Chapter 378 Wei Jin also died
"What's so panicky? Didn't the second young master go back to Huzhou Mansion? Why is there such a fuss?" Yun asked.
"The second young master encountered a bandit on the road...unfortunately...unfortunately died..." The boy gasped and carefully reported the news.
Upon hearing this, Yunshi and Wei Yichen's expressions changed drastically.
"What did you say? Is it the second young master? Dead?" Wei Yichen stepped forward, grabbed the young man's clothes, and asked.
"No... I'm not mistaken. It was the second young master, the well guard who escorted the second young master out said it himself!"
"Where is the well guard?" Wei Yichen asked.
"He was injured, and now he is in the front yard..."
Wei Yichen threw the boy away and walked quickly towards the front yard.
Yun also quickly got up and rushed to the front yard with Cuiping supporting her.
In the front yard, Jinghu was kneeling on the ground, his hair and clothes shabby and messy.
Wei Yichen took a step forward: "Where is Jin Yi?"
Jing Hu slowly turned behind him.
Behind him, there were two stretchers covered with white cloth.
Wei Yichen's movements slowed down and he looked at the stretcher covered with white cloth and did not move for a long time.
At this moment, Wei Ruo ran over.
The moment he saw the stretcher, Wei Ruo's face turned pale to the naked eye.
Wei Ruo walked towards the stretcher, and when she still had two steps left, Wei Yichen stopped in front of her and stretched out his arms to prevent her from getting closer.
"It may not be Jin Yi." Wei Yichen said to Wei Ruo.
"Let me see!" Wei Ruodao.
Wei Yichen looked at Wei Ruo's firm eyes: "I'll take a look first, don't worry."
Wei Ruo didn't listen to Wei Yichen, pushed Wei Yichen away, stepped forward, and lifted the white cloth covering the stretcher. .
Under the white cloth was a cold corpse. There were a large number of stab wounds on the corpse, and it had already decomposed to a certain extent, and its original appearance could not be seen.
Only the tattered clothes could still be vaguely recognized as the clothes Wei Jinyi wore on ordinary days.
The tragic state of the corpse made everyone, including Wei Yichen, turn their heads involuntarily, and it even made Yun Shi, who had just arrived, almost faint.
Wei Ruo did not flinch, she looked at the corpse and distinguished it carefully.
"Ruo'er, stop looking." Wei Yichen tried to pull Wei Ruo away.
This picture is too cruel.
Wei Ruo didn't listen. Wei Yichen's eyes still stayed on the corpse, and asked Jing Hu: "Guard Jing, what happened?" Jing Hu knelt on the ground and explained: "I
sent the second young master north. After arriving at Huzhou Prefecture, I met The bandits ambushed us, and several of us resisted desperately, but the opponent had a large number of people and occupied a favorable position. In the end, the three of us were defeated miserably, and the second young master and Xiaobei were both killed..." Jing Hu blamed himself again: "This subordinate deserves to die, no
one I can protect the Second Young Master! This subordinate deserves to die! I should die as an apology, but I cannot let the Second Young Master die in a foreign country, so I will do my best to send the Second Young Master’s body back to Taizhou Mansion. It’s just that because all the money was lost, I took it alone. The corpses of the Second Young Master and Xiao Bei moved slowly, and they walked for more than ten days before returning to Taizhou Mansion." It took more than ten days
, and the weather was relatively hot during this period, which caused the corpses to have decomposed to a certain extent.
Wei Yichen frowned, his eyes were painful, and he clenched his fists. After a long while, he ordered: "Go and inform father about this news." Then
Wei Yichen sent someone to call Wei Yilin, who was still in the school, back, and then asked Xiumei to come over. Supporting Wei Ruo: "Watch the eldest lady, don't let anything happen to her."
Xiumei nodded and stood beside Wei Ruo, holding Wei Ruo's tightly with one hand.
Xiumei looked at Wei Ruo and saw that Wei Ruo's face turned pale, but she still didn't take her eyes away from the unrecognizable corpse. "Miss, stop looking." Xiumei pulled Wei Ruo nervously.
"I'm fine. I've seen a lot of dead people. I'm not afraid." Wei Ruo said.
"Miss..."
"I can bear it."
Xiumei didn't know how to comfort Wei Ruo better, so she could only choose to accompany her quietly.
When looking at the two corpses on the ground, Xiumei's heart felt tight and painful.
The two people who were alive and kicking half a month ago have now turned into two lifeless corpses. She didn't want to believe it was true, let alone Miss...
About two hours later, Wei Mingting returned to the captain's mansion. He had just won a battle recently and there was no urgent matter in the army, so he came back faster this time.
Looking at the two corpses in the front yard and Jing Hu kneeling on the ground, Wei Mingting frowned.
Wei Mingting asked Jing Hu what happened, and Jing Hu answered one by one. The content of his answer was the same as what he had just told Wei Yichen.
After listening to Jing Hu's explanation, Wei Mingting was silent for a long time.
After a long while, Wei Mingting closed his eyes in pain and ordered his servants to buy coffins and a cemetery.
"Father, won't the second brother's body be transported back to the capital?" Wei Yichen asked.
The ancestral graves of their Wei family are in the capital, and Taizhou Mansion is just a place where they stay temporarily.
"Now that famines are everywhere, it's not safe along the way. Rather than bumping back and forth, it's better to be buried here." Wei Mingting said.
"But father, my second brother has always been a member of my Wei family. It would be inappropriate to leave him alone here. If you are transferred elsewhere in a few years, my second brother will be the only one left here, that is There are not many people paying homage on the Qingming death anniversary." Wei Yichen expressed his worries.
"If that's the case, let's discuss it after I'm transferred. It's a troubled time now, so it's better to be less busy."
Then Wei Mingting sighed: "Recall everyone in the mansion and give Jin Yi a glorious funeral. Okay."
Wei Yichen was silent for a long time before slowly responding.
Afterwards, everyone in the captain's mansion became busy. A mourning hall was set up in the mansion, and white cloths were covered everywhere, and white lanterns were hung.
When the white clothes were delivered to Wei Ruo, Wei Ruo was stunned for a while, then slowly stretched out his hand and put the clothes in his hands.
"Miss, according to the rules here, only those who are younger than the second young master can burn paper money for the second young master, so you will have to work harder tonight." Aunt Zhang, who had brought the clothes, said to Wei Ruo, with a look on her face
. Feeling distressed.
Who would have thought that the second young master would leave so suddenly? In his prime years, he didn’t even have any descendants who could fulfill his filial piety.
"I understand." Wei Ruo nodded.
Then Wei Ruo went back to the room, changed clothes, came out, and followed Nanny Zhang to the mourning hall.
There is a brazier next to the coffin at the back of the mourning hall. There are three futons in front of the brazier. In addition to the one for Wei Ruo, there are two more seats that should be reserved for Wei Qingwan and Wei Yilin.
Although Wei Qingwan is being punished, she will come back if something like this happens in the house.
After Wei Ruo knelt down, he began to put paper money into the brazier.
Not long after, Wei Qingwan came.
Like Wei Ruo, she also changed into white linen clothes.
Wei Qingwan knelt down next to Wei Ruo, and then said to Wei Ruo: "Sister, good deeds are punished and evil deeds are punished. You deliberately planned to drive me out of the house, but now the retribution has come, and the second brother with whom you are best friends has an accident."
( End of this chapter)