The next day was to invite someone to see the date and set a date for the burial. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Daiyu and everyone in the Lin family in Suzhou have met, the eldest uncle and the second uncle are both in Suzhou, or teaching and opening a museum, or doing business, only a third uncle and a fifth uncle are not there. The third ranked new seven-grade Chang'an Order, named Lin He, and the fifth-ranked is the five-grade school secretary who served in Kyoto, named Lin Yuan, who has already handed over the family affairs to the top and is coming to Gusu.

Lin Ruhai's coffin was parked in the main hall of the main house, and everything was prepared in an orderly manner, and Daiyu told Aunt Ye and the housekeeper that she could only withdraw it from her own account. For example, the old lady of the long room and others, as well as other relatives of the close branches of each room, solemnly prepared gifts and sent them in person, and as for the other distant relatives in the remote room, they were also given silk and brocade cloth one or two feet.

In the past, Daiyu didn't know how to deal with people, and she didn't know that Xiaoen Xiaohui could buy people's hearts, although she treated the people around her very well, but she left a notoriety of being mean and stingy in the mouths of those outsiders. Now that I have lived again, I naturally remember the lesson, and there is no shortage of etiquette, and I take care of everything everywhere.

But in two or three days, Daiyu's two cousins who were released as officials also rushed back, and they stopped for seven days, which was the time for burial. Monks and monks were invited to open water and land dojos, copy scriptures, burn them, and open the Yulan meeting, and they ran it noisily. Daiyu continued to cry day by day, her eyes were swollen into walnuts, and it was not until two or three days after the burial that some of her grief was slightly stopped.

In the post house outside Yangzhou, Jia Lian watched Wang'er stay alone, thanks to the fact that someone delivered food to the door three times a day every day, and Lang Zhong came to the door for treatment. After half a month, the stick bruises on Jia Lian's face were finally gone, although Wang'er couldn't get up yet, all the injuries on her body were also covered with thick scabs, and her life had been saved. This is naturally because Daiyu arranged it, paid the rent money for the yard to let them live first, and asked the housekeeper to ask Lang Zhong to show them their injuries, and also to take care of relatives, so that Jia Lian had to be grounded here, waiting for someone sent by Jia Zheng to pick it up and see how he dealt with it.

Sure enough, on this day, someone found the Yangzhou Post House and asked Jia Lian where the second master of the Jia family lived. The people at the post house replied that they didn't know the second master of the Jia family, and they didn't know what it was called. The person who came was a Qing guest under Jia Zhengmen, named Bu Guxiu (regardless of shame). He went back to Yangzhou City again, and asked for someone to inquire about the major inns, but there was no such person as Jia Lian. Later, a small servant next to him said: "Since Second Master Lian followed Aunt Lin's hearse out of the city, he must have stayed with the Lin family first, and it may not be known whether he used the name of the Lin family to stay in." ”

Bu Guxiu patted his fat head and big ears, turned around and ran to the post house outside the city, and asked if there were people from the Yan Yu Shilin family who came to stay here. The people in the post house replied that there was, and led him to the courtyard where the Lin family lived before, and sure enough, only the west side of the courtyard of the second road was still inhabited. Bu Guxiu stepped forward and knocked on the door to see, was it not Jia Lian or who? Looking at the room again, Wang'er was lying on the kang, moaning heavily, the old injuries on his back, legs and buttocks did not disappear, but he added some new injuries because of random movements.

Jia Lian had already received a letter of reprimand from Jia Zheng ten days ago, scolding him for being a bloody dog, ordering him to wait in place, and someone would pick them up and take them back to Rongguo Mansion. Jia Lian was helpless, he knew that he had fallen into a big disaster, and his head and face were bruised, he was afraid that he would be laughed at when he went out, and he didn't care about looking for flowers and willows anymore, so he was bored in the house, and he was relieved to see that Bu Guxiu had arrived.

Seeing this, Bu Guxiu didn't say anything. Originally, he was just a cleaner, running some errands for the master's family, and netting a few silver from his travel expenses. Therefore, without asking anything, he hired a medium-sized carriage outside, and ate lunch at the post house with Jia Lian and others, so he ordered the little maid to carry Wang'er into the car, lala miscellaneous luggage and dry food, and took Jia Lian to Yangzhou Wharf to take a boat back to Kyoto.

However, it was said that seven days after Lin Ruhai's burial, Daiyu Laituo Zijuan, Xue Yan and Aunt Ye and others persuaded him, and his mood calmed down a little, and because the entire family business was on him, he had to cheer up. At noon on this day, Lin Yuan, who was the secretary of the five-grade school at the time, and Lin He, who was the seven-grade Chang'an order, were about to resign, and the daughter-in-law of the long house in front of him, Lin He, and Lin Yuan's relatives came to invite Daiyu to meet in the past. Daiyu solemnly changed a set of clothes under the care of Zijuan, still the plain clothes of filial piety, in order not to look at them and feel disliked, Tete put on two pearl earrings of the same size, and her hair was curled into a double mustache, which was pressed with mutton fat and jade, lined with black hair and plain clothes, and her face became more and more like snow.

As soon as he arrived at the long room, he was pulled in front of Lin He, Lin Yuan's inner family, and the two ladies called by Daiyu as "three aunts" and "five aunts" to look left and right, and asked Daiyu what she usually likes to eat, but she read several "women's four books" such as "women's precepts and women's training", and asked if she had ever learned needlework and what she liked to play, and Daiyu also answered truthfully. After saying a few words, Daiyu asked Zijuan to give gifts to the two aunts, both of which were two brocade boxes of one color and tightly covered.

The two aunts took it, seeing that it was two small brocade boxes, and it was not a rare thing, the third aunt opened it casually and looked at it, and immediately gasped. The fifth aunt next to her stepped over to look at her, only to see the third aunt take out a piece of something from the box that seemed to be ice but not ice, and seemed to be frozen and not frozen, and pinched it tremblingly in her hand, lest her hand be so strong that she would crush it, and she would hold it on the palm of her hand, and she was afraid that it would turn into water and flow to the ground. The fifth aunt took it, held it in the palm of her hand and looked at it carefully, and after a while, she suddenly thought of something, and said: "I know, this must be the Qingtian stone in the three strange stones that people say." Your uncle also has a piece, it cost three thousand taels to get it, but it is not transparent, the color is not pure, and he loves it like a treasure, so I didn't dare to recognize it when I looked at it just now. ”

The third aunt took a closer look and said, "Is this the Qingtian stone that people often say is used to engrave seals?" It's clearly more popular than those jades, and I can't complain that it's expensive. The fifth aunt laughed softly: "It's not just expensive, it's nowhere to buy it if you have money!" ”

Daiyu added with a faint smile next to her: "Auntie really has good eyesight, this is a variety of Qingtian Stone, called Light Jelly." At this time, it looks ordinary, and when you look under the night lights, it really shines. The third aunt took it back carefully and was full of praise. The fifth aunt said to Daiyu: "Such a precious thing, it must have been left by your father, and it was also kept for thought, how can you take it out and give it away?" She looked at the light frozen Qingtian stone in the third aunt's hand with a sour smile, and at the same time opened the one for herself, she couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly covered the box, her heart pounded for a while, and she instructed her girl outside: "Go and invite the master!" ”

The third aunt next to her was taken aback by her reaction, and then thought about the piece of light she was holding in her hand, and hurriedly ordered: "Invite the third master over too." ”

After a while, Lin He and Lin Yuan arrived. They all gathered in the long house, originally because the patriarch of the long house proposed an important matter and persuaded the two of them. Therefore, I took the opportunity of returning to office to ask my relatives to call Daiyu over, and waited for the third aunt and the fifth aunt to talk to Daiyu first, and then pushed the boat down the river to make it happen.