On this day, the sky was dark, a cold wind blew, and a light drizzle began to fall.
When An Shi arrived at the veterans' village with Chen's coffin, it was already noon.
Just then, the wind and rain stopped abruptly, and a sliver of sunset glow appeared on the horizon.
The villagers of the veterans' village had never seen such a grand spectacle, and they all went to the entrance of the village to look around.
"With such a grand display, who's inside?"
"How can someone who died outside be allowed to enter the village?"
According to the older generation, shouldn't the animal be left at the village entrance for two days before being carried out for burial?
"You idiot! Isn't there a mountain right behind this village?"
"Oh, right, right, right, look at my memory."
The old village chief of Lijia Village has passed away, and now Li Qingshan has become the village chief. He didn't say much, and the villagers below naturally didn't dare to say anything either.
The Shadow Guards had already dug a pit in the back mountain of the veterans' village long ago.
Lu Qiqi and Lu Yao, dressed in white, walked ahead to the back mountain to bury their parents.
Upon learning that Lu Dashan had died on the battlefield, Lu Yao's eyes were red from crying, and even the tip of her nose turned red.
She sobbed as she pulled on Lu Qiqi's clothes from behind as she walked.
Seeing her like this, Lu Qiqi felt very sad, and at this moment she couldn't say anything to comfort her.
He could only reach out and pull Lu Yao into his arms, silently giving her strength to keep going.
Upon arriving at the location, the Shadow Guards acted swiftly, burying both coffins together.
Chen's body is still there, but Lu Dashan only has a cenotaph.
Lu Qiqi had already placed the yellow soil brought back from the eastern gate of the border town into Lu Dashan's coffin.
May Lu Dashan's heroic spirit be reunited with the Chen family.
Li and Lu stood aside, looking at the two sisters' thin yet straight backs, their hearts aching, tears streaming down their faces, and they sobbed.
Even Lu Dahai and Li Qingshan, two grown men, had tears welling up in their eyes upon seeing this, though they didn't let them fall.
The Shadow Guards buried the two coffins and then began to cover them with soil.
Lu Yao looked at the small coffin next to her parents and asked, somewhat puzzled, "Sister, who's that?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Qiqi was speechless; she didn't know how to answer the question.
There were only two sets of girls' clothes in the coffin. One set was worn by the original owner before her death, and the other set was a beautiful dress that Lu Qiqi specially had made.
Before she came into this world, the original owner had already died, but she still occupied the original owner's body.
Now, all she wants is to build a cenotaph for the original owner's soul, so that she can stay with her parents.
While Lu Qiqi remained silent, Lu Yao did not disturb her. Instead, she stood quietly to the side, watching the Shadow Guards bury the coffins and pile them into small mounds.
After the incense and paper money burned out, Lu Yao kowtowed to her parents.
Then she heard Lu Qiqi's voice again, "Ayao, come here and kowtow three times too."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yao didn't think much of it. She looked up at the nameless tombstone and then kowtowed three times.
She had just straightened up when she heard her sister's voice, sorrowful and ethereal, "Ayao, you must remember, from now on when you come here to pay respects to our parents, you must burn incense and kowtow before this blank stele."
The original owner was pushed to the ground by her eldest cousin, Lu Changping, and died after hitting her forehead.
A large part of the reason is that the original owner of this body did everything in her power to shield Lu Yao, which led to her untimely death.
She lost her life protecting her younger sister; she was a smart and brave girl.
Mr. Lu did not understand why an unnamed monument should be erected.
But when she tried to step forward to ask, Li Qingshan grabbed her arm. "Seventh Sister has her reasons for doing this."
Don't ask, lest you hurt those two sisters' feelings.
The usually impulsive Madam Lu, upon hearing Li Qingshan's words, whispered, "Luckily you pulled me back."
She looked at Lu Yao kneeling on the ground, tears welling up in her eyes again. "Sigh, these two sisters are really pitiful. We must treat them better from now on."
After burying the couple, the crowd dispersed not long after, and Lu Qiqi took the exhausted Lu Yao back to the house.
What they didn't know was that Hu Jinfei stared at Chen's tombstone for a long time before catching up with the group on their way back.
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A residence in Qingshui Town.
"Are you telling the truth?"
Madam Zeng sat on the soft couch, holding her child, and looked up at Hu Jinfei, who had just returned, with an incredulous expression.
Hu Jinfei returned from the back mountain of the veterans' village. His clothes were soaked by the rain and his shoes were covered in mud. He didn't even have time to change them before telling Zeng Shi the news.
"Absolutely true, not a single word is wrong."
I was afraid I was seeing things, so I looked at it repeatedly to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
When I came back, I asked the sea.
He said his second brother found his sister-in-law by the lake, which makes perfect sense.
He finished speaking in one breath and immediately felt his mouth was dry. He picked up the teapot next to him and, without even having time to pour the tea into a cup, poured it into his mouth directly from the spout.
Normally, he wouldn't do this, and Zeng would never allow him to be so rude.
The news came so suddenly that Zeng was caught off guard and couldn't accept that the person she had been searching for for so many years was now dead.
Holding the child, she was about to get up and go find the two Lu sisters.
"I'm going to find Qiqi and ask Ayao for clarification."
Seeing Zeng's panicked expression and the child in her arms, Hu Jinfei felt his heart would jump out of his stomach if anything happened to the mother and daughter.
Ignoring the mud on his body, he put his arms around Zeng's shoulders and comforted her, "Don't worry, the sisters just buried the person today, they must be feeling terrible right now."
If you go and ask them now, you might not get any answers.
Why don't you calm down first and see if there's anything that matches your identity?
Zeng was anxious at first, but after listening to Hu Jinfei's words and thinking about them carefully, she felt that what he said made sense, so she picked up the child and sat back down on the soft couch.
“Ayao said that her mother was beautiful and had skillful hands that were as white as jade. Not only were the embroidered patterns beautiful, but she was also a master craftswoman in the embroidery workshop, teaching others how to do it.”
"I've also heard Changlong mention his second aunt. She's a smart and well-read woman, like a young lady from a wealthy family."
"But Changlong said that Chen has a scar on her face, and if she is the mother of the two sisters, then she is indeed... Miss."
What kind of suffering did she endure to get a scar on her face?
Why would she marry a country bumpkin and settle down to live in a poor, remote place?
Madam Zeng thought of her young lady, who before marriage had never lifted a finger, was well-read, and had a reputation as a talented woman. Suitors were eager to marry her, and they practically wore down the threshold of her house.
Thinking this, her tears began to fall uncontrollably, trickling down her cheeks and winding down to her collar, leaving a damp mark.
At this moment, how she wished that it was all a misunderstanding, and that her young lady was living peacefully and well in a secluded place.
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