First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Su Jixiang was stunned for a moment, then looked behind the tombstone. Behind this grave mound stood more than a dozen other grave mounds.

Su Jixiang walked over and looked at the words on the tombstone.

After reading it all, Su Jixiang realized that he seemed to have accidentally found the burial place of the exiled Wei family members...

She was still in the cold palace when the Wei family was exiled, but at that time she had already been entangled with Concubine Chen. She was thinking about how to push and pull with Concubine Chen every day, so she didn't care much about the affairs of the Wei family.

After all, she could barely protect herself at that time, so how could she have the energy to take care of the affairs of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion?

It was only later that she gradually heard Xiao Shunzi talk about the Wei family.

The Wei family was imprisoned by His Majesty for the crime of treason, and Duke Zhenguo Wei Zheng was executed by slow slicing. The entire family of the Duke Zhenguo was exiled to Mangcheng. It is said that many people died on the way, and soon after they arrived in Mangcheng, it seemed that almost all the members of the Wei family were dead and there were only a few left... After that, there was almost no news about the Wei family.

Xiao Shunzi also told her that although the Zhenguo family was not sentenced to immediate execution, the Zhenguo Duke refused to surrender until his death and insisted that their family had not committed treason, which had made him disliked by His Majesty. On the surface, it seemed that Emperor Jingdi had only exiled them and did not really take the lives of their entire family, but in fact, Emperor Jingdi would not let anyone in their family live.

Su Jixiang also understood the logic behind this. After all, it was a false accusation to accuse the Wei family of treason, and the Duke of Zhenguo had been crying out for injustice. Emperor Jing couldn't save face, so he still had to save some face and didn't kill people openly, but he would definitely not let the Wei family go behind their backs.

Originally Su Jixiang thought that Wei Ling would die in Mangcheng, but he didn't expect that there would be news about Wei Ling again a few years later, and this time he became a real rebel.

Looking at the neatly arranged graves of the Wei family in front of him, Su Jixiang couldn't help feeling a little sad.

These were once living lives, but they became victims because of certain considerations of those in power.

Standing here, Su Jixiang also understood why Wei Ling had become so moody...

The gentle boy in Dongdu who existed in her memory was probably buried with these graves...

Su Jixiang sighed deeply and bowed deeply three times towards the grave. Although she was the daughter-in-law of the Wei family in name only, the dead were the most important and it was her duty to show respect.

After bowing, Su Jixiang hurried to find the Mo father and son.

I don’t know if it was the Wei family’s spirits in heaven that protected Wei Ling, but they actually encountered a fox that day!

A total of three foxes came out to hunt, and among them was a white fox that Su Jixiang liked!

It must be said that Mo Dashan and his son were indeed good hunters. After a period of guarding and chasing, they really caught the fox. Not only did they catch it, they also caught it alive!

Su Jixiang finally spent the remaining money of the five hundred taels of silver!

Su Jixiang wrapped the white fox in cloth and brought it back to Mangcheng. He then kept the fox in the backyard and tied it up with a chain...

The fox was caught, but Wei Ling was nowhere to be seen...

Su Jixiang counted the days with her fingers, and saw that it would be the twelfth day in a few days... If Wei Ling didn't come back, she really couldn't keep up this lie...

In order to hunt foxes these days, she rejected several invitations to visit their homes on the grounds of illness.

There is always a time to recover from illness, and she didn't know what excuse to find next...

Su Jixiang rested at home for a day. When she woke up the next day, she suddenly remembered that she had set several traps near the stream in the valley. Because she had caught the white fox, she had forgotten about the traps.

Since I have nothing to do, I might as well go and take a look. Maybe she has caught some prey again.

After Su Jixiang got up, she packed up. If she really caught prey, she decided to send the things to Qu's house.

When Su Jixiang was about to go out, he thought of the Wei family's cemetery again.

After all, I had to pass by someone's grave, and I caught the white fox because of the blessing of the family, so I felt embarrassed to pass by empty-handed.

So Su Jixiang asked Wei Zhong to rent a car, and bought a lot of sacrificial items such as gold ingots, candles, incense, and yellow paper, loaded them in the car, and got in the car himself, asking Wei Zhong to help drive the car to the mountains.

Wei Zhong was an old soldier specially transferred by Wei Ling, and even Wei Ling trusted him, so Su Jixiang did not have to avoid Wei Zhong when he went to pay homage to the Wei family.

When Wei Zhong saw that they had come here, he immediately burst into tears.

The carriage could only go to the foot of the mountain, and it would take some distance to get into the mountain, so Wei Zhong helped Su Jixiang take the things off the carriage and accompanied Su Jixiang into the valley.

"How did Madam know this place?" Wei Zhong asked while wiping his tears.

"That's what the general said..." What else could Su Jixiang say? He couldn't tell Wei Zhong that he had come across this place by accident when he went into the mountains to look for foxes...

"Yes, yes, madam should come to pay homage, but it's a pity that the general is not at home. Otherwise, it would be better if the general came with madam." Wei Zhong simply walked in front to lead the way, reminding Su Jixiang to be careful with his steps all the way.

The closer Su Jixiang got to the valley, the more he felt something was wrong.

There are messy horse hoof prints along the way.

There was no snow in the mountains or Mangcheng these days, and this place is sparsely populated, so there should be no other traces except her footprints.

But from outside the mountain to here, she could see horse hoof prints along the way. Not only were there horse hoof prints, but there were also traces of blood dripping into the snow...

Su Jixiang bent down and picked up some blood-stained snow and took a look. It must have been a while since it had frozen into ice.

When the two men entered the valley, Su Jixiang saw at a glance a black man half-lying in the snow. There were traces of a burnt campfire beside him, and not far away there was a black warhorse tied to a nearby tree trunk.

"It's the general's black deer!" Wei Zhong recognized the horse immediately...

He dropped what he was holding, rushed over in two steps, and turned over the person lying in the snow.

"Madam! It's the general!" He pulled down the mask covering the man in black and shouted to Su Jixiang in a lost voice.

The sharp-eyed Su Jixiang had already seen a large area of snow dyed red under the man in black...

"General, what happened?" Wei Zhong looked panicked. Apparently, he also noticed that Wei Ling was covered in blood...

"Don't panic." Su Jixiang quickly calmed down. She said to Wei Zhong, "Hurry up and get the general onto the carriage. Let's go back and find the doctor first and then talk about other things!"