My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

Joey also felt there were enough corpses.

One, two, three, four... a total of seven corpses.

Looking further up the river, several families on both sides were crying.

Some are still desperately trying to save lives.

All the deceased were men.

Joey first looked at the male corpse in front of her. He hadn't been dead for long, and she could still see his face.

There was a faint purplish-black aura on both sides of the nose.

There was also a purplish-black aura in the middle half of the nose.

Joey muttered, "This is the sign of fright in the liver and gallbladder, which means he was frightened before he died."

but……

"This shouldn't be the work of the male vengeful ghost from yesterday's dream."

These words were spoken in unison by Hua Ran and Qiao Yi.

After they finished speaking, they both looked at each other.

Hua Ran naturally felt a connection between them.

Joey also found it fun.

Hua Ran stomped her foot, her fox tail wagging so hard that her cloak billowed.

He had to hold onto the hood so that his fox ears wouldn't be exposed.

"Hmm... Hmm! No matter what it is, my wife and I think the same way. I... I smelled something just now. The smell coming from here is different from the smell of that guy last night."

Joey stroked her chin and pondered for a while.

"Although I can't smell as many subtle scents as you can, when that vengeful ghost came out last night, golden flowers bloomed with its footsteps, and in my dream, the surrounding vegetation grew exceptionally well. And now..."

Joey kicked the dirt.

“Look, even though it’s autumn, the ground looks like it’s been burned bare, which proves that what’s here is causing plants to wither.”

Hua Ran looked around, observed the expressions of the people around her, and asked a worker who had come to help.

The laborer sighed.

"Judging from your attire, you must be here for sightseeing. Our Bianliang County is usually a place with beautiful waters and scenery, but in recent days, for some unknown reason, there have been frequent drowning incidents. The government can't find the cause, which is causing widespread panic."

Despite several inquiries, Joey couldn't find anything in common among the deceased.

The two ran to a place a little further away.

"Besides being all male and having been frightened before their deaths," Joey said, "their appearances, destinies, and ages were all different."

The flowers were puffed up with anger.

"My lady, you mentioned that strange, vengeful ghost from last night. There were many skulls in the river where he was. Could these be the people? Was he hinting at something?"

"No, I remember it vividly. There was a small bridge over that river, and many golden stem flowers hung on the bridge. It was definitely not an ordinary river."

But the appearance of the big red dot indicates something unusual. Besides the money she could get from this phenomenon, she might also find a way to get to Wuming Mountain.

"Hua Ran, let's come back tonight. When the sun sets, the yin energy increases, and many strange phenomena that don't appear during the day will appear at night."

After hearing this, Hua Ran's mind began to wander.

"How about just the two of us tonight? Let's not let Qiao Dawang and Quan Shen come along."

Hua Ran noticed that Qiao Yi wasn't responding.

She then gave a flirtatious smile and bumped Joey's shoulder with her own.

"Since we left the village, so many days have passed, and we haven't had much time alone together. Even when we sleep, it's just sleeping... The last time we shared a room was when you encountered the dead deer in Stone Bridge Village..."

Of course, Qiao Yi knew what Hua Ran was going to say.

She said casually, "Actually, it wasn't that I really needed it last time."

Hua Ran frowned and punched Qiao Yi's shoulder with her small fist.

"You don't need it? Then who was it that held me down and wouldn't let me get up?"

"You don't need it? And who is it that hears my cries and pleas but pretends not to hear them!"

"Both times you pounced on your prey like a hungry tiger; you certainly didn't hold back!"

Joey picked at her ear.

She wondered if all vixens were like that.

They can't keep their mouths shut.

Fortunately, there wasn't much of a person around.

The system coughed, "Should I shut down the computer first? Anyway, it's none of my business..."

"No, if you turn off your phone, won't I be the only one left feeling awkward?"

Hua Ran snuggled closer again.

"My lady... I am a fox spirit nailed to a coffin. I need a large amount of yang energy to rush to my limbs and bones at once to be better... Just kissing and cuddling is not enough."

Joey ignored him and simply pulled him by the hand to walk back.

Hua Ran frowned, "Wife Master~ Wife Master~"

"Don't be silly, I'm thinking about buying wood."

What do you need the wood for?

"Let's install a partition. If we don't, people will see what we're doing."

Now, Qiao Yi also has doubts about Hua Ran's identity.

But at the same time, there was an emotion welling up inside me.

Satisfy him, pamper him.

"Huh? My wife... why didn't you say so sooner that you were setting up a partition!"

"You keep talking, when are you giving me a chance to speak?"

Hua Ran rested her little head on Qiao Yi's shoulder.

He was all smiles.

He thought to himself that his wife wasn't actually that much of a blockhead.

He then slowly extended his fox tail from under his cloak into Joey's hand.

"My lady~ touch my tail~"

"Take it back quickly. If someone sees it, we'll have to move to another location. All that cleaning up of that dilapidated temple will have been for nothing."

"Hmm, there's no one around here."

After finishing their work during the day, as soon as it got dark, Qiao Yi brought Hua Ran to the bridge again.

When Joey was buying wood, she inquired about the custom in Bianliang County, which was that those who died unjustly or violently were buried on the spot.

So the seven men who drowned in the river were buried on the riverbank.

The moonlight was still bright at that moment, making the river water shimmer slightly.

Hua Ran kicked at the dirt and said, "My lady, should we dig up all those corpses?"

He was carrying a large iron shovel, his reddish-brown fox tail swaying gently behind him.

Suddenly, he cried out in alarm.

"what!"

"what happened?"

"Something is pulling my tail."

Hua Ran turned around, but saw nothing.

He hopped two steps to the side, looked at the seven small mounds around him, and felt a little creeped out.

"My lady, could it be... these corpses have turned into ghosts and are trying to capture me? But the location is wrong, I'm not standing where they were buried..."

Joey took the shovel and started digging at a small mound.

As Qiao Yi was digging, Hua Ran felt her ankle being grabbed again.

He immediately jumped up and came to Joey's side.

"My lady, I didn't bury them on the ground, yet something is still grabbing me!"

"Don't panic. No matter what it is, no one will dare to take you away while I'm here."

The system keeps displaying a message indicating that the red dot here is very large.

After Joey dug up a coffin, he smashed it with a shovel without saying a word.

Hua Ran immediately covered her eyes with her hands, but Qiao Yi said, "Don't cover them, there's nothing in the coffin."

"Huh? There's nothing there?"

"Correct!"

Joey dug six more small mounds, where people who lived were probably poor, wrapped only in straw mats, and had no coffins.

Then there was nothing in the straw mat either.

That means all seven people who died were gone!

Hua Ran asked in confusion, "This doesn't seem like it was dug up by someone later, because when we got here, there were no signs that the soil had been disturbed."

Just then, another hand, pale from being soaked in water, reached out from Hua Ran's side.