Chapter 13: The Night Attack of the Mandrills
Zhen Xiuli and the Ding family didn't recognize Su Ning, after all, it had been a long time, plus Su Ning had grown half a year old now, and the village girl who was dressed in coarse cloth at the beginning was like two people, not to mention Zhen Xiuli and others who had only one side with her.
Su Ning walked out of the door, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, and she quickly danced in the air, chasing after the resentful spirits that had drifted away.
The spirits flew away from the Hou Mansion and scattered.Su Ning followed one of the woman-like spirits.The spirits were very peculiar.Her whole body was swollen.Her hair and clothes were dripping wet.It was like a drowning ghost.
The woman's spirit flew into a wood, and stopped at a pond, and Su Ning saw that she seemed to be about to fall into the water, and she quickly spoke out to stop her:
"Wait, please."
The resentful spirit looked back at Su Ning leisurely, her face was expressionless, her eyes were blank, and with her pale and swollen face, there was an indescribable sense of horror.
Su Ning was not frightened by her, she walked up to the woman and saluted her.
"Poor and bad."
It is estimated that Su Ning's aura is soft and full of kindness, and the woman blessed her.
"Fairy Gu, what are you looking for a slave?" The woman asked slowly.
Su Ning asked straight to the point: "May I ask what is the relationship between Madame and the Hou Mansion, why did you appear in the Hou Mansion to listen to the scriptures?"
"Immortal Gu doesn't need to be polite, slave is not a lady......" the woman said to Su Ning, " When the slave was four years old, the slave accompanied the old lady and the Hou Ye, and a kind of maid came to play in the forest.”
After listening to this, Su Ning nodded and said, "Then dare to ask, do you have anything to do with Hou Ye's condition?"
The woman said: "The Hou Mansion treats the slaves well, how dare the slaves frame the Hou Ye ......"
"Then ......" Su Ning was now full of questions, and she asked instead, "Do you know what happened to the other resentful spirits in the house, and whether Hou Ye's illness is related to them."
The woman replied, " The resentful spirits in the Hou Ye's room, most of the people who listened to the scriptures with the slaves were the servants of the Hou Mansion who died in the past, and some of them were the subordinates of the old Hou Ye, and those animals were all the prey that the Hou Ye had hunted with his own hands for many years, and the resentful spirits in the yard, their deaths were more or less related to the Hou Ye, some of them were killed by the Hou Ye's subordinates, some of them were offered by the officials below, and some of them had been killed by the Hou Ye in his previous lifeI was also expelled or exceeded by the mages."
Su Ning remembered that she had just heard the old man's words on the street, saying that the Marquis of Dingyuan would shout, "Don't come here, don't bite me, don't catch me".
But listening to what the woman said, those animal spirits don't have such great ability to make Hou Ye seriously ill, so what is the real reason?
Su Ning asked puzzledly: "Then why does Hou Ye's condition get worse day by day."
The woman said: "Master Hou is heart and lung blood stasis and coagulation, occasionally coughing up blood, this is the root of the disease that he pulled down from his urine, this is properly regulated, he has not had an attack for a long time...... On that day, the Hou Ye went into the mountains to hunt, and he should have met a ...... of low creation.
Su Ning was stunned: "Wrongdoer."
She said a crucial piece of news that allowed Su Ning to save the Marquis of Dingyuan......
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After Su Ning said goodbye to the woman's resentful spirit, she hurried back to the Hou Ye Mansion. Bai Xian and the others were already waiting for her in a courtyard.
After Su Ning came back, she first inquired about the situation with Bai Xian, and Bai Xian said:
"Listening to what Miss Zhen said, it is similar to the rumors outside, she said that the Marquis of Dingyuan led dozens of people to hunt in a place called 'Crested Mountain' after the autumn equinox last year. Hou Ye shot a sika deer, and the family drove the horse to look for it. Hou Ye and another family member waited in place.
Unexpectedly, the next day, Hou Ye's condition worsened, vomiting blood again, the doctor came, saying that it may be that he fell off the horse and injured his lungs, so he prescribed some medicine to protect the heart and disperse knots. Later, Hou Ye ate what to vomit and what to vomitHis illness began to get worse again, and the Hou Ye would have severe chills, always shouting that it was cold, covering him with a few layers of quilts, or placing a lot of fire plates in the house, but it didn't work, so some mages would also come over at night to ward off evil spirits, but most of them didn't work."
After listening to this, Su Ning said, "It seems that the water ghost did not deceive me......
Bai Xian turned to ask her about the woman's resentment, Su Ning told Bai Xian about the woman's drowning and the resentment of the animals in the house.
"The water ghost said, Hou Ye provoked the 'mandrill' in the mountain, and the mandrill was happy to be a prisoner at night, and every night he would sneak into the house to disturb Hou Ye, so that his condition worsened."
Bai Xian also heard of the mandrill, he said: "It is said that this mandrill is an evil ghost in the mountains, it looks like a child, but it has a fierce temperament.
Su Ning and Bai Xian and the others discussed that this mandrill is estimated to be just a mountain monster with low spiritual power.
So Su Ning spent an hour drawing up a set of foolproof combat arrangements......
The night wind is rustling, and the stars are dim.
In the purple sandalwood moon cave door, there is a dark woven pomegranate flower ribbon gauze tent in azure, and it can be seen that the Marquis of Dingyuan is lying on the bed and falling asleep.
The two little maids who were in charge of taking care of the Hou Ye were sitting in the side hall outside the room, playing Tun'er, and the doors and windows in the room had been closed tightly, but the flames on the candlesticks were blown horizontally.
Outside the house, there was silence, only the sound of leaves being blown off, the resentful spirits that could not be seen by ordinary eyes, but they danced wildly in the darkness.
After a long time, I heard a barely audible "babbling" sound, and something squeezed open a small crack in the door.
A ghostly figure crept into the room silently.The figure was extremely agile.It slipped swiftly past the antechamber.It slipped into the bedroom of the Marquis of Dingyuan.The maid sitting outside was unaware.One of them yawned.Woke up.Then he took out a flower bandage to embroider..
The pitch-black figure easily climbed onto Dingyuanhou's bed, it squatted and sit, pressed against Dingyuanhou's chest, stretched out its mouth to suck Dingyuanhou's essence.
Just after the monster sucked up the first breath of essence, Dingyuan Hou on the bed suddenly trembled, and then his human form faded rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, he became a puppet. This is the puppet that Qianfan gave to Su Ning as a servant.
The monster was obviously taken by surprise and was taken aback.
The moment the puppeteer appeared, the bed was obscured by a barrier, and the monster on the bed squeaked and tried to break through the barrier and escape.
At this time, Su Ning and Bai Xian, who were hiding in the corner, were about to come out, and both of them were wearing "ornamental iron".
Bai Xian raised the Elephant Trunk Ancient Moon Knife and was about to finish off the mandrill. Su Ning hurriedly stopped:
"Wait."
Bai Xian paused, looked at her suspiciously, and Su Ning said, "It's a little wrong, this mandrill's spiritual power is only at the first level, isn't it too low?"
Bai Xian also discovered that the mandrill with a long face and a red nose and a big mouth had very low spiritual power, and it didn't look much better than the other resentful spirits in the house.
If it's really so difficult to deal with, its spiritual power won't be so low, and the mandrill is still rampage through the magic barrier.
Su Ning said lightly to the dialogue:
"Maybe there's something behind it......"
"So what are we going to do?" Bai Xian also had no experience in catching demons.Su Ning immediately decided:
"Let's get it out of the way.
"Okay." Bai Xian immediately untied the magic barrier, and the mandrill thought that it was a lucky escape, and hurriedly jumped up, and it didn't even go through the front door, but smashed through the window and flew out.
Su Ning and Bai Xian jumped out of the window. The two foxes jumped up energetically and ran out of the door.
It turned out that Su Ning had already made a thorough plan, she first took out one of the puppeteers in her mirror realm, let it turn into the appearance of Dingyuan Marquis, and then put on Dingyuan Hou's clothes and lay on the bed.