Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

After a while, a servant came in with a man who liked yellow Taoist robes. The man held a compass in his left hand and a white talisman in his right hand. He had a sinister and cunning look on his face and was muttering something.

Tan pointed at him and said, "Let me ask you, you said there was a disaster in this mansion, do you have any evidence? This is the Prime Minister's Mansion. If you dare to lie, I will make someone cut off your tongue!"

The Taoist priest counted with his fingers and said, "This should be the Fourth Madam."

"You recognize me?" Tan asked in surprise.

The Taoist twisted his beard and said, "I don't recognize you, but I can guess your luck by looking at your appearance."

"You show up in public every day, how many people in the capital don't recognize you?" The old lady glanced at Tan and suppressed her cough and said, "Master, my Prime Minister's Mansion is also a well-known figure in the capital. Even if you can tell the names and official positions of the people in this room, it is not a big deal. Tell me, what happened when they said there was a disaster in front of my mansion today?"

The Taoist priest seemed to have expected this and smiled: "I was originally going to go outside the city, but I happened to pass by your house, and I saw dark clouds pressing down on the sky and evil spirits rising to the sky. It must be the appearance of a great demon hiding there!"

"You said there is a monster in our house?" Tan said in surprise.

"Exactly. Has the palace been in turmoil in recent months? And I calculated that there have been two murders in a row, one in the west and one in the east?"

"Oh my! Didn't they all come true!" Tan was most afraid of ghosts and got goose bumps all over her body. The case of Nanny Liu murdering her master happened at the east pond, and recently it was heard that a guard of the first house died in the West Garden!

The old lady tapped the floor with her cane: "Go on."

The Taoist said, "These two murders were caused by that big demon! That demon is the reincarnation of an evil dragon, and she wanted to turn into a dragon, but her cultivation was not good enough, so she wanted to devour the luck of others and feed on the lifespans of the living. If this continues, those who get close to her will either be bedridden or die, and her family will also be in trouble!"

The eldest lady said solemnly, "Then where do you think this monster is now?"

"This monster..." The Taoist looked around and his eyes finally fell on Feng Jia.

Feng Jia looked up at him, her eyes level, neither humble nor arrogant.

The Taoist priest turned his gaze away and looked at his compass. "Oh my! This monster has great magic skills. It has restrained its evil nature when it saw me coming. I have to look around the mansion to find the hiding place of the monster!"

The old lady stood up with the help of Madam Zhou: "In that case, let's go and take a look together."

The eldest lady hurriedly said, "Summer cicada!"

A maid ran in from the back door in a panic. Meng looked at the water stain on her chest and frowned, "Why are you so reckless?"

Xia Chan said tremblingly: "I just bumped into Cui in front of the corridor..."

Meng waved her hands in annoyance, and without listening to her finish, she just said, "Hurry up! The Taoist priest is not familiar with the mansion, you go and lead him!"

The old Taoist priest, led by Xia Chan, came out of Tianhe Courtyard and headed west, with a group of people following behind him.

Along the way, the compass needle in the old Taoist's hand turned left and right, and he walked and stopped, stopped and walked. Finally, before Xie Qian's last bit of patience ran out, the old Taoist stopped.

"Who lives in that yard over there?"

"That's the apricot garden, where the ninth young lady in the mansion lives!" said the maid Xia Chan, bowing.

"Master, is there any problem?" The old lady coughed a few times.

The old Taoist priest shook his head and did not answer. He just looked around and asked, "Which one is the Ninth Miss?"

Feng Jia stepped forward slowly and said, "It's me."

"Miss Nine, can you let me take a look at your garden?"

Feng Jia smiled slightly: "Master, please do as you please."

The group went to the apricot garden again. When they reached the door, the Taoist priest seemed to be blocked by something. He suddenly took a big step back and gasped for breath.

"Master! What happened to you?" Tan was standing next to him and was frightened by him.

The Taoist pinched his neck, looking speechless, and then he seemed to break free from some shackles and fell to the ground, sweating profusely.

Everyone was shocked by his appearance and forgot what to do for a moment.

After a while, the Taoist suddenly drew out the peach wood sword in his hand and pointed it at Feng Jia, his eyes sharp: "You bold monster! How dare you cast a spell in front of me! I almost fell for your magic! Hurry up and show your true form!"

what?

Is the Ninth Girl the big monster?

The servants retreated in panic, thinking back to everything that had happened in the mansion in the past two months. It turned out that everything was related to the Ninth Miss!

"Ninth girl! What's going on?" The eldest lady's face was full of anger.

Meng's shout woke everyone up, and everyone's eyes were focused on Feng Jia.

Feng Jia's eyes suddenly turned cold. It turned out that he was waiting for her here.

"Ninth girl, you, you, are you really a monster?!" Tan hugged her arms and trembled all over, and then murmured to herself as if she remembered something: "I remember that when you were born, there was indeed thunder in the sky, and dark clouds covered the city. Your aunt also died of dystocia when giving birth to you! At that time, a Taoist priest who passed by said that you were the reincarnation of an evil dragon! That's why my eldest brother fostered you in Shicheng to resolve the grievances on you! I didn't expect that it hasn't been resolved after so many years!"

After saying this, Tan took a big step back exaggeratedly, holding the eighth daughter Xie Xiyi with one hand and protecting her youngest son Xie Zhengchu with the other.

"Stay away from our house! Our children are still so young, they can't let them be affected by your bad luck!"

Feng Jia said calmly: "Aunt Four, the matter has not been investigated clearly yet, why are you helping outsiders to speak?"

Xie Xiyi also shook off Tan's hand and protected Feng Jia behind him: "That's right, how can mother easily believe such weird words? I believe that my ninth sister is innocent, it must be this stinky Taoist who is making up stories!"

Meng winked at the old nanny next to her and immediately understood what she meant: "Eighth Miss, some things are better believed than not believed. If there is no evil spirit in the family, why is the Xie family so restless recently? The old lady also suddenly fell ill? If we calculate the date of the strange things in this mansion... it really started when Ninth Miss returned home."

"Eighth sister, I think you are too kind-hearted," Xie Changrong, who had been watching the show for a long time, said at the right time, "Have you forgotten why Ninth sister was sent to Shicheng before? One Taoist priest is talking nonsense, are two Taoist priests also talking nonsense?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's faces changed, even Xie Xiyi, who had been so confident, showed a hint of hesitation.

Indeed, it happens once and not twice, but the results are the same twice, which cannot help but arouse suspicion.

Xie Qian's face was livid. He had been suffering from the drought in Yangcheng these days and was very haggard. He was also blamed by the East Palace. He was already in a bad mood. At this moment, he immediately frowned and said, "Ninth girl, how do you explain it!"

Feng Jia looked around coldly, with a cold look on her lips and eyebrows. "What does father want me to explain? If you want to accuse someone, you can always find a pretext."

"How dare you!" Madam Meng said, "Girl Nine, I know you have hatred towards us, but now the evidence is irrefutable, do you still want to deny it? Not satisfied with causing my Yan'er to lose an arm, you are now trying to harm the old lady. Will the third or fourth wife be next? Or even the master!"

Mrs. Meng's face was filled with sorrow: "Ninth girl! You won't stop until the Xie family is in turmoil!"

Feng Jia looked at everyone with a calm expression on her face, but there was a hint of contempt in her eyes.

What a great show.