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Ye Fu Liu’s head was buzzing, and she turned over with her eyes closed, “Sweet tofu… honey water…”
After being quiet for a while, an earth-shattering cry of a little girl suddenly came in her ear.
She really can’t sleep anymore.
Ye Fu Liu got up, covering her yawn, and sleepily walked across the courtyard.
Ye Fu Liu casually came out, wearing a thin scarlet spring shirt embroidered with pink apricot flowers and a long pomegranate skirt.
The combination of scarlet and pink was too eye-catching and could easily make people look too much. But when worn by Ye Fu Liu, the bright clothes became a complement to her aura.
The moment she walked out of the hanging flower arch, the vines and trees all over the courtyard seemed to be illuminated by her.
“What’s going on? I just came home and I can’t even live in peace.”
—A’Tao sat in the small pit in Ye Family’s courtyard and cried, while tightly clenching the peace charm on her wrist.
In the morning, when she was urged by her mother to come to Ye’s house to deliver honey, she carefully told her, “Bring the peace charm. The Ye family’s house has not been peaceful recently, and there are always some ghosts crying at night!”
“Be smart, don’t be the first one to walk and fall into the trap. Finally, after getting the reward, hurry back home. Be careful and don’t be eaten by the ghost living in the Ye family house!”
She kept her mother’s instructions in mind, and refused to neither be the first one to enter nor was she the last one, so she squeezed in among three or four children and nervously entered the door of Ye’s house!
The Ye family house was a very big house, with a spacious courtyard and many thick wall-climbing vines. It is so… so scary.
Before the young lady of the Ye family moved in, this big house had been deserted for more than ten years.
Earlier the neighbors always regarded this house as an abandoned house without an owner.
If there was no firewood in the winter, they removed a door panel. If there were mosquitoes in the summer, they would remove a window screen, ahem… could this house not look broken?
The house had only been roughly tidied up, and the yard was still covered with weeds that were half as tall as a man.
They were piled up next to the fence and in summer, the grass grew wildly, and the ground was fully covered with uncut weeds and stubble.
Although the Ye family’s mansion was broken and haunted, and the Ye family’s chief steward had an expressionless face, he was young and good-looking, and he was extremely generous in giving twice the market value of copper coins for any product!
Because of this many children came here to sell small products.
A’Tao exchanged a bowl of honey water for eight copper coins and a pocket full of sweet dates.
She was so happy that she tightly held the copper coins in her hands and counted them again and again.
She was so focused on counting the money that she didn’t hear the chief steward’s words.
After settling the transaction with the children, the chief steward said, “My Miss is still sleeping, so don’t disturb her. The courtyard has just started to be renovated. You go out the same way you came in, don’t step on the muddy ground in the middle, be careful there is a—”
Before he could finish his words, “Ouch…”
A shout came.
There was a hole in the ground and A’Tao just fell into it.
A’Tao, who was still dazed because of the fall, was still crying when she was fished out.
But when she saw Ye Fu Liu, her crying suddenly stopped, and she just opened her mouth in a daze.
Ye Fu Liu approached A’Tao, raised her hand to touch the child’s dusty face, and asked her in a warm and soft voice, “Why did you fall? Does it hurt?”
Hearing the soft voice, A’Tao nodded instinctively. It took her a few seconds before she understood the lady’s words, then she quickly shook her head in response.
The mud at the bottom of the pit was somehow hard to sit on. There are scarier things at the bottom of the pit than the hard mud that caused her a sore butt.
A’Tao looked a little frightened and pointed to the bottom of the pit, “I heard… there’s a ghost crying down there…”
Ye Fu Liu, “Hmm…”
Children were not very careful with their mouths. If they go out and say that they bump into a ghost even in broad daylight.
Rumors of hearing ghosts cry in this house would soon spread again. It was better to directly send them home.
Ye Fu Liu carefully wiped the child’s dusty little face clean, grabbed a handful of sweet dates from the chief steward’s pocket and gave it to the child.
Then she poured out a few coins from her purse and finally gave a handful of copper coins to the child.
“Su Qiu, please send this child home. I see her clothes are torn because of the fall. Talk to her mother about compensation.”
Su Qiu responded and went over to quickly hold A’Tao’s hand.