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Chapter 603: Mother Really Won’t Tell Me

It was dawn, and Gu Chaoxi got up from the bed. It was time to do serious work.

After washing and having breakfast with the help of the maid, she slowly walked towards the second concubine's yard.

Entering the yard, the maid was drying flowers in the yard. The second concubine was sitting on a chair opposite the living room, flipping through a storybook.

There is nothing to do anyway. There is nothing fun to go out in this kind of weather.

When she looked up, she saw Gu Chaoxi walking in from the door. The second concubine raised her eyelids and glanced at him indifferently, then put the notebook in her hand on her knees.

"Xiangxiang, why are you here again today?"

Her tone was very light. When she saw someone approaching, she raised her hand and pointed to the chair next to her, asking Gu Chaoxi to sit down.

Gu Chaoxi didn't hesitate and sat down at the seat next to him, then looked at the second concubine.

His eyes glanced at the notebook on her lap, and then he asked the key question.

"Mother, did you see anything strange last night?"

The second concubine smiled and raised her hand to brush the hair by her ear: "What does Xiangxiang mean? What did the third concubine say about the haunted place? You, child, do you believe this now?"

Although she was smiling, the smile was not genuine and looked somewhat fake.

Gu Chaoxi didn't believe that she knew nothing, but the way she spoke made people feel strange.

"Mother, I don't believe this, but I saw this ghost last night."

The second concubine's expression froze for a moment, she frowned, and looked at Gu Chaoxi in disbelief.

The atmosphere between the two of them was a little quiet for a while.

Gu Chaoxi was not in a hurry. She just sat aside and waited. The Second Concubine didn't chase her away, so she just sat there.

The maid outside came in and poured tea for Gu Chaoxi. She took a sip and looked up at the second concubine.

"Did you really see it last night?"

Gu Zhaoxi smiled and said, "How could this be fake? Last night I saw the third concubine fainted from fright."

When the second concubine heard this, her expression changed slightly, probably because she believed it.

After all, she mentioned that the third concubine fainted from fright. How could she have known this if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes last night?

This morning, it was only when the Third Concubine's people came to report the news that the Second Concubine learned that the black shadow had appeared again.

But the third concubine herself didn't figure it out in the morning. She clearly fell down in the house last night, so how did she end up in bed later?

The maid who served also said that when she got up early to serve her, the third concubine was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.

She was originally wondering who had moved her from the floor to the bed, wondering if someone else knew that the house was haunted.

Now, the second concubine finally knows that this person is her own daughter.

"Mother really won't tell me?"

Seeing that the second concubine's expression had begun to relax, Gu Chaoxi decided to work harder.

Finally, the second concubine sighed and said, "Since you already know about this, I will tell you."

Speaking of which, the second concubine saw the black shadow just a little later than the third concubine.

On the day when the third concubine saw the black shadow for the second time, the second concubine actually saw it too.

When she returned home later that night, she inexplicably felt that something was following her, but she did not dare to look back.

But the next morning, I saw a withered flower on the table in my room.

That flower was the useless flower that she had ordered the maid to throw away the day before, but it appeared again the next morning, which made the second concubine feel very scared.

Her usual habit was to have her maid dispose of the waste flowers outside the house.

So the person who put the flowers on her desk not only had to be very familiar with her daily habits, but also had to know where the maid threw the discarded flowers.

In other words, this person is by your side.

This realization scared the Second Concubine so much that she immediately called for all the servants in the yard to gather together to find out who had done the prank.

But after asking around, there was no result, and everyone could find witnesses to prove that they really didn't have time to pick up the flowers and put them back yesterday.

She was very angry at the time and felt that they were all lying.

Who else could get her flowers except the people in the yard?

That night, the second concubine did not allow any servant to leave the yard. If anyone dared to use the key to open the door, she would regard them all as disloyal and sell them out directly.

This sentence had a great deterrent effect. That night, no one left and they just slept in the yard.

However, the next day, there was another letter on the desk in the second concubine's room.

On the letter, there was still a withered flower.

But everyone in the yard said that no one had entered her room last night, and no one had come with a letter.

This was very strange, so the second concubine opened the letter and read it.

What was actually written in the letter was that he hoped the Second Concubine could hand over the things in her hands and not wait for him to take them personally, otherwise there was no guarantee what would happen.

The second concubine was shocked and immediately dismissed everyone in the yard, staring at the letter in her hand in a daze.

There was a locked box drawn on the top of the letter paper. It was obvious that this person knew where the second concubine put her things.

As for what was in the box, the second concubine did not tell Gu Chaoxi directly, but only said that it was a life-saving thing.

Gu Chaoxi didn't ask any further questions and continued to listen to her story.

At that time, the second concubine was really panicked.

She didn't know how the shadow knew about this, but since he knew it, the things in the box were definitely not safe, so she had to move them.

So, the second concubine took some time to take out all the things that were originally in the box and moved them to another place.

One night, when she was sleeping peacefully, she felt a chill on her neck. She woke up with a start and saw a knife on her neck.

The knife was quite sharp. If she moved a little more, she might have been killed.

Fortunately, the black shadow only came to steal things. After taking the box away, he did not kill the second concubine and then left on his own.

The second concubine breathed a sigh of relief, and it took her a while to calm down.

I just prayed that the shadow wouldn't find out that the box was fake, and then I slowly fell asleep again.

After this incident, the next time I saw the black shadow was last night.

At that time, she was sitting in the living room embroidering something, and suddenly she felt the lights around her flickering.

Subconsciously, she looked outside and saw a ghostly figure standing at the gate of the yard at a glance.

I couldn't see the ghost's expression, but from the "gurgling" sound coming from him, I could tell that he was not in good condition.