Wang Lingyi didn't expect Jiang Heng to find out about Huang Zhiyi so quickly.

The person was already dead. The young Marquis of Ningyuan sent a first-class secret guard. In the eyes of the secret guard, Huang Mengling's parents' family was as loose as a sieve. Her father had taken in several concubines and lived a life of debauchery instead of doing business. Her mother, seeing no hope of winning favor, actually hooked up with the housekeeper.

Ever since Huang Zhiyi's mother was forced to death, her grandparents passed away, Huang Mengling's mother was made the legal wife, and then Huang Zhiyi was murdered, this family has been rotten to the core.

The secret guard's method was very simple. He spent a little money and made the servants of the Huang family start talking about someone outside investigating Huang Zhiyi's death. He added some details about Huang Zhiyi learned from the old village head, and the matter was spread like wildfire in the Huang house with details and evidence.

Then the secret guards eavesdropped on the main room's beams. Huang Mengling's parents were like frightened birds after hearing these discussions.

His father blamed his mother: "You were too harsh, the punishment was too cruel. Torturing her every other day wasn't enough, you broke her bones and buried her alive. You are such a vicious woman. If you hadn't killed her, how could we have this disaster?"

Huang Mengling's mother said, "Now you're calling me a vicious woman. If I don't beat her to death every other day, will she ever write to her grandmother? When has she ever written a letter without receiving a large sum of money? When has she ever not been happy? You praised me for my resourcefulness then, but now you're calling me a vicious woman."

"Then you can't bury people alive."

"I hadn't planned on this, but I got angry after the fight. She deserved to die at our hands, just like her mother. Besides, her grandmother is dead. She left her the manor of Fuzi, and she had her sign the business contract and put her fingerprints on it. So why keep her around?"

"Meng Ling knew all this? What do you mean she deserved to die at the hands of you and your daughter?" Huang's father was a little unsure. He half wanted to kill Huang Mengling's mother. Now he disliked her and she knew too much. But if she had done this in collaboration with Huang Mengling, then killing her and Huang Mengling would mean he had to hold off for now.

"Of course she knew. She's the one with the most devious ideas. Most of those torture methods were hers. Our daughter looks cute and adorable, but those methods...tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. Huang Zhiyi would wet her pants and shake like a sieve whenever she saw our daughter. Do you believe it?"

Huang's father was stunned for a moment, which might be one of the few moments when his father's instincts struggled, but he quickly said: "If you have such a resourceful way, you can put an end to these discussions. Don't really bring disaster upon yourself!"

Jiang Heng told his wife what the secret guards had found. Wang Lingyi was speechless for a long moment before she asked Jiang Heng, "Can you confirm the evidence, find the remains and witnesses? What about the two maids? Qinghe and Daoxiang, if they're still alive, they should know something."

Jiang Heng heard her voice was very soft and her expression was a little gloomy, so he hugged her in his arms: "What's wrong?"

Wang Lingyi hugged him and said after a moment, "I once wanted to help someone like her. Not because I paid extra for the farm, but because I truly wanted to help her out of her predicament. If she hadn't tricked me, I would have become suspicious and agreed to go find Huang Zhiyi. Step by step, I realized... I really was... Huang Zhiyi. She was so pitiful and hopeless. I'm also very sad that I didn't know her."

Jiang Heng hugged her and said, "I'm already looking for her. Don't worry, we'll eventually redress her injustice."

Qinghe has lived in this remote mountain village for many years. She has a long scar on her face, which was caused by a branding iron. After escaping, she hardly leaves the house except for washing clothes. She has suffered all kinds of hardships to survive. She takes on laundry and mending jobs, washing, drying and mending day and night. As a maid who came with the dowry, she has a unique embroidery skill, but she dare not show it, and just makes the stitches finer when mending.

She had a scar on her face and was often mocked. She often didn't get paid for her laundry. She was a lonely, ugly old woman. That's what the children called her, "Old ugly woman." She had once been very beautiful... The young lady told her to live, but it was so difficult. Many times she wanted to go find the young lady, the little young lady, Daoxiang. Why live?

The young lady wanted her to live, and at that time she was still thinking about the young lady, and she and Daoxiang were by the young lady's side.

Later, the young lady’s grandparents passed away, and the young lady…that day…Qinghe closed her eyes, unable to think about it anymore.

Qing He never imagined that one day, there would come a day when the reason to live would suddenly appear before her. She thought that such a day would never come.

She was washing clothes by the river, and the dirty clothes piled up like a small mountain. She heard someone shouting, "Qinghe!"

No one has called her by that name for years. Now she's the ugly old woman, the laundry lady, the one from out of town with the scar on her face. Hello...

She looked up from behind the pile of clothes, somewhat bewildered. It was the old village head, the one assigned to the young lady by the old lady. Qinghe's tears streamed down her face, and she opened her mouth but no sound came out.

The old village head saw Qinghe, who looked haggard and thin, with scars on his face. His eyes turned red, "These past few years have not been easy."

Qing He finally burst into tears...

Qinghe grabbed the old village head's hand and said, "The young lady didn't die of illness, nor did she commit suicide. She was strangled to death. They broke the young lady's bones and buried her alive, along with Daoxiang." She burst into tears.

Behind the old manor was the carriage from the Ningyuan Marquisate...

At the Ningyuan Marquis's residence, Qinghe spoke haltingly while sobbing, "The young lady was beaten by her brother-in-law until she vomited blood. She had sought medical attention and was about to leave when they discovered her. The concubine had someone strangle the young lady to death with a white silk scarf.

They coveted the young lady's dowry and were reluctant to part with the old lady's money and gifts. They refused to divorce or divorce her, and refused to let her go no matter what. They also bullied her every day, preventing her from living in peace. That time, she was beaten so hard that she vomited blood, and her grandparents sent a carriage from the palace to fetch a doctor.

Seeing that the young lady was beaten so pitifully, the doctor agreed to let the young lady disguise herself as the maid who sent him out of the house, follow the person who went to get the medicine, and ride in the carriage back to the clinic together, so that he could take the opportunity to escape.

Because the young lady was worried about the younger one, the concubine noticed her and prevented her from leaving. Knowing she was trying to escape, the concubine had her strangled to death with a white silk scarf. Perhaps she had a bad premonition and told me to stay alive. I saw it all from the closet. They strangled her and then hung her from the beam.