Chapter 540 - Come up the Mountain Together to Make Trouble (1/2)

Beaten for no reason, the busybodies were about to make a scene, but suddenly heard the guards shout, “His Highness goes out to track down a murderer. Anyone making noises is equally guilty!”

Someone sharp-eyed had found the sign of Prince Zhou’s Mansion on the carriage and told others about it in a low voice. After that, all people scattered.

Since it was Prince Zhou in the carriage and he went out for tracking down a murderer, no one dared to get involved in it.

“Your Highness, they are all gone!” The guards came back and reported.

“Let’s go!” Inside the carriage, Prince Zhou said with his face darkening.

The guards stepped back and told the coachman to set out, and the carriage began to move slowly. Inside the carriage, Prince Zhou closed his eyes slightly with a frown and thought that Shao Wanru, who had a good reputation, was much more important than Shao Yanru, who had a bad reputation…

“Old Madam, Old Madam, bad news, bad… bad news…” Nanny Yu rolled and crawled to Old Madam and said, followed by several old maids.

All of them felt that their legs went weak, and Nanny Yu almost fell to the ground.

In the main room, Old Madam was sitting in the seat of honor. She was dressed in a set of clothes with the patterns of flower bunch and the patterns of bergamot, peach, and pomegranate, looking sullen. It was a Taoist nun in her thirties sitting in the guest’s seat. She was quite good-looking with delicate features on her white face. Hearing the voice coming from the door, she raised her head with a smile and slightly swayed the horsetail whisk in her hand, looking peaceful.

“What makes you so panic-stricken?” Old Madam asked with a frown.

“Old Madam… just now… just now I accompanied the Fifth Miss’s maid to Great Elder Princess’s Mansion to fetch the longevity lock stored there… I saw… I saw it also covered with dark ants… dark ants…” Nanny Yu said with a pale face.

“Old Madam, I also saw it… The longevity lock… was covered with dark ants…”

“They were squirming… It’s so disgusting and weird…”

The other two old maids hurriedly added. Despite their old age, it was the first time that they had seen such a thing. Now they were trembling all over and obviously badly scared.

All of the four inferior old maids were very flustered and scared. Hearing their words, all the other maids and old maids in the room looked at the Taoist nun in panic.

“Taoist Priest Xiushui, what do you think of this matter…” Old Madam said with an increasingly gloomy face. She twisted her face in an attempt to show a smile, but she failed and looked a little scary instead.

“Old Madam, based on what happened before, coupled with this matter, I’m afraid…” Taoist Priest Xiushui stopped smiling and said with a frown. She narrowed her eyes, put two fingers together, and murmured softly, while deftly pressing a finger on the other finger, seeming to be figuring out something.

It became quiet in the room, and everyone stared fixedly at Taoist Priest Xiushui, who was figuring out something while moving her fingers. Some of them even put their palms together and prayed silently.

After a long while, Taoist Priest Xiushui opened her eyes, showed an inexplicable expression, glanced at Old Madam, and swallowed back the words on the tip of her tongue.

“Reverend, if you want to say something, please say it directly!”

“The Fifth Miss of your mansion has never been raised by Old Madam since her childhood and was found back after many years, right?” Taoist Priest Xiushui asked.

“Yes… yes… that’s true!” Old Madam nodded repeatedly and said.

“She was born and grew up in the countryside instead of your mansion, so she doesn’t have a solid foundation and ancestors’ protection, which makes it easy for her to be possessed by evil spirits.” Taoist Priest Xiushui said gently as she put down her fingers.

“What… what should we do?” Old Madam immediately understood and said. Taoist Priest Xiushui meant that Shao Wanru had been recognized by their mansion before long, so she hadn’t been recognized by their ancestors and wasn’t under their protection. Under the circumstances, she was possessed by an evil spirit. “What kind of evil spirit has possessed her? How are we going to get rid of it?”

“The Fifth Miss has been possessed by a dark evil spirit, so she attracted a variety of bugs. The details are as what you said. The dark evil spirit will turn into Yin energies later. This kind of dirty thing is quite influential. It not only influences the Fifth Miss but also influences her elders. Does the Fifth Miss have any elder who died an unnatural death?”

Taoist Priest Xiushui looked serious and said with a slightly pale face, “I have never seen such a powerful dark evil spirit for so many years. I think the Fifth Miss has already done harm to her elders!”

“My son, my Jiang’er… It turns out that you… You got into trouble and got killed because of your daughter, who is a trouble maker… How… how should I deal with her…” Old Madam suddenly understood, burst into tears, and said. The maids and old maids around her knew that Old Madam thought of the former heir again, so they all lowered their heads.

Nanny Yu hurriedly took two steps forward, walked up to Old Madam, and comforted her in a low voice, “Old Madam, stop crying. Let’s listen to the Taoist priest’s solution. The former heir has passed away, and it is over. We can’t let the rest of our mansion be influenced…”

Even as a respected servant in the mansion, Nanny Yu couldn’t say the following words in front of so many people. Fortunately, Old Madam understood. She reached out to wipe the tears off her face, looked up at Taoist Priest Xiushui with red eyes, and asked, “Reverend, how are we going to deal with it? I can’t let all members of our mansion be influenced by her. Please help us solve the problem.”

“Uh…” Taoist Priest Xiushui said, seeming to be in a dilemma.

“Please go ahead.” Old Madam pressed her hands on the table and said with a decisive look.