Father, who is both a heir and a descendant, is still biased; the bound system has gone berserk.

Then a group of strong men with shovels and other tools began to push and shovel the mountains of rotten fish and shrimp.

One shovelful yields a huge pile.

"Host, Cuiluo's family is down there." Little Dian raised its little wings and pointed towards the pile of rotten fish and shrimp.

Ying Yufu strode forward and called out, "Wait a minute!"

Her voice came out abruptly, and everyone who was wielding a shovel looked in her direction.

Seeing that Ying Yufu and her group were well-dressed and quite numerous, the person who had spoken earlier stepped forward and politely asked, "You all seem to be from out of town. Why did this young lady interrupt us just now?"

Ying Yufu thought to herself that she couldn't say there was a human corpse under the rotten fish and shrimp, and that one of them was still alive, but about to die.

She asked, "May I ask you all, what's the deal with these fish and shrimp?"

The man who had spoken looked surprised and asked, "You're all from out of town, aren't you?"

Ying Yufu nodded. "We are merchants from the south. We came to Anzhou City because we heard that the fish and shrimp here are plump and delicious, and we want to do some business."

Upon hearing this, the man was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned bitter.

"Girls, haven't you heard? The fish and shrimp in Anzhou have been having problems since the year before last. First, people died from eating them, and then they just couldn't be raised anymore. Every batch they raise would rot. We kept catching them, but they kept rotting."

"If you want to do fish and shrimp business, you'll probably have to go to places much farther away. It's not feasible in Anzhou. Alas."

The man sighed, his brows furrowed with bitterness.

Ying Yufu's expression changed slightly.

The crown prince's expression also turned serious. He stepped forward and asked, "May I ask, sir, do you know the reason for the abnormality of these fish and shrimp?"

The man glanced at the prince, noticing his foreign appearance, and shook his head, saying, "We don't know either. It suddenly happened like this the year before last."

He looked regretful and sighed repeatedly.

The prince said, "Brother, I can tell you're an honest man who isn't lying to us. Could you tell me the specific details?"

You said your fish and shrimp started having problems the year before last. Can you think of anything unusual that happened the year before last?

The man was lured away by the Crown Prince's words, and Ying Yufu also headed towards the pile of rotten fish and shrimp.

When the fishermen saw Ying Yufu coming over directly, the filth on the ground stained her skirt, but she seemed not to care at all.

"Young lady, it's too dirty here, it will get your clothes dirty," a middle-aged man kindly reminded her.

Ying Yufu glanced at him, then looked at the pile of rotting fish and shrimp. She said, "It's okay, I just want to see why these fish and shrimp are rotting like this."

Everyone, keep going, but please be careful.

Everyone assumed she wanted to observe the rotting fish and shrimp, so they didn't stop her and continued pushing the shovel.

However, their movements were much slower and gentler.

Ying Yufu stared quietly at the pile of fish and shrimp.

Little Dian gripped Ying Yufu's shoulders tightly with its paws, screaming in Ying Yufu's mind, "Host, it's coming out, it's coming out!"

As soon as Xiao Dian finished speaking, the busy villagers stopped what they were doing. The middle-aged man who had spoken to Ying Yufu earlier said, "Something seems off. Look, everyone, what's that?"

His voice trembled slightly.

The others were also startled, and one of the boys suddenly exclaimed, "It's a corpse! There's a dead person down there!"

The boy screamed until his voice cracked, and his face turned pale with fright.

"I...I'm saying this pile of fish and shrimp smells unusually bad!" another person said.

The man who was talking to the crown prince also looked this way. His expression changed, and he strode towards the pile of fish and shrimp.

Amidst a pile of rotten fish and shrimp, a pair of pale blue human feet suddenly appeared.

"vomit!"

Someone vomited, followed by a series of vomiting sounds.

They had long been accustomed to the stench of rotting fish and shrimp, but the sight of the corpses was unbearable.

Ying Yufu stared quietly at the pair of pale blue feet of the corpse and said, "Everyone, since a corpse has been found here, and it concerns human life, we cannot ignore it. To be honest, one of us is the heir of the Prince of Qinjiang, and he is a government official."

"Gentlemen, I'm willing to pay you one thousand taels of silver to clear out the corpses beneath these rotting fish and shrimp. Would you be willing to do so?"

A thousand taels of silver was no small sum. Upon hearing this, the people, who had no fish or shrimp harvest, even forgot to vomit. They stared wide-eyed at Ying Yufu, "Miss, is it true?"

Ying Yufu nodded seriously and said, "It's true." As she spoke, she turned around and asked Chong'er to get the silver from the carriage.

The insect moved nimbly and soon carried a box full of plump, white silver ingots.

"Girl, let's do it! We'll clear all the bodies out right now!"

People die for money, birds die for food. For the sake of silver, they disregarded the stench and fear, carefully turning over the rotting fish and shrimp to remove the corpses.

More than one.

When they cleared out the first body, their faces turned pale.

When the second body was removed, their faces were even paler.

They cleared out the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh... They were completely numb.

"No, young lady, this corpse is still soft, not hard," said the man who had spoken to the prince earlier.

Without saying a word, Ying Yufu stepped forward and reached out to check the pulse in the corpse's neck. She felt an extremely weak beat.