Song Shiyi then realized that he had been complaining about overspending recently, with his expenses in the past two months more than double his usual amount, and he kept asking her for money...
It turns out that all the money was spent on brothels, becoming jewelry for some prostitute, to make his big spender look good.
And those neighbors and neighbors had to keep it from her.
She used to think she was so important, and she imagined that all the money she had would be used to buy supplements and pregnancy products. She racked her brains every day to run the pharmacy, afraid of causing trouble for others.
The moment a dream shatters, the more beautiful the imagined content, the more embarrassing it feels.
She completely broke down and grabbed Cui Wensong demanding an explanation, only to be met with a merciless slap from him.
Cui Wensong, who had just returned from drinking, angrily grabbed Song Shiyi and beat her up.
She was still thinking about the child in her belly, but Song Shiyi remained relentless.
To silence that mouth, he grabbed Song Shiyi's hair and repeatedly pressed her head into the basin of water until the struggles became weaker and weaker.
When Song Shiyi breathed his last, the memories that Tang Nian and Lou Mu had seen also ended, and the scene before their eyes changed, returning to the dim riverside.
Sure enough, the mangled corpse at the bottom of the river was Song Shiyi.
"wrong."
In the silence, Lou Mu suddenly spoke, his expression serious.
"In my memory, Song Shiyi was drowned by being held down in a basin of water at home. But the corpse we just saw, judging from the remaining rotten flesh in the abdomen, had several very neat knife wounds, indicating that the abdomen had been directly cut open."
Tang Nian's breath hitched.
These were things she hadn't noticed.
"In my belly..." she hesitated, unable to finish her sentence.
Lou Mu said in a deep voice, "I didn't see the fetus."
In other words, the devoted husband, after feigning madness while drunk and killing his wife, cut open her abdomen to remove the already formed fetus, then tied his wife to a stone and threw her into the river to prevent her body from being discovered.
What a caring husband! What a sweet couple!
It was all just a beautiful dream of Song Shiyi!
"Don't act impulsively."
Lou Mu frowned and glanced back at the water: "At least we've found out the truth of the matter, and we can find a way to resolve her inner conflict and prevent things from escalating to a more serious level."
Clearly, this water ghost harbors extraordinary resentment, which has now affected all the living people in the city, with many residents exhibiting signs of becoming neither human nor ghost.
If left to develop unchecked, Lancheng may truly become a ghost town.
"How could I not be impulsive!"
Tang Nian subconsciously replied, but when she met Lou Mu's serious gaze, she coughed twice before changing her mind.
"She lets us find remains and glimpse the past, but takes no action. Is she trying to get us to persuade her to let bygones be bygones?"
Women are generally more likely to empathize with each other.
Lou Mu didn't dare to make a definitive statement, but he felt that Song Shiyi's repeated indulgence must be related to Song Shiyan.
"Song Shiyi is now incredibly powerful, and we never know when he might suddenly launch an attack."
Tang Nian remembered what the young prince had reminded her of.
The "Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun" formation.
Tang Nian's knowledge of this formation came only from ancient books.
This formation requires extremely high skill from the person setting it up; Song Shiyi, being just a ghost, simply couldn't possibly set it up.
There must be other helpers behind her.
"If you want to go, I'll go with you." Seeing that Tang Nian didn't speak, Lou Mu pursed his lips and suggested.
"good."
"But I need to go back and change my clothes first."
It's not that they don't use cleansing techniques, but the ghostly aura that's everywhere in the Lan River isn't a good thing to linger around them for too long.
"How did you find me here?" With most of today's matters resolved, Tang Nian finally remembered how Lou Mu had managed to find her way here.
"If I don't come, can you manage here?" Lou Mu glanced at Tang Nian, but could only see the top of her head. He looked away. "Ming Huan is unreliable. You're alone, and your magic power hasn't fully recovered. How can I feel at ease?"
"Your magic power is almost exhausted."
"How did you... know?"
Before she could finish speaking, Tang Nian suddenly realized something, quickly covered her mouth, and casually moved a step away from Lou Mu.
The seals and restrictions on her body did indeed begin to loosen as her merits increased, allowing her to use magic.
However, with so many things happening, the magic power leaking from the seal simply couldn't support her using it so frequently.
She was just a half-baked Taoist priest, with hardly any talismans on her.
"Fine, stay if you want," Tang Nian said, waving her hand in a seemingly magnanimous manner. "I'll reluctantly allow you to come with me."
"Okay, thank you very much, Master Tang." Lou Mu said with a smile, his expression full of affection.
The two tacitly avoided mentioning the awkwardness at the Grand Secretary's residence and the contract they were bound by.
Back at the inn, Minghuan was still there. The two tidied up the place and told Minghuan to rest early before heading to the Cui residence.
Standing in front of the Cui residence, it was still pitch black.
Tang Nian knocked on the door to wake Song Shiyi, who had fallen asleep early.
The latter, dressed in plain undergarments, rubbed her eyes wearily, showing no signs of being a resentful female ghost.
"Master Tang? Weren't you not coming today? Did you just finish some business? And who is this gentleman next to you?"
Tang Nian stared at the person opposite her for a few seconds before slowly revealing a smile.
"This is my friend. He heard that I was here to exorcise demons and catch ghosts, so he wanted to stay for a few days. I hope Madam Song will treat him well."
Song Shiyi nodded wearily, yawning repeatedly.
"Wife? Why are you getting up? Let me do these things."
When Cui Wensong found her, his face was full of heartache. He took his wife's hand and warmed it for her, then whispered to her to go back to sleep.
When he looked at the two people at the door again, his expression had turned rather unpleasant.
“Young Master Cui, this is a friend of mine. He has also come because of the evil spirits in the Cui residence. He has been a great bother to us these past few days.”
Lou Mu was very uncomfortable with Tang Nian's smooth and worldly manner.
Cui Wensong's expression softened slightly: "Since it's about evil spirits, come in."
"Next time, please don't disturb Shi Yi's rest."
He looked like he was worried about his wife, and led Lou Mu to the room next to Tang Nian's before quickly going back to his own room.
“It’s been like this for the past few days. Since we came to the city, Cui Wensong has been playing the role of a good husband.”
She briefly mentioned the future prospects, and subconsciously reached for a glass of water, but then remembered the fishy smell in the room and reluctantly withdrew her hand.
"So, besides Song Shiyi, is there really an evil spirit in the Cui residence?"
“Song Shiyi is not an evil spirit,” Tang Nian retorted, frowning. “I don’t know. I’m not sure what caused the fishy smell I encountered that day.”
Tang Nian dared not touch any food or drink here, and dared not allow herself to be idle.
"Get some rest. Song Shiyi is an early riser, so I need to find a chance to run into her. If there's nothing else, I'd like to trouble Lord Lou to investigate the matter of the evil spirit."
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