"That's enough!" The woman scolded in a low voice in fear, stopping him from continuing, and said sadly: "If you really have some filial piety, you should get married as soon as possible and continue the incense of the Qiao family. Only in this way can your father be reunited.
You can rest in peace under the Nine Springs...instead of wondering about useless old things all day long!"
"Can mother still not see clearly?"
The man in green shirt said in a steady tone: "It's not that my son is always suspicious, but that this matter has been invisibly affecting and even controlling everything in our Qiao family over the years. Is it possible to stay safe just by pretending not to know? Besides,
If there really was something fishy about my father's death, as a son of a man, he should find out the truth. Knowing that his biological father died in vain and allowing the truth to be buried is truly unfilial."
"You..." The woman's lips were slightly blue, and she suddenly coughed violently, breathing unevenly and covering her chest.
The man quickly stepped forward to help him.
"Mother……"
"Do you really have to make your mother angry to death?" The woman burst into tears, tightly holding one of his arms and advising in a low voice: "No one knows the truth of what happened back then. Even if you want to investigate, you can't.
Where should we start to investigate? Tian'er, you should also understand the consequences of hitting an egg with a stone... Your mother just wants you to live in peace, which must be your father's wish... Can you promise your mother that you will never mention this matter again?
"
Facing his mother's tearful eyes, the man's heart dropped very heavy. If he hadn't dared to act rashly because his mother was still alive, how could he have kept this matter in his heart all these years and only dared to do so?
A few words before your father's grave?
As for starting a family...
The man smiled bitterly in his heart.
Without knowing the whole truth, he often felt precarious, fearing that disaster would happen one day. How could he dare to marry a wife and have children, causing harm to others?
But no matter how much he talked, his mother would never understand.
Just as his mother thinks of peace, he does not agree with it either.
"It was my son who made a mistake." Faced with the mother who was destined to be unable to reach a consensus, the man suppressed his inner thoughts: "I hope my mother will calm down and don't hurt her body."
The woman shook her head and her tears became more and more intense.
"Mother knows that no one can persuade you..."
Then he broke free from his son's hand, fell on the grave and cried bitterly.
Looking at his sad and desperate mother, the man's mood was complicated and difficult to describe.
He knew that his mother must also be unwilling and resentful about his father's death.
Why doesn't my mother want to seek justice?
But my mother was vaguely aware of the difficulty of this matter. As an ordinary mother, this status limited her vision and restricted her courage.
Therefore, he could not blame his mother at all.
But are he and his mother really destined to never know the truth about his father's death?
The man looked at the tombstone and knelt there for a long time without moving.
It wasn't until the woman was exhausted from crying that he stepped forward to help her up and slowly left the place.
Hearing the footsteps of mother and son disappear completely, Wu Chao and Xu Mingyi came out of their hiding place.
The burning paper in front of the tomb has been burned out, and several plates of tributes are sitting there quietly.
"It sounds like the mother and son of the Qiao family must also have doubts about Qiao Bing's death that year." Wu Chao said: "But they should only be suspicious of the real cause of his death, and never thought about the possibility that the person might still be alive."
Xu Mingyi nodded.
She also roughly heard this.
But putting these aside for the time being, another question came to her lips at this time: "Wu Chao, do you know the name of the son of Doctor Qiao? I just looked at him vaguely, and I thought he looked very familiar."
"This person's name is Qiao Tian."
Qiao Tian?
Qiao Tian......
After Xu Mingyi slowly repeated the name twice in his mind, he showed a look of surprise.
She remembered.
"According to the spies' reports, this person has quite a relationship with Mr. Xu."
Xu Mingyi nodded: "Indeed, Mr. Qiao and my second uncle have been close friends for many years."
Because of this, she had met him by chance a few times in the early years. However, in recent years, perhaps because Mr. Qiao no longer studied the imperial examinations, he returned to Fengming County and settled down as a teacher.
As time went by, the interactions with her second uncle became less frequent.
After all, dealing with her second uncle is destined to be a one-sided affair, and don't expect her second uncle to take the initiative to find him.
But the friendship between the two is good, which is an indisputable fact.
This can be gleaned from what Mingshi said to her earlier——
A few days ago, before Cai Jin left the Zhenguo Palace, Mingshi, who was now very keen on inquiring about the affairs of the palace, didn't know if he learned from his mother about the countermeasures that his uncle planned to use to deal with the proposed marriage.
——
When talking about this matter with her at that time, Mr. Qiao's name was mentioned immediately.
Mingshi's original words were - if the second uncle really declares that he has a broken sleeve, Mr. Qiao may become the biggest victim.
The reason for this sentence is that the two of them have close contact with each other, and they are both single men at a young age who have not yet married.
As for why Mingshi was so well aware of the stakes of this matter, and even so keen that it was incomprehensible, under her questioning, her innocent brother hesitated and revealed the reason with a blushing face——
It turned out that he accidentally saw some kind of unspeakable book about the second uncle and Mr. Qiao in secret. Because the pseudonyms were used in the book, he had almost finished reading the book before he finally realized the protagonist in the book.
It turned out to be his second uncle...
According to Mingshi, the moment he reacted, he suddenly felt dirty.
And it seems that he is not the only one who is dirty...
But just look, even if you want to spend a lot of money to buy a pair of eyes that you have never seen, it is a hopeless fantasy.
Forgetting cannot be forgotten, and it is destined to be deeply impressed. It is probably the kind of thing that when you are about to die, when the things you have experienced in your life flash through your mind, those beautiful and beautiful words will be forcibly reproduced word for word.
.
She was very shocked when she heard that, and criticized her brother on the spot. What kind of messy books did he read at such a young age?
This kind of evil book could not be burned without burning it, so she confiscated the book resolutely.
As of now, the book is still lying in the book box beside her bed - she hasn't found a chance to burn it without lighting the brazier in the summer.
This is too far gone.
Xu Mingyi came back to his senses from this incident, glanced at Qiao Bingying's grave, and said to Wu Chao: "Since this is Mr. Qiao, and he obviously has doubts about what happened back then, we might try to talk to him.
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Wu Chao nodded: "But I'm afraid it would be a bit presumptuous to catch up at this time——"
It's not just a matter of being rude or not. Having done the eavesdropping thing, it's no longer polite at all. The key lies in that Mother Qiao.
This old man was obviously very taboo about what happened back then.
