Wu Jie stood in Du Ruo's mourning hall. Four or five steps in front of him was Du Ruo, whose head and face were covered with white cloth.
But now she can neither laugh nor make trouble, nor fight nor gluttony...
He stood there for a long time, then sighed and left, walking aimlessly in the town.
He walked through many houses, and people's lives were still as usual. No one knew that almost everyone in the town lost their lives last night and became food for gods and demons from outside the realm.
They were saved because Wu Jie killed the Sanshan Taoist who presided over the evil method. The price was that Du Ruo, who might have been resurrected, died and became a cold corpse.
"Every life must lead to death. Sooner or later, death is not dictated by fate. We were both human beings yesterday and evening, and now we are in ghost records... Relatives may still be sad, but others have also sung their songs. What is the point of dying? We support our bodies in the same mountain." Wu Jie has no reason.
Suddenly I remembered two poems I had read before traveling through time.
It was an elegy written by Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty for himself.
In the battle last night, Wu rescued the entire town, but failed to save the people he wanted to save in the first place.
He walked alone in the town, feeling empty in his heart, no sadness, just emptiness.
"Moli, am I useless?" He couldn't help but ask, "I originally rushed back to save Sister Aruo, but in the end I killed her with my own hands..."
In the past, he had never called Du Ruo "sister", and Du Ruo had always been very annoyed about this. But now, even if she wanted to call her sister, she could no longer hear him.
"The situation at that time was too urgent, so I can't blame you, Master!" Of course, Jasmine's heart went to Wu Jie and she immediately defended him, "If you hadn't made a prompt decision, everyone in the town would have been in danger, and you might even have lost your life.
Killing a group of people in order to save one person is already a loss-making business; losing yourself in order to save someone is simply a mental illness!"
"Life should not be measured by quantity."
"But no matter what, master, your life is definitely more important than other people's lives!"
Wu Jie didn't refute. He didn't even know if he had the confidence to refute Jasmine's words.
Can he really risk himself to save others?
Probably... not possible...
He walked around the town throughout the day, until it got dark, and then he turned around and went home.
When he walked past the door of Du's house, he saw Lin Lushan sitting next to the brazier in front of Du Ruo, burning paper money. The little nerd cried so hard that his eyes were swollen.
Wu Jie stood there in a daze for a long time, and it was not until his brother Wu Cheng came over to ask him to eat that he came back to his senses.
The meal was naturally tasteless, and he didn't even know what he had eaten.
After dinner, he came to Du's house again.
Du Tuanlian hasn't come back yet, maybe the news hasn't been sent to him yet. In the huge mourning hall, only Du Yu and several of Du Tuanlian's apprentices are looking after it.
Wu Jie came over, burned some paper money like Lin Lushan, and then sat next to Du Yu in a daze.
"My mother left early, and my father was busy all day long. We, brothers and sisters, have been dependent on each other since we were young..." Du Yu completely lost his former might and dignity, and looked haggard and listless. Even his words were somewhat inconsistent, "Good luck.
How could a person suddenly die? How could someone who was not injured or sick suddenly die!"
Pure Yang True Fire burned the remaining souls of Sanshan Taoists. Du Ruo's body and clothes were not evil objects, and the True Fire would not burn them. Therefore, Du Ruo's body did not appear to have any injuries at all from the outside.
Wu Jie sighed deeply, not knowing what to say.
He sat with Du Yu all night, until the next morning, Du Yu, who was tired all day and night, finally fell down and fell asleep. He was the only one sitting there in a daze.
With his physical condition, it didn't matter even if he didn't eat or sleep for three to five days, but he felt very tired.
This feeling of fatigue does not come from the body, but from the mind.
The three days of vigil passed by in a flash, and Du Tuanlian finally came back the day before Du Ruo's funeral.
Looking at his daughter's body, the uncle of the Du family, who used to be as fierce as a tiger, suddenly became older, his straight waist became much more stooped, a layer of pale gray appeared on his bronze face, and his usually fierce eyes
It even lost its luster.
He grabbed Du Yu and Wu Jie and asked them over and over again how their daughter died.
"The night before yesterday, everyone in the town was asleep for some reason. Ajie came back from collecting medicine in the mountains and saw Aruo sitting in a daze in the town square. He walked over to ask what happened, but when he walked in front of him, he saw
I found that she was motionless, and when I stretched out my hand to touch her, her whole body was already cold..."
"Well, that day I lost a fight with her during the day, and I was so angry that I practiced all day in the mountains. When I came back at night, the town was strangely quiet, and there wasn't even a dog barking. I saw Sister Aruo sitting there
, I went to ask her why she hadn’t come home yet, if she was waiting for me and wanted to apologize to me... When I walked in front of her, I saw that her face was frighteningly white, with no blood at all. I was startled and reached out to touch her.
Her forehead was so cold that there was no warmth at all. I hurriedly poked her nose and found that she was no longer breathing..."
"How could this happen? What kind of evil has this child possessed? Just be evil. Why did he lose his life?" Du Tuanlian also knew that his daughter's situation was not normal some time ago, but he did not expect that it would happen.
Just so confused and dead...
Neither he nor Du Yu doubted Wu Jie, which made Wu Jie even more uncomfortable.
But he still had to make up this lie. After all, he couldn't tell others, "Du Ruo failed to cultivate immortality and was taken away by Taoist Sanshan. If I kill Taoist Sanshan, her body will also die."
This thing is so bizarre that only a ghost would believe it! If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, even Wu Jie himself wouldn’t believe it!
In the early morning of the fourth day of April, Du Ruo was buried.
The custom of the Eastern Chu State is to hold funerals after midnight, and to bury and seal the deceased before the sun rises. This is because they believe that the soul of the deceased will follow the corpse, and the soul is afraid of sunlight, so the burial must be completed before the sun rises.
Moreover, they are also accustomed to burying the body as simply as possible, without putting anything in the coffin, and the buried items will be buried next to the tomb on the seventh day after death. From the perspective of ghosts and gods, the newly buried deceased is allowed to rest for a few days.
; From a practical point of view, we hope that tomb robbers will not disturb the remains of the deceased.
Wu Jie participated in the funeral ceremony and helped carry the coffin as the deceased's brother.
Under the new moon, he and Du Ruo's juniors carried the fine coffin that Du Tuanlian had originally prepared for him. Under the leadership of Du Yu, who barely cheered up, they moved forward silently like a group of ghosts, leaving Du Ruo behind.
Buried in the ancestral tomb south of the town.
The most energetic girl in this town will rest in peace forever.
After returning from the funeral, the Du family and his son began to sort out their daughter's belongings, and Wu Jie and Lin Lushan also came to help.
Du Tuanlian and Du Yu have not spent enough time with Du Ruo in the past two years. They are not as clear as Wu Jie and Lin Lushan about many things, for example...the wooden box in the box under Du Ruo's bed.
Although this wooden box is simple in form, it is thick and strong. The bright red ancient jade inside the box is as bright and clean as blood. It makes people's hearts shake at the first sight. It is obviously a rare and high-quality jade.
"Where did Ah Ruo find such a piece of jade?" Du Tuanlian was stunned and handed the red jade to his son, "Ah Yu, you have learned treasure appraisal at the martial arts school in the county. Let's see what this jade is like."
Du Yu took the ruby and looked over it several times, his brows furrowed tightly. He looked over it carefully again, with a look of disbelief on his face.
"What happened?"
"Dad, this jade... I'm afraid it's more expensive than several pharmacies in the city!"
"What?!" Du Tuanlian was shocked, "You said this piece of jade is more expensive than several shops? You read that right!"
"You can't be wrong! The quality of this jade is second only to a piece of heirloom jade I saw in martial arts. That piece of jade was a rare treasure that was paid tribute by the southwestern barbarians when Taizu founded the country. It is said that a piece of jade can be worth a small city.
.This piece of jade is a little smaller than that piece of jade, and the quality is slightly worse, but it should be no problem to replace it with a few apothecaries."
Du Tuanlian was so shocked that he was stunned, and Lin Lushan was so frightened that he even dropped everything he was holding.
"How did Ah Ruo get this... such a precious treasure?" Du Tuanlian asked blankly.
There was silence.
After a while, Du Yu sighed deeply: "It seems that Aruo died because of this piece of jade..."
This explanation is reasonable and reasonable. A piece of precious jade of astonishing value is indeed enough to attract extremely powerful people and kill Du Ruo.
In the hearts of the Du family and his son, Du Ruo was just a little girl with good skills after all. It was reasonable for her to die when she met a gangster who visited thousands of houses every day and robbed hundreds of households at night.
Lin Lushan was already sobbing softly, and the Du family and his son were also sighing. They threw the astonishingly valuable piece of jade aside as a stone and soil, and they were so disgusted that they didn't want to take another look at it.
Only Wu Jie secretly stared at the ancient jade. To be precise, he was staring at the figure sitting cross-legged and meditating inside the ancient jade.
If he saw it correctly, it was Du Ruo himself!
Taoist Sanshan was not completely lying. Du Ruo's soul was actually still in this soul-nurturing jade!
He tried his best to suppress his emotions and prevent himself from laughing. It took a while before he completely calmed down.
Fortunately, the other three people were mourning silently and did not notice anything unusual about him, otherwise it would be difficult for him to explain it.
After a long time, everyone calmed down and started sorting out Du Ruo's belongings again. However, no one mentioned the precious ancient jade again, just as if it didn't exist.
On the eighth day of April, Du Ruo's relics were buried next to her tomb, including the priceless ancient jade.
But inside that piece of ancient jade there was no longer Du Ruo sitting cross-legged practicing Kung Fu, there was only an empty space.
And in the world of the Book of Heaven, there is one more resident.
