Chapter 162: Digging a Grave
Mrs. Yang is like a storyteller in a teahouse, and she has to find an audience to cheer her on.
"Mrs. Yang saw my mother?"
Mrs. Yang flattened her mouth, laughed weirdly, and deliberately lowered her voice: "Your mother's grave is an empty coffin!" After speaking, she slapped her palm on the table with a "snap".
Lin Mumu's heart skipped a beat, and she felt that it was a pity that this girl didn't go to tell the story.
"Empty coffin? What kind of grudge does Mrs. Yang have with my mother, so that you hate her so much that everyone is buried and go to dig up her coffin? ”
Madame Yang pouted. "I'm not so lacking in virtue, your mother's grave was dug up when I went, maybe her body was stolen by the grave digger."
Lin Mumu's brows furrowed, don't say it's her, I'm afraid Lin Haode doesn't know, although Lin Haode has ignored her for so many years, but in her memory, Lin Haode will also send someone to sweep the tomb of the Rong family every year during the Qingming Festival, if he knows that there is nothing in it at all, what else is he pretending to do?
Affectionate characters?
Lin Mumu shook his head, if this was the case, he would not have married the Zhang family back long after the Rong family died.
Tomb robbers?
The Rong family is rich, and the Rong family also brought a lot of dowry back then, but after her death, Lin Haode will be willing to get her valuable funeral goods?
It's simply not possible.
Even if there is something valuable, those people steal it, what is it to steal the body?
"Then according to Madame's opinion, who hates my mother so much that she didn't even leave her a corpse after she died?"
"Then you'll have to ask the Rong family." Mrs. Yang helped her shiny sideburns. "Okay, I've said everything I know, my lord's illness will be asked to Dr. Lin, and I will not accompany him if I have something to do." said, without waiting for Lin Mumu's reaction, he got up and left directly.
Until she left the yard, Lin Mumu could still faintly hear the tinkling sound.
Lin Mumu didn't stay in the Yang family for long, and left with Mrs. Yang's hind feet.
"The eldest lady is back."
"Yes, I'm back."
Lin Mumu returned to her house and called Qiaoqiao into the house.
"The eldest lady is hungry, today the slave maid made a drunken roast goose, and it will be well soon." Qiaoqiao wiped her hands with a handkerchief and poured Lin Mumu a cup of tea.
"Drunken roast goose?! Qiaoqiao, you can do it, there are more and more tricks recently, and if you want me to say that whoever marries you in the future will be a blessing! ”
"Miss, don't make fun of the slave maid, the slave and maid will stay by the eldest lady's side in the future, and the eldest lady is not allowed to drive the slave and maid away."
"I want to stay, I'm afraid that when you have a sweetheart, your sweetheart will complain that I have kept you and not married you."
"Miss!" Qiaoqiao was thin-skinned, and Lin Mumu didn't dare to raise her head when she said this.
"Okay, okay, I'm just joking, I have something to ask you." Lin Mumu didn't tease her anymore.
Hearing her say this, Qiaoqiao raised her head. "What does the eldest lady want to ask the slave?"
"After my mother died, did the Rong family almost stop having contact with the Lin Mansion?"
"Is the eldest lady talking about the Rong family?"
"Yes."
Qiaoqiao frowned and said: "People don't have much contact with each other, but the Rong family occasionally sends someone to send some things to the eldest lady, but most of those things are detained by the lady and the old lady......"
"Has the Rong family always been on the Jiangnan side?"
"Yes, the Rong family's ancestral house is in Jiangnan, and I heard that most of the business is developing there, why did the eldest lady think of asking this?" For so many years, Lin Mumu rarely mentioned the Rong family, because she resented the Rong family in her heart
Just leave her alone, and even the things sent can't reach her hands.
"It's nothing, it's just a sudden reminder."
When she came out of the ruined temple that day, she found that the carriage in which she had rescued the asthmatic woman was riding had a flag with the word Rong written on it.
I don't know if it's the Rong family she thinks it is.
"Miss, let's eat first."
"Yes."
Qiaoqiao's cooking skills are getting better and better, and Lin Mumu has a round belly.
"Ouch, I've eaten too much by accident, why don't we go out of the city to eat?"
They both looked at the sky that was about to darken outside. "The eldest lady said she was going out of the city?" Instead of strolling around the yard?
"Well, out of the city, the night scene outside the city must have a different taste."
Shuangshuang's "......" is dark everywhere, what is the taste?
However, what Lin Mumu decides, even if they don't understand, they will do it.
"Qiaoqiao, Ning Xiang and Yin Yin are at the house to watch the house, I will take Shuangshuang for a ride and come back."
"It's getting dark, so be careful." Qiaoqiao said a little uneasy.
"Don't worry, it's just to eliminate food."
"Miss, what are you doing with a shovel?" Shuangshuang came over with two shovels.
"You'll know when the time comes, walk."
When the two men had gotten into the carriage, they went to the city gate.
"Where are you going?" Ning Yuan asked as he drove the car.
"Well, I miss my mother a little, go and see my mother, it's on the kind of grave mountain outside the city."
"It turns out that the eldest lady is thinking about Mrs., the eldest lady didn't say it earlier, you also brought incense paper."
Lin Mumu didn't answer, just leaned on the futon and closed her eyes to recuperate.
There were no people on the road at night, Ning Yuan drove relatively fast, and it didn't take long for them to leave the city.
When Lin Mumu opened his eyes again, the carriage had already stopped.
"Miss, it's here."
"Yes."
Now that it was completely dark, Shuangshuang lit two claw lanterns and got out of the carriage.
"Miss, the road on the mountain can't be driven, so we can only walk up."
"Yes, grab the shovel in the car."
"Yes."
Lin Haode's ancestral home is not in Xijing, the Rong family died suddenly, and it was summer, if the body was transported back to the Lin family's ancestral cemetery, I didn't know what it would become, so Lin Haode simply found a piece of land on the grave mountain on the outskirts of Beijing and buried the person.
"Goo-goo."
It was just dark, the moon had not yet come out, and it was so dark that they couldn't see their fingers, and all they could see was the dim light from the two claw lanterns in their hands.
"Shuangshuang, you lead the way."
"Big, Miss, it's scary at night here, or let's go back first and come back tomorrow during the day." Even if Shuangshuang is a bold one, walking on the graves of dead people everywhere at night feels a little infiltrating.
"It's coming, don't be afraid."
Both trembled and walked in front of them with lanterns, and Rong's cemetery was halfway up the mountain.
"Miss, Madame's graveyard is right in front."
Lin Mumu raised the lantern in his hand a little, and when he got closer, he saw a tombstone not far in front of him, and when he approached the tombstone, he saw that Jiangnan Rong's family, Lin Haode's wife, was here.
Lin Mumu stood in front of the grave and gently rubbed the stone stele, Lin Haode would let people come to sweep the tomb every year, and it did not become an overgrown deserted grave.
"Dig up the grave."
"What!?"
Both thought they had misheard.
"What did the eldest lady say?!"
In the dark, Lin Mumu's eyebrows and eyes were exceptionally calm. "You heard me right, I asked you to dig up the grave."
"Miss, this is unacceptable, this is Madame's grave!" Shuangshuang's face was anxious, I don't know what stimulated Lin Mumu to do such a big rebellious thing!
She wouldn't just believe what Mrs. Yang said, and the only way to prove what she said was true or false was to verify it herself.
"Then I'll dig it myself." Lin Mumu took a shovel and dug directly.
"Miss, no, you can't do this, Miss......"
Ning Yuan stepped forward and grabbed Shuangshuang. "The eldest lady naturally has her reasons for doing things, so don't obstruct her anymore." As he spoke, he also took a shovel and dug with Lin Mumu.
Both of them could only stand aside and wipe their tears.
The eerily quiet grave digging and low sobbing on the hill were exceptionally clear.
With a "clang", the shovel in Lin Mumu's hand touched a hard object. "I've dug up the coffin board."
The two moved faster, and it wasn't long before an eerie coffin appeared in front of the three of them.
"Lift the coffin."
"Yes."
Shuangshuang covered his eyes directly.
With a "clang", the lid of the coffin was opened by Ning Yuan.
Lin Mumu took the lantern and went over to take a photo.
"It's empty."
"Miss, look at this." Ning Yuan jumped into the coffin and took out an emerald green hairpin from inside.
Lin Mumu took the hairpin and looked at it. "Emerald jadeite, this hairpin is worth at least a few hundred taels of silver."
Shuangshuang listened to the conversation between the two, opened his eyes curiously and glanced into the coffin, and the whole person was stupid. "This, why is this coffin empty? Madame, where's Madame's corpse? ”
"Cover it."
"Yes."
Ning Yuan closed the coffin and restored the grave.
Lin Mumu looked at the moon gradually revealing her face in the sky with a gloomy expression, and played with the hairpin with her fingertips casually.
The existence of this hairpin can rule out the possibility of the body being stolen, such a valuable hairpin is not wanted, even if a corpse is stolen and sold for the silver earned from the marriage of the yin, it is not one percent of the value of this hairpin.
So who took the corpse away, or ...... Rong didn't die at all?
Thinking of this possibility, Lin Mumu's brows were twisted
She didn't want to worry about these things in the first place, but she was the one who wanted to stay here for a long time, and it was better to figure out some things than to keep them in the dark, at least to have a direction to deal with when something happened.
"Let's go."
"Yes."
Lin Mumu, they went all the way down the mountain and got into the carriage.
"Miss, why is Madame's coffin empty?"
"I want to know too."
Shuangshuang didn't know what to think, and looked at Lin Mumu in dismay. "How did the eldest lady know that Madame was not in the coffin?"
"I knew it from my mother, but I didn't expect her to lie to me."
"Do you want to tell the master about this?" Back then, it was the people of the Lin Mansion who buried the Rong family.
Lin Mumu shook her head. "Don't make a noise about this, go back to the city first."
"Yes."
On the tomb mountain, after Lin Mumu and the others left, a black figure walked out of the shadows, and he stopped in front of the Rong family's tombstone.
"I didn't expect to be discovered by her, and I'm not stupid."