PNB Chapter 261 Will-o'-the-wisp
Chapter 261 Will-o'-the-wisp
When Shen Jingchuan got the news, he immediately put on his clothes from Aunt Wu and went to visit her.
Aunt Wu escorted the person out the door, thought for a moment, called the maid and whispered, "Send someone to Yunshu Garden to deliver a message to the Second Miss. Although the Second Miss is well-informed, it is late at night and the news may not be delivered to her ears in the first time."
She wasn't smart enough to guess the intention behind this.
But the second young lady is a smart and resourceful person, and she doesn't want anything to happen to her.
Jing'an Hospital.
Shen Jingchuan asked in a deep voice: "What's going on? Didn't you say yesterday that mother's condition has improved?"
Qiulian was silent for a moment, but still told what happened during the day.
Shen Jingchuan slapped the table with his hand: "This is outrageous! Don't let me know where this villain came from!"
Having said that, everyone subconsciously felt that these things were a bad sign, as if something big was going to happen in the mansion.
Otherwise, the old lady was about to recover, so why did she suddenly fall ill and fall ill again?
For a moment, everyone in the mansion felt insecure and the atmosphere became heavy.
Fortunately, after the doctor prescribed medicine and gave her acupuncture, Mrs. Shen finally woke up from her nightmare.
Shen Jingchuan stood by the bed and asked anxiously, "Mom, do you feel better?"
Old Madam Shen's face was pale, and there was a layer of sweat on her head: "I'm not dead, I just dreamed of some unclean things."
The doctor said, "The old lady's old illness has not yet been cured. Her body is weak, and she was frightened, which made her illness worse."
After sending the doctor away, Old Madam Shen looked at her son who was guarding the bed and said, "You should go back first. You have to go to court tomorrow morning. Although my old bones are not strong enough, I won't die for a while. There have been many things going on in the mansion recently, and you have been busy enough."
After repeated persuasion from Old Lady Shen, Shen Jingchuan saw that she was in good condition, so he stood up and ordered before leaving: "Serve her well!"
"Yes."
After Shen Jingchuan left, Old Madam Shen leaned against the head of the bed, drank the medicine, chatted with Qiulian for a while, and then planned to go to sleep.
But lying in bed, she couldn't fall asleep. Although her head was groggy, as soon as she closed her eyes, the scene of the crow falling to its death in front of her during the day appeared in front of her again.
Even the nightmare she had just now was related to this.
Old Madam Shen was in a state of anxiety. Having lived for half her life, she naturally knew that crows symbolized bad luck. But this evening she heard Qiulian mention the dead fish and blackened bamboo in the mansion.
Could it be that a disaster is really going to happen to their Shen family?
Old Madam Shen thought about it carefully. No matter what Qin Xuerong did or what Shen Jinglin said, it didn't seem to be a good thing.
As the saying goes, if a person is frivolous, disaster will surely come upon him.
Shen Jinglin's words were repeatedly pondered in Old Madam Shen's mind.
A son of a Shangshu Mansion, who talks about tens of thousands of taels of silver, will he really not bring disaster to the Shen family? Will His Majesty really trust the Shen family?
In the dark night, Madam Shen became more and more alert the more she thought about it. Although her head was dizzy, she did not feel sleepy at all.
At this moment, she felt a strange blue light behind the screen.
Old Madam Shen frowned and propped herself up to get up.
As soon as she moved, Qiulian woke up and quickly helped her up: "Old Madam."
"Why did I feel like there was a blue light over there just now?" Old Madam Shen walked slowly towards that direction and went around the screen.
Qiulian said, "The one hanging over there is the birthday picture sent by Second Miss Shen."
Because Shen Shuyi's painting was so skillful and thoughtful, and was praised by Taifu Wang and his party, Old Madam Shen hung the painting on the wall behind the screen.
Qiulian lit a candle, and Old Madam Shen held the candlestick, and the master and servant walked towards the painting together.
"what--!!!"
The next moment, Old Madam Shen screamed out again: "Ghost! Ghost!!!"
Even though Old Madam Shen had lived for half her life, she was still frightened at this moment, and the candle in her hand fell to the ground with a bang.
The night wind made the flame shake constantly, and soon the candle on the candlestick was completely extinguished.
Qiulian's heart also tightened. She held on to Old Madam Shen tightly, and her face turned pale with fright.
What I saw was that birthday painting that had been praised by everyone. There were a few faint blue lights that were surprisingly bright in the night. A distorted human face was shown in the portrait. Next to it were large patches of bright red peonies. Against the backdrop of the faint light, they looked like a large pool of dark red blood, weird and terrifying.
Madam Shen staggered back a few steps: "What...what's going on?"
Her heart tightened and she said urgently, "Someone come! Someone come!"
When she looked up again, the tigers, wild beasts, and pairs of wild beasts' eyes in the painting had all turned dark blue. There was no trace of the auspicious look from before. Instead, they looked hideous and terrifying, as if they were about to pounce on her and rip her apart in the next second.
Madam Shen's throat tightened, and just as she finished her words, the painting suddenly caught fire, emitting ghostly flames.
The high-rising flames changed between yellow, blue and fiery red, almost rushing towards him.
Qiulian pulled Madam Shen back and forth, shouting urgently, "The fire is coming, the fire is coming!"
Coincidentally, the servant who had just arrived heard this and immediately took the bucket to fetch water.
"Don't be afraid, madam, it's okay!" Qiulian helped Madam Shen retreat to a distance, but even so, the painting continued to burn more and more fiercely.
Even from a long distance away, Old Madam Shen saw a faint blue flame floating in the air and running towards her.
"This fire... this fire is coming towards me!"
Old Madam Shen could no longer maintain her composure, and her words trembled.
Qiu Lian protected Madam Shen, but even so, she could not block the strange flames that suddenly burst out from the painting.
For a moment, everything in the world seemed to be swallowed up, but in the raging fire, there seemed to be an evil ghost, with a pair of eyes staring at Madam Shen viciously.
“Who! Who is it!!!”
Old Madam Shen spoke in horror, and several faces flashed through her mind in an instant, changing alternately.
Fortunately, at this time, several servants came back with water.
The fire was not actually that big, and a man holding a bucket of water poured it directly onto the painting that had been burned beyond recognition.
The water was so fierce that the flames became much smaller in an instant.
Old Madam Shen breathed a sigh of relief, but before she could fully relax, she saw the fire starting up again in the place where she had just been hit.
Several people were stunned, and another maid quickly added another bucket of water.
But the fire was only temporarily suppressed but hardly extinguished. Even at this moment, the long table under the painting and the box on the table were also burning.
The fire was getting bigger, and several people quickly added buckets of water.
This time, the fire was finally much smaller.
But there were still clusters of flames burning everywhere, and some were even floating in the air and moving in all directions.
"Ghost...will-o'-the-wisp!" A maidservant spoke tremblingly, her face pale.