Chapter 71: The Suspicious Rainbow Stripe Wizard

  The old lady listened to me saying this, and then got up again, and told Yihuan Miss what Xiaoman had just said to me, it was almost the same, I looked at Yihuan Miss, Yihuan Miss also tilted her head, staring at me with wide eyes, suddenly "heh" laughed out loud, saying: "So it's you!"

  I was taken aback and hastily asked: "Miss Yihuan, have you regained your composure and recognized the plum blossom?"

  Miss Nai Wan smiled and said: "How about it? So you're Mei Cai? Let's play together! Let's play together!" She warmly stretched out her hand to me.

  A person who knows what I look like, but doesn't know my name, is even more bewildering than a three-foot-tall monk trying to grasp the ungraspable. As soon as she stretched out her hand, I hastily and nervously went up to greet her, and at this moment, the candlelight flickered, and I suddenly discovered that behind Miss Yihong's back, there were actually two overlapping shadows.

  My mind is in a mess, two shadows, could they be evidence of possession?

  The old lady and the housekeeper were overjoyed to see Miss Yihuan, who suddenly looked like she had regained her senses: "Oh my, Miss Yihuan, have you recovered?"

  I felt something was off, Miss Yihong didn't seem to like me much, so why would she reach out her hand to me?

  But just as Miss Yiwang's hand touched mine, her face suddenly changed, she frowned and slapped my hand away, saying: "How dare you! Who allowed you to touch me? Take away your dirty hands!" And then she cried to Old Lady Ning: "Old lady, it's not enough that you punish me like this, but you also call this lowly servant boy to insult me, I won't stand for it, I won't stand for it!" She rushed into the old lady's arms.

  The old lady saw Miss Yihuan and recognized herself, and she was back to her original appearance. She was overjoyed and hugged Miss Yihuan in her arms, with tears streaming down her face: "My heart's darling! You've finally woken up, you scared the life out of Grandma... How could Grandma have dared to punish you? You're safe and sound, that's what matters most!"

  Miss Yihuan was very confused: "Old lady, I just felt that something was wrong. When did the servant girl come? I didn't understand a word of what you said. What happened that I don't know about?"

  The old lady smiled and said, "It's all in the past... everything is over..." While lovingly stroking Yihuan Miss's head: "Good granddaughter, it can be considered a complete one, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to live this old life..."

  "Old lady is the luckiest, why say such scary things?" Miss Yihuan blinked her sparkling eyes and looked at the old lady inquiringly.

  "This matter, no one should mention it again." The old lady hurriedly said: "You shouldn't ask about it either."

  The steward looked at the situation, pondered for a moment, and then hastily led me out, saying: "Dragon God's Envoy, this matter is naturally thanks to your help in driving away the evil spirits and saving Miss Yihua. However, it seems that Old Lady doesn't want to mention it again, lest she frighten Miss Yihua. You should keep this secret for now and not tell outsiders. As for the reward, I'll discuss it with Old Lady when I have a chance."

  I waved my hand hastily: "Mei Cai doesn't need to be rewarded, and didn't exert her own efforts. The matter just now was also a coincidence, so please don't mention it again, Master. Mei Cai knows the rules and will definitely take care of her own mouth, not causing trouble for the Ning family."

  The manager listened and praised: "It's really worthy of being the Dragon God Envoy, treating people and doing things is also the old way, it must be that you have a lot to do with this noble family, seeing and knowing a lot, that little old man doesn't need to say much, believing that the Dragon God Envoy is all-around and understands everything."

  I nodded hastily and saw that Yihua was unharmed, still shouting: "I'm starving, why haven't we had dinner yet?"

  The maidservants were busy serving the meal, placing dishes on the table. Yihuan Missy ate slowly, picking at her food and complaining: "Although Beijing is a big city, with the most exquisite restaurants, they also have their shortcomings. The vegetarian chicken tastes strange, the tofu is not fresh... it's better to return to Xichuan early." Despite her complaints, she was eating heartily, clearly having recovered from her earlier distress.

  The old lady lovingly gazed at Yihuan Miss eating, and from time to time picked up dishes and piled them in Yihuan Miss's bowl, kindly making people envy.

  I watched as everything became muddled and messy, so I had no choice but to bid farewell and leave.

  Out of the door, it was already dark and I hurried back to the inn to deliver the midnight snack to the Smoke and Rain Pavilion, fearing that I would be late, so I started running quickly. Unexpectedly, in the darkness, I only heard the sound of "hiss... hiss..."

  What's strange? Is it a bird or beast? I thought to myself as I stepped across the threshold of another courtyard, but my foot suddenly kicked against something and slipped, almost falling to the ground.

  Only I and another person heard the "aiyo" sound, it was then that I realized the one who tripped was a person.

  I hastily said: "I don't know which great master this plum dish has offended, it's really the fault of Plum's rashness. I hope the great master will be magnanimous and not take me to task."

  "Again... it's you?" But it was a child's voice, I was stunned for a moment before I could distinguish that it seemed to be Cai Tiao Fa Shi! The fierce parents are not easy to mess with.

  I hastily felt around and found the thin body of Cai Tiao Fa Shi, and helped him up. Cai Tiao Fa Shi let out a sigh, and that "hua... hua..." sound started again. It was only then that I realized he had been hiding here to strike flint.

  This time the flint lit up smoothly, and with the faint light of the flint, the colorful Taoist priest fumbled out a short wax candle to light it. The childish face looked at me with an old and mature expression, saying: "How come you always stumble around in this area?"

  I had no choice but to reply, "Plum blossoms are also doing their duty! However, Master Cai Tiao, what are you doing?" I noticed that beside Master Cai Tiao were yellow papers, paper-made objects, and golden ingots, which seemed like they were meant for the dead.

  "What's going on here...?" Cai Tiao Fa Shi was a bit flustered: "Why are you asking so many questions?"

  I paid attention to the fact that it was near the lotus pond where the little girl in green clothes appeared, and I became more and more suspicious: "Cai Tiao Fa Shi, last time you said there was no such little girl in the courtyard at all. But today, Mei Cai saw with her own eyes that the little girl in green clothes was playing alone near the lotus pond! You won't have anything to ask for, secretly and not telling others, will you?"

  Cai Tiao Fa Shi's small face twitched upon hearing this: "What? You... you saw her again today?"

  This is simply "stealing a bell and then covering one's ears".

  "Exactly," I nodded: "Calculating carefully, it was also at that time when Miss Yihuan was possessed by the evil spirit and before the heavy rain."