Princess, she is the one who facilitated the extradition.

The Crown Prince looked at Gui Yao, his eyes deep, and said, "Granted."

Having witnessed this, he understood that Gui Yao had already seen the appearance of the deceased in his youth.

Gui Yao met his gaze, smiled faintly, picked up her umbrella, and walked to the courtyard gate again. "Come out."

The departed soul has returned to its youthful form, stepping out the threshold and under the umbrella.

Everyone was curious about the truth and tried to find the answer in her appearance, so they all asked the two warriors who had opened their Yin Eyes.

"How is it? Did you see her? What does she look like?"

"I think that if someone could impersonate her for so many years without being discovered, the person impersonating her must look very similar to her."

Tell me quickly, does the departed spirit resemble Lady Zhang or Lady Cheng'an Marquis?

The two warriors exchanged a glance but remained silent.

This aroused the curiosity of the crowd, who could only observe the reactions of Lady Bai and Lady Cheng'an.

Bai gripped Zhang Erye's arm tightly, wishing the silk handkerchief covering her face could just stay on her face forever.

Lady Cheng'an finally recovered from her shock, but since she didn't have the ability to see ghosts, she couldn't see the appearance of the deceased.

She explained, "Your Highness, I am innocent. Although my family has declined, many of our elders are still alive. There is evidence to prove everything from my birth to my marriage..."

The crown prince raised his hand to interrupt her.

He already knows the truth.

The young ghost and the second maternal aunt, Lady Bai, looked exactly alike, which was the cousin's motive for assassinating the Marquis of Cheng'an and his wife.

He never dreamed that the real culprit would be his second uncle and his wife, but it also seemed not so unexpected.

If he weren't a top-tier nobleman, Gui Yao wouldn't have schemed to get him to take over this matter. Now, with everyone watching, he can't even show favoritism.

He looked at Master Zhang, "General Zhang, do you recognize the spirits of the dead?"

Master Zhang didn't believe in ghosts and gods, so he never thought that the dead could transform. As he looked at the younger dead, some long-forgotten memories slowly began to awaken.

But what he said was, "Your Highness, the soul now bears my wife's face, and I recognize it."

But my wife has always been the one beside me. I don't know what her spirit, transformed into her likeness, intends to do.

"Are you still trying to deny it?"

Although Marquis Cheng'an cannot see the spirits of the dead, that does not prevent him from observing the expressions of the crowd.

Moreover, there is a conversation between the Crown Prince and Master Zhang, which shows that the ghost and Bai Shi look very similar.

But this shameless bastard still wanted to pin the blame on him, which infuriated him.

In order to clear his name, there's nothing he can't say anymore.

"For your second son's 100-day celebration, you sent a set of ruby ​​jewelry worth ten thousand taels of silver. If he weren't your son, why would you send such an expensive gift?"

Headwear and jewelry?

Gui Yao's eyes flickered slightly; it turned out that the jewelry set was a gift from Master Zhang.

Marquis Cheng'an lied to his wife, saying he had bought it from a pawnshop; he was truly flexible and adaptable.

It's a pity that the jewelry can't be taken out now, otherwise, Marquis Cheng'an would know that she was the one who stole the jewelry from his house.

However, it's not like there's no way to solve it.

"What jewelry? I don't know."

Just as Master Zhang finished denying it, a figure flashed in front of him. Before he could react, his throat was grabbed.

Gui Yao used his spiritual power to restrain his hands and feet.

Master Zhang was shocked. He was a military general and was confident in his martial arts skills, but he was easily subdued by Gui Yao and lost all face.

But he couldn't care less about his military dignity at that moment, because he saw the dagger in Gui Yao's hand. "Don't you dare do anything reckless."

"master!"

Lady Bai exclaimed in alarm. She realized that Gui Yao was going to target Master Zhang's beard, and hurriedly said to the Crown Prince, "Princess wants to kill Master Zhang, please, Your Highness, save him."

She deliberately misled the public.

"Madam, you are overthinking it."

Gui Yao gave a wicked smile. "Your Highness must be working hard under this sun. I couldn't keep him waiting any longer. General Zhang, please forgive me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he shaved off Zhang Erye's full beard in a few swift strokes.

Then he grabbed Master Zhang by the throat and made him face the onlookers.

Although his skin and flesh were a bit loose and his face was a little chubby, he still looked at least 70% like A-Ye.

The crowd erupted.

The ghosts and Aye stared straight at Master Zhang.

Ah Ye stepped forward. "So you're the one who ruined my mother's life?"

"no."

Master Zhang looked away. "The fact that we look alike doesn't prove anything. You also look like the Tong family."

Still being stubborn.

Gui Yao waved his hand, and the handkerchief on Bai's face fell off.

"You look similar to Aye, while Madam Zhang and the ghost look almost exactly alike."

Furthermore, given the irrefutable evidence that you sent assassins to kill Marquis Cheng'an and his wife, General Zhang, you still dare to argue. Do you consider the Crown Prince and everyone else to be fools, or are you simply disregarding the law?

"You woman know some sorcery, who knows if that mother and child were created by you?"

Master Zhang gritted his teeth, "I want to ask you, what exactly is your purpose in targeting my Duke Zhenguo's mansion like this?"

Gui Yao suddenly released him and laughed, "The Zhang family is indeed confident."

Even after all this, they still manage to turn the tables; they're just relying on their family's influence.

She cupped her hands and looked at the Crown Prince, "Please make your decision, Your Highness."

Then use greater power to control him.

Gui Yao remained calm, having already made up her mind that if the Crown Prince did nothing, she would make him go into the latrine again.

The Crown Prince shivered inexplicably. He wanted to end the matter as soon as possible, but Master Zhang was his maternal uncle. If he punished him, his mother and maternal grandfather would definitely blame him and even distance themselves from him.

But things have come to this point, and if he does nothing, he will surely disappoint the people and lose their support.

As he pondered how to achieve both goals, the spirit of the dead suddenly spoke, "I was born in Guangling, grew up in Guangling, and wish to remain in Guangling."

It was the Duke of Zhenguo's family that proposed marriage to me, and it was you who personally went to Guangling to fetch me, making me leave my hometown and travel thousands of miles to marry you in the capital.

"I became pregnant a month after our marriage, but you suddenly became cold towards me, beat me, and imprisoned me in the mountains, allowing another woman to take my place as the young mistress of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion."

The spirit of the dead approached Master Zhang, and blood tears gradually flowed from its eyes.

"Why? What right do you have to treat me like this?"

After Gui Yao shaved off Zhang Er's beard, his callous words about not recognizing her reminded her of everything.

She then looked at Bai Shi and said, "After my mother died, your mother married into the Bai family as a second wife. You often sneaked into the Bai family to see her."

The first time I saw how similar your appearance was to mine, I knew that your mother and my father had been having an affair. Unfortunately, I was an orphan with my younger brother and had to make a living under my stepmother's care.

I also thought that it was an adult matter and I shouldn't take it out on you, so I never thought of doing anything to you.

Who would have thought you, so ambitious and ruthless, would steal my life, leaving me an unknown until my death, and being so cruel to my Ono.

She suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhang Erye and Bai Shi respectively, saying, "Today, I will make you pay for your crimes in blood."

Her resentment amplified her demonic power, causing Master Zhang and Madam Bai to roll their eyes back repeatedly as she was being strangled.

Gui Yao looked at the Crown Prince and said, "The spirit of the dead has harbored resentment. If Your Highness cannot bring the truth to light and restore her identity, she will demand justice from all those involved."

The prince spoke in a deep voice, "Aye's mother, release them first."

The spirit of the dead ignored him.

She realized that the Crown Prince was deliberately protecting her. If it weren't for Miss Gui Yao's meticulous planning and public exposure of Master Zhang, the Crown Prince alone would never have given her the truth.

A-Ye also cried out, "Mother, don't ruin yourself for someone who's worse than a beast."

Humans are punished by law for murder, so it seems that ghosts also have laws to follow, and he couldn't bear to see his mother suffer any more.

Upon hearing his son's words, the spirit slowly released the two men.

In everyone's eyes, Zhang Erye and Bai Shi had just been choking themselves, almost to the point of death, when they suddenly let go and gasped for breath like fish out of water. So everyone asked the two who had opened their Yin Eyes.

Seeing that the evidence was irrefutable, the two men were no longer afraid of Master Zhang and conveyed the appearance and words of the deceased in detail.

Upon hearing this, everyone cursed Master Zhang for being lawless and abusing his power.

Whose power did they rely on? Naturally, the Crown Prince played a part.

The Crown Prince felt that his previously just and dignified image had been shattered. He said with a grim face, "General Zhang, if you do not confess the truth, I will have no choice but to torture Bai."

Even if she's stubborn, there are still the servants in the mansion and the Bai family of Guangling.

Previously, the deceased had no memory, so there were no clues to investigate. Now that we know who the person is, it will not be difficult to find evidence.

Master Zhang understood this principle, and coupled with his humiliation today, he felt resentful.

"The woman I want to marry is the one who rescued me from the lotus pond. Are you one of them?"

"It was my fault for mistaking her for someone else and failing to marry the person I truly wanted to marry. I intend to forget her and live a good life with you."

His expression suddenly turned fierce. "But you shouldn't have taken credit for her work and married me, and then sold her to a bandit's den. If I hadn't been away on business and happened to rescue her, have you ever thought about what would have happened to her?"

The position of my legal wife was originally meant for her; sending you away is merely settling things.

"Is this why you abandoned even your own flesh and blood? You never said you married me to repay a life-saving debt, so how could I possibly claim it as your own?"

Aye-niang suddenly sneered.

"Ask her again if she can swim. How can someone who fell into the water as a child and can never learn to swim, rescue you from the lotus pond?"

You fell into the water because you were bitten by a venomous snake and lost consciousness. Even if we pull you out of the water, you still won't survive if we don't suck out the venom in time..."

A look of regret crossed her face. "I really regret it."

"What do you mean?"

Zhang Erye's eyes widened in shock. He had never told her about being bitten by a poisonous snake and falling into the pond. How did she know?

Gui Yao rolled her eyes at him. "What you mean is that it was always A Ye's mother who saved you, not Bai Shi. Bai Shi is the one who's really lying."

Madam Bai immediately shook her head, tears welling up in her eyes. "Master, please believe me, I didn't lie to you."

"Impossible, Madam never lies to me."

Master Zhang shook his head.