Chapter 293 Failure on the First Try (1/2)

Only a plume of black smoke could be seen rising above a certain courtyard, accompanied by a pungent burning smell spreading through the air, causing everyone to become highly alarmed.

”That seems to be the courtyard that the Eldest Miss got people to empty out!”

” The Eldest Miss went in there early this morning and she still has not come out from there ever since!”

”Heavens! Could something have happened to her?”

Once that thought came into their mind, the servant girls and guards all went running towards the courtyard, deeply afraid that something had really happened to their Eldest Miss.

”What's going on? Did something happen?”

When Old Patriarch Feng heard the noise, he came running out as well and peered all around. When he saw that smoke was spewing up from one of the courtyards, he was rather alarmed as he asked: ”What is going on over there?”

”Old Grand Master, that is the courtyard that the Eldest Miss asked people to empty out. The Eldest Miss went in there this morning and she has not come out from there since. The loud noise earlier came from that courtyard and it sounded like something exploded in there.”

The steward who came running in said hurriedly, and his voice had just fallen when the Old Patriarch lifted up his robes and went shooting forward like an arrow towards the courtyard. Seeing that, the steward rushed forward to follow after being stunned in his spot for a moment.

When everyone came rus.h.i.+ng over to the courtyard in a hurry and saw the scene inside through the doors, they could not help but stared completely flabbergasted.

They only saw their peerlessly beautiful Eldest Miss fallen onto the ground in a sitting position, her entire body black with soot and in a complete mess. It was impossible to tell the original colour of the casual clothes upon her body that she wore within the manor, her dark hair sprayed full of bits and pieces of remnant herbs, looking slightly curled seemingly from having been exposed high temperature. Her face was botched black and white in places, her entire person looking rather wretched as she sat on the ground coughing, while the room in front of her continued to spew out puffs of burning smoke.

[What….. What kind of a situation is this?]

Everyone stood there staring, stunned with shock. Someone then snapped back to his senses and shouted: ”Eldest Miss, are you alright?”