Chapter 16: 16

                             Chapter 16

    Wei Yun remained in that kneeling position, head bowed, and did not dare to lift it up.

    Chu Yu stood in front of the coffin, her hand on top of the dark coffin, not saying a word.

    Although Wei Yun did not say whose each coffin belonged to, there were etiquette rules for the placement of the coffins. Wei Zhong was the Marquis of the State, so he was naturally in the first row alone. Wei Jun was the prince and was on the left behind Wei Zhong’s coffin.

    In the distance were the suppressed cries of the long street, Chu Yu’s hand trembled slightly, she was about to say something when she heard a mournful cry, “Sixth son!”

    She Immediately saw that Wang Lan could no longer be patient, carrying her skirts from the steps down, to search the last row of coffins..

    She was still pregnant, and the maid next to her was so shocked that she rushed to help her, but Wang Lan ran very fast, and she threw herself on the coffin and cried her heart out.

    This cry seemed to break some taboo, everyone no longer suppressed themselves, they sobbed and wailed for a while, The Wei Mansion was full, inside and outside of the long street all crying. 

    Jiang Chun had already cried, and she had even long died, so at this moment, she could still calm down, she walked to Chu Yu with red eyes, and said in a dumb voice: “Young lady, the seventh prince is still kneeling.”

    Chu Yu suddenly came back to her senses, she turned her head back and went to help Wei Yun: “Seventh Prince, please get up.”

    However, Wei Yun did not move a muscle, Chu Yu was slightly stunned and whispered, “Seventh Prince?”

    Wei Yun did not say anything, his other leg also knelt down, from one knee to two knees.

    Chu Yu’s entire body froze, and then she saw the teenager kneeling in front of her, slowly bowing his head.

    “Sister-in-law,” he said in a hoarse voice: “Little seven broke his word and didn’t bring big brother back.”

    When he went, he had said that if Wei Jun was missing a hair, he would come to see him with his head.

    But now he is still alive and well, and what he brought back were coffins full of family.

    His body trembled slightly, and finally like a teenager, he suppressed his voice: “sister-in-law …… I’m sorry ……”

    Before he could finish speaking, he felt a hand fall on top of his head.

    Although the hand is slender, but extra warm, he heard Chu Yu’s gentle voice: “No problem, Xiao Qi has returned safely, I am also very happy.”

    Wei Yun looked up in a daze and saw a woman’s tearful gaze which was tough and gentle, with a strength to support people’s hearts, but in the midst of the howling, it seemed a bit out of place and clear.

    When Wei Yun looked at her, she suddenly got up and smiled at him, “Stand up, you have come back from a thousand miles, cross the fireplace first.”

    The fire pit was put down and Wei Yun was helped to stand up.

    However, at that moment, the sound of horses’ hooves came from the distance. Wei Yun and Chu Yu looked up at the same time, and saw more than a dozen people in dali temple official clothes driving horses to stop in front of the Wei Mansion.

Wei Yun clenched his fists, and everyone next to him was shocked. The maid helped Wang Lan to quickly dodge away, and several young ladies who were originally attached to the coffin and wept bitterly also flew away.

    The man at the head of the group, who looked only thirty years old, stood on his horse and looked coldly at Wei Yun, holding up the decree: “The Dali Temple has been ordered to arrest the criminal Wei Yun,” he said, raising his hand: “Men, arrest him!

    The moment the voice fell, the Dali temple people came up. Wei Qiu, with his guards came forward, drew his sword on the surrounding soldiers and said angrily, “Cao Yan, what nonsense are you talking about!”

    Wei Qiu looked at the standing coffin, and his hand trembled slightly: “My family is full of loyalty and martyrdom, and they died for the country, so how can we arrest and imprison the only son? You must not bully people too much!”

    Cao Yan is the youngest son of the Cao family, many years ago the Cao family had sent their eldest son to the battlefield to be handed over to the Wei family army, but was killed for not abiding by military discipline, so now the Wei family is in trouble and Cao Yan in the Dali temple immediately took the matter of arresting Wei Yun.

    The feud between the Cao and Wei families is known all over the court, and now that Cao Yan is here, people naturally want to think that Cao Yan is deliberately making things difficult for them.

    When Cao Yan heard Wei Qiu’s words, he smiled coldly: “What are you? This is an imperial decree written by His Majesty himself! Your family’s greed for merit and victory caused the death of 70,000 of our troops in the White Emperor Valley. Wei Yun,” Cao Yan raised his voice: “If you have the sense, don’t struggle, or don’t blame me for not being polite!”

    Wei Yun did not say anything, he looked up at Chu Yu.

    The people were panicking, but this person was calm and collected. When he looked over, she simply said, “Step over this fire bowl, remove the bad luck, and then you can enter the house.”

    “Sister-in-law ……”

    He made a dry sound, but Chu Yu held his wrist, pulling him to step over the fire bowl.

    And then she held the mugwort and gently patted it on his body.

    Everyone was quiet and watched as Chu Yu greeted him as if nothing had happened, gently sprinkling the mugwort water on top of his head as if he were a homeless son, then taking the wine cup from the side and handing it to him.

    “Although you did not return in triumph, I prepared this toast when you were there, so since you are back, drink it.”

    Chu Yu held the wine cup in both hands, her voice was gentle.

    Cao Yan frowned and shouted angrily, “Wei Yun!”

    Wei Yun ignored him as he looked at the woman holding the wine in front of him.

    He had thought that when he returned home, he should be faced with a wreck, that the door should be full of wailing, that he should be the one to hold himself up and carry the Wei family forward.

    But he didn’t expect that he would still be able to step over the fire bowl and drive away the bad luck before returning, and even drink a cup of toasting wine like his father and brother did when he was still around.

    When he was young, his father and brother did not allow him to drink wine. And now if he does not drink it,  no one will drink it again. 

    He took the wine and poured it down hard.

    Cao Yan finally had no choice and shouted angrily: “Wei Yun, are you trying to disobey the decree, South City Army, you are standing there, are you planning to protect the Wei family?

    Hearing Cao Yan’s words, the South City Army, who had been silent, finally couldn’t pretend to be dead, and the man at the head took a deep breath, he stretched out his hand and respectfully made a gesture towards Wei Yun: “Seventh Prince, please don’t make it difficult for us.” ”

    Wei Yun looked at him, and then at Chu Yu, and finally nodded.

    He held out his hand for someone to put on.…..

The man put the shackles on him.

    The shackles were tens of pounds on him, but he still stood up straight. Cao Yan had someone pull the prisoner’s carriage over and sneered at Wei Yun, “Seventh son, go up?”

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    Wei Yun did not say anything, he looked back at the plaque of the Wei House, and his eyes fell on Chu Yu.

    “The Wei family …… is left in the care of sister-in-law.”

    “Don’t you worry.” Chu Yu nodded, her voice was calm and firm: “I’m here, the Wei family will be fine.”

    Wei Yun pursed his lips, but said, “Sister-in-law, take good care of yourself as well.”

    He said, he swept his gaze to the young ladies standing at the side, raised his voice and said, “People can’t come back to life after death, it’s the living that matters. My sisters-in-law should not be too sad. If my brothers know in heaven, I hope you can take care of yourselves.”

    Chu Yu did not tell Wei Yun about the changes at home, but only about Liang’s and Liu Xueyang’s whereabouts. Wei Yun did not yet know about the disagreements between the women at home, and was worried that her sisters-in-law were too sad about losing their husbands.

    When the third young lady Zhang Han heard this, she turned her head away, covered her face with a handkerchief and cried out in a small voice.

    Even Yao Jue, also unconsciously red-eyed.

    However, she and Xie Jiu come from a large family, and they already knew the situation of the Wei family, and would not dare to get involved, not to mention that the Yao family and the Wei family were also in bad faith. She and her husband are far less affectionate than other young grandmothers.

    The housekeeper looked at Chu Yu for fear that she would sue at this time. However, Chu Yu smiled and said, “You don’t have to worry, take good care of yourself in prison, we are your elders, we can think better than you.”

    Wei Yun put his heart down, nodded, and got into the prison car.

    Cao Yan’s face was already very bad, urging the man: “Press to go to the heavenly prison!

    When he sat down with his legs crossed, he turned his back on the women of the family and put away his weakness and concern.

    As the prison carriage slowly moved, he suddenly spoke out, “The Wei family has been wronged! Father and brother are not guilty!”

    “Tell him to shut up!

    Cao Yan’s face changed dramatically and he raised his whip and threw it over, “Shut up!”

    Seeing him raise his whip, Jiang Chun subconsciously grabbed Cao Yan’s whip, Cao Yan noticed that he was being stopped and turned his head, after seeing Jiang Chun, he narrowed his eyes, “Second Young Lady?”

    “Good, very good,” he swept his gaze over the Wei family’s ladies and said in a cold voice, “Your Wei House is very good! Where is your First Lady?!”

    When no one spoke, Cao Yan raised his voice: “Is there no one in charge of the Wei family nowadays? Or is the head of the Wei family a person who doesn’t even dare to show his face?”

    “The First Lady is away on a visit to her family, and now the Wei family is temporarily headed by my concubine.”

    Chu Yu stood up, she folded her hands in front of her body and bowed her head slightly: “The second young lady has just experienced the pain of losing her husband and and she is momentarily demented, I hope you will bear with me.”

    Cao Yan’s gaze fell on Chu Yu and after a moment of measuring, he slowly said, “The first lady of the Chu family? You’ve married into the Wei family and haven’t met your husband yet, right?”

    Hearing these words, everyone’s face became not very good-looking, even Xie Jiu, who was standing at the side, felt the eerie humiliation.

    However, Chu Yu’s face remained unchanged, as if this was just an ordinary question, and calmly said, “Exactly.”

    Cao Yan looked at Chu Yu, not knowing what he remembered, and smiled: “I heard that big Miss is talented and intelligent, always a person who knows what’s right, Miss knows that the Wei family has been convicted,” he raised his head, looked at the Wei family’s white flowers in the spiritual hall, and said, “It is not appropriate to give them such dignity, right?”

    “You ……”

    Yao Jue couldn’t bear it any longer and made a loud noise, but she was pulled by Xie Jiu next to her, and Xie Jiu suppressed her voice: “Did your father and brother forget what they said?” Hold on, in the future, you and I will have nothing to do with the Wei Family?

    Yao Jue pursed her lips and turned her head away, not wanting to look again.

    She wanted to leave, but for some reason, Chu Yu was there, and she couldn’t move a step.

    Her gaze fell on Chu Yu, watching Chu Yu ask Cao Yan without condescension, “Is the Wei House now convicted?”

    Cao Yan’s face changed, Chu Yu continued: “Since the case is still under investigation, not guilty, they have fought for the country all their lives, returned decently, why not…?”

    “Young lady, do you not understand what I am saying, or are you pretending not to?”

    Cao Yan gritted his teeth and said, “The Wei family has no male children, only a fourteen-year-old child remains, does Miss Chu want to widow Wei Jun?

    Chu Yu raised her head and looked at Cao Yan calmly, Cao Yan saw her expression wavering, then said: “You should know that my grudge is with the Wei House, Miss, I am very good friends with your father, Miss give me this thin face, I will not make Miss embarrassed.”

    Hearing these words, Chu Yu sighed lightly and bowed her head slightly.

    “Since your Excellency is good friends with my father, please also ask your Excellency to give this face and let my father-in-law and the rest be buried in peace.”

    Cao Yan laughed coldly, he sat up, waved to the back, pointed to the coffin, and said, “Smash! ”

    Wei Qiu drew his sword and said angrily, “How dare you!”

    “Slave of a sinful minister, how dare you draw your sword?

Cao Yan stared at Wei Qiu and said to the others, “Someone, take this unruly slave down!”

    “Lord Cao!”

    Chu Yu raised her voice, she stepped forward and stood in front of the coffin and Wei Qiu, staring at Cao Yan: “Does Lord Cao have to do everything?”

    “I will do everything, what can you do?

    “Lord Cao, if what you did today reaches the ears of His Majesty, what will you do?”

Cao Yan laughed out loud at his words, “Do you think His Majesty will still care about the Wei family today?”

“Then you try.” Chu Yu stopped in front of the coffin and looked straight at him.:I am here today, if you want to move my father-in-law’s coffin, step over my corpse.”

    Her hands were cupped between her sleeves, and she looked calm: “I dare you not to make a move against Lord Cao, and I will do whatever Lord Cao wants.”

    “The end only depends,” Chu Yu’s gaze rested on Cao Yan: “Lord Cao thinks that Chu Yu’s life is worth a lot.”

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