At the gate of Gu's mansion, Yue Qi had been waiting beside the carriage for a long time.
With the sound of horse hoofbeats, the group of people successfully left the city. Yun Xiaoning wrapped her clothes tightly, feeling a little cold from the night wind.
"Is immortality really that important? If everyone around you has left and you are the only one left, what's the point of being immortal?"
Gu Canghan chuckled softly: "You have clear eyesight. If everyone thinks like this, there will be no such thing as immortality. When some people have power and can control the wind and rain with just their fingers, they don't want to let go. , hold on tightly, immortality is also the evergreen of power."
Hearing this, Yun Xiaoning nodded, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes: "If you were born in an ordinary family, with men farming and women weaving, and being ordinary, you might be much happier than fighting among the powerful."
Gu Canghan looked at her and smiled softly.
"Then Ning'er must learn to spin."
In the dark night, the carriage gradually moved away from the bustling Kyoto. The surrounding area was pitch black, and occasionally there were a few bird calls, which was very scary.
The dense woods on both sides were bottomless. Yun Xiaoning was a little scared and moved towards Gu Canghan's side.
The man felt her subtle movements and pretended to be asleep, letting her crawl into his arms.
He liked her initiative.
I thought to myself, if she doesn't obey again, I will take her into this mountain forest and have to crawl into my arms by myself.
The warmth in her arms gradually made Yun Xiaoning feel more courageous.
However, when I finally got to the place and got out of the car, my body still shivered involuntarily.
It was desolate, with graves standing in front of us.
Scattered and irregular.
The night wind came, and a deep chill enveloped her, sending shivers down her spine.
Yue Qi found a firewood from the carriage, lit it, and the scene in front of her became clearer.
Looking up, all he could see was a cemetery. It was Yun Xiaoning's first time to visit a cemetery. The Gu family did not allow women to enter their own cemetery.
So Yun Xiaoning never doubted it, but now, looking at the dilapidated appearance, Gu Canghan's mother was not buried in the Gu family's ancestral grave at all, but was buried outside, becoming a lonely grave.
Yue Qi held up the fire folder and searched through it one by one. The tomb should have the word "wife" engraved on it.
Mr. Gu said that the relics had been buried with his mother, and she had to see what these things were.
This is important.
She wants to know the truth.
After a while, Yue Qi finally found a tombstone with the name Mr. Gu's wife written on it, but her mother's name was not written at all. There was no other record on it.
Yun Xiaoning and Gu Canghan looked at each other and dug first before talking.
Yue Qi gave instructions, picked up the pickaxe, and started digging.
"Wait!" Yun Xiaoning said hesitantly.
This was his mother's grave. If there was really nothing and it disturbed her mother's rest, she would regret it.
Gu Canghan stretched out his hand to hold her shoulders: "It's up to you."
After much hesitation, I finally decided to dig in.
Half an hour later, I finally saw the coffin. It was made of ordinary wood, and it didn't look like the coffin of a mistress like Gu Mansion.
Yue Qi pushed the coffin lid open forcefully.
Yun Xiaoning felt a little moved. Soon, she would know the truth about his mother's death!
The moment he opened it, the scene in front of him made Yun Xiaoning's expression suddenly change.
"empty?!!"
Yun Xiaoning couldn't believe it. She reached out and took out the Huozhezi from Yue Qi's hand.
Squatting down and looking carefully, there was nothing unusual about the appearance.
Yun Xiaoning bent down and wanted to jump in, but Gu Canghan grabbed him: "Be careful of the trap!"
Yue Qi jumped down first and knocked on the inner wall of the coffin with a dagger, but found nothing unusual.
It is indeed just an empty coffin.
Yue Qi split the coffin open with one palm. Inside was just the most ordinary coffin. It looked like it was old and had begun to rot.
The coffin lid was tightly sealed, with no trace of it being opened.
"Is it possible that someone came here first and took away the relics from the coffin?" Yun Xiaoning asked with a frown.
She couldn't figure it out.
Gu Canghan shook his head: "This coffin has not been touched for many years, and the soil on the grave is old and no one has touched it."
He held his forehead: "Now it seems that there is only one possibility."
"What's possible?"
"That's the day of the burial, and it will be empty!"
Gu Canghan's eyes were condensed and he frowned: "In other words, maybe my mother is still alive!"
Yun Xiaoning twirled her sleeves tightly with her fingers, and she also thought of this.
Not to mention any relics, there was not even a corpse. The empty coffin made him unable to believe the fact that his mother really died suddenly.
Gu Canghan pulled her hand over and put it in his palm.
"Don't be afraid. If my mother really faked her death, there must be a reason for doing this, maybe to protect her." Gu Canghan said warmly.
Yun Xiaoning's eyes were full of sadness. Mr. Gu arranged for his mother to fake her death and tried every means to prevent her from finding her mother's belongings. If what Gu Canghan said was true, then his father should have loved his mother.
But he couldn't feel his love for his mother at all, and was even a little indifferent.
On the days when I offer incense, I never see him.
Mother's rank has not yet been admitted to the Gu family's ancestral hall, and is enshrined in a temple outside.
So this argument doesn't seem very tenable.
Her eyes were red, and she felt as distressed as a wounded deer: "Are you really trying to protect your mother?"
Gu Canghan looked up at the starry sky and replied lightly: "Maybe."
Mother Gu Canghan has become a mystery.
No one knows if she is still alive.
"Then what should we do now?" Yun Xiaoning asked.
Gu Canghan said calmly: "Bury it back so no one knows we have been here."
Several people worked hard to restore the coffin to its original state. Yue Qi found some dust from the side and sprinkled it on the grave.
After everything was done, Yun Xiaoning was a little unwilling and searched around again to make sure that there was no more tomb with the word "Gu" written on it.
Only then did he reluctantly accept this fact.
My mother's grave is empty, and the relics in the room have been taken away. It is extremely difficult to figure out the truth of that year.
My mother suddenly died suddenly after returning from the palace. The people who persecuted my grandmother were so rampant that they were not afraid of the Yun family's investigation, and were eventually sent back to the palace by Mr. Gu.
All this told Yun Xiaoning that the mastermind of everything was in the palace.
But no matter who it is, she won't let them go easily!
The moment he turned back to the carriage, under Huo Zhezi's care, a dark shadow suddenly flashed through his peripheral vision and quickly disappeared.
Yun Xiaoning's heart thumped: "Oops! Someone is following you!"
Yue Qi dodged and chased out.
The dark night sky, the dense woods, and no trace of anything.
Yun Xiaoning frowned slightly and said calmly: "Go back home!"
