Late at night.
Several dark shadows leap out of the Song family’s mansion, heading straight for the Wei Yuan Dart Station.
Inside the dartboard, silence reigns.
In the spirit hall, Qi Ying is silently burning paper.
Song San Xiao had already persuaded her several times to go back and rest, but Qi Ying kept shaking her head and stubbornly stood in front of the coffin.
After kneeling for several days, Song Sanxiao’s knees were swollen and it hurt badly to move. He quietly rubbed them and went to Qi Ying’s side and squatted down, “I’ll do it, you go sit and rest for a while.”
As if Qi Ying did not hear him, he still stubbornly burned paper.
Song San Xiao touched his nose and stole a glance at her, “Are you angry?”
Qi Ying didn’t answer.
Song Sanxiao was a little flustered, “I, my family didn’t, didn’t mean anything else ……”
“Thank you for these few days”, Qi Ying spoke in a low voice, his voice hoarse that made Song San Xiao’s heart ache, “You’d better take off your mourning clothes, I’ll send my mother myself tomorrow.”
“You, what do you mean?”
Qi Ying did not say anything, just silently shed tears.
Song San Xiao was even more flustered and explained urgently, “My family really didn’t mean anything else, if you feel uncomfortable, I’ll give them the word and not let them mention half a word again in the future.”
Qi Ying’s tears fell to the ground one by one.
Song Sanxiao felt like they were smashing into his heart, smashing his heart so hard that it hurt, he jerked up and headed out, “I’ll go get Yue’er to come over and apologize to you!”
“You come back!”
Qi Ying hissed, calling out to him.
Song San Xiao didn’t stop in his tracks.
Qi Ying got up and caught up with him, tugging at him, all the pain he had suppressed all these days burst out in this instant, “She was right, it was my fault, I should have taken care of my mother’s affairs myself, and I shouldn’t have let you come over, let alone bother your family and bring you trouble!
Song Sanxiao had never seen her like this before and froze in shock.
Qi Ying went to peel the mourning clothes off his body.
Song Sanxiao came back to his senses and hurriedly broke away from her and took a few steps back, “I’m not going to look for Yue’er, take it easy for now.”
As if she hadn’t heard him, Qi Ying rushed to him like a madman and tore the mourning clothes off his body.
Song Sanxiao blocked him, but he could not stop him. Qi Ying tore the mourning clothes with a few strokes and threw them to the ground, pushing him, “You go, you go!”
Song Sanxiao stumbled as he was pushed and shoved, he was afraid of hurting Qi Ying, he had to suffer in silence, “Miss Qi, listen to me, I ……”
“You go, go!”
Qi Ying hissed, tears flowing down her cheeks.
Song Sanxiao’s heart was breaking and he held her in his arms, “Calm down, listen to me.”
Qi Ying struggled and fought.
Song Sanxiao did not hide or avoid.
It was only when Qi Ying was tired of beating and her body went limp that he let go and slowly laid her on the ground, looked her in the eyes and said to her forcefully, “Since you acquiesced to me wearing the mourning clothes on the first day, you have acquiesced to the marriage with me, you want to back out, no! I tell you, ever since I first saw you, I have loved you, and I will not marry you in this life.”
Qi Ying’s fist fell on his body in a flash.
Song Sanxiao let her hit him.
Qi Ying couldn’t take the beating anymore and fell on his shoulder, bawling.
When she was tired of crying, Song Sanxiao bent down and picked her up and took her back to her house.
When the dartboard was quiet, Xiao Zheng led his men to leap up the wall and after checking it out, he leapt to the ground and went straight to the hearse, opened the lid of the coffin, carried Madam Qi’s body out of it and handed it to the guards, who quickly wrapped it in cloth and carried it on their shoulders.
Xiao Zheng restored the coffin lid to its original state and the group quickly left.
Song San Xiao returned, flicked the candle hearts on the table in front of the coffin and continued to burn the paper. He couldn’t stay up for the second half of the night and fell asleep on the side of the coffin.
The following day, it was just after dawn.
Master Song climbed up. Both he and Grandma Song had been up all night and many more grey hairs had grown on their heads.
“The matter with the Qi family is indeed fishy, but the marriage between Lao-san and Miss Qi was booked a long time ago, we can’t go back on it at this time.”
Although the Song family was not a big family, they were a family of love and righteousness, and since Qi Ying had just suffered such a terrible disaster, if they did not agree to her marriage with Lao San, it would seem too impersonal and they would be poked from behind.
“Let’s take one step at a time, they can’t get married until three years later anyway, maybe in those three years, Miss Qi has changed her mind?”
That was the only way to think about it.
Grandma Song sighed Avray, if she had known that such a thing would happen to the Qi family, she would not have agreed to let Lao San and Qi Ying get engaged in the first place, even if she had been beaten to death.
……
The rising sun is high.
The front of the dartboard was crowded with people watching.
There was much talk as they listened to Qi Ying’s cries coming from inside.
When the Song family and their party came over, the crowd made way for the Song family to enter, followed by a dozen strong men, these were all from the coffin shop, hired by Master Song to help carry the coffin outside, and before that, to staple the lid.
A group of people entered the hearse.
Qi Ying cried even louder.
Elder Song waved his hand and two strong men with wooden hammers in their hands walked to either side of the coffin.
“Huh!”
One of them suddenly let out a cry, and the crowd looked over.
The man rubbed his eyes and bowed his head downwards.
“What’s wrong?”
Elder Song asked.
The strong man looked up, incredulous, “There doesn’t seem to be anything in the coffin. ”
The crowd’s faces changed.
Qi Ying got up even more quickly and saw that the coffin lid was unexpectedly crooked. With a shudder in his heart, he pushed it open with force, but it was empty, there was nothing inside.
Qi Ying’s eyes went black.
The Song family was even more shocked.
The hired strong men, on the other hand, looked at each other in disbelief.
“What’s going on?”
Song San Xiao lunged to the coffin and saw that there was nothing inside and a buzz went through his head, “Second brother, go and report to the officials!”
Song Shu drew his legs and ran outside.
Seeing his panicked appearance, the people watching outside surged to the door, tiptoeing in to look inside.
Qi Ying had fallen to the floor in a heap.
No one was there to help her.
Grandma Song and Liu Cui Lan were also stunned and stood motionless.
Sheriff Zhang quickly came over with his men and looked carefully inside and outside the hearse, but found nothing.
“Who kept the wake last night?”
“Me.”
Song San Xiao stepped forward, his voice shivering, “I, I kept watch over the spirit, I didn’t leave.”
“And you didn’t find anything unusual? ”
“No.”
“That’s odd. ……”
Sheriff Zhang circled the coffin again, the fine nan wood coffin, the lid was so heavy that it took a lot of effort to push it, it was impossible to move the body outwards without making a commotion.
“Leaving over.”
Qi Ying leaned against the coffin, bracing himself to keep from falling over, “He sent me back to my room.”
“Yes, yes, yes ……”
Song San Xiao also remembered.
“How long?”
“Less than half a quarter of an hour.”
Sheriff Zhang looked at the distance from the door to the hearth, less than half a quarter of an hour to come in and then carry the body out, the average person is not so good at it, unless ……
“Miss Qi, does the Weiyuan Dart Board have any enemies?”