"Alas, speaking of it, Mr. Zhang and Ms. Miao are also pitiful. Mr. Zhang is kind and Ms. Miao is gentle, but they are entangled by the playboy of the Wu family. They will suffer a lot now..."

"... Oh! That's not certain. Maybe Miss Miao has been secretly having an affair with the eldest young master of the Wu family. Not long ago, I saw them talking behind Mr. Zhang's back! Who wouldn't fall for those seductive eyes of a vixen..."

The three of them were gossiping in low voices, and when they turned around, they saw Pei Yun appear in front of them quietly.

"Ouch!"

The three resentful spirits were startled, patted their chests and said, "Where did this little girl come from? She's so scary!"

Pei Yun looked at the three resentful spirits speechlessly. She didn't even think that these three resentful spirits were scary, but they thought that she was scary. Besides, they were not human beings!

But thinking of the important matter, Pei Yun said seriously: "Three ladies, may I ask where is Mr. Zhang's home?"

The three ghosts looked at Pei Yun curiously for a moment, then pointed her in the direction: "It's in the alley in front, near the innermost courtyard. It's so late, why are you, a little girl, going to visit Mr. Zhang?"

Pei Yun smiled, did not answer, just thanked him, and walked towards Zhang Xiucai's house...

She felt that what happened in this place might be a relevant clue, so these three resentful souls would not mention unimportant people for no reason, so this Mr. Zhang and Ms. Miao might be important people.

Pei Yun quickly groped his way to Zhang Xiucai's house in the dark. The yard and the rooms were empty, and there was no Zhang Xiucai and his wife mentioned by the three resentful spirits.

She glanced around the yard that was full of life. The wooden basins, buckets, etc. in the yard were neatly arranged and everything was in order.

When I came to the study, I saw a lot of books on the bookshelf, stacked neatly. There were also a few books on the desk with marks on them. In the middle, a half-written paper was pressed down by a paperweight, and a brush next to it was still stained with ink, as if the owner of the room was halfway through writing.

Pei Yun looked around and finally focused his attention on the painting hanging on the wall. The painting showed a beautiful woman who was playing the piano with gentle eyes and a smile on her face. She looked gentle and moving. The painter had captured the woman's charm, making it lifelike, as if she could walk out of the painting at any time.

At the woman's feet there was a small red fox, lying at her feet, half-closed its eyes and looked comfortable.

Pei Yun looked at the painting carefully for a long time, then took it down, rolled it up and put it in his ring.

She walked around other rooms and saw a guqin in their room, but its strings were broken.

Pei Yun's left eye glowed with golden light as he tried to recall what had happened here, but he failed this time.

After she left Mr. Zhang's house, a communication talisman appeared in front of her. After Pei Yun saw the contents of the communication talisman, she had an idea and used her footwork to quickly head to the Chunfeng Tower mentioned by Duanmu Xu...

"Please come in, sir." The waiter stood in front of the door and warmly invited Pei Yun to come in.

The Chunfeng Tower was filled with resentful souls, who were fascinated by the dancers in the center of the tower. The dancers were dancing between the curtains, and behind the curtains in the corner, a musician was playing a beautiful tune with his head down...

Pei Yun saw Duanmu Xu and Ling Ziyan, and sat down in front of them. After Xu Moshuang and Bai Chengming arrived, Duanmu Xu sent a message, "Look at that zither player! I suspect he is the husband that girl is looking for!"

Hearing this, Pei Yun and the others' eyes lit up, and they looked carefully at the musician hidden behind the veil.

"…Is it because this man has no resentment?" Pei Yun quickly guessed why Duanmu Xu noticed him.

"That's right. All the resentful souls in this land carry resentment to some extent. That woman also has resentment. Only this person has no resentment..."

"Then let's go find him." Bai Chengming wanted to get up, but Ling Ziyan raised his hand to stop him.

"This area is under the woman's surveillance. We must avoid her surveillance and meet this person."

After Ling Ziyan said this, Pei Yun and the others understood what he meant.

That’s right, they didn’t believe the woman in red. If they wanted to know the secret of this place, they had to start with this man.

"Did you gain anything?" Duanmu Xu asked.

Xu Moshuang said first: "There is a wealthy businessman named Wu in this town. Just a few days ago, the Wu family was wiped out and Young Master Wu is missing..."

After hearing her words, Bai Chengming and Pei Yun's faces changed slightly. Bai Chengming said, "I walked along the river and saw several water ghosts struggling desperately in the river on the bank. One of them looked like a servant and kept shouting 'Young Master'... Could it be that the person he was calling was Young Master Wu?"

The four of them fell into deep thought. Pei Yun told them his own experience and took out the painting. He said, "...Does the woman in this painting look a bit like the woman in red that we saw?"

“There is some resemblance indeed.”

"Is the feud between Mr. Miao and Master Wu the secret of this place?" Ling Ziyan guessed, and the five of them turned their eyes to the zither player.

After an unknown amount of time, a new group of dancers appeared in the center of the pavilion, and the musician also quietly left the stage.

The five of them looked at each other and started to act. Duanmu Xu led Pei Yun and the other two to the private room on the top floor, and the four of them set up an isolation array in the room.

On the other side, Ling Ziyan came to the backyard alone. Seeing the zither player coming over, he bumped into him head-on. Their shoulders brushed against each other. Ling Ziyan didn't even turn his head back and left as if nothing had happened.

The musician also walked slowly back to his room, put down the piano as usual, washed up and lay down on the bed. Only then could he not help but open the thing tightly grasped in his hand -

The note read: Wonderful Lady and the Invisibility Talisman.

The musician stood up excitedly. After calming down for a moment, he lit the invisibility talisman as instructed.

Late at night, Chunfeng Tower was still bustling. After disappearing from sight, the musician came to the private room on the top floor. Five people were already waiting for him in the room.

"Who are you? Why do you know Miss Miao?" the zither player asked straight to the point.

The five people looked at him with burning eyes. Pei Yun already had some guesses in her mind. She asked tentatively: "You are Mr. Zhang, right? The husband of Miao Niangzi?"

The zither player's expression changed, and he looked around nervously. When he saw that there was no one there, he sighed slightly, sat in front of the five people, and pleaded:

"I am indeed Mr. Zhang. My lords have the magical power of invisibility. Could you help me?"

"Tell us the secret of this place. If you are really innocent, we will save you. You will have no resentment, and your soul can return to its origin and reincarnate..." Duanmu Xu said.

The zither player, also known as Zhang Xiucai, waved his hands, his face full of sadness and pain, tears welling up in his eyes: "Reincarnation or annihilation, I don't care. As long as you kill the fox demon and free the people of this town, I will be satisfied..."

"Fox demon?!" The five people all thought of the woman in red at the same time. Pei Yun had said before that the woman in red was a demon.

"That's right. It's all my fault. I killed my wife and the people in this town!" Zhang Xiucai said with tears streaming down his face. "If I hadn't saved this fox demon in a moment of hesitation, my wife wouldn't have been killed by her, and the people wouldn't have been sacrificed..."

"What happened? You can tell me here. We have set up a magic circle, so the fox demon can't see here for the time being..."

"...I once went to the mountains to collect herbs and met a wounded red fox in the mountains. I didn't know it was a demon at the time, but I took her home out of pity. All the misfortunes started from that day. I don't know when my wife's temperament suddenly changed. I was just a little confused at first, but one night, I found a tail growing on her back. I was so scared that I ran away. Later, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this fox demon had taken over my wife's body..."

"So this fox demon killed you when it saw that it was exposed?"

Mr. Zhang shook his head, his expression showing a hint of complexity: "It wasn't her who killed me, it was the eldest young master of the Wu family. After I escaped that day, I didn't dare to go home. I was in a panic, and was put in a sack by the young master's men and kicked into the river, where I drowned..."

"You died in such a tragic way, but you don't have any resentment at all..."

“…That’s why.”

Mr. Zhang stroked his chest, which actually emitted a colorful light. He said, "...In order to prevent me from becoming a resentful spirit and to keep my soul in the human world, the fox demon gave me this exquisite seven-aperture stone. She said that this treasure was very precious and that she had paid a great price to obtain it..."

At this point, the five people vaguely understood that the treasure found by the treasure-hunting rat should be this exquisite seven-hole stone.

"Then what happened to the people in this town? Why did they die?"

Zhang Xiucai's face was filled with regret and hatred in his eyes. "It was this fox demon! I don't know what means she used to kill all the people in the town. She said she wanted to sacrifice their souls to the demon above. Because of this, she was rewarded with this exquisite seven-hole stone. I harmed them..."

"But now these souls are trapped here and have not been sacrificed, and the fox demon is also dead. She is now also a resentful soul..." Bai Chengming found the loophole in his words.

"…It was me. I killed her."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the room was broken open by a powerful force with a "bang". While the people in the room were stunned, the woman in red, that is, the red fox demon soul, walked in from outside the door, her eyes staring straight at Zhang Xiucai...

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