Chapter 58 Catch the Mole (1/2)

”Girl... Do you want to kill me?”

Qinghu, who had gone to the bathroom for over ten times, collapsed in Lin Mengya's room.

Looking at the man lying on her bed, Lin Mengya put on a false smile and didn't even want to give him any hypocritical sympathy.

”No one forced you to eat it. Well, stay in my room quietly. I still have something to do.”

Lin Mengya had already sent away all the servant girls and maids in her courtyard.

Baishao and Baiji were busy. So there were only Qinghu, Baizhi, and Lin Zhongyu in the courtyard after Lin Mengya had left.

”Please get out of here. I want to have a good sleep.”

Qinghu was weak and tired and didn't even want to open his eyes. After driving away Baizhi and Lin Zhongyu, he went to sleep alone in Lin Mengya's room.

Lin Zhongyu didn't like this effeminate man. But Sister Princess had told him to stay away from Qinghu. So he had to follow her orders.

Lin Mengya left the Qinglan Courtyard and went to the Qinwu Courtyard of Long Tianhao.

Steward Deng had already prepared a clean little room and had chosen more than a dozen clever and strong guards for her. All of them were in plain clothes and waited in the courtyard for Lin Mengya.

”Princess, I follow your orders and choose the room and guards personally. No one else knows the inside story.”

”Thank you. You've done a good job. I hope everyone can stay awake between now and tomorrow morning.”

Lin Mengya smiled gently and looked charming.

More than a dozen guards looked respectfully at the Princess standing in front of them.

”Yes! Princess!”

The guards deliberately lowered their voices and a moment later, they disappeared at the same time.

Lin Mengya talked to Baishao and Baizhi secretly in the little room.

”Master, you guessed right. I put the hair in between the pages. And it disappeared after Qinghu came here.”

Baiji was very careful. She was the best person to finish this task.

In fact, Lin Mengya had already told Baiji to put a hair in the tenth page of several books on her desk after she went out.

After she came back, Baiji would check the books carefully when others were not looking.

They found that the hair in the book would disappear every time when Qinghu appeared.

Today was no exception.

”This is not a surprise. I've already seen him through. He's cunning and crafty and would never be willing to work for me to get the weird antidote.”

To cooperate with Qinghu was like asking a tiger for its skin.

She would be killed by him if she was careless.

She didn't know his purpose now. What was he looking for in her room?

”Master, the clothes are ready. Baiji and I will help you to change clothes.”

Baishao was wearing a tight black suit and holding a bright red dress. There was an expectant look on her beautiful face.

”Oh, where did you borrow this dress? It looks great!”

Baishao held the red dress in her hands and Lin Mengya looked at it carefully. Its color was magnificent and its style was simple.

Its fabric was good and the dress looked flowing and graceful. It would certainly have a good effect at night.

”I borrowed this from a fellow villager. She is a dogsbody in a theatrical troupe. This is their costume.”

Baishao explained to Lin Mengya earnestly as if it was a treasure. She was bold and became excited at the thought of going out and pretending to be ghosts with her master at night.

”Well, I want to try it on. I'm not sure whether I can look like a female ghost in red after wearing it.”

It was absolutely a new experience for Lin Mengya to frighten people.

The idea was also inspired by her experience in the haunted teahouse. The murderer threw the body of the old woman into the well to destroy all traces of its crime.

Actually, it would be safer to carry the woman's body out of the mansion. However, there were many guards at the entrance and exit of Prince Yu's Mansion. The murderer might be discovered if it was careless.

If she deliberately leaked the information and told others that she had found some clues on the corpse, the murderer might be desperate and anxious.

But if she wanted to catch the one behind these attacks, she must hedge its bets by making two plans.

”When I came back in the afternoon, I asked you to go out and spread the information. Have you finished?”

While Qinghu was rushing in and out of the washroom, Lin Mengya asked Baishao and Baiji to quietly spread a piece of news in the mansion.

This piece of news was simple and brief. Baishao and Baiji told others that Lin Kui would take some guards to pull down the haunted teahouse in the evening. But the two servant girls didn't explain the reason for this move.

Even this teahouse made of gold became the property of Prince Yu, she believed that the people behind the scenes would not be so confident and didn't take any actions.

Moreover, the Prince had just bought the shabby courtyard while the butler clearly knew that there was an abandoned icehouse in it. There must be something wrong with the butler.

But now she was not sure whether this butler was the one who had killed the old woman. However, the murderer must be very good at dealing with the details because it changed its looks and pretended to be an old woman without being noticed by anyone else.

Such people were generally suspicious and thoughtful. And the murderer must have fought tooth and nail to stay in Prince Yu's Mansion.

So the murderer would never allow a corpse to destroy all its fruit.

Tonight, she was ready to become Zhongkui (a deity supposed to chase off demons) and warded off evil spirits!

All the people in Prince Yu's Mansion and in this small courtyard were ready.

As the day darkened, they lit the candles in the small room.