Chapter 488: Don’t Meet Someone Like Me Again
In front of his family, Liu Zhiqiu shed off all his pointy thorns and felt somewhat weary.
”Father, mother, bury her in Xinghua Ridge.”
That night, she went to Xinghua Ridge.
In her heart, Xinghua Ridge might have her best memories.
Liu Erlin nodded. “Okay, then Xinghua Ridge it is. I’ll find a few villagers to help dig the pit later.”
Xinghua Ridge happened to be their family’s site, so there was no need to ask the villagers for permission.
”After dinner, I’ll go to town to buy her clothes and order a coffin. We must let her go in peace,” Du Juan said.
Although Li Junyue wasn’t a member of their family, Zhiqiu bought her, so they definitely couldn’t proceed with a hasty burial.
Wrap her in a straw mat and throw her at a mass grave? Only that vicious witch from the Li family could do it!
”By the way, I have to boil a pot of grapefruit leaf water to wash her and wash away bad luck. Next time she reincarnates, maybe she can be with a good family.”
While his parents and Aunt Hong were busy finishing their tasks, Liu Zhiqiu got up and walked slowly to the small consultation room when they left.
On the long bed, the woman was still lying there quietly. She indeed cut a sorry figure. Her complexion was gray, and she could no longer process what was happening around her.
He walked forward, sat next to her, and quietly looked at her blood-stained face.
She would never smile again.
Nor would she call softly, Liu-gege.
Seventeen years of short life was spent in a tragedy.
”In your next life, you’ll be born in an ordinary family and live a normal life. Never never meet… someone like me again,” he said.
What was so great about a guy like him?
What made her set her heart on him so passionately?
Outside the small consultation room, Du Juan and Liu Erlin, who had dispersed separately earlier, huddled together once more and stretched their necks in his direction.
”Erlin, what do you think our son thinks about Fifth Miss Li?”
”It’s useless no matter what he thinks about her. She’s already dead, so what else can he think? Leave him alone for a while. Don’t worry about it, he knows what he’s doing.”
He dared to open his mouth and offered 50 thousand taels to buy a person. He, as his father, did not have that courage. He almost scared him to death.
How much money did they save at home? He was not even willing to buy a pair of shoes worth more than 200 Wen for himself.
He is such a prodigal son squandering the family’s fortune.
Unable to find comfort from her husband, Du Juan went close to Wei Hong next and saw her chopping firewood with pieces scattered here and there with her palms. The firewood as thick as arms were evenly cut into four small pieces.
”Dahong, can our boy be as good as you and knock things down with one palm?”
If it wasn’t for the incident today, she really would have been in the dark that her kid could fight four at a time.
”No,” Wei Hong said. “He has no internal power.”
”What’s the difference between having inner strength and not having any? Didn’t he learn martial arts from you?”
”Without internal power, it’s equivalent to having false appearances. If you meet real experts…” Wei Hong picked up a firewood and landed another palm, splitting in two, like cutting vegetables. “It’s just like going forward and delivering them a dish.”
Besides, when did Liu Zhiqiu learn martial arts from her? It was only when he was watching her practice swordsmanship that got excited and started to copy her fancy tricks.
She didn’t even think he would dare to rush forward and fight someone.
The ignorant were fearless.
”…” Du Juan’s hands shook. Then during the fight in the morning, didn’t her son almost run up and send himself to die?
He’s got some nerve! She’ll kill him!
Wei Hong reached out and grabbed the woman who was looking for a weapon.”Finish the task first and then teach me a lesson later.”
Du Juan immediately turned around and walked out. “I’m going to town to get the stuff we need.”
If she stayed any longer, she was afraid that she would beat him to death the moment she saw him.
Since he didn’t want to die, he should die at her hands.
Lest she still have to help him take revenge.
The next morning, she brought back clean new clothes. She also had the shop assistants deliver the coffin to the house and placed it in the yard of the Liu courtyard.
In the past, the compound was always warm and inviting, but because of the black lacquered coffin, it was tinged with a touch of depression, adding a shade of gloom.
When Wei Hong and Du Juan were washing the woman up, they discovered shocking bruises on her body when they took off her clothes.
Some spots have even festered.
Du Juan couldn’t bear to see them.
”She was beaten by sticks some time ago. It’s been a while, and I’m afraid she hasn’t been healed after that.” Otherwise, they wouldn’t have festered.
”It must have been the family law, that vicious witch!” She is her own granddaughter! Why didn’t she ask a doctor for her?
Thinking about the little girl who came to their house yesterday, she couldn’t imagine how she managed to make her way here.
A living person yesterday is now…
Du Juan sighed softly, her eyes turning red.
She had never experienced the unknown filth behind wealthy and influential families, and she didn’t understand them at all.
Saying anything now was all in vain, and it would only sound like sarcastic remarks.
Wei Hong wasn’t so sentimental.
It was the first time she had done such a thing as bathing a corpse, but she had seen too many of the four of them, so this couldn’t elicit emotions in her.
It was just that when washing the blood on the woman’s chest, her brows wrinkled. A trace of doubt flickered in her eyes but disappeared in a flash.
”Liu Zhiqiu! Liu Zhiqiu!”
As soon as the woman was dressed, a shout came outside the door.
This was followed by a scream, “Ahhhh—!”
Wei Hong walked out of the bathroom and looked at the woman who was frightened by the coffin in the courtyard. “Miss Kang, why are you here again?”
Kang Ziyu’s face paled, and she quickly bypassed the coffin and approached Du Juan. She ignored the woman’s obviously unwelcome tone and said, “I’m here to see Liu Zhiqiu. Where is he?”
Behind Du Juan, Wei Hong just came out with Li Junyue in her arms. When she saw the person in her arms, Kang Ziyu immediately took a few huge steps back and quickly averted her eyes, her face turning paler.
After washing, Li Junyue was now wearing a pale yellow dress she liked, which Dujuan specially bought for her. She wasn’t wearing a shroud because she didn’t die a natural death.
But Kang Ziyu still didn’t dare to look. Even if the woman looked like she was asleep, the corpse’s gray complexion and dark purple lips still frightened her.
She didn’t even dare to ask another question. She turned around and left. “I’m going to find Liu Zhiqiu!”
”Miss Kang, this is my family’s courtyard. It’s impolite of you, a young lady, to be on a rampage. If you have any business with Zhiqiu, you can tell me, and I will tell him. It’s all the same.” Du Juan frowned.
As soon as she entered the door, she kept screaming and shouting. She didn’t even show any sort of courtesy upon meeting an elder. This made her even more displeased with Kang Ziyu.
”I’ll speak with him directly. There’s no need for you to relay my words to him,” Kang Ziyu walked towards the inner courtyard with hurried steps. “Liu Zhiqiu, Liu Zhiqiu, come out!”
Later, Wei Hong said to Du Juan, “Shall I throw her out?”
”Forget it.” Du Juan shook her head and sighed silently.
Kang Ziyu and Li Junyue seemed to have an ill-fated relationship with her son.
Let them figure things out on their own.
Kang Ziyu almost fled into the second courtyard.
All that filled her mind was Li Junyue’s gray and lifeless face. It scared her to the point of sweating all over, and her heart beating fast.
When her father returned from the yamen at noon, she learned that Li Junyue was dead, and she was left in the Liu family courtyard. Furthermore, Liu Zhiqiu bought off her relationship with the Li family with 50 thousand taels of silver.
Peek-Aboo 
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