Yu Qingyuan sneered and didn't answer. He stared intently at the people in the city for a long time before finally saying, "Your Majesty, this is what they owe me, and they must repay it!"

The person who owed you is dead.

Sisi opened the Book of Demons and Ghosts, "Would you choose to let me kill you, or to serve me as your master?"

"Is Your Majesty also so incompetent?" he roared, his eyes bloodshot. "Those who owed me are dead. They killed me. They died of old age. Do you think this is appropriate? How innocent am I? Have you ever thought about me?"

What do you want?

Sisi sighed softly, "Debts from the past life are repaid in this life. When will this cycle of revenge end? Why bother?"

"Ha ha ha ha."

Yu Qingyuan's face contorted in pain as his body suddenly swelled up, growing larger and larger. The people watched in terror and scattered in all directions.

"I will not rest until I avenge this!"

Sisi calmly watched him transform into a ball of water and float into the sky. A light rain began to fall in Miaozhou, but the rain was red, like human blood.

The raindrops fell to the ground and suddenly turned into gold ingots. The ground was soon covered with gold ingots. The fleeing people stopped and looked at the gold ingots with desire in their eyes.

Sisi waved her hand, and the gold ingots on the ground instantly froze into a thick layer of ice. She could sense unfriendly gazes coming from all directions.

"This gold ingot is the manifestation of Yu Qingyuan's resentment. As long as you are not greedy, it will not be able to harm you."

"lady!"

Zhou Qiyan called to her from below the city wall. Sisi flew down and caught her, looking her up and down.

Are you injured?

"It's alright, let's go."

Zhou Qi glanced at the ice on the ground and the restless villagers, raised an eyebrow, and looked away.

Not long after the carriage traveled, wails of agony echoed from Miaocheng. The villagers had finally succumbed to the lure of money. Yu Qingyuan had died from jealousy of money, and in the end, it was he who caused the descendants of those people to die at the hands of money.

"Madam is kind-hearted, shouldn't she go and save the people?" Zhou Qiyan said half-jokingly.

"Although a person's fate is predetermined, human effort can change things. If they seek death, there is nothing I can do."

Sisi rubbed her temples. The carriage swayed gently. She yawned, and Zhou Qiyan pulled her into his arms and whispered, "Take a nap."

"Okay, call me when we get there."

They wanted to go to Lianshan, but it would take seven days to travel from Miaozhou to Lianshan without stopping.

Zhou Qiyan looked at the map. It was getting dark. He pointed to a place for Zhang Yu to see. Zhang Yu nodded and chose another road at the fork in the road ahead.

Sisi was woken up by a dog barking. When she opened her eyes, she was outside a farmer's house. Baizhi lifted the curtain and said, "Madam, it's getting dark. Let's rest at this farmer's house for the night and set off tomorrow."

The farmer's family was not wealthy. The yard was large, but the things inside were dilapidated. The owners were a blind old woman and a teenage girl with intellectual disabilities.

Zhang Yu explained her purpose, and her mother-in-law let them in. "The house is dilapidated, but it's good that my old man left us many rooms before he died. Gou'er, go and tidy up the south room. Make sure it's clean."

The little girl nodded somewhat innocently. Sisi asked Bai Zhi and Zhang Yu to help. Zhou Qiyan asked in bewilderment, "Why did you name your granddaughter like that?"

Doggy, what girl calls herself Doggy?

The old woman laughed and said, "A humble name makes a child easier to raise. Gou'er is a child I picked up. She's not smart. She couldn't speak until she was five years old. I was afraid she would die young, so I gave her a humble name."

The couple lived in poverty. The well in the yard was dry, the water tank was full of snow, there was only a small pile of firewood in the kitchen, and there was hardly anything to eat except a few cornbreads and a bowl of pickled vegetables on the table.

Sisi stood by the window outside and looked inside. There was only a table and a small table inside. The bed was covered with a neatly folded, patched quilt, but…

She looked up and saw a crack in the roof, through which raindrops were dripping onto the bed, soaking it.

Sisi raised her eyes slightly. The roof, which had been cracked, had been patched up, the bed was dry, and the cotton in the quilt had been thickened.

"Madam is truly kind-hearted."

Zhou Qiyan hugged her from behind and murmured, "But my mother-in-law is really pitiful. Fortunately, I have my wife here. She warms my bed at night, which is so comfortable."

"Never serious."

Zhou Qiyan pecked her, "Let's go see how the room is tidied up? You slept during the day, so you shouldn't sleep tonight, we..."

Sisi grabbed his ear, and Zhou Qiyan lowered his eyelids, stammering, "I was wrong, be gentle, it hurts."

The room on the south side was empty, with only a wooden bed. Gou'er was slow, so Bai Zhi didn't let her tidy up. After making the bed, Gou'er went forward to touch it blankly. Bai Zhi pushed her hand away, and she immediately took a few steps back timidly.

Why did you hit her?

Bai Zhi scratched her head awkwardly, "Madam, her hands are dirty. This is a clean blanket. If she touches it and gets it dirty, you won't be comfortable sleeping. I didn't mean to hit her."

"It's just a blanket."

The little girl was very thin and pitiful. Sisi asked Baizhi to give her a bag of pastries. She ate them very quickly, only eating one piece and then carefully wrapping them up again.

"Why aren't you eating?"

"Milk...milk to eat."

The dog thought for a moment, then opened the paper package again, carefully handed her a piece, and grinned, "Sister, have some."

Sisi smiled and said, "If you don't want to eat it, leave it for the dog. The dog can eat more; I have plenty here."

She nodded silently.

"Doggy, come quickly and boil water to cook!" Grandma called out, and Doggy clumsily ran out carrying the pastries.

Bai Zhi said, "There's nothing in her kitchen, what is she going to cook? She's not just going to eat that bowl of pickled vegetables, is she?"

"Why don't you cook some food so we can eat together?"

When they left the Zhou residence, they took a lot of dry food, such as cured meat. Zhang Yu set up a stove, and Bai Zhi worked quickly. Before long, the aroma of meat wafted out.

The mother-in-law felt embarrassed, but didn't say anything. She hadn't eaten meat for over ten years. Her family was poor, and these wealthy people probably wouldn't be used to their pickled vegetables.

"well."

Why is Grandma sighing?

She laughed, "My mother-in-law misses my husband. When he was alive, I ate meat every meal, and no one in the village dared to bully me. But since he left, I haven't eaten meat at all."

Sisi gently comforted her, "Grandma, please eat more later. There's plenty of meat in the food we brought, so please don't be shy."

The old woman smiled, reached out and patted the dog's head, her eyes vacant, lost in thought.

The dog really liked this pretty older sister. She was always smiling and had a gentle personality. She even gave her sweet pastries, which were the first time the dog had ever tasted anything so delicious.

"Sister...do you like dogs?"

Sisi thought she was asking about herself, so she nodded. The dog grinned and suddenly ran to the dog shed and brought out a small, jet-black dog.

"Sister, you take...you take the dog with you."