The princess only wants to survive, and the cold-faced king of hell begs for mercy

Yunchang followed Mengtai and walked upstream along the river.

It didn't stop until it saw a small hill.

Meng Tai pointed to the sunny side of the hill and said, "Mei Niang and the child are buried here."

Yun Shang looked at him in shock. "You brought me out here to dig a grave with you in the middle of the night?"

"Who said we should dig up the grave? I just told you that Mei Niang is buried here. If you want to pay your respects, go ahead and do so."

Meng Tai paused before continuing, "As for what you asked me to investigate, about what that lunatic said, I've inquired with the neighbors, and it's true that someone saw it. Mei Niang did bring home a baby girl, but she gave her away the next day and didn't raise her herself."

“No one knows where that baby girl came from.”

Yun Shang was helpless, "I feel like I wasted this hundred taels."

Meng Tai said confidently, "I'm just one person, and I don't have any information network, so I can only ask one by one. It's great that I can get so much."

"Most importantly, I discovered that the madman's madness seemed to be curable. He wasn't mad all the time; he was sometimes lucid."

This is good news.

Yun Shang became anxious, "Where does he live? Should we go see him now?"

Meng Tai pointed behind the hill and said, "He lives here."

"Ever since his wife and children passed away, he built a thatched house here and has been living here alone."

"When I came here last night, I saw him burning paper in front of the grave. He looked lucid at the time."

As they were talking, the two of them saw a disheveled man holding a lantern, slowly walking towards them.

The riverbank was empty and there was nowhere to hide.

The three of them looked at each other, and it was Yun Shang who spoke first, "I'm Lin Zhiwei. I heard that my biological mother was Mei Niang, so I wanted to come and pay my respects to her."

The man was stunned for a long time before he spoke in a hoarse voice, "Mrs. Mei has never given birth to a daughter. I dare not claim her as my own."

It seems that he is indeed sober.

He slowly placed the lantern on the ground, squatted down, took the paper money in his hand, and burned it one by one.

"Mei Niang, Xiaofu, are you all doing well now?"

"It's all my fault. If I had been able to earn enough money to support the family, you wouldn't have to work as a wet nurse, and there wouldn't have been so many problems later. You and Xiaofu might still be alive now."

"If you were still alive, it would be so wonderful. We would be a family of three, and maybe we would really have a daughter. Then we would be a family of four or five, happy and safe. How wonderful it would be."

The man did not shed tears, but he did not go to the sad place.

The man cried as if he was talking to Mei Niang, or as if he was talking to Yun Shang.

"But I'm such a coward. You've been dead for so many years, and not only can I not find the person who killed you, I can't even protect myself."

"In order to survive, I can only beg for food like a madman during the day, and only dare to come to see you at night when there is no one around. I am really too cowardly. I am not worthy of being a man, a husband, or a father!"

Meng Tai licked his lips and walked forward with an moved expression, "Brother, don't be like this, you are already very powerful."

"At least you've been working hard all these years. You're already better than many people."

Yun Shang also walked over, squatted down, took a piece of paper money and put it into the fire.

The flames instantly devoured the yellow paper. "I'm not Mei Niang's daughter, then who am I?"

"Who is Lin Zhiwei's biological mother?"

The flames danced, and in the flickering light and shadow, Yun Shang's increasingly determined expression was reflected. "If Mei Niang died because of this secret, then I have a responsibility to redress your family's injustice."

Yun Shang had already found out what she wanted to know, so she stood up and left with Meng Tai.

The man burned the remaining paper money in silence, then knelt down in the direction where Yun Shang left and kowtowed.

-

Yun Shang felt a sharp pain in the back of her head and slowly opened her eyes.

In the dark night, the pure gold auspicious beast incense burner glowed coldly under the moonlight.

Ruyi Boat?

On the way back to Lu Mansion with Meng Tai, Yun Shang was knocked unconscious. When she woke up, she found herself on the Ruyi Boat again.

But this time, there is no good treatment as during the day.

She seemed to be the only one on the empty and quiet boat, lying on the cold floor with ropes tied around her wrists and ankles.

Yun Shang tried hard to sit up and accidentally knocked over the Huanghuali coffee table behind her.

A loud bang broke the silence on the boat, and then there were the sounds of more than a dozen footsteps, some light, some heavy, some fast, some slow, coming towards her direction.

The people who came were all dressed in black and wore masks, unwilling to show their true faces.

There is only one exception.

She was a very beautiful woman with a charming figure and gorgeous clothes. She sat down casually as if she was at home, but did not speak to Yun Shang.

Instead, he said to the men in black in a harsh tone, "I told you last time that my Ruyi Boat is not your meeting place. Please don't cause trouble for me in the future."

"What's going on today? You're hiding the captured man on my boat. If we're discovered, I'll kill you."

A leading man in black stepped forward and said, "Yu Ruyi, we are all time travelers. If you help us, you will also help yourself."

"Zhao Qiyan has been arresting time travelers these days, and many of our people have been killed or injured. Do you think that just because your identity has been cleared and registered, you can get away with it?"

"We must resist and cannot let Zhao Qiyan continue the massacre."

Yu Ruyi asked in return, "You guys fight your battles, I live mine, and we don't interfere with each other. If you lose, it has nothing to do with me. If you win, it has nothing to do with me either. I don't want you to share your merits or confer titles on me. Why do you have to drag me into this?"

She pointed a finger at Yun Shang, who was sitting on the ground, and said, "Also, you are rebelling against the King of Qi, why did you capture a woman?"

The man in black snorted coldly, "She is not an ordinary woman. She is Zhao Qiyan's woman, the Princess of Qi."

Yu Ruyi looked over with wide eyes, "Are you the Princess of Qi?"

Yun Shang laughed dryly twice, "I am not talented, that's right."

The man in black continued, "Zhao Qiyan captured our men, so we captured his women. It's fair enough. I just don't know if the life of Princess Qi is worth it, and how many of our lives she can buy in return."

Yu Ruyi looked at the man in black with disgust, "I hate using women to threaten people the most. She is just an ordinary aboriginal. You want to fight Zhao Qiyan, why bother a weak woman?"

"Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of his country, isn't that what you said? In that case, the rise and fall of Yu State is naturally related to a weak woman like her." The man in black chuckled and retorted. Obviously, he did not have any basic morals of respecting women.