Chapter 115: Opening the coffin
Youjia Shuning's coffin opening ceremony was scheduled for two days later, and Su Ningxue used this time to go to Youjia Shuning's house to rummage through it, with the excuse of finding some mother's things to bring back to Su Mansion to send her feelings of longing.
Su Jianwu didn't know what to take from Youjia Shuning's room, so he went to Youjia Shuning's grave every day to sit for a while, and often came back drunk and drunk.
On this day, Su Ningxue accompanied Su Zhe out for a walk, took him to see the environment in which their mother and daughter lived over the years, and happened to meet the village chief.
The village chief has not appeared since that night, and today he is holding a stack of books, afraid that he has come to Su Jin to hand over the account books. Su Zhe walked in front, Su Ningxue followed behind him, the village chief was obviously happy when he saw Su Zhe, and walked over with a faster pace, and then saw Su Ningxue walking out from behind Su Zhe, his face changed unconsciously.
"Young Master, Miss."
"Well, the village chief is going to send me an account book? I haven't seen you for a while, and I thought you were going to take it privately. ”
The village chief was stunned for a moment, and said dryly: "The eldest lady said that she laughed, but no one has been looking through the old accounts for a while, and it is a little troublesome to find." ”
He just waited for Su Zhe to come over when he was alone. When he heard that the eldest young master came out for a walk, he thought that the eldest young master was alone, and he knew that the eldest lady was also with him, so he delayed it for a few more days.
The village chief didn't like Su Ningxue at all, his impression of Su Ningxue was the same as Su Ningxue's impression before, most of the time, she sat there quietly, obviously not doing anything, but giving people a gloomy feeling and not daring to approach.
The affairs of the village are in the hands of Youjia Shuning, and the village chief will come to Biezhuang every half a month to talk about the account, he has seen Su Ningxue a lot of times, but he has spoken, but there are only a handful.
"Well, the village chief blames me for checking the accounts?" Su Ningxue asked with a smile.
The village chief was stunned again, even if he was to blame in his heart, he didn't dare to say it.
Besides, Su Zhe looked like he didn't care about anything, obviously not ready to help him, he could only lower his posture and say: "How dare the villain, the eldest lady stop making jokes about the villain." ”
"Well, it's good if you don't dare. I'm going to walk with my brother for a while, so you can give the things to Su Jin first. ”
"Ugh."
Su Ningxue put away her smiling face, watched the village chief trot away as if she was fleeing, and she said to Su Zhe: "Big brother, do I look so unpleasant?" He actually likes your indifferent face more than my smiling face. ”
Su Zhe's eyebrows moved, he looked at Su Ningxue and said seriously, "Have you noticed?" There are a lot of people in the village, but everyone sees you as if they don't know you, they either run away from afar, or hide directly and pretend not to see you. ”
"Huh?" Su Ningxue was stunned and swept her gaze around.
Suddenly, she regretted taking Su Zhe out. Su Zhe is different from Su Jin, Su Jin will take her change for granted, but Su Zhe asks these abnormalities as suspicious points.
Su Ningxue didn't know how to explain it for a while, if it wasn't for Su Zhe to ask, she herself wouldn't have found out that the Zhuang Shangren were afraid of her, and she didn't know what Su Ningxue had done before.
"Could it be that the news of that night got out? Does my eldest brother think I'm cruel? Su Ningxue deliberately diverted the topic. Su Zhe's eyebrows tightened again, and he said, "The winner is the king, and the loser is the villain." When they sacrifice for money, they should be prepared to pay the price for it. ”
Su Zhe is indifferent, in fact, if the same thing happens to others, he won't even say a word about it.
Because it was about Su Ningxue, he had already taken a few more looks, and even had a reputation for being ruthless for Su Ningxue. He doesn't care about anyone, so he's not afraid of being talked about.
"It was the prince's people who saved you that night, right?" Su Zhe asked.
Su Ningxue nodded, explained the reason why Yun Huan Nan sent Mo Xiao over, and asked Su Zhe at the same time, "Do you think that taking your mother back to the house will cause another incident?" ”
Su Zhe's footsteps paused, and his eyebrows tightened.
Youjia Shuning's affairs are more complicated than he imagined, in the past few days, Su Ningxue has been rummaging in Youjia Shuning's house, and he has not been idle, he has been arranging for people to inquire in the village, but the news that can be found is nothing more than that Youjia Shuning rarely goes out, Youjia Shuning is kind and smart, and she also said that she knows a little about medical skills, and so on.
Unusual news, not at all.
"Adapt to the situation, the prince said that if something happens, it will not be groundless."
"Hmm."
On this point, Su Ningxue and Su Zhe have the same opinion.
She didn't know how strong Yun Huan Nan's strength was, but she must have been convinced of what Yun Zhu Nan made her wary.
Two days later.
The ritual invited by Su Fu, the people who opened the coffin were ready, the chanting was not stopped, the coffin openers had a shovel, a prayer, the soil piled up around was getting higher and higher, and Youjia Shuning's coffin finally appeared in front of him.
Su Jianwu's body has been getting worse and worse day by day these days, and when he saw the coffin being carried out, his body was weak and he almost fell. Su Ningxue quickly grabbed him, and at the same time ordered the family waiting behind him to come and support him.
The coffin is very ordinary, like the lowest wood used by ordinary people for burial.
Su Jianwu unconsciously glared at Su Ningxue, and Su Jin explained on the side: "Master, after Madame died, the young lady was picked up by someone from Su Mansion, and she didn't have time to take care of Madame's funeral in person. ”
Su Jianwu was stunned, and remembered, the village chief had also said before that He watched and dealt with Youjia Shuning's funeral.
He couldn't say anything about the apology, but only moved his gaze to Su Zhe and said, "Go and open the coffin for your mother." ”
After all these years, he still wants to see her, even if it is as dry as white bones.
Su Zhe bowed his head, he and Su Ningxue couldn't wait for Su Jianwu to open the coffin. Even if Su Jianwu didn't open it, they were ready to ask for the coffin to be replaced, or accidentally break the coffin on the way back.
They had to see the inside of Youjia Shuning's coffin.
Su Zhe walked over, followed the instructions of the coffin opener, and operated step by step, and finally he opened the first nail, and the other ones were opened by several other people with a screwdriver wrapped around his hair.
The thick wooden lid was pulled, and the heavy sound seemed to open a deep opening in people's hearts, and the wooden cover slammed on the ground with a 'bang'.
Su Jianwu was the first to stagger, but the next moment he slumped to the ground.
"Sir!" The two family members who were supporting him also exclaimed in surprise, and they knelt on the ground and trembled in fright.
What's going on?
Su Zhe and Su Ningxue looked at each other for the first time, and the next moment they walked over quickly, and when they saw the inside of the coffin, they were also shocked.
Empty!
Youjia Shuning's coffin is actually empty!
"General, General!" The village chief and the others were so frightened that their legs trembled, how could they have gone if they had obviously put their wife in?
Although they don't often come to other villages to check, theft rarely happens in their village, and it is stealing corpses, which... It's simply impossible!
The village chief's lips trembled, and he wanted to explain but didn't know how to explain it.
It is a fact that they did not come to the grave, and it is also a fact that the body was lost in their village, how can he explain it clearly?
"Check! Check it out for me! I can't find her, you all bury her! Su Jianwu was ruthless.
Su Zhe and Su Ningxue's faces were heavy, and what Yun Huannan was worried about finally happened.
No matter how well prepared they were, they could not have expected the coffin to be empty.
When she went back to Beizhuang, Su Ningxue called Mo Xiao as soon as possible.
Mo Xiao already knew what was happening in the graveyard, and sent someone to investigate. He advised: "Your people investigate from the open side, and my people will cooperate with them in secret." ”
The so-called scaring the snake is sometimes a bad thing, and sometimes it is used well, but it gets twice the result with half the effort.
It is impossible for the people sent by Su Jianwu to be withdrawn, so it is better to use these people, Mo Xiao is secretly monitoring, maybe he can find out something faster.
"Hmm." Su Ningxue agreed.
But the fact that Youjia Shuning's body is missing is not suitable for publicity, after all, the emperor's decree is also related to Su Ningxue's marriage into the Xianyou Palace, the face of the seventeenth prince.
Su Jianwu was hit again, and these truths were still understood.
Only investigated in the village, and did not let the news spread.
A few days later, the coffin spirit card returned home, and it was still held as scheduled.
Before Su Ningxue left, she found an opportunity to hand over the scroll to Mo Xiao, she couldn't understand it, maybe Yun Huanan had a way there.
Su Fu received the news, arranged the mourning hall early, hung white veils from the inside to the outside, and after such a long time, they finally gave Youjia Shuning a decent funeral.
Before entering the city, the coffin had already been replaced by Su Jianwu with the best one, and the group stepped into Jingling City, which caused many people to sigh. It can be seen how irreplaceable the memories that Youjia Shuning brought to everyone back then.
The coffin was parked in the main hall of Su Mansion, and that night it was supposed to be Su Zhe, and Su Ningxue was guarding the spirit. Su Jianwu insisted on coming in person.
Mrs. Su felt sorry for her son, so she rushed over cheekily, and Su Jianwu told her that there was actually nothing in the coffin, and he lost Youjia Shuning and could never find it again.
He cried like a child.
For more than ten years, he cried for the first time in front of Mrs. Su.
Mrs. Su felt very uncomfortable, pulled him closer to her arms, and couldn't help but say, "Find!" Wu'er, my mother will accompany you to find it! We'll definitely get her back. ”
Su Ningxue was standing outside the hall at this time, she hated Su Jianwu, but for the sake of Su Jianwu's affection for Youjia Shuning, she was a little relieved, so she brought the dim sum that Zhishu had just made.
"Su Jin, do you think the old lady is sincere?"
"Huh?" Su Jin raised her eyebrows slightly, and Su Ningxue said: "It was obviously her who tried her best to drive my mother out, but now she says that she wants to get it back, if she really feels sorry for her father, she won't drive people away in the first place." ”
Therefore, she will not find people back now because she feels sorry for Su Jianwu.
Su Jin's eyes deepened a little, lowered his head, and did not answer.
Su Ningxue didn't ask any further, but turned around and said, "Let's go back." ”
Su Jin looked at the tray in his hand, and his doubts or explanations were not spoken.
"Su Jin, do you remember how my mother died?" On the way back, Su Ningxue suddenly asked. Su Jin was stunned again, looked at Su Ningxue's back, and didn't say a word for a while.
"What's wrong?" Su Ningxue turned around and asked her, she hurriedly lowered her head and whispered, "It's okay." ”