Chapter 104
Spots of blood seeped onto the floor tiles. Cui Pei cried out in alarm, "Boss!"
Aside from being pale, the young man was still relatively lucid. He wiped the bruises from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief and then covered the bloodstains on the ground with soil.
"It's nothing, just a recurrence of an old injury."
Cui Pei wanted to ask his boss if he had any old injuries, but seeing Pei Lingjun's gaze, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
What old injury did their leader have?
He had taken the knife for Wen Tao before, and the wound on his back had long since healed. He wasn't injured when he went to Feixian to intercept the longevity silver.
Why did he suddenly start vomiting blood?
Cui Pei couldn't understand why no one in Jijing dared to openly attack the commander of the Xiaolong Guard. Then he thought to himself, his eldest brother was worried day and night about Wen Si Niangzi. Could it be that he was lovesick?
When Zhu Zijin returned from outside, he saw Cui Pei looking at his uncle with an indescribable expression.
“Uncle, I found out that a man from Shanzhou stayed here for a while about a month ago, but he left half a month ago.” Zhu Zijin pointed to the dark courtyard in the northwest.
"There are only five or six households in this area, and every household has people living there, except for that one household that is empty."
"Shanzhou?" the young man murmured, the taste of blood filling his mouth. His eyes were deep and dark. He remembered that Wen Shu had mentioned in his previous life that she often lived with her maternal grandfather in Shanzhou when she was young!
Was the secret letter, the repair of the prefecture, and the disappearance all orchestrated by her?
As if suddenly realizing something, the young man took a deep breath and looked at Zhu Zijin, "You take Hanxiang back to the inn first, Cui Pei and I will go and investigate some things."
Zhu Zijin originally said he wanted to go too, but Hanxiang couldn't be left unattended. He had been watching her for so long, what if she ran away again?
I had no choice but to reluctantly agree.
Four figures emerged from the earth god temple one after another, each heading in a different direction.
Outside the city.
The further they walked, the more desolate the place became. Cui Pei rubbed his arms, took a deep breath of the cold air from the deep mountains and forests, and asked in confusion, "Boss, what are we doing here?"
The young man parted his thin lips slightly and uttered two words indifferently, "Digging up graves."
"!!!"
"I won't do this kind of ancestral grave digging! Boss, please let me go, this stuff is bad for people's karma—"
"The other day, Caiyun, a young lady from Chunfang Pavilion, sent a beautifully embroidered sachet to the Marquis's residence. Would you like it?"
Cui Pei's eyes lit up immediately, and he nodded hurriedly, afraid that if he hesitated even a moment, he wouldn't get it. "Yes, yes, yes!"
"Is it still considered bad karma?" The young man stopped in front of the Wen family ancestral grave with a faint smile on his lips.
Cui Pei rolled up his sleeves, shouldered the shovel, and smiled broadly, "How could that be? You're doing me a favor."
As the moon rose high in the sky, crows cried out in alarm in the dead of night, flapping their wings and flying away.
Inside the Wen clan ancestral hall, Cui Pei dug through the soil and huffed and puffed as he shoved dirt upwards.
Finally, looking at the fully exposed coffin, he said with difficulty, "If Fourth Sister finds out about digging up someone's mother's coffin, it will be very bad."
Pei Lingjun looked at the black lacquered wooden coffin. "I really hope she can appear..." The young man clenched his fist and looked away. "Open the coffin."
All the speculations and doubts will soon be revealed.
"Wait!" Cui Pei suddenly stopped, looking at Pei Lingjun in disbelief. "Boss, this coffin has been disturbed!"
Pei Lingjun suddenly jumped down, gathered strength in his palm, and yanked open the coffin lid.
It was empty inside, there was nothing there!
Cui Pei's eyes widened, speechless with shock, "This...this...this—"
"There are hidden air vents on the side of the coffin, which are not for the dead."
With a stinging sensation in his nose, Pei Lingjun suppressed the tears welling up in his eyes.
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