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 maid to find a set of coarse linen clothes for me, pretending to be an ordinary woman, and asked Xiaohong and the two guards to change their clothes and go out with me. I walked to the atrium and heard An Yuanxi stop me: "Sister-in-law? You're going out? ”

"Yes." I turned my head to look at him. An Yuan looked at my outfit in surprise: "Didn't you just come back?" It's getting dark, where is my sister-in-law going? How do you dress like this? ”

I wanted to say that it had nothing to do with you, but I felt that [***] was a little hurtful, so I didn't say anything. An Yuanxi saw that I didn't want to answer, so he didn't ask anymore, but said, "I'll accompany my sister-in-law." ”

I was slightly stunned: "No need, Yun Xun and Yun Qian will go with me." ”

"Sister-in-law, we are a family." An Yuanxi looked at me quietly, and his tone was like a reminder. Family? What should a family look like? What do you have to do together? Have fun to share with? Or in my heart, I have never really regarded An Yuanxi as a family. Because of his previous relationship with me, I avoided more contact with him all the time, I am a cautious woman, in my previous life, I had no contact with my boyfriend who broke up, and I would never be friends again. Originally, it should be the same with An Yuanxi, who knew that fate would arrange for him to become my uncle and become an embarrassing family member, although I can't avoid meeting him often, I try to avoid it, acting separately and irrelevantly. I don't care about his business, and I don't want him to take care of my business, although it is a family, it is true, not like a family.

I looked at the clothes he was wearing, an ordinary scholar's attire, even if he was now the second young master of the Yongle Hou Mansion, he rarely had a beautiful crown. 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 sent us to Yizhuang, where I had been once, the last time I came here with Yueniang, it was daytime, I felt ghostly, now it is night, it is dark inside Yizhuang, the night wind whimpered through the cracks in the broken doors and windows, like a ghost crying, making people's hearts hairy, as soon as I got off the car, Xiaohong grabbed my arm tightly, saying that it was supporting me, but it seemed to hang me.

I patted her hand to soothe her fear, turned to Yun Xun and said, "Go and ask the steward of Yizhuang to come out." ”

Yun Xun went to knock on the door with a lantern, the hut next to Yizhuang lit up with candlelight, and an old man came out with his clothes draped and scolding: "Who is it?" 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 scolding, nodded and smiled: "Yo, uncle, what do you have to tell the little ones to do?" ”

"We are the family of the guard Zhang Dabao sent out from the palace today, and we came to take his body to the burial, and the steward took us in." Yun Xun stuffed the ingots into the old man's hand.

When the old man heard this, he looked at us carefully and said with a smile: "Zhang Dabao? The palace said hello and said that his family will come to receive it in two days, I didn't expect you to come so quickly, come in with the old man. ”

I was stunned, and suddenly my heart was in my heart, although the emperor told me that he couldn't let Wei Tongfeng be buried with his real name, but he also knew my surname, and he would definitely come quietly to take Wei Tongfeng's corpse away. 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 through the courtyard, took out the key to open the big lock hanging on the door of the morgue, pushed the door open, led us in, and walked to a coffin and stopped: "Oh, this is Zhang Dabao's coffin." ”

It's good, at least the emperor also provided him with a coffin, and didn't let Brother Wei sleep here like this. I glanced at Yun Xun, and he willingly pushed the lid of the coffin, and I stepped forward, lifted the lantern, and looked at Wei Tongfeng sleeping in the coffin. Big brother, my eyes are a little sore. The emperor was probably afraid that people would find out his identity, so he put the human skin mask on his face, and in front of the steward of Yizhuang, it was inconvenient for me to take off his human skin mask, turned his head, and said to Yun Xun: "Okay, move the coffin out." ”

Yun Xun and Yun Qian closed the lid of the coffin and worked together to move the coffin out of the morgue. I turned to leave, and suddenly I thought of one thing and stopped. Turning his head, his eyes fell on the coffin of Chu Yan that Yueniang took me to see, and I saw that the position was empty. My heart moved, and I walked towards the vacant seat, Xiaohong didn't know what I wanted to do, and was a little afraid: "Sister......"

I turned my head to see her expression of being obviously scared but holding on, and smiled: "Xiaohong, if you're afraid, go out and stay with Yun Xun and them first." ”

"My sister can't see, I want to hold my sister." Xiaohong said with a sad face. An Yuanxi, who had been silent behind me, said, "I'll help my sister-in-law over, you go out." ”

When Xiaohong heard this, she was relieved, and quickly handed the lantern in her hand to An Yuanxi's hand and ran out. An Yuanxi took the lantern and held my arm, my hand tightened, I wanted to break away, but I felt that it was too deliberate and hypocritical, so I finally let him hold it and walked towards the vacant seat step by step. Stopping in front of that vacant seat, remembering that Yueniang was here more than a year ago to tell Chu Yan's tragic experience in the past, she couldn't help but feel a little distracted. Yueniang, Chu Yan should be buried, right?

"This sister-in-law, do you have anything else?" The steward of Yizhuang saw me standing there for a long time, and was a little impatient, "Let's leave if it's okay, what's so good about this morgue?" ”

"Huh?" I came back to my senses and saw that the old man in charge was a little unhappy, and said, "Steward, 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 took a large sum of silver for me to look at the coffin, and let me take care of the dust often." The old man in charge said suspiciously, "It's strange for the family to say, since it's not that they don't have money to bury it, why do they have to stop a coffin for so long before taking it away?" Let the corpse stink in the coffin in vain. ”

"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 last fall. ”

It must have been not long after Yueniang took me to see it, and she took the coffin away, right? Chu Yan, the grievances between us are really unclear, I hope that after you enter the earth, your soul can rest in peace.

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

I looked at the vacant seat quietly, didn't think about why An Yuanxi was suddenly interested in this, was silent for a moment, and said softly: "Yes...... An old man. ”

He listened to my answer, thinking that he knew that I would not say any more, and he would not ask any more, and after a long silence, I turned around and said, "Let's go." ”

An Yuanxi silently helped me out, and the housekeeper Lao Er pulled through the door of the morgue with a "squeak" and locked it with a "bang". I stopped and glanced at the morgue behind me. When I looked back, I saw An Yuanxi looking at me silently, and I smiled: "Let's go, uncle." ”

――2007、5、3

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