Song Wenli was furious: "What do you think we are doing?!"
The man quickly lowered his head: "The master has asked us to guard the tomb, and we don't dare to neglect it, for fear that something might go wrong here and our lives will be affected. We will come here every day, and we will ask the villagers to take care of it, but... only when someone from the master's family comes to offer sacrifices." , If you are afraid of bumping into the owner’s family, you will ask them to avoid it deliberately.”
"What nonsense are you talking about?!"
Song Wenli's face changed. Seeing Tang Ning and Xiao Yan looking up at them, he suddenly panicked.
"Don't listen to what he said. The clan only offers sacrifices during the New Year and festivals, and every time there are many people coming together, how can you hide it from others and touch the graves of the clan uncles?"
Several other members of the Song family also spoke one after another to express their innocence.
"Wen Li is right. We have no grievances against Song Xi. Why did we open their coffins and... do these messy things..."
Those talismans and the dried blood in the coffin are not good things at first glance. If there is no deep hatred, who would do such an immoral thing? !
"That's right. In addition to coming here with the clan members during festivals and festivals, we occasionally come here to pay homage to our elders. Most of us only bring one or two followers with us. When we get here, we burn some paper money, burn incense and then leave. We don't even spend the night overnight. No, how is it possible to dig Song Xi’s grave?”
Xiao Yan glanced at the panicked Song family members, and then lowered his eyes to the two "grave guards".
He squinted his eyes for a moment and then asked, "Have the Duke's Mansion ever come to pay homage to Mrs. Rong after they were buried?"
Before the man could speak, Xiao Yan added: "It's not just the people from the Duke's Mansion who are here, they are also accompanied by strangers, or people who speak and behave differently from ordinary people."
The man was stunned for a moment, seemed to have thought of something, and opened his mouth: "It was once."
"when?"
"About three or four years ago, the uncle of the Duke's Mansion came here with the old lady. At that time, he was accompanied by several people who seemed not to be easy to get along with. The old lady said that they were old friends of the second master and came to Beijing specially to pay homage. They also told us not to go over and disturb them."
Gu Helian said anxiously: "Do you recognize those people?"
The person guarding the tomb shook his head: "Those are all nobles, and the old lady brought them here personally. I dare not take a closer look, but the old lady and the uncle seem to be in awe of them."
"After those people went to pay homage to the second master and his wife, they left with him not long after. However, the old lady said she missed the second master and stayed at the ancestral grave for a while with a few servants from the Duke's Palace. He didn’t take the people away until it got dark.”
Another gravekeeper next to him also said anxiously: "Yes, I remember it rained heavily that night, and there was a strong wind. Several big trees at the beginning of the village fell down. My brother and I left the old lady in the village. We stayed one night to avoid being unsafe on the way back to the city, but the old lady refused to say anything and led the people from the Duke's Mansion back to the capital that night despite the heavy rain."
Tang Ning clenched her hands suddenly.
Mrs. Song has always been arrogant and extravagant, and could not endure any hardship. In the past, in the Duke's mansion, she had the best in everything, including food, clothing, housing and transportation. Even if the water for making tea was too hot, she would have a fit.
Under the violent storm, knowing that it was dark and the roads were slippery and driving was dangerous, how could she have to rush back to Beijing overnight without even taking care of herself?
The man who just spoke suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly clapped his hands: "Oh, by the way, brother and I didn't dare to look at the faces of those people carefully, but when we sent them away, we heard one of them speak, The man's voice was very thin and somewhat sharp, like...like..."
He thought for a long time before he came up with a description: "It's like pinching the throat. It's different from others anyway. Moreover, he was very bossy when talking to the uncle. He even scolded the uncle for some reason. Not only was the uncle not angry at the time, Instead, I let him."
Xiao Yan and the other two people's faces sank almost at the same time.
He pinched his throat and had a high-pitched voice, yet Song Hong and the others respected him...
People in the palace!
The two tombkeepers knelt on the ground and were full of fear: "Sir, we have already said everything we know. We brothers really don't know about this coffin, and we don't know who made this place like this." , please forgive us..."
The two of them kowtowed, fearing that the people in front of them would kill them.
Xiao Yan said in a deep voice, "Okay, let's take them back to the capital first."
Someone from the black-armored guard next to him stepped forward, carried the two "gravekeepers" and left.
When Xiao Yan turned around and looked to the other side, the Song family members were all panicked. Fortunately, Xiao Yan didn't treat them the same as he treated those two people. He just looked at the Song family members and said coldly.
"What happened tonight, including what the two of them said just now, if I hear even a word of it outside, I won't mind sending the young and old of your clan to accompany Song Hong."
Song Wenli shuddered suddenly: "Don't worry, Governor Xiao, we didn't see anything."
Several other members of the Song family also nodded along with pale faces.
"None of us saw it."
No one dared to take Xiao Yan's words as a joke. This person would really kill someone.
Seeing that the Song family was interested, Xiao Yan looked away and spoke softly to Tang Ning beside him: "It's not easy to stay here for a long time. Let's move the bones of Madam Rong and others into the new coffin first, and we'll talk about the rest after we get back. "
There was a shadow in Tang Ning's eyes: "Okay."
The coffin prepared earlier was carried over, and Tang Ning personally stepped forward and stood in front of the coffin to take out the bones of his parents without anyone's help.
Xiao Yan didn't say anything, he just stood quietly in front of her, taking the bones in her hand, identifying the broken bones and splicing them together according to the joints.
The two corpses gradually returned to their original shape and lay neatly flat in the brand new coffin, but the black blood that had been soaked in the bones could not be wiped off.
Gu Helian watched the two men's movements in complete silence, feeling a heavy and uncomfortable feeling in her heart.
After the new coffin was re-covered, he kicked the abandoned coffin aside, cursed lowly, and the coffin slid back into the pit.
"Don't let me know who did it."
That fucking bastard! !
When he finds out, he must kill him! ! !
…
On the way back to Beijing, Gu Helian kept cursing. Whenever he thought of the Rong family sister's grave being dug up, he would be furious.
"Did you hear what those two people said just now? This matter is probably related to Song Hong's mother and son. If the old godly woman of the Song family hadn't been guilty of treason, why would the stormy one have returned to Beijing overnight?"
"And according to what that person said, the people who went with Song Hong and the others were probably from the palace. But why did they dig up the coffins of the Rong family sisters and the others? Xiao Yan, you tell me..."
Gu Helian was about to ask Xiao Yan something when she suddenly saw him looking up.
"Be quiet."
Xiao Yan glanced at Gu Helian with cold eyes and reached out to support the little girl leaning on his shoulder.
Tang Ning's eyes were closed tightly, and even though he seemed to be asleep, his eyelids were visibly red and swollen.
"Little Haitang, she..."
"Don't mess with her."
Xiao Yan whispered something, and after seeing Gu Helian shut up, he remembered what he had just done in a hurry.
He pursed his lips tightly and lowered his eyes, showing a somewhat gloomy look.
He knew that Tang Ning had noticed it. The last time she came out of prison, she pretended to sleep. He didn't know why, but this time she pretended to sleep again, and he suddenly realized that she might have heard what she heard that day. At his word.
so……
Is this rejection?
Xiao Yan laughed at himself and lowered his eyes, with a dark look in his eyes. He didn't want to embarrass her. He originally wanted to hold the little girl against the carriage, but as soon as he moved, he suddenly felt a tightness in his left arm.
In the dim carriage, the little girl who seemed to be asleep closed her eyes tightly and stretched out her arms to hug his arms tightly. When the catkins tugged on his sleeves, the softness in front of her body pressed against his arms.
As if she knew what he wanted to do, her eyelashes trembled slightly, her fair cheek buried in his shoulder and she rubbed it lightly.
Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, his dark eyes filled with astonishment.
