The daughter of a general is reborn to save the whole family of the marquis

The moonlight in late summer is like the frost in late autumn, falling on the tips of grass and the ground, chilling people to the heart.

After Chu Heyi and his companions rode out of the city gate for three miles, they saw the team escorting Chu Zhen back. The torches illuminated the night and also illuminated the coffin they were escorting.

The leader also saw Chu Heyi and his team, so the team stopped and stopped in front of Chu Heyi and his team.

Chu Heyi's eyes were fixed on the thin coffin. She didn't know how long she stared at it before she moved her eyes away to look at the team of dozens of people in front of her.

She wanted to find her father in the team. Her father was alive and healthy when he left. She really, really hoped to see her father's face in the team.

But after looking at it once, twice, three or four times, there was no sign of my father at all. Could it be that my once tall and strong father was really lying in that thin coffin?

Chu Heyi couldn't believe it.

An Hui, his father's personal bodyguard, stepped forward and knelt in front of Chu Heyi: "I'm sorry, Crown Princess, I'm sorry, Second Madam... I failed to protect the Marquis."

Chu Heyi remembered that An Hui did not know his own parents' background. After he was sold to the Chu family, his father named him "An Hui" in the hope that the Chu family would be able to return safely every time they went to war.

This is very difficult for the Chu family who have been fighting for years, but as human beings, they always have to have hope.

Chu Heyi's body swayed. After an unknown amount of time, she got off the horse and walked towards the thin coffin in the middle of the team.

With every step she took she felt like she was stepping on mud. Her legs felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds and she stumbled uncontrollably. She finally arrived in front of the thin coffin after stumbling.

Chu Heyi raised his hand and placed it on the coffin lid, but did not move for a long time. The Second Madam and the others had all gathered around, and basically the whole family was here.

Some people were already in tears and crying.

Finally, Chu Heyi gathered all his strength into his arms, pushed hard, and pushed the coffin lid open.

She saw her father lying in the coffin. His face was pale without a trace of human color. His beard had grown long but he had never had time to trim it. There was blood on his hair... His cheeks were clean, probably because An Hui cleaned them for him after his death?

The weather was very hot, and a faint smell filled the coffin. The ice under him had almost melted.

An Hui knelt beside the coffin and cried, "After the Marquis got into trouble, a local wealthy businessman was willing to give us all the ice in their ice cellar so that we could escort the Marquis's intact body back..."

At this point, all the ice had been used up, and they were barely able to keep Chu Zhen's body from rotting too badly.

Chu Heyi reached out her hand to her father, her fingertips trembling slightly. Finally, she touched her father's face, which was so cold.

The coldness spread from her fingertips to the bottom of her heart.

But she still didn't give up. Her father looked like he was just asleep. Look, his face was so peaceful. If she wiped off the blood on his body, he would just be asleep.

"Father, please wake up. Today is Huihui's wedding day. You said you would rush back to see her off. Have you forgotten?" Chu Heyi called in a low voice.

"Even if you didn't make it back, we wouldn't blame you. Huihui will bring her brother-in-law back in three days, and we can reunite then."

Her father, lying in the coffin, ignored her. Chu Heyi waited and waited, but there was no answer from her father.

She suddenly went crazy, threw herself on the coffin, and bent down to pull her father up. Her father's whole body was stiff and cold, and he couldn't bend his waist at all. When Chu Heyi pulled him, his body was pulled straight up.

"Father, please wake up. I am your daughter who has been missing for fifteen years. You have never spent much time with me. How can you leave me?"

Chu Heyi hugged the person up and cried, "You have spent your whole life protecting the North. You owe Er Niang so much. You finally came back. You should stay with her until old age. Why did you leave?"

The second wife hugged Chu Zhen's cold body, fearing that Chu Heyi would drop him. Chu Ren walked around Chu Heyi and hugged her. Chu Heyi's tears fell on her father, and his tears fell on Chu Heyi.

Everyone was crying. On this frosty land under the moonlight, the cries were heard everywhere and could no longer be suppressed.

Chu Heyi felt like he was dreaming about what happened next. In his dream, they took their father's body home, changed it into clean clothes and put it in the coffin. The mourning hall was also quickly set up.

Before dawn, the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion was still a festive red, but after dawn, the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion was already white from inside to outside.

The whole house was in mourning.

Chu Heyi did not sleep all night, kneeling in front of her father's spirit and burning paper. On her left and right and behind her, except for the second wife, there were all her sisters.

Everyone has been watching and crying all night, and now their tears are almost dry.

Since my father had successfully suppressed the local unrest, why did he die in the end? Everyone was puzzled, and seeing that the time was almost up, they all got up and went to the front hall to bring An Hui up to find out what happened.

Xie Lin did not return to the palace overnight and was now sitting in the front hall.

An Hui knelt down and saluted as soon as he entered the front hall. Xie Lin said, "No need to be polite. Tell us what happened at that time."

Chu Heyi's eyes were red and swollen, and his voice was cold: "Don't miss any details."

Xie Lin asked again: "Why are you the only one who brought people to escort the Marquis back? Where is Wangshan?"

If something happened, Wangshan should be one of the best candidates to escort Chu Zhen's body back, but he hasn't seen Wangshan until now.

The second lady said in a hoarse voice: "Why did the Marquis have planned to come back, but something went wrong in the end? What happened?!"

There were so many questions that An Hui didn't know which one to answer, so he had to start from the beginning.

An Hui said: "The two wineries were competing fiercely, and there were murders and arson incidents, but they were indeed suppressed by the Marquis. Even the local prefect Liu Guang was taught a lesson by the Marquis.

"But the Marquis said that the situation in Yizhou City is very wrong, and he has to guard the place for a long time. As for the second lady's marriage, he will have to miss it.

"The letter he sent back was just a cover-up. In fact, the Marquis never intended to come back."

Everyone in the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion looked at each other. They were not surprised by this statement, but they were too happy at the time and forgot that the letter might just be a trick played by Chu Zhen.

An Hui continued, "Not long after Shenxiang Winery and Prefect Liu Guang were suppressed, news came from Yanzhou City that King Cheng and his wife were dissatisfied with the Marquis's behavior and wanted to attack Yizhou City to seek justice for their Shenxiang Winery."

Xie Lin held Chu Heyi's hand tightly. The actions of Shenxiang Wine Shop in Yizhou City were an act of declaring war. Once Chu Zhen went to suppress it, King Cheng and his wife would definitely take the opportunity to start a war.

They had told Chu Zhen this as early as when Chu Zhen volunteered to go to Yizhou City, so Chu Zhen would definitely not come back just after suppressing the winery.

Xie Lin had this suspicion at first, but the Marquis of Zhenbei Mansion was looking forward to Chu Zhen's return, and Chu Heyi was always worried because he was unable to see Chu Zhen off in the past. But he didn't get any definite news, so he didn't say it out loud.

Xie Lin had previously speculated that Chu Zhen had not informed them in advance, and that sending a letter saying he would come back to attend his daughter's wedding was a trick, probably just to get them all to cooperate in the act.

But why did Chu Zhen die when he was so cautious and prepared for the worst?

Who could easily take the life of a general who has been fighting for years?