The sun was setting in the west, and there was still the last trace of blood-red sun hanging on the horizon.
Liu Mingzhi was weakly leaning on the bedside, holding Tao Ying's lifeless body tightly and his heart was dead. As time passed quietly, the last glimmer of hope in Liu Mingzhi's heart was gone.
Tao Ying has really passed away, her departure was so calm, and her departure was as calm as the wind and the clouds.
The reason for my sudden palpitations was found, and the source of my uneasiness was found.
But this reason makes it so difficult for me to accept.
Why was he so stupid? He was so stupid that he didn't even realize that Tao Ying had been ready to die for Li Yunlong ever since she asked him to spend an unforgettable birthday with her.
The beauty has passed away, so what can I do now that I have figured out all this?
With a gloomy look, he looked down at Tao Ying, who had been wrapped in silk brocade quilt all afternoon, and her face was still pale. Liu Mingzhi coughed with a hoarse throat, and with trembling arms, he removed the brocade quilt from the beauty's body, and pulled Tao Ying away with slight force. He carefully picked up the body and walked towards the coffin placed in the main room.
Liu Mingzhi put Tao Ying back into the coffin with great difficulty, as if he was carrying a weight of ten thousand kilograms, and stretched out his hand to gently smooth out the slightly messy green hair on Tao Ying's forehead.
Liu Mingzhi straightened out the creased Yunyan Shang clothes around Tao Ying's waist, and finally fixed his gaze on the exquisitely carved but somewhat unattractive cherry blossom hairpin in the beauty's hair.
Gently taking off the cherry blossom hairpin from Tao Ying's hair and holding it in his hand, Liu Mingzhi held it carefully in front of his eyes as if holding a rare treasure that could break at the touch of a touch, and looked at it blankly.
Involuntarily, on Tao Ying's birthday a year ago, the scene where he and his wife traveled all over the capital to buy this hairpin came to mind again.
"Old shopkeeper, from now on my daughter will be Tao Ying of the Liu family."
Thinking of what Tao Ying said to the old shopkeeper with a happy face that day, Liu Mingzhi's heart suddenly twitched, and all kinds of feelings came to his heart again.
Unexpectedly, the birthday gift I personally put on her body would one day become her only burial object.
If I had known that I would be in love today, I would rather have her chase me and curse me every day as a treacherous and shameless person, and I would never agree to accompany her to spend the last unforgettable birthday with her.
However, even though I regretted everything at this time, it was already too late!
Gently stroking the cherry blossom hairpin with his fingers for a long time, Liu Mingzhi sighed quietly and inserted the hairpin into Tao Ying's hair.
He originally wanted to keep this hairpin as a memory of Tao Ying, but looking at the coffin, this hairpin was the only burial object that Tao Ying chose to keep. How could he be willing to ruthlessly take away her only one? Where is the beloved thing!
Liu Mingzhi didn't mind that Tao Ying had been gone for three days and was a lifeless, cold corpse. He leaned into the coffin and kissed the beauty's red lips. He stood up and wiped the tears streaming down his eyes and face. Traces, Liu Mingzhi called softly.
"Huan'er."
There was silence outside the room, and Huan'er's soft and hoarse voice sounded outside the door.
"Hey! The slave is here!
Mr. Liu, what are your orders? Can this slave come in? "
"come in!"
"yes!"
"By the way, from now on you'd better call me sir as before. The title of young master is no longer suitable between you and me."
"Yes, I understand, slave."
Liu Mingzhi looked around with a sad look at the very familiar layout of Tao Ying's boudoir: "Does Tao Ying have any relics that I want you to hand over to me?"
Huan'er nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes. I prepared to hand it over to the master at noon, but... I won't say it anymore, I won't say it anymore."
As Huan'er spoke, she noticed Liu Mingzhi's silent expression and hurriedly stopped.
Under Liu Mingzhi's sad and expectant eyes, Huan'er hurriedly took out a neatly folded silk cloth from her arms and handed it to Liu Mingzhi: "Sir, the relics that my lady asked the slave to give to you before she died are all in it. "
Liu Mingzhi silently took the silk cloth from Huan'er and asked, "How did Tao Ying pass away?"
Huan'er couldn't help but sigh, and a faint mist appeared in her eyes: "Miss, she mixed Mongolian sweat medicine and Duangchang powder into the wine and swallowed it together."
Bronchang Powder?
Liu Mingzhi had witnessed with his own eyes what kind of pain and suffering one would endure after drinking Duangchang Powder. When he heard that Tao Ying actually died by taking Duangchang Powder, Liu Mingzhi's heart stung hard again.
What on earth is this silly woman thinking?
The grievances and resentments between me and her because of Li Yunlong had long since disappeared, and in the days that followed, our interactions with her were always sweet and harmonious.
In that case, why would she do such a stupid thing? Would she rather commit suicide by taking poison than stay with him until we grow old together?
It's ridiculous that I had sworn to think that I had completely won over this stupid woman, but I didn't expect that in the end, I got a cold corpse.
Such a stark contrast can be described as extremely ironic.
Broken Heart Powder! Broken Heart Powder!
Liu Mingzhi secretly whispered a few heartbroken words in his mind, then his eyes turned cold and he stared at Huan'er closely: "Since you knew, why didn't you stop her? Are you just watching your young lady commit suicide by taking poison?"
Huan'er felt the evil aura on Liu Mingzhi's body and immediately shook her head in fear.
"No! No!
Sir, the slave girl didn’t know anything about the fact that she committed suicide by taking poison. The reason why the slave girl knew that she swallowed the sweat medicine mixed with Changchang Powder is because my lady left a note for the slave girl, and the slave girl only found out after reading it. "
After Huan'er finished speaking, she hurriedly took out a piece of rice paper from her waist and handed it to Liu Mingzhi: "Miss, not only did she leave a legacy for you, sir, but she also gave some last words to your slave.
The next day, Huan'er came to serve the lady with hot water for washing. As soon as he opened the door... he saw her lifeless lying in the coffin that was put into the room at an unknown time.
The slave girl read the last words left by the young lady to the slave girl, and then she realized that she had died for the late Emperor Hezong.
I don’t know if the young lady was tortured before she died, but that was Duanchang Powder, how uncomfortable it would be to drink it... Wuwuwu..."
Liu Mingzhi looked at Huan'er who was in tears as he talked. He took the rice paper from Huan'er's hand and looked at the beautiful content written in small regular script on it. After confirming that it was Tao Ying's handwriting, he sighed silently and handed over the suicide note. Returned to Huan'er.
"Sir, I really don't know that the young lady wants to commit suicide.
If she knew, the slave girl would definitely try her best to stop her.
If the lady hadn't told me in her suicide note that I must hand over the relics she left to you, I would have thought of going with her. "
"Sigh... don't say stupid things. Your lady told you to live well in her suicide note. If you let her go again, how uncomfortable it would be for her soul in heaven.
Live well! Don't let her down.
Since she has transferred this house to you for inheritance, I will ask someone to complete the paperwork and contract for you.
From now on, no matter whether you are in the capital or not, if you encounter any difficulties, just come to me. As long as it is not against your moral conscience, for the sake of your young lady, I will definitely handle everything for you. "
After Liu Mingzhi finished speaking, he looked at Huan'er, who was crying even harder, and gently untied the silk cloth in his hand.
An unsigned letter, a jade plaque engraved with cherry blossoms, and a string of about five or six hundred copper coins.
Apart from these three relics, there is nothing else.
The only relics Tao Ying left to Liu Mingzhi were these three simple items.
Not to mention the unsigned letter, Liu Mingzhi also knew that it must be Tao Ying's last letter written to him personally.
As for the jade plaque engraved with cherry blossoms, Liu Mingzhi and Tao Ying had slept together so many times that they knew that this jade plaque had always been something close to hers. Even when taking a bath, she always hung it around her neck and never took it away. It rained for a while.
Liu Mingzhi heard Tao Ying say that this jade medal was given to her by her mother as a dowry before she married Li Yunlong. More than ten years later, she has been wearing it personally and never let it leave her.
Now, she left her personal belongings that she had worn for many years as a relic to herself.
Liu Mingzhi caressed the delicate cherry blossoms on the jade plaque and was startled for a moment, then hurriedly turned around and looked into the coffin.
Comparing the jade plaque in his hand with the cherry blossom hairpin in Tao Ying's hair, Liu Mingzhi raised a sad smile on his lips.
"No wonder you chose such a hairpin. It turns out that you have already thought about exchanging one thing with Liu Mingzhi.
You are such a stupid woman to exchange the valuable Donghai warm jade for your husband's ordinary hairpin! "
Carefully putting the jade token into the inner pocket of his arms, Liu Mingzhi looked down at the half-hanging copper coins in his hand. He held the coins and looked at them for a long time, and his brows furrowed slightly.
He understood the meaning of the letter and the jade plaque, but he really didn't understand the meaning of the copper coins Tao Ying left for him.
After thinking for a moment without any clue, Liu Mingzhi could only pick up the letter to find the answer he wanted.
