C48 (1/2)

In the Ancestral Hall, Wen Yi respectfully gave the ancestors an incense's time, and then turned to face Wen Que, his face cold to the point that it seemed like there was a layer of frost on it.

Wen Que originally wanted to say a few words of praise, to let Chu Chi stay a few more days, but after seeing the situation, he was unable to say anything.

”Give an incense stick to the ancestors as well.” Wen Yi said.

Wen Que did as he was told.

”Do you remember when Yellowbrow died and asked you to bury him?” Wen Yi asked.

Wen Que nodded.

Yellowbrow was his family's dog. At the time of his death, he was eight years old and had just started his first year of primary school in the village.

That day, Yellow Beard was extremely abnormal. Normally, it would never come out of its den, and it was also because of this that Wen Que didn't like it at all. It was raining heavily that day, but Huang Mei was lying on the small path in front of her house, looking in the direction of the guest. When Wen Que came back from school, she had already died.

After swallowing his breath, Wen Yi used the warm water with the addition of the rosin to bathe it. He washed its teeth, claws, and every corner of its body completely clean. But seeing Wen Yi's serious expression, he did not dare disobey him.

Wen Que patiently used a brush to wash Huang Mei's front legs. Normally, when he walked, he would see her limp, but a large piece of flesh was missing from her front legs, her fur covered her bones, and after her fur got wet, her black bones were exposed. Wen Que felt her hair and was somewhat shocked, thinking whether it had fought with a dog in the village or with a wild boar on the mountain.

Yellowbrow's entire body was dry. He didn't have any meat, and his hair was usually fluffy, but after getting wet, he could see everything clearly. The veins and veins all over his body were like spider webs.

After cleaning the corpse, Wen Yi used a piece of cotton to dry it, and then used a layer of scented oil and a layer of scented powder to wrap it up in layers of cloth, and placed it into the coffin that was already completed long ago.

That coffin was exactly the same as the coffins used by the elders who passed away in Wen Family.

After that, Wen Family asked the Daoist Priest to act as the training hall for Huang Mei for three days and three nights. Even though he was still young, he understood something. He refused to be a filial son of a dog no matter what, and in the end, he was beaten up by Wen Yi until he was afraid.

After sending it up the mountain, the elders and young masters of Wen Family all kowtowed to this dog's grave. Wen Que kowtowed the most.

After that, every year during the new year, Wen Que would be brought up the mountain by Wen Yi to pay respects to Huang Mei.

Wen Que was extremely puzzled by this, and had always had a repulsive attitude. When he grew up, he finally started to understand that there was a cyan serpent spirit at the back of the mountain that had caused the death of his grandfather and two uncles. Huang Mei had killed the cyan serpent spirit, otherwise, more people would have died from Wen Family.

Although he was skeptical of the rumors in the villages after school, and had asked Wen Yi for confirmation many times, Wen Yi had always kept his mouth shut and never told him about it.

”Then do you remember when you were young and sleepwalking?” Wen Yi asked again.

Wen Que nodded his head again as he looked at Wen Yi suspiciously, as he did not know why he suddenly mentioned the two things.

Wen Yi said: ”When you were three years old, I woke up one night to find that the door to your room was opened. I was so frightened that I thought there was a child thief in the house, so I called everyone in the house and found you on the threshing floor outside the door. You were crawling out in the dark. After I picked you up, your hands and feet were still moving like a turtle's. I thought I forgot to close the door and let you slip out. But since then, your sleepwalking has happened from time to time. We tried everything we could to get you to sleep in the middle of it, or to put you in an open earthenware jar, or even to tie you up with rope and lock the door after you went to bed. You can always crawl out of the house. After climbing for more than a dozen miles at a time, they were almost at the Locking Snake Pond. Fortunately, Xue Yu's father brought his dog to chase you, otherwise … ”

When Wen Que heard this, his heart trembled. He could no longer remember when he was young, but knew that it was something strange.