Chapter 178 Are you sure you won’t regret it?

Cheng Daoquan coaxed Cheng Huaijin and asked him several times. Even Cheng Wenjin, who always had little patience, was patiently guided to recall, trying to make him tell who the murderer was and where his body was now.

Cheng Huaijin looked at his mother and couldn't help but pouting, as if he was very aggrieved.

When he looked at his father and grandfather again, he folded his little hands together and covered his mouth tightly.

Just when everyone except Xiao Tangbao thought he couldn't speak, Cheng Huaijin slowly floated towards Kong, but stopped in the middle of the room.

Kong was a little anxious. She glanced at the yellow talisman in her hand and threw it away without thinking.

Cheng Huaijin was finally able to reach his mother's side. He stretched out his little hand and softly stroked Kong's face. Fearing that his mother might worry, he forced a smile...

"A mother loves beauty the most, yet she worries about her child and has gray hair... A mother's eyes are the most beautiful, yet she cries so much for her child that she nearly goes blind..."

"I was really worried about you, mother, so I asked the little princess to come and see you on my behalf. I never thought I would have the chance to say goodbye to you..."

"No! No," Kong cried, shaking her head repeatedly, her voice breaking. "Mother can't bear to leave Jin'er. Jin'er, please don't leave mother alone, okay?"

She pleaded as she looked at Cheng Huaijin's sunken cheeks, his bloody and completely deformed ten fingers, and the pair of thin cloth shoes on his feet that were soaked in blood... His eyes were red, and he was almost crazy.

"Jin'er, be good, Jin'er, Jin'er, wait for your mother. After your mother has avenged your death, will you go with me?" The road to the underworld is long, and she can't let her son go alone!!!

Cheng Huaijin didn't know whether he should hate the person who hurt him...

He thought about it and decided that rather than revenge, he wanted his mother to live well and live happily.

He shook his head slowly, his voice becoming increasingly difficult due to his weakness: "Mother, please don't be so petty and make me feel uneasy..."

"After today, mother will forget about me! You and father should have another child as soon as possible. Perhaps when it's my turn to be reborn, I'll be able to call you mother again..."

Cheng Huaijin once heard other ghosts say that if one dies and is not buried properly, it will be difficult for him to be reborn as a human being.

He knew that in his next life, or the next life... he would never be his mother's son.

Wuuwuwuwu…

Jin'er didn't lie to her mother on purpose. She is a good child. She just wanted to give her mother a hope to live.

`_Mrs. Kong shook her head desperately.

Cheng Huaijin's eyelids became heavier and heavier. He gradually retreated to the corner, squatted down and hugged himself tightly.

Kong's eyes widened in fear as she quickly crawled towards her child: "No! Jin'er, don't go! Mother only wants Jin'er as her child! I miss you so much, please don't abandon me, okay?"

Soon, Cheng Huaijin closed his eyes and murmured vaguely, as if in a trance: "Father is not a bad person... He treats mother sincerely... Mother, from now on, please don't go to grandma's house so often..."

He is worried!

He really doesn't trust his mother...

Could you please ask Princess Zhaoning to turn him into a puppy so that he can always stay with his mother...

`(╥﹏╥)Looking at the scene of life and death in front of him, little Tangbao burst into tears.

Kong seemed to be extremely frightened. She quickly crawled to Tang Bao's feet, grabbed her skirt, and asked in panic:

"My son, what happened to my son? Your Highness, please go and see my son. I beg you!"

As she spoke, she began to kowtow to Tang Bao: "Long live the princess! The princess has done immeasurable good deeds! Long live the princess! The princess..."

The Cheng family father and son also knelt on the ground, looking at Tang Bao helplessly.

The little fellow pointed at Cheng Huaijin's ghost and said to Cheng Daoquan in a choked voice:

"Tang Bao doesn't know how to tell fortunes yet. He doesn't know who killed him, or where his body is... Tang Bao is here to help him fulfill his wish!"

"But his body should be in the same condition as it is now. Aren't you the Minister of Justice? Don't you know how to solve the case?"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Daoquan hurried to the corner and stared at Cheng Huaijin's soul with great concentration, trying his best to remember every scar on his body.

Xiao Tangbao quickly slid down from the chair and took off Cheng Huaijin's clothes and shoes in front of several people in the room.

"Will it be clearer if you look at it this way?"

Little Tangbao took a step back. Mrs. Kong looked at her skinny baby son and almost fainted because she couldn't catch her breath.

Cheng Wenjin strode forward, looked at his son's protruding bones and deeply sunken abdomen, and his head buzzed.

Thinking that his son had been missing for over four months, he was horrified, filled with anger and heartache. He suddenly looked at his father and said, "Dad! Jin'er...did he starve to death?"

Starved to death???

Kong felt dizzy. Her Jin'er was very impatient and could not stand being hungry...

How absurd!!!

Who is so cruel?

What sin had she committed? The child she had cherished and raised with such care and respect had to die in such a tragic and painful way?

Jin'er is such a good kid! He even risked his own life to save a child his own age at Hongwenguan!

Such a kind and warm-hearted child...why couldn't he have a good ending?!

Why why why??!!

God is so unfair!!

Kong's face was filled with sorrow as she continued to kowtow to Tang Bao.

Princess Zhaoning is a deity descended to earth! Princess Zhaoning is the most kindhearted! Only she can help his son! Only she!!!

Little Tang Bao swallowed the bitter taste in his throat, sniffed, and said to the person at his feet: "If Madam Cheng Er Shao is crazy, even if Tang Bao can pray for Cheng Huai Jin's soul, he won't be able to reincarnate peacefully!"

"By the time he gets used to it, there's no guarantee he'll become a gloomy person in his next life. He'll be unhappy."

Suddenly...

The house was dead silent.

Not even the sound of breathing could be heard in the room.

Xiao Tangbao glanced at a few people quietly, and under everyone's extremely shocked gaze, he picked up Cheng Huaijin's ghost with one hand and put it back into the soul bottle.

"Two days." The little fellow said solemnly, "I can keep him for two days at most. If he doesn't report to the underworld by then, there will be no afterlife."

Upon hearing this, Kong fell to the ground, then quickly stood up and crawled towards her father-in-law.

She clutched the hem of Cheng Daoquan's robe tightly, looking up and crying like rain:

"Father! Jin'er is still so young... He's so pitiful..."

"I beg you, Father, to find the murderer as soon as possible and avenge Jin'er. Don't let him die in fear and resentment, Father!!!"

“Wuwuwuwuwuwu…”

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There was a fierce look in Xiao Tangbao's eyes, and he stared at the door, as if he could see someone outside through the door.

"Second Young Master's wife, do you really want justice for your son? Are you sure you won't regret it later?"

Xiao Tangbao's words had hidden meaning.

Kong was completely confused, and Cheng Wenjin was also completely bewildered.

But Cheng Daoquan, who had worked in the Ministry of Justice for decades, figured out the trick.

Recalling the way his grandson covered his mouth and remained silent when asked about the murderer, Cheng Daoquan had an idea in his mind.

He glanced at his daughter-in-law Kong and bowed respectfully to Tang Bao: "I am incompetent, but may I ask what the princess has discovered?"

The little fellow's light grey eyes rolled around, and he pursed his lips and spoke fluently:

"When I first arrived at your house, whenever your daughter-in-law, Kong, asked about your grandson Cheng Huaijin, her mother, Madam Kong, would try to interrupt me! She even had me taken to her room to tease her."

"Before you came, Cheng Huaijin told me that it was his grandmother who went to Hongwenguan to pick him up on the day he disappeared. Moreover, his grandmother was very worried that the birthmark on the bottom of his foot would be discovered, so his Aunt Su burned it with tongs!"

Cheng Daoquan was suddenly startled, bowed to Tang Bao, and immediately left the room.

Thinking of all these things, Cheng Wenjin's face suddenly changed. He bowed and left the hall, and hurriedly chased after his father.

Kong collapsed on the ground, her mind blank. She was like a fish out of water, breathing became increasingly difficult, her eyelids twitched slightly, and she fainted immediately.

"lady!?"

The nanny was shocked and quickly pulled off the quilt in front of the door, pushed it open and called for help.

Little Tangbao stood on tiptoe with his hands behind his back, looking out. He saw that there were more people in the yard than before, but why was Mrs. Kong gone?

As if he knew what she was thinking, Chengfeng walked into the room and spoke in a calm voice, "Mrs. Kong heard Mrs. Kong crying and shouting in the room... If you didn't know, you would think she had done something bad and sneaked away with someone."

"She's got a clear conscience!" The little fellow yawned, tilting his head back and saying sleepily, "The message has been delivered. We just have to wait for two days to send that little devil away. Come on, folks!"

Just as little Tangbao opened her arms for Uncle Chengfeng to hold her, Kong suddenly grabbed her ankles.

“`(﹏)`...Ah~”

The little guy screamed, but did not forget to stop Chengfeng from getting angry at a grieving mother.

Kong, who couldn't kneel any longer, ignored the crowd of people standing in the yard, and lay on the ground, holding Tang Bao's calves tightly with both hands, and banged her forehead against the ground repeatedly.

"Princess, don't go! Please! Please don't go, don't go..." Kong kept begging, but soon she became silent and fainted completely.

Seeing this, the nanny beside her didn't care about her own wife and quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Xiao Tangbao, begging her to wait until her master woke up before leaving...

For a moment, Tang Bao felt as if Ji Ji had turned into a small wooden stake, being nailed to the spot by Kong's hands...

She frowned, clutching the corner of her clothes with her hands, and hesitated: "But... Tang Bao still has feelings..."

She wanted to go to the palace to see if the old emperor was still unconscious.

I also want to go to the Third Princess's Mansion to see what's going on with that top-ranking scholar, the Prince Consort...

Tangbao is so busy every day!