Strange things happen every year, but this year there seem to be more than usual.

The Prefect of the Capital never expected that the Minister of Revenue would come to him to report a tomb robbery case.

"Please find out the truth as soon as possible and help me find my deceased wife's remains."

Xiao Shengyuan said, his eyes red.

The Prefect of the Capital nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, I will immediately have someone supervise this matter."

He was furious.

These tomb raiders are incredibly audacious. Stealing burial goods is one thing, but they don't even spare people's remains.

He would dig three feet into the ground to find these villains.

After reporting the case, Xiao Shengyuan dragged his tired body back to his residence and slumped into a grand chair.

Seeing this, Yao came over and massaged his temples.

"Master, weren't you supposed to be off today? Why have you been missing since early this morning, and why do you look so tired?"

"They went to dig up graves."

Xiao Shengyuan looked gloomy.

Mrs. Yao was taken aback.

Are you joking or serious?

"You can joke about something like this?" Xiao Shengyuan sneered. "That wretched girl suspects her mother's death was suspicious and insists on exhuming the body for an autopsy."

Yao's right eyelid twitched.

The hand movements stopped.

Xiao Shengyuan looked up with dissatisfaction, about to urge her, but when he saw that her expression was not quite right, he narrowed his eyes.

"You didn't do anything underhanded, did you?"

Could it be that Lady Yun really died a violent death?

Yao looked aggrieved.

“What are you saying, sir? With my courage, I wouldn’t even kill a chicken, how could I possibly harm someone?”

You know how much I respect Sister Yun.

After she said that, Xiao Shengyuan realized that he had been being too paranoid.

Yao was indeed timid as a mouse, and she was also very concerned about Yun.

He was drunk when he met her in the back garden. He mistook her for Yun Shi and slept with her, wanting to give her a proper status.

She turned pale with fright and begged him not to tell anyone.

She didn't want to tell Yun Shi, as she didn't want Yun Shi to be sad or upset, nor did she want to lose this good friend.

Just let him pretend nothing happened.

Xiao Shengyuan agreed.

Later, when the old lady urged him to take a concubine, she found out and came to persuade him that he could come to her if he needed anything, and that he should not take a concubine and hurt Yun's feelings.

He found her demeanor—clearly admiring him yet cautious because of their sisterly bond, as if she felt ashamed to even glance at him—very appealing.

The two then became much closer.

When they were deeply in love, she gave him a lot of clothes, all made according to his original ones, saying that she was afraid Yun would find out.

After each tryst, he would ask him to spend more time with Yun Shi with a guilty look on his face.

She was said to be thinking a lot during her pregnancy, which is exactly the time when she needed care and attention.

After Yun died in childbirth, she was heartbroken and never came to see him again.

If her mother hadn't unexpectedly discovered her pregnancy and come to the Xiao family, she wouldn't have married him.

"Have the autopsy results come out yet?"

Yao broke Xiao Shengyuan's memory.

"No," Xiao Shengyuan sighed. "The remains are gone."

Madam Yao exclaimed in shock, "Gone?"

"Hmm, I don't know who stole it."

Xiao Shengyuan gritted his teeth.

Based on the marks found in the coffin, the coroners determined that Yao's body was most likely stolen shortly after her burial.

They didn't even have time to decay.

It was most likely stolen by someone related by marriage.

At that time, although he was only a vice minister, he was not a commoner. Those villains were clearly not taking him seriously.

Xiao Shengyuan's self-esteem was severely damaged.

He was determined to avenge this.

A tear fell onto his forehead.

Sobbing uncontrollably, Yao cried, "How pitiful Sister Yun was, she couldn't even preserve her remains..."

Don't overthink it.

Xiao Shengyuan couldn't stand seeing women cry, so he offered a few words of comfort and went to his study.

As soon as he left, Yao wiped away her tears.

"That little bitch actually thought of performing an autopsy."

Although the remains are missing, they might be found.

She wasn't sure if anything could be found in the remains, but it's always better to be safe than sorry.

Especially since that little bitch knows a lot of unorthodox methods.

She paced around the room for a while, then called Xu's mother in.

"Get the car ready, I'm going to the temple to pick up the old lady."

...

Xiao Qingyin told Han about the missing remains, and Han cried until her eyes were swollen.

"My Yin'er, why did you suffer so much? Even in death you cannot find peace..."

Yun Zhao and Yun Shu were so angry that their eyes turned red, and they wished they could rush to the Xiao residence and drag the culprit out to give him a good beating.

"My aunt was such a good person, how could they treat her like that!"

Yun Zhao still remembers the scene when he met the Yun family when he was a child.

She speaks softly and gently, and she doesn't get angry even when he causes trouble everywhere; she even has people cook delicious food for him.

Such a good aunt, yet she did not have a peaceful end.

He clenched his fists.

"No, I can't take it anymore."

"what you up to?"

Xiao Qingyin asked.

"Put a sack over his head and beat him up."

Who this "he" is is self-evident.

"Assaulting an official of the imperial court is a crime punishable by imprisonment."

Xiao Qingyin advised.

"Don't worry, he'll never have a moment's peace again."

If he hadn't refused to send the Yun family's remains back to their ancestral graves and had simply buried them on some random hilltop, how could their remains have been stolen?

It makes no sense that the Yun family is constantly on the move while he can rest easy.

"Sister Yin, what did you do?"

Yun Shu was curious.

"It's nothing, just to let him experience what it's like to have sleepless nights."

...

The Xiao residence.

Exhausted, Xiao Shengyuan went to bed early.

I fell asleep as soon as I closed my eyes.

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