Peach Blossom.

Tao Ye smelled the blood on his body, and she had already guessed - it must be dog blood.

She remembered that on the day when the Ghost King reshaped her skin, he once said to her: When a soul comes from the underworld to the human world, only the first body created is legal, and if you want to change it afterwards, it will no longer be your true self.

The bloody and ridiculous method of warding off evil spirits, the ghost king's method of reshaping her skin, is of course an evil magic in the human world!

Everything has been completely exposed! She doesn't have to worry about it anymore!

There were all kinds of discussions around her.

Xiao Rui asked in astonishment: "She...she is not Ah Jiao? Is she disguised by someone else?"

Zhou Yunniang was also dumbfounded: "I have never heard of this. Can a disguise be broken by a dog's blood?"

Wang Dun shook his head: "No! This must be a sorcery! Or it may be a lost illusion in the martial arts world!"

Wang Ao stared at Tao Ye intently, exclaiming: "She...she is so beautiful, like a goddess! Who is she?"

Si Yao told everyone in the Wang family: "She was a former maid in my house, a cook who served Chen Ji's meals!"

Si Yao turned and glared at Tao Ye, his eyes fierce: "I have never figured out why a girl named Mantangjiao who has never met Chen Ji could sabotage my wedding in the street! I never thought it was you? Pretending to be Mantangjiao, you came here to cheat for food, drink and sex, you are really shameless!"

As Si Yao said this, he wanted to raise his hand to hit Tao Ye again.

Tao Ye grabbed Si Yao's arm and sneered, "Yes! I cheated her for food, drink and sex, but at least I was entrusted by the original owner's dying will! Who could be more shameless than you? She clearly didn't want to marry you, but you insisted on marrying her, breaking up a perfect couple, crippling one and killing the other!"

"What did you say?" Wang Jing, who had been frozen like a stone for a long time, suddenly spoke. He leaned on his crutches and walked quickly to Tao Ye's side: "Who did you say died?"

Tao Ye looked at Wang Jing and had to say it out loud: "Your first wife, Mantangjiao, died a long time ago. She was assassinated by someone sent by this bastard princess!"

"You're talking nonsense! When did I ever send anyone to assassinate her?" Princess Si Yao argued hurriedly.

Wang Jing still stared at Tao Ye, his eyes gradually changed from shock to fear: "No... I don't believe it! How could my Ah Jiao die?"

"It's true... On the night when I was expelled from the princess's mansion, I saw with my own eyes that the master and servant were hunted down by a master, and no one escaped... Before she died, she kept muttering that she was afraid that Yu'er would be killed like her, and repeatedly entrusted me to protect Yu'er! And I had nowhere to stay, so... so I asked for a master who knew illusion, and then took her identity and came to your house..." Tao Ye described hesitantly and half-truthfully.

"I don't want to believe what you say! If you want to see him alive or dead, I want to see his body. I don't believe it!" Wang Jing took a few steps back and stopped staring at Tao Ye. His eyes were scattered and his expression was hesitant. He was determined to find an excuse to escape.

Tao Ye knew that Wang Jing just didn't want to believe the reality, so she had to tell him: "I buried her with my own hands. If you don't believe me, you can go and see!"

"Where?" Wang Jing raised his head again, his face looking very depressed.

Tao Ye said: "The mass grave at the foot of Ghost Mountain, come with me and I will show you!"

After hearing this, Wang Jing was about to walk out with his crutches.

Xiao Rui was very panicked and hurriedly grabbed Wang Jing and said, "Jing'er, Ghost Mountain is so far away, how can you walk there? At least get a carriage!"

Zhou Yunniang advised: "It's too slow to harness the carriage, let's ask Third Brother to bring two horses!"

"Ah? I... I can't ride a horse!" Tao Ye waved her hands hurriedly. She was a delivery girl from modern times. She usually rode a tram. How could she ride a horse? She thought riding a horse should be much more difficult than riding a tram!

"Don't waste time! I want to go now!" Wang Jing pushed Xiao Rui away and limped out.

Tao Ye hurried to chase Wang Jing.

Xiao Rui's face was filled with worry, so Wang Ao patted Xiao Rui on the shoulder and comforted him, "Don't worry, mother. I'll ride a horse to escort them there!"

After saying that, Wang Ao went to get the horses and caught up with Wang Jing and Tao Ye at the gate of Situ Mansion. Wang Jing rode one horse, and Wang Ao and Tao Ye rode another horse, and they rode away with whips.

Xiao Rui, Wang Dun, Zhou Yunniang, and Si Yao all felt very uneasy when they saw Wang Jing riding away with Tao Ye.

Si Yao, in particular, had a fire of anger burning in his heart, but he was unable to stop Wang Jing from looking for his wife.

Wang Jing rode very fast all the way, and Wang Ao tried his best to catch up. If Wang Ao had not protected Tao Ye tightly all the way, Tao Ye would have almost fallen off the horse several times.

Fortunately, the distance from Situ Mansion to Qinhuai River was only far on foot, but it wouldn't take long to get there by horse. They soon reached the river, and Tao Ye rented a boat nearby just like she did yesterday.

It was impossible for the two horses to get on the boat, so Tao Ye and Wang Jing had to stay on the shore, while Tao Ye and Wang Jing rowed towards the Ghost Mountain on the other side.

Wang Ao stood on the river bank and shouted to them, "Sister, please take care of my second brother! I will go back and harness the carriage and come back to pick you up!"

Tao Ye heard what Wang Ao said, but she no longer had the energy to shout back, because she knew that Wang Jing was anxious and wanted to row as fast as possible.

The boat had just docked and Tao Ye hadn't yet stopped the boat, but Wang Jing had already stared at the countless lonely graves in the mass graveyard at the foot of Ghost Mountain and staggered upwards.

Tao Ye hurriedly tied up the boat and went after Wang Jing.

Wang Jing walked into the mass grave with the help of a crutch and looked around at the large and small piles of loess, which looked doubly desolate in the afterglow of the setting sun.

His heart, like everything around him, was getting less and less bright.

Tao Ye led the way and found the stone she remembered to mark the location among countless small mounds: "This is it."

Wang Jing didn't say anything. He stumbled to the grave and used his crutch to dig the loess. The soil on the grave was very solid and he had a lot of effort digging.

Tao Ye was stunned: "What are you doing? The dead are the most important, digging up their graves is unlucky!"

Wang Jing ignored Tao Ye's words and just kept doing his own thing.

Tao Ye was a little afraid of seeing the dead body under the loess, and kept persuading him: "It's been so long, even if you see it, it's already unrecognizable, what's the point?"

Wang Jing just kept digging the soil, using his crutch and stones. He was sweating all over and his legs were shaking. Finally, the soil on the ground became thinner and thinner.

Seeing that the corpse was about to be exposed, Tao Ye did not have the courage to continue watching. She turned around and faced her back to Wang Jing, but she could hear that Wang Jing was no longer using any tools and only his hands were still working, probably because he did not want to damage Mantangjiao's body.

"Ah Jiao... Ah Jiao..." Wang Jing's heart-wrenching cry suddenly came from behind Tao Ye. His voice was like a confession: "How could I be so stupid? How could I not even know that you left?"

Tao Ye glanced sideways and she felt vaguely that Wang Jing was already completely in the tomb, hugging the dead body and crying in pain. The yellow soil stuck to his body fell off as he trembled.

Wang Jing cried bitterly, and kept crying, until the last ray of light from the setting sun disappeared in the sky and the earth was completely shrouded in darkness, and the desperate cry had not stopped.

Although Tao Ye had spent the night in Ghost Mountain before, it certainly not among these piles of loess. That would be too terrifying!

She really wanted to persuade Wang Jing. She felt that he couldn't just cry forever, right?

Tao Ye then plucked up her courage and slowly turned her head, but still did not dare to look directly. In the corner of her eye, she saw Wang Jing bite his finger and then point the bleeding finger at the chest of the dead body.

The corpse had almost rotted away to the point where only the skeleton was left. This action frightened Tao Ye so much that she turned her head back: "Why...why did you get blood on the skeleton?"

"I will put a cinnabar mole on her heart, so... I can still find her among the vast crowd in the next life..." Wang Jing stopped crying, and the corners of his mouth gradually raised slightly. He leaned the dead body's skull against his chest, as happy as if he was holding the living Mantangjiao.

Tao Ye was embarrassed to extinguish Wang Jing's fantasy, but she felt that such an action was meaningless.

She thought: Not to mention that people may not be able to reincarnate after death, even if they can, they will definitely not remember anything...

"Tao Ye, please do me a favor."

Tao Ye was daydreaming when she suddenly heard Wang Jing calling her name. She was surprised. Before she pretended to be Man Tang Jiao, she and him had only met once in Chen Xi's garden and she had heard her name, but he actually remembered it!

Tao Ye had no choice but to turn back again and face Wang Jing. She didn't expect that the scene that appeared before her was Wang Jing lying with the dead body in the originally narrow tomb!

Wang Jing smiled, his eyes and voice as kind as before: "Please fill the soil back like you did when you buried Gillian before!"

"Ah?" Tao Ye was shocked. She helped bury Mantang Jiao before, but that was burying a dead body. How could she bury a living person now?

Tao Ye hurriedly shook her head: "No, no! How can you think like this? If you die, what will happen to Yu'er? Do you really believe that your parents, brothers and sisters-in-law can replace the love that her biological parents give her?"

"You may think that I have no future, but I am just a very unmotivated person. I have no intention of doing anything in the world. The only thing that makes me cling to life is to be with Gillian forever. Do you know... how at ease I feel lying quietly like this with her..." Wang Jing's smile indeed showed a rare sense of comfort.

Tao Ye asked helplessly: "You are so sure! Do you want me to bear the crime of murder?"

Wang Jing didn't answer, but closed his eyes.

Tao Ye asked again: "Your third brother is still waiting for you on the other side of the river! What do you mean by lying like this?"

Wang Jing didn't move.

Tao Ye felt something was wrong, so she mustered up her courage again, approached Wang Jing and the corpse, and stretched out her hands to push Wang Jing: "Hey! Hey!"

The hand that Wang Jing was holding the dead body with fell off due to the shaking, but he still did not open his eyes or make a sound.

Tao Ye looked carefully at the feet of Wang Jing and found that his shoes had long been stained red with blood. Looking to the side, she saw countless bloody footprints on the loess!

Tao Ye realized that Wang Jing must have used too much force when digging the grave, causing his feet to bleed and he fainted from the pain.

In desperation, Tao Ye tremblingly pushed the skeleton away from Wang Jing's side, and then pulled Wang Jing out of the tomb with force. She tried to carry Wang Jing on her back, but she couldn't do it, so she could only drag him. After using all her strength, she finally dragged Wang Jing onto the boat.

When she rowed the boat back to the other side, it was completely dark. Wang Ao was still waiting, but he was not with two horses, but with one horse pulling a carriage.

"He fainted. I don't know if it was because of the pain in his feet or because he cried too much!" Tao Ye handed Wang Jing to Wang Ao, and Wang Ao carried him on the carriage.

After settling Wang Jing, Wang Ao asked Tao Ye again: "Sister, won't you get in the car?"

Tao Ye shook her head.

Wang Ao seemed very worried: "Didn't you say you have nowhere to stay? If you don't go back with us, where are you going?"

"If I go to your house now, what will that mean? We are neither master nor servant! Besides, your second brother will not be able to protect me. If I dare to go, won't the princess kill me?"

"I...I can also protect you!" Wang Ao's face turned slightly red when he said this.

Tao Ye was stunned and couldn't help criticizing: "You are just a little kid, what can you do? Take your second brother home to see a doctor!"

"Yes..." Wang Ao lowered his head and had to drive away.

Tao Ye watched the carriage go away, but she didn't know where she should go tonight. Leaving the Wang family was too sudden and she had no time to make plans for herself.

Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly remembered that the rented boat had not been returned yet. Wang Ao had paid for today's rent and deposit, but Wang Ao had obviously forgotten about it! If she returned it, she could get the deposit back, which might be enough to stay at the inn tonight.

So Tao Ye strode towards the boat again, but she was surprised that someone suddenly put a large sack around her from behind. She screamed and cried as she was picked up and carried away.