Divorced by her husband's family and rejected by her own! She defiantly turned her life around

Liu Siyue asked Ningxiang to take everyone to arrange accommodations first. With so many people arriving at once, she was afraid that the family had not prepared enough food. She suggested having a welcome feast for the first meal. She would ask Ningxiang when she returned to see how she would arrange it.

"Madam, everything is arranged. I'll let them rest for a while and call them when it's time to eat."

"How should we arrange the dinner tonight?"

"I was just about to tell you about this. It's their first day here, so I'm planning to cook five extra dishes, making it ten dishes and a soup. That's quite a feast, a welcome reception for them. From now on, we'll stick to five dishes and a soup."

"Okay, we can arrange for Qingwu and Qingye to help with grocery shopping."

"They say good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels fast." In less than an hour, all the women on this street knew that the Yun family was involved in prostitution. They secretly joined the scheme without their husbands' knowledge, and the maids and servants of each household arranged their shifts, deciding who would guard the daytime and who would secretly guard the nighttime.

It was getting late, so Ningxiang quickly told Qingwu and Qingye to take Xiangye to buy groceries. As soon as Qingwu opened the door, she noticed that someone was watching them. "Qingye, someone is watching us. You stay home just in case. Go check the back door, but don't disturb Madam so as not to frighten her. I'll go buy groceries."

"Okay, then be careful."

Qingwu walked for a while without finding anyone following her, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After Qingye returned, she immediately closed the door, quickly walked to the back door, and peered out from the wall. Sure enough, someone was hiding in a corner, staring intently at them. They hadn't offended anyone, so who could it be? Could it be that someone had their eye on Feixue at home?

The two horses they bought, the black one named Flying Snow and the red one named Fire Wind, they loved very much. What martial artist doesn't love horses and weapons?

When Qingwu returned from grocery shopping, she found that the person was still nearby. She pretended not to have noticed anything, went back to put down the groceries, and then went to find Qingye.

"Qingye, what's going on at the back door?"

"There were indeed people watching the back door. We don't have any enemies, but I suspect they're after Feixue."

"If they're still around tonight, we'll teach them a lesson."

"Um."

After dinner, the two left. Qingwu guarded the front door, and Qingye guarded the back door. It was past 7 PM, but the people keeping watch were still there. The two waited until midnight, but they still didn't see them make a move. At this point, the people keeping watch were changed.

Qingwu heard them talking. "If there's nothing going on, we'll go back to sleep. You guys keep a close eye on things." The man yawned, tightened his clothes, and said, "It's quite cold. Madam really has nothing better to do than worry about what others are doing."

The new spies were curious about what was in the house that the lady was interested in. They peered through the crack in the door, but although there was some moonlight, they couldn't see anything.

Qingwu decided to scare him. As soon as the man turned around, he saw a dark shadow float past him. He rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had seen wrong. His hand was still on his eyes when he felt someone pat his shoulder. He turned around but saw nothing. When he turned around again, he saw a dark shadow standing in front of him, floating around.

The man's mind went blank for a moment, then he took off running, from one end of the road to the other, shouting as he ran, "Ghost! There's a ghost!"

The man was acting like a madman. He couldn't find the door to his house anymore, and he was banging and shouting everywhere, disturbing everyone in the alley. There was also a constant barking of dogs.

Everyone rushed out to see what was happening, and they saw a figure running around in the street, shouting "Ghost! Help!"

"Who is it? What are you yelling about in the middle of the night instead of sleeping!"

He punched the man and knocked him down. Everyone gathered around to watch. When they shone a light on his face, the man who hit him was completely bewildered. Wasn't this his own servant? What was he doing outside?

"Tang Dianshi, isn't this your servant? What happened?"

Tang Fan looked completely bewildered; he wanted to know what was going on! "I'm so sorry, everyone, for disturbing your sleep. I'll definitely discipline my servants when I get back."

His wife, Madam Yan, was also in the crowd. When she saw that it was someone she had sent out, she muttered under her breath, "Useless thing."

"Tang Dianshi, I think your servants seem to be possessed by evil spirits. We need to invite a Taoist priest to exorcise them. Is there something unclean on our street? We can exorcise those too, so the neighbors can feel at ease."

As soon as they heard there was something unclean, everyone ran faster than rabbits, afraid of being targeted by something unclean. All that could be heard was the sound of the door slamming shut.

Tang Fan took the man back, and the man was still shouting "ghost! ghost!" "Go, fetch a bucket of well water."

A servant immediately fetched well water, which was icy cold. "Pour it down from the top," Tang Fan ordered.

A bucket of well water was poured over the man from head to toe, but he remained the same. Tang Fan slapped him across the face, and the man collapsed to the ground unconscious.

"Take him away."

The next day, just as Tang Fan got up to go to the yamen, a servant came to report, "Master, Xiao Liu is still not awake and is currently delirious with fever."

"Oh, please get a doctor to take a look, lest someone die."

"Yes, sir."

Yan felt a little guilty, afraid that Tang Fan would blame him.

Hearing the commotion, Liu Siyue and the others put on their clothes and came out. They were too afraid to go outside, so they hid behind the door and listened carefully. It turned out that someone had encountered a ghost.

"Go back to sleep, everyone. You must have been scared by something, maybe a wild cat or some kind of bird. There's a bird whose call is really scary, you probably won't believe me."

The people keeping watch at the back door, upon hearing that the place was haunted, dared not stay any longer and vanished without a trace.

Qingye also came to the front yard and, after hearing the reason for what happened, knew that Qingwu was definitely involved. The two returned to the room. "Qingwu, did you do it?"

"That man was sneaking around and peeking through the door. I was just trying to scare him, but I didn't expect him to be so timid and easily frightened."

"I'll talk to Madam about this tomorrow and see what her opinion is on the matter."

As dawn broke, everyone in the East Alley knew that their street was haunted, so they thought of inviting a Taoist priest to exorcise the evil spirits and put their minds at ease.

After breakfast, Qingwu and Qingye went to find Liu Siyue. "Madam, do we have something to report?"

"What is it?"

"That person was scared by me last night," Qingwu said.

Liu Siyue's curiosity was immediately piqued. "Tell me quickly, what exactly happened?"

Qingwu then recounted how they discovered the house was being watched and how frightening it was. "Madam, we thought they were here to steal horses, but it seems that's not the case."

"So what if they were scared? They brought it on themselves. Don't tell anyone else about this. That person seems to be a servant of Magistrate Tang's household. Their motives are unclear. Let's just wait and see. We're all a bit more alert at night."

The people who had been keeping watch during the day were still there. Liu Siyue and Yun Chenxin wanted to go out and take a look, but they heard people pointing and whispering behind them, "They're so good-looking, why do they have to do something like being ridden by thousands and slept with by tens of thousands? They're shameless."

One woman even said loudly, "They dare to make a living here because they think everyone here has some wealth and is a big shot in the county. They can just grab any old man and they'll be set for life."

"Everyone should keep a close eye on their men and not let those scoundrels take advantage of them."

Liu Siyue was completely bewildered. What was all this about? She turned around and saw that those people were hostile and spitting on the ground. She hadn't offended them!