Gongqing bone

Chapter 6 Meet the old friend again
"Miss, you, it's raining so much at night, what are you doing at the mass grave alone?"

While Jing Se was talking, there was a sudden thunder in the sky, and the rain seemed to be getting heavier.

The sound of thunder and lightning seems to uproot mountains and flood rivers with sudden rain, making people fearful.

Jingse was taken aback, and the umbrella in her hand fell to the ground without holding it firmly. It was instantly washed by the rainstorm and splashed with mud. A good 24 bone oil paper umbrella with a picture of boating in misty rain fell into the mud and disappeared. Save Yan.

Jingse didn't care about her distress, the lady was used to Aijie, and she was destined not to use that umbrella again.

It's just that the poor lady was about to be drenched, so she quickly rolled up her sleeves to protect the lady from the rain, but Du Heng remained motionless like a sculpture.

After a while, Du Heng picked up the umbrella and shook off the water and mud, handed it to Jingse, and said:

"Good girl, I have a coir raincoat. It's okay. Don't accompany me. There is a gazebo where we came. You can go to shelter from the rain first! I will find you later."

Jingse only felt that she couldn't leave the lady behind, but recently the lady has a temper of one and only one, and not listening to her will only make the lady unhappy.

Jingse's feet moved faster than her brain, and she left Du Heng without saying anything.

Just when Du Heng left Jing Se's sight for the last time, a flash of lightning split the night sky, followed by rumbling thunder.

Jingse looked at Du Heng's slender figure illuminated by lightning, and not far away was the mottled blood on the stone tablet of the mass grave:
Some colors have already darkened to black, and under the heavy rain, the mottled traces are gradually deformed, like totems of strange shapes;

As for what couldn't be washed away, Jingse couldn't tell whether it was blackened blood or dark green moss. Looking at it from a distance, it made one's heart shudder.

The sound of lightning and thunder in the rain is also like the cry of dragons in the sea, turning this mass grave into a dark and cursed place, but Du Heng seems to want to enter this ghost.

Just as this thought rose in Jingse's heart, as she drifted away, she had unknowingly made Du Heng disappear from her sight.

Du Heng stepped into this ghost land without the slightest hesitation. She is a ghost herself, and her parents and relatives are still lying here. She can't bury them openly and collect their corpses, burn money and cry, or even come to see them during the day. I can't even look at it.

Du Heng looked up to the sky, then wiped away the large drops of tears and raindrops on his face, covered his face with a face towel to prevent accidental inhalation of corpse air, and then carefully put on gloves made of fish maw.

The decapitation at Caishikou seemed like yesterday, but the bodies of the 82 members of the Lin family had been lying here for more than a month, and most of them were only bones connected with rotting flesh. The only way to identify them was from their clothes.

Caishikou didn't often behead people, so Du Heng found the burial place of their family with ease. Looking at the clothes still remaining compared with other corpses, Du Heng sneered.

I don't know if anyone still believes in their Lin family's reputation. Under the prison uniforms of these headless corpses, they were still wearing the normal clothes they wore when they were arrested at home, and they were not picked up by beggars after they died. It's neat.

Du Heng found herself quite easily, after all, she was the only corpse with a head.

She was still wearing the azure-colored clothes of the execution site, and the rancid smell made her breathless.

The torrential rain washed away the exposed bones.

Du Heng leaned forward and searched carefully on her body, only to find that there were not many other jewelry trapped in the flesh and blood, but the arm bracelet was missing.

The armband was a birthday gift from Jiji Shi, his elder brother, and it was a rare magic weapon.

This craft of wrapping selaginella silk into jewelry has been lost in previous dynasties. Selaginella silk is silk from the Western Regions. It is tough and unbreakable, and it cannot be broken by a knife or burned by fire. It can only be stored in gold vessels.

The greater the force, the tighter and sharper it will be. It can easily break a person's neck and leave only a trace of blood. It is a very good self-defense weapon and is not easy to be detected.

The one my brother gave me was processed into an armband with unique ingenuity, and it has a hidden button switch, which only I know.

Du Heng knew very well that his lightness kung fu was not bad, and his martial arts skills were average. If he wanted to defend himself and take revenge, this armband was absolutely indispensable, and there was still a touch of anxiety on his brows.

Came here for nothing.

When Du Heng left, she took a deep look at the mass grave, but she couldn't even knock her head down. She could only remember the appearance and location of the eighty-odd people, and looked forward to collecting the corpses in the future.

It wasn't until the pavilion where Jingse was looming in the distance that a strange feeling rose in Du Heng's heart, but he didn't know where it came from. He shook his head, only thinking that he was thinking too much.

When I entered the pavilion, I found that there was not only a quiet person inside, but it was too rainy and foggy outside, so I didn't even see a pair of master and servant standing and sitting inside.

Alarm bells rang in Du Heng's heart. This pavilion is the only way to enter the mass grave. Seeing that this person's clothes are unusual, what are you doing here?
But when the man turned his head, Du Heng almost called out the name of the visitor, the four words were lingering on the tip of his tongue, after all, he didn't reveal the slightest breath.He also made a look of being wary of people.

Xue Feiqing looked at Du Heng, a scrutiny flashed in his eyes, and then he smiled as warmly as jade,
"How does this young lady go out on a rainy night? The heavy rain is pouring, but the road ahead is muddy. How about riding with me?"

Du Heng looked at the sky and found that what he said was indeed true, so he didn't refuse, and got into Xue Feiqing's carriage quietly.

Xue Feiqing was a good friend of his brother's life, and he would meet the deceased Lin Zhijun from time to time, but it is absolutely impossible for Du Heng to be familiar with Xue Feiqing.

After getting into the car, Xue Feiqing took out a few dry cloths and handed them to Jing Se, asking them to wipe their rain-wet clothes.

After Du Heng took it, he thanked him in a low voice.Xue Feiqing chatted with her naturally: "Xue Feiqing, I don't know where the girl lives. I can drop the girl to a place close to home."

"I, I am the concubine daughter of Du Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Du Heng."

"Forgive me for taking the liberty, but the girl went out in the rainy night and came to a place like the mass grave, why?"

Du Heng didn't speak, just stared back at him.

Xue Feiqing smiled helplessly after being stared at,
"Is it my servant? I should first express my intention to come. Eldest Master Lin, Lin Junyun, was my best friend during my lifetime. Although I can't bury him, I should always visit him to express my condolences."

When he said this, there was also an indelible sadness in his tone, which did not seem to be fake.

Du Heng also said in a sullen tone: "Miss Lin...has helped me once, and is kind to me. I should come and see her off too."

She had already thought about this rhetoric, and she had spoken up for Du Heng once before she was alive.

The four words she wanted to blurt out just now were Brother Fei Qing.

How much she wanted to throw herself into the arms of Xue Feiqing, whom she also regarded as her elder brother, and vomited her heartache and grievance: Brother Feiqing, you are back.

But she can't believe anyone, no one dares to believe it, even if she does, she doesn't want to get involved.

(End of this chapter)