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Yun Dahai had no idea that Yun Jin could be so frightening when she went crazy. He wondered if marrying her off to Chen Wencai had triggered her behavior.

He glanced at the boning knife in Yun Jin's hand, swallowed hard, and said with difficulty, "Fifteen years ago, a lady brought you to our family and asked us to raise you. She said she would give us ten taels of silver every month. She said we didn't need to treat you too well, as long as... as long as we didn't let you die, we could do whatever we wanted with you."

"What did that woman look like?" Yun Jin asked, her fingertips unconsciously stroking the hilt of her knife.

"I didn't see clearly." Yun Dahai frowned as he recalled, his tone somewhat uncertain. "She was wearing a veil, so I couldn't see her face. She was accompanied by a woman who looked like a maid, who was also wearing a face mask. There were also two guards with her, who were also wearing cloaks. They were all quite well covered up. I heard the maid call her 'Madam,' so she seemed to come from a wealthy family."

What accent does she have?

"That lady never uttered a word; it was all her maid's instructions." Yun Dahai thought for a moment. "That maid's accent sounded like she was from Jizhou."

It's Jizhou again.

Yun Jin's eyes darkened. She had a feeling that the original owner's biological father or that mistress must have an unusual connection with Jizhou.

However, she has just transmigrated here and is weak and powerless. She does not yet have the ability to investigate further, so she can only keep this clue in mind for now.

She raised her head, her gaze returning to Yun Dahai's face: "During my fifteen years in the Yun family, was the money given to me every month? How was it given?"

"They give it to me every month. I take the token to Ruifeng Money Exchange to collect it every month."

"Where is the keepsake?"

"It's..." Yun Dahai glanced at Yun Lishi subconsciously, "...in her possession."

Yun Jin's gaze immediately swept towards Yun Li Shi, her tone icy: "Where's the token?"

Yun Li shuddered under her gaze, her eyes darting away, unable to meet her eyes directly. She stammered, "I...I can't remember where I put it..."

"Can't remember? Looks like you're still not honest enough!" Yun Jin sneered and turned to walk towards Yun Shuyan, who was lying on the ground.

Yun Shuyan had already woken up but had been pretending to be unconscious. When he heard footsteps approaching, he opened his eyes and saw Yun Jin walking towards him with a boning knife. He was so frightened that he was about to beg for mercy when the boning knife in Yun Jin's hand flashed like lightning and cut a bloody gash on his arm.

"Agh—!" A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the room as blood gushed out again.

Yun Shuyan convulsed in pain, her face streaked with tears and snot, but she dared not utter a sound. She could only glare at Yun Li Shi with a venomous and terrified look: "Mother, tell me quickly! Do you want to kill me?"

"Shuyan!" Seeing this, Madam Yun gritted her teeth and finally relented, "Don't...don't hurt my son, I'll tell you! It's...it's hidden in a cabinet by my bedside in my bedroom!"

She was truly terrified. She hadn't expected Yun Jin to be so ruthless; that brat had really gone mad.

Yun Jin sheathed her knife, wiped the blood from the blade with a cloth, and said coldly, "Wouldn't it have saved you trouble if you had just said so earlier?"

She turned and went into Yun Li's bedroom. After groping around inside the bed for a while, she found an inconspicuous hidden compartment. When she opened it, she found a wooden box inside.

Upon opening the box, an ebony token lay quietly inside, also engraved with the character "瑞" (rui), looking exactly the same as Chen Wencai's.

She examined it carefully and finally felt a raised line on the side of the token. Upon closer inspection, she found it to be an inconspicuous number. She then took out Chen Wencai's token from her spatial storage and found another inconspicuous number in the same location.

He understood immediately; it seemed that Ruifeng Money Exchange used this serial number and token to exchange silver.

Besides the token, the box also contained silver ingots and loose silver coins, totaling more than three hundred taels, and there was also a five-hundred-tael silver note inside.

Without any hesitation, she first put the silver into her spatial storage.

Back in the main hall, she slammed the token on the table and glanced at Yun Dahai and his wife: "Have you collected this month's money?"

Madam Yun nodded quickly, afraid that her son would suffer if she delayed any longer: "I'll take it, I'll take it!"

"Whose idea was it to make me marry Chen Wencai?"

Yun Dahai's eyes flickered, and he subconsciously looked at Yun Li Shi. Seeing that she turned her head away, he could only bite the bullet and say, "It was... a month ago, when I went to Ruifeng Money Exchange to withdraw silver, the person at the counter handed me a letter... The letter said that we should marry you off to the Chen family on the date they set..."

"Where's the letter?"

"After reading it, I... I burned it." Yun Dahai's voice was weak. "The letter wasn't signed. It just said to do as instructed, that... they had everything arranged. They set the date and chose the people..."

"How much money did you give the Chen family?"

"One...one hundred taels!"

"How much money did they give you?"

"One..." Madam Yun was about to speak when she met Yun Jin's calm and unwavering gaze, and stammered, "She gave me a three-hundred-tael silver note!"

Yun Jin clearly saw five hundred taels just now, but she didn't expose it. She tapped her fingertips on the table, her eyes deep and thoughtful.

It's Ruifeng Money Exchange again, and anonymous instructions again. Giving Yun Dahai and Chen Wencai so much money just to trap her in this quagmire seems a bit unreasonable no matter how you look at it.

The other party could have drowned her from the beginning to eliminate any future trouble, but instead they kept her and sent her to this small county town far away from the capital.

Either she has some secret, or the mistress is psychologically twisted and wants to wait until the original owner's mother falls into the dust to find out the truth and cause her heartbreak.

She prefers the latter.

She glanced at Yun Shuyan, who was groaning on the ground, then swept her gaze over the trembling Yun Dahai and his wife. Their favorability ratings had been fluctuating wildly. A cold smile curled at the corner of her lips.

"Do you want to live?"

Yun Jin's voice wasn't loud, but it was like ice being thrown into boiling oil. The three of them spoke almost in unison, their voices trembling with relief: "Yes!"

Yun Jin tapped her fingertips lightly on the table, her gaze sweeping over their faces as she slowly said, "Want to live? It's easy. Just pretend today's events never happened, just pretend I never came back. You can continue with your lives as usual, and you can still collect your silver from Ruifeng Money Exchange every month, how about that?"

The Yun couple were stunned at first, then their eyes burst with unbelievable joy.

As long as they don't expose them, they can continue to receive money?

That means the days of fine silks and brocades, and servants attending to you can continue!

The pain and fear from being hit earlier were all swept away by this sudden "surprise," and the favorability rating above his head skyrocketed, reaching -15%, -23%, and -32.

"We promise! We'll keep our mouths shut!" Yun Dahai hurriedly assured him, even forcing a fawning smile. "Today... today was all a dream. We didn't see anything, we don't know anything!"

Madam Yun nodded repeatedly, her gaze towards Yun Jin less resentful and more cautiously obsequious: "Yes, yes, yes! Don't worry, we would never dare to divulge a single word!"