Listening to her daughter's heartfelt words, the pregnant Lady Hou went on a killing spree.

"Hey! Wait for me!"

The two servants were not about to wait, and they carried the person straight to the Marquis's courtyard.

Marquis Anshun had just fallen asleep when he was awakened by the noise and sat up abruptly, slapping the bed.

"Who's making noise outside?"

"My lord, something terrible has happened! The young master and young lady's courtyard is haunted, and both of them have fainted from fright."

He nervously got out of bed and opened the door, only to see two servants carrying a pair of children. Steward Zhao, who had lost a shoe while running, followed behind in a disheveled state.

"My lord, the young master and young lady's courtyard is really haunted! We just went there and heard ghostly wailing; it was terrifying."

"What nonsense are you spouting? Where did this ghost come from?"

Marquis Anshun shouted loudly. He inexplicably thought of the deceased Lady Yu. Could it be that Lady Yu had come to seek revenge?

No...impossible.

Even if there were ghosts in this world, Yu Shi wouldn't dare to enter the Marquis's mansion to seek revenge.

He had already had a talisman drawn inside Yu's coffin, so Yu wouldn't be able to come for revenge.

"Why aren't you hurrying to fetch the royal physician?"

"Yes, my lord."

The imperial physician arrived quickly and took the pulses of the twins.

"My lord, the young lady and young master were just frightened. Prescribe a calming soup and have them drink it when they wake up tomorrow morning for three consecutive days."

Children shouldn't be frightened, lest they become mentally unstable.

"Okay, you can go now."

The two children were placed in the east wing of the house where Marquis Anshun was staying. Seeing that the two children were sleeping well, Marquis Anshun came out of the house, and Steward Zhao was still waiting outside.

"Go. Gather all the guards in the manor. I want to see who's really playing tricks."

Steward Zhao had no choice but to obey.

"Yes, my lord."

Ji Yue Ru did not touch the guards who were trusted by Marquis Anshun. She knew that if she touched these people, she would directly undermine the foundation of Marquis Anshun's mansion, and Marquis Anshun would never agree to it.

She's not entirely confident about the final outcome when the two sides clash.

Previously, they had only sold off some peripheral guards and then replaced them with their own men.

Before long, more than twenty guards were gathered together and escorted Marquis Anshun toward the courtyard of the twins.

Before I even got close, I heard several sobbing cries.

Some of the guards were very flustered; could it really be a ghost?

"All of you, get into the courtyard and find out where the crying is coming from. Once you find out, I will reward you handsomely with ten taels of silver each."

As the saying goes, "a great reward will surely bring forth brave men." Ten taels of silver could be equivalent to several months' wages for them, so some people boldly entered the courtyard.

After looking around, I came out of the yard.

"My lord, the sound seems to be coming from the back of the courtyard."

"Walk."

With Marquis Anshun in charge, no one dared to run away, and the closer they got to the bamboo forest, the clearer the crying became.

But now, looking around, they saw nothing but bamboo in the bamboo forest and couldn't see a single person, yet the sound was definitely coming from inside the bamboo forest.

The two guards mustered their courage and followed the sound of crying, eventually discovering a hole in the bamboo.

"My lord, the crying is coming from the holes drilled in the bamboo."

Everyone crowded around, and there was indeed a hole in the bamboo. The closer they got, the more they could feel the crying coming from inside the hole.

One of the guards boldly raised his hand and plugged the hole, and the crying immediately stopped.

Several cries could be heard from the surrounding area. The group searched around and found many holes in the bamboo.

"My lord, this hole looks like it was just made, probably no more than two days ago."

"Investigate! Find out exactly who did this, and cut down all these bamboo trees."

"Yes, my lord."

The crying was coming from bamboo. How could Marquis Anshun not be angry that someone had kept him up all night? Someone must have done it on purpose.

His first suspect was Ji Yueru, but whoever did it, he would make sure they got away with it.

Back in his courtyard, Marquis Anshun was destined to have a sleepless night. In the middle of the night, his twins had nightmares and started talking nonsense, which prevented him from getting any rest for the rest of the night.

When I woke up this morning with huge dark circles under my eyes, I suddenly remembered that before Ji Shi went crazy, the two twins were well taken care of every day and he never had to worry about them.

But now his mother is paralyzed, his younger sister's reputation is ruined and she's about to get married, and he still has to personally oversee and take care of the twins.

Just thinking about these things gave him a headache.

"Father, Father, sob sob sob..."

The twins started crying again, so it seemed they wouldn't be able to go to the Ministry of Justice today. They had no choice but to send someone to the Ministry of Justice to ask for leave for them again.

He thought to himself that things couldn't go on like this, or he might lose his position as Vice Minister of Justice instead of Minister of Justice.

God knows how many eyes are watching him make a mistake now that he's so young to have risen to the position of Vice Minister of Justice.

Upon seeing their father, the twins rushed over, hugged him, and cried their hearts out.

"Daddy, there's a ghost in the yard!"

"She really does have a father; my sister wasn't lying."

He raised his hand to comfort his two children on the back.

"It's alright, it's alright. Father sent someone to check last night. The sound was coming from the bamboo forest behind. Father ordered the bamboo forest to be cut down last night, so there won't be any more strange noises."

The two shook their heads vigorously, like rattles.

"No, if it's not a bamboo forest, it must be a ghost. My sister and I both saw it."

"Be good, you two. I'll take you to the hot spring resort later."

The brother and sister perked up a little when they heard they were going to a hot spring resort, but they were still more listless than usual.

"We're going to see our aunt."

"Let's go have breakfast first, and after breakfast we'll drink the calming soup and then go to the hot spring resort."

The two obediently finished their breakfast and medicine. The calming soup had a calming effect, and since they hadn't slept well the night before, the two siblings slept very soundly on the way to the hot spring resort in the carriage.

Marquis Anshun also got a moment of peace and quiet, leaning his head against the carriage wall and closing his eyes to rest.

Almost as soon as the father and his two sons left in their carriage, an old woman from the Ji family arrived at the gate of the Marquis of Anshun's residence.

The old woman stepped forward, but the gatekeeper, seeing her shifty-eyed appearance, knew she was no good person and chased her away.

"This is the residence of the Marquis of Anshun. Unauthorized personnel are not allowed to linger at the gate. If you have nothing else to do, leave now!"

The gatekeeper is now a new person hired by Ji Yueru. If it were the old gatekeeper of the Marquis's mansion, he would definitely have thrown her out without saying a word when he saw the old woman's appearance.

"Young man, please do me a favor. I am a servant of the Ji family. This is what my mistress asked me to bring to your Lady Hou."

Upon hearing that she was a servant of the Ji family, the gatekeeper did not chase her away and took the envelope handed to him by the old woman.

"Wait a moment, I'll go in and inform the madam."

But when he looked up, the old woman was nowhere to be seen; she had vanished without a trace.

The gatekeeper had no choice but to take the letter to Qinghe Courtyard.