Wu Jie stood in Du Ruo's mourning hall, and four or five steps in front of him were Du Ruo whose face was covered by white cloth.

But now she can neither laugh nor make trouble, neither fight nor eat...

He stood there for a long time before leaving with a sigh and walking aimlessly around the town.

He has walked through many families, and people's lives are still the same. No one knows that last night, the whole town almost lost his life together and became the food for gods and demons outside the territory.

They were saved because Wu Jie killed the Sanshan Taoist who presided over the evil deeds, and the price was that Du Ruo, who might have been resurrected, died and became a cold corpse.

"There is life and death, and it will be a long time to be a death. I am a human being yesterday evening, but today I am in the ghost record... Relatives may be sad, and others have already sang. What's the point of death? I'll be the same as the mountain." For no reason, Wu Jie suddenly remembered two poems he had read before traveling through time.

That was the elegy made by Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty for himself.

After a fight last night, Wu rescued the entire town, but failed to save the person he wanted to save at the beginning.

He walked alone in the town, his heart was empty, without sorrow, just empty.

"Marli, am I useless?" He couldn't help asking, "I was rushing back to save Sister Aruo, but in the end I killed her with my own hands..."

In the past, he never called Du Ruo "sister", and Du Ruo has always been annoyed about this. But now even if she wants to call her sister, she can no longer hear it.

"The situation was too urgent at that time, so I can't blame you for your master!" Of course, Moli was determined to Wu Jie and immediately defended him. "If you hadn't made a quick decision, the whole town would be in danger, and you might even have died yourself. Killing a group of people to save someone is already a loss-making business; paying yourself to save someone is simply a brain problem!"

“Life should not be measured by quantity.”

"But no matter what, your life is definitely more important than other people's lives!"

Wu Jie did not refute it, and he himself didn't know whether he had the confidence to refute Jasmine's words.

Can he really pay for himself to save someone?

Probably...no...

He wandered around the town all day long until the sky gradually darkened before turning back home.

When he walked past the door of the Du family, he saw Lin Lushan sitting next to the brazier in front of Du Ruo to burn paper money. The little nerd cried so hard that his eyes were swollen.

Wu Jie stood there blankly for a long time until his brother Wu Cheng came over to ask him for dinner, and he came to his senses.

This meal was naturally tasteless, and he didn't even know what he had eaten.

After dinner, he came to Du's house again.

Du Tuanlian hasn't come back yet, maybe the news has not been delivered to him. In such a huge mourning hall, only Du Yu led a few Du Tuanlian's apprentices to take care of him.

Wu Jie came over, burned some paper money like Linlu Mountain, and then sat beside Du Yu in a daze.

"My mother left early, her father was busy all day long, and we siblings have been relying on each other since childhood..." Du Yu completely lost his might and temperament, he looked haggard and listless, and even said something inconsistent with his words, "Why did a good person die suddenly? He was not injured or sick, so why did he die suddenly!"

The Pure Yang True Fire burned the remnant souls of the Taoist Sanshan. Du Ruo's body and clothes were not evil things, so the True Fire naturally would not burn them. Therefore, from the outside, Du Ruo's corpse was indeed not hurt at all.

Wu Jie sighed deeply, not knowing what to say.

He sat with Du Yu all night until the next morning, Du Yu, who had been tired for a day and a night, finally couldn't hold on and fell asleep. He was the only one sitting there in a daze.

With his physique, it doesn't matter if he doesn't eat or sleep for three or five days, but he feels very tired.

This feeling of fatigue does not come from the body, but from the mind.

The three-day guarding time passed in a flash. The day before Du Ruo's funeral, Du Tuanlian finally came back.

Looking at his daughter's body, the Du family's uncle, who was as fierce as a tiger in the past, suddenly grew old, his straight back was much hunched, and a pale gray color floated on his bronze face, and the usually fierce pair of eyes lost their luster.

He grabbed Du Yu and Wu Jie and asked again and again, asking his daughter how she died.

"The night before yesterday, the people in the town were asleep for some reason. Ah Jie came back from the mountain to collect herbs and saw Aruo sitting in the square in the town in a daze. He walked over and asked what happened, but when he walked in front of him, he found that she was motionless. He reached out and touched her, and she was already cold..."

"Well, I lost fighting with her during the day that day. In a fit of anger, I practiced in the mountains all day. When I came back tonight, the town was very quiet, and there was no barking at the dog. When I saw Sister Aruo sitting there, I went to ask her why she wasn't going home yet, was she waiting for me, and wanted to apologize to me... But when I walked in front of me, I saw that her face was so pale and bloody. I was startled and reached out to touch her forehead, cold and without any heat. I hurriedly looked at her nose, and I had no breathing..."

"How could this happen? What kind of evil is this child infected? If you are infected, you are infected, why did you give up your life!" Du Tuanlian also knew that his daughter was in a abnormal situation some time ago, but he did not expect that she would die of confusion...

Neither he nor Du Yu doubted Wu Jie, which made Wu Jie even more uncomfortable.

But he still wants to make up this lie. After all, he can't tell others, "Du Ruo failed to cultivate immortality and was taken over by the Sanshan Taoist. If I kill the Sanshan Taoist, her body will die."

This matter is too bizarre and genius believe it! If it weren't for what I saw with my own eyes, even Wu Jie himself wouldn't believe it!

In the early morning of the fourth day of the April 19th, Du Ruo was buried.

The custom of the Eastern Chu State is to have funerals after midnight. Before the sun comes out, it is necessary to be buried and enclosed. This is because they believe that the souls of the deceased will act with the corpse, and the souls are afraid of the sun, so they must be buried before the sun comes out.

Moreover, they are used to trying to be as simple as possible when burying the corpse, and do not place any burial in the coffin. The burial objects are buried next to the tomb on the seventh day after death. From the perspective of ghosts and gods, it is to let the newly buried deceased rest for a few days; from the perspective of reality, it is to hope that the tomb robbers will not disturb the remains of the deceased.

Wu Jie participated in the funeral ceremony and helped carry the coffin as the deceased's younger brother.

Under the crescent moon, he and Du Ruo's junior brothers carried the coffin that Du Tuanlian had prepared for him. Under the leadership of Du Yu, who had barely cheered up, he walked forward silently like a group of ghosts and buried Du Ruo in the sect tomb south of the town.

The most energetic girl in this town will rest forever from now on.

After returning from the funeral, the Du family and his son began to organize their daughter's relics, and Wu Jie and Lin Lushan also came to help.

Du Tuanlian and Du Yu have not gotten along with Du Ruo in the past two years, and they are not as clear as Wu Jie and Lin Lushan in many things, for example... the wooden box inside the box under Du Ruo's bed.

Although this wooden box is simple in form, it is thick and strong. The bright red ancient jade inside the box is as clear as blood. It makes people feel shaking at a glance. It is obviously a rare treasure jade.

"Where did Aruo find such a piece of jade?" Du Tuanlian was stunned and handed over the red jade to his son, "Ayu, you have learned treasure appraisal in the martial arts of the county town, see what this jade is."

Du Yu took Hongyu, looked at it over and over again several times, frowned tightly, and looked carefully over and over again, his face full of incredibleness.

"What the hell is wrong?"

"Dad, this jade...is probably more expensive than the pharmacy in the city!"

"What?!" Du Tuanlian was startled, "You said this piece of jade is actually more expensive than several shops? You read that right!"

"It's not wrong! The texture of this jade theory is second only to a piece of precious jade I saw in martial arts. That piece of jade was a rare treasure that the southwest barbarians paid tribute when Taizu founded the country. It is said that a piece of jade can match a small city. This piece of jade is smaller than that piece of jade and has a slightly worse texture, but it should be fine to replace it with several pharmacies."

Du Tuanlian was stunned, and Lin Lushan was so scared that he even fell off the things in his hand.

"How did Aruo get this... such a precious treasure?" Du Tuanlian asked blankly.

A silence.

After a while, Du Yu sighed deeply: "It seems that Aruo lost his life because of this piece of jade..."

This explanation is reasonable. A piece of stunningly valuable treasure jade is indeed enough to attract extremely powerful people and harm Du Ruo's life.

In the minds of the Du family, Du Ruo was just a good girl after all. After all, he encountered a thief who traveled thousands of families every day and robbed hundreds of households at night, and it was reasonable to lose his life.

Linlu Mountain had already sobbed in a low voice, and the Du family's father and son sighed. The amazingly valuable piece of jade was thrown aside as a stone and soil, so disgusted that he didn't want to look at it more.

Only Wu Jie secretly stared at the ancient jade. To be precise, he was watching the figure sitting cross-legged in the ancient jade.

If he read it correctly, it is Du Ruo himself!

The Taoist Sanshan is not completely lying, Du Ruo's soul is actually still in this soul-raising jade!

He tried his best to suppress his feelings and prevent himself from laughing. It took him a while to calm down completely.

Fortunately, the other three were mourning silently and did not notice his abnormality, otherwise it would be difficult for him to explain.

After a long time, everyone calmed down and started to sort out Du Ruo's relics again. However, no one mentioned the precious ancient jade again, and just thought it did not exist.

On the eighth day of the April 19th, Du Ruo's relics were buried next to her tomb, including the priceless piece of ancient jade.

However, there was no longer Du Ruo sitting cross-legged in the ancient jade practicing martial arts, only empty.

And there is one more resident in the world of Heavenly Books.
Chapter completed!