sjar Chapter 109 Red Clothes
Chapter 109 Red Clothes
"elder sister!"
Zhiyi rushed in nervously and anxiously.
As soon as she entered the room, she saw Jiang Xing and Lu Xuan joking and chatting. It was a rare moment of laughter and joy for the two of them.
Zhiyi blushed and quickly fell silent, fearing that she would disturb this beauty.
The atmosphere in the room was broken by the sudden panic. Lu Xuan stood up and asked, "Do you know?"
Jiang Xing was a little unhappy. Zhiyi looked at him and didn't dare to speak.
Lu Xuan glanced at Jiang Xing, and Jiang Xing said slowly, "Just say it!"
Zhiyi swallowed her saliva and said, "Sister, please come with me to Wu Garden!"
Lu Xuan looked at her: "But what happened?"
Zhiyi: "For the past two nights, strange noises have been heard from the back garden of Wuyuan. Every morning, servants have discovered signs of someone holding a memorial service in the garden!"
She took the tea from Sang Luo and said, "I originally thought it was done by a servant in the mansion, but after a long investigation with the housekeeper, we found nothing, let alone anyone suspicious in the mansion! I thought you might want to learn more about these mysterious techniques, so I wanted to ask you to go to Wu Garden tonight and take a look!"
She took a sip of tea and said, "We're all a little scared. Even though it's all burnt paper money and figurines, it's still creepy looking at it!"
Lu Xuan nodded: "That's my house, I'm responsible for it!"
She turned her head and looked at Sang Luo. Sang Luo and Xiao Kui immediately understood and went to pack up.
Lu Xuan followed Zhiyi to Wuyuan.
Because she wanted Lu Xuan to see it, Zhiyi specifically ordered people not to clean up the pile of paper money, candles and other things. What she was more worried about was whether someone was doing bad things in Wuyuan?
But please don’t let it be like what happened to the Song family’s mansion before, where some ghost got in!
However, Lu Xuan turned the entire Wu Garden upside down and did not see anything unusual!
Moreover, Wuyuan has excellent feng shui, and is one of the best houses in terms of feng shui that she has ever seen in the Haitang Street area.
Lu Xuan thought about it, placed four paper crane spirits in the backyard to listen to the noise, and decided to stay there for one night.
Since it happened at night, let’s wait and see at night!
He waited until late at night and there was no sound. After washing up, Lu Xuan prepared to go to bed.
Just at this moment, she vaguely heard the sound of wind.
Rumor?
Lu Xuan reacted instantly.
No, that's the sound of fire!
She put on a robe and immediately took Sang Luo to the backyard.
Behind the crabapple tree, a woman in red was offering sacrifices and saying something to a pile of paper money.
Sang Luo immediately rushed over: "Who is here?!"
The woman keenly sensed someone coming, so she jumped onto the wall and was about to leave.
Sang Luo was quick-witted and quick-handed, and immediately chased after her with a dart in his hand, intending to block her way.
However, unexpectedly, the woman also had martial arts skills and she dodged the hidden weapon by falling over.
Seeing that the man was about to jump over the wall, Lu Xuan had no choice but to cast a talisman to freeze him and chase after him.
The woman in red was about to stand on tiptoe to gain leverage, but she found herself unable to move!
Just like that, the man fell straight down from the wall.
Sang Luo was prepared. The moment she fell, she gritted her teeth and caught it. Then the two of them fell to the ground together.
Lu Xuan helped Sang Luo up and looked at the person in front of him coldly.
The woman on the ground was not young, at least thirty-two or thirty-three years old.
Her eyes and eyebrows looked a little weathered, and her figure was stronger and taller than that of an ordinary woman. Her hair was tied up high, her clothes were neat, and she wore a red cloak, looking like a general on the battlefield.
Judging from her skills just now, she must have practiced before.
Lu Xuan's face was half hidden by the shadow of the crabapple tree, leaving only a pair of shining eyes, faintly revealing a coldness: "Who are you? Why are you in my house?"
The woman placed her hands on the ground and stared at her warily, like a hawk on the prowl. "Are you Princess Jin?"
"I'm!"
She was immobilized by a spell, so only her eyes could move. "This house belongs to you now?"
Lu Xuan looked at her, his voice cold: "You haven't answered my first question yet!"
The woman said reluctantly: "My name is Xu Shu, and I came to this house to pay tribute to my family!"
Fairly sincere.
Lu Xuan nodded and spoke more slowly. "This house used to belong to the Duke's Mansion. It was given to me by the wife of the Duke of Anguo! Were your family members servants in this house? Or were they someone else?"
Xu Shu felt that he couldn't move and felt a little shocked.
She swallowed and said, "My...my family used to be the owner of this house."
"Master? Are you from the Duke's Mansion?"
"No!" Xu Shu's pupils shrank, and he hesitated: "No."
Zhiyi heard the voices and came over with Xiaokui. Sang Luo quietly stood beside them and told them what had just happened.
Zhiyi exploded: "What? You are Xu Shu?!"
Lu Xuan had never heard her speak so loudly before, and couldn't help but look at Zhiyi curiously.
Then she roared again: "You are the one who killed my mother and father on Haitang Street many years ago!"
Xiao Kui was also shocked when she heard this. She put her hands on her hips, her face full of anger. "What are you doing here in our princess's house, a sinister person like you? Are you trying to bring bad luck to our princess?"
Xu Shu was not surprised at all. He lowered his head and laughed at himself: "I didn't expect that after all these years, my reputation is still so loud!"
Hearing Zhiyi and Xiaokui say the name of this ominous person in surprise, Lu Xuan suddenly had some impression.
It seems to be something that happened in Beijing many years ago. It is said that there was an unfilial daughter in a family who killed her mother and her father, and finally ran away.
When she heard about this incident, she was still young, so no one could tell exactly what happened!
Doubts flashed through her mind: "Why would you, a person known in the capital for being unfilial and rebellious, return to Haitang Street and say you want to pay tribute to your family?"
But the woman named Xu Shu refused to speak.
Lu Xuan stood in the darkness with his hands behind his back: "If you don't tell me, I will be treated as a thief!"
She paused. "He's been lurking in someone else's backyard late at night for three consecutive days. If I report him to the authorities, he'll be caned and paraded through the streets!"
Xu Shu was silent for a moment, then said sincerely, "I have no ill intentions in coming to this house. After the three-day memorial service, I will never come again! Please, Princess, have mercy on me!"
The guards of Wuyuan came over with torches.
Lights illuminated the backyard, and six guards stood around Lu Xuan.
Xu Shu, who was lying on the ground, suddenly had a trembling look in his eyes, and he froze in disbelief: "Sister Siyu!"
Lu Xuan paused, looking at her intently. "You just said you weren't from the Duke's Mansion, so why are you calling out the late Queen's name now?"
Xu Shu's eyes were also filled with shock: "You, what is your relationship with the Duke's Mansion?"
Xiao Kui spoke frankly: "What is the relationship between our princess and the Duke's Mansion? Don't you know?"
Xu Shu looked at Xiao Kui blankly: "I don't know!"
Xiao Kui cried out, "Everyone in the capital knows that our princess is the daughter of General Shenwu and the cousin of Empress Jingyi. How ignorant are you?"
Lu Xuan: "Are you back from out of town?"
When Xu Shu heard Xiao Kui say that Lu Xuan was Lu Siyu's cousin, the light in his eyes lit up for a moment.
Lu Xuan did not miss this moment.
She took the opportunity to ask again: "Miss, I'm asking you one last time, will you tell me the truth?"
As expected, Xu Shu immediately said, "I am willing to tell the princess the truth!"
Xu Shu's voice was very pleasant, clearer than that of most women, and it did not match her somewhat weathered eyes.
Lu Xuan's expression relaxed slightly, and he recited a spell. Xu Shu's body, which had been immobilized, instantly relaxed and recovered.
Lu Xuan sat on the swing under the sycamore tree.
Xu Shu: "This house used to belong to my family. My mother died giving birth to me. My father calculated that I would have no relatives to rely on and would live a lonely life, so he named me Shu."
Lu Xuan's brows tightened: "Your father can calculate?"