find someone with a higher rank than him. Otherwise, if he was of a lower rank, he would not be allowed to use those architectural styles, and he would have to tear it all down and rebuild it, which was too troublesome.

In addition, Guo Cunzhong’s crime was so serious that almost all his family members were hanged in that house, which was too unlucky. As a result, that big house had never been sold and had been abandoned to this day. The old house had been forgotten for more than ten years and had become dilapidated. Only the countless stones and horse troughs for tying horses in the weeds, as well as the colorful lacquer flowers on the door lintel that were no longer bright, could be vaguely seen, reminding people of the prosperous past.

Two older clerks had been here before and sighed a few times that things had changed and people were no longer the same. Mei Zhuyu, who was walking in front, asked, “Where was the body found, and where is the person who reported the case?”

“Waiting inside, in the lobby. The person who reported the case was a man named Ma Pan from a nearby neighborhood. Although the government had sealed that house and no one was allowed to enter, so many years had passed, the door had collapsed, and the seals on the outside had rotted. Such a large house had been emptied of everything and is just an empty shell, and no one bothered to manage it, so some residents from nearby neighborhoods occasionally sneak in there, hoping to try their luck and find something usable to take back.”

The speaker was a deputy minister of the Ministry of Justice. Deputy Minister Tao had a small mustache and shook his head while speaking. He would touch his mustache after every sentence. “Here we are. Oh, the smell is so bad that it can kill me!”

Everyone covered their noses. Mei Zhuyu walked into the lobby with a frown on his face.

The lobby had been in disrepair for a long time, covered with dust and empty; even the doors and windows had been pried away. Because no one cared, it became a hiding place for beggars and vagrants, at least they had a roof over their heads. The two bodies in the lobby looked unrecognizable, with ragged clothes, one of them with a head rolled to one side. Obviously, the two dead people were the two beggars who rested in this dilapidated house.