After a bumpy journey, the carriage finally returned to the town. Before it reached Feng Mansion, it bumped into Kuang Hongyi and Su Tingting at a roadside stall.
Seeing Yang Xiao, Kuang Hongyi's tense expression relaxed, and then there was something probing in his words: "Brother Chu, is this journey going well?"
"Fortunately, thanks to Sister Xu Su for taking care of me." Yang Xiao said with a smile.
The group of people returned to Feng Mansion from a side door in the alley. As soon as they entered the door, a servant came to report in a panic, saying that something had happened to a fu guest who stayed in the manor.
He hurried to the backyard where they lived, opened the door, and saw Shi Dali and Ke Long sitting around the table, while Shi Guanming was lying motionless on the bed, with his eyes closed tightly and a wet cloth on his forehead.
There was a wooden stool placed next to the bed, and an empty bowl was placed on the stool. There was still some brown liquid remaining at the bottom of the bowl, and the whole room was filled with a strong smell of herbs.
"what happened?"
Ke Long sighed heavily and looked ugly, "Forget it, Shi Guanming was possessed by ghosts and actually went to lift the millstone on the well. By the time we found out, he had already passed out."
Through Ke Long's narration, Yang Xiao immediately realized that he was talking about the well that he had noticed. In the real world, there was something wrong with that well. There was a "Bodhisattva's head" pressed on it.
"But don't worry too much. The doctor in the mansion came to see you just now. There is nothing serious. He has made some medicinal soup and fed it." Shi Dali reassured everyone, and then he stood up and walked out as if he suddenly thought of something, "Yes Yes, we found some clues in the house, come and take a look."
Several people left Shi Dali's room, went outside the room of Yang Xiao and the others, and walked around to the bushes behind the room. There was a very clear but strange mark on the ground. The mark was winding and stretching all the way to the room. out the rear window.
Kuang Hongyi measured the mark on the ground with his footsteps, and his face darkened, "It's the fishbone pattern left by the bottom of the boat."
This reminded everyone instantly of the bloated figure that appeared outside the window last night. That guy really came by boat.
What’s even more frightening is that this ghost ship actually sailed directly to the shore!
Everyone returned to the room. After all, Shi Guanming was still unconscious. After sitting down, Shi Dali readily shared with everyone the clues his team had investigated in the house, "The Feng family was indeed in trouble this time. Half a year ago, the Feng family... The young master was named on the gold medal list, but when he returned home with his friends and was crossing the river by boat, he accidentally lost his footing and fell into the water. The current was very fast at the time, and in the end even the body was not found."
Seemingly knowing what everyone wanted to ask, Shi Dali added: "It has nothing to do with Laoniuwan Ferry. I asked, it's not that river."
"This is just the beginning. Then the third young master of the Feng family took a good bath, but suddenly he went crazy. There must be something in the bathtub scratching his feet. I called in many famous doctors, but to no avail. It was said that he was overly frightened. The hysteria caused by it may not be cured.”
"Except for the third young master of the Feng family who is still unmarried, the eldest young master and the second young master both have wives, and their wives are pregnant with children. However, after the eldest young master died, the eldest young master's wife was overly worried and had a miscarriage not long after."
"After that, my health became worse day by day, and I often had hallucinations. When I met people, I would say I saw my unborn child sitting by the well calling to me."
"One day, while the maid was bringing medicine, the young master's wife struggled to stand up, crawled to the well, and fell in."
"By the time the maid comes back, he will be dead."
At this point, Shi Dali sighed and looked at Yang Xiao and the others with complicated eyes, "It was the well that was held down by the millstone. Shortly after the death of the eldest mistress, it was said that the maid also chose to throw herself into the well one night because she blamed herself. He committed suicide, and since then, the well has been sealed and no one is allowed to approach it.”
"The Feng family is constantly experiencing bad luck. Not long ago, it was the turn of the second young master of the Feng family. He was already very careful not to take a boat or take a bath in a big bathtub. But when he was riding a horse across a very shallow stream, the horse's foot slipped and he was He fell off his horse and hit a sharp stone with the back of his head, and he died on the way back to Feng's house."
"Hiss--" Su Tingting took a breath. It was indeed miserable. The whole family was full of money, and now only the sick Master Feng, the crazy Third Young Master, and a pregnant one were left. Second Young Mistress.
"The deaths of these people are all related to water. I think it must be the revenge of the female ghost." Kuang Hongyi said in a thick voice, "We also heard some news in the town. The Feng family's reputation is indeed good, but that was more recently. In 2000, this was not the case in the generation of Mr. Feng. At that time, there was no one in the country who was not afraid of Mr. Feng. If you dared to miss a grain of grain, your legs would be broken. Even if you sold your sons and daughters, you would have to scrape together this grain of grain. .”
"By the way, Mr. Feng also had a nickname at that time, called Nan Batian."
"We also found out that Mr. Feng's grave is in Ximaling, not far from the city. We originally wanted to take a look, but we were worried that we wouldn't have enough time to go back and forth." Kuang Hongyi shook his head with regret.
Next it was Yang Xiao Xusu's turn. The two told them what they saw and heard at Laoniuwan Pier, as well as the soul-calming tower they met on the way.
"Did those people in the Bai family's gatehouse also die from the flood?" This news was so important that it completely overturned everyone's previous speculations.
Ke Long frowned, "Is the news true? Could it be that the Feng family bribed the boatman and deliberately caused this..."
"Impossible." Xu Su interrupted: "First of all, not only the people from the Bai family's gatehouse died in the accident, but also the officials in the nearby military camp. After all, the Feng family was just a wealthy family and had no official status. He didn't even dare to kill the officers and soldiers. Also, how do you explain the sudden rain and heavy fog? So many people on the pier saw it that night."
There was silence in the room. After a moment, Kuang Hongyi spoke up: "So the nature of this matter has changed. Xiyao will take action to the people in the Bai family gatehouse to explain that they also have problems. I suspect that it was the people in the Bai family gatehouse who sold Xiyao to Feng Feng." Home."
"It's right that she was betrothed to the Feng family." Yang Xiao now realized, "No wonder it was chosen on the seventh day of Old Master Feng's life. It turned out that he wanted to be married."
This makes sense. The Feng family spent a lot of money to buy Xi Yao, the main pillar of the Bai family's gatehouse, and gave it to Mr. Feng, who loved to listen to operas during his lifetime, in the name of singing ghost operas. Of course, this The Bai family's gatehouse and Team Leader Bai knew everything. After all, they had received the money and had to cooperate with the Feng family's tricks, but Xiyao, who was involved, definitely didn't know.
After thinking about it, Su Tingting was filled with resentment, "What a cruel man, Mr. Feng, is so cruel! And the leader of the Bai family, Xiyao is his daughter, so he is willing to let her go?"
Shi Dali smiled and said, "What is there to be reluctant to part with? That kind of flesh-and-blood love is not as real as money."
