You are asked to marry in place of the tyrant, and you allow the tyrant to send you to marry?

"Second brother, look at you! How can there be ghosts in this world?

If there really is a ghost, it must be a living person!

This Ke Minmin is pretty, haven't you always liked her?"

"What? She just turned into a ghost, and you feel guilty?"

Xu Qingsheng's gaze suddenly fell on the trembling Zhang Laoer. The contempt and disdain on his face made Zhang Laoer very embarrassed in an instant.

Zhang Laoer lowered his head and didn't dare to look up at Xu Qingsheng. He felt a little guilty.

"Boss, I haven't seen a ghost before!

And you! Du Qingwan, can you please shut up?

It's the middle of the night. How can I bury a dead body?"

Zhang Laoer knew he was in the wrong, so he quickly shifted the topic to Du Qingwan, looking very embarrassed.

Seeing this, Xu Qingsheng was a little amused and said coldly:

"Alright! Hurry up and find some boards to cover her face. I don't want to see this girl die. There's really not even a coffin board!"

What shocked everyone present was that Xu Qingsheng actually instructed his brothers to find a board for Ke Minmin to beat.

Du Qingwan couldn't believe it, her eyes widened.

She was just saying it “casually”, but she didn’t expect him to take it seriously.

It was indeed somewhat unexpected.

"Yes, Boss! There happens to be a coffin board there. I'll go get it right away!"

Soon, someone happened to see a broken board in a pit not far away, and he couldn't help but walk over to take it.

[Thank goodness, she finally got a board! Hopefully she won't suffocate to death!]

[I'm sorry, girl! I had to do this to save you. Please don't blame me, just take care of yourself!]

Du Qingwan quietly observed several people filling the hole out of the corner of her eye, and she felt very panicked and terrified.

In just a few moments, they buried the body and fled back to the village.

Du Qingwan stared at the pit where Ke Minmin was buried for a long while, and for a moment she even forgot that she was going to follow Xu Qingsheng back to the village.

Fortunately, Xu Qingsheng forcibly pulled her and took her away from the burial scene.

The night is deep and the dew is heavy.

The woods were eerily quiet. Apart from the sounds of various insects, birds and animals, there was almost only the suffocating feeling of death.

"Cough cough~"

In the darkness, the new mud that had just been filled in suddenly moved slightly.

There were also two extremely faint coughs.

"Help~"

"Save me~"

Then, there was another faint cry for help.

Suddenly, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out from the ground, and then a head slowly emerged.

I saw Ke Minmin struggling to crawl out of the mud, her face covered in dirt, looking extremely miserable.

Ke Minmin looked around tiredly and was stunned when she found that there was no one.

"It turns out that they thought I was dead, so they buried me alive..."

"But I wasn't seriously injured, why did I die?"

Ke Minmin whispered to herself, trying to recall what had happened before.

But because her head was hurting so much at the moment, she thought hard for a long time but couldn't come up with any clues.

"Before I passed out, I heard a girl's voice?... She seemed to be a doctor?"

Gently rubbing her temples, Ke Minmin suddenly thought of this.

When I think about it carefully again, I can't remember anything.

Suddenly I felt some pain in my chest and subconsciously covered it.

It would have been fine if I didn't cover it, but as soon as I covered it I felt something in my arms.

"I remember that before I was taken to the mountain, I was penniless. Even my few silver hairpins were looted by them."

Feeling something in her arms, Ke Minmin hesitated for a moment and didn't dare to take it out.

She could feel a hard, bottle-like object in her arms, and something that looked like silver bills.

"What are these? Medicine bottles? Silver bills?

What kind of medicine is this? How come I have so many banknotes? "

Unable to suppress her strong curiosity, Ke Minmin didn't even bother to wipe her hands, and impatiently took out all the items in her arms.

When she saw the medicine bottle and the banknotes, she couldn't help but feel her scalp tingling and a chill running down her spine.

"Where did these things come from? Could it be...they are burial objects for me?"

The only thing she could think of was that the bottle might contain trauma medication.

The bandits forced her to death, so they sent her the medicine bottle as atonement.

And these banknotes in her hands were most likely burial objects they gave her out of guilt.

"I guess they want to mitigate their guilt by doing this!"

Ke Minmin gave a helpless smile, shook her head and sighed.

Then, without lingering any longer, she staggered to her feet and quietly went down the mountain in the dark while no one noticed her.

……

Tusi Mansion in Southern Yunnan

"Where on earth did the chieftain go? She hasn't been back for three days. Could something have happened to her?"

Lord Qin hasn't seen Ke Minmin for the past three days. He has been guarding the Tusi Mansion for a whole day and a night, and he is really angry.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lord Feng also became anxious.

"That's right! If you don't hand over the chieftain, our entire southern Yunnan province will be in chaos!

There have been constant wars in the North recently, and the Regent brought 100,000 elite soldiers there, but they were unable to resist at all!"

Although Lord Feng does not hold a high position, he truly cares about the lives of the people in southern Yunnan and is a genuine good official.

He walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, extremely anxious.

“And the Loulan border is always prone to provocation.

The imperial court sent envoys to negotiate, but nothing came of it.”

"Yesterday the imperial court sent another letter, specifically asking us, the chieftains of southern Yunnan, to attack Loulan, and also asking us to hand over most of the gold and silver mines to the imperial court."

"If we don't send someone to Beijing to discuss this matter, I guess we won't even be able to keep our Tusi Mansion!"

Lord Feng had been silent at first, but now that the topic had been brought up, there was no need for him to keep it to himself any longer.

His eyes involuntarily fell on Lord Qin, who was also in a state of panic, and his face was full of helplessness.

The two of them sighed one after another, as if the sky was about to fall down, and the whole scene felt suffocating.

"This...we don't know either! Minmin just said she was going out to get some information, and she also said that she is a martial arts expert, so nothing will happen..."

Ke Zhenyu is Ke Minmin's younger brother. He only holds a small position in the Tusi Mansion, but he loves his sister Ke Minmin very much.

Hearing the adults discussing important matters one after another, he felt very anxious and at the same time very frightened.

His sister has always been wild and unruly, like a wild horse that cannot be tamed.

Even though she had made great military achievements and became the chieftain of the Tusi Mansion in southern Yunnan, she still did her own thing and her whereabouts were unknown.

Ke Zhenyu really couldn't do anything about her and could only let her do what she wanted.

Besides, looking at the whole southern Yunnan, there is still no one who can rival Ke Minmin, so Ke Zhenyu is not worried at all about who can do anything to her.

Ke Zhenyu still has this confidence.

But now Ke Minmin has not been seen for three days. Ke Zhenyu, who was not very worried at first, has become panic-stricken.

"Zhenyu, where are the people you sent out? Is there no news at all?"

Lord Qin was so angry that he almost lost his mind. Only now did he suddenly remember to ask the person who went out to gather information.

But Ke Zhenyu just shook his head gently, stepped back tremblingly, and did not dare to look up at Lord Qin.

Now, everyone present became even more uneasy, and everyone's face began to be shrouded in inexplicable fear.