Chapter 81: Play, play, play, play your big-headed ghost!

Who would have guessed, the person on the bed suddenly flipped over, directly using the quilt to cover both of their heads, instantly wrapping the lecherous thieves up tight from head to tail!

"Ouch!" Caught off guard, the two were left dizzy by the thick quilt, their hands scrambling in chaos as they tried to tear it off.

But how could Guo Shi give them the chance!

"Play, play, play, play your big-headed ghost!"

Guo cursed and swore. She jumped up and sat right on the tightly covered quilt, swinging her sandbag-sized fists with all her might, raining punches down on the two heads inside!

"Ouch, ouch! Stop hitting! Good lady, have mercy, stop hitting!" The two wailed, desperately trying to dodge Guo Shi's fists beneath the quilt!

But Guo Shi was, after all, an expert at farm work in the fields; she had plenty of strength in her hands. How could she let them off!

The two lecherous thieves could only try to find a way to fight back, swinging their fists out from under the quilt, but accidentally hitting each other's faces and bodies instead!

"Ouch! Sixth Master! You hit me!"

"Who! Was that you who just kicked me!"

The two thrashed about wildly for a while before finally struggling to pull the thick quilt off their bodies!

But the room was pitch black. Only by borrowing the moonlight from outside the window could they barely make out each other's faces.

They saw that both men, one short and one fat, had been beaten black and blue; there wasn't a single patch of good skin left on their faces!

And Guo Shi, who had just been hitting them, had long since vanished without a trace!

The short man clutched the high, swollen lump on his face, yelping in pain.

He scanned the room vigilantly, but everywhere was pitch black. His heart began to waver.

He could only advise the fat man beside him, "Sixth Master, it's pitch black in the room in the middle of the night. We can't find the person who hit us. Let's retreat quickly."

"Retreat what retreat!" The fat man was so angry he slapped the short man's forehead hard. "Can I, Qin Liuye, swallow this loss!? You go light the lamp. Even if we have to tear this dump apart, we must find the person who hit me!"

The short man had no choice but to obey. Clutching his forehead, which was sore from Qin Liuye's slap, he used the moonlight to walk to the candle stand, took a flint from his pocket, and struck it to light the fire.

He had just lit the candle flame when a sudden gust of cold wind swept past, blowing it out directly!

The short man could only try to strike the fire again. Just as it caught, another gust of cold wind came and snuffed out the candle flame!

This happened three or five times, and Qin Liuye had lost all patience!

He walked over, snatched the flint from the short man's hand, and took the opportunity to slap the short man again. "Dawdling! You can't even light a fire! Don't even think about getting next month's wages!"

"The wind blew it—" the short man argued, but he received another punch!

"Idiot! Can't you go close the doors and windows!" Qin Liuye was not at all lenient with his personal attendant. He ordered the short man to close the window, not forgetting to kick him in the back of the leg at the same time!

The short man stumbled and fell, but how dared he fight back or talk back? He could only obey and close the doors and windows.

Qin Liuye struck the flint a few times with a "click-clack" sound and lit the candle flame in one go!

This time, there was finally no wind to blow the candle flame out!

Qin Liuye held the candle flame high, ordered the short man to light another candle stand, and began to search the room—

When the weak candlelight shone toward the bed, they saw a woman in white sitting there with long hair, her face hidden from view!

"Ah—!" Qin Liuye let out a strange cry in terror!

"Master! What is it, Master!?" The short man couldn't care about lighting the fire anymore and rushed over to see what was happening.

Qin Liuye was, after all, a bold man. He quickly realized that the woman in the room was playing a ghost, so he walked over cursing, "Pah! You dare to hit me and play a ghost to scare who? Do you think I, Qin Liuye, was scared growing up?!"

But the woman in white suddenly raised her head, and on her pale face was a hideous scar!

The woman in white opened her mouth, revealing a mouthful of black teeth, and let out a strange, cackling laugh. At the same time, the doors and windows that had just been closed were suddenly opened from the outside!

Even as bold as Qin Liuye was, he let out an "Ah!" of shock and nearly dropped the candle flame in his hand, scared by that "female ghost"!

They rushed toward the door, wanting to run out of this place of trouble. Who knew that a white shadow suddenly drifted past outside the door and window, and the attendant was so scared he wet himself!

"Ghost! There's a ghost here!" The short attendant was exceptionally timid. He pointed tremblingly outside the window, but when he pointed back at the bed, he found that the female ghost sitting on the bed had already vanished!

This time, even Qin Liuye was so scared that his fat face was covered in sweat. He wiped the sweat from his face and hurriedly pushed the attendant behind him, wanting to be the first to escape!

Just as he rushed into the courtyard, a baby's crying sound reached his ears!

That crying sound came from far to near, echoing in the empty Qingju Pavilion, making all the hair on his body stand up!

He couldn't control the hand holding the candle flame at all. By accident, the candle flame fell onto his body, and his clothes caught fire immediately!

Qin Liuye was extremely panicked. He scrambled to pat the flames rising on his clothes, his mouth not stopping its cries: "Fire! Fire! It's on fire! Put it out for me! Quick! Quick!"

But where was there any movement from the attendant in the room?

"It's burning me to death! Put out the fire for me! You pig! What are you still standing there for! Put out the fire for me quickly!"

Seeing the fire getting bigger and bigger, Qin Liuye was so anxious he took off his clothes. Suddenly, a basin of cold water was poured directly over his head, and the fire on his body was finally extinguished!

Saved! He let out a long sigh of relief. Just as he wanted to thank the benefactor who had poured the water on him, someone took advantage of his moment of daze to wrap hemp rope around him several times, binding him tightly!

Before Qin Liuye could struggle, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside Qingju Pavilion.

A charming voice drifted into the courtyard with an autumn breeze from outside Qingju Pavilion: "Sister Ning, whether or not someone is defiling the Imperial Palace, won't we know if we take a look?"

Immediately following a creak, someone pushed open the half-closed door of Qingju Pavilion from the outside.

The intruders carried brightly lit lanterns, instantly illuminating the courtyard of Qingju Pavilion!

But the scene in the courtyard shocked the group!

They saw a strong woman dressed like a village woman, vigorously binding a man with a face full of fat, who was sweating all over from fear.

Ten steps away from the fat man stood a young woman in white, holding a baby and coaxing it to sleep. The woman's hair was disheveled, clearly ready to go to bed, but she was awake at this moment, coaxing the baby.

Although this woman was beautiful and had a curvaceous figure, there was a shocking scar on her face!

She was Lin Jiaojiao.

Lin Jiaojiao raised her eyes at the sound and saw the two young women who had broken into the courtyard first. From their luxurious clothing and the group of palace maids and eunuchs following behind, she identified them as concubines of the Imperial Palace!

They had their black hair half-draped, the dangling hairpins and buns on their heads not yet taken down. They wore sleeping robes embroidered with golden birds, wrapped in thick fox-fur cloaks on the outside, their wide-open eyes full of surprise.

Even so, Lin Jiaojiao still noticed that the concubine who spoke had not removed the rouge from her vermilion lips, while the other thin concubine had very plain makeup on her face, clearly having already removed her makeup, ready to sleep.

The details on the concubine who spoke told her that this person had come prepared!