Chapter 206 Reporting the Xiao Family for Taking the Dead with Them
The next morning, they set off again, when suddenly dark clouds gathered and a torrential downpour began.
The rain lashed down on people, soaking them to the bone.
The clothes, soaked by the rain, clung to my body uncomfortably, but I still had to keep going.
The wheels of the carts were stuck deep in the mud. Some households did not have enough able-bodied men to push the carts, so they had to abandon them and only take some important items with them on the road.
I felt like I was being weighed down by a thousand pounds, and my feet seemed to be being pulled down by something. I could only lift my feet and take half a step with great effort. The road looked short, but it seemed like I could never reach the end.
Few families in the exile procession carried umbrellas, and even those that did weren't enough for the whole family; priority was given to the elderly, weak, women, and children.
Most of them had been caught in the rain and hadn't fully recovered from a cold, so they kept sneezing, "Achoo, achoo..."
Rubbing his nose and cursing the awful weather, he said, "Everything was fine the other day, why did it suddenly start raining?"
"God, can you see how difficult things are for us already? Why are you making things even harder for us?"
"Yeah, it would be better if a bolt of lightning struck us dead, then we wouldn't have to suffer like this. Why am I so unlucky? Waaah..."
No sooner had the man finished speaking than a bolt of lightning struck, tearing a hole in the night.
Immediately following was a deafening clap of thunder, "BOOM!—"
The people in the line screamed in terror, covering their ears, "Aaaaaah!!!"
The man who had just shouted for lightning to strike him was so frightened that he knelt down, trembling, and his family members beside him also knelt down.
He clasped his hands together and begged for mercy, "God, I was wrong, I was wrong, I will never do it again, please forgive me, it's all my fault for this foul mouth, I'm nothing, please just let me go like a fart."
He then raised his hand and slapped himself in the mouth, "Slap! Slap!!"
Another flash of lightning illuminated the sky, followed by a distant rumble of thunder.
Yun Zhaoxue noticed something unusual in the sky early in the morning, so she took out disposable raincoats from her space and put them in a cloth bag. She put them on everyone as soon as it started to rain.
The Xiao family put on the raincoats, and their clothes didn't get wet. They felt dry and comfortable. They were curious that this raincoat, which looked like it was made of paper, could have the same use as oiled paper.
Yang still has Gu poison in her body. She was given anesthetic and has been lying down. When they reach the next town, Hua Murong will remove the Gu poison from her body. Once she wakes up, the Gu worms in her body will also wake up and will devour her heart meridian, causing her to die.
Yun Chaoxue spread out her tent on the car and put Yang Shi inside, so she wouldn't get wet in the rain.
On rainy days, the muddy roads are slippery, making it even more difficult for wheelchairs to navigate.
Chasing after the shadow, pushing the wheelchair.
Xiao Xuanwu and Xiao Mingshu pushed the cart. He touched the tent and found it to be a thin layer. This thing was actually waterproof and could be reused.
That's amazing.
Someone in the group noticed that the Xiao family members were draped in white cloth, as if they were wearing mourning clothes. Against the backdrop of the gloomy sky and heavy rain, with occasional flashes of lightning striking them, it was quite eerie.
Everyone said they were crazy. That thing couldn't even keep out the rain. Wearing it on a rainy day when the sky was pitch black and rain was falling was terrifying. Who would they scare?
The people at the back of the line said they were crazy and dared not approach them, falling far behind.
"Oh, so you've split up the family. When you were alive, the two families fought to the death. Now you're dressed in mourning clothes, who are you trying to impress?"
"That's right, the Duan family member died last night too. He was their own son, and since no one was wearing mourning clothes, you'd think it was the Princess Consort of Zhenbei who died..."
"The two families have completely fallen out, so it's impossible for them to wear mourning clothes for Wu. Could it really be that the Princess Consort of Zhenbei... is dead?"
"I noticed that she has been lying motionless on the cart for the past two days, and the Xiao family is dressed in mourning clothes..."
"It must be that Princess Zhenbei died and they want to take her body to the next city to buy a coffin and have a grand funeral. Didn't Master Liao say that if someone dies, they should be buried on the spot and not taken on the road to prevent the spread of disease? The person has been dead for two days and they are still carrying the body. Aren't they trying to kill us?"
The simple sedan chair that the third prince rode in had a fixed umbrella.
In addition, there was an oil-paper umbrella that could accommodate three people. Yun Jiaoyue and her two concubines rode together on a cart, pushed by guards.
Yun Jiaoyue didn't want to share an umbrella with her two concubines, feeling that they should be left outside in the rain like the maids.
Unfortunately, the Third Prince had ordered them to share the umbrella. Seeing the discussions around the Yun family, they assumed something had happened and finally found an excuse to take the umbrella away.
Liu Yiyi and Su Wan'er felt the icy chill on their faces, wiped their faces, and quickly covered their heads with their hands. "Ah! Where are you going? If you want to leave, I'll leave myself. Don't take the umbrella back, come back, come back here..."
The two men, furious at Yun Jiaoyue's increasingly rapid pace, opened her bundle and used her clean clothes to shield themselves from the rain.
If she's heartless, then she shouldn't blame them for being ungrateful.
Seeing that the Yun family had fallen far behind, Lao Liao, who was at the back of the group, rode up and pointed at them with his whip, "What are you doing here? Why aren't you catching up with the ones in front?"
When Yun Jiaoyue saw him, she pointed to the Xiao family's procession ahead and said, "Master Liao, I want to report that someone in the Xiao family died and was taken to the afterlife without being buried. If this causes a plague, it will kill us all."
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