His brother's smile was cold and strange, and coupled with his pale face, he looked like a ghost crawling out of a graveyard. Xiao Changying was so frightened that he couldn't help but take a step back: "Brother, that's the imperial mausoleum, our ancestors are buried in it!"
Being born as a human being, we must respect our ancestors. This is the most basic human nature. People should always be upright, respectful, and have a sense of honor. They should also be filial and respect their elders. This is the most basic thing that people should insist on. If we don’t even have these, can we still be called human beings
If not, why did Xiao Huayong deal with this matter in secret? Digging up graves and disturbing the ancestors was more intolerable than being tortured and killed.
"The imperial mausoleum is heavily guarded. How could I have brought the gunpowder in without anyone noticing?" Xiao Changqing stroked the pottery xun in his hand with his thin and long fingertips. "I just learned from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and did some tricks outside the imperial mausoleum."
The place where the bomb was fired was very close to the imperial mausoleum. Smoke rose into the sky and the villagers in the distance could only see an approximate location. He had already prepared people to incite the rumors, which would allow them to spread uncontrollably and overwhelmingly.
Xiao Changying was relieved after hearing this. He walked forward slowly and held his brother's shoulder with one hand: "Brother, please don't do this again in the future, okay?"
His brother's tone was full of pleading and fear. Xiao Changqing looked down at the hand on his shoulder. He tried very hard to hide his shaking hand. Xiao Changqing sighed almost inaudibly and gently patted Xiao Changying's hand on his shoulder with his backhand.
"Brother, I don't want to deceive you."
Xiao Changying's long eyelashes trembled, and the corners of his eyes quickly turned red: "Brother... Fifth Sister-in-law has passed away, can you let me go? Just think of it as... just think of it as your brother begging you."
Xiao Changqing gently took Xiao Changying's hand off his shoulder: "Brother, the only way for me to forget your fifth sister-in-law is to sleep forever. Before she died, she told me to live well, so I lived well..."
As he spoke, he saw a delicate dagger hanging on Xiao Changying's waist. He pulled it out. The thin blade was extremely sharp. He placed the hilt in Xiao Changying's palm and held his hand towards himself: "Perhaps... you can help my brother, so... I won't be breaking my promise to her."
Xiao Changying struggled twice but failed to break free from Xiao Changqing. Instead, he scratched Xiao Changqing's hand. Xiao Changying let go in panic and the dagger fell. He pushed his brother, who was smiling with red lips and white teeth, away and said, "Brother, you are crazy!"
He had known for a long time that his brother had not been normal since the death of his fifth sister-in-law. In the past, he thought that he was just immersed in grief and had not yet come out of it. But today he realized that it was not that he had not yet come out of it, but that he had locked himself tightly inside. The person standing in front of him was nothing but a heartless shell.
“Hahahahahahahahaha…” Xiao Changqing laughed out loud. He squatted down to pick up the dagger, wiped the blood off the dagger with his fingertips, and looked at his still bleeding hand. “I’ve been crazy for a long time. My revered father wiped out my wife’s family. My respected mother sent poison to my wife’s hands, causing my wife and son to die. He was so small, and he turned into a pool of blood in front of me. Her body became colder and colder in my arms.
They tortured my heart and asked me to act as if nothing had happened. I was drowning in the pain of losing my wife, but they told me that a man should have no problem finding a wife. One year after she passed away, they would find me someone I liked.