I am the Odd One Out Chapter 57

Three months later, Gu Yimin could get out of bed. With the help of his servant, he walked to the back garden. His wife and Concub!nes saw that the originally thin Gu Yimin was now as skinny as a stick. Gu Yimin thought of Leo Lin. During the days when he was bedridden, many people came to visit him, but Leo Lin was not seen. He asked:

"Why don't you see Leo Lin?"

At this time, the servant told Gu Yimin that Leo Lin was brutally killed by bandit Zhang Yisha when he sent gun ransom to Liu Village. Gu Yimin sat in the winter sunshine and stared at the servant who was talking. The servant said that Leo Lin left a letter for the master before leaving and asked a woman named Cuiping to deliver it. Gu Yimin stretched his right hand forward. The servant knew that he wanted to read the letter and hurried back to the study to get the letter. Gu Yimin opened the letter with trembling hands. After reading Leo Lin's last instructions about Gu Tongnian and Lin Baijia's marriage, he nodded slightly. He nodded, then thought about Gu Tongnian stealing the banknotes and running away, and shook his head again.

Gu Yimin asked the servant in a weak voice, how to dispose of Leo Lin's body? The servant said that Mr. Lin's body was laid in the Chenghuang Pavilion for three days, and Taoist priests performed rituals for three days. After that, several gentlemen from the Chamber of Commerce didn't know what to do with it, so they had it carried back to his home and laid there, waiting for Mr. Gu's decision. Gu Yimin was silent for a long time and asked if Leo Lin's body was okay. The servant said that several gentlemen from the Chamber of Commerce were still worried that Mr. Lin's body would rot, so they hired two wax craftsmen to seal Mr. Lin's body with beeswax.

Gu Yimin got on a four-carriage sedan and arrived at Leo Lin's home. The residents of Xi Town saw Gu Yimin's sedan coming out. They followed the sedan and told each other that President Gu and Gu Tuanling had recovered. Gu Yimin looked so weak when he came out of the sedan that they didn't dare to recognize each other. Gu Yimin, who used to be so majestic in the past, was now too thin to look like a human being. He was hunched over and leaning on a cane. With the help of a servant, he carefully walked into Leo Lin's house and walked towards Leo Lin's body. In the room, I came to my old friend. He stood there with a cane and couldn't stop crying. When he wiped his tears, he buried his head in his sleeves and shivered all over. The servant brought a chair and said, "Master, please sit down."