Chapter 169: A Strange Funeral
Baifu Yin can sit in his current position, and he has to touch the light of his father-in-law, so he is very afraid at home, and he was scolded by his wife's dog blood.
The three of them spent half a night, until the sky set the plan: the old princess's face can't help but buy, and Su Qi must be released first. As for the Jiang Mansion who filed the complaint, Bai Fu Yin personally came to investigate the case, in order to find out the death of Miss Jiang.
Su Qi listened to the ins and outs of this period, and at the same time feasted at He Ji Restaurant regardless of the image.
Cailian brought her hot four dishes and a soup and a big bowl of rice, and she couldn't help but feel that she was really pitiful for this misfortune, and decided to burn a few more incense plants for the God of Wealth in the hall, and asked his old man to bring a letter to Guanyin Bodhisattva, and bless this unlucky girl.
Su Qi listened to the old princess's banquet at night while eating, and for a while he didn't know whether he wanted to laugh or cry, and many emotions came up and blocked with the food, and he choked gorgeously.
Mu Yunmei was busy helping her pat her back and scoop a bowl of hot soup intimately.
Su Qi easily eased up, and consciously lost his temper in front of the fifth master of others, and awkwardly rubbed the oil that had nowhere to put his paws, "Let the fifth master laugh." ”
"No, I wouldn't be." Mu Yunmei's eyes were full of gentle pity, "I have been hungry for a day and a night, and I have really suffered." He said cautiously, "I heard that the eldest brother went to the Guangning Mansion prison last night, I thought he had a conscience and went to rescue you, but I didn't think about ......."
When he saw his eldest brother returning alone, he was furious, and if it weren't for his subordinates to stop him, he really did something with his eldest brother.
However, his eldest brother turned a deaf ear to his anger, his eyes were empty and no one paid attention, and he staggered all the way back to Qiwu Courtyard, like a walking corpse that had lost his soul.
Mu Yunmei said this, raised her eyes and saw that Su Qi also looked like she had lost her soul, and a tear fell from the corner of her eye, and fell straight into the bowl.
She was stunned for a moment, then Fang came back to her senses and sniffed, and forced a smile: "What to do with him, it ruined my appetite." With that, continue to bow your head and pick up the rice.
Mu Yunmei watched her stuff the bowl of rice with tears into her stomach, and suddenly she had an irrepressible urge to reach out and hold her slightly cool hand.
Boom...... The bowl in her hand fell on the table, splashing the rice all over the table, "Fifth Master, this is?" ”
"Miss Su," Mu Yunmei clenched her struggling little hand, her tone was anxious and her eyes were eager, "I want to tell you that my Mu family men are not all lucky and ruthless, I, Mu Yunmei, am willing to go to the soup and fire for you, and I am also willing to accompany you to cook snow and make tea, and when the moon falls, I ......."
When he said this, Su Qi had already understood a little, and was surprised to hear the footsteps of picking lotus outside the curtain......
"Fifth Master, stop talking!" She let out a low cry and pulled her hand back.
When Cailian came in with the curtain, she saw a mess on the table, and glanced at Su Qi with disgust: "How old a person is, he still eats like a child." Busy wiping it with a rag, holding a red lacquer tea tray, on which is a teapot of azure Jun porcelain, "The fifth master's favorite dragon well before the rain, I am easily reluctant to take it out, you are stained with the light of the fifth master today." ”
She said it easily and happily, but Su Qi was so embarrassed that she couldn't raise her head.
Her head was drooping lower and lower, her cheeks were hot, but Cai Lian saw the clues, reached out and touched the corner of her forehead: "Are you uncomfortable?" ”
Mu Yunmei coughed at the right time, and said to Cailian: "Miss Su has been in prison for a long time, but she is afraid that the cold air will enter her body, so you should go and ask a doctor to come and see her." ”
Cai Lian thought so and hurriedly said goodbye. Su Qi was entangled again and again, and whispered to Mu Yunmei: "What Fang just said, please don't mention it again!" ”
"Why?" Mu Yunmei said hurriedly, "What do you think I am inferior to my eldest brother?" ”
Su Qi smiled bitterly and shook his head: What a good man he is, he is the sweetheart of Cailian and Huang Siniang, why did he ......, "I am a rough woman in the mountains and fields, and I am not worthy of the fifth master." ”
Mu Yunmei knew that this was just her excuse, and sighed: "Miss Su doesn't have to say such words as unworthy, and I won't force you, you just need to know that there is a man standing behind you without regrets, willingly sheltering you from the wind and rain, as long as you are well, I will be a sunny day." ”
Because of Mu Wuye's sudden confession, Su Qi was a little timid and embarrassed in front of Cai Lian during the day and Huang Siniang at night for several days in a row, and always felt like a thief who had done something wrong.
On the contrary, Mu Wuye was very calm, and came to Huimuzhai to see her almost every day, and by the way, he informed her of the progress of the Jiang family's case.
According to him, on the day Su Qi was released, Lord Yin Bai of Guangning Mansion personally took the people who caught Kuai, Qi Zuo and others to Jiangfu to investigate the case with great fanfare, and the service attitude was not bad.
Su Qi was surprised for a moment and said with concern: "What can you find out?" ”
Mu Yunmei said: "I found out something unexpected: before Miss Jiang died, she was no longer complete. ”
Su Qi was slightly surprised, and then agreed with Mu Yunmei that it must be the evil done by the monster.
"As soon as I talk about this result, the lord and wife of the Jiang family are all thunderous, thinking that the Jiang family has been a scholarly family for generations, and the most important thing is family style and morality, and the daughters are unmarried and broken, and they are naturally unable to hang their faces as fathers and mothers."
Su Qi laughed miserably in his heart: Family style and virtue? In addition to dying to save face, when did such fathers and mothers care about their daughter's happiness?
"Oh yes, there is another important clue: when the arrester searched Jiang's house, two pills were found from Miss Jiang's maid Luomei's room, and Luomei admitted under Xue Zhutou's repeated questioning that it was the Suhe Xiangyuan you gave to Miss Jiang."
"In other words, Miss Jiang didn't eat at all?" Su Hexiangyuan is still there, so Su Qi's false accusation of poisoning Miss Jiang is self-defeating. Su Qi was a little disappointed while rejoicing: Miss Jiang refused to believe her until she died......
Xue Zhutou felt that the maid Luomei's words and deeds were inconsistent, and he was very deliberate, so he gave Lord Bai and took Luomei back to Guangning Mansion. Clinker, that Luomei went crazy after staying in the prison of Guangning Mansion all night, full of nonsense, saying what monsters are doing tricks, hiding from the sky and the sea, Li Dai Taostiff and other wonderful things. ”
Su Qi was noncommittal, but he guessed in his heart whether Luomei's madness was due to Huang Siniang and Li Jin's credit.
Mu Yunmei finally concluded: "After Baifu Yin's investigation, Master Jiang and his wife lost face, and they only wanted to turn big things into small things, so they discussed with Bai Fu Yin, and hastily set the result of 'my daughter was unfortunately humiliated, and she committed suicide by drinking hatred and taking poison', which can be regarded as the closure of the case, and both sides are happy." ”
All happy? Su Qi shook his head and sighed: It's just a mediocre official and a feudal parent, who cares about people's lives together. Pity Miss Jiang who died of hatred......
Well, it's not quite accurate to say "dead...... She begged Li Jin to go to Jiangfu to explore the night before, and said that Miss Jiang's soul was still in her body safely, but she was unconscious, as if she had fallen into a coma.
Who turned Miss Jiang into this immortal appearance?
She was in a trance, and suddenly heard Mu Yunmei say: "Oh yes, tomorrow is Miss Jiang's first seven, and she will be buried according to the convention." ”
Bury? Su Qi was suddenly startled: "Where is she going to be buried?" ”
At dusk the next day, under the bloody sun, two horses dressed in vegetarian clothes pulled a heavy coffin, and slowly walked forward in the plain white paper money flying in the sky.
Jiang Xue's eldest brother held the basin, and the second and third brothers helped the spirit, recalling the gentle care of the eldest sister in the past, all of them were full of tears and pain. The funeral relatives and friends behind him, thinking about it, just a few days ago, Miss Jiang was still the bride to be married in the big red wedding dress, and she died in a blink of an eye, and the comparison tonight is even more sad.
The funeral procession wept and wept all the way, and carried the coffin straight to the Tanzhe Temple in the west of Quang Ninh City. Halfway up the mountain, the two horses pulling the coffin suddenly stopped, raised their heads irritably, neighed and hesitated, as if there was something terrible in front of them, so that they did not dare to take a step forward.
The mourners were having some doubts, when suddenly a gust of wind arose, blowing the sky dark, the grass and trees dancing wildly, startling a crowd of crows among the trees, crying and flying to the sky in a panic.
Among the relatives and friends of the Jiang family's funeral, most of them were sent to relatives before, and they had seen the powerful demon wind on the way to send relatives, and at this time it was still a familiar feeling, or a familiar taste, and they all shouted "The demon wind is coming!" He didn't care about the coffin, so he hugged his head and fled away.
For a while, only a few of Jiang Xue's younger brothers and a few loyal subordinates of the Jiang Mansion were still guarding the coffin. The coachman pulled the reins hard to soothe the two irritable horses.
Fatally, two black eagles flew out of nowhere, roaring and swooping down on the horse, poking their beaks straight at the horse's cheeks and eyes.
The two horses were terrified by the black hawks, and ran away uncontrollably.
"Come back! Come back! The groom shouted anxiously behind him, but the horse was so frightened that he dragged the coffin forward without a head, and there was a bottomless cliff in front of him......
Several sons and subordinates of the Jiang family, against the whistling demon wind, stumbled and crawled to the edge of the cliff, but it was too late, and the two frightened horses fell down the cliff with Miss Jiang's coffin and disappeared completely.
The demon wind gradually disappeared, and the relatives and friends who were scattered and fled gradually gathered over, looking at the cliff dozens of feet high, helpless.
The little son of the Jiang family is still young, and he couldn't help crying at this time: "Sister, sister......"
His crying made everyone more and more sad, and the second son of the Jiang family had to comfort his younger brother and said: "Don't cry, sister, she loved and was quiet when she was alive, and now she is buried in this valley between mountains and rivers, and she must be happy to be accompanied by flowers and sparrows all day long." ”
All relatives and friends nodded yes, and simply dropped the spirit basin and burned the paper money on the side of the cliff, which was considered a complete funeral, and they helped each other down the mountain to go back to Jiangfu.
When everyone was far away, the valley of the twilight returned to silence. Su Qi poked his head out from behind a towering ancient tree, and after making sure that everyone in the Jiang family had gone away, Fang dodged out and ran to the edge of the cliff to look down.
But under the cliff of Qianren Mountain, there is a turquoise pool of water, which is now as calm as ever, and there is no half shadow of Miss Jiang's coffin.
"That's weird." Su Qi muttered to himself.
She secretly followed the funeral procession of the Jiang Mansion all the way to this point, and saw the demon wind rising again, and Miss Jiang's coffin fell off the cliff, so shocked that her mouth grew up, but she didn't dare to make a move.
But the coffin is obviously made of wood, even if it falls into the cold pool at the bottom of the cliff, it should float, and it is by no means like the stone that has sunk into the sea without a trace now.
"Unless......" she muttered to herself when she heard the sound of a rustling of feathers coming from under the cliff.
Su Qi hurriedly dodged and hid behind a big rock, revealing half of his eyes and looking out nervously.
Suddenly, when I heard a clear and long roar under the cliff, I saw dozens of long and sturdy black eagles, all grabbing a coffin with their sharp claws, and flapping their wings and flying towards the cliff.
The leader was even more conspicuous, a giant eagle with a white head and green feathers and a golden beak and jade claws, with its wings spread out more than a foot wide, and led all the eagles to work together to place the coffin smoothly on the cliff side stone.
The giant eagle folded its huge wings, stood on the side of the coffin and raised its head to the sky with a long roar, and the rest of the eagles raised their heads in unison and roared, as if they were meeting the king.
Su Qi, who was hiding behind the stones, was really surprised to see such a spectacular eagle formation.
After all the eagles bowed to the giant eagle in unison, they flapped their wings and flew away in the twilight. And the giant eagle walked around the coffin alone, and suddenly raised its head to the sky with a clear roar, and a black mist surrounded it, and when it dispersed, it turned into a tall man.
It's just that this man still has wings on his back and down feathers behind his ears, and he is an out-and-out "birdman".