Chapter 325: The Strange He Family

The woman was crawling out quietly.

Suddenly she was pressed on her back, lying flat on the ground with her limbs spread out, turning her head to look at the man behind her with a face full of terror, begging in her mouth.

"Please, let me go!"

Wu Xian curiously examined this woman; she was wearing a green and white cheongsam, with a furry shawl on her shoulders, a fair and exquisite face, a slender and graceful figure, and various jewelry such as gold hairpins and jade bracelets...

"Who are you?"

The woman shrank back: "I... my name is Du Rushi, I am the Seventh Young Mistress of the He Mansion."

Wu Xian touched his chin: "Hey, there are quite a few young masters in this He family; it seems my luck is not bad, I can catch a useful one with a casual grab."

Du Rushi cried: "I am not useful!"

"No, no, no, you are very useful." A wicked smile appeared on Wu Xian's face, "As long as I use you as a hostage, I will have bargaining chips to negotiate with the He family."

Du Rushi looked at Wu Xian, the expression on her face slowly changing from terror, with helplessness, self-mockery, and speechlessness.

"Using me won't be able to threaten the He family; it will only implicate me in dying with you."

From the woman's eyes.

Wu Xian could know that what she said was true.

But this was strange; how could an identity like the Seventh Young Mistress not be important at all?

Wu Xian looked up at the sky; the sun was about to set, and it was about to get dark.

He couldn't delay too much time here, so he asked Du Rushi to take him to the Three Immortals Hall.

But as soon as Du Rushi heard Three Immortals Hall, she looked like she had seen a ghost, refusing to take Wu Xian there no matter what, as if there was something terrifying there.

Wu Xian could only threaten her with the telescopic stick, and only then did she compromise in terror...

On the way.

Wu Xian asked many questions about the He family.

Du Rushi was unwilling to say at first, but perhaps because no one had chatted with her for too long, she opened her chatterbox as he asked.

In the Undying City, the He family has a lofty status.

Everyone thinks that as long as a woman marries into the He family, she will be happy and have a good life; Du Rushi thought so at first too.

But after marrying into the He family.

Du Rushi discovered how strange and indifferent this He family was.

Even after marrying into the He family for so long, she still knew nothing about this family.

Only knowing that the He family has a master, more than a dozen young masters, the family has no branches, the daughters of the He family are all married off, and all the young mistresses can only move in a small area.

Even her husband, she also felt very strange.

She remembered the day of the wedding very clearly; she changed into a bright red wedding dress in the middle of the night, was helped and brought to the Three Immortals Hall, and bowed to the Seventh Young Master in the witness of the Three Immortals.

Throughout the wedding process, she didn't have any joy or shyness, just feeling afraid and terrified for no reason, wanting to escape from the hall quickly.

Throughout the process, her head was covered with red cloth, so she could only see the feet of others; what was strange was that the feet of the guests at the wedding were all a bit floating, as if they were on tiptoes...

After the wedding.

Life was still strange.

Even until now, she didn't even know what her husband looked like.

The Seventh Young Master would only find her once every ten days or so; every time he came at night, the atmosphere was hazy, just like a dream; she would feel exceptionally exhausted when she woke up in the morning, as if her body had been hollowed out, and she often needed to rest for a few days to recover...

"Such a life will drive people crazy!" Soon Du Rushi's topic shifted from herself to others.

These dozen or so so-called 'young mistresses' are like birds in a cage, only able to move in parts of the He family, with maids taking care of their daily life, but those maids are cold, only obeying orders, and will not say intimate words to them, so the young mistresses usually shake off the maids and gather secretly.

"The Third Young Mistress was the first to be unable to take it; she was driven almost crazy by the suppression, feeling that her husband was not a person, wanting to use the method she heard from the elderly to test; she didn't know where she got some incense ash and sprinkled it in front of the door when the Third Young Master came home at night..."

"After that... I never saw her again."

"Later I heard that she was driven out of the He family, drifted to a desolate village, and committed suicide by jumping into a well..."

Wu Xian's heart moved slightly.

The Third Young Mistress she mentioned should be the female ghost they wiped out in the No-Funeral Village!

The more Du Rushi spoke, the colder she felt her body was.

In the past, she tried to comfort and hypnotize herself to protect herself, not thinking about these things; only today, when she confided in Wu Xian, did she feel more and more horrified.

To the point of feeling that every grass and tree in the He family was terrifying, and Wu Xian, this coercer who popped out of the soil, was actually safer than her husband...

So she subconsciously grabbed Wu Xian's clothes.

While Du Rushi was telling the story, Wu Xian was also observing everything in the He family.

The He family is large, very large, with an area comparable to a university campus, and the layout is like a maze; if it weren't for Du Rushi leading the way, it would be difficult for him to find the Three Immortals Hall quickly.

Additionally, except for individual areas, most of the land in the He family has not been hardened, just mud land that has been weeded; many traces of soil on the ground have been turned over, and under those traces, corpses should all be buried...

On the way, they encountered many patrolling retainers; these retainers all had gloomy expressions, their steps were floating, and their footprints on the road were very light.

From Du Rushi's expression, these retainers usually didn't have good faces for the 'young mistresses' either.

After walking for a while.

They finally arrived at the Three Immortals Hall.

This hall is simply magnificent, a typical five-ridge single-eave hip-roof building, nine bays wide, five bays deep, forty to fifty meters long, twenty to thirty meters wide, and more than twenty meters high including the moon platform...

Wu Xian had only seen this kind of large wooden building in some temples before.

The hall was very empty, and the things inside could be seen at a glance; as soon as Wu Xian stepped in, he felt cold all over; this was definitely not a good place.

"Where are the coffins, where are the coffins and urns?"

Du Rushi asked in confusion: "Why do you want to find coffins? That thing is very unlucky; approaching it rashly is taboo... but I did hear that the He family often has some 'safe' coffins, but it is impossible for that kind of thing to be placed in the hall."

Wu Xian was silent.

This hall should be the mourning hall mentioned in the degree certificate.

He originally thought the lost coffins and urns would be here, but didn't expect that there was nothing here; then how was he supposed to complete the correct funeral before twelve o'clock tonight?

Wu Xian's mood fell to the bottom, and his train of thought was suddenly broken.

Just at this moment.

Du Rushi's hand grabbing Wu Xian's arm suddenly exerted force.

Wu Xian frowned and looked, only to find Du Rushi trembling all over, looking at the entrance of the hall; following her gaze, he saw two people walking quickly!

One was an old woman with a tall figure and extremely imposing walking style.

The other was a maid following behind the old woman with her head down.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 326 =====