"Why are you like your sister asking for a last request?" She raised an eyebrow, "Surely you're not asking second brother to sell me off too?"
"No, no," he hurriedly shook his head, "I'll leave a last request with the second brother to never sell you off and to take good care of you, as should Fourth Brother. My only small request is..."
"Speak."
He looked at her attentively at close range, "Wife, if I die, could you live as a widow on my behalf for three years?"
"...."
Xiao Qinghe thought, if third brother really... was no more, asking his wife to live widowed on his behalf would mean he couldn't touch her, wouldn't that make him a widower too? That's also fine. His younger brother would fulfill his promise, except... he wouldn't let third brother confess to the crime. Maybe he should go instead...
