"Miss Sun, why didn't you come out with the eldest young master?"

The two servants guarding the door saw Ah Nan coming out of the courtyard and asked with a smile.

A smile tugged at the corner of Ah Nan's mouth, "Father still has something to do, I'll go back first." ”

Ah Nan ignored the servant's deliberate flattery, and left the main courtyard in a reluctant.

"Did they sacrifice me for the sake of the family?"

Tears slid down from the corners of her eyes.

She never understood why her father was so ruthless, but did he know how frightened and desperate he was in the small, dimly lit coffin.

Does he know how painful and confused he is when he is deliberately killed by his relatives in the bottom of his heart?

Why is this so?

She didn't do anything wrong.

"Can a living sacrifice really save my family from disaster?"

Ah Nan asked suddenly.

Yu Xia was silent for a long time before he said: "It stands to reason that the living sacrifice is an evil law, and it is impossible to use it to avoid the punishment of the Heavenly Dao. ”

However, according to what she saw in the cemetery, the Huang family did not use a living sacrifice in the conventional sense.

Living sacrifices are mostly seen in barbarian tribes, and when they ask the gods to call on them, they will choose eligible living people as sacrifices, and use fire to kill people, or cut living people directly into pieces, or bloodlet to death, etc., to please the gods, appease the soul, in order to show piety, so as to beg for what they want.

And Ah Nan's death is obviously not so bloody, but it is more cruel.

Not only did they worship her body, but they also imprisoned her soul.

And the forty-six tombstones in the cemetery, Yu Xia has seen them one by one, and knows that after Huang Ruiqing succeeded as the patriarch, they have not been defeated, and they have even been passed down for many generations.

From this aspect......

"Maybe it works."

There was a sigh in Yu Xia's words, but she didn't say anything else after all.

She brought Ah Nan here just so that she could find the truth, and now that the truth is in front of her, no matter how much comfort she has, it will pale in the face of the cruel truth.

Ah Nan went to her mother's yard and made an excuse to explain where she had just gone.

Soon the sun will set, and it won't be long before there will be cries in the main room.

Ah Nan watched her mother enter the small kitchen and stew the soup with her heart.

"Mother, can you stew an extra bowl of soup today?"

Seeing his mother looking at him suspiciously, an innocent smile appeared on her face, "I want to drink it too." ”

"Ah Nan is really a child, is it gluttonous? Mother, I'll give you another bowl of stew. ”

The sun set in the west, burning the clouds red in the sky.

There was a burst of crying in the main courtyard.

Her grandfather, Mr. Huang, passed away.

"Grandma!"

There was a shout from afar outside the courtyard, and Ah Nan's mother heard the movement and hurriedly came out of the kitchen, and saw a little maid shouting with a sad face:

"The lord has returned to heaven!"

As the housewife, Ah Nan's mother heard the news, and she didn't have time to grieve, so she immediately ordered a few maids and wives in the yard, and together with some people in Ah Nan's yard, they were transferred over and began to sew filial piety clothes.

At the same time, he also asked people to call all the people in the family, from dishes, chopsticks, plates, and plates to sesame oil lamps and candles to receiving guests, everything was done in detail, and the tasks were assigned one by one to avoid going wrong during the funeral.

"Ah Nan, your grandfather has passed away, your father and mother will be very busy these days, you have to be obedient and don't get into trouble, you know?"

The housewife stroked Ah Nan's head, and her tone was gentle and full of love.

Ah Nan nodded calmly.

When the housewife saw that her daughter was so well-behaved and sensible, she smiled with satisfaction, and turned her head to do other chores.

At this moment, there was another knock on the courtyard door.

"Who else will come at this time?"

The housewife was full of doubts, and the subordinates who needed to work had been called by themselves to give a lecture, and at this time they should be busy in the front yard without touching the ground, who would come here?

The mother-in-law who was watching the yard was also puzzled, and asked through the door, "Who?" ”

"It's the eldest young master who is back!"

Everyone was stunned, Master Huang had just passed away, why did the eldest young master come back at this time?

Even usually, I haven't been back at this time.

Huang Ruiqing entered the courtyard and saw that his wife and daughter were sitting at the dining table, with a steaming meal on the table, and the chopsticks had not yet been moved, and it seemed that they had just been put on the table and were about to eat.

"Why did you come back at this time?" The young grandmother asked.

Huang Ruiqing seemed to have been tired for a long time, his face was a little unsightly, he glanced at his wife, and touched his daughter's head, and his words were full of exhaustion: "I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight, I'll come back and change my clothes." ”

"You haven't eaten yet, do you want to stay and eat with us?"

In her opinion, her father-in-law is newly mourned, and her husband, as the eldest son and heir, should be too busy to get out of his body, just because it happens to be a meal, so he asks this question.

However, unexpectedly, Huang Ruiqing nodded and sat down at the table.

The young grandmother was overjoyed, and immediately asked people to prepare another pair of dishes and chopsticks.

"The tonic soup in the stewed kitchen is also ready, I'll bring it to you." The eldest young grandmother smiled, "It's good for you to come back, so I don't have to go to send it off." ”

As he spoke, he got up.

"Sit, ma'am."

Huang Ruiqing took a step forward and stood up, pressing his hand on his wife's shoulder, stopping her from getting up.

"Father's funeral, I'm afraid you're going to be tired." Huang Ruiqing said, and glanced at Ah Nan again, "You are entangled in everything, and you have to take care of your daughter, but you still remember to stew soup for me every day, it's really hard for you." ”

"I'll do it myself."

Huang Ruiqing brought the soup himself, the soup is Astragalus Codonopsis black chicken soup, Huang Ruiqing has almost never closed his eyes recently, and the whole person has lost a lot of weight.

The delicate white porcelain spoon was immersed in the light golden soup, Huang Ruiqing scooped up a spoonful of soup and blew it carefully, and was about to drink it, when he suddenly put the spoon down and glanced at Ah Nan.

"I haven't come back for so long to have dinner with Ah Nan, does Ah Nan blame Daddy?"

Ah Nan shook her head and did not speak.

Huang Ruiqing was stunned for a moment, and then laughed again.

"It seems that Daddy hasn't come back for so long, and Ah Nan and Daddy have been separated."

Huang Ruiqing reached out and touched Mo Ayan's head and sighed.

"Daddy didn't mean it, grandfather's situation, as a child, is naturally a filial piety, we don't blame Daddy, okay?"

"Ah Nan, your father is talking to you."

The eldest young grandmother glanced at Ah Nan, and frowned when she saw that she was still sullen and did not speak.

"How can Ah Nan blame Daddy, Ah Nan is watching Daddy work so hard, and she feels sorry for Daddy, right?"

Ah Nan still kept her head down and didn't speak.

Huang Ruiqing shook his head with a smile when he saw his daughter like this.

"Okay, my own daughter, of course I understand, Ah Nan is a little temperant."

Huang Ruiqing comforted his wife and said to Ah Nan:

"Ah Nan, your bowl of soup is cold, Daddy's bowl will be replaced for you."