Chapter 39 She's Still Alive
"It's so scary, are they still human?" Chen Dani whispered in disbelief.
Chunniang died, a living person was gone just like that.
However, the murderer felt no guilt at all and instead fabricated false charges against Chunniang.
Liang Jinyu stared at Chunniang in a daze. In a trance, Chunniang's face became hers, and the person lying in a pool of blood also became herself.
"What are you still standing there for? We are all responsible for Chunniang's death! Follow the eldest brother to the mountain to bury her. Hurry up, or it will be dawn." Wang urged anxiously, obviously afraid.
Old man Chen didn't dare to look at Chunniang, he just took out a shovel and a hoe from behind the door.
"I'm not going!" Chen Dani shouted in fear and rushed into the room.
Chen Lai Fu handed Liang Jinyu a hoe with a sad expression: "Since it has already happened, there is nothing we can do. Who told her to be unfaithful to her husband and seduce my father? My mother was so angry that she pushed her by mistake. Since you knew she was pregnant, why didn't you tell me earlier? If you knew, maybe things wouldn't have turned out like this."
Liang Jinyu looked at Chen Laifu sarcastically and asked him: "Do you know whose child is in Chunniang's belly? It's your father's. Your father knew that Chunniang was pregnant, but he still let you marry her. You two were already married, but he still wanted to go along with Chunniang. He is -"
"Shut up!"
Old man Chen shouted angrily, pointing at Liang Jinyu with shaking fingers, "What nonsense are you talking about? I didn't even know Chunniang was pregnant. I was with her only this once, and she seduced me! She is just a slut who can be slept with by anyone. God knows whose bastard is in her belly!"
"Stop arguing, just go and bury the body. I beg you, please do it quickly!" Wang stamped her feet anxiously.
If she is seen by someone at dawn, she will kill someone to pay for her crime. She doesn't want to die!
"Take it." Chen Lai Fu forcefully stuffed the hoe into Liang Jinyu's arms, and handed Liang Dingfang a shovel.
Chun Niang was rolled up on a tattered mat, and Chen Lai Fu carried her towards the back mountain.
"Sister?" Liang Dingfang called out in a low voice, unusually calm, "If we don't go, they won't be at ease."
The Chen family just wanted to drag the Liang siblings into the incident. As long as they buried the body together, they would be accomplices.
Liang Jinyu tightly grasped the hoe, wishing she could rush to the government office to report the case immediately, but could she bear the consequences of her impulsive behavior?
Not to mention whether she had the luck to go to the government office, even if she did, she would be doomed once her identity was discovered.
"Let's go." Liang Jinyu compromised.
In the second half of the night, the forest was dead silent.
The dense leaves blocked the sky, and even the moonlight could not reach the thorny valley.
"That's it."
After Chen Lai Fu finished speaking, he left Chun Niang behind, walked aside and started digging a hole.
Liang Jinyu squatted down and opened the bamboo mat. What she saw was Chunniang's face as pale as wax. The strong smell of blood made her nauseous.
"Why are you still looking at her? Come over and give her a hand." Chen Lai Fu shouted unhappily.
Liang Jinyu pretended not to hear anything and took out a handkerchief from her bosom to wipe the blood off Chunniang's face. Seeing that her clothes were in disarray, she tidied her clothes.
Suddenly, Liang Jinyu retracted his hand and looked at Chunniang in shock.
Is this an illusion?
Just now she seemed to see Chunniang's chest rising and falling?
"Chun Niang?" Liang Jinyu called softly.
Chunniang remained motionless, with her eyes tightly closed.
Liang Jinyu remembered something and reached out to touch Chunniang's neck. She felt a faint beating from her fingertips.
Liang Jinyu was overjoyed. Chunniang was still breathing. She was still alive!
Yes, even if it was a miscarriage with heavy bleeding, it is impossible for the person to die so quickly.
Chunniang can still be saved!
Realizing this, Liang Jinyu quickly looked at Chen Lai Fu and thought of a solution quickly in his mind.
"It's almost done, drag the person over here." Chen Lai Fu said to Liang Dingfang.
Liang Dingfang frowned, disgust flashing across his eyes.
Liang Jinyu hurriedly said, "Don't touch her, I'll do it."
She dragged Chunniang into the pit with great effort, and then carefully wrapped her up with a mat, trying to leave as much space as possible between Chunniang's mouth and nose and the mat.
"Chun Niang, you brought this upon yourself. Be a good person in your next life." Chen Lai Fu bowed in a fake manner and then covered it with a shovel of mud.
Liang Jinyu stared at the earth pit and said, "Bury it quickly, it's almost dawn."
Due to time constraints, the pit was not dug deep and the mat soon disappeared.
From somewhere in the forest came the sound of birds chirping, so shrill that it made one's scalp tingle.
Chen Laifu also showed fear in his eyes and urged: "Go home quickly."
The three of them walked back along the way they came, and suddenly, Liang Jinyu stopped.
"Sister, why don't you leave?" Liang Dingfang asked in a low voice.
Liang Jinyuhuan looked around and said warily, "I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel like someone is watching me."
The night was too dark and nothing could be seen around except the swaying shadows of the trees.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up." Chen Lai Fu turned around and urged.
As they walked, Liang Jinyu whispered to Liang Dingfang, "I have to go back. Please cover for me."
"What?" Liang Dingfang was surprised, thinking he had heard wrongly.
Liang Jinyu explained: "Chun Niang seems to be still alive. I have to go back to confirm it."
But if the person is not dug out quickly, he will suffocate to death even if he is still alive.
"Who, who is there?" Liang Jinyu suddenly shouted in horror.
This sudden voice startled not only Chen Lai Fu but also Liang Dingfang.
Then Liang Jinyu pointed at the forest ahead as if he had seen a ghost, and stepped back in fear: "Ghost! There is a ghost there!"
Without waiting for Chen Lai Fu to react, Liang Jinyu suddenly turned around and ran away as if she was scared mad.
"Sister!" Liang Dingfang saw this and hurriedly chased after her.
Chen Lai Fu subconsciously chased after him. At this moment, he actually heard a rustling sound in the forest, followed by a black, vague shadow swaying up.
"Ghost! There is a ghost!" Chen Lai Fu was so frightened that he ran down the mountain in panic.
After the people had run away, a thin figure tiptoed out from the woods. He held a stick in his hand with a rag on top, which swayed in the wind.
"Brother, are we going to do this?" A smaller figure crawled out from the bushes. The voice was soft and tender. It was a little girl.
Wang Erniu tore off the rag and stuffed it into his arms, then squatted down and motioned for his sister to climb onto his back.
"They're sneaking around in the middle of the night, so they must be up to no good. Let's go take a look."
Wang Juaner was a little scared, but more of a confused person.
"Didn't you say you were going to look for mom? Why did you follow them inside?"
Wang Erniu dragged his sister by the hand and walked forward carefully, saying firmly: "Auntie Liang didn't see us just now, she was pretending."
It was windy at night. Wang Juaner covered her mouth and coughed a few times. She then asked, "Why is she pretending? What is she going to do when she goes back?"
Wang Erniu bit his lip. He didn't know how to answer. He just felt more and more scared the further he went inside. However, his feet seemed not to belong to him and he kept moving inside uncontrollably.
It seemed as if there was something there that attracted him.
"Brother, I'm scared." Wang Juaner suddenly grabbed Wang Erniu's clothes and pressed her small body tightly against his back.
Wang Erniu swallowed nervously and said timidly, "Well, forget it, let's go back to find mom. She must be waiting anxiously."
"Sister, are you seeing things? Isn't Chunniang dead?"