"Strange Arts" has only been performed twice, Nanjing City is still in the aftermath of midsummer, when Nanjing people are still sweating like rain, there are messengers from afar into Yangyuan. When Yang Jian rushed home, he speculated in his heart that the messenger sent him the news that his grandfather was in an emergency, and the servant urgently sent a letter to Beijing asking him to invite a famous doctor, Zhang Luo, and take care of it quickly.

Because Yang Tingli has always been as stable as Mount Tai in Yang Jian's heart, he will never fall down. As a result, even though Yang Jian had personally heard the doctor and Yang Tingli talk about how to maintain his body, how to eat and nourish in the future, and how to take medicine, he still felt that Yang Tingli had more years to stay in the world.

Even if that day comes, it will be far away, when his child may have been born, and even grown up to be in the house to uncover the tiles, and will be happy with him. At that time, Yang Tingli might point to his child and smile: "Sun Smash, it's finally your turn to be so angry that you can't breathe, this kid is not half as good as you were back then." ”

After getting married, Yang Jian imagined such a scene countless times, and also believed that there would be such a day in his life. But the letter that the servant brought back from afar crumpled the scene that Yang Jian had imagined, shattering it into gray dust all over the ground.

"Ah Yun, my grandfather is gone. Yang Jian used all his strength to finish these six words, and then fell on his wife's shoulder and cried, heartbroken as if he had been abandoned by his world.

Kong Yun silently comforted Yang Jian on the one hand, and arranged for the servants to prepare a ceremony, and reported to the Son of Heaven, and ordered the servants to prepare, they would immediately set off to Yang Tingli's hometown for funeral. When Yang Jian was so sad that he couldn't help himself, Kong Yun was in charge of affairs, but he showed weakness appropriately, so that Yang Jian could come out of his grief as soon as possible.

Meng Yo also quickly rushed to Yangyuan, because the messenger also brought her a letter. In his last days, Elder Yang Ge still gave her a few suggestions with kindness, so that Meng Yue could not think deeply, as long as he did it, and kept the whole family safe and worry-free.

"Ah Yun, is there anything you need help with?"

Kong Yun helped Yang Jian and nodded helplessly at Meng Yue: "I can't spare my hand here, and the servant who was sent to buy a steam locomotive ticket came back and said that there is no ticket for today, and if Ah Meng doesn't come, I will also ask someone to ask you for help, think of a way to buy today's ticket." ”

Today's tickets can be booked a week in advance, Yang Tingli's hometown is in Shuzhong, in the past two years, due to the increase in the number of people who go to see pandas, and the food in Shudi, tickets are in demand. It's too late to book an official car now, because there have to be documents, but fortunately, Meng Yue didn't dare to say anything else, and it was proper to buy a ticket.

"Don't worry, I'll order it for you, but at this time, there may be more, at most three or five, you have to think about how to arrange it first." Don't worry about luggage, the carriage is not enough, I will find someone to put you in the freight car. "Basically, every passenger trip, we will bring one or two freight cars, mainly to the local urgently needed products, and then bring back the local specialties that are in high demand. The reason why the cost of the ride continues to be low to this day is because rail transport can make a lot of money.

"Thank you, Amen. Kong Yun is really grateful to Yang Tingli at this time, relying on Yang and himself, over the years, friends are all over the mountains and rivers, and when they really need help, people just can't catch up if they want to.

"No thanks, Yang Ge has helped me a lot, and I haven't said thank you. ”

When Meng Yue walked out of the gate of Yangyuan, he glanced back and remembered that she had thanked Yang Ge Lao, and Yang Ge Lao smiled at her and said, "What are you polite, haven't you always been polite to different people." Meng Yue jokingly said to Yang Ge Lao at that time, "Oh, I know, it turns out that in Ge Lao's heart, we already have a relationship that does not need to thank each other", Yang Tingli liked this sentence very much.

Specially ran to the station, and the person in charge of Nanjing Station saw that Meng Yue was holding Princess Jianing's seal letter, and hurriedly saluted: "Miss Meng, you have something to say, don't take this out, it's so scared that my soul is not possessed." ”

It's also people who are familiar with each other to joke like this, usually Meng Yue will have a good laugh, but today naturally it won't be: "Yang Jian wants to go back to Shuzhong for the funeral, I specially came to help him ask for a ticket, and asked Uncle Lin to help." ”

Stationmaster Lin was a student of the Academy of Sciences in his early years, and later he felt that he was not talented, and he was a good hand at rail operation, so he simply went to Nanjing Station to manage the daily operation: "This is right, it is not appropriate to ask for a word, that is, my niece comes over, and I also have a ticket, next time, don't take the object that makes people sweat coldly when you look at it, and use it when you keep it when it's really dead." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Lin. ”

When it was time to get the ticket, Stationmaster Lin asked Meng Yue, why he was in such a hurry to ask for a ticket, Meng Yue opened his mouth and closed it, closed it and opened it again, and it took a long time before he was dry, and he said very sadly: "Elder Yang Ge has passed away." ”

"What?" Stationmaster Lin was so shocked that the seals in his hand rolled to the ground, "When did it happen?"

"Yesterday morning. ”

"My God, this is really ......" The people of Nanjing City, who are older, have seen Yang Tingli's demeanor in his prime, which can be described as bright as the sky, solemn as the pine wind, and still makes people think of his majestic appearance back then, "Those few are not enough, I will let people unload one freight carriage and add a passenger carriage, you let the Yang family come over quickly, and even bring people and things, I will install that carriage for him." ”

"Will it work?"

"It's okay, I'll make up a book when I go back. ”

"Thank you, Uncle Lin, I'll go and inform them. ”

"Let's go, the train will leave in less than two hours, and there will be no delay. ”

Meng Yue hurriedly returned to Yangyuan to say a word, but fortunately, Kong Yun was preparing early in the morning, and soon after Meng Yue arrived, Zhu Zaiyou came. With Emperor Xuanqing's handwritten letter, there is also an urgent consultation with the cabinet to discuss the edict, the cabinet has a long history of starting with words, and there are quite a lot of heavy numbers. was in a hurry, and I couldn't discuss anything, so I chose the safest one - Wenzheng.

Wen is the highest title that Wenchen can get, but because of the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there are more than a dozen people in Wenzheng, and when the first emperor was in the dynasty, he had already begun to use "Wen" to add the first assistant of the cabinet. It's also a rush of time, it's too late to prepare, to tell the truth, Emperor Xuanqing and the Manchu Dynasty both felt that Yang Tingli had at least a few more years, otherwise he would have started thinking about it a long time ago.

Yang Jian was already better at this time, picked up the etiquette and took the edict, Zhu Zaiyou, as the crown prince, will go to Shuzhong to pay tribute to Yang Tingli on behalf of Emperor Xuanqing. Among the military generals of the civil ministers, they will also go one after another, and the cabinet will be headed by Lu Chuhua and another cabinet assistant, and the clan is also ready, just waiting for the steam locomotive to be arranged.

When Yang Jian walked out of the city gate, all the golden and red colored flags on the tower of the city gate had been put away, and the colorful flags beside the royal street had also been replaced. The Inspectorate, the right governor Yushi has been sick in bed for the past two days, so naturally Wang Li can only go first, and only the two of them need to go to the memorial in the Inspectorate, and the rest don't have to unless they have a personal relationship.

Meng Yue naturally went with him, and the children in the family were temporarily taken care of by Lu Zhuying and Lu Kunlang.