auspicious time has come

Chapter 231

The black shadow moved swiftly and was as light as the wind. After carefully distinguishing the surrounding situation, he confirmed that there was no one in the hall at this time, and immediately dodged to the front of the coffin.

Before the coffin was sealed, he pushed hard with his palm and pushed the coffin open a gap.

When he was looking intently, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the hall behind him.

The man in black's eyes changed, and he immediately restored the coffin board.

It was the Hou Mansion who left for a short time and came back with the eleventh.

The mourning hall is still silent, only the slight sound of lamp oil and candles burning.

When Eleven came to the coffin, he glanced around without any trace, and told his subordinates behind him: "Keep an eye on it."

"Yes."

Eleven turned and left the mourning hall, came to Xiao Mu's room, and said in a low voice: "General, someone really took advantage of the maneuver to check the coffin secretly."

The faces of Wang Jingyong and Yin Hai in the room changed slightly when they heard the words.

After the desk, the young man in the dark blue cloak had changed his mourning clothes. Hearing the words, he didn't raise his eyes, nor did he stop holding the pen. He just said "Hmm" and said, "Don't chase me, lest I be noticed by him."

"Yes, this subordinate understands." Eleven agreed and withdrew.

"Secretly send this letter back to the Northland, the sooner the better." Xiao Mu folded up the letter and stuffed it into the envelope, sealed it with wax oil, and handed it to Wang Jingyong.

"Yes." Wang Jingyong took it seriously and left the study.

"Does the general have any doubts?" There was no third person in the room, Yin Hai asked in a low voice.

After a while, Xiao Mu replied: "Whether it is true or not, it will be revealed soon——"

Yin Haixin had guesses, but did not ask any further questions.

Xiao Mu sat there, quietly looking at the porcelain vase on the desk.

Inside the bottle are camellias that have long dried and faded.

Seeing him looking at the dried flowers in a daze, Yin Hai slightly raised his eyebrows, and sighed: "No matter how bright the flowers are, they will wither, and the same goes for people's hearts... The general's words tonight are so decisive, I am not afraid that I will not be able to coax them again in the future." are you back?"

Xiao Mu said in a hoarse voice: "That also requires a 'tomorrow' first."

Yin Hai sighed inexplicably: "It's the Ji painter, but if you change someone..."

"As long as it's another person, today I have to get a slap in the face." Xiao Mu's mouth showed a faint smile: "It's because of her."

After a while, he said again: "It can only be her."

……

After the black shadow left Dingbeihou's mansion, it took advantage of the night to avoid people's eyes and ears and returned to a mansion.

In the middle of the night, a hand with an old scar on the tiger's mouth was using a long silver needle to move the wick in a bored way.

"Master, my subordinates have already checked, and the coffin is indeed Mrs. Xiao's body."

The wick stuck in the wax oil was stirred up, and the room suddenly became brighter.

That hand threw the silver needle aside, covered his mouth and yawned, and said indifferently: "Understood, step back."

The night sky is as black as ink, boundless, not a single star.

Heng Yu was standing by the window in her middle coat with loose hair, looking at the night outside the window, not moving for a long time.

……

After seven days of lingering, it was the day of Mrs. Xiao's funeral.

A few days ago, the palace drafted a decree to send it to Dingbei Hou's Mansion, and a cemetery was specially granted in a place with excellent Fengshui outside the city, so that Mrs. Xiao could sleep here forever and be buried in peace.

The funeral procession departed from Dingbeihou's Mansion and crossed the long street. Wherever they passed, paper money filled the sky and the ground was snow-white.

Unlike ordinary funerals, there was no sound of crying in the mourning team, and it was too silent.

In the teahouse facing the street, Hengyu stood outside the window on the second floor, looking at the long funeral ceremony and the tall and straight young man who was walking in the front with a memorial tablet in his hand.

Behind him, the left and right subordinate guards accompanied him, all in mourning clothes, and the soldiers who fought on the battlefield had never been relieved by the plain white body.

The people on both sides gave way one after another, and almost no one dared to speak out.

"Aheng..." Gu Tingnan retracted his gaze and said softly, "Let's go back."

Pei Wushuang was also at the side at this time, seeing his friend's body that had lost a lot of weight in a short period of time, he also said comfortingly: "Let's go, Ah Heng."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to hold Heng Yu's cool hand.

After a while, Heng Yu nodded.

A few people left the teahouse, and when Cuihuai was about to help Hengyu get into the carriage, he saw Hengyu looking at a pawn shop across the street.

"Aheng?" Seeing Hengyu standing still, Gu Tingnan called out.

"I need to go to the pawn shop, please wait here for a while." Heng Yu said.

Although Gu Tingnan was puzzled, he just nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

"What is Ah Heng doing at the pawn shop at this time?" Pei Wushuang wanted to follow up to have a look, but Gu Tingnan grabbed his arm.

"Don't follow, she may have something to do."

Although Pei Wushuang was curious, he also nodded when he heard the words, and watched Heng Yu enter the pawn shop.

The shopkeeper of the pawnshop saw Hengyu behind the counter, smiled and raised his hands.

At this time, there were no customers in the pawn shop, so Heng Yu asked bluntly, "Did I ask if Dong Yan's family has replied?"

After not finding Yan Min's trace for a long time, she knew that the other party was hiding on purpose and did not want to be found by her and Xiao Mu, so she found this pawn shop—before, when Yan Min was still Yan Jin, she occasionally communicated with him through This pawn shop.

When she came last time, she could tell in a few words that the shopkeeper of the pawnshop had always known the identity of "Yan Jin".

So, she entrusted the other party to pass a letter from it.

The other party told her with a smile—the letter was sent to Tingzhou, as before, and it would take half a month at the fastest to go back and forth.

The other party played Tai Chi with her, and she smiled and nodded slightly.

Well, half a month, she just waited.

Now the period of half a month has come.

"The letter was sent back only yesterday, and I was going to have someone deliver it to Lady Ji today." The shopkeeper, who is over half a century old, smiled and took out a letter from behind the counter, and handed it to Hengyu.

Hengyu took it apart and saw that there was only one line on it: Xiao Shiqi can tell you in the letter.

Heng Yu raised her eyes to look at the shopkeeper: "This matter is very important and involves an old case, so it is not appropriate to state it clearly in the letter, otherwise if the letter accidentally falls into the hands of others, it will cause a catastrophe, which will be troublesome for both me and you—— "

The shopkeeper was startled: "Miss Ji's words...?"

Hengyu looked at a tea room behind the window through the high ticket counter: "You Lao will bring these words to Yan Dong's family exactly—and tell him that it's not that I'm making a fuss, but that this must be done." It is safe to say it face to face. And the matter involved is urgent, if you delay it, it may be too late to regret it in the future. This is all, it is up to him whether to come to see him or not."

The benevolent storekeeper nodded: "Yes, I will write to convey Miss Ji's intentions as soon as possible."

"Thank you." Heng Yu withdrew his gaze, turned and left.

The shopkeeper of the pawnshop watched the girl leave the pawnshop and get into the carriage in front of the opposite teahouse.

Watching the two carriages drive away again, he just turned around and left the ticket counter, walked quickly to the tea room used to receive distinguished guests, and whispered through the door: "Master——"

　The second update is being written, you can wait until tomorrow to read.

　　(Last night, the elders in the family suddenly became seriously ill and were hospitalized. Things were busy, and the update time is not guaranteed. Please forgive me.

　　
　
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