The sister-in-law was wrong, please forgive her, my black-bellied brother-in-law

Qiao Xi could clearly feel that the oxygen in her body was running out.

Just when her ears were buzzing due to extreme lack of oxygen and she thought she was about to die, a large amount of air suddenly rushed into her nasal cavity.

"Cough cough cough..."

Then came the frantic coughing.

"What does it feel like to be dying?"

Before Qiao Xi could recover, she heard Xu Yi's cold words.

"Ahem, very not, ahem, it feels good."

Qiao Xi's sixth sense told her to tell the truth.

"Oh, it's not easy, but you have to bear it. This is just a little interest I got back for my mother."

Xu Yi let go of his hand and almost immediately took two steps back, as if Qiao Xi was some kind of monster.

Qiao Xi adjusted her breathing, endured the pain in her neck, her eyes firm, and her voice a little helpless, "Believe it or not, I really didn't mean to kill my mother-in-law. If you get upset when you see me, I can leave."

After he finished speaking, the room suddenly fell silent.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Qiao Xi waited for a long time, thinking that he was considering it, but unexpectedly, she was greeted by Xu Yi's loud laughter. She felt a sense of madness and ridicule in his laughter.

His laughter continued.

But the more Qiao Xi listened, the more uneasy she felt. She could even feel all the hairs on her body standing up.

Xu Yi stared at the woman in front of him and smiled for a while, until he saw her looking at him with horror, then he stopped laughing and spoke slowly.

The tone was as if he was talking to a lamb to be slaughtered, with the power of life and death completely in his hands.

"Qiao, I'm telling you, if you kill my mother, you'll never be able to leave me in this life. The reason I didn't kill you just now was because I wanted to keep you alive and torture you. I wanted to let you experience what it means to live a life worse than death."

Xu Yi said these two sentences almost with gritted teeth.

As he spoke, he bent down, wrapped his hand with his sleeve, pinched Qiao Xi's chin, and pressed hard with his fingertips until she let out a cry of pain.

His eyes looked directly into hers, as if he could see into her heart.

"You'd better not have any bad intentions, otherwise, if I catch you once, I will break one of your fingers. If I catch you twice, I will break two. If you try to escape, I will break your legs. You know I always keep my word."

"Did you hear that clearly?"

Qiao Xi felt a chill run down her spine as she listened to his vicious warning.

She didn't know if it was because of the cold night or the pain from him pinching her chin, but her teeth were chattering and her words were stuttering.

"I heard it clearly. Don't worry, I don't have any bad intentions."

Hearing her promise, Xu Yi sneered, obviously not believing it, but he didn't want to continue talking nonsense with her.

Staying with her for a moment longer made him feel extremely disgusted and nauseous. Xu Yi didn't want to stay here any longer.

But when he looked down, he saw the purse in Qiao Xi's hand.

His eyes were full of disdain, and he reached out to take the purse from Qiao Xi's hand. "This is the money my brother risked his life for. You are not qualified to use it, not even to touch it."

After saying this, he almost immediately turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait a moment."

Looking at his blurry back, Qiao Xi suddenly plucked up the courage to call him.

Xu Yi didn't look back, but didn't leave either, as if waiting for her to finish speaking.

Taking a deep breath, Qiao Xi kindly reminded, "Brother-in-law, you're a scholar and will pursue a career in politics in the future. For your reputation, can we—can we live in peace? Don't worry, I'll spend the rest of my life repaying what I owe to my mother-in-law."

I thought I would hear her begging for mercy, but instead I heard such a ridiculous request.

Without even turning his head, Xu Yi said mockingly, "Repay? The person is dead, how are you going to repay? Can the rest of your life be exchanged for my mother's life? Humph!"

After saying that, Xu Yi didn't give Qiao Xi another chance to speak.

He walked very fast!

One reason was because of disgust, and the other was because he was afraid that he would not be able to suppress the urge to strangle her. For her, death would be a blessing in disguise.

Xu Yi had just left. Perhaps due to physical or mental exhaustion, Qiao Xi didn't last long and fell asleep again in a daze.

When she woke up again, the sun was already high in the sky.

After licking her lips that were so dry that they were about to burn, Qiao Xi struggled for a few times and finally sat up on the bed.

At first glance, she saw a bowl of water on the small stool beside the bed. Without caring about anything else, she picked it up and gulped it down.

Soon the water level was reached.

But she hadn't drunk enough and was thinking of finding some more water. But just as she put down the bowl, another bowl of water was handed to her.

Looking in the direction of the hand holding the bowl, Qiao Xi saw an impatient face.

"Hey, don't you want to drink some water? Come on, my hands are sore."

In front of me is a little girl about thirteen or fourteen years old.

The little girl had an oval face and a pair of beautiful big round eyes, but the look in her eyes was a little unfriendly.

She had her hair in two buns, wore a moon-blue long dress, and a pair of soft-soled embroidered shoes. She was a little shorter than her.

Qiao Xi recognized this girl, and almost the entire Xuliu Village knew her because since she was seven or eight years old, she had followed Xu Yi like a little tail and said that she would marry him when she grew up.

"Liu Lichun, why are you here?"

Qiao Xi asked the question in her heart. At the same time, she reached out to take the bowl from her hand and drank a few more mouthfuls of it, finally suppressing her hunger and thirst.

Hearing her question, Liu Lichun glanced at her unhappily, "Do you think I want to take care of a bad woman like you? It's Brother Yan Zheng who forced me to stay here and watch over you."

When Qiao Xi heard that it was Xu Yi who asked her to come, she immediately understood.

Are they asking people to watch her because they are afraid that she will run away or commit suicide?

Come to think of it, Xu Yi didn't even have time to torture her, so how could he possibly give her water?

"You bad woman, have you rested enough? Today is Aunt Chen's seventh day after her death. Why haven't you gone to her grave to burn paper?"

Qiao Xi looked up at her in surprise, a little uncertain, "The first seven days?"

Qiao Xi stared intently, and then some information appeared in her mind.

It turns out that in this world, the first seven days after a person's death are called the "Touqi" (first seven days), and people have to burn paper for the deceased to send his or her soul away.

The second seven days are called the "second seven," followed by the third, fourth, and fifth sevens. Only after the fifth seven is the deceased finally sent to the other world. After that, paper burning takes place on the seventeenth day, and the entire funeral is considered complete.

After that, you just need to burn some paper money for the deceased on the fixed Ghost Festival every year.

The key is the first seven days, because it is very important for both the deceased and the deceased's family.

Thinking of this, Qiao Xi ignored the injury on her head and immediately got out of bed despite the pain in her head. "Go, how could I not go?"

As he said that, he started looking for clothes to wear.

Fortunately, there was a set of clothes at the foot of the bed, and Qiao Xi was in a panic again.

Fortunately, the style of the clothes was not too complicated, otherwise it would take her a long time just to put them on.

After putting on mourning clothes, Qiao Xi followed Liu Lichun out.

Only then did Qiao Xi remember that she didn't know where her mother-in-law was buried, but when she saw the figure in front of her, she was relieved, because Liu Lichun was leading the way, and she just had to follow him.

As soon as she went out, she met a child of seven or eight years old, who said that something was wrong with Liu Lichun's mother. When Liu Lichun heard this, she just told her a general direction and ran away.

Looking around, Qiao Xi could tell which house was which. But she was still at a loss, because she found that she, who used to be bad at finding directions, was still bad at finding directions here.

She couldn't help but wail in her heart, wondering why the original owner's sense of direction didn't cure her directionlessness. Woo woo woo, how should she go now?

This would have been fine in the late 1930s, when navigation was already very sophisticated.

“Navigation, navigation, I want navigation!”

As she was thinking, Qiao Xi shouted out.

[Congratulations host, because your wish is too strong, the system has been activated.]

[However, the host can only use the primary functions of the system now! Is the host going to enable it? ]