When Su Heng died, he was still holding the book "The Elegance of Shengjing" in his hand.
At 3:47 in the morning, she turned to Chapter 80 in the Forensic Medicine Graduate Student Dormitory - the plot of the Yongning Marquis' exile to the border area. The tip of her pen drew a line under the line "The legitimate daughter of the third wife, Shen Qinglan, died of illness during the migration", and annotated: "The cause of death is doubtful, and the sudden drop in body temperature is inconsistent with symptoms of dehydration."
Then cardiac arrest occurred.
The last thought before his consciousness dissipated was not fear, but anger: "Can the author explain some basic rules when writing the cause of death——"
When she opened her eyes again, she was lying on a hard couch, and her nose was filled with the smell of inferior cosmetics powder and old musty smell. A little girl with a double bun opened the curtain and came in. She put the copper basin on the shelf and said in an impatient tone: "Sui'er, the girl is about to get pregnant, are you still standing up?"
Sui'er.
Su Heng's pupils slowly focused.
She remembered the name. On page 17 of the eighth volume of "Shengjing Fenghua", the third-class maid next to Shen Qinglan, the legitimate daughter of the third wife, only appears three times in the book: when she appears, when she is slapped by the maid of the first wife, and when her house is ransacked, she "misses".
Not dead, but "missing" - the author didn't even bother to write the ending for her.
Su Heng sat up and looked down at his hands. The knuckles are thick, there is dust between the nails, and there are thin calluses on the tiger's mouth. She spent three seconds in her mind: the first second to confirm that the physical sensation was real, the second second to recall the timeline in the book, and the third second——
Three months. Three months later, the Marquis of Yongning was accused of "collaborating with the enemy and conspiring to rebel" and was exiled. The men were stationed in the northern frontier and the women were left without officials and became maids.
And now, she is the least valuable part of this sinking ship.
