Chapter 5: Female Corpse

In the dark cave, a white skeleton suddenly came into view. Su Yin was caught off guard and startled.

The two big eyes on the skull’s head were staring at the entrance, as if staring at the intruder.

Su Baozhu was also shocked, “What’s wrong?”

Su Yin calmed down, “It’s nothing, there is a corpse in the cave.”

“Ah!”

Su Baozhu’s face turned pale, and the fear that she had finally suppressed was once again aroused.

“Su Yin, how about we change places?”

Su Baozhu felt strange when she saw Su Yin didn’t respond when he heard Su Yin speak.

“Wait a moment.”

Su Baozhu saw Su Yin crawl into the hole and disappear from her eyes.

By the light of the fire, Su Yin looked at the corpse carefully. Most of the cloth on the body was rotten, but from the remaining scraps of cloth, it was obvious that it was made of silk, indicating that the owner of this body was wealthy.

It could be seen from the skeleton that it was a woman. Judging from the teeth, the age was about 30-45 years old. The gaze moved downward and stopped at the wrist of the corpse, with a jade bracelet on it.

Su Yin took off the jade bracelet, wiped off the dust on it. It was smooth and delicate, and the jade body was transparent. It was a high-quality bracelet and should be worth a lot of money.

Now they were short of money to buy supplies, and this jade bracelet could solve their urgent need.

Her hand touched the small bulge on the inside of the jade. She brought the bracelet close to the torch and squinted her eyes to look carefully. There seemed to be a pattern engraved on it. It was a bit blurry and not very clear. After looking at it for a while, she could barely tell that it was a unicorn pattern.

It was probably the logo of a certain jewelry store. A jewelry store that could make logos would probably be worth more.

Su Yin put the jade bracelet into her pocket and bowed to the bones.

Since she had taken the woman’s belongings, it was appropriate to bury her respectfully.

Su Yin took off her coat and prepared to move the body for burial. As she moved the body, the stones behind it rolled down, revealing a wooden box.

The wooden box was made of rosewood, a high-quality wood. When she pressed the buckle at the bottom, the wooden box opened, revealing a row of white silver ingots neatly placed inside.

She picked up one of them and weighed it in her hands. It weighed about twelve pounds.

Each silver ingot was uniform in size, regular, and of high quality.

Counting the silver ingots in the wooden box, there were two layers, ten on each layer, totaling two hundred taels.

Two hundred taels was a substantial sum of money in the Yong Dynasty.

Su Baozhu waited above for a long time, but saw no movement. She was a little worried and said, “Su Yin.”

“Here I am. I’m coming down.”

Su Yin descended from the hole above, carrying the bones and silver on her back.

“What are you carrying?”

“Human bones.”

Su Baozhu subconsciously took two steps back, but when she saw the wooden box, she couldn’t help but curiously ask, “What is that?”

“See for yourself.”

Su Baozhu was suspicious and fiddled with it for a long time before opening the wooden box. When she saw the rows of white silver in the wooden box, her eyes widened, and she was excited and incoherent.

“This, this… silver, silver, a lot of silver.”

She had never seen so much silver in her life.

“This money belongs to her. Since we took other people’s money, we should help her bury it,” Su Yin said.

Su Baozhu recovered from the surprise, nodded constantly, and looked at the corpse with eyes that were no longer afraid but filled with gratitude.

“Yes, yes, yes, you are right.”

The two found a place, dug a pit, put the body in it, and covered it with soil.

By the time all this was done, the sun had begun to set. They couldn’t rest yet and had to hide the supplies.

Su Yin climbed to the hole above again, first sprinkled some sulfur powder around, spread some grass, and arranged the things bit by bit. Then he asked his sister-in-law to find a stone and place it at the entrance of the hole as a shield.

After completing all this, it was dark outside.

The two of them did not dare to stay longer and left in a hurry to return home. As for the box of silver ingots, they did not take them with them.

Old Mrs. Su was a domineering figure in the village. She would often enter the houses of girls who had not left the house and rummage through them, fearing that they would hide their money. Saving money was much more difficult for girls from the Su family.

If Old Mrs. Su were to find the silver ingots, it could lead to a big commotion with no end in sight.

As they approached Lijia Village with the sun setting and smoke rising from the village cooking fires, Su Yin suddenly stopped.

“What’s wrong?”

Su Yin walked to the ridge of the field, smeared mud on his body, especially on his legs, and also applied a little to his face.

“What are you…”

“If we go back now, your mother will definitely want to get to the bottom of it. Let’s talk about it first.”

Su Yin explained her plan again, and Su Baozhu couldn’t help but nod.

Entering the village, Su Yin put her hand on Su Baozhu’s shoulder and limped home. As they met people on the road, they all looked curious.

“Da Ya, what’s wrong with you?”

Su Yin replied with a naive smile: “I went to the mountain to collect herbs. I fell and injured my leg.”

“This leg is the most important. If you don’t take care of it well, you will suffer easily in the future. You have to be careful when walking in the future.”

“Yeah.” She nodded obediently.

Whenever someone asked, they always gave the same answer.

As soon as the aunt and nephew approached the door of their house, they heard Old Mrs. Su’s angry voice coming from the main room.

“Those two lazy girls haven’t come back yet. You might as well never come back in this life.”

“How come our old Su family has raised such two lazy and useless girls?”

Instead of calming the situation, the aunt only added fuel to the fire, “Mom, calm down. Those two girls will naturally come back when they are tired from playing. I just feel sorry for you. You thought they were sick and felt sorry for them. You asked them to take good care of themselves. I didn’t expect them to run out to play and not know how to help the family. Oh, how can they get married like this?”

With a creak, the two of them pushed open the courtyard door.

People in the courtyard heard it and looked at the two of them.

Mother Su was the first to notice her daughter’s miserable state and rushed forward nervously, “Da Ya, what’s wrong with you?”

“Mom, it’s okay. I just went up the mountain to collect medicine. I accidentally fell and injured my foot. Fortunately, I met my sister-in-law, otherwise I wouldn’t know how to get down the mountain.”

When Old Mrs. Su heard the commotion, she walked out of the main room, put her hands on her hips, pointed at the two of them, and scolded them.

“You girls, you went up the mountain to pick some medicine. You have a headache and a fever, but you can’t die. Why didn’t I throw you to death?”

Su Yin, as usual, lowered her head like a quail, letting Old Mrs. Su scold.

Mother Su protected her daughter behind her, mustered up her courage, and said, “Mom, Da Ya also wants to save some money. It’s all because I, a useless mother, don’t have money to treat my daughter, that’s why she’s like this.”

She rolled up her sleeves, silently wiping tears.

Su Laosan, Su Yin’s father in this life, came back from outside carrying firewood. When he saw his daughter’s embarrassment, his wife’s tears of grievance, and then looked at the domineering mother-in-law, he quickly put down the firewood.

“Mom, what’s wrong with my child? Just scold me or hit me. Don’t get so angry.”