Chapter 604 Buried.
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Then Li Shiyue said to Heizi, "Alright, Heizi, carry him to the yard."
After Hei Zi dragged Jiang Huai's body out, Li Shiyue closed the door and first put the dagger into her system inventory.
Then she gathered up the papers scattered on the table and floor and put them into her system inventory along with the bottle of poison.
Li Shiyue searched the room and collected some gold and silver jewelry. She wrapped it in a bed curtain and then went out with the package.
Once outside, Sun Xiaoliu had already returned, and Jiang Huai's body was already lying on the straw mat.
"General?"
Sun Xiaoliu picked up a bucket of tung oil and looked at Li Shiyue to ask.
"I'll come myself."
Li Shiyue took the bucket of tung oil, went back into the house, uncorked it, and splashed it around the room.
After cleaning up one bucket, Li Shiyue picked up another bucket of tung oil and poured it around outside, until both buckets were completely empty.
Standing in the courtyard, looking at the house under the moonlight, filled with the smell of tung oil, Li Shiyue sighed as she came out.
Then she took out her tinderbox and threw it into the house, which was covered with tung oil both inside and out.
However, a single spark quickly gained momentum with the wind, and the fire grew much larger in an instant.
Seeing the fire growing bigger and bigger, Li Shiyue turned to Sun Xiaoliu and said, "Heizi and I are going to bury the bodies outside the city. Xiaoliu, keep an eye on things. When it's almost burned down, send someone over to put out the fire. Don't let anyone get hurt."
"Yes, General!"
As night fell, an unmarked carriage quietly drove out of the back gate of the governor's mansion.
Li Shiyue and the straw mat wrapped around Jiang Huai's body were inside the carriage, with Hei Zi sitting on the carriage shaft. The two of them rode quickly out of the city and headed towards the mortuary outside the city.
After stopping briefly at the mortuary, Hei Zi knocked on the door, bought a thin coffin, and tied it directly to the back of the carriage. They then set off in the direction Li Shiyue had indicated.
The moon was high in the sky when the carriage stopped at the foot of a mountain.
"General, we've arrived."
Li Shiyue got off the carriage alone, and she and Heizi carried the empty, thin coffin up the mountain, one in front of the other.
As for Jiang Huai's body?
Naturally, Li Shiyue transferred it to the system's inventory.
Of course, she couldn't possibly put Jiang Huai's body in a coffin and bury it.
The stab Li Xiatian made to Jiang Huai's chest with a dagger couldn't be clearer.
Even if Jiang Huai's body turns into a pile of bones in the future, any experienced coroner can easily determine that Jiang Huai was stabbed to death.
Therefore, if you're going to do something, do it cleanly; only by destroying the body can you erase all traces.
Once Li Shiyue goes to sea, he can throw the body into the ocean and it will be completely lost.
Don't blame Li Shiyue for not allowing people to be properly buried; she had no other choice.
Li Shiyue never intended to give Jiang Huai a proper burial; her previous words were merely meant for Li Wangchun and Zheng Meiniang.
She is now only planning to dig a pit to bury this empty coffin.
This place was just something Li Shiyue thought would be a place for Pingping and An'an to worship in the future.
Halfway up the mountain, they found a tree that was easy to remember. Hei Zi then took the iron hoe he had bought when he bought the coffin at the mortuary and began digging a hole as Li Shiyue had instructed.
In less than 15 minutes, a pit large enough to hold the thin coffin was dug.
Li Shiyue and Hei Zi each took turns handling the situation on one side, and put the coffin inside.
They filled it in with soil and buried it.
On the way back to the city, the night breeze was a bit chilly.
Lifting the carriage curtain, the wind stirred Li Shiyue's emotions, leaving her unable to calm down for a long time.
She kept recalling the blood-stained dagger, and she truly regretted it.
"I was thinking... to expose his true colors in the future, and then imprison him in the courtyard, just to keep my sister company... that way, at least Pingping and An'an would still have their father..."
"But... my sister actually killed him!"
The fact that Li Xiatian personally killed Jiang Huai was indeed quite shocking to Li Shiyue.
Li Shiyue realized that perhaps she had never truly understood her older sister.
What kind of fierceness and decisiveness lies hidden beneath that seemingly indecisive exterior?
Her desire to protect her younger sister was so strong that it overwhelmed her marital bond and the psychological pressure of murdering her husband.
Or is it an eruption of something that has been suppressed for a long time?
Li Shiyue suddenly realized that she had always protected Li Xiatian like a cub, which might have led her to underestimate Li Xiatian's resilience and strength.
After all, before Li Xiatian had her own child, she was just like Li Shiyue, someone who could take a knife and kill people!
This incident must have left Li Xiatian traumatized, both physically and mentally.
But at the same time, it can also be said that, in a sense, as long as Li Xiatian can get through this and overcome this hurdle, it will also remove a huge shackle and hidden danger from her body.
However, the price was far too high.
By the time they returned to the governor's mansion, it was already dawn.
The fire that Li Shiyue set out to start had long been extinguished.
There were no casualties; the only damage was to a courtyard.
Li Shiyue changed her clothes before heading to the courtyard where Li Wangchun and Zheng Meiniang lived.
Li Xiatian is currently staying in their courtyard.
As soon as Li Shiyue entered, she met Zheng Meiniang's worried gaze. Li Shiyue naturally understood what Zheng Meiniang was worried about.
Li Shiyue didn't say anything, she just nodded.
Seeing Li Shiyue nod, Zheng Meiniang felt much less pressure.
As for Li Xiatian?
Li Xiatian had already fallen into a deep sleep after Jin Daping administered acupuncture.
Li Shiyue sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Li Xiatian's furrowed brows and pale face even in her sleep, and gently took Li Xiatian's cold hand in hers.
"Sister..."
She murmured to herself, her voice tinged with lingering fear and an indescribable sense of awe, "You really... made a choice that I wouldn't have dared to make so easily..."
From then on, Pingping and An'an had no father.
Li Xiatian's hands were stained with blood that could never be washed away.
This tragedy that occurred in the inner quarters was quietly covered up by Li Shiyue using an iron-fisted approach.
However, the shock and changes it brought were like a boulder thrown into the center of a lake, and the ripples it created would profoundly influence Li Xiatian's life.
Li Shiyue knew that she needed to become stronger faster in order to better protect Li Xiatian, who had gone through all of this.
Jiang Huai's death was like a silent earthquake. Although Li Shiyue forcibly suppressed the aftershocks, Li Xiatian, at the core, was already buried within it.
Immense grief, the guilt of murdering her husband, the fear of the future, and the shock of suddenly learning of the betrayal intertwined into a heavy net, tightly binding Li Xiatian and dragging her into boundless darkness.
Even with Jin Daping and Li Yueniang administering acupuncture and medicine day and night, Li Xiatian's spirit and body were visibly deteriorating.
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