Princess, she is the one who facilitated the extradition.

Gui Yao squatted down. "What grievance did your mother suffer?"

The man's calloused hands tightly held the memorial tablet. "My mother was robbed of her life and died with her eyes wide open in anger."

Gui Yao glanced at the memorial tablet, which simply read, "Memorial Tablet for my deceased mother, erected with tears by her dutiful son, A Ye."

The memorial tablet has no name or surname, and even the descendants have no surname, which is quite strange.

"Your name is A-Ye?"

Gui Yao asked, "Who stole your mother's life?"

The man nodded, then shook his head. "I have my own memories. My mother was deaf, mute, and mentally challenged. Everyone in the village said they didn't know her background."

The village chief took pity on my mother, who had fainted at the village entrance while heavily pregnant, and arranged for a widow in the village to take her in. Thus, I became an illegitimate child with an unknown father.

Until five years ago, my mother appeared in my dream and said that she was originally the young mistress of an official family in the capital, but her identity was taken away and she was abandoned in the countryside.

Unable to bear seeing her restless after death, I planned to come to the capital to investigate her background, but I was trapped by the village chief…”

He then realized that his mother had not fled to the village, but that the village chief had been instructed by someone to trap her in the mountains.

He reported it to the authorities, but the county magistrate said he had no evidence and beat him several times before sending him away.

The village chief said smugly, "You brat, that man is a high-ranking official in the capital. He can crush you with a flick of his finger."

You'd better behave yourself as before and give up on these messy thoughts, or you won't even know how you died.

Unfortunately, he was born with a leg disability, and the village chief was powerful, so he was kept under surveillance. His last bit of money was also taken away, leaving him with virtually no chance to escape.

After listening to his account, Gui Yao frowned slightly. "Didn't she mention her maiden name or her husband's name in the dream?"

Logically, the soul of a mentally challenged person should return to normal after death.

Ah Ye shook his head. "No matter how much my mother said, she wouldn't remember it. I secretly saved up for five years and finally managed to save up some travel money. I then carried my mother's memorial tablet out of the mountains."

It took me half a year to finally reach the capital, but as soon as I arrived, I was hunted down.

He rolled up his sleeves and showed Gui Yao his wounds, saying, "Perhaps it was my mother's blessing that allowed me to escape to this day."

A kind old woman in the west of the city told me that there is a living bodhisattva in Xuanji Tower who saves people from suffering. I have nowhere to go and nowhere to seek justice. Please help my son and me. I beg you…”

After saying these words, he was almost exhausted and bent down to kowtow to Gui Yao.

Gui Yao took his arm and pulled him up, saying, "Come inside with me to talk."

She entered through the back door and led the person to the room in the restaurant where she was to entertain guests.

For Aye, who grew up in a mountain village, the newly renovated restaurant was like a paradise.

He was afraid of making something dirty, so he turned the memorial tablet over to face himself and walked away very carefully.

From the moment he entered the restaurant, a faint figure appeared beside him, hunched over, walking with the same trepidation as him.

Gui Yao glanced at the figure, poured A Ye a cup of hot tea, and said, "Have some tea and wait here for me."

Inside the restaurant, there were two maids chosen by Xiao Huaijin specifically to take care of Gui Yao.

Gui Yao walked out of the room, took out a silver ingot, and handed it to one of the maids, saying, "Go and fetch a doctor."

As soon as A-Ye got close, she smelled the stench of decay. Looking at his arms, she saw old and new scars mixed together, and she feared that some of his wounds had already rotted.

He then took out another silver ingot and gave it to another maid, saying, "Prepare hot water and food, and find a servant to go and buy a set of clean clothes nearby."

The two maids glanced at the silver in their hands and hesitated. The prince had sent them to serve the future princess, which showed how much he valued her.

The prince would certainly be willing to pay for things like hiring a doctor and buying clothes, but they haven't had much contact with Gui Yao, so they don't know what kind of relationship she has with the prince.

Gui Yao noticed their hesitation and said, "The employers of Xuanji Tower should pay for it. Go quickly."

The two then hurriedly left, and Gui Yao returned to her room.

A short while later, a servant brought a bowl of steaming hot noodles and placed it in front of A-Ye.

Looking at the fragrant meat spread all over the top, Ah Ye waved his hand, "I wouldn't dare trouble this living Buddha..."

Before I could finish speaking, my stomach started growling uncontrollably.

"I don't deserve that title, just call me by my name."

Gui Yao laughed, "Eat up, you'll have the strength to take revenge when you're full."

She left the room to avoid making A-Ye feel uncomfortable.

Mao Dan asked softly, "Master, are you going to help him?"

Gui Yao nodded.

"But he is a man."

Mao Dan was a little worried that his owner would be struck by lightning.

Gui Yao turned her head and glanced at the room. "The employer isn't him, it's his mother."

"His mother's here too?"

The balut is invisible.

Gui Yao nodded. "Mao Dan, go to the west of the city and investigate. See if you can find out who is chasing him."

"Isn't his mother here?"

It wasn't that Maodan was being lazy; it just thought that Aye's mother should know better, since its master could communicate with spirits anyway.

"The soul was so faint it seemed to be dissipating."

And look at his bewildered expression.

"We won't get anything out of you."

Upon hearing this, Mao Dan quickly replied, "Then I'll go check."

It was still completely black, and as soon as it spoke, the bird darted away.

Not long after, Xiao Huaijin arrived with the family physician.

It turned out that when the maid saw A-Ye, covered in injuries, carrying the memorial tablet and pleading with Gui-Yao, she thought that Gui-Yao had special abilities, and perhaps what she was doing this time was something that should not be known to outsiders.

He then returned to Prince Jin's residence, firstly to report the matter to Xiao Huaijin, and secondly to request the residence's physician to treat him, keeping his mouth shut.

Upon learning this, Xiao Huaijin followed.

As expected, Aye had many festering wounds on his body, and some places were even infested with maggots.

Some were old injuries sustained in the village, some were from fleeing in the mountains, and some were caused by being hunted down after arriving in the capital.

The physician shook his head. "He has a strong will, otherwise he would have died from such injuries long ago."

Gui Yao glanced at the faint figure beside A Ye, who was looking at her son with tears in her eyes, "Little Ye, don't be in pain, Mother soothes you..."

The yin energy of the dead is of no benefit to people. Although this dead soul was so weak that it was almost extinct, A-Ye was already seriously injured and was only holding on by sheer willpower.

Gui Yao stood silently in front of the deceased, separating her from A Ye.

I thought she would move again, but then I heard her cry again, "Mother remembers, Mother can't sleep, if she sleeps, Xiao Ye will get sick."

"Don't be afraid, Ono. Mommy's with you. You'll be alright, you'll be alright..."

Gui Yao's eyelashes trembled slightly.

The ghost's words indicate that she had experienced firsthand how getting close to her son could be detrimental to him.

It seems that Aye is still alive not only because of his own strong will, but also because of his mother's protection over the past five years.

I just don't know what she went through to get to this point.

The physician had finished his diagnosis and looked at Xiao Huaijin, saying, "The rotten flesh needs to be scraped off, but he cannot touch water for a short period of time afterward."

Not washing won't help his wounds; I need help cleaning them while he showers.

Xiao Huaijin looked at the swordsman and said, "Give Doctor Chen a hand."

The restaurant had a place for the waiters to wash up. Zhijian and the doctor led Aye there, and the ghost turned around and followed.

Gui Yao twitched his fingers slightly, pulling her into his sleeve. "Men and women should be different; you can't go."

Xiao Huaijin's eyes flickered slightly as he looked at Gui Yao's sleeve, his gaze questioning.

He could see the spirits of the dead when he was young, and when he saw Gui Yao speaking to the void, he made a guess.

Gui Yao nodded. "Let's go back to Xuanji Tower."

The Xuanji Tower can nurture the souls of the dead; otherwise, they would truly become dead ghosts.

Just as the two entered Xuanji Tower, Mao Dan returned, saying, "I found some information."