He saw the third sedan chair appear at the ancestral house gate, saw the group of people who had followed that chair all the way here, saw the second brother who couldn't get the door open to come in and simply hid nearby.
In the end,
On a slope very close to the ancestral house, the Great Elder saw Zhao Yi.
A body with no skin, half its flesh missing, half its bones gone… like a butcher at market, tossing a slab of pork split clean in half onto the chopping board.
Seeing this, the Great Elder's heart clenched hard; he was honestly terrified Zhao Yi wouldn't "live" through this.
"Yi'er, you can't die. Before the lamp is lit, you absolutely cannot die!"
...
"Sis, you think with only this little bit of the boss left, can he even wake up again?"
"If the boss never wakes up, this slab's mine. When I die I'll have it buried with me for a joint grave."
Hearing that, Liang Li was very unconvinced: "Why should it be yours?"
