It’s a good time to take a walk to help digest the food.

It gets dark early in winter. At this time, lanterns have been hung up in the shops on the street and most pedestrians have gone home.

Arriving at the door of Gu's residence, Gu Xueting stepped forward and knocked on the bronze ring with an animal head on the door. A loud dog barking sounded immediately from inside. Not long after, a one-armed man in his forties opened the door. Seeing Gu Xueting outside, he was surprised and said, "Your Highness! Come in quickly."

As soon as the two of them entered, a big black dog rushed over, pounced on Gu Xueting, and licked his face with its hot tongue very enthusiastically.

"Haha, Xiao Hei still remembers the prince." Shi Hu, the one-armed man said.

Gu Xueting hugged Xiao Hei's neck to avoid its enthusiastic licking, while Shen Yizhi watched with a smile on his face.

Shi Hu noticed her and was shocked when he saw her face. He quickly guessed her identity, "I guess this is the princess?"

Gu Xueting finally calmed Xiao Hei down and said to Shen Yizhi: "Zhizhi, this is Uncle Shi, a brave general under my command. Unfortunately, he had his arm bitten off by a monster in a battle."

Shen Yizhi called out "Uncle Shi".

Shi Hu waved his hands and said, "I am not worthy of that title. Princess, just call me Old Shi. Have you guys not eaten yet? I will go make some food right now."

Gu Xueting called him, "Uncle Shi, don't worry, Zhizhi and I have already eaten. You can go and rest."

Shi Hu scratched the back of his head and said, "Okay, if you need anything, just call me. Xiao Hei, let's go."

He tried to take Xiao Hei away so as not to disturb the prince and his wife, but Xiao Hei kept staying at Gu Xueting's legs, refusing to leave and whimpering.

It looks like a spoiled child, which is totally inconsistent with its mighty image.

Shen Yizi found it funny and touched its head. Xiao Hei glanced at her. Although it was the first time he met this woman, she smelled very good.

When Shen Yizhi took out a basin of meat and bones, Xiao Hei immediately abandoned Gu Xueting and lowered his head to eat the meat and bones with relish.

Shi Hu smelled the rich aroma emanating from the meat and bones and felt a little greedy.

Shen Yizhi took out a few side dishes suitable for drinking, including braised beef, pig ears, peanuts, glutinous rice and pork intestines, and a pot of wine. "Uncle Shi, I made this myself, please try it."

If it was something she gave to Shi Hu as a gift, he might not accept it. However, these things touched Shi Hu's heart. "How can I accept this..."

"Uncle Shi, take your time eating. Zhizhi and I will go to rest first." Gu Xueting took Shen Yizhi to the main courtyard.

The furniture in the room was arranged in Gu Xueting's style, simple and restrained, with solemn colors. It seemed very deserted because no one had lived there for a long time.

Shen Yizhi immediately started to make arrangements, and Gu Xueting also helped.

Soon, the style of the house changed drastically, from cold, hard and dull to soft and warm.

Shen Yizi arranged a bouquet of flowers, took a few steps back to admire it, and felt it was perfect. He wanted Gu Xueting to praise him, but when he turned around, he saw him sitting on the couch, looking down at something, his body seemed frozen.

She walked over and he was looking at the order form that Mei You had handed to him.

She took the list, read it through, and paid special attention to the signature: Li Si.

A very common and careless name.

She seriously suspected it was an alias.

Maybe he's just an errand boy.

"Once we find this Li Si, we can find out who is behind him." Shen Yizi took out a tracking talisman, inputted spiritual energy to activate it, and the tracking talisman floated in the air.

Then she burned the order form, and the smoke from the burning was absorbed by the tracking symbol next to it. The tracking symbol turned around in the air, and finally determined the direction and flew out of the window.

"Hurry, let's catch up!" Shen Yizhi pulled Gu Xueting to catch up.

Following the tracking talisman, the two arrived at the charity cemetery, a place specifically for storing bodies of unknown origin and unclaimed people.

There was only an old man guarding the charity cemetery. Because the weather was too cold, he was huddled in the house warming himself by the fire, with an old yellow dog lying beside him.

Shen Yizhi and Gu Xueting arrived silently, and the old man was unaware of it. However, the old yellow dog suddenly raised its head, as if it had sensed something, but eventually lay down again.

The two entered the morgue and accurately found Li Si's body.

Shen Yizhi lifted the white cloth and took a look, concluding: "He drowned, no more than ten days ago."

The man also smelled strongly of alcohol.

Even if a general coroner examined him, he would only conclude that he fell into the water and drowned after getting drunk. But this person placed an order at Zhenshanju and fell into the water and died right after. Who would believe such a coincidence? No surprise, the person behind the scenes killed him, and the purpose was naturally to silence him.

Now, things are a bit tricky. After all, it is impossible for them to burn Li Si to collect the breath left by the killer. What's more, so many days have passed, and the trace of breath left by the killer is estimated to have dissipated completely.

Just as Shen Yizhi was thinking, Gu Xueting suddenly pulled her back a few steps.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yizhi looked in the direction he was looking and was surprised.

I saw a dark shadow squatting under the wooden shelf where Li Si's body was placed. To be more precise, it was a ghost.

Li Si's ghost.

I didn't expect his soul to stay near the corpse.

Shen Yizhi tried to communicate with him to see if he could get any information about the killer, but he just squatted there motionless with a blank expression.

It seems that we are unable to communicate.

Shen Yizhi couldn't help but sigh. He thought there was a turning point, but in the end, he was happy for nothing.

At this moment, Xie Wanxiang's request came from the nightmare bead on her wrist, "Zhizhi, can I come out?"

After Xie Wanxiang received the ghost cultivation technique from Shen Yizi, she has been practicing in the Nightmare Pearl. Now that she has made some progress, she wants to come out for some fresh air.

Of course, I would tell Shen Yizhi before coming out, otherwise it would be embarrassing if I accidentally came across any restricted scenes.

Shen Yizhi was delighted. How could she have forgotten Xie Wanxiang? Maybe she could find a way to communicate with Li Si's soul.

As soon as Xie Wanxiang came out, she found that there were corpses everywhere around her, especially Li Si. His dignified appearance due to blisters really scared her, and she hurriedly hid behind Shen Yizi.

Shen Yizhi: “…”

Sister, aren't you a ghost? Why are you afraid of corpses?

Perhaps because she was too obvious, Xie Wanxiang noticed it and muttered, "Although I am a ghost, I have never dealt with a corpse. Naturally, I am afraid."

She said it with confidence.

Shen Yizhi pointed under the wooden shelf and said, "This man is called Li Si. See if you can get anything out of him."