Reborn Lady's Scheming

Chapter 120 Mysterious Woman

In this dark and cold night, hearing this sound was like grasping at straws.

Lingshu was about to go forward to call out, but was stopped by Xie Wanqing. In this eerie backyard, no matter whether it was servants or other people, they were not familiar with each other, so it seemed inappropriate to rush forward without inquiring about the facts.

In short, Xie Wanqing always felt that this backyard was a bit weird, as if someone was deliberately hiding something.

"Who?! Who's there?!" A rough male voice shouted.

Xie Wanqing was immersed in her own thoughts, but suddenly she was startled by this shout, she subconsciously covered her grown mouth, but luckily she didn't scream out.

After a long while, Xie Wanqing calmed down, tried to keep her tone steady and replied: "It's me, Xie Wanqing."

"Oh?" After a while, a dim lantern was lit.

The tall and burly man came over with a lantern and took a look at Xie Wanqing's face. Seeing his posture, he seemed a little disbelieving. When he saw Xie Wanqing's face clearly, he hurriedly bowed and said, "Sir, The eldest lady has saluted."

"Excuse me." Xie Wanqing's voice was very soft.

"This back garden has been abandoned for a long time, it's really not suitable for a rich and expensive body like the eldest lady to come here, how about a slave to send the eldest lady back?" The man's voice was hoarse and rough.

"Then it's time to work. By the way, light a lantern for us." Xie Wanqing followed the man closely, pulling the coffin.

The man didn't say much, and lit another lantern and handed it to Lingshu.

The candle flames flickered, revealing a faint light. Taking advantage of the twilight, Xie Wanqing realized that there was a yard behind this man. She couldn't help but want to go in and take a look, but unexpectedly, the man stopped in front of her very nervously. .

"This...here...there's nothing to see here, the young lady's way back to Changshang Pavilion is over there." But he didn't know why he was nervous, his voice trembled.

After Xie Wanqing looked around the yard for a few times, she was dragged away by Lingshu.

It was too dark, and there was no moonlight. With only the lantern in my hand, I couldn't see anything clearly. I just felt more and more mysterious.

After walking a few steps, a strange voice suddenly sounded, like a wild beast, it seemed to be growling, it also seemed to be pouring out, and it was full of desolation.

"What's in here?" Xie Wanqing was curious.

The man didn't seem to hear it, and said: "Miss, go this way, be careful where you step." I could feel that the man was deliberately hiding something, Xie Wanqing turned around and followed him without warning.

Walking slowly all the way, he finally returned to the Changshang Pavilion. The man made a bow and then backed away, but a seed of curiosity was planted in Xie Wanqing's heart. What exactly is in that yard?
At this time, Su Wen had already lit the charcoal fire, and the whole room was warm.

Su Wen, who had been waiting for a long time, saw Xie Wanqing come back and hurried forward, unexpectedly touching her cold little hand, her brows were frowned, and she said in a bad tone: "Miss, can't you take good care of yourself? It's such a dark night , go out in such a cold day.”

"I'm fine, I'm just a little tired, I want to take a rest." Xie Wanqing's heart warmed up. Although the two girls had a master-servant relationship in reputation, she had already recognized the two younger sisters.

Although Su Wen was not forgiving, he quickly took Xie Wanqing's pulse with his hands, and when he confirmed that she was just suffering from the cold and nothing serious, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Wen turned around and went to fetch hot water for Xie Wanqing to soak her hands and feet, trying to help her drive away the cold air in her body.

But Lingshu, who had already been shivering from the cold, ignored himself and was busy cooking bird's nest and ginseng soup. He was busy boiling water just after serving it, planning to let Xie Wanqing take a bath and change clothes, so that she could completely get rid of the cold so that she would not get sick .

"Lingshu, you gave me your coat, it's already freezing through, don't be too busy and go to rest, there's a plain question here." Xie Wanqing couldn't help but drive Lingshu to rest.

"My servant is in good health, and I will be fine after a while. But you, miss, your body is weak, and you get sick easily. Now, this servant only asks you not to get sick and stay healthy. This servant will thank the Bodhisattva for his great kindness." Lingshu poured buckets of hot water into the wooden bucket, and carefully scattered various varieties of chrysanthemum petals into it.

In an instant, the whole boudoir was fragrant and hot.

"Miss, come and take a bath, the water temperature is just right." Lingshu had been serving Xie Wanqing to soak in the wooden barrel, and then went back to her room to change and warm herself by the fire.

After bathing, all the cold air in the body was dispelled, and the whole body felt much more comfortable, and the feeling of fatigue was swept away.

Xie Wanqing leaned on the steps, thinking about all the people and things she met in the backyard at night, all of them were strange, and when she thought of the backyard that the man tried his best to hide, she felt even more curious. Heart.

After thinking about it for a while, Xie Wanqing couldn't resist the drive of curiosity after all, she changed into a set of all black tight-fitting night clothes, and said that she was tired and wanted to rest, and specially told Lingshu and Suwen not to disturb.

Xie Wanqing took a bundle of hemp rope and climbed out from the back window.

The courtyard was guarded, if she wanted to sneak in, she would have to go through the back door or climb the wall, Xie Wanqing, who didn't know any martial arts, had to rely on these hemp ropes.

Taking advantage of the cover of the night, Xie Wanqing trotted all the way to the back garden quickly.

According to my short memory, I found the yard, sneaked to the side of the high wall, and climbed up with the hemp rope.

But she didn't think that this matter was not as simple as she imagined. Xie Wanqing almost exhausted all her strength to climb up to the wall. She just wanted to take a rest but she didn't expect her foot to slip. It fell down like a kite.

Xie Wanqing resigned to her fate and closed her eyes tightly. She would not die if she fell from such a high wall, and her mind went blank for a moment.

But she didn't expect that at the moment when she was about to fall down, a big warm hand wrapped around her waist, and her body leaned towards her according to inertia.

"Ah!" Knowing that she was rescued, Xie Wanqing opened her eyes and saw a handsome face less than three inches away from her.

"Miss Xie, are you a little late?" Xuanyuan Jue's deep eyes dimmed.

Xie Wanqing reacted and struggled vigorously, breaking away from his embrace.

After Xie Wanqing tidied up her clothes, she cleared her throat and said, "My lord, please respect yourself."

"Speaking to your savior like this, you really should respect yourself." Xuanyuan Jue snorted heavily, as if he was a little dissatisfied with Xie Wanqing.

Only then did Xie Wanqing realize the problem, and asked, "Are you following me?"

"Should you be lucky? This king saved you!" The corners of Xuanyuan Jue's mouth rose slightly, as if it was a kind of enjoyment to see Xie Wanqing lose her temper.

"Fourth prince, I hope that you will act in an aboveboard manner and be worthy of the title of prince." Xie Wanqing turned her head and left after speaking.

Xuanyuan Jue wanted to say something, but was interrupted by a rough voice: "Who?"

Xie Wanqing was startled, and quickly squatted down.

"Woo... ah, woo..." Xuanyuan Jue imitated the hooting of an owl a few times, and finally managed to fool the visitor.

Hearing the sound of that person's footsteps going away, Xie Wanqing finally breathed a sigh of relief. If someone found out at this time, it would be difficult to make up a reasonable reason for a while.

At the moment when Xie Wanqing was stunned, she suddenly felt a warmth penetrate into her body, Xuanyuan Jue actually hugged Xie Wanqing into her arms, raised her true energy, and performed lightness kung fu, the two quickly fled towards the depths of the courtyard.

Originally, she wanted to struggle out of his embrace, but the galloping speed made her dare not make any mistakes. If she made too much noise, it would definitely attract the attention of the guards. She didn't want to mess this up.

In addition to that, Xie Wanqing was flustered for a while by the warm breath.

Suddenly, "Gulong... Hu..." There were low growls like ghosts.

Xie Wanqing and Xuanyuan Jue looked at each other and made a silent gesture at the same time.

The two moved slowly towards the direction of the voice, one in front of the other.

I came to a low house, which was made of clay. It was low and narrow, like a dwarf's hut in a huge open space, and looked extremely lonely.

That's where the sound comes from.

Xuanyuan Jue walked over immediately, followed by Xie Wanqing.

The two of them were cautious at the same time, for fear of making the slightest noise, they moved over slowly like this.

The small earthen house was very short, and the tall Xuanyuan Jue walked in with his waist bent.

Xie Wanqing followed behind, also bending over.

The inside of the earthen house was even darker than the open space, and only the strange sound of "grumbling... rumbling..." and the crashing sound of "dong dong..." could be heard from time to time, making it even more eerie in this dark night.

Xie Wanqing was extremely nervous, she unconsciously grasped Xuanyuan Jue's clothes tightly, her whole body trembling unconsciously.

"Hmm... it stinks in here!" A stench was coming, Xie Wanqing hurriedly covered her mouth and nose, and followed Xuanyuan Jue, not daring to leave him.

Xuanyuan Jue groped around on the ground, found a piece of wood, took out a fire folder from his sleeve, and lit the wood to illuminate it.

The sudden light blinded Xie Wanqing's eyes, and she returned to normal after a few seconds.

But when Xie Wanqing saw everything in front of her eyes, she couldn't help it anymore, and let out a terrified cry: "Ah..."

Xuanyuan Jue quickly stepped forward and covered it with one hand, the two were extremely nervous.

After a while, I didn't hear anyone approaching. Fortunately, this place is far away from the door, so the guards didn't hear it.

Xie Wanqing raised her eyes again to see a person with long gray hair sitting slumped on the ground, her eyes were like black holes, and there was still ink-colored juice lying on her face, which seemed to be blood.

With dry and wrinkled skin and distorted facial features, it can be seen that she used to be a woman, but she has become like this for some reason.

"Gulong... Huhu... Woo..." The beast-like voice was made by this woman. She obviously heard the sound, and she scratched the air with both hands, seeming very excited.

But shaking vigorously but unable to catch anything, she panicked and fell to the ground. Only then did Xie Wanqing realize that her legs had shrunk into two skeletons. It seemed that she had already been paralyzed.

Who is this woman?Why is she here?Who turned her into this inhuman and ghost-like appearance?

Thousands of questions came to mind, filling Xie Wanqing's heart with various doubts.

(End of this chapter)