As the sky gradually darkened, Changming followed Chunlu to the west wing.
When there was no one around, Chunlu softly asked Changming, “Miss, are you perhaps someone special to the young master?”
Changming looked at her curiously. “Is it because I’m too beautiful?”
“Why does everyone think that?”
Chunlu thought Changming was angry and hurriedly said, “It was my clumsy tongue. I asked something I shouldn’t have.”
Changming took Chunlu’s hand. “I was originally cultivating in seclusion on Mount Fenglan.”
“It was your family’s young master who specifically sought me out and asked me to descend the mountain to help the Yun family eliminate evil spirits.”
“That is all.”
Chunlu nodded, then hesitated a little. “May I ask what the young master promised you, Miss?”
Changming’s expression dimmed, turning somewhat gloomy.
“I don’t mean anything else. I only wish to beg you, Miss, not to make things difficult for the young master.”
Changming was a little puzzled. “Why don’t you want me to make things difficult for him?”
Chunlu raised her head and secretly glanced at Changming. “A child unloved by both father and mother—who wouldn’t find him pitiful?”
“If the Yun family truly suffers some calamity in the future, I can bear it in his place.”
“Please, no matter what, don’t let the young master encounter it.”
“He is already pitiful enough.”
Changming pondered for a moment. “Very well.”
“If there is such an opportunity.”
“I will certainly give it to you.”
Chunlu hurriedly said, “Thank you, Miss.”
After giving a bow, she quietly withdrew.
Changming thought to herself, What a strange woman.
From what Yun Yichu had said before, she was the Yun family’s steward and managed the Yun family’s account books.
But looking at her now, she seemed more like a punching bag.
She did not have the slightest air of a mistress in charge of the household.
Because this was the inner residence of the Yun family, Yun Ruosheng was unwilling to follow her in due to his status.
Otherwise, she would definitely drag him over and ask him clearly.
Late at night, Changming did not feel the slightest bit sleepy.
She took out the soft-bone paper she carried with her.
Carefully folding it back and forth, she folded two little paper figures.
“You’re called Dumb Egg, and you’re called Ergua.”
Then she made another paper ball.
The three of them played around inside the barrier just like that.
Until Changming grew tired of playing.
“Tell me, where exactly did this second uncle of the Yun family go to seek pleasure?”
Dumb Egg was the first to speak. “Master, didn’t you say he likes going to brothels?”
“Maybe he’s in someone’s gentle embrace right now?”
Changming had also had such a thought, but she still felt something was off.
This second uncle had a wife. If he did not return home for a long time, his wife would certainly make a fuss.
The household would not be peaceful.
But right now, the Yun family was so quiet.
“No, Dumb Egg, you’re thinking wrong.”
Ergua lay on the ground. “Born romantic by nature, maybe he’s drunk somewhere, composing poetry?”
Changming shook her head. “That’s not right at all.”
“Yun Ruosheng said before that Yun Yichu is the most talented child in the Yun family.”
Three heads gathered together. “Then where exactly did this person go?”
A chill seeped up from the depths of Changming’s heart. “I’m afraid something may have happened to him.”
Before, that foolish old man Yun Ruosheng had said his eldest son had killed his second son.
It couldn’t be true, could it?
She sat up all at once.
“What is it, Master?”
Changming did not speak. She took out the Soul-Summoning Umbrella and used candles to set up a formation.
With one sense, she perceived all things and communed with spirit plants.
She probed again and again, but in the end, she could not find the slightest information related to the Yun family’s second uncle.
Ordinarily speaking, after a person died, they would leave behind a soul before reincarnating.
But now, she could not sense even a trace of a soul.
It was as though this person had never existed at all.
Changming secretly cast a divination with the Great Zhou Deduction Art.
The hairs on her body stood on end.
“What is it, Master?”
Changming pursed her lips. “Something has done what I wanted to do, but did not dare to do.”
“This is becoming more and more interesting.”
The two paper figures looked at each other. “Master, did you discover something?”
Changming said nothing. With a casual wave, she sent the paper figures to the back mountain.
At the same time, she transmitted her voice to them, “Before daybreak, help the constables find the Yun family’s second uncle.”
“If you can’t find him, I’ll use the two of you as lamp wicks.”
The wind blew through grass as tall as a man.
Under the moonlight, the two little paper figures hugged each other, shivering.
“Tell me, on a dark and windy night like this, where would constables come from?”
Ergua nodded, agreeing with Dumb Egg. “Is Master teasing us on purpose?”
The moment these words were spoken, a smell of smoke drifted out.
“Dumb Egg, your butt is on fire.”
“Ergua, your butt is on fire too.”
“Ah!”
On the back mountain, the two paper figures sprinted wildly.
They wiped their bottoms the whole way until half their backsides had been worn away.
At that moment, the sound of human voices came over.
“Boss, tell me, in the middle of the night, on this barren mountain, can we really find the Yun family’s second uncle?”
“We can.”
“Even if we can’t, we have to. Otherwise, by tomorrow morning, both our heads will be moving house.”
“Ah, please, Mr. Feng, you have to have calculated it accurately.”
Just like that, the two of them walked through the barren mountain with trembling legs, shivering all over.
The two paper figures quietly turned around and hid behind a rock.
“The ones Master told us to help, are they them?”
Ergua nodded vigorously. “They should be.”
Just as the two paper figures turned around and prepared to continue observing.
Suddenly, four eyes met.
“Ah!”
“Ah!”
Their hearts racing, the paper figures hurriedly hid themselves.
One constable was so frightened that he fainted. The other knelt on the ground and kowtowed fiercely.
“Great-grandmother, bless me! Great-grandmother, bless me!”
“This junior did not mean to offend you.”
“In the future, I will definitely burn a huge sum of paper money for you.”
Changming’s low voice drifted leisurely into the paper figures’ ears. “Why aren’t you going to help?”
The two paper figures were so frightened that they shot out with a whoosh.
In a moment of desperation, Dumb Egg had a flash of wit. “I am your great-grandfather. Today I suddenly sensed that you were facing a great calamity, so I have come specially to help you.”
Ergua also chimed in, “I am your great-grandmother.”
“We are here to help you.”
“These paper figures are merely borrowed objects that make it convenient for us to walk around.”
After the constable heard this, he hurriedly kowtowed several more times.
Then he woke his companion. “My great-grandfather and great-grandmother have manifested!”
His companion looked at him, then looked twice at the paper figures.
He shouted several times, “Are you possessed?”
“Ah!”
Then he fainted again.
The paper figures grabbed the constable. “It’s getting late. Hurry up and search.”
Ergua pushed the constable forward. “Don’t mind him. Once the sun shines on him tomorrow, he’ll wake up.”
And so, two paper figures and one person searched the barren mountain.
Every path the paper figures walked and every scene they saw was transmitted through red threads into Changming’s hands.
After deducing again and again, Changming finally confirmed the location.
“Dumb Egg, drag the one who fainted to the foot of the mountain.”
“Ergua, take that one and head toward the mountaintop.”
Afterward, through a transference spell, she affixed two great-strength talismans to the backs of the paper figures.
In an instant, the two paper figures possessed boundless strength.
Time slipped by in the blink of an eye, and the sun rose bit by bit.
When the sun had fully risen, the two paper figures also gradually melted, turning into ash and dispersing.
“Master, when can we meet again?”
Changming thought for a moment. “When I’m bored, I suppose.”
At that moment, she was using her golden abacus to calculate the merit she had gained this time.
Woohoo! Two pieces of soft-bone paper in exchange for twenty years of merit—what an incredible profit. Hahahahaha.
Those two constables, however, were not so lucky.
When one woke, he was holding a human head.
The other was holding the hand of a headless corpse.
They woke in fright, then fainted again in fright.
At noon, Laifu’s voice rang throughout the residence.
“Young Master, the authorities say they’ve found Second Master!”