"What's going on? Wasn't your mother-in-law fine yesterday? How come... what time did this happen?" Yang Ruohong asked in a low voice.

Mu Zichuan lifted his head, but his eyes remained downcast. His hands clasped tightly onto his mother's, his gaze fixed on her hand as a raspy voice softly arose from beside the bed.

“It happened this afternoon,” he said.

"Since last night, my mother's appetite has been poor. This morning she only ate a few bowls of congee. I asked her what was wrong, if she wasn't feeling well again,"

She said that she suddenly lost her appetite, perhaps because she had been too happy the past two days and hadn't realized how hungry she was.

“But I noticed that her complexion wasn't as good as it had been a few days ago. She didn't have the same rosy glow, and I was worried she might have overexerted herself these past few days. So this morning, I told her not to help out in the main hall or the bridal chamber anymore.”

“I want her to stay in her own room, preferably lying in bed, but she can’t keep still. She only lay down for a while before getting up again and sitting at the table cutting out festive characters.”

“I was writing the wedding invitations at my future home, it must have been around lunchtime. As I was writing, I suddenly heard a noise from the west room inside the house, like something had fallen over, perhaps a chair.”

“I rushed over and saw my mother lying straight on the ground. The character “喜” (meaning “double happiness”) in the bamboo basket had fallen out, so she must have been unsteady and fell from her stool.”

When Mu Zi Chuan got to this point, he could no longer continue speaking, tears streaming down his face.

Yang Ruohua also lowered her head to wipe away tears.

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After crying for a while, Mu Zichuan continued to tell Yang Ruqing what happened next.

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"I carried my mother to the bed and then sent the maid to fetch Uncle Fu. By that time, my mother had completely lost all breath."

"Uncle Fu came over and said that my mother had passed away..."

"My mother, my mother didn't even get to say her last words to me. I just can't understand it. My mother, my mother, how could she have just...left like that..."

Mu Zi Chuan held his mother's cold hand against his cheek, choking back sobs several times.

Yang Ruqing was also crying so hard that her vision blurred.

>A few days ago, when I saw that my godmother looked better, I secretly rejoiced, thinking to myself that marriage truly could bring good fortune. My godmother's spirit seemed bright whenever there was a happy occasion.

Yang Ruqing choked back sobs, saying, “Never expected it to be a last glimmer of life before death arrives!”

The two of them stood by the bed, each wiping away their tears in grief. After a moment, the voices of Wang Cuilian and Sun Shi and the others came from outside.

Yang Ruoqing wiped away her tears and said to Mu Zichuan, "Zichuan, your godmother is gone. You have to bear the grief and cheer up. We still need to handle your godmother's funeral properly!"

Muzi Chuan hung his head, saying nothing.

Yang Ruqing said, "You are your godmother's only son. At this time, it all depends on you. You can't give up!"

Mu Zichuan gave a self-deprecating smile and said, "I'm not a good son. I wasn't able to properly filial piety to my mother when she was alive. I always went against her wishes,"

Now that she's gone, what good is it even if we do everything right for her funeral? Will my mother ever come back?

“No more, never again. The Yellow Springs Road is one-way.”

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Yang Ruqing frowned and said, "Since your master knows about the Huangquan Road, you should know about the Naihe Bridge, Mengpo Soup, Wangxiang Stone, Turning Wheel, Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Eighteen Layers of Hell?"

Muzi Chuan looked at her in a bit of astonishment, not quite understanding why she would say such things?

Yang Ruqing continued, "When you participated in each round of the imperial examinations back then, did the village and school have to prepare a complete set of documents for you scholars? And were these documents registered at the county government office before you could take the exam?"

Mu Zi Chuan nodded. "Without those official documents and records, there's no eligibility to participate in the imperial examinations, let alone being admitted."

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Yang Ruqing nodded. "That's right."

“In our world, if we don't follow the customs and traditions passed down by our ancestors when handling funerals for the deceased, and invite Daoists to perform rituals and set up a path to the underworld...”

"The lonely soul of the mother-in-law has reached the underworld and cannot be guided. She can't cross the Naihe Bridge, see the King Yama or the judge, climb onto the Wangxiang Stone, or enter the Turning Wheel Platform."

“She cannot be reincarnated, she can only remain a wandering spirit in the underworld. Because she was never officially registered, she lacks the necessary paperwork to pass through. As your godmother's only son, she yearned for you with all her heart, even in death, she tirelessly cut out celebratory characters hoping for your well-being. As her son, are you going to continue wallowing in grief and isolating yourself from others?”

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"Get yourself together and finish your mother's funeral properly, send her off to the grave. Then you can decide what to do next!"

After saying all that in one breath, Yang Ruocheng knelt down beside the bed and kowtowed three times to Zi Chuan's mother.

After bowing, she stood up, and Mù Zǐchuan also stood up.

He rolled up his sleeve to wipe the tears from his face, his swollen eyes fixed on Yang Ruohong: "I'll go and invite the most respected elder in the village to come and help mediate this situation!"

The good fortune of the Lao Mu family turned into misfortune, and everyone who heard about it couldn't help but feel sorry for them and lament their fate.

"Zi Chuan's mother is truly a pitiful woman. She has lived a life of frugality, saving every penny she could. As a widow, she finally managed to raise her son and even sent him to school,"

“When her son became successful and held a high position, she wasn't able to enjoy it for long before she passed away...”

“Alas, Sister-in-law Mu's hope in the first half of her life was for her son to pass the imperial examinations and become an official. In the second half of her life, she only hoped that her son would marry and have children as soon as possible,”

“With two more days until the new daughter-in-law enters the household, I can finally drink tea served by my daughter-in-law. But now she's leaving? It's really unfortunate..."

"I heard she was still cutting out wedding characters at the table when leaving. This kind of mother-in-law, who can do so much for her son like Mu's sister-in-law, is really hard to find!"

Everyone was talking, one after another. Although the women from Zhuang Hu's family liked to gossip behind people's backs, they were simple-hearted at their core. So almost everyone was saying something while expressing pity, and some even couldn't help but shed a few tears.

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“Hey, you guys say that this kid Chuanniang just left like that? They say Liu Doukou was the one who forced Chuanniang to marry her,”

"Now that Lady Zichuan is gone, will Zichuan still marry Liu Douk? Won't he break the engagement?" Mrs. Liu asked the several women around her with bright eyes.

Those several women had been so immersed in the sudden death of Mizukawa's wife that they hadn't recovered.

Now that they think about it, everyone starts turning their powerful gossip brains to figure out what's going on, and as a result, all sorts of rumors start flying around.

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