Chapter 59 Su Auntie

  "What's wrong with you? Are you being pressed down by a ghost?" An Mingzhu looked at everything on the bed and asked strangely. First published

  "Are you hurt? Are you okay?"

  I shook my head, but in my mind were still the shadows of those ghostly babies, and when I looked around, they stood at the window, gazing at me with reluctance to part.

  That fear arose spontaneously, no wonder Xue Qiufeng said they were difficult to deal with, able to find people's weaknesses, knowing I liked children, using this point to torture me, taking advantage of my sympathy, willingly becoming their 'prey'.

  This feeling is so entangled, pity and fear, sympathy and slaughter!

  "Are you alright?" An Mingzhu looked at my wound with concern, her face expression solemn.

  "It's nothing!" I shook my head, bearing the pain on my body.

  "We caught someone who says she's looking for you, go take a look!" An Mingzhu stretched out her hand to support me.

  I nodded and endured the pain on my body, got out of bed and followed An Mingzhu to go outside.

  The person who found me is actually Aunt Su? I remembered, those ghost babies only followed Aunt Su, they can appear here, Aunt Su must also appear here.

  "You..." I gritted my teeth in anger, pointing at her with a trembling finger, she wanted to kill me!

  "I just want to see you!" Su Auntie relied on her brother being the total manager of the inner palace, even if she knelt on the ground, she still had an unyielding face.

  "What are you doing?" I walked in front of her, she obviously wanted to kill me and let those ghost babies take action. If it wasn't for An Mingzhu rushing into the room, I would have been eaten by those three kids tonight.

  She glanced at the bloodstain on my skirt and forced a smile.

  Nothing much, just heard from colleagues at the washbasin that you looked for me during the day, so after finishing my work I came over!

  "You're talking nonsense, sneaking around and only mentioning looking for Ling Xue after being caught. Why not report it openly and honestly? You were only willing to say you were looking for someone after being caught?" The maid attending to An Mingzhu asked loudly.

  Living up to being a princess of Nanzhao Kingdom's personal 'maid', able to directly grasp where the problem lies?

  "I'm just looking for her, whether you believe it or not is up to you!"

  "It's so late, and you're still looking for someone?" The waitress stood with her eyes fixed on her.

  She glared at the 'maid' kneeling on the ground and said in a cold voice, "The work of the washing room is not yet finished. If I don't come to find you now, there will be no time tomorrow."

  I walked steadily up to her and whispered in her ear: "I didn't go looking for you at all during the day."

  "Miss, maybe it's all a misunderstanding, let her go!" Zhang's wife quietly pleaded.

  It's hard to find evidence of this 'ghost' affair. Even if I have injuries on my body, I couldn't say it was done by Aunt Su, after all she was outside at that time.

  It seems that it's impossible to punish her today, Xuan Yuan Mu is not here and I also can't let An Ming Zhu get into trouble because of me.

  I looked at An Mingzhu: "Princess, since she's here looking for me, I think I'd like to have a private talk with her!"

  "Alright, everyone withdraw!"

  Everyone retreated, including An Mingzhu. The only ones left in the hall were me and Su Auntie, who stood up and glared at me.

  "Didn't you come by last night and have those three little devils go to the room to look for me?" I looked at her coldly.

  "Sister Su rolled her eyes and said 'I don't know what you're talking about?'"

  "Because the prince is not here, you're acting recklessly. I've discovered your secret of raising a little ghost and now you want to put me to death? I'm telling you, it's not that easy!" I said gritting my teeth.

  "Is that so? Then let's see who has the ability!" After finishing speaking, Su Aunt patted the dust off her body and walked out.

  "Your Majesty, the children you often mention are in your hands, aren't they? Don't think I don't know that you've been Xuan Yuan Zi's 'wet nurse' and naturally taken charge of his younger siblings as well. The child is already dead, yet you still won't let them rest in peace, what are your intentions?"

  "Hahaha! Since you already know, I won't hide it from you either. The children's souls are in my hands, they are my children, and I don't allow anyone to harm them!" Su Auntie glared with her beady eyes.

  "Just because I know your secret, you want to kill me? What about those who don't know your secret? Those whose faces were eaten by the ghost infant, those who were killed on the night of the full moon, what enmity do they have with you? You're too ruthless, aren't you afraid of retribution for doing such wicked things?" My eyes reddened at the thought of those children, and the palace maids who were harmed by them, my heart grew even more suffocated.

  "Retribution? Injustice? Do you know how unjust the people in this palace are? They won't even spare such a small child, and only three of them died? Mei Lingshuo, you wouldn't understand, they're just a drop in the ocean. The ones who harm others' lives for their own benefit aren't me, I'm just trying to protect them, make them strong enough to protect themselves, and then take revenge..."

  "There are many ways to avenge, who killed those three children, the queen doesn't want to say it, and you don't dare to say it either? Who is it? Even if I have no way, the crown prince will have a way!" This is an opportunity, Su aunt acts impulsively, maybe she will tell me the answer.

  "Haha!" Su Aunt slowly backed away, looking at me as if I was a joke: "Tell you what can you do? Help them take revenge? Are you the opponent of that person? If you know who this person is, you would have escaped far away long ago! The Crown Prince? He himself can't even protect himself, how can he protect others?"

  "Haha, I don't believe anyone, I will protect them well, even if they are already dead, I will protect their souls... protect them... forever protect..." Su Auntie went crazy and rushed out of the front hall, disappearing into the dark night.

  The room fell silent, I stood there, my heart growing increasingly heavy. What was the reason? Why did this place become so terrifying? Why does everyone have secrets? Why are there so many dead people? Your Majesty? Is it you? The mastermind behind everything?

  The door of the next room suddenly opened, and An Mingzhu stood there staring at me with a pale face, not daring to come over.

  She didn't go out, did she? How could she appear in the next room? I suddenly thought that she was good at martial arts and must have jumped through the window into the next room to eavesdrop. Since she heard everything, I don't need to explain anything else to her. I turned around and walked towards the bedroom.

  "Mei Lingxue?" An Mingzhu's voice was trembling "This? Is this true?"

  I slightly turned around "What's real?"

  "Ghost baby, is that 'woman' raising a ghost baby?"

  "Yes! Didn't you pass through the Ghost Bamboo Forest? How can you still be afraid of ghosts?" I sneered and continued walking towards my own room.

  "Plum Snow!" An Mingzhu rushed over and entered the inner room: "I did go to the Ghost Bamboo Forest, but after releasing the Cold Arrow, I escaped back along the original path and didn't see any ghosts or monsters!" Her face turned bright red as she said this.