After Minister Xie left, Gu Yi laughed coldly.
"He said that he's low in spirit, but when he said 'Thank you, Your Majesty.', he did so more vigorously than anyone else. Minister Xie has become bolder recently and is even putting on airs in front of me."
An official who knew the situation explained, "Your Majesty, the strange things that have happened to Lord Xie's family recently are too scary. He was probably given a bad scare."
Gu Yihan raised his eyebrows as if he was interested. "Tell me about it."
"Ever since Lord Xie's wife passed away, his eldest daughter often sees ghosts. Moreover, she was strangled in the middle of the night until her neck was bruised.
"That isn't all. The situation at his house has become more and more intense recently. A malicious ghost came out of nowhere and lay outside Lord Xie's window in the middle of the night, howling away. It even scared his 70-year-old mother so much that she fell sick!