The funeral was held in a large villa where Xu Shenxing's mother lived.
Although he knew for a long time that his "stepdad" was quite rich, Xu Shenxing was still a little surprised when he saw the vast villa and the courtyard where he could play football.
“What an amazing place...”
Although Xu Shenxing has seen places that are much larger than this—not to mention other things, just the super palace of the royal family of the Centaur Therexien Star Sea Kingdom occupies almost one seventeenth of the planet's surface area. Eight hundred of these villas were tied up and beaten—but at least in Jiangjin, Xu Shenxing had never seen such a big house.
The appearance of the villa is full of Western Rococo-style mansions, and if you look down from the sky, it probably shows a concave character.
The main place for the funeral is at the bottom of the concave character, probably the location of the hall.
Although the inside and outside of the villa are in a western style, the funeral is very localized. When Xu Shenxing arrived, the traditional mourning session was going on.
The few people kneeling in front of the deceased's body and weeping were very unfamiliar. Xu Shenxing was sure that he had never seen them before, and he didn't know if they were relatives from the "stepfather" or professional mourners.
The other voice that was just howling rather than crying also made Xu Shenxing uncomfortable.
Not only that, even the layout of the funeral hall is... sloppy
According to the funerals that Xu Shenxing participated in before, the body of the deceased is usually placed in a transparent coffin surrounded by flowers during mourning. But at this time, there was only a gothic black wooden coffin placed in the center of the hall.
That's right, only one bite.
Obviously two people died, and even the black-and-white photo in front showed two people, but there was only one coffin.
This strange scene made Xu Shenxing a little strange.
After finding his aunt from the crowd behind, Xu Shenxing leaned over.
Compared with those who were howling, although my aunt did not make a sound, there were still traces of tears flowing from the corners of her eyes. It seemed that the fact that her sister who grew up with her died suddenly made her very sad.
"Xiao Xu, you're here." Seeing Xu Shenxing appearing with Jasmine, Xu Shenxing's aunt was taken aback for a moment, then wiped her eyes, looked at Jasmine strangely, and asked, "Is she...?"
"My sister, her name is Jasmine." Xu Shenxing lied without blushing or panting, "My dad picked it up somewhere."
Jasmine stomped on Xu Shenxing hard and calmly, causing the latter's face to twitch.
However, Aunt Xu Shenxing didn't have much doubts: "Huh, your dad, that guy who runs around everywhere, I already knew he was not a good guy, Xiao Xu, you don't want to learn from him..."
So, without knowing it, Father Xu took the blame and became a man who couldn't control the bird.
Regarding this, Xu Shenxing could only smile dryly and perfunctorily pass it by.
"Auntie, why is there only one coffin?"
Pulling back Jasmine, who had no concept of funerals in this world and was still drooling over the tributes, and held her in her arms, Xu Shenxing asked his aunt.
"It's stingy." Speaking of this, Xu Shenxing's aunt looked aggrieved: "It turns out that your mother and... that person died in a car accident, and when their bodies were pulled out of the car, they would have been hit beyond recognition. It turned into two piles of rotten meat, and even the corpse makeup artist couldn't come back. In the end, he had to burn it early, and some bastards made a big fuss about it-the coffin you see now contains two jars of ashes and a few clothes That's all."
She spat into the open space: "Hey, a bunch of 25-year-olds, they want to divide their property before their bones are cold!"
"Since the collision has changed beyond recognition, how can we recognize it is... my mother?"
Xu Shenxing asked strangely: "Maybe it's just that someone borrowed their car to drive, and they were killed in a blink of an eye?"
"If they hadn't died, wouldn't they have not appeared until now?" Seemingly strange why Xu Shen would ask such a question, his aunt glanced at him: "And the most important thing is that someone survived that car accident. "
As she spoke, she curled her lips in the direction of the courtyard.
Xu Shenxing walked to the window suspiciously, looked down from there, and found a lonely figure standing by the flower bed in the courtyard, staring blankly at the tall and straight hibiscus tree in the flower bed.
The snow-white hibiscus flowers are in full bloom on the branches, and they look very beautiful.
It was a little girl who looked a little cold. Her right hand was still in plaster, hanging on her chest. She was wearing a black dress, like a hibiscus flower, trembling slightly in the early autumn wind, making her very cute.
"Who is she?" Xu Shenxing asked curiously.
"your sister."
"Auntie, I'll talk to you properly, can you stop scolding..." Xu Shenxing said helplessly.
"Who is swearing, I mean, she is your sister!" Xu Shenxing's aunt rolled her eyes, and then added an explanation, as if Xu Shenxing's IQ would not be able to understand: "The kind of half-brother." She said He also glanced at Jasmine who was writhing restlessly in Xu Shenxing's arms: "It's a bit similar to your half-sister."
"Is she a survivor of the car accident?"
"Yes, the little girl was sitting in the back seat at the time, but after your mother's car was knocked over, the two people in the driver's seat and the passenger's seat died on the spot. Severe abrasions." The aunt sighed: "He is also a poor child, and I don't know what to do in the future."
"I'll go and have a look."
Suddenly, Xu Shenxing took Jasmine and ran out of the house together.
"Hey, you haven't kowtowed before the posthumous photo!"
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"Yo, are you okay here?"
Xu Shenxing's sudden question made the girl who was staring blankly at Mu Jinhua shrink her shoulders, then turned to him who was speaking cautiously, and then looked curiously behind Xu Shenxing, who was unable to eat a big meal for the time being. Jasmine performing OTZ moves.
"Uncle said that I don't need my help, I will only make trouble if I stay there..."
After a while, she whispered to Xu Shenxing.
"uncle?"
"Uncle Cao, my father's brother." The girl briefly described the appearance of that Uncle Cao.
Xu Shenxing immediately recalled that there was indeed such a look at the funeral just now, and he seemed to be a middle-aged uncle who did not regard himself as a guest at all.
"I don't like that uncle."
Xu Shenxing said seriously.
The little girl froze for a moment, then said in a low voice, "I don't like it either."
Her tone sounded a little bit like the enemy, and at the same time, she seemed to have a little close feeling with Xu Shenxing.
Sure enough, speaking ill of others behind their backs together is one of the important ways to draw in relationships.
Just when Xu Shenxing was about to ask the girl about the details of the car accident, he suddenly realized that he forgot to ask his aunt a very important question.
what's my sister's name...