Chapter 8, Shocking and Heartbreaking
Lu Ruxue has a quiet temperament, likes to use her brain to do things, and is reluctant to explain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoSo more often than not, Caiyue saw something, and then told Caixing.
As for Cai Lian and Cai He, it's not that Lu Ruxue has any prejudice against these two, but their temperament is more suitable for taking care of the medicine garden with herbs, rather than maneuvering between all kinds of people in various courtyards.
Listening to Caixing's question at this time, Lu Ruxue looked up at Caiyue. Cai Yue nodded Cai Xing's head, "The most profitable person next to the third lady is Mother Qin, and that Chunlu is also working under Mother Qin, if the eldest lady doesn't give some benefits, do you think she will risk offending Mother Qin, and you can't do things for the eldest lady? You have been with the eldest lady for almost ten years, how can you still do things so brainlessly!"
"Where do I have so many crooked intestines, I'm really tired!" Cai Xing didn't follow, she and Cai Yue were sold into the Lu Mansion together, and now Cai Yue knows the eldest lady's mind best, and she takes more monthly money than her, and she will say the wrong thing from time to time. Even for the eldest lady's thoughts, she couldn't guess.
However, her loyalty to the eldest lady is the same as Caiyue. "I just said that you don't speak brainily, and now you forget it, and the word 'death' can also be said nonsense!" "Being a slave to a large family, although there is a lot of money per month, happy events on New Year's Day, or the master is happy, there is a lot of money to reward.
But more taboos. Words such as "green building", "dead corpse", "wild seed", etc., cannot be mentioned in front of the master.
"Didn't the eldest lady say it, this son has no outsiders, but you are always so careful!" Seeing that Caixing was still unconvinced, Lu Ruxue spoke.
"Caiyue is right to do this, Caixing, if you don't remember it, it will slowly become a habit. By the time I remember to change it, I'm afraid it's too late. You and Caiyue are the most powerful people around me, but I, the eldest lady of the Lu Mansion, are just an ornament. Taught by my grandmother, I am controlled by my aunt and mother on weekdays, and even I am not at ease, if you are not careful in what you do and speak, you will be betrayed one day, don't come to me to cry, I can't protect myself, I can't save you!"
Lu Ruxue said a lot today, and it was also a reminder to Caixing, if this slave doesn't say anything for a few days, she will forget these rules. But she doesn't hate Caixing's lively temperament, otherwise she and Caiyue don't like to talk, if it's just the two of them, I'm afraid it's rare to say a word a day.
The days passed like this, and before the third young master Lu Chongyu was resting, Xuandehou's coffin was sent back to the ancestral house in Huaiyuan County.
Jin Fu sent a post to Lu Fu as soon as possible. Early the next morning, Lu Chengyao took his wife and daughter, put on plain clothes and went to Jinfu to worship.
The Jin Mansion built a spiritual shed with one hall and one entrance, and covered all the courtyards of the first two entrances. The back is high and the front is low, and it looks very magnificent from the outside, which makes people look at it from afar, that is, the feeling of grief arises spontaneously.
Lu Chengyao's family got out of the carriage at the gate to show their respect for Xuandehou. Helping his wife to lead the guests from the Jin Mansion all the way into the mourning hall for condolences. The funeral bell at the door rang non-stop, and the female relatives in the mourning hall wept even more. Xuandehou's son Jin Yichen knelt beside the spirit case wearing linen and filial piety.
Lu Ruxue didn't see the former Xuandehou Mrs. Wu, so she had to follow her parents to worship first, and then Mrs. Lu took Jin Yichen's hand and asked about his mother.
"Junior thank you Aunt Yun! Mother fainted again just now, and now she was carried into the side hall and asked a doctor for treatment!" Lu Ruxue had seen this cousin of the Jin family who had no blood relationship when she was young, but since she was seven years old, the two had never met again, and she couldn't recognize it when she saw her now.
Jin Yichen kept his head down, his eyes were a little sluggish, and he could see that he had not yet woken up from his great sorrow. Lu Ruxue couldn't help sighing, this Jin Yichen is still just a child after all, if she encounters this kind of thing, I'm afraid it won't be much better than him.
After all, a strict father is like the sky, and a loving mother is like the earth, and now that his father is dead and his mother is sick, the sky has really fallen. It is rare that this Jin Yichen can hold out until this time without falling.
Lu Ruxue also noticed that there were still a large group of female dependents kneeling behind Jin Yichen, but she didn't know these people, and they should all be relatives of the Jin clan, so she didn't pay much attention to them. Mrs. Lu San cried with her for a while, and then pulled her daughter into the side hall to see Wu's. Lu Chengyao was invited to the outer courtyard.
"Sister Yun!" Wu Shi was half-leaning and half-lying on an Arhat couch, dressed in coarse linen clothes, with a white forehead tied on his head, his face was pale and haggard. It looked like he had just woken up, and he was supported by two maids, so he sat up a little bit.
Seeing that Wu Shi was about to get up, Yun Shi hurriedly stepped forward and pressed her back to the Luohan couch, "Sister Wu, what are you doing? You and I know Jing Nian, why do you need to be so polite, you don't feel well, just lie down!" Yun is only one year younger than Wu, but now that the two of them are sitting together, Wu looks like Yun's elder.
Lu Ruxue couldn't bear to stare, confessed her guilt, and quietly retreated. Wu Shi glanced at Yun Shi unexpectedly, "Ruxue, this child has grown so big, my sister is a blessed one!" Wu Shi seemed to remember the sad thing again, and pulled Yun Shi with tears in his eyes and cried for a while before stopping.
Lu Ruxue came out of the side hall and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, just now Wu's eyes oozed a loveless emotion, like a thorn in the throat, making people feel suffocated. She subconsciously glanced at the mourning hall, and the women who were still crying and kneeling in the mourning hall just now stood up and walked towards the backyard.
"Caiyue, you go to the mourning hall to see, who is guarding there at this moment!" Lu Ruxue wanted to do something for the Wu family, which could be regarded as making herself better.
This is not far from the mourning hall, and Cai Yue will come back soon, "Miss, only the young master of the Jin Mansion and a little servant are guarding there at this time! The eldest lady is going to find the young master of the Golden Watch? This is the Jin Mansion, there are many people, if you let others take a look, I am afraid that it will lead to some gossip and damage the reputation of the eldest lady!"
"It's a mourning hall, and even if someone sees it, no one will think about it. I just want to go to the Jin family's cousin to say a few words, it won't take much time!" Lu Ruxue told Caixing to guard at the door of the mourning hall, and if someone came, remind him. Only then did he walk in with Caiyue.
"Cousin Jin!" Entering the mourning hall, Lu Ruxue saluted Jin Yichen. Jin Yichen didn't seem to expect that someone would come in at this time, and his body shook before he looked up. The bloodshot eyes exuded a dead ash.