Wanqingsi

Chapter 196

After returning to the Hou Mansion, Yun Xun told me that Wei Tongfeng's body was transported out of the palace and sent to Yizhuang.I couldn't sit still when I heard this, and after thinking about it, I asked the servant girl to find a set of coarse linen clothes for me, pretending to be an ordinary woman, and asked Xiao Hong and the two iron guards to change their clothes and go out with me.When I reached the atrium, I heard An Yuanxi calling me: "Sister-in-law? Are you going out?"

"Yes." I turned to look at him.An Yuanxi looked at my attire in surprise: "Didn't you just come back? It's getting dark, where is sister-in-law going? Why are you dressed like this?"

I wanted to say that it had nothing to do with you, but I felt that it was hard and hurtful, so I kept silent.Seeing that I didn't want to answer, An Yuanxi didn't ask any more questions, and just said, "I'll go with sister-in-law."

I was slightly startled: "No need, Yun Xun and Yun Gan will follow me."

"Sister-in-law, we are a family." An Yuanxi looked at me quietly, with a tone of reminder.family?What should a family be like?Do you have anything to do together?Have fun to share?Or in my heart, I never really regarded An Yuanxi as a family.Because of his previous relationship with me, I avoided contact with him all the time. I am a narrow-minded woman. In my previous life, I never had any contact with my boyfriend who broke up with me. It is impossible for me to be friends again.The same should be the case with An Yuanxi, but who knows that fate has arranged for him to become my uncle and a family member with an awkward status. Although I cannot avoid meeting him often, I try to avoid it as much as possible. .I don't care about his affairs, and I don't want him to meddle in mine. Although it is a family, it is indeed not like a family.

I took a look at the clothes he was wearing, ordinary scholar's attire, even though he is now the second young master of Yonglehou Mansion, he rarely wears fancy clothes and beautiful crowns.I turned my head: "Uncle is willing to come, let's go together, but if you have any questions later, don't ask outside."

The carriage took us to Yizhuang, which I had been to once. The last time I came here with Yueniang was during the day, and I felt spooky. Now it is night, and the inside of Yizhuang is pitch black, and the night wind whimpers against the dilapidated doors and windows. Passing through the gap, like a ghost crying, makes people feel creepy. When I got out of the car, Xiaohong grabbed my arm tightly, saying that she was supporting me, but it seemed to be hanging me.

I patted her hand to appease her fear, then turned to Yun Xun and said, "Go ask the manager of Yizhuang to come out."

Yun Xun went to knock on the door with a lantern, and the hut next to Yizhuang was lit with candlelight, and an old man in clothes opened the door cursingly: "Who is it? You wake people up in the middle of the night..."

Yun Xun handed the two silver ingots to the old man, and the old man immediately stopped yelling, nodded and smiled apologetically, "Oh, sir, what do you want me to do?"

"We are the family of Zhang Dabao's bodyguard that was sent out from the palace today, to take his body for burial, please let the steward take us in." Yun Xun stuffed the ingot into the old man's hand.

Hearing this, the old man looked at us carefully, and said with a smile, "Zhang Dabao? The palace said hello that his family would come to pick it up in two days. I didn't expect you to come so fast. Come in with the old man."

I was stunned, and suddenly realized that although the emperor told me that Wei Tongfeng could not be buried under his real name, he also knew my temperament, and would definitely come quietly to take Wei Tongfeng's body away, and simply be a favor , Let someone confess, let me take his love?I smiled wryly and shook my head, not knowing what to say to him.The old man in charge of Yizhuang lit the lantern, led us across the yard, took out the key to unlock the big lock on the door of the morgue, pushed the door open, led us in, and stopped at a coffin: "Here , This is Zhang Dabao's coffin."

Very good, at least the emperor gave him a coffin, so Brother Wei didn't just sleep here.I took a look at Yun Xun, he pushed open the coffin cover knowingly, I stepped forward, lifted the lantern, and looked at Wei Tongfeng who was sleeping in the coffin.Brother, my eyes are a little sore.The emperor was probably afraid that people would find out his identity, so he put a human skin mask on his face again. In front of the Yizhuang manager, it was inconvenient for me to take off his human skin mask, so I turned my head and said to Yun Xun : "Okay, let's move the coffin out."

Yun Xun and Yun Gan closed the lid of the coffin, and worked together to move the coffin out of the morgue.I turned around and wanted to leave, but suddenly thought of something and stopped.Turning my head, my eyes fell on the coffin of Chu Shang that Riyueniang brought me to see that day, and I saw that the place was already empty.My heart moved, and I walked towards the empty seat. Xiaohong didn't know what I wanted to do, and was a little scared: "Sister..."

I turned around and saw her expression of fear but strength, and smiled: "Xiao Hong, if you are afraid, go out and stay with Yun Xun and the others."

"My sister can't see, I want to help her." Xiaohong said with a mournful face.An Yuanxi, who has been silent behind me, said: "I'll help my sister-in-law there, you can go out."

When Xiaohong heard it, she was relieved, and quickly handed the lantern in An Yuanxi's hand, and ran out.An Yuanxi took the lantern and held my arm. My hand was tight and I wanted to break free, but I felt that it was too deliberate and hypocritical, so I let him support me and walked towards the empty seat step by step.Stopping in front of that empty seat, thinking of Yueniang telling about Chu Shang's tragic past experience here more than a year ago, he couldn't help but feel a little lost.Yueniang, should Chu Shang be buried?
"Sister-in-law, do you have anything else to do?" The manager of Yizhuang saw me standing there in a daze for a long time, a little impatient, "Let's go if you have nothing to do, what's so interesting about this morgue?"

"Ah?" I came back to my senses and saw that the old man in charge was a little unhappy, and said, "Boss, there used to be a coffin parked here for more than a year, do you remember?"

"Why don't you remember, the family of the coffin gave me a large sum of money to let me look at the coffin, and let me take care of the dust frequently." The old man in charge said doubtfully, "It's strange for the family to say, since they don't have no money Burial, why do you have to park a coffin for so long before taking it away? Let the corpse stink in the coffin for nothing."

"When did you take this coffin?" I asked softly.The old man in charge thought for a while, and recalled: "It's been more than a year, right? I took it away last autumn."

That should be shortly after Yueniang took me to see it, she took the coffin away, right?Chu Shang, the grievances between us are really incomprehensible. I hope that after you are buried, your soul can rest in peace.

"Sister-in-law!" An Yuanxi suddenly said after listening to my conversation with the old man in charge, "Whose coffin was parked here before?"

I looked at the empty seat quietly, without thinking about why An Yuanxi was suddenly interested in this. After a moment of silence, I said softly, "It's... an old friend."

After hearing my answer, he thought he knew that I would not say any more, and he would not ask any more questions. After a long silence, I turned around and said, "Let's go."

An Yuanxi silently helped me to go out, and the old man in charge "squeaked" and pulled the door of the morgue, and locked it with a "bang".I stopped and turned to look at the morgue behind me.When I looked back, I saw An Yuanxi looking at me silently, I smiled: "Let's go, uncle."

——2007, September, 5
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Zeng Yue's "Really Stupid":
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