Chapter 918: Chapter 918: Dividing Money
“Can’t die.”
Jiangli threw down these three words and walked into the darkness without looking back.
Yan Guofeng looked at Xia Xin with worry and confusion, hoping Xia Xin would explain the situation.
But Xia Xin was just as puzzled, managing only a forced smile at him.
Jiangli left the village chief’s house and headed towards the hill at the back.
At the sa ti, she released Xiu Shu.
Catching sight of Xiu Shu unclothed, Jiangli frowned, took out a blank piece of Yellow Ritual Paper, tore and folded it at her fingertips, as if turning it into a small piece of clothing.
She threw the small piece of clothing towards Xiu Shu.
In the next second, Xiu Shu was wearing a dress, though the material was sowhat rough and not very fitting, looking rather odd at first glance.
But it barely covered her body, which was better than being unclothed.
Seeing the clothes appear on her body, Xiu Shu was montarily stunned, as if she couldn’t quite rember the last ti soone had dressed her properly.
Xiu Shu couldn’t help but look towards Jiangli.
Jiangli had already turned her head, continuing towards the hill at the back, “Your and Nai Lan’s original grave should be over there?”
Xiu Shu ca back to her senses and realized Jiangli was going to find her and Nai Lan’s graves. She frowned and, catching sight of her clothes in the corner of her eye, said nothing.
She followed beside Jiangli, speaking as they walked, “It’s there, indeed.”
Jiangli’s voice, in the night, seed to carry the softness of moonlight, “But Nai Lan’s body appeared in the room.”
Xiu Shu stopped in her tracks, but quickly recovered: “I returned her body. That was originally Nai Lan’s room, but since many people went with us then, we took over Nai Lan’s room.”
And the clothes Nai Lan wore were put on her casually by the village chief’s wife out of pity when she was buried.
Xiu Shu and Nai Lan both thought that was originally Nai Lan’s ho, even in death, Nai Lan would want to watch over it, to see how her family would use the money she earned with her life.
Perhaps Jiangli was too good a listener, as Xiu Shu continued to speak, saying more and more.
She said, “After Nai Lan and I died, we found out Su Ming gave Nai Lan’s parents and brother two hundred thousand on behalf of those people.”
Jiangli heard and let out a mocking laugh.
“A human life, two hundred thousand, do you think these people are terrifying?”
Xiu Shu said, “And their reason for wanting that two hundred thousand was that Nai Lan’s brother was at the age to marry. They wanted to use the money to build a house and get a wife. Nai Lan was just a girl who couldn’t contribute to the family, so the two hundred thousand was considered her repaynt for raising her.”
Xiu Shu spoke, unable to stop herself from laughing.
That was exactly what Nai Lan’s parents said.
Xiu Shu and Nai Lan had just floated back from the back mountain and heard them dividing the money, heard them say these things.
Xiu Shu didn’t dare to look at Nai Lan’s expression at the ti.
She only felt Nai Lan was even worse off than she was.
At least she had a family that loved her, with sound family relationships.
But Nai Lan had nothing.
To her parents, she wasn’t even as useful as that two hundred thousand.
Xiu Shu still rembered the village chief slapping his own son at that ti.
The village chief’s wife also said she would call the police, that they couldn’t take that blood money.
However…
The village chief’s brother, Nai Lan’s biological father, knelt before the village chief and pleaded, hoping the village chief would spare them given that the money was for Nai Lan’s brother to marry and continue the family line, not to call the police.
Otherwise, their family wouldn’t be able to survive.
Nai Lan’s father cried and kowtowed.
The village chief was silent for a long ti.
In the end, he remained silent.
But that silence ant consent.
The village chief’s wife naturally was stopped from calling the police.
The family divided that money just like that.
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