Bone Painting Coroner

Chapter 100 - Body Snatching?

Outside the mourning hall, a servant noticed Jing Rong. The servant from the Wei mansion stepped forward and inquired, "May I ask who you are?"

"An old friend." A few words were enough for Jing Rong to avoid further inquiry. Besides, an old friend coming to grieve was not unheard of.

Jing Rong entered the mourning hall and walked to the altar where he bowed in respect, then he patted Wei Yi who was staring blankly.

Wei Yi raised his head and saw Jing Rong. His expression was twisted with the pain of grief. He faintly sobbed, "Big Brother, my father and my mother died."

"I know."

"Why did they die?"

"..." Jing Rong remained silent.

Wei Yi pressed his lips together, forcing himself not to cry. His lips trembled a few times before he could finally speak, "Mother told me that if one day she had to leave, I must not cry... but... I can't do it. I cried for a long, long time. Do you think Mother is angry and doesn't want me anymore?"

Looking at Wei Yi's appearance only made people's heart ache for him. He was like a plant in a greenhouse, growing up carefree and without worries, in a world gravitating around his father, his mother, and Shu'er!

Jing Rong was no softhearted person, but despite having hardened his heart behind a wall, at this moment, the wall crumbled because of that fool in front of him. He bent down on one of his knees, leveling his line of sight to meet Wei Yi's. He asked Wei Yi, "Wei Yi, have you heard about the guan bird?"

Wei Yi shook his head.

"Every young guan bird, before being fully mature, would grow under the wings of an adult guan bird until they could leave their nest and spread their wings into the blue sky. When they could fly by themselves, they must leave the adult guan bird because the wings of the adult guan bird can only protect them until they grow up. Since the young guan birds are meant to fly to higher skies, they can only look further ahead, leaving the protection of the adult guan bird."

Wei Yi looked at him pitifully, but his painful wrinkled expression gradually loosened. He pressed Jing Rong for an answer, "Then, would I be able to see my parents again?"

Although Jing Rong could not bear seeing Wei Yi in such a way, he could not lie to him. Therefore, he simply nodded.

"But I don't want to leave Mom and Dad. I want to keep being a little guan bird. I want to stay at mom's and dad's side," whined Wei Yi.

Jing Rong was not good at comforting people. This was something beyond his capacity! He had yet to find some words of comfort, but Wei Yi had already pulled on his sleeve. "Big Brother, they all say that Shu'er poisoned my parents. It's not true, right? Shu'er wouldn't do something like that. Big Brother, tell me, Shu'er didn't do it, right?" anxiously asked Wei Yi.

"Of course she didn't do it," answered Jing Rong. "Do you believe in Yunshu?"

Wei Yi nodded while wiping his tears.

Jing Rong grabbed Wei Yi's arm and whispered, "Wei Yi, do you want to save Yunshu?"

"I want to."

"Then I need to take your parents' bodies to the memorial hall."

Wei Yi breathed in as he stared at Jing Rong without understanding his words.

Jing Rong continued, "In a moment, you will send everyone out. As for me, I have my own way to snatch the bodies."

Wei Yi inquired, "Will doing that really save Shu'er?"

Jing Rong nodded.

As he looked at his parents' memorial tablets, Wei Yi choked a cry and agreed.