Seeking peace

Chapter 9 only found her body
Anyi's husband Chu Xi asked the Yamen for leave and came back to accompany his wife.

The yamen knew that Chu Xi would ask for leave every year on this day, so they let Chu Xi come back early without Chu Xi mentioning it.

Although Chu Xi is just a small yamen servant, who doesn't know how kind the emperor treats their husband and wife?

Not to mention Chu Xi's boss, even Fu Yin was respectful when he saw Chu Xi.

It's just that Chu Xi never paid any attention to what work he should do, and was content to be an ordinary government servant.

When Chu Xi came back, she was holding a lotus pod in her hand.

This is what An Ning likes to eat.

Although there are not many lotus pods this season, Chu Xi will look for them every year today.

When she entered the door and saw Zai Bucai's wife, Chu Xi stepped forward and gently embraced her in her arms.

He has worked in An Guogong's mansion since he was a child, and he and his wife are childhood sweethearts, and they also grew up watching An Ning.

He knew how much his wife loved his younger sister Aning, and he also knew how hard his wife was hit when An Ning's body was found three years ago.

They knew that it was the third day before An Ning was sent for exchange.

Follow them everywhere to find peace.

On that day, he and his wife found a clue and learned that An Ning was left on a barren hill north of the capital by Li Zhan, the leader of Mobei.

They chased to the barren hills in the suburbs, but only found An Ning's body.

It was said to be a corpse, but it was actually a pile of broken corpses, bitten by wild beasts so messy that they couldn't be put together.

The head that rolled to the ground was gnawed by wild beasts, and there were many white bones left.

The identity of the owner of the corpse can only be distinguished from the broken clothes and tokens.

It's not someone else, it's the peace they took care of growing up.

Let alone his wife, even he couldn't bear it.

The wife fainted on the spot.

Since then, it has become a nightmare for his wife.

An Yi saw Chu Xi and said to him, "Ah Xi, will Aning come back this year? Can she find a home?"

"Yes, she will." Chu Xi comforted Anyi.

After that day, An Yi always had nightmares, and every time she woke up from the dream, she was full of tears.

She kept saying that she dreamed that her sister became a lonely ghost, wandering in the wilderness and finding no home.

"Hey, stop crying. If Ah Ning saw you crying so sad, how sad would she be?" Chu Xi comforted his wife and helped her wipe away her tears.

After listening to her husband's words, An Yi wiped away the tears from her face.

"A-Ning, sister made your favorite food, you should eat more."

Anyi added vegetables to the empty bowl on the table.

It was as if her younger sister An Ning was sitting in front of her at the moment.

"Ah Ning, sister, I'm sorry, I didn't know that you were sent to be exchanged by that bastard earlier, so my sister still doesn't know when your death day is, so I can only make the day when you were sent to exchange as your death day , you have to forgive my sister."

Anyi would say this apology every year.

Chu Xi was also sad, it was him who was incompetent as a brother-in-law, he should have found out about this earlier.

Anyi said again: "Ah Ning, if you are cold, hungry, and need something, just tell your sister in a dream, and your sister and brother-in-law will burn it for you."

As An Yi spoke, her eyes turned red again.

The couple ate some symbolically, and An Yi peeled off the lotus pods, took the lotus heart out of each lotus seed, and placed them well.

Following An Yi, she hung a lamp at the door of An Ning's room.

Hope this light can guide peaceful souls to find their way home.

(End of this chapter)