Wu Xie stood in Du Ruo's mourning hall, and four or five steps in front of him was Du Ruo, whose head and face were covered with a white cloth.

But now she can neither laugh nor make trouble, neither fight nor be greedy......

He stood there for a long time before he sighed and left, walking aimlessly around town.

He walked through many homes, people's lives were still as usual, no one knew that almost all the people in the town lost their lives last night, and became food for the gods and demons outside the territory.

They were saved, because Wu Xie killed the Sanshan Daoist who presided over the evil law, at the cost of Du Ruo, who might have been able to be resurrected, died and became a cold corpse.

"There is life and there is death, and it is not fate to die sooner. Yesterday and evening, they were the same people, and today they are in the ghost record...... Relatives or remnants of sorrow, others have also sang. Dead He Zudao, the body is the same mountain. For no reason, Wu Xie suddenly remembered two poems he had read before crossing over.

It was an elegy made by Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty for himself.

In last night's battle, Wu rescued the entire town, but he couldn't save the people he wanted to save at the beginning.

He walked alone in the town, his heart empty, no sorrow, just emptiness.

"Jasmine, am I useless?" He couldn't help but ask, "I originally rushed back to save Sister Aruo, but in the end, it was equivalent to killing her with my own hands......"

In the past, he never called Du Ruo "sister", and Du Ruo has always been annoyed by this. But now, even if she wants to call her sister, she can't hear it.

"The situation at that time was too urgent, I can't blame you, master!" Of course, Jasmine was in favor of Wu Xie and immediately defended him, "If you don't make a quick decision, the whole town will be in danger, and even you yourself may die." Killing a group of people in order to save one person can already be called a loss-making business; In order to save people, pay for yourself, that's simply a brain problem! ”

"Life should not be measured in quantity."

"But no matter what, master, your life is definitely more important than other people's lives!"

Wu Xie didn't refute, he didn't know if Lu Dao had the confidence to refute Jasmine's words.

In order to save people, can he really pay for himself?

Probably...... No, right......

He spent the whole day wandering around the town, only turning around and going home when it got dark.

When he walked past the door of Du's house, he saw Lin Lushan sitting next to the brazier in front of Du Ruo and burning paper money, and the little nerd was crying so much that his eyes were swollen.

Wu Xie stood there stunned for a long time, until his brother Wu Cheng came over to ask him to eat, and then he came back to his senses.

The meal was so tasteless that he didn't even know what he had eaten.

After dinner, he came to Du's house again.

Du Tuanlian hasn't come back yet, maybe the news hasn't been delivered to him yet. In a huge mourning hall, only Du Pre led a few apprentices of Du Tuanlian to take care of it.

Wu Xie walked over, burned some paper money like Lin Lushan, and then sat next to Du Yu in a daze.

"Grandma went early, Daddy is busy all day, our brother and sister have been dependent on each other since childhood......" Du Yu completely lost his former majesty and style, looking haggard and listless, and even speaking was a little incompatible, "How could a good person suddenly die?" How could someone who was neither injured nor sick suddenly die! ”

The pure yang true fire burned the remnant souls of the people of the Three Mountains Dao, Du Ruo's body and clothes were not evil things, and the true fire naturally would not burn them. Therefore, Du Ruo's corpse did not have any injuries from the outside.

Wu Xie sighed deeply, not knowing what to say.

He sat with Du Pre all night, until the next morning, Du Pre, who was tired for a day and a night, finally couldn't hold back and fell asleep, only he sat there alone in a daze.

With his physique, it doesn't matter if he doesn't eat or sleep for three or five days, but he feels very tired.

This feeling of tiredness does not come from the body, but from the mind.

The three-day wake-up time passed in a flash, and the day before Du Ruo's funeral, Du Tuanlian finally rushed back.

Looking at his daughter's corpse, the uncle of the Du family, who was as fierce as a tiger in the past, suddenly grew old, his straight waist was also a lot stiffer, and a layer of pale gray appeared on his bronze face, and the pair of eyes that were usually very fierce lost their brilliance.

He grabbed Du Yu and Wu Xie and asked him over and over again, asking how his daughter died.

"The night before yesterday, the people in the town fell asleep for some reason, and Ah Xie came back from collecting medicine in the mountains and saw Ah Ruo sitting in a daze in the square in the town. He walked over to ask what was going on, but when he came to the front, he found that she was motionless, and when he reached out to touch her, the whole person was already cold......"

"Well, I lost a fight with her during the day that day, and I practiced in the mountains all day in a fit of anger. When I came back in the evening, the town was strangely quiet, and there was no barking of dogs. When I saw Sister Ah Ruo sitting there, I went to ask her why she hadn't come home yet, if she was waiting for me, and wanted to apologize to me...... As a result, when I walked in front of her, I saw that her face was frighteningly white, and there was no blood at all. I was startled and reached out to touch her forehead, which was cold and not hot. I hurriedly probed her nose and was no longer breathing......"

"How so? What evil did this child fall into? If you are evil, you will be evil, why did you give away your life! Du Tuanlian also knew that his daughter's condition was not normal some time ago, but he didn't expect to die in such a daze......

Neither he nor Du Yu suspected Wu Jie, which made Wu Xie even more uncomfortable.

But he still has to make up this lie, after all, he can't tell others, "Du Ruo failed to cultivate immortals and was taken away by the Sanshan Dao people, I killed the Sanshan Dao people, and her physical body died."

This thing is so bizarre, the ghost believes it! If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, even Wu Xie wouldn't have believed it!

In the early morning of the fourth day of the fourth month of April, Du Ruo went to the funeral.

The custom of the Eastern Chu Kingdom is to go out after midnight, and the sun must be buried before the mountain rises, because they believe that the soul of the deceased will act with the body, and the soul is afraid of the sun, so the burial should be completed before the sun rises.

Moreover, they were also accustomed to burying the body as simple as possible, leaving no burial in the coffin, and waiting for the burial to be reburied next to the tomb on the seventh day after death. From the point of view of the spirits, it is to let the newly buried deceased rest for a few days; From a practical point of view, it is hoped that the tomb robbers will not disturb the remains of the deceased.

Wu Xie participated in the funeral ceremony and helped carry the coffin as the deceased's younger brother.

Under the crescent moon, he and Du Ruo's juniors carried the good coffin that Du Tuanlian had originally prepared for him, and under the leadership of Du Pre, who was barely in spirit, he walked silently like a group of ghosts, and buried Du Ruo in the tomb in the south of the town.

The most energetic girl in the town will rest in eternal peace.

After returning from the funeral, the Du family father and son began to sort out their daughter's relics, and Wu Xie and Lin Lushan also came to help.

In the past two years, Du Tuanlian and Du Yu have not gotten along with Du Ruo enough, and they are not as clear as Wu Xie and Lin Lushan about many things, for example...... The wooden box inside the box under Du Ruo's bed.

Although the form of this wooden box is simple, it is thick and strong, and the bright red ancient jade inside the box is as clear as blood, which makes people's hearts shake at a glance, and it is obviously a rare and good jade.

"Where did Ah Ruo find such a piece of jade?" Du Tuanlian was stunned for a moment, and handed the red jade to his son, "Ah Yu, you have learned to appreciate treasures in the martial arts of the county town, and see what kind of famous this jade is." ”

Du Pre took the red jade, flipped it over and over and looked at it a few times, his brows furrowed tightly, and he looked at it carefully over and over again, his face full of incredulity.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Daddy, this jade ...... I'm afraid it's more expensive than a few pharmacies in the city! ”

"What?!" Du Tuanlian was taken aback, "You said that this piece of jade is more expensive than a few shops?" You read that right! ”

"You can't go wrong! The texture of this jade is second only to a piece of heirloom jade that I saw in martial arts, that piece of jade was a treasure that was paid tribute by the southwest barbarians when Taizu founded the country, and it is said that a piece of jade can be worth a small city. This piece of jade is a little smaller than that one, and the texture is slightly worse, but it should be fine with a few pharmacies. ”

Du Tuanlian was stunned, and Lin Lushan was even more frightened that he even dropped the things he was holding.

"This ...... How did Ah Ruo get such a precious treasure? Du Tuanlian asked blankly.

There was silence.

After a while, Du Yu sighed deeply: "It seems that Ah Ruo died because of this piece of jade......"

This explanation is reasonable, a piece of jade of amazing value is indeed enough to attract extremely powerful characters and harm Du Ruo's life.

In the hearts of the Du family's father and son, Du Ruo is just a little girl with good skills after all, and it is reasonable to give her life when she encounters the kind of Jiangyang thief who walks thousands of houses day and night.

Lin Lushan had already sobbed in a low voice, and the Du family's father and son also sighed, the piece of jade of astonishing value was thrown aside by them as a stone and a clod of soil, and they were so disgusted that they didn't want to look at it more.

Only Wu Xie secretly stared at this piece of ancient jade, and it was correct to say that he was staring at the figure who was sitting cross-legged and meditating in the ancient jade.

If he was not mistaken, it was Du Ruo himself!

The people of Sanshan Dao were not completely lying, Du Ruo's soul was really still in this soul-nourishing jade!

He tried his best to suppress his feelings and not let himself laugh, and it took a while for him to completely calm down.

Fortunately, the other three were silently grieving and didn't notice his abnormality, otherwise he would really not be able to explain.

After a long time, everyone cleaned up their mood and began to sort out Du Ruo's relics again. It's just that no one mentioned the precious ancient jade again, as if it didn't exist.

On the eighth day of the fourth month, Du Ruo's relics were buried next to her tomb, including the priceless ancient jade.

It's just that there is no longer Du Ruo sitting cross-legged practicing in that piece of ancient jade, only an empty one.

And in the Heavenly Book World, there is one more resident.