Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 249 Xie Tanyu (Part )
A Feng set up a mourning hall in the backyard of the governor's mansion, and Xie Tanyu's body was placed in a coffin and placed in the mourning hall.

When Yan Ciwan, Xiao Wang, Chaolu and others went to pay their respects, they found that only Ah Feng and two children were crying in the mourning hall. Yan Ciwan asked, "Are Madam Xie and Mr. Liu not here?"

Afeng wiped his tears and shook his head silently.

Yan Ci Wan sighed. Now that the real murderer has been caught, the relationship between Xie Tanyu and his children still cannot be repaired.

After burning incense, Yan Ciwan left the mourning hall with a cane. She saw Xie Chusong standing alone in the distance. Looking at the direction Xie Chusong was facing, she guessed that she was looking at the mourning hall.

Yan Ciwan tried to call out "Madam Xie", but when Xie Chusong heard it, he just glanced at her and turned away.

Chaolu looked at Xie Chusong's departing back and guessed in a low voice.

"Is Governor Xie really an accomplice in the murder of Crown Prince Renxian and the entire Xu family?"

Yan Ciwan was unable to give an answer, so she said, "Probably only Governor Xie himself knows about this."

But unfortunately, Xie Tanyu could no longer speak, and the truth from twenty years ago accompanied his death and was buried in the ground.

The group left the governor's mansion.

There was a person standing under a big tree opposite the street of the mansion gate. Yan Ciwan felt that the person looked familiar. With the help of Chaolu, she stepped over the threshold and looked carefully. Only then did she see the person clearly. It was Liu Qingguang.

At this moment, Liu Qingguang was wearing a coarse cloth shorts and carrying a bag on his back, looking like he was about to go on a long journey.

He was staring at the white lanterns hanging on the gate of the Governor's Mansion. When he saw Yan Ci Wan, Chao Lu and Xiao Wang approaching, he immediately turned around and left.

Yan Ciwan called out to him, "Mr. Liu, aren't you going to go in and burn two sticks of incense for Xie the Assassin?"

Liu Qingguang paused, he turned around and looked at Yan Ciwan, mocking him, "He didn't want to recognize me when he was alive, so he certainly doesn't want to see me after he's dead, so why should I rush to ask for trouble?"

“Maybe he has his reasons.”

"What could be the reason?"

Yan Ciwan couldn't answer.

Although she had some guesses, she was not Xie Tanyu, and she could not be sure that all her guesses were true.

Liu Qingguang laughed at himself, "I have thought that he might have his own reasons, but I can't figure out what reasons could make him so cruel as to abandon his wife and children? Now he has ended up like this with no one to see him off to his grave. It's all his own fault."

After saying this, he strode away with his bag on his back.

Yan Ciwan shouted at his back, "In three days' time, Governor Xie will be buried. Can you stay for another three days? Even if you don't want to burn incense for him, please send him off one last time, and consider it as completing your relationship as father and son in this life!"

Liu Qingguang did not look back, and his back quickly disappeared among the crowd.

Uncle Jiu stopped his carriage on the street. He glanced at the gate of the governor's mansion and wanted to say that Xie Tanyu deserved to die, but considering that the dead are the most important, he held back and didn't say it.

Chaolu helped Yan Ci get into the car at night.

After sitting in the car, Yan Ciwan looked through the window at the gate of the governor's mansion. There were elegiac couplets on both sides of the gate, pine branches and white cloth were hung above, and there were lanterns made of white paper with a huge word "甸" written on the lanterns in black ink.

Local officials kept coming to pay their respects upon hearing the news. Many carriages and horses were parked in front of the mansion, making it look quite lively.

I wonder how many of these people are truly missing Xie Tanyu?

The carriage moved slowly along the street.

Seeing Yan Ciwan looking thoughtful, Xiao Wang asked, "Are you still thinking about Xie Tanyu?"

"Well, I was wondering why Xie Tanyu came to you that night?"

Xiao Wang said: "He was holding the amulet in his hand before he died. Maybe he wanted to tell me about it." "He should know that the original owner of the amulet was Prince Renxian. Is he going to tell you the truth about the murder of Prince Renxian?"

Xiao Wang shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.

Yan Ciwan sighed: "It would be great if Xie Tanyu was still alive."

If he were still alive, many questions could be answered.

Xiao Wang was quite open-minded: "The dead are gone, there is no point in dwelling on these things."

Yan Ciwan asked: "Don't you want to know your true life experience?"

"When it's time to know, you'll know it naturally. There's no point in being anxious."

Yan Ciwan thought about it carefully and felt that what he said made sense. Everything has its own rules of operation and cannot be forced.

The carriage carried them back to Yunkelai slowly.

Xiao Yu planned to leave Yizhou after Xie Tanyu's funeral, which meant they had to stay in Yizhou for three more days. During these three days, Yan Ciwan stayed in Yunkelai to recuperate.

Time passed quickly. Tomorrow is the day of the funeral. Yan Ciwan thought about getting up early tomorrow, so he went to bed early tonight.

In a daze, Yan Ciwan heard the clear cry of a baby.

She was awakened by crying, and when she opened her eyes, she found that her soul had left her body again.

At this moment, she was standing in a strange room with the doors and windows closed.

Yan Ci Wan looked in the direction of the crying and saw a newborn baby lying on the bed. The baby's skin was wrinkled and red, and he was wrapped in an adult's clothes stained with blood. He was crying breathlessly, not sure if it was because of fear or hunger.

A young man knelt on the ground beside the bed, and he comforted her repeatedly, "Little Prince, don't cry, don't cry."

Yan Ci took two steps forward and saw the young man clearly. He was wearing a crimson round-collar official uniform and a black fu hat. Because he was too anxious, he was sweating profusely and the collar of his clothes was soaked with sweat.

He had delicate features and even though he looked a little disheveled at the moment, one could still tell that he was an elegant scholar.

Yan Ciwan stared at his profile for a while, and the more he looked, the more he felt that he looked like Xie Tanyu.

The Xie Tanyu she knew was already in her forties, but the Xie Tanyu in front of her looked to be in her early twenties at most.

Did she go back to twenty years ago?

There was a knock on the door and a young man's voice came through the door.

"Brother Tanyu, I asked someone to prepare some food."

When Yan Ciwan saw the young man get up and open the door, he knew that he had guessed right. The person in front of him was none other than the young Xie Tanyu!
He took the food box from the person outside the door, thanked him, closed the door, and turned back to the bed.

Xie Tanyu took out a cup of warm milk from the food box.

He carefully fed the baby milk. The baby was probably really hungry, so he opened his mouth and started eating with big mouthfuls.

After eating, the baby finally stopped crying. He curled up in his clothes, closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Xie Tanyu took out a white jade Buddha amulet from the clothes.

He gently wiped the surface of the amulet, placed it in the baby's arms, then stood up, took two steps back, knelt down on his knees, raised his hands above his head, and kowtowed solemnly.

"Your Highness, I am really worried about the Crown Prince. Please forgive me for not being able to accompany you. The Crown Prince is in danger. I have to go to rescue him. I may not be able to come back. Please grow up well, little prince, and don't let the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess down."