Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 1743

The leader, Chi Yisong, had a red face, veins popped out on his neck, and he howled at the top of his voice, "Come and see what this unfilial granddaughter has done! She made her grandmother so angry that she hanged herself to death!"

The third wife, Chi Yirong, also pointed at the door and shouted, her fingertips trembling, "Chi Shuang! You unfilial granddaughter, why don't you come out and kowtow to your grandmother and confess your sins!"

He deliberately made his voice high and sharp, so that it sounded particularly harsh in the cold wind.

The onlookers gathered in groups of three or four, whispering.

"It's hard to describe the behavior of the Chi family. They're not as decent as ordinary families like us." A woman carrying a basket of vegetables shook her head and sighed.

A young man who looked like a scholar subconsciously covered his mouth and nose and took a half step back. He looked reluctant and lowered his voice, "The Chi family is too much. They treated the old lady's body like this."

Everyone covered their noses and said, "What a sin! If it weren't for the cold weather, the body would have already stank."

Several children were dragged back by their collars by the adults, but they still stood on tiptoe to watch the fun.

In fact, even in the cold winter, there was still a faint smell around. The body covered with white cloth was casually placed on the wooden board, and occasionally a few flies flew around, which looked particularly strange in the winter.

"I heard that it was the sister of Chi Yue, a brave warrior who died in Guicheng, who wanted to monopolize the military merits and used her achievements to curry favor with the powerful, which forced the old lady to commit suicide." An old woman with wrinkles on her face spoke with saliva flying, excitement flashing in her turbid eyes.

She pinched a few melon seeds with her skinny fingers and put one into her mouth from time to time. After a crisp "crunch" sound, she spat the melon seed shell on the ground.

During these seven days, she came to watch the fun every day, treating this farce as a storytelling show in a teahouse. Today, she changed into a clean gray cloth jacket and put a cloth pocket on her waist, which was filled with freshly roasted melon seeds.

"If you ask me," she lowered her voice and moved closer to the crowd mysteriously, "that girl from the Chi family is very cruel!" As she spoke, a melon seed shell stuck to the hem of the scholar's clothes next to her.

"You really know everything." The woman with the vegetable basket curled her lips, "In my opinion, the Chi family is not a good family because they do things in such an unseemly way."

The old woman was choked and her face froze. Then she stiffened her neck and said, "What do you know! My nephew who works in the county government has said..."

Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by the creaking sound of the door opening. She quickly stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck to squeeze forward, not even bothering to pick up the scattered melon seeds.

The door of the new house, which had been closed for seven days, slowly opened. The sound of the door hinges turning suddenly made the noisy crowd quiet down.

Chi Shuang, wearing a plain white shirt and holding a book, walked out slowly. The cold wind blew her sleeves, revealing a cracked jade pendant with a dragon pattern hanging around her waist.

Her face was as calm as water, and her cold eyes swept across everyone, finally landing on the body of Old Madam Chi, without a ripple in her eyes.

The second and third branches of the Chi family had been making a fuss for so long, and when they saw her finally open the door, they rushed over like hungry wolves smelling blood and surrounded her in the center.

Chi Yisong suddenly changed his expression, beating his chest and stamping his feet, feeling heartbroken, "Shuang'er, stop making trouble and go home!"

He reached out to pull Chi Shuang's sleeve, but she dodged by moving sideways.

"Sister Shuang'er, look, grandma died with her eyes open!" A young girl in mourning clothes threw herself beside the corpse, crying bitterly, but when she lowered her head, she secretly raised her eyes to observe Chi Shuang's reaction.

"Chi Shuang, do you think you are no longer a member of the Chi family just because you left the clan? You can't write two characters "Chi" with one stroke!" Chi Yirong glanced at the crowd, and it was obvious that these words were spoken more to outsiders.

Their purpose was not to force Chi Shuang to death, but to bring Chi Shuang and Chi Yue's military achievements back to the Chi family, so everyone had tears in their eyes and spoke earnestly.

Most of the onlookers thought Chi Shuang was a bad person. But seeing her cold face and her expression unchanged in the face of her relatives crying, they felt that she was cold-hearted and hard to get along with.