CH 102.2

Bai Lixin: “What did you see the night Lord Li died?”

Xian Gu: “Didn’t I tell you? I didn’t see anything.”

“He came over to worship me as usual, it’s been so long but he still thought I’m an Immortal and that worshipping me would bring good fortune.”

“I guess he suddenly let me be the thirteenth concubine to make me feel that I am part of the family, that way, I would work harder to protect it.”

“But how could I, he killed my former master, how could I protect him?”

“But that night, he had just lit a stick of incense.” Xian Gu paused, “I don’t know if it was rhinoceros horn incense, or ordinary incense.”

“But then it was like he went mad. He kept stumbling around and finally ran back to his bedroom.”

“And then shortly after, I heard that he died, then someone secretly brought me out of the study. It is said that this person always had a crush on me. Shortly after Lord Li died, he came in and took me to his quarters.”

Xian Gu looked at the two, “Don’t you think he is suspicious? This Li Yuan also has a motive for the crime. He always wanted me, and men can do anything when they are impulsive.”

“There is also that man called Yun. Lord Li always abused him because he cheated, so he also has a motive to kill.”

“Oh, yes. There is also the woman called Hu Meier, no one else knows, but I do. She secretly takes the family’s money to help her brother, and she also cheated with Yun. A few days before his death, Lord Li threatened to sell her to the brothel.”

“Can a decent woman stay in a brothel? This Hu Meier is accustomed to pampering, so she wouldn’t have sat back to wait for her fate.”

“Tsk, tsk, this Lord Li was human and had a lot of enemies.”

She pondered for a moment and said, “If it is a demon that claimed his life, I’d say its the fox demon.”

“I heard that he became a eunuch because that fox bit it off. At first, his wife used the red fox fur to make a plush scarf that she always wore around her neck. There’s a time the fox fur became alive and suddenly strangled her, almost killing his wife.”

“The two were afraid, so they sold the fox fur scarf.”

“They originally made the scarf with some of the fox cubs fur, and the antique store owner confiscated it because the color was too mixed.”

“As for whether it was the fox demon that killed him, you can go ask those foxes in the painting next door. Those foxes are the souls of those fox cubs that had been haunting Lord Li befor they were caught.”

“However, that old woman in the painting is not as easy to talk to as I am. She always claims to be a Taoist and disdains to be with others. She is only willing to meet in the painting. I used to go to her painting a few times, but her painting is too cold. I can’t stand the cold, so I didn’t go there again.”

“Tsk, what the hell, we are all ghosts, who is more noble than who? I don’t even want her place, I hate the cold.”

Bai Lixin was a little surprised, “You mean paintings can communicate with each other?”

Xian Gu looked at Bai Lixin as if he was a fool: “There is a Taoist saying, one life is two, two is three, three is everything, and everything is one.”

“Each painting is one world, but the worlds interconnected. As long as the conditions allow, we can communicate with each other in the painting worlds.”

Bai Lixin: “What conditions?”

“Either the ghost is like the Taoist next to me, who has many followers and has countless paintings, so she can use the connections to pass through different worlds.”

“Or it is like me. With the aid of items such as rhinoceros horn incense, I can freely travel through worlds that are close to each other. My original portrait was burned so Lord Li drew me a new home which I moved to through this method.”

Bai Lixin slightly pursed his lips and was a little lost in thought.

The first method was similar to Dijia’s soul fragments. In the [Red Apple House] copy, Dijia could enter the copy because of the connection with his soul fragment.

And at the time in the Undead copy, the original and soul fragment even shared a consciousness which affected Undead Dijia’s memories.

As for the second method…

Bai Lixin suddenly looked up, “Can a soul sealed in a photo use this condition and enter another photo or portrait?”

In the plot replay at the Taoist temple, the photo of the man with two pupils finally burned in the fire, and there were not traces left after.

But in the vicinity of the photo was an enshrined portrait.

Enshrined portraits have copies so those are countless small worlds. Wouldn’t the soul in the photo use the second method to hide in the enshrined portrait, and then jump to the small worlds of the associated portrait?

Although he didn’t know the role of this immortal with double pupils in this copy, instinct tells him that he is dangerous.

“It is also possible, but photos are too narrow. In the past, Lord Li also let me live in the photo, but I did not want it My image would be concrete, but my face is hazy in abstract portraits. I don’t want others to see my specific features, it is troublesome.”

[Ding! Congratulations to the player, progress of task 2 is now at 50%.]

The system prompt suddenly rang out, and Bai Lixin opened the task bar.

[Task 1, survive five days and five nights. ( 3 days and 2 nights out of 5 days and 5 nights have been completed)]

[Task 2, find Lord Li’s murderer, and the real cause of death. (Progress is at 50%)]

He seemed to be one step closer to the truth, but from the clues obtained, Lord Li’s death was only the tip of the iceberg of this world, and there were hidden bigger problems.

Bai Xin closed the task bar, and looked at Xian Gu: “You said that the woman next door doesn’t want to come out, so how can we talk to her?”

Xian Gu: “Tsk, use the rhinoceros horn incense, when the rhinoceros horn incense burns thickly enough, you will see a door on the portrait.”

“Touch that door, and you can go in.”

“The time to stay in is usually one hour, and if you can’t leave before the door closes, then you may forever be stuck in there.”

“Theses two …… uh, little brothers, I have an unpleasant request.” Xian Gu looked at Bai Lixin and said, “If you are really going in there, I will trouble you to bring those little foxes out “

“They haven’t done anything wrong and they’ve been crying for their mother. I guess that red fox is their mother, but unfortunately, when a beast dies, the soul is trapped next to the body, and it doesn’t reincarnate. So that red fox can not come to the children.”

“If you guys can bring out these little foxes, mother and child will have to come together. This way, they will lead you to their mother. I suppose you guys have always suspected that the red fox killed Lord Li, right? Since you suspect this, wouldn’t it be right to ask the red fox directly?”

[Ding! Congratulations player for trigger NPC quest – [Little foxes find their mother], please bring out the little foxes and then find their mother so that they can be reunited.]

[Task reward – [Fox repayment gift package], after completing the task, you can get the fox family’s thank you gift package. Friendly reminder: there are surprises in the gift package, please cherish it, player.]

[Accept/reject]

How could he refuse such a good thing?

Bai Lixin quickly clicked [Accept], “Okay, I promise you.”

Xian Gu looked at Bai Lixin and Dijia, a d then made a regretful long sigh. “You two are so good, my former master was also like you, there was an indefinable righteousness in his body.”

“In the time of the Qing dynasty, sons were more important than daughters. The madam’s health was not good and after the birth of the young lady, the master felt sorry for the madam’s body and chose not to continue having children.”

“His three views were very positive and I still remember a saying he made: if you’re born in a chaotic world, having the ability means responsibility. That’s why he brought the seriously injured Lord Li home and took care of him. He often gave food to people who couldn’t afford to eat food, opened a few medicine shops and often gave patients free consultation and medicine. He did a lot of good.”

Xian Gu’s eyes suddenly became red, “The lady was pure and kind as well, I only wish everyone in the world was as kind as they were. She inherited their goodness and that was how she brought the scholar home and led the wolf into the house. She was not wrong in the first place, so even if that scholar cheated, I never despised the lady.”

“But good people pay with their lives,” Xian Gu gave a long sigh. “The people who live long are actually the greedy white eyed wolves. Such good people should have been treated well in the world, and not get that kind of payment.”