The fat man's face turned ugly. He understood that they were being asked to steal something from a ghost, and a resentful ghost like the late Madam at that. The difficulty was unimaginable.

The worst part was that they had to pretend to be the Marquis of Zhennan. It would be one thing if they were a loving couple, but based on the clues they had gathered so far, it seemed that both General Guo and the late Madam's deaths were somehow related to the Marquis of Zhennan.

"Of course, my young lady's embroidered ball isn't so easy to get," the woman said, changing the subject. "What you need to pay attention to is that you have to steal the embroidered ball, not take it, much less snatch it. You must not be discovered by the young lady during this process. You can only approach her from behind."

"And you must remember, never expose your backs to the young lady, or the consequences will be dire."

As the woman said these words, she looked at Jiang Cheng and the others with an indescribable expression, as if in her eyes, Jiang Cheng and his group were already dead. Saying these things to dead people was completely unnecessary.

"Where is the embroidered ball located? Will your young lady... be guarding it at all times?"

Jiang Cheng took the opportunity to ask his question, but like Yao Shunyu, the woman didn't respond at all, or rather, it was as if she hadn't heard him.

Seeing this, Li Bai gently patted Jiang Cheng's leg and shook his head slightly. "Don't bother asking. She is a Shezai (disaster-absorbing) girl who was raised in the Madam's family since she was a child. She has a naturally flawed fate. I don't think she can hear you."

Sure enough, even though Li Bai didn't lower his voice too much, the woman, who was so close, still didn't react.

After a while, the woman seemed to think of something, and lifted her thick hair on her head. At that moment, Zhang Qizheng, who was closest to her, was clearly stunned. He saw that there were no ears at all where the woman's hair covered on both sides.

The woman's action wasn't to show anything. A red string could be seen around the woman's neck, and the red string jingled, with some copper coins hanging below.

She tore off the red string and carefully distributed the copper coins one by one to everyone, and the woman happened to have one left in her hand at the moment.

Looking at the copper coin in his hand, Jiang Cheng discovered that there was a very thin groove on the copper coin, almost dividing the copper coin in half. This was obviously man-made. If force was applied along the groove, the copper coin should be able to be broken.

The woman picked up the copper coin in her hand, "This copper coin can help you sense the young lady's location. As for how to use it, you will know once you try. What I want to say is that you must carefully protect this copper coin. It can be lost, but it must never be damaged. It represents your fate tonight."

Next, under the woman's arrangement, everyone pricked their fingers and dripped blood on their own copper coins. After a while, the woman used a tool similar to a small awl to carefully engrave a few times on each copper coin.

At first, everyone didn't see anything, after all, the woman's movements were very fast, and the copper coins were not large, and the engraved patterns were not obvious. But as the number of times increased, Jiang Cheng felt more and more familiar with these patterns. Finally, he realized that these strange patterns looked very much like the ghost drawings on the map.

It was the map brought by Yao Shunyu.

As Jiang Cheng looked up at Yao Shunyu, Yao Shunyu naturally noticed the mystery, and then nodded silently at Jiang Cheng, indicating that his guess was correct.

The originally complex clues began to converge at this moment. If they could survive tonight, then after getting the embroidered ball, they could completely uncover the mystery of the late Madam's identity.

After the woman finished engraving the last copper coin, she carefully put the copper coin back into her hand. This action really attracted Jiang Cheng's attention, because this last copper coin did not belong to anyone of them, but was the one left in the woman's hand.

The woman didn't need to perform the task tonight. She left a copper coin and drew ghost symbols on the copper coin. What did she want to do?

Before Jiang Cheng could think carefully, the woman seemed to have suddenly changed. After twitching a few times, her face turned gray at a speed visible to the naked eye. Then, she stood up and unceremoniously drove them away.

She drove them all the way out of the mourning hall, and then slammed the door shut with a "bang."

Through the door, the woman roared in a painful and angry voice: "Your activity area tonight is only within the Marquis's mansion. Once you leave the Marquis's mansion, you will surely die. And remember, don't think about going to the backyard of the Yin residence. There is not only the young lady there, but also something more terrifying!"

"Before dawn, you must steal that embroidered ball before dawn. I want to remind you that tomorrow will dawn especially early, so hurry up."

After these roars, there was no more sound in the mourning hall. What was even more bizarre was that the candles in the mourning hall were all extinguished, not extinguished one by one, but extinguished all at once in a very short period of time. This bizarre scene really made everyone feel a chill in their hearts.

Looking at the silent and dark mourning hall, everything just now seemed like an illusion, as if the so-called woman had never appeared at all. But Jiang Cheng reached into his pocket, and the copper coin inside was truly there, telling him that everything just now was by no means an illusion.

Lu Qin and Shao Tong spoke at the same time, but Jiang Cheng and the others quickly walked out, not giving them a chance to speak at all, and their intention to guard against them was obvious.

As the door opened, most of the people outside had already left, leaving only a young shop assistant who was either frozen or frightened standing outside.

Seeing Jiang Cheng and the others coming out, the shop assistant immediately greeted them as if he had found a life-saving straw, "Everyone... masters, you are finally out. General Yuwen asked me to tell you that you will have to work hard again tonight. Tonight, the Marquis, considering his feelings for the late Madam, will be waiting for good news from the masters outside the mansion he built for the late Madam."

"By the way, General Yuwen also told me that the experts from the Tianshi (Celestial Master) Mansion said that the masters' activity area tonight is only within the late Madam's residence. Do not go out. There may be important clues in the backyard of the residence, which can be investigated."

"Also, there is still some time before the masters can display their supernatural powers. Please go back to the late Madam's residence to rest first."

After speaking, without giving Jiang Cheng a chance to ask questions, the shop assistant turned around and was about to run, but Yao Shunyu quickly grabbed the shop assistant.

Yao Shunyu was very strong, and the shop assistant grimaced in pain. Yao Shunyu stretched out his hand and said to the shop assistant, "You have been hiding something in your left sleeve and refused to take it out. What are you hiding?"

"No... nothing..."

Seeing that the shop assistant was not honest, Yao Shunyu didn't bother to talk nonsense. He directly twisted the shop assistant's left hand and took out a piece of Leiji Mu (thunderstruck wood) token with beautiful thundercloud patterns carved on it.