If I were born again, I would marry a strong but short-lived husband.

Before the day of Madam Lu's funeral, a rumor suddenly spread in Shangjing City that a servant of the Lu family found something different about Madam Lu when he was wiping her body.

The servant was frightened and thought he had seen it wrong, so he only mentioned it to the person in the same room.

When the man went to buy the clothes, he went to the funeral clothing store and asked the owner whether there would be any changes after a person died.

No one knew what had happened, but the news that Madam Lu was not dead spread, and people were saying that the person in the coffin in the Duke's Mansion was not the real Madam Lu.

The news became more and more widespread, and naturally it also reached the Duke's Mansion.

The first person to hear this rumor was Mrs. Lu Er.

"I haven't seen the remains of my eldest sister-in-law, but you, third brother and sister-in-law, have all seen it. How could you have recognized the wrong person? Don't bring the maid back with you as the master." Mrs. Lu said sarcastically.

Ruan frowned: "It's already impossible to tell, we can only identify it from other parts of the body."

"Uncle, you and my sister-in-law are the closest people. You should be the one who knows best whether the person in the coffin is my sister-in-law or not."

"..." Uncle Lu touched the tip of his nose angrily.

He had never gone to see how Mrs. Lu looked after her death. When they found her, they said it was Bai, so he naturally thought it was her.

The Duke's face was cold, "Which servant went out to gossip? He didn't report this matter to the master first, and went out to talk nonsense."

Ruan said, "My daughter-in-law has arrested the person. She is the maid who used to serve my sister-in-law in the courtyard. When she changed my sister-in-law's burial clothes last time, she found that my sister-in-law's birthmark was gone."

"Since you discovered it, why didn't you say it at that time?" Lu Heng asked coldly.

"How do you talk to your elders?" Mr. Lu San looked over with a sharp gaze.

"If you are so dissatisfied with others handling your mother's funeral, then do it yourself."

Lu Heng's face became even gloomier.

The Duke just felt a throbbing pain in his head.

He now even hopes that Bai can die despite her mistake, because the emperor will never let the Bai family go.

If Bai came back alive, the Duke's Mansion would definitely be dragged down.

"If he is still alive, there should be news after so many days." Duke Lu said in a deep voice.

"Grandfather, we should send someone to look for her again. What if mother is injured somewhere and can't come back?" Lu Heng was looking forward to it.

He hoped his mother was still alive.

Duke Lu did not respond to his words, but looked at the silent Lu Yuan, "Lu Yuan, what do you think?"

"It's still unreliable to rely on just a few rumors." Lu Yuan said calmly, "Why not let father verify the identity himself?"

No one knows Mrs. Lu's health better than Mr. Lu.

If he says yes, it is yes, and if he says no, it is no.

Uncle Lu frowned, with deep resistance in his eyes.

He didn't want to see a dead person.

What’s more, the person was dead and his face was completely disfigured.

"Then go and verify your identity." Duke Lu stared at Mr. Lu and said in a stern voice.

“Father…” Uncle Lu’s face turned pale.

Duke Lu looked at him coldly, "What are you afraid of!"

He is afraid of feeling sick.

"Father, you and mother have been in love for many years. Can you bear to let her suffer the gossips of others after her death?" Lu Heng stared straight at Uncle Lu.

Everyone was looking at him, and Uncle Lu couldn't say anything that he didn't want to verify.

He raised his eyes and looked at Duke Lu, "Okay, I'll go."

Uncle Lu walked into the mourning hall with gritted teeth and opened the coffin with the help of a servant.

vomit!

He couldn't help but retch.

Although the weather was getting cooler and there were ice cubes placed next to the coffin, the stench of the corpse could not be blocked.

Especially when he saw Mrs. Lu’s body which had already begun to rot, he almost vomited the food he had eaten the night before.

"Look at the soles of your feet!" Uncle Lu shouted, covering his mouth.

He lowered his neck and took off his shoes so that Uncle Lu could see them clearly.

The corpse had already developed livor mortis, but it was still clear that the birthmark on the sole of the foot was not the shape that Uncle Lu was familiar with.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew.

Blowing off the white cloth covering Mrs. Lu's face, Mr. Lu took a subconscious look.

The bloody face caught his eye and he couldn't hold back any longer and started vomiting.

"Ahhh!" Uncle Lu ran out of the mourning hall in horror, gasping for breath.

"Father!" Lu Heng looked at him with a sullen face.

Duke Lu: "Did you see clearly? Is it Bai?"

"Yes! It's her!" Uncle Lu nodded vigorously.

Lu Heng loosened his clenched fingers.

"Third son's wife, if there are any servants in the house who gossip about others, they will be beaten to death." Duke Lu said in a deep voice.

"As for the rumors out there, the funeral will go on as usual tomorrow and the rumors will naturally be dispelled."

……

……

Shen Sui'an changed out of mourning clothes and leaned against Lu Yuan to talk.

"Did father-in-law check carefully today, madam?" Shen Sui'an said in a low voice.

"Death is better than life. The Duke sees things clearly." Lu Yuan said.

"There are so many people in the Bai family, but they haven't been caught yet. Where will they be hiding?" I have to admire the Bai family. Once they escaped from Shangjing, they completely disappeared without a trace.

Official documents from the imperial court have been distributed to various places, and now the portraits of the Bai family members should be everywhere.

Lu Yuan: "To be able to run so fast means that you have been prepared."

"The Bai family has been supporting the Prince of Zhennan for many years. After Concubine Bai died, they were chased by the Ye family in Yunzhou. Since then, the Bai family should have turned to support the eldest prince."

"It's just that the eldest prince may not know that Concubine Xian has already cooperated with the Bai family."

Shen Sui'an said: "No matter where the Bai family escapes to, they will always be wanted criminals of the Yong Dynasty for the rest of their lives."

It's really worth making it clear that she doesn't have to be involved with these people in her life anymore.

It’s a pity that I’m still in mourning, so I can’t drink alcohol or even eat meat.

The next day, Mrs. Lu's funeral was finally held.

As Shen Sui'an had expected, there were not many relatives and friends who came to pay their respects along the way.

This time, the Duke's Mansion held their funeral for Madam Lu with great reluctance, but they did not send her to the ancestral tomb immediately. Instead, they first found a Feng Shui site in the capital city for burial.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Old Madam Lu cheered up even more. She wanted to remarry Mr. Lu, but this was different from taking a concubine. She had to be more careful in selecting a woman with a good family background. It would be even better if she was good at giving birth.

When the Duke heard her plan, he became extremely impatient.

"If you are really too bored, then go and worship Buddha and chant sutras."

Madam Lu snorted coldly, "Of course I'm not as busy as you. You're always flirting with that vixen named Gao. You don't want to give birth to a little son, do you?"

"That's unreasonable." The Duke was so angry that his face turned blue.

Madam Lu went to complain to Madam Lu No. 2 again, "I am doing this all for the Duke's Mansion. If it weren't for the fact that Brother Heng couldn't have any more children, would I need to worry so much?"

Mrs. Lu's eyes lit up slightly, "Madam, why can't Heng'er have children?"

If Lu Heng can't have a son, then the title of Duke's Mansion should be given to her son in the future!