Mountain and River Pillow

                              Chapter 21

    Hearing Chu Yu’s words, Wei Yun was slightly stunned.

    The girl who was drifting away was only a year older than him, but she already had a completely different momentum.

    Perhaps just as he felt that he had to grow up eagerly to support the Wei House, she also felt that she as his sister-in-law should support him, right?

    Wei Yun looked at Chu Yu’s back.

    Chu Yu herself did not notice, but Wei Yun could clearly see that the blood stains were printed from Chu Yu’s back.

    She was wounded, and she was still smiling, not even trembling from the pain.

    Just like in the daytime, she had already seen her husband’s coffin when her eyes filled with tears, but still smiled and helped him up and gave him a cup of toast.

    She buried everything in her heart, the clouds were light and the wind was light, facing him with the most beautiful posture, and telling him with silent movements, no problem, everything is fine.

    Why not tell him the truth?

    Wei Yun clenched his fists, his mind full of blood printed on her back, and slowly closed his eyes.

    The bruised leg bone was faintly painful, but another more powerful pain emerged from inside.

    He had never had a moment when he was so hungry for power.

    On his way back with his father and brother, all he could think about was how to find out the truth, how to get justice, how to become the pillar of the family and support the Wei family.

    However, when the woman said the words “sister-in-law covers you” with a smile, he really felt his weakness and powerlessness, and he was not even as good as a woman, a little girl who was only a year older than him, although she was his sister-in-law.

    He wants to live.

    Wei Yun opened his eyes Suddenly.

    He knew without sobriety that he had to live, to stand up, that he would be the one who could shelter others from the wind and rain, that as long as he lived, he would never allow the Wei family to experience the pain of today again!

    Chu Yu walked out of the heavenly prison, thinking about the clues given by Wei Yun.

    The prince oversees the army, Yao Yong is the prince’s uncle, and must have been instructed by the prince to come to White City and then conspire with Wei Zhong on a plan.

    But for what reason, the plan failed and Yao Yong blamed it all on the Wei family. And the emperor …… probably knows it.

    Chu Yu sat on the carriage and tapped her fingers on her thighs to think.

    This matter, does the emperor know, or is he involved?

    Is it the emperor who caused the failure of this matter and the Wei family took the blame for the emperor; or is it the crown prince who caused this matter to happen and the emperor covered up for the crown prince; or does the emperor already have the intention of eliminating the Wei family?

    No, it is not possible.

    Chu Yu thought of a third answer and instantly denied it.

    The fact that the emperor did not intend to kill the Wei family, and even had a guilty conscience towards the Wei family, is proof enough. If the emperor had intended to eradicate the Wei family, Wei Yun simply could have not returned.

    The emperor will not leave any seedlings of the Wei family.

    As long as the emperor does not deliberately intend to eradicate the Wei family, then the Wei family will be much safer.

    Chu Yu pondered and returned to the Marquis of Zhen Guo’s residence, Jiang Chun was still waiting for her. When Chu Yu saw Jiang Chun, she smiled and said, “Why are you still awake?”

    “You didn’t come back, I remembered.”

    Jiang Chun came forward and helped her down: “How was your day?”

    “Some eyebrows.”

    Chu Yu looked up at Jiang Chun: “How are the others in the house?”

    “Zhang Han and Wang Lan have cried a lot…

Yao Jue scolded Cao Yan in the room for a while, and now she has slept. Xie Jiu stayed in the spirit hall and didn’t know if she would go back.

    Jiang Chun was a little tired in her  speech, she said this, and added: “Today people from all families have come, but do not know what was said.”

    Chu Yu nodded and said to Jiang Chun: “You have worked hard.”

    “I’m fine,” Jiang Chun smiled hard: “It’s just a small matter, but you ……”

    Jiang Chun sighed: “A Yu, if you weren’t here, I would be afraid of myself ……”

    The words did not go on, but Chu Yu knew what she was going to say. In her last life, she was not there, and Jiang Chun made the choice. Chu Yu shook Jiang Chun’s hand hard and said hoarsely, “I’m here.”

    ”Don’t say it,” Jiang Jun suppressed the tears that were about to come out: “Go back to sleep first.”

    “You go first.” Chu Yu smiled: “You are also tired all day, go to sleep half the night first, I will go to the spirit hall to guard the seven star lamp, and then you can come back in the second half of the night.”

    Jiang Chun hesitated for a moment, but still nodded and accompanied Chu Yu for a short walk, then went back to sleep.

    Jiang Chun is capable of doing things, Chu Yu went out for half a day, and the spirit hall of the Wei Mansion had all been set up, and Wei Feng also re-found the coffin to be placed, and it was safely and steadily placed in the spirit hall.

    Chu Yu changed her clothes and came to the spirit hall, and as soon as she entered, she saw a figure. She was dressed in plain clothes, kneeling on the ground, guarding the seven-star lamp enshrined in front of the spiritual hall.

    The Seven Star Lamp has seven candle strands of oil. According to the saying of the Great Chu, after a person dies, the Seven Star Lamp will light up the Huangquan Road. The seven-star lamp needs to be cared for by the family, and during the first seven days, it cannot be extinguished, otherwise the person will not be able to find the Huangquan Road and become a lone ghost.

    Wei’s family has just returned, the seven-star lamp is now lit up.

    Chu Yu walked into the spirit hall, kneeling beside the woman, and said softly: “You’re here.”

    “Mm.”

    Xie Jiu spoke lightly and turned her eyes to look at her, “Went to see Wei Yun?”

    “Met.”

    “How was it?”

    Chu Yu didn’t say anything, and Xie Jiu didn’t ask, Xie Jiu knew that Chu Yu wasn’t at ease with her, and she didn’t push Chu Yu.

    She quietly looked at the coffin and her voice was smooth: “Today my mother came and told me to ask Wei Yun for a letter to release me. Now the sacred heart is not yet decided. If I stay in the Wei family, she is worried that I will be buried with the Wei family. If the 70,000 people are really the Wei family’s crime, this crime can be big or small, what should I do?”

    “Next time I go to see Wei Yun,” Chu Yu’s voice was flat: “I’ll help you ask.”

    “Aren’t you afraid?” Xie Jiu turned her head to look at her. Chu Yu didn’t say anything.

    If it was before, if she was Xie Jiu, then naturally …… she would be afraid.

    But to live a lifetime, the matter of life and death, is not so scary. If you look back on the road you have traveled, you will have more courage.

    What’s more, she clearly knows that when the Wei family was cut off by the door,there were no people, and now that she is so helpful, how many will there be?

    However, these words she will not say out loud, Xie Jiu lowered her eyes: “I thought I would be very afraid, but today when I saw him come back, I was suddenly not afraid.”

    “I didn’t want to see him.” Xie Jiu sighed lightly, “I was afraid to see him, so I don’t want to leave, I just want to follow him.” Aya always asked me if I liked him, and he said he didn’t feel like I liked him. Actually…”

    Xie Jiu gently closed her eyes, her throat twitching, and after choking for a moment, she said hoarsely, “I’m just afraid, I like him too much. A woman’s life is already difficult, the road of a concubine daughter is even more difficult. I have been calculating in my life, talking about what I like or dislike, my road will be too difficult.”

    “Look,” she stood up and slowly walked to the side of Wei Ya’s coffin, she put her hand on Wei Ya’s coffin and looked down at the coffin, as if the man was sleeping there and she was looking at the sleeping face. She looked at it with a smile, and tears suddenly fell down: “If I did not like him, how good it would be.”