"I heard people say the Second Miss falling into the water was really strange, as if she'd jumped in herself." At this point, Chuntao shivered, seemingly terrified. "A servant nearby who could swim jumped in right away to save her, but every time he was about to grab her, she dodged him. She even swam deeper toward the bottom of the pond."
She shivered again and instinctively hugged her arms. "Young master, don't you think that's strange? It was as if some water ghost were dragging the Second Miss down."
"That certainly wasn't normal." Zhao Xun agreed, giving Chuntao an encouraging look to signal that she should continue.
Chuntao swallowed before mustering the courage to speak again. "The Top Scholar's death was suspicious too. He looked like he'd burned to death, but nobody saw a fire, and nothing else around him was burned. And Concubine Liu... her belly was cut open, but she was still smiling, as if she didn't feel any pain at all."
After saying that, Chuntao gave another involuntary shudder.
She was clearly badly frightened.
A murderer was frightening, but still human. There was always a way to catch a human, and once the murderer was caught, everyone else would be safe.
But a haunting was completely different. How could ordinary people possibly fight back?
Just thinking about it made Chuntao feel as though she could die at any moment from some unknown horror.
As he ate, Zhao Xun asked Chuntao, "Master Qian and Mrs. Qian must know about all this too, right? How are they planning to handle these deaths?"
Chuntao froze, not expecting Zhao Xun to suddenly ask that.
"I... I didn't ask about that," she stammered. "As soon as I heard more people had died, I was so frightened I ran straight back. I