666 Melted corpse

Fu Yu Sheng did not pay attention to what Old madam Yan was saying since he thought she was only telling Song Yan, the gossip that she heard from everywhere in the army district but something in between her words caught his attention and he immediately turned to look at Old madam Yan with a narrowed gaze and asked, " Grandma Yan, didn't everyone say that Old master Nian's daughters were killed in an accident and their bodies are yet to be found?"

At that moment, Old master Yan and Old madam Yan exchanged a glance with each other, old madam Yan waved her hand and added, " Of course, you wouldn't know the truth behind the accident, you were not here when it happened."

Old master Yan tugged at his wife's sleeves and spoke in a low whisper, "They will get scared, leave the matter at rest now …it has been so many years, I don't think something like that will happen again."

" What do you know?" Old madam Yan did not turn silent as her husband asked her to instead she became even more vociferous, she slapped the hand that was tugging the sleeves of her warm coat and then turned to look at Song Yan and Fu Yu Sheng with a really solemn expression on her face, she hesitated for a few seconds but then made her mind as she parted her lips and started speaking, " I usually don't speak of this matter since its been tightly closed but I think you need to know since your family is in the crux of this situation."

She then motioned both Song Yan and Fu Yu Sheng to lean in closer which they did, only then did Old madam Yan start speaking in a hushed manner, " When Old Nian's son ran away we all started to look for him, thinking that he was just scared and was hiding somewhere. We did not find him instead after this incident something happened with the daughters of the Old Nian family, they wrote a letter saying that they were leaving because they could not withstand the shame but why will they run away? The two of them were so sensible, why would they blame themselves and leave?"

" Anyway when the two girls ran out we all started to look for them instead of Old Nian's son. In fact, the people who were searching for Old Nian's daughters really do find their bodies but the thing is that by the time when we found them, the two girls were dead!" Old madam Yan exclaimed in a hushed voice before she deliberated for a moment and then added in a conspiratorial voice, " Not only were they dead, their bodies were completely melted like someone poured acid on their entire body and left them to die."

" Melted?" Song Yan mused her eyes flickering as she turned to look at Old master Yan who seemed a bit uncomfortable, from the looks of it, he seemed to know more than Old madam Yan did, maybe Old madam Yan noticed her gaze as well because she turned to look at her husband and then poked him in the arm.

" Go ahead tell them what you saw, you don't want a repetition of what happened back then right?" She ushered her husband to speak since he was the one who was among the few people who found the two girls who were missing.

Old master Yan was not a superstitious person like his wife, he always thought that the reason his wife was acting like this was that Old Nian's wife filled her head with all sorts of nonsense but at the same time he has to admit that something was very weird about the death of the two daughters of Old master Nian.

He sighed before carefully thinking over what he needed to tell Song Yan and Fu Yu Sheng and only then did he open his mouth and started speaking with a grim expression, " I was in the squad who was looking for the two young girls, in fact, you could say that I was leading that squad because my sons were out of the city on a special mission. We found the two girls ten miles away from the army district, their bodies were lying in the wilderness that covers the road to the army district."

" The people who were with me examined the bodies of the two girls, the elder sister was missing her legs while the younger one had her eyes and entire jaw ripped off but the weird thing wasn't that, the thing that struck weird to me was that they were covered in a sticky liquid, the sort of animal bile and acid. And their features were melted like they were wax dolls who were placed in the sun. It was however very strange how can both sisters be attacked by an animal. If we were to take into account that of the person who examined their bodies, the case became even more strange because the acids that were coating the two girls did not belong to one animal but more than three!"

Old master Yan shook his head and then continued, " The person responsible for their autopsy said that sticky liquid belonged to a large snake, a wild wolf and spiders … can you even think of something like this happening? Two girls being attacked by these animals at the same time? Later the Chen family made sure to cover up the matter completely and then announced to the public that the girls' bodies were never found and they disappeared without a trace. Old master Chen is a good man but this case was related to his daughter and her reputation, and the Nian family were in wrong were they not? Why will he protect them instead of his daughter?"

After he was done speaking Old master Yan sighed heavily and then added, "I am not superstitious like your grandma Yan but I still think something is too weird about that Chen family, stay away from them for the time being, in fact, it's better if you tell your brother to keep his distance from the daughter of the Chen family."

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