Zhou Xuan didn't seem to believe what he said, because Su Shi acted too calmly, as calmly as if he was watching a play.
Su Shi thought about it again and asked, "After Huiniang's death, will there be anyone guarding the Red Plum Pavilion?"
"There were originally one or two servants on duty, but after the haunting happened, no one dared to be on duty there anymore."
Su Shi asked again: "When did the haunting end?"
Zhou Xuan asked, "How do you know the haunting is over?"
Su Shi sighed: "I have ears. If a house has been haunted for nine years and has become a top-notch incident in the capital, how can I not hear it?"
Hearing the sarcasm in Su Shi's tone, Zhou Xuan couldn't help but roll her eyes at him and said, "It's about three months."
"When did the Red Plum Pavilion become your property?"
"After seeing the report from the eight spies, I begged my father to give me the red plum."
Su Shi asked with some confusion: "Why?"
Zhou Xuan suddenly blushed, lowered his head, and said softly: "The ghost in the Red Plum Pavilion is naturally Hui Niang, and the reason why she is unwilling to leave is obviously because she has something to worry about."
Hearing this, Su Shi suddenly realized and couldn't help but laugh: "It seems that Huiniang's concern is that she could not see the prince for the last time, so she wanders around the world, and your brother, the prince, will never let Huiniang become a lonely ghost. , will definitely come to meet Hui Niang. So you come to Hongmei Pavilion because you want to see your prince brother for the last time."
When Su Shi mentioned the central issue, Zhou Xuan's face turned redder and her head lowered.
"Then have you seen it?" Su Shi asked curiously.
Zhou Xuan shook his head and said slowly: "Since the eight spies reported this matter, Huiniang's ghost has appeared less and less. Sometimes it only appears once every seven or eight days, and it has never appeared again after three months. "
Su Shi suddenly said: "Do you want to reveal the secret of the haunting of Hongmei Pavilion?"
Hearing these words, Zhou Xuan suddenly raised his head and looked straight at Su Shi.
"Don't you think it's Huiniang's ghost that's causing trouble?"
Su Shi sighed: "Although I also hope that there are ghosts in this world, I don't really believe in the theory of gods and ghosts. Since I don't believe in ghosts and gods, I naturally think that these are man-made. Since they are man-made, of course they are. Traces can be found.”
Zhou Xuan's eyes lit up: "Then how should we search?"
"Then we have to think about why the Red Plum Pavilion is haunted?"
Zhou Xuan is a smart person, but she initially believed that Huiniang had turned into a ghost, so it was logical that the Red Plum Pavilion was haunted.
But now Su Shi gave her another idea.
If it is man-made, why do they pretend to be so mysterious?
"Some people don't want others to live in Hongmei Pavilion." Zhou Xuan murmured to himself, and then suddenly his face changed drastically, because if they continued to reason like this, their hard work in the past few years would have been almost in vain.
The reason why these people want to show off is not only because they don’t want people to live in it, but they don’t even want people to get close to the Hongmei Pavilion.
No one wants to be near a haunted house. In fact, when the Red Plum Pavilion is haunted, the houses on the left and right have been emptied out.
Only in this way can those who pretend to be gods and ghosts unscrupulously search for the secrets hidden in the Red Plum Pavilion.
Three months later, the haunting quietly subsided, indicating that these people had found what they were looking for.
Su Shi sighed: "It seems that what you are looking for has been captured first."
Zhou Xuan felt indignant and sulky for a while, and finally had no choice but to sigh helplessly.
Su Shi felt relieved, because since Zhou Xuan knew that the secret had been discovered first, she would naturally tell her eldest brother, and then his eldest brother could give up.
This way, everyone will be safe.
But at this time, Zhou Xuan frowned slightly, looked at Su Shi, and couldn't help but ask: "If the haunting is man-made, then how did they do it?"
It was precisely because so many incredible things happened that everyone believed that the Hongmei Pavilion was haunted. Su Shi thought it was man-made, so how to explain those weird things.
Su Shi said without changing his expression: "I don't know."
In fact, he already had the answer to those seemingly unbelievable things in his mind, but since his goal had been achieved, he naturally would not say it again to avoid causing unnecessary complications.
"You really don't know?"
Su Shi said calmly: "I'm just providing another possibility. You can also think that the Red Plum Pavilion is really haunted."
Although Zhou Xuan was still dubious, she still preferred Su Shi's inference compared to the illusory theories of ghosts and gods.
Moreover, she had a vague feeling that Su Shi should know much more than this, but this person was so hateful that he had to hide it and refused to speak out freely.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but glare at Su Shi hatefully.
This glance made Monk Su Shiru Zhang Er confused and couldn't help but ask: "Why are you looking at me like this?"
The more Zhou Xuan thought about it, the angrier she became. She snorted coldly and turned her head away, as if she didn't want to look at him anymore.
Although Su Shi felt baffled, he couldn't care about it at the moment because there was something he hadn't figured out yet.
"You still haven't told me why you think that handkerchief contains a clue?"
Zhou Xuan didn't want to talk to him anymore, but when he saw his eager tone and seemed to have discovered something, he had to say: "Actually, the person who said there were clues hidden on the handkerchief is your eldest brother."
Su Shi was shocked. He originally thought that his eldest brother was dragged into the water by Zhou Xuan, but he never expected that his eldest brother was the initiator.
"Why does he think that?"
Zhou Xuan said angrily: "Do you still remember that there are four strange patterns on the handkerchief?"
Su Shi nodded. His memory was already very good, not to mention that the pattern was so strange that he would not forget it.
Zhou Xuan continued: "Your elder brother has seen this strange pattern before."
Su Shi was shocked again and couldn't help but ask, "My elder brother has seen this kind of pattern? Where has he seen it?"
Zhou Xuan said slowly while recalling: "After Hui Niang died, the only thing left behind was the handkerchief. And the handkerchief was made of moist jade silk. The eunuchs did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so they returned it to the palace."
"After I saw it, I thought that this handkerchief was probably a token of love between the prince's brother and Hui Niang. That's why Hui Niang spent all her efforts embroidering it, so she asked my father to give it to me for collection."
Having said this, Zhou Xuan thought for a while before continuing: "After the haunting of the Hongmei Pavilion subsided, one day your eldest brother and I made an appointment to meet at the Red Plum Pavilion to pay homage to the dead souls. I accidentally took out the handkerchief and treated it as your eldest brother. When I saw the pattern on the handkerchief, I suddenly remembered something, so I thought that the handkerchief contained a secret."
Su Shi smiled bitterly and said, "What did he think of again?"
