When Old Mrs. Jiang saw Ruyue, she let out a sharp scream, and her legs trembled and her face and lips turned pale.

"You, you shouldn't have already..."

"Already what? His soul should have been burned to pieces by the soul-refining talisman, right?" Ruyue asked with her face close to Mrs. Jiang, but the other party was so frightened that she couldn't utter a word.

"Thanks to the old lady, I can't leave even if I want to." After saying this, he pinched Jiang Mu's neck with two hands with blue-black nails and tightened them.

"Ru, Ruyue, this is all my fault, please let my mother go." Jiang Tongwei half-climbed and half-fallen to stop them, but found that he couldn't get close at all.

At this time, Jiang's mother's eyes had turned white due to being pinched, and she was breathing out more than breathing in, and it was obvious that she was about to die.

At this time, Ruyue let go of her hand, and then slapped the other person on the forehead, and Old Mrs. Jiang fainted completely.

Jiang Tongwei was so scared that he quickly crawled over to check his mother's breath. He felt a hint of warmth in his nose and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ruyue, I know I was wrong. Please give my son and I a chance to live. I will spend all my money to ask the master to help you have a good rebirth." After saying this, he kowtowed to Ruyue hurriedly.

"Who needs your charity? Don't worry, I won't kill you so easily. After all, living like a dog is the greatest torture."

Ruyue turned around and bowed to Gu Lingze, saying, "Thank you for your help, Master. I have no way to repay you."

Gu Lingze nodded and said, "What are you going to do now?"

"I understand what the master means. I will not take their lives, but I will make them live a life worse than death."

After saying that, he pointed at Jiang Tongwei's forehead, and countless red stars floated out from his body.

Ruyue said sternly: "Jiang Tongwei, since you think I have hindered your future, then you should resign and take the exam again, and use your talent to earn a bright future."

"As long as you don't resign, I will follow you all the time."

Although Jiang Tongwei was extremely reluctant to hear this, he did not dare to bargain. He just wanted to keep his life in mind, so he hurriedly agreed.

Gu Lingze knew what he was thinking and sneered at him for overestimating his own abilities.

From the first glance, Jiang Tongwei's face already showed a shabby and downtrodden appearance. With the miserable life he has led, I'm sure that with his character, life is indeed worse than death.

Ruyue's soul gradually disappeared, but Jiang Tongwei knew that she had not gone far and was right beside him.

He now felt like a thorn in his side every moment and was terrified.

"Jiang Tongwei, as the head of the Zhen family, I now want my sister to divorce you!" After saying that, Mr. Zhen looked at Gu Lingze, and seeing that the other party nodded slightly, he felt more confident.

"Brother, how can you kick me when I'm down? I'm just down and out for the time being, but I'll definitely be able to make a comeback someday."

Now Jiang Tongwei’s biggest reliance is the Zhen family, and he will definitely not let go.

"Adding insult to injury? That old hag in your family has been using the issue of offspring to torment my sister for years." Mr. Zhen snorted coldly.

"Do you think I don't know? Your mother has already picked out the second daughter of the head of the Ministry of Works for you. She's just waiting for an excuse to divorce my sister so that she can marry a new bride. You two, mother and son, are really calculating." That's why the previous selection was so anxious.

"My brother, you misunderstood. My mother was confused for a moment. I didn't mean that." Jiang Tongwei said earnestly.

"At this point, I don't want to listen to your nonsense anymore. I advise you not to refuse a toast and just write the divorce letter. I won't make it difficult for you. Otherwise, you can decide for yourself."

Mr. Zhen is not a good person. Jiang Tongwei has known him for a long time, so how could he not know his methods.

There was nothing that could be done at this point. Jiang Tongwei felt like a tiger in a plain being bullied by a dog, so he could only write a divorce letter on the spot and hand it to Mr. Zhen, not daring to hope for anything less.

Mr. Zhen put away the divorce letter and asked the maid who came with Madam Jiang to carry her to the carriage first, and then carried out the little boy who was sleeping in the inner room.

After packing up, Zhen Juren and Gu Lingze prepared to turn around and leave.

"Master, please stay. I have something to ask of you." Jiang Tongwei didn't dare to hope for anything else now. He just wanted to ask Gu Lingze to wake his mother up. He knew that asking a doctor was useless.

After saying that, he quickly ran to the study and took out five thousand taels of silver notes and presented them to Gu Lingze with both hands, "I don't want to let the master's hard work go to waste, please accept it."

Gu Lingze took the banknote, walked to Old Lady Jiang, and absorbed one third of the evil spirit that Ruyue had injected into him.

"Your mother will wake up in an hour, but if I were you, I would definitely let the old lady sleep like this."

When Mr. Zhen brought people to take back his sister's dowry the next day, he understood what Gu Lingze meant.

Old Mrs. Jiang is awake, but she is sometimes stupid and sometimes crazy. She is not a normal person at all.

Jiang Tongwei was already extremely anxious and had no choice but to tie her to the bed and have someone watch over her every day.

After leaving the Tongpan Mansion, Zhen Juren took out two thousand taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it to Gu Lingze, "Master, you have worked hard today. This is a small token of my appreciation."

Gu Lingze did not take it, but took out two pieces of talisman paper and said to Zhen Juren: "I won't accept this money. If you help me do something, it will be considered as accumulating merit for yourself."

"Just tell me, I will do it." Zhen Juren was of course very happy that he could accumulate virtue for himself without spending any money.

"After Jiang Tongwei resigns, you will find the tomb of Ruyue and her son, and bury them in a beautiful place with clear water and green mountains. Bury the two talismans I gave you as well."

"Don't worry, since I said this matter will accumulate merit for you, it will not bring you any trouble." Gu Lingze looked at Mr. Zhen's expression and added.

"Yes, yes, I'll remember it, don't worry." Mr. Zhen nodded in agreement.

"I'd like to trouble you to find a tiger bone. The price is negotiable, but I need it urgently." Mr. Zhen thought about it and agreed.

The second half of Jiang Tongwei's life was just as Gu Lingze had predicted: he was poor, frustrated and depressed.

He had received a lot of tributes during his years as an official, but he did not expect to be robbed by bandits on his way back home after resigning.

Except for the three hundred taels of silver that was placed close to Jiang's mother's body, all the rest of her money was taken away. The only reason the bandits didn't search her thoroughly was because Jiang's mother had wet her pants at the time.

Jiang Tongwei was severely beaten because he hid the money and refused to hand it over. He fell ill halfway through the journey and spent two hundred taels on seeing a doctor and taking medicine.

After finally returning to the village where he had lived before, Jiang Tongwei immediately found a human trafficker and sold all the servants and maids who had followed him, and got some money.

But before the money could even warm up, it was spent again, because after Jiang Tongwei passed the imperial examination, Jiang's mother sold their ancestral home and all the land in the countryside, so now he had to buy new things.