That was his only daughter, the lifeblood of him and his wife, and this bastard killed her.

The daughter's head and face were smashed by this bastard, leaving them bloodied and mangled. Xu the tailor only wanted to tear Ye Qingze to pieces.

"Xu Tailor, stop!" Officer He shouted and rushed forward to stop him.

That was his personal knife. If Xu the tailor really used that knife to kill someone, then he would also be held responsible.

"Xu Tailor, a life for a life! If your daughter was really killed by Ye Qingze, the magistrate will make him pay with his life. If you kill Ye Qingze, you will also be doomed. Don't act impulsively!" Head Constable He shouted as he stepped forward to stop him.

He was skilled in martial arts, while Xu the tailor was just an ordinary person with little strength. Before long, he managed to snatch the knife back.

"Don't be impulsive. We will arrest Ye Qingze and interrogate him thoroughly. If he really killed your daughter, he will pay with his life," said Constable He as he stopped the tailor.

"Officer He, my wife and I only had one daughter, and she was murdered so tragically. You must do justice for us. If anyone protects Ye Qingze, my wife and I will go to the county government office and kill ourselves by crashing into the stone lions." Xu the tailor shouted.

He didn't want to threaten the constables, but he was worried that the people in the government office would protect the Ye family.

It should be noted that the magistrate's son had also studied under Master Ye for five years, and that young master held Master Ye in high esteem.

"Don't worry, the magistrate will definitely handle the case impartially," Constable He quickly reassured them.

Once the couple had calmed down, Constable He ordered his men to carry the woman's body back to the yamen, while he also ordered Ye Qingze to be locked up and taken away.

"Officer He, this must be a misunderstanding. My son Qingze would never kill anyone. He was studying at school all day yesterday. He would never kill anyone..." Ye Xianwen was very anxious when he saw the people in the yamen locking up his son.

However, Zhou knew that her son had gone out in the evening. Although he returned shortly afterward, he was still a suspect. Thinking of this, she was extremely anxious.

"Qingze, what happened? Don't scare your mother." Zhou Shi grabbed her son's arm and wouldn't let go.

Ye Qingze was initially terrified when he saw the female corpse, but he calmed down after being chained up by the yamen runners.

"Father, Mother, don't worry. I didn't kill her. Xu Qianniang took the bronze amulet herself. Her death has nothing to do with me. I will explain to the magistrate and I will be back soon. Don't worry." Ye Qingze quickly comforted his parents.

"Third brother, take good care of Father and Mother. I'll be back soon." Ye Qingze instructed his younger brother Ye Qingyan before following the constables.

"What should we do!" Zhou was extremely anxious.

“My elder brother and I will go to the yamen to see what’s going on. Sister-in-law, you and the children go back first. Don’t tell Father and Mother about this. They are old and can’t bear such a blow,” Ye Xianzhang said hurriedly.

No one expected this to happen, but he believed that his nephew Ye Qingze would not kill anyone.

This child is very much like his grandfather; their temperaments are almost identical—upright, principled, and unlikely to kill.

Jiang Xianya wasn't too worried.

She didn't see any bloodlust or karmic connection on Ye Qingze, which meant he wasn't the one who killed the person.

However, it cannot be ruled out that someone might want to target the Ye family.

After all... she had a father who was an official in the imperial court, and that man was a heartless scoundrel.

The one who most wanted the mother and daughter to die, and who most wanted the entire Ye family to disappear, was definitely Jiang Mingtao.

Therefore, there are some things we must be wary of.

"Xianya, did you...did you see something?" Ye Miaoyun pulled her daughter aside and asked in a low voice.

There were too many people earlier, so she didn't feel comfortable asking.

After asking her questions, Ye Miaoyun looked around, but saw nothing.

"Would you like to see, Mother?" Jiang Xianya asked with a smile.

Ye Miaoyun was still very curious and quickly nodded.

Jiang Xianya reached out and drew a special rune, then gently touched it to the center of Ye Miaoyun's forehead.

Ye Miaoyun couldn't help but widen her eyes upon seeing it.

She wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but when her daughter reached out to draw the talisman, she thought she saw specks of light, but upon closer inspection, there was nothing there.

Others need cinnabar and yellow paper to draw talismans, but her daughter can draw talismans out of thin air by simply stretching out her finger.

So... daughters are still the most amazing.

"Mother, take a look at that big locust tree by the river. That's where we pulled the woman's body out of the water," Jiang Xianya whispered in her ear.

Upon hearing this, Ye Miaoyi quickly looked over and indeed saw a slightly transparent figure hiding there.

She was a beautiful young woman wearing a pale yellow ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), her hair styled in a bun that young girls love, with a pale yellow gauze ribbon tied behind the bun.

It looks very beautiful.

“This…” Ye Miaoyun couldn’t help but gently tug at Jiang Xianya’s sleeve: “Is it her? The clothes are the same.”

She thought that ghosts were all hideous and terrifying.

Unexpectedly, this female ghost looked almost like a human, except that she appeared somewhat transparent.

“When ordinary people die, they become souls, and there is not much difference between them and when they first died. Even if it is a vengeful ghost, as long as it has not killed anyone, it will not become a hideous evil ghost. It will only become more and more terrifying and powerful if it kills someone and absorbs their life essence,” Jiang Xianya said softly.

"I see." Ye Miaoyun immediately understood.

"She wasn't killed by your older cousin, was she?" Ye Miaoyun asked in a low voice.

"No." Jiang Xianya shook her head: "Mother, don't worry."

Ye Miaoyun breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. She knew it; her daughter's composure showed that Xu Qianniang's death had nothing to do with Qingze.

"So what do we do now? Should we call that female ghost over and ask her, or go back?" Ye Miaoyun asked.

"Let's go back first and wait for news. She's afraid of me and won't dare to come over." Jiang Xianya said with a smile, "Mother, do you have any amulets from the Ye family? Could you take a look at them for me?"

"Yes." Ye Miaoyun nodded and quickly took out the amulet she always carried and gave it to Jiang Xianya.

"You've never taken this amulet off your body?" Jiang Xianya asked.

“Your grandmother, that wicked old woman, thought this thing was a treasure. She took it from me a few years ago and gave it to your cousin Jiang Changsong. Your uncle only got it back when he came to pick me up the other day. He returned it to me three days ago,” Ye Miaoyun said quickly.

“That makes sense.” Jiang Xianya said in a low voice, “If you had worn this amulet all along, you wouldn’t have been so confused and delirious a few days ago.”