"Wait!" Jiang Cheng stepped forward and grabbed the maid's wrist. "Where are you taking us? Why is this road getting more and more remote?"

The maid's eyes were blank, and traces of tears still clung to her cheeks, as if she hadn't recovered from the previous fear. "What… what are you doing? Let go! Or… or I'll scream for help!"

"Scream all you want, no one will come to your rescue!" Shao Tong revealed a lewd expression, as if he were familiar with this sort of thing. "Hehe, I'll even tell you, the more you scream, the more excited I get."

Because everyone knew that this person's mental state wasn't very good, no one paid any attention to him. In the end, the mature and prudent Zhang Qizheng stepped forward. "Tell us the truth, and we won't make things difficult for you."

The maid finally understood what was happening, and shook her head at Jiang Cheng and the others, explaining, "You're not from the Marquis's residence, so you may not know, but the layout inside the residence is like this. The Marquis likes peace and quiet, and there aren't many people serving in the residence. Plus, the Marquis doesn't have a wife or concubines. The residence is usually deserted and quiet. The place I'm taking you to now is the charity graveyard inside the Marquis's residence."

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words "charity graveyard," and Yao Shunyu frowned even more. "What nonsense are you talking about? Who puts a charity graveyard like that in their home?"

But this time, before the maid could answer, Tang Qisheng nodded thoughtfully. "There is a historical precedent for placing a charity graveyard at home, but the reasons are very special."

"That's right, that's right, Quanfu's body is placed there." The maid nodded frantically, as if she had grasped at a life-saving straw.

Tang Qisheng didn't explain the specifics, perhaps because the maid was an outsider. Now that they had identified the problem, everyone was willing to make the trip.

Sure enough, they soon arrived at a dilapidated courtyard. The door was ajar, and when they pushed it open, they found themselves in a cluttered yard. The grass on the ground grew haphazardly, indicating that very few people came here.

In the courtyard, there was only a large, solitary house. The house was built entirely of dark wood, and a large black plaque hung above it, with the two white characters "Charity Graveyard" written on it.

White characters on a black background were particularly glaring.

"The body is inside, you… you can go in, I'll go back first."

The maid wanted to slip away after saying that, but how could Yao Shunyu give her the chance? He grabbed her back and said with a fake smile, "Miss, didn't you understand what the Marquis said? The Marquis asked you to accompany us to find the body. We haven't seen the body yet, and you want to leave? Aren't you afraid the Marquis will blame you?"

The maid looked at Yao Shunyu, and after a moment, turned her head to glance at the cold charity graveyard, swallowing hard. "I… I don't dare to go in. I just know the body is here. I didn't dare to look when the body was discovered last time. I'm timid, and I haven't been here long. I'm scared."

These words aroused everyone's curiosity. Jiang Cheng looked at the trembling maid, the fear on her face didn't seem to be fake. "Don't be afraid, as long as you tell the truth, we won't make things difficult for you. You should have seen by now that we were entrusted by the Marquis to deal with those things in the residence."

Jiang Cheng deliberately made his words vague. "Those things" could refer to anything, and the maid would easily associate it with the thing she feared most in her heart.

Things were indeed developing according to Jiang Cheng's plan. The maid shrank her neck and said in a very small voice, "I… I know, you must all be Taoist masters, otherwise… otherwise, how would you dare to live in that haunted house?"

Seeing that the maid had taken the bait, Jiang Cheng wasn't in a hurry to go in. He stood in front of the door and asked, "Judging from what you just said, this isn't the first time something like this has happened in the residence, is it?"

The maid nodded very carefully. "That's right. I haven't been in the residence for long, and this… this is already the third time. It's said that it's happened before, but there are many rules in the residence, and the stewards don't allow everyone to talk about it."

Jiang Cheng looked at the maid's nervous expression and changed the subject. "I see that you have good qualities and are pretty. Why did you think of coming to the residence to be a maid?"

These words made the maid's already red eyes even wetter. The maid bit her lip, feeling extremely wronged. "I… I was sold into the Marquis's residence by my family. It wasn't my intention. To tell you the truth, although the Marquis is a very good person, no one wants to come into the Marquis's residence, because everyone knows that the Marquis doesn't marry or take concubines, so there's no chance for people like us to get ahead. Of course, there's also one other thing, the Marquis's residence… is not peaceful."

"You're quite insightful." Jiang Cheng smiled lightly. "Alright, tell us about how this Quanfu died, and where the body was found."

The maid glanced around, not finding anyone else, and then felt relieved. She sighed and said, "Where else would the body be found but in front of the spirit tablet in this charity graveyard."

Hearing the maid say this, Li Bai immediately asked, "What do you mean? Are you saying that every time a body is found, it's near this charity graveyard?"

"Yes, I didn't know before, but since I came here, the bodies that have been found have all been like this, Zhang Gui from the kitchen, Wu Ma who washes clothes, they were all found in the charity graveyard."

"Did they all go to the haunted house before they died?" This was the most direct clue Jiang Cheng could think of that led to these people's deaths.

Unexpectedly, the maid shook her head. "How could that be? Who would actively go to that kind of place? Besides, what would they do there? There's nothing there."

"How did Quanfu die?" Jiang Cheng continued to ask.

The maid continued to shake her head. "Don't ask about this, I really don't know. I didn't go in to look at the body, but the body…" At this point, the maid suddenly stopped, and the look in her eyes towards the charity graveyard was filled with undisguised fear. She lowered her voice, "I also heard it from others, the appearances of those bodies were very strange."

It seemed that this woman really didn't know anything, so Jiang Cheng let her leave. He pushed open the door of the charity graveyard, and the door shaft made a piercing friction sound, causing everyone's hearts to clench.

The inside was relatively dark, with rows of low wooden beds covered in white cloth. As far as the eye could see, there were dozens of them, and even more astonishing, these beds weren't empty, but densely filled with corpses.

The corpses were covered with white cloths, revealing the outlines of one person after another. These cloths were all damp, and a strong stench of decay filled the air.

As they went further inside, it became even darker, and the space was even larger than they had imagined. Someone took out a cell phone for light, and as the light flashed, everyone suddenly noticed a person in the innermost corner. That person was kneeling with their back to them, their head touching the ground, and there was a puddle of water underneath them.