CH 93.2

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In the live broadcast room.

[Hahahahaha, I’m going to die laughing, the big boss is using his strength to protect his wife.]

[“It’s time to ask.”]

[What kind of love script is this? I’m begging for Bai Lixin to hurry up and study.]

[I think God Xin will just lie down and win in this copy.]

[The widow in black: Is this what I wanted you to ask?]

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With countless gazes on him, Bai Lixin said, “Uh, I don’t remember anything ever since I lost my memory, including my name.”

The man beside him waved his hand, “You should introduce yourselves first. I have been away from the Li family for so long and it seems that a number of people have been added. Let’s start with you.”

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the woman in the black cheongsam.

The woman’s face turned different shades of color, and she finally spoke with a black face, “My name is Feng Gu. I am the second madam of the Li residence. I have accompanied the Lord the longest so I am now in charge of the big affairs.”

“What second madam?” the enchanting woman from earlier waved her handkerchief and rolled her eyes. “Gu Qing has been dead for many years, so there is no such thing as a higher status. The Lord has never renewed the position after the death of the madam. So we are all equal sisters and we are all concubines. There is no high or low. What do you say, Brother Yun?”

The man with the thick powder waved his hand, “Aigoo, stop, stop. You two can stop talking. The governor is still here. Lord Governor, the sister who just called me is called Hu Meier. She is the fifth sister. My name is Yun, I was originally an entertainer, but thanks to the Lord, I got this blessing and I rank sixth.”

In addition to the three, there were five people sitting behind them, and after some introductions, Bai Lixin got to know their ranking.

They were the ninth, eleventh, twelfth, sixteenth, and seventeenth concubines.

The only information he got so far:

First, Lord Li died tragically.

Second, Lord Li’s main wife died three years ago, and everyone was reluctant to mention this matter.

Third, except for these eight concubines, the remaining concubines are said to have fallen ill and died.

Out of 18 wives, 10 died so the mortality rate was high.

But thanks to their self-introduction, Bai Lixin also got to know these people one by one.

During the conversation, the sun began to fall behind the mountains, and the sky also darkened.

When they finished their introductions, Dijia continued to ask, “Where is the corpse of the deceased?”

“The Lord has been dead for seven days,” Second concubine Feng Gu said. “We reported it to the police, so they came to see the scene and took away the body. The old man died a tragic death, and we were afraid that he would not live in peace, so we buried him the day before yesterday.”

Brother Yun, “That’s right! I specially invited the Taoist monks on the mountain to overturn the death. The Lord treated us well, so we had to make arrangements for the Lord’s affairs after death.”

“Eldest young master,” Hu Meier wiped her tears, “now that the Lord has suddenly passed away, this big Li house can not be without a person in charge. You are the Lord’s only son, so you must preside over affairs. You can’t leave us.”

Bai Lixin’s long eyelashes trembled slightly.

Lord Li married eighteen wives, but a child was never born?

Was it that the body collapsed under eighteen wives?

Dijia was about to say something when an adjutant hurried over and whispered a few words to him.

After that, Dijia looked at Bai Lixin and said, “It’s getting late. I’ve just taken the office and still have some things to do, I’ll come back tomorrow when I’m free.”

The adjutant looked flustered and, with that sentence, Dijia did not wait for the crowd to respond and left in a hurry.

The hall was suddenly silent and the crowd looked at each other in confusion.

The sun was setting, and the grayish black gradually covered the poignant evening sun.

The second concubine looked at Hu Meier, who had just jumped in, with a murderous gaze. “Are you planning on sending your brother to the police department?”

“Must preside over affairs? What, an outsider you haven’t seen in five years is better than me, the person who lives with you and takes care of you every day? How can you turn your elbow to the outside? Do you want me to spit out my power?”

“You white eyed wolf, haven’t I given you money whenever you asked for it?”

Hu Meier gritted her teeth, “You gave it to me, but you have 10,000 oceans in your hand, but only give me one. There are also those gold and silver jewelry that you have hidden. We are all concubines of the Lord, why have you taken them for yourself?”

“By virtue of all the years that I’ve managed the shop! The Lord has been obsessed with Taoism all these years, so he had no time to manage the property. I’ve been working on the shop myself. The things you wear, the things you eat and drink, are all earned by my hard work!”

“So I should be in charge of the money, I should be the madam!” She said, and her knife-like gaze suddenly fell on Bai Lixin. “Heh, speaking of which, tonight is the Lord’s *first seven. Brother Xin, as the Lord’s wife to be, you must keep wake in the mourning hall tonight. Don’t disappoint the Lord’s infatuation for you.”

Second concubine Gu Feng said this through gritted teeth.

Bai Lixin thought for two seconds and shook his head, “No.”

Feng Gu laughed in anger. “What, your wings have hardened with the support of Governor Fengcheng? You have also begun to learn to talk back? If you don’t go, I will escort you to the mourning hall myself.”

The system’s voice also started an alarm in Bai Lixin’s mind.

[Ding! Warning, warning, the player appears to be OOC. The countdown will begin. If the player has not corrected the persona by the end of the countdown, you will be subject to a yellow card warning.]

[10, 9, 8…]

Bai Lixin raised his eyes, and the tear mole at the corner of his eye flashed, giving him a broken, fragile beauty under the lit kerosene lamp, “How can I show my gratitude to the Lord by keeping wake in the mourning hall. I would like to do it by his grave. Brothers and sisters, please give me a chance.”

[Ding! Personality correction complete. I wish you a happy game.]

Hu Meier giggled with her handkerchief covering her face, “Sister, quickly let him go!”

Second concubine: “……”

Was this Qing guanren scared silly?

You want to go? You can leave without us seeing you off.

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Late at night, the leaves rustled, and from time to time, a wolf howl or two could be heard in the distance.

Bai Lixin was standing before a freshly dug grave.

He had changed into white mourning clothes and was staring at the big words carved on the stone monument with no expression.

[Tomb of the Great Benefactor, Li Mingyuan]

Behind this tombstone were several neatly arranged tombstones.

Bai Lixin walked by and looked at each one: they belonged to the dead wives of Lord Li.

First madam, third concubine, fourth concubine…eighteenth concubine.

There were a total of nine tombstones, and that of the thirteenth concubine was missing.

A gust of wind suddenly blew by, and the leaves rustled vigorously.

The whistling wind and the swish of the leaves were extraordinarily strange on the silent mountain.

It was as if something would come out of the dark shadows in the next moment.

S419M: [Lord host, I am afraid.]

Escape system: [I am also afraid. Why must you come here to keep wake? This wild mountain is so scary.]

[……] Bai Lixin secretly rolled his eyes: [You two are in my head, I’m not afraid, so what are you afraid of?]

Escape system: [The Immersive visual effects are strong.]

Bai Lixin lightly looked at the graves, turned back to the grave of Lord Li and took out a shovel from the backpack.

S419M: [Lord host, what are you doing?]

Bai Lixin rolled up his sleeves: [I have taken out a shovel, so of course, it is to dig the grave. The system asked me to find the murderer, so I have to see what the victim looked like.]

After a pause, he added a sentence: [Fortunately, he was not cremated.]

Escape system: [You volunteered to come here to keep wake here so that you could dig the grave? Wouldn’t you be exposed if someone came here?]

[Come on,] Bai Lixin dropped the shovel: [There is no way anyone would want to come here.]

[From my observations, those people aren’t sad when talking about Lord Li’s death, they are even a bit gloating.]

[They hastily buried him before the first seven, because they were afraid of looking at the corpse during the wake.]

[Someone could appear at the mourning hall, but no one would dare come here.]

Although his character was a concubine 19, he found that his strength was not suppressed.

The system judges OOC when with other people. In moments like these where he is on his own, the system wouldn’t trigger an alarm because there is no sense of defiance.

Bai Lixin frowned slightly.

Why did it feel like this perverted set up was specially created for a certain person?

Because he had to keep vigil, Bai Lixin took off the cheongsam and changed into mourning clothes. Fortunately, they were convenient for doing things.

After a few minutes of digging, Bai Lixin hit something hard.

He seemed to have dug upto the coffin.

He continued to shovel for a while, and soon saw the coffin buried in the fresh dirt.

On seeing the shape of the coffin, Bai Lixin frowned slightly.

S419M: [This, this is…]

The four corners of the coffin were nailed with thick, huge nails, and underneath the nails there were traces of vivid red. Bai Lixin went closer to look at it, and the smell of blood was distinct from the smell of earth.

‘It is blood, but not human blood. It must be some kind of animal blood.’

S419M: [The purpose of nailing the four corners is to suppress evil spirits. The blood should be black dog blood or chicken blood. It assists in suppression.]

[This is usually done to the coffin to completely seal the soul in the coffin and not allow it to be reborn.]

[Didn’t the people at the Li residence say that they invited Taoists? What happened to the sealing? Were they lying? Why were they lying?]

Bai Lixin did not answer S419M’s questions but gently touched the coffin with a finger.

[What materials are the coffins usually made of?]

S419M: [In general, pine, Chinese cedar, willow wood, etc., but a great family like the Li residence would use sandalwood, or ebony wood.]

Bai Lixin put his hand on the coffin: [But they did not, this coffin is made of locust wood.]

S419M: [Locust wood? Doesn’t legend say that locust wood attracts ghosts? What exactly are the people of the Li family doing?]