Chapter 132 - 126 Lady Du_3
Moreover, she didn’t return to the Xu family courtyard. At night, she slept in an abandoned straw hut outside the village, and during the day, she wandered about. When hungry, she would beg at the doors of other people’s homes, and she even fought with dogs for food.
The villagers pitied her and would give her some leftover food.
On the third day, Lady Du accidentally fell into the Hong River and drowned.
Since no one knew where Lady Du’s family was, the villagers of Darong Village pooled their money to buy a thin coffin and buried her.
The night after Lady Du was buried, a fire mysteriously started in the Xu family courtyard, burning the entire place to the ground. Strangely, the fire only consumed the Xu family courtyard and didn’t even touch the trees next to it. It was said that during those nights, many people in Darong Village could hear the sorrowful cries of a woman in the sky. And at the Xu family courtyard ruins, a chill wind blew, swirling the ashes up into the sky in circles.
Wan Lizheng of Darong Village once again called for a Taoist priest to chant and guide Lady Du’s spirit to the afterlife, saying the evil person had already died and vengeance had been exacted, begging her to reincarnate peacefully, and only then did the crying stop.
After that, everything of the Xu family in this world, like their courtyard, vanished without a trace. Even the Xu family relative who worked as a government official in the county city disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again by anyone at the County Government Office.
The village gossiped about the sins of Yama Raja Xu and his son, sympathized with Lady Du’s pitiful and tragic end, and the ghostly fire that followed. They unanimously believed that Lady Du’s death was a kind of release and hoped that in her next life she could marry into a loving home.
Qian Yixiu thought it might be possible; after all, she herself had been a wandering ghost for seven years, so a vengeful spirit igniting ghostly flames was not out of the question.
Qian’s third wife, located far from the village, continued to lead a tranquil life.