Heaven and earth are white, and Geng's mansion is also white. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Mansion has already received news from the palace, when the carriage and horses arrived at the door, the servants and maids of the Geng Mansion and the relatives and friends who came to mourn were already at the door to greet them. When Xu Fuduo helped me out of the car, I was greeted by everyone's bows.

Excuse themselves from the courtesy, and said lightly, "You don't have to be polite, this is not only a concubine, but also the daughter of the Geng family, I just want to worship my father well, and I also want to accompany my mother well, I don't want to have too many courtesies." I still need to ask you to worry about the affairs of the house, thank you in advance. ”

Under the repeated promises of relatives and friends of the Geng family, I slowly walked into the Geng Mansion after a long absence. Although it is still in that alley, it is no longer the small house of the past. Since the life of the Qiandi has improved, his hands have gradually become richer, so that Xiao Shunzi helped to buy the Zhuangzi under his name and the remaining silver money saved for emergencies, most of which were handed over to Geng's mother. At that time, I thought that I couldn't fulfill my filial piety, so I should let my parents' life be more comfortable, so I arranged for Xiao Shunzi to help expand the Geng family on the original site, and hired a servant to take care of the waiting. After more than ten or twenty years of operation, today's Geng family also has a bit of a big family. It's just that Geng's father and Geng's mother have no other heirs under their knees, the two have a deep love for flounder, and Geng's father has never moved the mind of taking concubines and raising outer rooms, and now Geng's father is gone, Geng's mother is seriously ill, and the ancestral business of the Geng family and the private house they have saved are gone.

I offered incense to Geng's father with tears, thanked everyone again, and turned around and walked into Geng's mother's bedroom. Mother Geng leaned weakly on the couch, looking at the door with red and swollen eyes, and when she saw me coming in, her tears overflowed uncontrollably, and she choked up and couldn't say a word. I held back my tears and stepped forward, held Geng's mother's hand, and shouted "Mother" in a trembling voice, and the tears could no longer be suppressed. These tears are not only crying for the deceased Geng's father, but also distressing this Geng's mother who loves and cares for her daughter from the heart, the Geng's mother in front of her is only in her fifties, but it seems that she will only have a situation when she is sixty years old.

"It's good to be back...... It's good to come back......" Geng Mu stretched out her hand to my face and stroked it gently, moving her lips weakly, and muttered.

I held Geng's mother's hand on my face with both hands, which were originally warm and soft, but at this time there was no trace of temperature, and the cold made people's hearts cold.

The maid who served Geng's mother hurriedly stepped forward to comfort: "Niangniang's Day mourning, forgive the slave for being rude, the old lady is weak, Lang Zhong said that you can't be so emotional, otherwise I'm afraid it will be even worse." ”

Listening to the words of the servant, I hurriedly wiped away my tears, helped Geng's mother to lie down, stretched out my hand to check the pulse of Geng's mother, touched the faint ominous pulse, and was shocked, and quietly helped her to tuck the quilt on her face, whispered a few words of relief, asked her to sleep first, deal with some things in the house by herself, and come to accompany her later, and then got up and motioned to the maid who spoke to follow her out of the house to reply.

walked out of Geng's mother's bedroom, came to the side hall, and asked the servant coldly: "How can my mother's body be so weak, how do you usually serve?" I'm so sick that I'm afraid that something will happen overnight, why don't you send a message to the palace?"

These words were said to Geng's mother, a personal servant, with distress for Geng's mother and reproach for not telling herself in time.

The maid saw that my face was cold, and she didn't dare to be perfunctory, so she quickly knelt down and replied: " Back to the mother's words, the old lady's body in the first emperor died on the day it was suddenly bad, but at that time the old lady said that the mother will have a lot of things, can not go to the chaos and did not mention, and then the mother entered the palace, the old lady felt a little more comfortable, and the body was better, but in the first month of the palace suddenly came to the news that the mother offended the queen mother was scolded by the cane, people are afraid that they will not survive, the old woman is in a hurry, the condition is serious again, the old lady just silently cried every day every day, unwilling to take medicine, and then fortunately there were people from the side of the father-in-law to visit, after learning about this, the mother was fine, and the old lady was better。 But it didn't take long for some words about Niangniang in the palace to reach the ears of the old lady, and the old lady was always worried about the situation of Niangniang in the palace, and her condition was also repeated. Later, Shun's father-in-law came once, saying that someone framed Niangniang for those things in the palace, and the emperor believed that Niangniang was not to blame, and the old lady knew that the emperor's heart was still towards Niangniang, so she put her heart down. Unexpectedly, the condition had just been stabilized for less than half a year, and the old lady suddenly went there early yesterday morning, and the old lady couldn't stand it for a while, so she ......"

"How could the news from the palace reach the Geng Mansion? It was sent by Father-in-law Shun?" Xiao Shunzi's care for Geng's Mansion was instructed by me, those people are not unmeasured people, they know what to say and what not to say, how can they be so reckless to take those things in the palace and say them in front of Geng's mother.

"No, the people of Shun Gonggong only come to report safety from time to time, and the servants in the palace don't know how they got into the ears of the old lady, but when the old lady herself mentioned it to the slave, the slaves only knew. The servant replied tremblingly.

I glanced at Xu Fuduo behind me and said, "Go and check the person who sent these messages to Geng's mansion, and hand it over to your master to deal with it after finding out, he knows what to do." ”

After smoothing my breath, I frowned and asked, "You just said that my father died suddenly yesterday morning?"

"Yes, my lord went out to drink with friends the night before, and was sent back drunk and unconscious very late. I thought I was just drunk, and I didn't tell the old lady, so the steward sent the old man to the study to rest. But the next morning, the old man didn't get up as usual to go on an errand, and the steward went to wake up the old man, but he didn't expect to find that the old man was out of breath as soon as he entered the house. At the mention of Geng's father's death, the servant had a look of surprise and horror on her face, and it seemed that she was telling the truth.

Either way, Geng's father's death was a bit strange, and I felt like I had to look at the body for myself to determine how he died.

Let the servant go back to serve Geng's mother first, and lead Xu Fuduo and Dongmei to the mourning hall. In the three days of the suspension of the spirit, the coffin was half opened, and Geng's father was lying inside. I approached again and said to the people in the mourning hall, "As a daughter, I have not done a single day of filial piety for my parents, and now that my father has died, I want to help him take care of his clothes, and I hope you will be successful." ”

This is reasonable, and everyone does not object or doubt. The butler led the way, and I motioned for them to stand back, leaving me alone to stand by the coffin and look at Geng's father's face, his peaceful face in his funeral robe as if he were asleep. After observing the expression on his face and facial features, he didn't find anything abnormal, so he took a deep breath and reached into the coffin to cover up his makeup and began to check.