The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1387: She is not a Witch!

Chapter 1387: Chapter 1387: She is not a Witch!

So, she was scared. Who knew if Wuzhu Forest was a place that devoured people.

But she had no other choice. If she had even the slightest chance of survival, she wouldn’t have risked her life coming here.

"Oh."

Lin Caisang nodded.

"Speak."

"My maiden name is Mo, and my married name is Chen. A few days ago, my husband suddenly passed away without any apparent reason, and we couldn’t even find the cause," the woman said to Lin Caisang.

"I have two sons with my husband, but both are still young—one is eight and the other is only three. None can inherit the family business right now. Taking advantage of their power, the elders of my clan insist on claiming that my husband’s death was caused by me plotting to murder him.

I was out of options. My two sons were taken away by them, and they even wanted me to be buried alongside my husband. That’s why... that’s why on the suggestion of a close friend, I came to Wuzhu Forest.

Can... can you help me seek justice?"

Hearing the woman’s words, Lin Caisang blinked and turned to look at Sui Zimo.

It was clear as day – a ruthless struggle for an inheritance. All this fuss over such a minor matter, and it’s already turned into a mission?

"It’s not that simple."

Sui Zimo just parted his thin lips and silently uttered five words.

Of course, Lin Caisang couldn’t deny those five words. Just considering how the deceased died without leaving any trace made the case complex, let alone...

She shifted her gaze and sized up the woman in front of her once again. She seemed to be under thirty, which meant her late husband couldn’t have been much older, and it was unthinkable for him to have died inexplicably.

To say it wasn’t murder would be farfetched.

"We can’t be certain until we see the body," she said to the woman.

"What? You need to see the body?"

The woman was instinctively startled upon hearing her words.

"Hmm?"

Lin Caisang furrowed her brows, fixing her gaze on the woman.

Could it be that in this virtual mission, investigating a case doesn’t require examining the body? How was she expected to conduct the investigation without doing so, surely they didn’t expect her to consult ghosts and spirits?

That was, of course, out of the question; she was no witch!

"Uh."

The woman, under her scrutiny, looked quite embarrassed and hesitated a long while before she weakly spoke.

"To be truthful, Miss Wuzhu, my husband’s body has already been buried. It would be impossible to view his body now," she said through clenched teeth.

"I see."

Lin Caisang’s red lips slightly parted, and she casually raised her eyebrows.

Grave-digging wasn’t something she hadn’t done before; with Brother Molian by her side, she was quite brave.

The key was that she wasn’t the one who had to dig up graves, so it was manageable.

"This can be handled easily."

"No, no, no, Miss Wuzhu, you can’t do this, it isn’t right," the woman, nobody’s fool, could easily grasp the implication in Lin Caisang’s words.

She began to wave her hands desperately, rejecting the idea.

She was kicked out of the Chen Family without having done anything wrong, and if they now went to dig up her husband’s grave, those Chen Family elders would surely skin her alive.

This was a risk she dared not take.

"Miss Wuzhu, you can’t do this. My children are still in their hands. If they find out I brought you to dig up my husband’s grave, my children will suffer abuse at their hands!"