Chapter 61

After Qingming, the rain never stopped.

Yan Zhaohua counts the days, if the Liu family is not wrong to sue her, then there should be news from Yuzhou.

After Yan Zhaoning was taken back by Aunt Gong, she always claimed that she was recuperating from her illness, and she never came to Liu's place to ask about Xie's situation, and she didn't make trouble to let Xie come back.

This news stirred up a thousand waves in the Dingguo Mansion, Yan Zhaohua knelt in the hall of Qingcang Courtyard with his three younger brothers and sisters, all with tears on his face, Xie died, that is, their mother-in-law died, Yan Zhaoning and Yan Shuyan hugged their heads and cried, Yan Zhaohua and Yan Ruiqian were more reserved, occasionally bowing their heads and wiping their tears.

After Aunt Gong heard the news, she fell ill, and when she heard that she hadn't eaten rice for several days, even Guogong was alarmed, and she was in her yard all these days.

"A good person went out to recuperate, but I didn't expect it to be late. I had long said that the water and soil in the capital were too hard for her to live in, so I wanted her to move to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to raise, but I didn't expect ......"

The Liu family said to the clansmen who rushed to the funeral after hearing the news in the hall, it was not the elders of the clan who came, because the Xie family was only a concubine, and it was a stepfamily, and someone came to ask if something happened.

Some relatives and aunts next to them comforted the Liu family a few words, and there were a lot of greetings from the Yan family in Changning Houfu, after all, the Xie family is Yan Xiu's wife, although it is a stepfamily, but it is also the wife of the patriarch, because the mansion of Changning Houfu was burned by thieves some time ago, and now it is being rebuilt, and the young ladies and sons of the Yan family all live in the Dingguo Mansion, so they can only come to the Guogong Mansion to condole.

On the day of getting the news, the lintel of the Guogong Mansion changed color, and began to decorate with blue silk and white cloth, and the people sent out from Beijing to welcome the Xie family did not eat that day, that is, more than a dozen fast horses with a coffin of golden silk nanmu, and reported the name all the way from the official road, although Xie Lan was a married woman, but Changning Houfu was burned, Changning Hou was outside, several children were very young, and they couldn't support such a big event.

In the past, everyone only felt that Mrs. Changning Hou and her mother Liu had a good relationship, but now it seems that it is not only good, Liu has no selfish heart, and wants to bury the scenery for the Xie family, and send people to greet the coffin of the golden silk nanmu, and the capital has non-stop sending people to follow the elders of the Yan family to the Yan family mausoleum to build a cemetery, because she is the steproom, and the one who is buried in a tomb with Yan Xiu should be the original wife, and the steproom can only be buried next to the tomb. Therefore, there is no extra preparation, and it has to be rebuilt, which also takes some time.

Liu's body came back more than ten days later, because of the long distance, the body had been put into the coffin of Jinsi Nanmu and transported back by ice car. Then it was placed in the mourning hall and rested on the ice bed, and Yan Zhaohua and the other four children were all wearing thick cotton jackets, wearing linen and filial piety, kneeling in front of the coffin, and saluting the guests who came and went to mourn.

Xie's death seems to have made Yan Zhaoning a different person, the former willfulness seems to have disappeared overnight, crying when there are people, kneeling quietly when no one is around, leaning on Yan Zhaohua's body several times, looking dependent on the eldest sister, Yan Zhaohua has to bear more than other younger brothers and sisters these days, Xie is her mother-in-law, died, in essence the same as the death of her biological mother, wakes for three months, and keeps filial piety for three years.

Mrs. Geng came to the door to offer condolences, grabbed Yan Zhaohua's hand and couldn't help comforting: "Poor child, it's really hard for you." My good sister left so suddenly, leaving you children behind, and she was also ruthless. ”

Weiwu Hou Tan Cheng Yu Yan Zhaohua and Yan Xiu have the grace to save their lives, after Yan Xiu was injured, he also specially took her to the Weiwu Hou Mansion to thank her, once I saw Geng's once, she is a dignified and courteous person, although she has no friendship with Xie, but Xie died of illness at such a young age, and people who don't know the situation must be regretted.

Yan Zhaohua comforted her a few words, and wiped her tears a few times, and then a maid came to invite Geng Shi to go to the front hall to rest.

Mrs. Pingning Hou, Mrs. Ren Enbo is a friend of Xie's family, and she knows that Xie is sent to Yuzhou, but Xie Yan's family does not show it at all, and outsiders do not know, only this time I heard that Xie died in a foreign land, and the two came to watch the funeral, after kowtowing to incense, several children returned the gift, the two ladies glanced at Yan Zhaoning, and then Mrs. Pingning Hou Zhao beckoned to Yan Zhaoning, which meant that he wanted to talk to Yan Zhaoning alone, Yan Zhaoning looked at Yan Zhaohua and asked in a low voice:

"Eldest sister, can I go and say a few words?"

The Zhao family looked at Yan Zhaohua, and when she spoke, Yan Zhaohua stretched out his hand to Yan Zhaoning and straightened the white flower in front of him, and said, "Go, I'm here here, don't worry." ”

After the sisterly drama was finished, Yan Zhaoning stood up from the ground, and seemed to be a little unstable, Zhao hurriedly stepped forward to help Yan Zhaoning in distress, and helped Yan Zhaoning to the inner room to talk with Mrs. Ren Enbo, Yan Shuyan also took advantage of the situation to sit on the ground, rubbing his knees, as if he couldn't stand it anymore, and asked Yan Zhaohua a little squeamishly:

"Sister, how long do we have to kneel?"

Yan Zhaohua was burning paper, and Yan Ruiqian replied: "Three months." ”

Yan Shuyan's face immediately showed embarrassment, and he stood up with a very sturdy body, passed by Yan Zhaohua and Yan Ruiqian, and said, "I'll go and relieve myself." ”

Then he left the coffin without looking back, Yan Zhaohua looked at the back that was estimated to not come back in a short time, and didn't say anything, Yan Ruiqian looked at his sister, and saw that there was no one around now, so he leaned over and whispered:

"Sister, what should we do in the future?"

Yan Zhaohua looked up, turned his head, made a silent gesture to Yan Ruiqian, and roughly wrote the word 'as usual' in ashes under the grass pile that only the two of them could see, and then quickly erased it, Yan Ruiqian seemed to understand whether he understood or not, but he also understood that this was not the time to discuss this, but the eldest sister's prompt, he could understand it somewhat, which meant that they didn't need to do anything, as long as they did what they should do as usual, and there was no need to deliberately do other things.

About half an hour later, Yan Zhaoning's eyes came out of the room with red eyes, and the two ladies also walked out with red eyes, and when they stepped out of the threshold, they also glanced at Yan Zhaohua meaningfully, Yan Zhaohua just didn't know, and respectfully gave them a gift, and after the two ladies went out, they had their own maids to take them to the front hall to rest.

Yan Zhaoning knelt back in his position, looked at the back, and asked in a low voice, "Where is Shuyan?" "There was no mention of what had just happened to the two ladies in it.

She didn't say it, and Yan Zhaohua naturally didn't ask, so she only replied lightly: "I'm going to relieve myself, just go." Then he stood up, picked up the oil pot, and went to add oil to the lanterns at the four corners of Xie's coffin.

It is said that the everlasting lamps at the four corners of this coffin are to illuminate the way home for the deceased, and they will be lit for a total of seven days, day and night, but Xie Shi has died in Yuzhou, and he has been delayed on the road for at least half a month, and I don't know if she can still see this everlasting lamp lit, sneering in her heart, but the movements in her hands are not the slightest slack. Xie is the enemy she dreamed of getting rid of in her last life, she let Yan Zhaohua taste betrayal, took away her qiē, let her live in the shadows all her life, and buried the happiness of her life, she once thought of many ways in her mind, how to make Xie eat the consequences, and thought of countless ways to let her die, but she didn't expect her to leave in such a way.

The scriptures recited by the monk and the wooden fish that were beaten, can she repent on the road of Xie's reincarnation? In the end, it's still cheap for her, although she died in a foreign land, but there is no evil words behind her, compared to what she did to herself in her previous life, she was wanton to touch her before she died, so that she lived a life that was worse than death in the back house, under the double torture of body and spirit, she died alone in a few years, and there was no one close to her, and what happened after her death can be imagined, it must be notorious.

After adding the oil of the ever-bright lamp, Yan Zhaohua knelt in front of the coffin again, picked up a stick of fragrance to refill, and then returned to his position with his nose and eyes, knelt up straight, and waited for the passing guests to come in and offer condolences.

In these three months, Yan Zhaohua and other four children had to put down all their schoolwork, guard in front of Xie's Funeral Hall every day, guard the coffin before the funeral, and guard the tablet after the funeral.

Xie was buried in the cemetery of the Yan family, on the right back side of the main tomb, Xie Wei died that year, and was buried in the main tomb, the main tomb has two coffins, when Xie Wei died, the tomb was built, and Xie Lan could only be buried behind her.

In the past three months, Yan Zhaohua has never left the mourning hall in addition to eating and going to the toilet, and the other three children, Yan Zhaoning naturally stays the most, without the previous squeamishness, Yan Zhaohua thought that she would scatter the anger of Xie's death on her body, but Yan Zhaoning cried a little on the first day, and from the second day, it was like growing up overnight, and there was no over-the-top action, Yan Zhaohua knew that the reason why Yan Zhaoning was like this must be related to Aunt Gong's teachings, and it was indeed like this, Xie's death, fait accompli, Yan Zhaoning just turned the Guogong Mansion upside down, and he can't change this fact, just don't make trouble, and may make others sympathize with her a little more, just like these days, Guogong often stays in Aunt Gong's yard, and the care for the Yan family's sisters and brothers is obviously a lot more than before, so Aunt Gong still understands people's hearts very well, and knows how to win people's greatest sympathy, sometimes, crying is indeed the stupidest way.

Xiu could not come back to preside over Xie's funeral on the battlefield, so he could only use letters to convey the pain of thinking of his wife, and wrote to the court to posthumously seal the title of Mrs. Xie for the late Xie. From an outsider's point of view, the Xie Yan family is extremely interested in Xie's death, and the burial is thick, even if there are occasionally a few rumors of discord outside, after such a fanfare funeral came out, it gradually changed the direction of the wind, at this time, who would care if the Xie family was expelled from the capital because of a mistake before, and the excuse of Yuzhou cultivation has also been given a more perfect explanation, but that's just it. Serious people can see that even if Xie's posthumous affairs are so beautiful, but in the end she didn't enjoy it during her lifetime, even the name of Mrs. Edict was posthumously sealed, unlike when Mrs. Xie Wei died, even the emperor personally sent an obituary condolences, and she was the title of Mrs. Yipin before her death, and after her death, she was posthumously named Mrs. Guo, and she didn't even let Yan Xiu seal her cousin, and you can know that the so-called pomp and circumstance of the Xie family is just a virtual appearance, and the status can be seen. But this does not hinder the reputation and status of the Xie Yan family, and it is a bit sad to think about it.

In the past three months, several sisters and brothers, except for Yan Shuyan, the three children are all thin and inhuman, Yan Zhaohua can be described as skinny, the big eye sockets are sunken, and it looks even more pitiful, and Zhaoning has lost the glorious style of the past, as if Yan Zhaohua is not suitable for wearing bright colors, and Yan Zhaoning is not suitable for wearing this body, and there is no bright and moving in the past.