Otoharu

Not far away, Jiang Yanzhi and an elegant literati in his 40s were walking quickly towards this side.

"Yanzhi!" Seeing Jiang Yanzhi, Mrs. Jiang ran forward in surprise, and asked eagerly, "Yanzhi, how are Shan Qing and Mei Meier doing? Why hasn't any news come back?"

Jiang Yanzhi hesitated for a moment, but didn't answer. Instead, he glanced at the middle-aged scribe beside him, then turned the subject and said, "This is Xu Daru, let him tell you about Shan Qing and Mei Meier in person."

"Xu Daru, isn't that Shanqing's..." Mrs. Li on the ground looked at Xu Daru in astonishment, barely saying the words "pro-uncle".

Xu Daru bowed his hands with several members of the Li family, and said with a guilty expression: "I should have come to see you earlier, these years, thanks to your careful care, Shanqing was able to grow up safely."

Mrs. Li smiled mischievously. Although this is not the first time we met, after knowing his relationship with Shanqing, it was indeed a little awkward to meet. She didn't know what to say, so she repeated the sentence, "It's not in the way, it's not in the way , should, should."

Jiang's attention was not on Xu Daru, and he only asked in a trembling voice: "Shan Qing and Mei Meier, why didn't they come back?"

She is not stupid, she has already sensed something bad from Jiang Yanzhi and Xu Daru.

Jiang Yanzhi choked, and sighed again: "Let's go in and talk about it."

Mrs. Jiang nodded silently, and together with Li Yan helped Mrs. Li up on the ground, and went back to the other courtyard.

The group sat down in the main hall, and before the Li family could ask any more questions, Xu Daru said in a deep voice: "Shanqing and Meier had an accident in the palace, they fell from the high platform... already ..."

Xu Daru seemed unable to continue, his eyes were red and his voice was choked up.

There was also dead silence on the Li family's side. Mrs. Jiang had already driven the children back to their rooms in advance, but at this moment she was the calmest among them. She stared at Xu Daru for a moment, and asked slowly: "Mr. Xu, where are the bodies of Shan Qing and Mei Meier now?"

"There are special people in the palace sorting it out, and it is estimated that it will be sent back to the mansion today, but the corpse fell from a high altitude, maybe... I can't see the face clearly..." Xu Daru replied in a difficult tone.

Jiang took a deep breath, her face was drained of blood, she clasped her nails tightly into her palms, forced herself to calm down, looked at Xu Daru and asked, "Then can we go home now?"

Xu Daru obviously didn't expect the Jiang family to ask this question, he was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Yes, now that His Majesty has woken up, and the Song family is also under house arrest by His Majesty, and soon His Majesty will issue an order to raid the Song family. They can no longer pose any threat to you."

"Okay, then let's go back." Jiang Shi stood up, but her legs gave way and she almost fell down.

Li Yan quickly reached out to support him, a big man, but at this moment tears were streaming down his face.

"Sister, don't cry, I'm fine, you go and see your mother." Jiang forced a smile and said to Li Yan.

Li Yan wiped away his tears indiscriminately, and went to see Mrs. Li.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Li was also very calm. She said stubbornly: "If you don't see the body, you can't be sure if the person is dead or not! My old lady won't recognize it!"

"Mother..." Li Yan didn't know what to say, his eyes were moist again, he didn't think Xu Daru would make a mistake on such a matter.

"Listen to your wife, we want to go home." Mrs. Li stood up, as if she couldn't accept the status quo.

Li Yan wiped away his tears indiscriminately, and nodded.The Li family and his party quickly boarded the carriage home.

Fearing that Mrs. Li would have something to do, Mrs. Jiang sat in a carriage with her.

Mrs. Li held Jiang Shi's hand tightly, and looked at her with narrowed eyes, "Daughter-in-law Ayan, I think Shan Qing and Mei Meier should not be dead."

Jiang's eyes were reddish, she looked at Mrs. Li, and asked tremblingly, "Mother, why do you think so?"

"I think Yanzhi and Xu Daru are too calm. Although they look sad, I think they are not really sad, they are acting in front of us!" Mrs. Li said firmly.

In fact, Mrs. Jiang also felt this way, but she felt that it didn't make sense, so she was suffering a lot in her heart. Now that she heard Mrs. Li say the same, she felt a lot more settled in her heart, but she still frowned and asked: "Then they Why do you want to do this?"

Mrs. Li thought for a while, and said with wise eyes: "They want us to think that Mei Meier and his wife are really dead, so that we will be really sad, and others will not see the flaws."

Jiang's eyes lit up when she heard the words, she kept nodding her head and said, "Mother, you are right, Mei Meier and the others should very likely still be alive!"

However, Mrs. Li sighed again, "Let's talk about it when we see the corpse. These are just my guesses. We watched Mei Meier and Shanqing grow up. Whether the corpse belongs to them or not, we can tell at a glance." I can tell."

Jiang Shi nodded anxiously, silently praying to the heaven in her heart that her Mei Meier must live well.

The carriage soon arrived at Li's house.It was really a coincidence that not long after the Li family arrived home, someone from the palace came to deliver the corpse.

The servant in charge of returning the corpse was Li Chengqi's confidant. He asked people to carry the coffin containing the corpse to the yard of Li's house, and then said to Li Yan very politely: "Master Li, this is the corpse of your daughter and son-in-law. The family has sent you here, and your condolences will be changed."

Li Yan looked at the two coffins, his eyes were red, and he didn't dare to go forward for a long time.

Seeing her son not moving, Mrs. Li supported Jiang's hand and walked forward step by step.

She walked very steadily, not at all like an old woman in her 60s.

Mrs. Li walked to the coffin and slowly raised her hand. Only then could she see that her hand was trembling slightly.

"Mother, let me come." Mrs. Jiang held Mrs. Li's hand, showing unprecedented strength.

Mrs. Li looked at her daughter-in-law, sighed, and nodded in agreement.

Jiang pushed open the coffin lid, she didn't dare to look at the corpse's face for the first time, but only looked at the corpse's hands folded on the abdomen.

Jiang only glanced at it, then threw herself on the coffin lid and burst into tears.

"My son~~~Why are you willing to leave mother behind~~Why are you so cruel~~Let mother send a white-haired person to a black-haired person~~~"

Mrs. Li did not show any weakness, and cried along with Jiang.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cried out of breath, but Li Yan and the others were startled and forgot to cry for a moment.

Seeing that the Li family members were so sad, the servant who came to return the corpse also sighed softly, slowly took out an imperial decree in his sleeve, and screamed: "Li Yan, Li Chen's, Li Jiang's, come on!" Accept the order~~"