Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 499 Adding Money

Yun Yi gave Chen Guoliang a mysterious look: "That's easy to handle, but... we'll have to pay more."

Chen Guoliang's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets: "Five hundred thousand taels already, and you want more?"

“Mr. Chen, now that you’ve brought so many women here, that female ghost has absorbed a lot of yin energy, and her power has greatly increased. She’s not the same as before.” Yun Yi shrugged. “Of course, if you think it’s too expensive, I can give you a refund. You can find someone else.”

"Haha..." Que'er suddenly burst into laughter in mid-air, then her hair and nails grew wildly as she charged towards Chen Guoliang, shouting, "Chen Guoliang, give me back my life!"

Chen Guoliang suddenly felt a heat in his groin and was so frightened he wet himself: "Miss Fang, Grandma, Master Fang, help me..."

Just as Que'er's sharp fingernails were about to touch Chen Guoliang, Yunyi stepped forward and threw a talisman at him.

The sparrow touched the talisman and was immediately bounced away. Floating in the air, it shouted impatiently at Yunyi, "Don't meddle in other people's business!"

"He paid."

"He doesn't want to pay more."

"Then I'll protect his 500,000 taels. If you're still alive and dead after this is all spent, then you can come and settle the score with him, how about that?"

"let me see……"

"I'll add more money." Chen Guoliang cried. Since his legs were too weak to stand up anyway, he simply lay down on the ground and grabbed Yunyi's trouser leg. "Grandma, Master, I'll add more money."

"One hundred thousand taels."

"Give it to me, I'll give it all to you." Chen Guoliang cried, tears streaming down his face.

"Ah-Lu, collect the money."

"Okay!" Yunlu ran over.

Chen Guoliang dared not complain about being poor anymore. He asked Yunlu to pull him up, then went to the bedside, opened a hidden compartment, and took out a box: "The things inside are worth at least 100,000 taels."

Yunlu opened the box and showed it to Yunyi.

Inside were two egg-sized luminous pearls, which were emitting a soft pink glow.

"It'll do." Yunyi nodded. Such luminous pearls are indeed very rare and are sought after by many high-ranking officials and nobles. However, there are very few of these. As long as a good seller is found, a single pearl could potentially sell for 100,000 taels of silver.

Chen Guoliang probably ran out of cash, so he had to use goods to make up for it.

Yunlu closed the box and hugged it to her chest. This was worth 100,000 taels of silver; if she lost it, she wouldn't be worth that much even if she sold herself.

"Master Fang?" Chen Guoliang called out cautiously.

"With the money in place, everything is negotiable," Yunyi smiled.

"Master, he is not a good person. You can't take me in. You must rid the people of this scourge..." Que'er exclaimed and turned to run away.

“No matter how bad he is, someone has to punish him. How dare you, a ghost, meddle in the affairs of the living world?” Yunyi reached out to Que’er, a peach wood pendant in her palm. “Don’t make me use force. Come in yourself.”

Sparrow hesitated for a moment, then could only crawl into the peach wood pendant.

"Is that all?" Chen Guoliang, who had been watching the whole thing, swallowed hard.

“I’ve already dealt with the ghost that was bothering you, so our deal is done.” Yunyi put away the peach wood pendant. “Of course, if you attract other ghosts, then it’ll be a different story.”

Chen Guoliang: ...

Why do I have this uneasy feeling again?

"Master, don't scare me. I really haven't provoked anyone else."

"Master Chen, for the sake of our transaction, I have to remind you that it's best to tell the truth. If there are still any deaths, quickly find someone to perform a ritual to help them pass on to the afterlife and reduce their resentment, so that there won't be a second Que'er."

Chen Guoliang swallowed hard. He used to be a womanizer when he was young and he liked young girls, so... Thinking of this, he hurriedly knelt down: "Master Fang, please help me to send them to the afterlife."

"Then you have to tell the truth, how many did you kill, and how did you kill them?"

"I……"

"No need to talk about it now, we'll talk about it when I officially perform the ritual." Yunyi interrupted him. "Think about it carefully first. I need to prepare for your coming-of-age ceremony these few days. After I'm done with these few days, I'll come and help you with the ritual. You can't lie to me then."

Chen Guoliang's expression was unusually complicated: "Um, the ritual for the deceased..."

"You've already paid me for the ghost-catching, so I'll give you the money back for the ritual."

Chen Guoliang breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that he wasn't charged money; if he had, he would have gone bankrupt.

"Alright, you should get some rest." Yunyi stretched and glanced outside. "It's getting light, I'm leaving."

Chen Guoliang hurriedly got up and chased after them, wanting to ask when the memorial service would be held, but all he saw was Yunyi and Yunlu's figures disappearing into the night.

After leaving the Chen residence, Yunyi was in a great mood. What a fat sheep!

Yunlu handed the box to Yunyi: "Miss, Chen Guoliang is really generous. There's only one luminous pearl like this in the palace."

"It's normal." Yunyi took the box and glanced at it. She was about to say something when she heard footsteps ahead, followed by the light of lanterns and torches. It was too late to hide, so she could only go forward.

"Who goes there?" It was a patrolman from the Five Cities Garrison.

“We are from the Chengen Marquis’s residence,” Yunlu stepped forward to negotiate.

Yunyi neither spoke nor moved.

"From the Marquis of Chengen's residence?" One of the soldiers, who looked like a junior officer, stepped forward, shoved Yun Lu aside, and then circled around Yun Yi. "How could a young lady from the Marquis's residence be wandering the streets in the middle of the night?"

Yunyi didn't speak, but just looked at the other person quietly.

"I think you're impersonating the young lady of the Earl's mansion, you must be a spy. Come here, take her back, I want to interrogate her myself."

"Alright." The soldiers behind them stepped forward to pull Yunyi away.

Just as Yunlu was about to make a move, she saw Yunyi take two steps back, avoiding being touched by those people: "You're going to be in trouble, you know that?"

"Haha." The little leader laughed. "I'll tell you, I..."

Just then, the sound of horses' hooves came from afar, and soon three horses arrived.

"What happened here?" The leader reined in his horse and looked over.

"Greetings, Commander." The soldiers hurriedly saluted, and the foreman stepped forward. "We've discovered a female spy and are preparing to take her back for questioning."

"A female spy?" Lu Chengyu dismounted and walked up to Yun Yi. "You..."

“Lord Lu,” Yun Yi looked at him with a half-smile, “your soldiers are really dedicated. I’ve already introduced myself, but they still insist I’m a female spy, and that official even wants to interrogate me personally.” She deliberately emphasized the word “personally.”

The leader broke out in a cold sweat instantly. He had initially thought she was a pretty woman and he could have some fun with her, but he never expected this...