After she left, the Song Mansion became dressed and hung flags and handled the funeral of the Zhong family.

Zhong's parents and sons have been mourned, and the granddaughter of the in-laws has moved all her belongings and left. A few concubines did it for her at this time, and they did it well. Although Concubine Rong had not heard any news for a long time, Song Angu still handed the funeral note to the palace gate, wanting to inform Concubine Rong.

Now that the crown prince Li Xuze has become a new treasure, Concubine Rong should also become a concubine. However, there was no edict in the palace, and Song Angu still reported the name of Concubine Rong.

March is Qingming, but there is no good day for funeral, a funeral has been done, the coffin still has to be sent to the Guangji Temple outside the city to be placed, and then buried after three years when there is a good day.

The clamor of the monks chanting the scriptures outside was deafening, and Zhenshu and Zhenyuan gathered in front of the coffin to dial the oil lamp. Zhenyuan sighed: "Zhenxiu is used to being at home, thinking that the capital is still like home, but now she has suffered a big loss. ”

Zhenshu also sighed: "Look at her has lost a lot, and now she looks better in mourning clothes than before." ”

Because of the large number of people who came in to cry, Song Anrong knelt in the grass in filial clothes and bast shoes, kowtowed and saluted, and occasionally cried for a while under the leadership of the funeral manager. Zhenxiu stayed up for a few months, and at this time she was tired, huddled in a ball and dozing in the grass bunk, Zhenyuan and Zhenshu looked at her very pitiful, looked at each other and sighed.

In the evening, someone from the Hou Mansion quietly called her away, and only called it sick.

Here Zhenyuan Huer asked Zhenshu: "Do you think Zhenyu will be held accountable again?" ”

Zhenshu shook his head and said: "I'm afraid not, they are all close sisters, can they really make trouble in the official mansion?" ”

Zhenyuan asked in a low voice again, "Do you think Zhenxiu has a few?" ”

Zhenshu asked her to ask funny, and saw that she was also staring at herself with two bright eyes, looking very similar to Su's, so she pointed to the coffin above her head and said, "The dead know everything, you ask her." ”

Zhenyuan frightened her, reached out and pinched Zhenshu lightly and said, "The narrow ghost is actually here to scare me." ”

Zhenshu snorted lightly and rubbed the sore spot and said, "If you want me to say, Zhenxiu should get a few." She did the dirtiest work that even the dirtiest minions didn't want to do, and spent her days and nights by the side of a dying man. This kind of thing, I won't do it even if you give me all the 200,000 yuan. ”

Zhen Yuan pointed to the coffin and said, "Dead people know everything, and she has heard all your unfilial words." ”

The two of them suddenly remembered that they looked back at the ever-bright lamp, which had been extinguished for a long time, and they were busy smiling and lighting it by the fire, and Zhenshu said: "Now the ancestor is on the Huangquan Road, and the light is flickering in front of him, and I don't know how her little feet walk." ”

This lamp has been extinguished for the two of them for an unknown number of times, and presumably the Huangquan Road of the Zhong family is really rickety and dim.

The family stayed up for three days and was sleepy and could fall asleep there, Song Anrong went to the outside room to drink and keep vigil with relatives at night, and the Su family and the Shen family also went to the inner bed to be crooked. Zhenxiu fell ill, and Zhenyao Zhenyan, who was younger than Zhenyuan and Zhenyi, gradually ran away. In the second half of the night on the third day, there was only Lu and Zhenshu left in front of the coffin. Lu's burned paper, Zhenshu turned the lamp, and a few mothers-in-law outside did not know where to go to eat and drink, and the monks went to each room to rest after reciting the scriptures, and the courtyard was empty at this time, except for some people who kept vigil.

Lu burned the paper money crookedly in the grass and snorted in the grass, Zhenshu Xindao Zhong had not fulfilled his filial piety when he was alive, and even if he had fulfilled his filial piety at this time, he was afraid that she would not know, so he didn't care about the oil lamp, and dozed off in the grass. It's just that Lu's cry shook the sky, and she couldn't sleep well because of the noise.

When the fourth watch was handed over, Yu Yichen entered the courtyard of the Song Mansion, and the desolate and decaying courtyard was full of mourning flags, and there were groups of people curled up under the corridor, and the whole mansion was in a deep sleep. He stopped the guards and entered the main courtyard alone, knowing what kind of expectations he had, but he also felt that he was a little ridiculous.

He stepped into the mourning hall of the Chen coffin, and in the midst of the earth-shattering snoring of a Lu woman, the cute little shopkeeper leaned on the pillar with his face back and fell asleep quietly, the corners of his mouth drooling. She has a very rare pair of natural feet, such feet are difficult to find suitable shoes in this part of the Central Plains. Nowadays, the women are still wrapped in their feet, smashing the bones of the two good heavenly feet and folding them under the instep, and the shoes are even more exquisite, and the embroidery on them is cumbersome, and the deformed small embroidered shoes, he can't help frowning when he sees them.

She wore a pair of suede black cloth shoes on her feet, which were a little smaller, and her eyes were open on each side.

Yu Yichen knelt in front of Zhenshu, her lips curled slightly and smiled at the corner of her mouth, so she silently looked at her somewhat heroic thick eyebrows, sharp round nose, and guarded face. The saliva kept dripping down, and Yu Yichen couldn't help but reach out and gently brush it from the corner of her mouth, and took out a square handkerchief.

Zhenshu didn't know how long he had been asleep, and suddenly felt a slight coolness at the corner of his mouth, and woke up to look at the everlasting lamp, the cocoon had already burned out, and a long line like a caterpillar floated in the clear oil. She sighed and tried to borrow the fire, but when she turned around, she saw a man kneeling beside her with her fingers outstretched. She stepped back from the pillar in a bluff, and asked confidently, "Father-in-law Yu." ”

Yu Yichen stretched out his finger to the bright light, and there was a trace of shiny stuff on his finger. He asked, "Do you know what it is?" ”

Zhenshu wiped the corners of his mouth and said, "People will drool when they sit and sleep." ”

Yu Yichen was obviously afraid that the hay on the ground would stain him, so he tightened his clothes and said, "Your grandmother is really wronged, and I don't know how many ways to smear at this time." ”

Zhenshu knew that he was a eunuch, he was originally in the East Palace, and now that the East Palace has been promoted to the emperor, I am afraid that he will also enter the palace further. Such a person did not look like a person who would wander around, so he asked, "I wonder why my father-in-law came?" ”

Yu Yichen said: "Naturally, it is for mourning. Concubine Song's mother died, and Ouchi should be mourned. ”

Zhenshu said in his heart, you are too late. Naturally, this cannot be said to your face.

She was looking at that Yu Yichen, when she saw him clenching his fist lightly and covering his lips, and said with a slight smile: "Of course, I don't have to come in person." Just knowing that you're here, I'm going to come back. ”

Zhenshu sighed in his heart why he always provoked some abnormal men, the previous Du Yu made trouble in her two counties, and she was a real man. This Yu Yichen is a eunuch who also came to tease her, but for some reason she was disgusted. suddenly realized that maybe it was her own pair of natural feet, and these abnormal men thought she was an unchaste and lewd woman, so they would come to deliberately tease.

She was ashamed in her heart, but it was inconvenient to say it clearly, she sighed and looked up at Yu Yichen and said, "I finally know what a disguise is." ”

Yu Yichen sighed and said, "Let's hear it." ”

Zhenshu and Lu's voices raised their feet slightly: "My heavenly feet must be a pair of disguises, so that the man can see it, thinking that I am a good coaxer." ”

These words stunned Yu Yichen, he seemed to wake up after a while, shook his head slightly and said: "I am a eunuch, I am used to seeing fat and thin in the palace, and I don't want to tease your heart." It's just that the heartache of your ridicule has not faded, and I want you to read some books and enlighten some wisdom to heal those wounds in my heart. ”

He took out the handkerchief that was stained with her saliva and wiped it clean, and stretched out the handkerchief to wipe Zhenshu's mouth, but Zhenshu hurriedly dodged sideways, only to see him stand up, pointed at her and said, "So, don't forget to come to my house on the 18th and read to me." ”

After that, he squatted down and looked at Zhenshu deeply, and finally took a handkerchief to wipe the dry saliva at the corner of his mouth for Zhenshu, who had nowhere to hide left and right, before getting up and picking up his robe and going out.

Zhenshu lay crookedly in the grass for a long time, and suddenly saw Song Angu rushing in with a group of people outside the door and shouting: "I heard that the eunuch and the chief administrator of the Great Inner Palace, Father-in-law Yu, came to mourn?" ”

Zhenshu nodded, shook his head again, and said, "I don't recognize it." ”

The funeral of the Song Mansion has ended, the coffin is placed in the temple, and the whole family returns to the Song Mansion for a funeral banquet. Now that the Shen family has no dark clouds above their heads, they are in a happy mood and their waists have straightened up a lot, directing the few slaves to go back and forth on errands. Su sat in front of the kitchen door and sighed for a long time, and Lu walked over when he saw it and said, "Your husband is proud of his talented daughter, a good calligraphy and painting shop is open, and he is making money every day." What's the sigh? ”

Su Shi pulled Lu over and said: "Third brother and sister, I don't know, your pair of daughters are still young now, not in the marriage period, my Zhenyuan is already old, and then a Zhenshu looks at adulthood, how can I survive the three-year filial piety period?" ”

Lu said: "What's so difficult about this? Three years is too long, after all, she is a big girl, what does it matter if she keeps it for a year, if the official does not investigate the people and does not investigate, there is no one in charge of affairs in this mansion. ”

She pointed to the top of her head and said, "The one in the palace didn't make a sound, I'm afraid it was also detained, who will care about you?" ”

Rao is like this, Su Shi still frowned and couldn't be relieved. Fortunately, Zhenyu never asked Zhenxiu about her sins, the funeral was over, and Zhenxiu didn't want Zhenyu's old clothes, but only mentioned a small box of herself and wanted to go back to the framing shop with Su.

Zhenshu has always remembered Yu Yichen's words that night, and on March 18, he didn't want to go to Yufu, and he didn't know if he didn't go, whether he would come to this East Street like last time. Then he sat behind the counter and flipped through the book, and after a while, that Zhang Gui drove over, came in and sang deeply before saying: "Little shopkeeper, emergency is like fighting fire, please go with me." ”

Zhenshu was tired of his good business and didn't go to a eunuch as a grandson, but he also endured it and replied: "Zhang Xianggong, if you want to buy paintings, I can send someone to your house here, if it is another matter, I will not be able to accompany the little girl." ”

Zhang Gui bowed again and said, "Little shopkeeper, although you are young, you can see that you are also a chivalrous person. My godfather's temperament, the most unobtainable is to get it, and when you give it to him, he will throw it aside. Go on a good trip, follow him, and he will naturally leave you behind. Besides......"

He lowered his voice and said, "He's just a eunuch, and he can't do anything to you." ”