Chapter 356 Cause of Death
The coffin would not be nailed until the day of burial. So Gu Zhifei opened the coffin lid without much effort.
Mrs. Mo put her hands on her chest and looked terribly thin.
She did not live comfortably before her death.
The sudden weight loss made her skin wrinkled and her aging appearance was very obvious.
This was completely different from the image of his mother in Mo Ran's memory. Almost the moment Gu Zhifei opened the coffin lid, Mo Ran's tears, which had been held back for a long time, began to flow out.
The moment the lid was opened, Zhu Jiuyin swam in secretly.
The head of the Mo family was in grief and did not notice Gu Zhifei's little movements. Also, because Zhu Jiuyin's disguise skills were excellent, he did not find anything unusual.
While Gu Zhifei asked Zhu Jiuyin to find the source of the monster, he checked on Madam Mo's condition himself.
This kind of rapid weight loss is abnormal. For a cultivator, they rarely need to eat and mostly use the spiritual power of heaven and earth to nourish themselves.
She placed her hands on Mrs. Mo's body and found that her body was shriveled, but although her tendons had shrunk due to death, they were not damaged.
She has the conditions to store spiritual energy.
If Gu Zhifei felt that there was something fishy about Madam Mo's death before, now she felt that there was definitely someone behind Madam Mo's death.
However, this person has been playing tricks in front of the head of the Mo family for two or three years without being discovered, so he is probably not a simple person.
Gu Zhifei was thinking, Zhu Jiuyin had already received news. He said to Gu Zhifei: "He's been caught."
As a high-level black dragon and a pure-bred demon cultivator, it is almost effortless for Zhu Jiuyin to find a demon beast.
But he did not show up rashly.
Gu Zhifei had already greeted him, and if he didn't call him out, he would refrain from showing up.
"Master Mo, has there been any abnormality in the Mo family in the past two years?"
The head of the Mo family was sad, but he was not stupid. When Gu Zhifei said this, he knew what the latter had discovered.
He held back his voice and said, "I never noticed it."
At that time, he focused all his attention on Mrs. Mo and didn't pay attention to anything else.
He mechanically handled Mo family affairs every day. When he was free, he would take care of Madam Mo, find medicine for her, and send people to the Seven Stars Gate to see if Mo Ran had come out of seclusion.
This went on day after day, and no one noticed any other changes.
Only when Gu Zhifei asked this question did he realize his negligence.
Seeing that Master Mo easily accepted the plot, Gu Zhifei set up a barrier in the mourning hall to prevent anyone from eavesdropping.
Then she asked Zhu Jiuyin to come out.
Perhaps Zhu Jiuyin didn't want to expose his identity as the black dragon, so he transformed himself into a young man and walked out carrying a fat white worm.
"What's this?"
Mo Ran looked at the big white worm twisting in Zhu Jiuyin's hand and felt a chill in his heart.
Thinking that it was this thing that took his mother's life, he drew the sword at his waist in anger, cut the giant white worm into two, and chopped it into pieces.
Although Master Mo was knowledgeable, he couldn't remember the name of the monster.
In the end, it was Zhu Jiuyin who cleared up the confusion for everyone: "It is a mutant blood-sucking longhorn beetle larva. This kind of worm usually parasitizes monsters and rarely interacts with humans. But this one is different. It is fed with human blood, so it attacks humans."
This is not something that can be accomplished in two years.
"Who could it be?" Master Mo's mind was spinning wildly. Who would spend so much time and effort to target his wife?
Sometimes, women are always more sensitive than men.
While the head of the Mo family was still racking his brains, Gu Zhifei already had an idea in his mind.
The Mohist School was different. Madam Mo had no real power. If the other party was targeting the Mohist School, then dealing with Madam Mo would be completely unnecessary.
Since he is not here for Madam Mo, he can only be here for the head of the Mo family.
But Gu Zhifei didn't expect that such a bloody plot would happen before his eyes.
She coughed twice and said, "Master Mo, perhaps the answer is quite obvious. This person is able to train this kind of monster, which means that she at least understands medical principles. And she was able to deceive you. Perhaps she is Madam Mo's accompanying physician."
Only in this way could she deceive other doctors.
Gu Zhifei thought that the opponent should be quite difficult to deal with, but he didn't expect it to be so simple.
The head of the Mo family was still a little unconvinced: "My wife does have a dedicated physician, but that is her niece, it is impossible for him to do anything to her."
Well, Gu Zhifei knew why that person succeeded so easily. It turned out that there was such a cover.
Gu Zhifei smiled and said to him, "We'll know if it's her after a try."
After listening to Gu Zhifei's plan, Master Mo pondered for a long time and finally nodded.
The young master of the Mo family had a quarrel with the head of the Mo family, and the whole Mo family knew about it.
According to the servants, the reason why the two quarreled was because Mrs. Mo had just passed away, and the head of the Mo family proposed that the Mo family could not be without a mistress for a day.
The young master of the Mo family was heartbroken when he heard the news. How chilling it was that the master of the family had already changed his mind before his wife's body was cold? Of course, there were also people who agreed with the master of the Mo family's approach.
After all, the road of a cultivator is long, and Master Mo has been eating and drinking for two years because of his wife. It is indeed time for him to let go of the past and look to the future.
After all, the person is gone, and it's time to start a new life.
Everyone had their own opinion and no one could convince anyone else, but everyone basically came out to watch the fun. Only Yaqing, who lived in the backyard, couldn't sit still.
She designed and arranged such a big chess game, not to give up the position of Madam Mo to someone else!
This anxiety reached its peak when she saw Mo Ran's face covered with scars.
Yaqing was walking around in the gallery, hoping to run into the head of the Mo family, but unexpectedly she ran into Mo Ran instead.
Although she looked down on this yellow-haired boy, the scars on his face attracted her attention.
It just so happens that she is also a doctor, so she can use this as an excuse to confirm the previous rumors with Mo Ran.
"Ah Ran." Ya Qing called out to Mo Ran, "Why are you so embarrassed? Did you have a fight with someone?"
Mo Ran was pulled aside by her, covering his face and keeping silent, but his expression was really ugly.
Yaqing pretended to be angry: "Now even I can't ask you questions?"
Mo Ran then hesitated and said, "I had a quarrel with my father. He just wouldn't listen to my advice."
Yaqing's heart tightened, but she pretended to be relaxed and said, "What are you talking about? Why doesn't he listen to your advice? Is it because you have been slacking off in your practice recently that your father is unhappy?"
Mo Ran looked at her strangely: "At this critical moment, my father and I are both feeling sad, how could they possibly persuade me to practice? Aren't you sad?"
She was not only not sad, she was actually very happy. Of course, she couldn't tell Mo Ran this, nor could she show it.
But now her joy has been largely diluted.
"Of course I'm sad. My aunt died and I have no one to rely on. I'm sadder than anyone else." Yaqing reached out and wiped away two tears.
Mo Ran just thought she was hypocritical.
He didn't think so before, but after Gu Zhifei said that, Mo Ran began to feel that something was not right.
As her mother's niece, why did she always go in and out of the backyard?
It is neither against the rules nor against etiquette.
Her parents loved her and had always raised her by their side, but if this gave her the opportunity to hurt her mother, how sad would they be?
Enduring this tangled feeling, Mo Ran continued speaking as he had originally planned:
"Sister, I have a lot to say but no one to tell you. Do you have time?"
Yaqing was eager for him to tell her everything. She looked around and saw a gooseneck chair not far away.
She pointed at the gooseneck chair and said to Mo Ran, "We'll sit there. Take your time talking. There's no rush."
Mo Ran followed her instructions and sat down with her, talking a lot.
Finally, he did not forget to scold the head of the Mo family harshly: "What deep love! What vows of eternal love! I really feel sorry for my mother! He is a person who changes his mind every day and treats his words as farts!"
Mo Ran's eyes were slightly red. He was already immersed in sadness, and he became even sadder when he saw Ya Qing was distracted.
He felt that Gu Zhifei was right.
His parents invited a wolf into the house and ended up raising an ungrateful person.
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Yaqing's parents died in the beast tide, and it was her own parents who raised her. Who could have thought that she could have such a dirty mind.
If Yaqing's parents knew about this, they would probably be ashamed for having such a daughter.
"Uncle Mo is also feeling miserable." After careful consideration, Yaqing spoke up to defend the head of the Mo family, "You don't know how hard his life was in the past two years."
Mo Ran was getting more and more disappointed. He said, "He's sad? Just because he's sad, he can consider remarrying while my mother's body is still warm? My mother died in just two years, I don't know if there is something else going on!"
Yaqing's face suddenly turned ugly, perhaps because she was touched in a sore spot, and she hurriedly stopped Mo Ran:
"What are you talking about? Can your father still harm your mother? You have become more and more rude in the past few years since you left home."
Mo Ran looked at her and spoke after a while: "Sister, you are only one week older than me, why are you scolding me like an elder? Do you also think that I am not doing well?"
Only then did Yaqing realize that she had accidentally assumed the wrong identity and scolded Mo Ran as if he were a junior.
She tried to smooth things over: "That's not the case, it's just that your father will be hurt by what you said."
Mo Ran snorted, "He's sad? If I join forces with others, I won't be sad? My mother won't be sad?"
After going around in circles, I'm back to the starting point.
Yaqing got the news she wanted and lost the mood to continue arguing with Mo Ran.
After saying a few perfunctory words to him and sending him away, Yaqing found the head of the Mo family.
He is feeding the fish by the pond.
Yaqing knew that this was Master Mo's habitual behavior.
The few carps in this pond were all picked by Mrs. Mo from outside. She had always liked them during her lifetime.
After her death, the fish were taken care of by Master Mo.
Sometimes he would mutter a few words to the fish, as if he was talking to his wife.
Yaqing didn't like these fish. She even wanted to kill them with poison.
It’s just a pity that doing so would be too obvious, and she can only replace it bit by bit in the future.
She hopes that her home can be filled with the presence of only her own people.
Yaqing adjusted her skirt and was about to go over there. When she was halfway there, the head of the Mo family also stood up and was about to turn back.
The two of them bumped into each other.
Yaqing smiled at the head of the Mo family, lowered her head and whispered, "Head."
Master Mo looked down at her shy face and still felt that what Gu Zhifei said was not true.
He watched Yaqing grow up, and she was not such a vicious person.
"Why don't you take a good rest?" The head of the Mo family said, "You have been busy with the funeral these days, and you must be tired. Why don't you take a good rest and let the servants do the rest."
Without Mrs. Mo, he hardly took care of the household affairs. Yaqing volunteered to share the worries for him, so he handed the matter over to her.
Thinking about it this way, it is indeed a bit presumptuous.
He shouldn't have given Yaqing such a great privilege.
"No. I'm not tired. It's just that I just ran into Ah Ran. Did you guys have a fight?"
Speaking of this, the head of the Mo family rubbed his brows and looked a little tired: "I have never been good at housework. Without my wife, things are always a mess. In fact, I don't have to find a companion, but unfortunately there are too many things and they are too complicated. I really can't handle it."
Speaking of this, Master Mo looked up and held back his tears: "I think of when my wife was here."
He couldn't continue.
The sobbing of Master Mo dispelled Yaqing's last bit of doubt.
She originally felt that something was wrong. The head of the Mo family was deeply in love with his wife, so how could he do such a ridiculous thing as taking another wife?
But now it seems that he is also a human being after all, and has been severely troubled by Madam Mo's illness. He may have had this idea for a long time, but due to his relationship with Madam Mo, he has never said it out loud.
Thinking of this, Yaqing felt a little proud, and the corners of his lips curled up unconsciously, but his voice was very sad: "Aran doesn't understand yet, but he will understand your suffering in the future."
The head of the Mo family looked at her in a daze.
He saw clearly the smile on Yaqing's face.
He had been blinded and had never noticed these things.
In this case, it was oneself who caused the death of one's lover.
Thinking of this, the head of the Mo family was deeply saddened and covered his face and said, "I hope so. Speaking of which, Yaqing, you understand my thoughts."
Yaqing was somewhat proud: "Everyone says that I look like my aunt."
Maybe because she was young, she almost revealed all her past.
Master Mo listened to her telling such a ridiculous joke and did not refute it. He was very confused and had no idea how to face other people.
The two chatted briefly for a while and then left.
Gu Zhifei and Mo Ran were hiding not far away, using a funhouse mirror to observe what was happening nearby.
Only after they dispersed did Gu Zhifei and Mo Ran jump down from the tree.
"What should we do next?"
Master Mo has already made a basic judgment on Yaqing's situation.
He knew that no matter how he defended himself, Yaqing was definitely not completely innocent.
"wait."
Gu Zhifei simply answered him: "Now all we need is one word, which is - wait."
Mo Ran agreed with Gu Zhifei's statement: "I think what Junior Sister said makes sense. Because besides waiting, we actually have other opportunities."
(End of this chapter)
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