The second master among the visitors is Su Wenmao, the second master of the Su family.
Su Wenlin's younger brother and Su Ling's older brother.
He has already settled down and started a family in Linzhen, but the distance is closer than Suling, so he takes his wife and children back to Dongqi Town every New Year.
I come back around the seventh day of the Lunar New Year every year.
This year's letter also said the same thing. Su Wenlin also gave the cook more money and asked her to prepare a lot of good ingredients and wait for the second master to come back with his family.
In previous years, Su Ling was rarely around. After losing the ingot, Su Wenlin's mood was not high during the Chinese New Year.
It was hard to get everyone together this year.
Who would have expected that something like this would happen again at this juncture.
Su Ling had already begun to cry, saying that her bad luck had unexpectedly affected her second brother.
The head of the family, Su Wenlin, knew that now was not the time to cry, so he had already asked his servants to harness the carriage and take them to the inn where Su Wenmao stayed.
In front of an inn ten miles east of Dongqi Town.
Several servants were standing by the carriage discussing in low voices.
"Second | Grandma's death was too sudden. She was fine in the morning, but she died before lunch was finished."
"Isn't it? Moreover, the death was too strange. I haven't heard of many people choking to death on their food these days."
Su Family II|Grandma choked to death.
I still choked to death while eating white flour steamed buns.
It's hard to believe even saying this.
But she was indeed dead, and her expression was very ferocious when she died.
A sudden death during the Chinese New Year was a rather ominous omen. No inn along the way was willing to let them stay.
Su Wenmao spent a lot of money and a lot of words to convince the owner of this inn to leave the body at the door.
"Father, let's go in and wait." His son Su Junchen came out to help Su Wenmao.
His wife who had been with him for many years died suddenly, and Su Wenmao became much older overnight. He rolled up his sleeves, looked towards home, and said: "It's almost time, your uncle and the others are almost here. "
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It's winter, and the road is still icy.
Although they were already hurrying up, it was already the evening of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year when they met Su Wenmao.
Leaving the crying Su Ling at home, Su Wenlin brought his boss and Yuan Bao with him.
This time it’s not that Yuan Bao has to follow.
However, this sister-in-law died suddenly during the Chinese New Year and on the way back home. Su Wenlin always felt something was wrong, so he stuffed the sleeping little Yuanbao into the carriage and brought him all the way here.
When we arrived at the place, Yuan Bao also woke up.
She rubbed her eyes with her chubby hands and watched her father talking to a middle-aged man who looked very similar to him underneath.
"Brother..." Originally he could still carry it, but when he saw his eldest brother, Su Wenmao's voice choked up: "It's all my fault. If I hadn't had to bring Qiaoxiu back, maybe she wouldn't have died."
"Don't say that." Su Wenlin patted his younger brother on the shoulder and asked Su Junting to take his servants to check Cui Qiaoxiu's body.
After a woman marries her husband, she will follow her husband's family to the ancestral grave when he dies.
But Cui Qiaoxiu died a violent death, and the ancestral grave cannot be entered.
Su Wenlin thought that if it didn't work out, he would find an open space on the hill where his parents were buried and bury them, so as not to embarrass his younger brother.
Here he was calming Su Wenmao's emotions, and Su Junting, who was going to check the body on the other side, suddenly screamed.
"Ah! What is this!"
Because the incident happened so suddenly, the thin coffin containing the body was extremely crude.
As soon as the lid was opened, a huge bird flew out from inside, with bloody carrion hanging from its sharp beak, which looked particularly horrifying.
Su Junting was startled. When he looked again after the big bird flew away, he found that Cui Qiaoxiu's body in the coffin was a mess and there was no integrity at all.
"Mom!" Su Wenmao's youngest daughter Su Ying cried and threw herself at the coffin.
My mother has been kind to others all her life, but she never expected that she would end up like this.
Su Ying couldn't stand this, and she was so frightened that she fainted on the spot after seeing the situation inside the coffin.
There was a mess in front of the inn. Su Junting had to take care of the miserable state of his aunt's body and the condition of his cousin, and was a little worried for a while.
At this time, a small figure jumped off the carriage and walked over.
She first took out a golden talisman and placed it on Su Ying's forehead, then pinched her right wrist, pinched her pulse and recited a few words silently.
Surprisingly, the person who had fainted just now suddenly woke up.
The little one handed her into the hands of the nanny beside her, and said in a sweet voice: "Grandma, take your sister to drink some chrysanthemum water. I have it on the carriage."
After saying that, she put her little hands on her back and walked to the coffin.
The coffin was too high and she was too short. She could not see anything even if she stood aside.
He had no choice but to raise his hands and ask Su Junting for help: "Brother, hold me."
At this time, besides Su Junting, there was also Su Wenmao's son Su Junchen on the coffin side.
He felt it was amazing watching the little baby wake his sister up smoothly, but the scene in the coffin...even a grown man like him couldn't bear it, let alone a child.
"Brother, don't..." He wanted to stop Su Junting, but the latter just gave him a reassuring look, then took the baby into his arms, and then allowed her to direct him to carefully examine the situation in the coffin. Read it carefully.
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"The one that came to eat my aunt's body just now is a kind of eagle bird, which specializes in eating carrion." Yuan Bao explained to Su Wenmao with gestures with his little hands: "Because the decay was very serious, that's why we attracted them here."
Su Wenmao was puzzled: "But...Qiaoxiu obviously came the day before yesterday..."
It was winter again, how could the body be so rotten?
"Because she actually died much earlier than you see."
