Too fierce because of caution

The song was like the chirping of a spirit bird, beautiful and moving.

Just listening to the last sentence dispelled the fear in my heart.

The two looked from afar and saw a graceful woman drawing water next to an ancient well in the vice house.

Under the stars and the moon, the smell of fireworks on her body dispelled some of the gloom of the haunted house.

Raising her hand, her jade arm was bathed in a layer of dark clouds, and the starlight fell on her face, and the gentleness of the Jiangnan water town was ready to come out.

Such a gentle woman.

A pair of amber eyes, as beautiful as autumn water, can really kill and set fire to people's hearts.

Carefully arriving in the courtyard, the woman also noticed the two of them, and a trace of surprise appeared on her beautiful face.

"You are..."

Zhao Yi scratched his head and said:

"You are the second wife of the palace, Su Mei, right?"

"We are outside the palace, and we have to come here for some special reasons."

Su Mei's eyes flickered slightly, she asked the two to sit down, and went inside the house to bring them warm tea.

"So you are guests from outside the palace... I am so rude."

"The palace is in decline, there is nothing to entertain you, I will fry some glutinous rice for you two."

She rolled up her hair, her eyes were gentle as water.

Zhao Yi did not refuse, and Su Mei quickly brought two bowls of hot and fragrant glutinous rice for the two of them.

And she cooked some millet porridge herself.

The palace used to have a rule that if there were guests, they had to eat with them.

If only the guests ate and she watched from the side, it would be impolite.

"Madam, why don't you eat sticky rice?" Zhao Yi asked casually. Su Mei said softly, "I am old and have a bad stomach. I can't eat sticky rice." Zhao Yi looked at Su Mei. She was very young, with no trace of time on her face. Her skin was tight and fair. She looked like a young woman in her twenties. But she was wearing thick clothes. The haunted house was not cold. The three of them were eating in a harmonious atmosphere. Zhao Yi finished the sticky rice and asked, "Second Madam, I'd like to ask... Has the first madam passed many forty birthdays?" Su Mei's pupils suddenly shrank. She was very surprised, "How did you know?" Zhao Yi took out Che Lin's memo and explained, "Chief Che Lin told us." Su Mei looked at the memo, and the familiar handwriting on it made her eyes reveal a trace of sadness. That honest face, that old but still strong figure...

That heart that was always enthusiastic about the mansion...

Now all of them have become cold ink stains on paper.

"Alas..."

She sighed faintly.

"Sister... has indeed celebrated many 40th birthdays."

Zhao Yi asked:

"Why?"

Su Mei nodded, bit her red lips tightly, closed her eyes and said:

"I'm sorry... I can't say."

Luo Qili asked in a different way:

"Then... was the eldest lady good to you when she was alive?"

Su Mei nodded.

"Sister was very good to me when she was alive..."

She stopped halfway through her words.

Being... tricked!

Luo Qili's eyes lit up:

"So... the eldest lady is 'dead' now?"

Su Mei smiled bitterly:

"I'm sorry, I really can't say..."

"You guys should leave quickly, the haunted house is not safe, and... if you don't leave now, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave."

Paper Man Nanny also said this.

Zhao Yi replied:

"Madam, we can't get out anymore, so we want to investigate the truth of this haunted house and find a way to leave here."

"Otherwise... we will die here."

Su Mei's hand shaking unconsciously as she collected the bowl.

She stood there for a moment and gritted her teeth and said:

"I'm sorry... I can't help you."

She was about to walk into the house, Luo Qili wanted to chase her, but was stopped by Zhao Yi.

Seeing that Su Mei was about to close the door, Zhao Yi said:

"Madam loves the master very much, right?"

Su Mei stopped, but didn't turn around.

After a long silence, she sighed faintly.

"The master rescued me from the brothel and doted on me. I am grateful for his kindness and naturally admire him..."

"Unfortunately, time was short and I was unable to leave a son or an heir for him..."

She stood in the house and glanced at the two of them, frowning and hesitant.

But in the end, he closed the door gently.

Luo Qili whispered:

"Why don't you let me chase her and ask?"

"This woman obviously knows something..."

"If it doesn't work, we can still do it to her..."

Zhao Yi:

"If you dare to threaten her... you will die miserably."

"Facing a living person who can live in a haunted house, how much do you think you have a chance of winning?"

Luo Qili choked, her eyes changed, and when she looked at the room in the secondary house, her eyes were already solemn and fearful.

This woman was so gentle and harmless that she almost got fooled!

They had been dealing with ghosts for a long time, but she subconsciously regarded people as safe NPCs!

If Zhao Yi hadn't held her back just now...

"We can't get anything out of the Second Madam here. Are we going to the First Madam?"

Zhao Yi heard this and said:

"You went to the west side just now. Did you find any useful information?"

After being asked, Luo Qili suddenly remembered and hurriedly took out a cloth bag from her body.

"I found a special book in a room dedicated to gods on the west side. It records a strange puppet technique."

"Just now in the hall, there were many people and eyes, so I didn't take it out."

She took out the cloth bag and put a dusty book on the table. Zhao Yi opened it and read it quickly.

Ten lines at a glance.

Read, understand, digest.

A few minutes later, he finished reading a book of nearly a thousand pages.

"You... finished it?"

Luo Qili had never dared to disturb Zhao Yi, and only spoke at this time.

Although she didn't believe that Zhao Yi could finish reading the book in such a short time.

There are hundreds or thousands of words on a page. What can he remember by just scanning it?

Zhao Yi closed his eyes.

"Meat puppet... Page 761."

He spoke.

Luo Qili turned the book to page 761 and her pupils trembled!

"Damn!"

She couldn't help but curse.

On page 761 of this book, there is actually a record of the smelting method of the meat puppet!

"You are a ghost, right?"

Zhao Yi blinked and said:

"Meat puppets - made from corpses that have just died but have not decayed, they can partially carry the owner's memories and emotions before death, but their memories are limited, and their emotions are very unstable, and they are easily stimulated by the outside world."

"Its memory will slowly fade over time, and it will be irritable and jealous."

"Generally speaking, it is best not to have too much difference between its life and the corpse before death."

"When the memory of the meat puppet disappears completely, it will retain the emotions before the memory disappears, but it will no longer have its own thinking ability..."

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