After Princess Xuanxue came down from the mountain, the whole capital was in chaos.

Chapter 33 Are you pretending to be a ghost?
  During dinner time, Yuan Qi came to the dining hall early for no other reason than that he was hungry.

The meal has been put on the table, and it looks quite sumptuous, with a mix of meat and vegetables, steamed buns, steamed buns, flower rolls, chicken, duck, and fish. Just looking at it will greatly increase your appetite.

She stepped forward and tore off a chicken leg.

The maid saw it. Although she was angry, she couldn't do anything. She couldn't snatch it back and put it back. All I could do was persuade her: "Miss Qi, you can't touch your chopsticks when the Marquis is not here. This is the rule."

Yuan Qi didn't care about that, just took a bite, and gave the maid a sideways look: "I eat my food, so stay away from other people's business."

The maid had no choice but sighed softly and continued to set the dishes.

Not long after, Xiangli Mingzhu and several children from the Jiang family arrived, and Yuan Qi saw the dead Du Haitang riding on Xiangli Mingzhu's shoulders and hitting Xiangli Mingzhu's head with his fist.

But Du Haitang is a new ghost and has no ghost power. No matter how hard she tries, she can't hurt Xiangli Mingzhu.

Du Haitang was unwilling to give in. When she saw the maid bringing hot lotus leaf shredded pork porridge, she had an idea. She got off Xiangli Mingzhu and walked quickly to the table to bring the pot of lotus leaf shredded chicken porridge.

Her hands passed through the porridge basin and could not touch the porridge basin at all.

Before Xiangli Mingzhu could reach the table, Yuan Qi said in a low voice and quickly: "Concentrate and use your mind to pick it up."

Du Haitang was shocked: "Can you see me?"

Yuan Qi's eyes widened suddenly, the corners of his lips curled up and he said nothing.

Xiangli Mingzhu happened to come over at this time and took a seat.

Jiang Bailu and others followed and took their seats.

Jiang Trulu was a step too slow to wait for Xiangli Mingzhu to sit down. She sat down next to Yuan Qi and sarcastically said: "I am so lazy in learning the rules, but eating is the first priority."

After Yuan Qi finished chewing a chicken leg, he wasn't that hungry anymore, so he turned back and asked the maid for a cotton cloth to wipe his hands with.

No one can see Du Haitang, who is trying hard to control the object as Yuan Qi said.

Jiang Trulu criticized Yuan Qi again: "It's really unruly. Don't you know that we can't use our chopsticks without my father coming?"

Yuan Qi slowly turned his head and stared at her: "Don't you know that you can't talk when you eat or sleep? What are you making all the noise about here?"

Jiang Trulu: "You——"

Du Haitang tried many times but couldn't control the object. She said to Yuan Qi in frustration: "No, I can't pick it up."

Yuan Qi didn't say anything. She knew what Du Haitang was going to do. She couldn't teach him more. If Du Haitang couldn't learn it, she wouldn't give him any more advice.

Du Haitang saw Jiang Trulu always trying to bully Yuan Qi, and felt that if he teased Jiang Trulu for Yuan Qi, maybe Yuan Qi would teach her again.

He walked behind Jiang Truffle and tried to push Jiang Truffle's head.

But she couldn't calm down and never succeeded.

All she could do was blow on Jiang Truffle's back.

Jiang Trulu felt a chill on the back of her neck. She turned her head and looked behind her. There was no one there, and the window was not open.

What's going on?
  She looked around, and finally her eyes fell on Yuan Qi: "Why do I feel so cold? Are you pretending to be a ghost?"

Yuan Qi dismissed her and wanted to scare her, so he simply said: "I'm not pretending to be a fool, it's you who is trying to trick me. I can't stand it anymore, so you're helping me to trick you."

As expected, Jiang Truffle felt her neck getting colder. She was very scared: "Did you ask her to tease me? Let her go quickly, otherwise I will be blamed for being rude!"

When Du Haitang saw that the cool air he was blowing was effective, he blew even harder.

Yuan Qi finally smiled at Du Haitang: "You try?"

This sentence was said not only to Jiang Trulu, but also to Du Haitang.

Du Haitang was inspired and concentrated. He pinched a strand of Jiang Truffle's hair and lifted it up with his mind. “Ha! It’s done! It’s so easy!”

Everyone could see clearly that a strand of Jiang Trulu's hair was floating by itself. Jiang Bailu and Jiang Jiulu pointed at her hair, their faces turned pale.

"ghost!"

"There's a ghost!"

"Ah -" Jiang Bailu realized that the ends of her hair were scratching her face, she screamed in fright and ran towards Xiangli Mingzhu.

Xiangli Mingzhu was also very frightened and reprimanded Yuan Qi: "Don't be a fool! Come, come, come!"

Seeing that Yuan Qi had been harmed, Du Haitang did not dare to tease Jiang Trulu anymore.

Jiang Jun was the leader of the forbidden army. He walked over and protected his mother and sister behind him. He looked at Yuan Qi warily and warned her: "Seventh sister, you used your chopsticks before father came. It's your fault. Why don't you let others talk about it?" Put away your tricks quickly, or you will be punished when father comes."

Du Haitang was frightened by Jiang Juncai's momentum and subconsciously hid behind Yuan Qi.

Yuan Qi rolled his eyes and was very unconvinced: "You have been looking at me, but have you seen any little tricks on my part? She offended the ghost herself, how can she blame me?"

At this time Jiang Zhengqing came in and scolded everyone: "No matter what the noise, please sit down."

Jiang Trulu almost cried: "Father, there is a ghost."

Jiang Zhengqing didn't believe it: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can there be ghosts in the world?"

Jiang Zhengqing looked majestic and no one dared to refute.

Everyone ate in silence.

Du Haitang felt sad when he saw that Jiang Zhengqing was not sad at all.

She cried a lot in the corner, walked behind Xiangli Mingzhu again, concentrated on her, and pressed her head down hard.

"Ah!" Xiangli Mingzhu's face was put into the porridge bowl, with rice grain soup on her face.

Yuan Qi wanted to laugh, curled his lips, but held back.

Du Haitang was very surprised, but when he saw Jiang Zhengqing's majestic look, he ran away.

"Mother!"

"Mother!"

Jiang Juncai and Jiang Bailu exclaimed almost at the same time.

Xiangli Mingzhu was frightened. Just now she clearly felt someone pressing her head. She ignored the rice grains on her face and glared at the maid behind her: "Is it you?"

The maid quickly knelt down and said, "I'm not a slave, madam. Even if you give me a hundred courages, I wouldn't dare."

Li Gui's concubine was also afraid, but she was more gloating about her misfortune. She knew that Jiang Zhengqing didn't love Xiangli Mingzhu very much, so she directly sarcastically said: "My sister has done too many unscrupulous things, so she deserves retribution."

She glanced at Yuan Qi and felt that it must be Yuan Qi's fault.

Several maids hurriedly came up to serve and clean up Xiangli Mingzhu.

Xiangli Mingzhu's heartbeat was like a drum, her chest was rising and falling with anger, and she glared at Yuan Qi: "Are you pretending to be a ghost?"

Yuan Qi eagerly screamed and denied: "You have done something wrong yourself, what does it have to do with me? Don't slander others. We cultivators are the most particular about karma. If I drive a ghost to harm you, I will also be punished by heaven. I won’t do anything that harms my merits!”

Xiangli Mingzhu's voice was too high: "Who else could it be if it wasn't you?"

Yuan Qi stopped eating. He crossed his arms and raised his chin to remind her: "Think about what bad things you have done recently! The so-called being a person who does not do bad things means you are not afraid of ghosts calling the door in the middle of the night!"

(End of this chapter)