In the afternoon, Su Jingxuan and Lin Chenggui returned, bringing back Zhang's body.
Su Xuerong hurriedly asked, "Did the coroner find out the cause of death?"
"It was drowning, but there were two marks on her wrists, which I suspect she fell into the water and got tangled in the weeds... Sigh!" Su Jingxuan sighed.
Chen rushed over, her eyes red and swollen, and knelt down at Su Jingxuan's feet: "Father, my mother's funeral cannot be delayed, otherwise how can I face her? How can I face you, my father, who knows in the afterlife?"
Su Jingxuan said in a deep voice, "Alright, since that's the case, let's bury your mother as soon as possible!"
Lin Chenggui took the initiative to help purchase a coffin and found a good feng shui spot behind Tianchang Temple. The Su family immediately set up a mourning hall.
Su Jingxuan then invited monks and Taoist priests to chant sutras for the deceased, and the burial took place seven days later.
The entire Su residence immediately became lively.
Dressed in mourning clothes, Chen knelt before the coffin in the mourning hall for a long time, and finally fainted during the burial on the seventh day.
Zhou hurriedly ordered someone to help her to rest.
But Chen insisted on going with them on the day of the burial, and kowtowed and cried in front of the grave. In the end, she was carried back by others.
After the funeral, the Su family finally breathed a sigh of relief.
That night, everyone was so tired that they all fell into a deep sleep.
After midnight, the sound of the fifth watch gong rang out outside, and a door to the back room was quietly opened.
A figure quietly walked along the backyard corridor to the kitchen on the west side of the front yard.
There is a well in the courtyard of the kitchen, which provides water for the daily needs of everyone in the Su family.
Chen gritted her teeth, took out the jade bottle from her sleeve, opened the stopper, and poured all the poison inside in.
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