A dowry of one billion, and I'll marry him!

"I remembered the young mistress's instructions to do good deeds, so I lent her a thousand yuan."

“Apart from this incident, I haven’t encountered any strangers,” said Butler Zhou.

Shi Yanxia reached out and pressed his hand down, her fingertips resting on his pulse. She merely raised an eyebrow and said nothing.

"Oh right, she also mentioned some ways to make money, like buying women's hair, and asked if there were women in my family, young ones around 20 years old."

"They said a single hair could fetch tens of millions, and asked if I had any twenty-year-old girls in my family, the kind who are still innocent and haven't had any romantic relationships." Butler Zhou said this with a hint of guilt.

After glancing at Shi Yanxia discreetly, she said, "I suspect she has ulterior motives and is targeting you, young mistress."

“You just turned twenty this year, and it just so happened that she asked me about this, so I agreed. I found an eighty-year-old grandmother, asked her for a strand of hair, and sold it to that woman.”

"I told them to follow her, and they found that she left with a hair in her hand. The car was heading to a remote mountain village," said Butler Zhou.

Upon hearing the phrase "remote mountain village," everyone immediately thought of the mountain village where the blood poison had been planted, a place where extremely strange things had happened.

"Young Madam, is there a problem with this? I feel like she's targeting you. I was going to tell you, but I forgot as soon as I got back." Butler Zhou panicked.

Shi Yanxia smiled.

She withdrew her hand and said to him, "You saved your own life."

"Huh?" Butler Zhou was somewhat taken aback.

He looked puzzled, not understanding what Shi Yanxia meant by that. Did she want to kill him if he really took her hair?

"I warned you before not to go down the wrong path, or you'd only be heading towards death. That was referring to this matter. If you took my hair and sold it to someone else, and you're a member of the Zhan family, your fate is already tied to the Zhan family."

"When my hair is taken, you will die, but if I replace it with the hair of an old woman who is very old and has no relation to you, the outcome will be different."

"If there's no connection whatsoever, then the calamity is averted, it won't affect you, and the old lady will be fine too."

“They might have my birth date and time. If they match it with my hair, they might be able to seriously injure me, and you won’t be able to escape either,” Shi Yanxia said.

Hearing this, Butler Zhou almost collapsed to the ground.

His first reaction was to protect Shi Yanxia. Not only had she saved his daughter before, but she had also reminded him of some things. In addition, she was very capable and kind to Zhan Jinglin.

He couldn't possibly harm her, neither emotionally nor logically.

"This is the calamity? I didn't think too much about it at the time," said Butler Zhou.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, feeling as if he had just escaped death.

"What is the account for that remittance?" Gu Qing immediately stepped forward and asked.

Officer Huang also took this matter very seriously. He and Gu Qing took Butler Zhou aside and asked him for other details to see if they could get any clues to track down which mountain village the person had gone to.

"This is fucking weird," Leng Zhimo muttered to himself.

Shi Yanxia stood up and said softly, "The medicine should be taking effect by now. I'm going back to my room to look at the photos."

Those photos were given to her by Li Qinghong. All the images of Shen Guishi on them had been erased, so she asked Leng Zhiming to find some special herbs, make them into juice, and apply them to the photos in an attempt to restore the erased traces.

“I’ll go take a look too,” Leng Zhimo said.

He naturally didn't want to miss this part, and the others quickly got up and followed behind him.

Back in her room, Shi Yanxia took out the photo and applied the prepared medicine to it. Time passed slowly, and after a minute, she could vaguely see the erased image gradually returning to its original state.

"That's amazing!" Gu Qing ran upstairs.

Officer Huang followed behind, and even the old man came forward to join in the fun.

The image gradually came into focus, and Shi Yanxia's expression grew increasingly grim. Staring at the figure in the photo, she asked Zhan Jinglin, "Did you see anything?"

“What she’s holding,” Zhan Jinglin said.

Shi Yanxia gently rubbed the figure in the photo with her fingertips.

Shen Guishi turned around and looked at the camera with a smile, but her fingertip was pointing at something in front of her. Li Qinghong was expressionless, but both of them were looking at the same spot.

“Yes, every single one has this.” Leng Zhimo flipped through it as well.

Everyone immediately turned their attention to the photos, only to find that the same thing appeared in every single one.

“It’s from the backyard of the Shen residence,” Shi Yanxia said.

She had been back at the Shen family home for six months and was very familiar with every corner of the residence.

“I saw this thing before in the southeast corner of the Shen residence; it was a stone,” Shi Yanxia said.

The stone appears in every photo.

"Why did Li Qinghong's assistant deliberately wipe away Shen Guishi's name with the medicine? Was it because she didn't want us to know the secrets from above?" Leng Zhiming rubbed his chin, looking puzzled.

That doesn't seem to make sense either.

"Isn't this redundant? They don't want us to know, so they deliberately erased it. Isn't this a symbolic indication that there's a problem with the photo, giving us time to recover it?" Officer Huang offered his opinion.

Gu Qing nodded quickly and said, "That's right. If she hadn't erased it, we might not have noticed anything wrong when looking at the photos."

"But she erased it, which made us even more suspicious of the photo. We focused all our attention on the photo, and the instant it was restored, we were absolutely certain where the problem lay."

"Doesn't this highlight the key point for us, telling us that there might be something wrong with the stones in the Shen residence?" Gu Qing murmured softly.

Are there really people that stupid? Perhaps there are.

"Wang Ma has worked for the Gu family for many years, and this young assistant is Li Qinghong's newly hired assistant. Both of them come from that remote mountain village, and Li Qinghong is Shen Guishi's best friend."

“She was the only one who survived. She brought me the photos, but then went to the company, giving her assistant access to them,” Shi Yanxia murmured.

She narrowed her almond-shaped eyes slightly, and the next second she quickly turned her head to look at Zhan Jinglin.

“She wanted to tell me indirectly, but couldn’t say it directly. Maybe she’s been cursed or has a listening device on her?” Shi Yanxia guessed.

She had barely finished speaking when Zhan Jinglin's phone vibrated and rang.

The man looked at the incoming call notification on the screen, glanced at Shi Yanxia, ​​and said, "It's Gu An calling."

“Gu An is Li Qinghong’s husband. There must be something wrong with him calling at this time,” Shi Yanxia said.

Zhan Jinglin pressed the answer button, and Gu An's voice came from the other end of the phone, saying, "Mr. Zhan, is it convenient for us to talk?"

“Convenient,” Zhan Jinglin said.