Chapter 22: Butterflies (I)
After paying off the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate with silver, I sent Wei Tongfeng's coffin to Pudu Temple on the outskirts of the city overnight. I can't handle the funeral for him as the young lady of the Yun family, and Wei Tongfeng can't be buried in his original identity, he can only be an ordinary internal guard, an ordinary person named Zhang Dabao.
Wei Tongfeng's coffin stopped in the Buddhist hall of Pudu Temple, and I invited the monks in the temple to spend time for him. Yun Xun had already asked people to order the shroud and other items before. When I cut open the gauze on his chest that had been coagulated into a hard shell by blood, and saw the hideous and terrifying wound on his chest, I couldn't help but reddened my eyes again. The wound was only about ten centimeters long, but it penetrated from the front chest to the back, and the flesh was all turned out, and the edge of the wound was still like a cold black green. I asked Yun Qian to carefully examine Brother Wei's wound to see if I could find any trace of the assassin from the wound. After Yun Qian examined the wound, his face was a little strange: "Young lady, it's a knife wound." ”
"What are some of the masters who are good at using knives in the rivers and lakes?" I asked, "Who do you think is so high in martial arts that he can seriously injure General Lonely?" ”
"General Lonely's martial arts are already one of the top masters in the rivers and lakes, and Yun Qian has never heard of a master who can surpass him with a knife." Yun Qian hesitated, "Young lady......"
Seeing his expression, I knew that he might have some scruples about what he said below, and it was indeed a bit inappropriate to say this here, so I said, "You can check it again and go back to the house in detail." ”
"Yes." Yun Qian nodded in response. When she was cleaning Wei Tongfeng, Xiaohong stopped: "Sister, you have bad eyes, let me come." ”
"No, I'll do it myself." There's not much I can do for my eldest brother, so let me do something last for him. What's more, at this time, Azure Xue's consciousness is stronger than mine, and I willingly retreat my consciousness to the side and let Lan Xue take care of her beloved wholeheartedly.
Wipe Wei Tongfeng's blood-stained body and change into a shroud. An Yuanxi and Yun Xun walked in, Yun Xun and Yun Qian helped me carry Wei Tongfeng into the coffin, An Yuanxi came over and said softly: "Yun Xun and I have chosen a feng shui cave in the mountain behind Pudu Temple, and we have invited someone to dig the hole overnight, and we can be buried when it is auspicious tomorrow morning." ”
"Thank you." An Yuanxi came out of Yizhuang, so he didn't ask any more questions, didn't ask who this "Zhang Dabao" was, didn't ask me what I had to do with him, just sorted out the details of the funeral for me, and I was not unmoved. Yun Xun and Yun Qian put the lid of the coffin on the coffin, slowly pushed it back, and I hurriedly said, "Wait! ”
The two guards stopped to look at me, and I whispered, "You all go out, I want to be alone for a while." ”
An Yuanxi and the others glanced at each other and exited the room. I walked to the coffin, looked down at Wei Tongfeng who was sleeping in the coffin, reached out to remove the human skin mask on Wei Tongfeng's face, and said in my heart, I think you will want to see him for the last time. Immediately, the consciousness of Azure Snow took the lead again, and the Azure Snow in his mind said gratefully, thank you.
The eldest brother of the Wei family's face was pale, but his expression was very peaceful, Lan Xue looked at him stupidly, tears streaming down her face, she reached out and stroked Wei Tongfeng's face, and murmured, Big brother...... For a long, long time, Lan Xue refused to look away, and my consciousness was hidden on one side, and I also felt sad.
"Sister-in-law!" An Yuanxi knocked on the door outside the room, "Master Abbot said that the Buddha hall is arranged, and it can be used for the undead at any time." ”
I wiped my tears and comforted in my heart, Lan Xue, I am going to send my eldest brother to the Buddha Hall. She pulled her hand out of Wei Tongfeng's face and whispered with tears, Big brother, you wait for me...... I walked to the end of the coffin and closed the lid with force before I walked to the door and opened it: "Come in and move the coffin." ”
An Yuanxi looked at my tear-stained eyes, frowned slightly, wanted to say something, endured it again, and waited for the iron guard to move the coffin away, I hurriedly followed, stepping on a gravel under my feet, my body staggered, he and Xiaohong hurriedly supported me, and finally couldn't help but say: "Sister-in-law, people can't be resurrected after death, don't be too sad......"
Even if he doesn't know who the dead "Zhang Dabao" is, he can guess that the relationship with me is extraordinary, maybe he has already guessed in his heart who this "Zhang Dabao" is, after all, he is no longer the stupid nerd in Cangdu Mansion at the beginning. I lowered my eyelashes, pulled my arm out of his hand, and whispered, "I'm fine." ”
As the monks recited the scriptures in the Buddha hall, I knelt on the ground and threw the ingots into the brazier. Wei Tongfeng is Wei Jinglan's adopted son, I don't know if he has other relatives in the world, he has been lonely all his life, but fortunately, when he leaves, there is Wei Lanxue, a lover, and me, a righteous sister, to send him to the end, so as not to become a lonely ghost.
I have wondered before, why did Chu Yan only kidnap Wei Lanxue and kill Wei Jinglan when he took revenge, but let Wei Tongfeng go? In a feudal society where men are inferior to women, and children are like jade and women are like tiles, it is more enjoyable to kill his son in front of the enemy, let the white-haired person send the black-haired person, and let him die than to cut the enemy into the benevolent person, annihilate his daughter in front of the enemy, and sell the enemy's daughter into the Qinglou? It turned out that Wei Tongfeng was not Wei Jinglan's biological son, presumably Chu Yan also found out this relationship, so he didn't attack Wei Tongfeng, because he knew that hurting me in front of Wei Jinglan had a better effect than hurting Wei Tongfeng.
However, a person like Wei Jinglan really doesn't look like a kind-hearted person who will adopt a child, I don't know what kind of life experience the eldest brother of the Wei family has behind him? It's just that now, even if he knows his background, what about it? Man is dead, and everything in the future has nothing to do with him.
The firelight reflected my face, and occasionally one or two pieces of incense ash tossed like black butterflies rising with the heat. After kneeling for too long, my legs were numb, my head was a little dizzy, and a fine cold sweat broke out on my forehead. Xiaohong saw that my expression was wrong, and hurriedly helped me tightly: "Sister, your face is so bad, get up and go to the inner hall to rest for a while." ”
"I'm going to keep a vigil." I shook my head. Xiaohong took out a silk scarf to help me wipe the cold sweat on my forehead, and persuaded softly: "The guardian doesn't have to kneel all the time, get up and sit down." ”
An Yuanxi also walked over: "Sister-in-law, get up and rest, you are weak, and you have been tired for another day, how can you be buried tomorrow if you have been kneeling like this?" It's time for the heart to arrive. ”
He was reasonable, I did feel a little unbearable, nodded tiredly, and put down the paper money in my hand: "Xiaohong, you help me continue to burn, don't break it." ”
When I tried to stand up, my legs were numb and I didn't feel it at all. An Yuanxi helped me up, I couldn't even stand steadily, my body shook, and I slid to the ground, An Yuanxi hurriedly supported me, gritted his teeth, and picked me up. I snorted softly and looked at him in astonishment: "Uncle......"
"It's rude." He lowered his eyelids, avoided my gaze, carried me to a chair that had been moved in at some point on the side of the temple, and carefully placed me on the chair. I looked at him in a daze, a little uncomfortable, he turned around and walked to the brazier, squatted down and didn't know what to say to Xiaohong, Xiaohong nodded, got up and walked over, he himself squatted at the brazier and continued to burn paper.
"Sister, I'll help you rub your legs." Red crouched down in front of me, her hands falling to my knees, massaging my numb legs. I glanced at An Yuanxi, knowing that he must have told Xiaohong about this just now, and bit my lip, I didn't know what it was like.
The body was really tired, even though the two souls in this body tried their best to support it and not let the weak body of Azure Snow fall asleep, but the drowsiness still couldn't stop coming. Xiaohong's moderate massage gradually relaxed the body, and also accelerated the hypnosis, in the monk's chanting, unconsciously, it was actually a deep sleep-
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