"Thank you, Your Highness." The Taoist priest smiled and thanked him, handing the wooden box to the boy before taking his leave.

Qi Fangya felt the pinch of spending three thousand taels of silver at once, but she had no choice but to do so so that Jiang Mingtao could recover.

"Husband, whose spirit frightened you?" Qi Fangya asked after the Taoist priest left.

Jiang Mingtao didn't want to tell her, fearing that Qi Fangya would misunderstand. But when he thought about how Qi Fangya had sent people to Xuantian Temple to invite someone for him and spent so much money, showing how good she was to him, he honestly confessed.

"I saw Xianya... She turned into a vengeful ghost and came to find me." Jiang Mingtao became more and more frightened as he spoke, and his face grew paler and paler.

Qi Fangya was about to comfort him when she heard Liu's exclamation.

"Xianya...she's not dead, so why would she turn into a vengeful ghost to come after you? You must be seeing things."

"Mother, what did you say? Who didn't die?" Jiang Mingtao, who had been lying on the couch feeling weak and sore, sat up abruptly upon hearing this and asked loudly.

"On our way to the capital, we ran into the Ye family. That damned girl Ye Xianya, although she's no longer a daughter of the Jiang family, she still grew up in the Jiang family. She showed no respect for me, her grandmother, and even hurt Qiu Rong's voice. Qiu Rong still can't speak. That damned girl is truly vicious..." Liu Shi rambled on and on.

Jiang Mingtao felt his head buzzing.

The Ye family is still alive!

Neither Ye Miaoyun nor Ye Xianya died.

Then the people I saw at Penglaiju a few days ago must have been them.

And last night...

He must have been seeing things, or perhaps... he was afraid, which caused him to hallucinate.

Once he was sure he hadn't encountered a ghost, Jiang Mingtao immediately relaxed.

But when Jiang Mingtao thought about how Qi Fangya had only spent three thousand taels of silver to hire someone to exorcise evil spirits from his soul, he felt a pang of heartache and subconsciously glanced at Qi Fangya.

Sure enough, Qi Fangya's face looked particularly unpleasant.

Anyone who knew they had wasted three thousand taels of silver would feel the pinch and be angry.

The crucial point is that the couple had previously spent ten thousand taels of silver to hire an assassin to go to Liuhe Town.

When those people returned, they confidently told them that they had killed all the Ye family members and burned down their house.

In retrospect, they were fooled!

The Ye family members are not only alive and well, but they have also come to the capital.

“Madam, they are still alive and have already arrived in the capital. If they take me to the yamen and accuse me of divorcing my wife and marrying another, I will not only be dismissed from my post, but also sentenced to three years of penal servitude. The most crucial thing is... I have already married, but I concealed it and even married a woman from the imperial family. This is a serious crime of deceiving the emperor, which will result in my family being raided and my head being beheaded.”

As Jiang Mingtao spoke, he disregarded everything else and immediately got up from the bed, knelt on the ground, and hugged Qi Fangya's legs: "Madam, I am not afraid of dying, but I cannot implicate you. You must save me. You cannot bear to see your three children lose their father, can you?"

Qi Fangya had not expected that the Ye family members were still alive and had already arrived in the capital.

At this moment, she also panicked a little.

When Qi Fangya learned at the beginning of the year that Jiang Mingtao had lied to her, she was furious and wished she could divorce him immediately and kick him out of the house.

But when the three children knelt before her, begging her to keep their father, Qi Fangya couldn't bear it and agreed.

Although Jiang Mingtao and his wife, who had shared hardships with him, hadn't seen each other for over a decade, and that country bumpkin was no match for her, a county princess, she had nothing to be jealous of.

But this woman's existence will not only cause Jiang Mingtao to lose everything, but will also make her, the county princess, a laughingstock.

After discussing it, the couple decided to kill each other to silence the witnesses.

Once Ye Miaoyun and Ye Xianya are dead, and once the Ye family is wiped out, who would bother to travel all the way to the capital to cause them trouble?

As a result, they spent so much money, first having the Jiang family eliminate them, then asking people from Yunxiao Palace to help handle the matter, and finally hiring assassins.

Unexpectedly, they failed three times in a row.

When they saw their son kneeling down and begging Qi Fangya to save his life, Jiang Fuyi and Liu Shi's eyes widened, and they realized the seriousness of the situation.

“My son, don’t worry. You’re an official, and they’re just ordinary people. It won’t be so easy for them to sue you. You still have your daughter-in-law, the county princess. The capital is your territory. There are plenty of ways to deal with them.” Liu Shi couldn’t care less about fighting with her daughter-in-law anymore and said in a trembling voice.

"Husband, don't rush, get up first," Qi Fangya said, taking a deep breath.

Jiang Fuyi and Liu quickly stepped forward and helped their son up.

"Father, Mother, why didn't you tell us sooner that the Ye family had arrived in the capital? If you had told me earlier, knowing that the Ye family was still alive, I would have made arrangements in advance and would never have let them arrive in the capital safely." Jiang Mingtao turned his head and glared at the two of them, speaking sternly.

"I...I didn't know you wanted to kill their whole family!" Liu was extremely anxious.

"Never mind that for now. The most important thing is to drive them out of the capital." Qi Fangya's face was full of ruthlessness. "They are just ordinary people from outside the capital. There are many ways to drive them out of the capital. We can send people to deal with them after they leave the capital."

If these people were killed in the capital, it would inevitably alarm the officials in the government.

The prefect of the capital city government always claimed to be an honest and good official who spoke up for the people. He said that he would take every murder case in the capital seriously and would expose the murderer no matter who he was, even members of the imperial family.

That old geezer said that whether or not to kill is the emperor's business; he only cares about finding the murderer.

Therefore, they cannot take action in the capital.

"I am not in a position to handle this myself, so I can only trouble you, Madam!" Jiang Mingtao said, bowing slightly.

"If you want me to resolve this matter, fine, but your parents-in-law should return to Weiyang County as soon as possible!" Qi Fangya said coldly.

Jiang Fuyi was about to say something when Liu Shi said, "Alright, as long as the princess protects my son, we will go back and never come to the capital again."

"Then please remember what you just said, Mother-in-law." Qi Fangya said before leaving.

The Ye family had only been in the capital for a few days. For a noblewoman from the imperial family, it was far too easy for her to drive these unruly people out of the capital.

Qi Fangya didn't bother to make any arrangements, because it was unnecessary.

After finding out where the Ye family lived, she quickly led a large group of guards, servants, and old women to their home before it got dark.

A group of lowly people offended her, the county magistrate, by being subservient. This one reason was enough for her to give them a good beating and drive them out of the capital.