Chapter 11

After nightfall, the Dali Temple people who were originally guarding the door went to the guest room one by one under Pei Aosong's arrangement. Lin Jiaojiao sat in front of the dressing table, and Bai Zhi was undoing her hair accessories, preparing to sleep.

She thought in her heart, since someone provoked the Dali Temple people to frame her, it was impossible to retreat completely.

Now that the Pei Mansion will be closed for a few days for fear of smallpox spreading, after they find out that there is nothing wrong, she will either be taken away for interrogation or be confined somewhere, living the rest of her life in fear.

She used to want to take revenge for the confinement, but now she should consider self-preservation first. After all, as long as the green hills remain, there is no need to worry about no firewood.

Originally, she asked Liu Shouyi to find a way to get her out within half a month. Now it seems that she can't wait for half a month.

Lin Jiaojiao glanced at the door, ensured that everyone had left, pulled Bai Zhi over, and asked in a low voice: "Bai Zhi, I ask you one thing, you must tell me truthfully."

Bai Zhi was a little puzzled, "Concubine Lin, ask."

Lin Jiaojiao confirmed again that there were no eyes and ears eavesdropping around, and then whispered in Bai Zhi's ear: "I ask you, if someone dies in the Pei Mansion, how will it be handled?"

Bai Zhi's eyes widened, her eyes red, fearing that Lin Jiaojiao would die from smallpox: "Concubine, you have a heavenly appearance, you will definitely not die!"

Lin Jiaojiao was a little impatient and waved her hand: "Oh, I'm asking you a serious question, you just answer me, don't say those useless things."

Bai Zhi could only tell the truth: "This depends on the situation. If a servant dies of illness, the family will be called to collect the corpse, and the master will reward some silver for burial. If this servant has no relatives, or the master originally didn't like them, the outcome will not be good."

"What if someone in the master's family dies?"

Bai Zhi was scared and hurriedly covered Lin Jiaojiao's mouth, looked around, and then whispered: "Concubine, you absolutely mustn't curse the Old Madam like this."

"I didn't—" Lin Jiaojiao wanted to laugh, she pulled Bai Zhi's hand away, "I didn't mention the Old Madam, I'm talking about others."

Bai Zhi felt that what she said just now was not good. She was a little ashamed. She actually thought that Concubine Lin wanted the Old Madam to die. It was really measuring the gentleman's belly with the villain's heart.

Maybe the concubine was really just asking, so she continued to answer: "Others, generally, they will stop the coffin for three days and then bury it."

"Oh!" Lin Jiaojiao nodded thoughtfully, pretending to yawn: "Sleep, I'm tired after tossing all day."

She lay on the bed, closed her eyes as usual, and began to pretend to sleep.

After a while, Bai Zhi heard a slight snoring sound from the bed, and she also began to pack up and sleep.

Lin Jiaojiao waited for a long time, ensured that Bai Zhi was asleep, then tiptoed out of bed, quietly opened the door, walked out, gently came to the side room, pushed the door in, and the wet nurse was sleeping soundly with the infant, and occasionally smacked her small mouth.

After these days of conditioning, the milk crust on Tie Zhu's head fell off a lot, revealing pink skin, and the originally deformed legs were improved to a certain extent after these days of massage and pushing, and they didn't look so deformed.

She wanted to die and escape, but if she escaped, what about Tie Zhu?

Without her protection, how could Tie Zhu live under the Old Madam's nose?

Thinking of this, she reached out and picked up Tie Zhu from the wet nurse's side and held him in her arms.

A faint milky fragrance came from the infant. Tie Zhu was still sleeping, but he seemed to feel the embrace, grabbed Lin Jiaojiao's clothes with his small hands, arched into her arms, and a satisfied smile unique to infants appeared on his face.

Although this was a swapped child, the child was innocent, and Lin Jiaojiao was soft-hearted after all.

She couldn't escape with Tie Zhu. If she didn't take him out, Tie Zhu would not live long in the Pei Mansion with his appearance.

Forget it, she was originally a person who transmigrated to this world by car accident. She couldn't live well herself, so how could she bring a child with defects to survive?

Lin Jiaojiao sat by the bed, gently put down her hands, and was about to put Pei Tiezhu back on the bed, when the infant suddenly opened his eyes and looked at her quietly.

Meeting the infant's clear gaze, her heart softened, and for a moment, she couldn't bear to let go and put Tie Zhu back on the bed.

Just then, the wet nurse Guo Shi turned over in her sleep, as if she felt something staring at the bed, so she subconsciously reached out to catch the child, and opened her eyes at the same time—

In the dark, Guo Shi saw a pale-faced woman in white with a face full of rashes and disheveled hair, staring down with an inexplicable smile. The faint candlelight flickered, and suddenly a cold wind blew in from the door. She was so scared that she almost lost her speech.

After a long while, Guo Shi breathed a sigh of relief and let out a sharp explosion: "Ah! Ghost!!!!!"

Lin Jiaojiao was startled by her shout, and Tie Zhu was scared to cry with a "waa" sound. She wanted to pick up Tie Zhu again to coax him to sleep, but Guo Shi was bold. If she met a ghost, she had to protect the child first!

Guo Shi caught Pei Tiezhu in her arms and wouldn't let go, cursing loudly, "Humans and ghosts are different! You can't take the child away!"

Seeing this, Lin Jiaojiao could only let go. She knew that Guo Shi regarded her as a ghost. This was not to blame others. Who would run to the wet nurse in the middle of the night to see the child?

She was about to leave and walk back to her house, but Guo Shi's exclamation and scolding blew up the entire Pei Mansion!

Guo Shi held Pei Tiezhu tightly and wouldn't let go, constantly chanting messy spells: "Quickly retreat! Urgent as a law! Evil ghosts disperse! Amitabha! Evil ghosts retreat!!"

Lin Jiaojiao could only slip away. Just after walking out of the house, someone rushed over with a torch!

The person who came was Steward Li, who lived closest. He was over fifty, and he hadn't seen a ghost in his life.

Seeing Lin Jiaojiao's appearance, he was startled, his legs bent, his hands softened, he threw the torch to the ground, turned around, and crawled away.

The second one to arrive was Bai Zhi. Although she recognized Lin Jiaojiao, her master's appearance looked scary!

Plus the gloomy tree shadows at night swayed with the wind on her body, the white dress and hair were blown up, and the moonlight shone on her face, making it even paler! The red rashes on her face looked even more shocking!

Bai Zhi was so scared that she sat on the ground, stuttering: "Con, concubine, you just now, just now weren't—"

As more and more torches came, more and more people rushed over, even Pei Aosong, who was wearing a nightgown and a cloak, rushed over in a hurry—

Lin Jiaojiao really couldn't leave this place. If she had known this, she shouldn't have been soft-hearted and looked at Tie Zhu that one more time!

She opened her mouth to explain, but didn't know why she bit her tongue, and let out an "ah" in pain, and a mouthful of blood flowed from her mouth, making it even more terrifying.

No one had ever seen such a terrible female ghost. In their eyes, this female ghost seemed to have an unsolvable great grievance. The servants were scared to retreat several steps, and some were pushed and fell directly to the ground.

"Fe, female ghost, this, what a great grievance..."

Some servants saw her appearance and thought of the new maid who was sent away not long ago. When she died, her tongue was pulled out, and her mouth was also full of scarlet. They knelt on the ground with a "thud," kowtowing repeatedly, crying and shouting: "Xiao Cui! It's not me, it's not me, grievances have heads and debts have masters, it's not me, it's all, it's all the Old Madam's decree..."