Chapter 302: Condolence

The little eunuch's voice was not loud, but he also made the ministers of civil and military affairs present listen to itβ‰₯≀

Several people looked at Qi Jing on the spot, Qi Jing frowned, not knowing why Bai Yunyao asked to see Han Xin, and worried about what happened to Yun Yao.

He glanced up at Han Xin, and Han Xin asked, "What's the matter with Mrs. Qi?" ”

The little eunuch leaned over and whispered, "Mrs. Qi said that she wanted to make a coffin for Princess Changle, and wanted to see if there was any good wood stored in the palace." ”

Where did Han Xin know about this, he thought for a while and immediately said: "Ask Mrs. Qi to find the queen, just say that it means me, if there is good wood, just take it, don't pay attention to the others." ”

The little eunuch was ordered to leave in a hurry.

Han Xin then discussed the matter with the minister.

But it was said that Yun Yao got the will and went directly to find Qi Baobox, and it happened that Qi Baobox was directing a group of little eunuchs and palace maids to clean up the Fengming Hall at the back of Zichen Palace, and when she saw Yun Yao coming, she was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a smile: "If you don't have anything to do, you can't go to the Three Treasures Palace, the fourth sister-in-law is afraid that something is coming to me, right?" ”

Yun Yao stretched out her hand and pointed at the Qi treasure box: "Just your spirit, isn't there something to find you, I have got the will of His Majesty." ”

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Qi Baobox turned around and pulled a chair and sat down, Yun Yao didn't know, stood there and pursed her lips: "You find someone who is familiar with the affairs of the palace and ask, do you know if there are any good plates for coffins stored in the inner library of the Emperor Taishang." ”

With this sentence, Qi Baobox understood, Yun Yao should have found a good plate for Princess Changle to make a coffin, and she immediately called a little eunuch to ask.

The little eunuch thought back and said: "If you really say that the Emperor has any good things, there is no clearer than Gonggong Liu, but Gonggong Liu is not in Chang'an at this time when he is ordered to inspect, except for Gonggong Liu, there is only one Gonggong Wei left, by the way, there was a Gonggong Bai who was in charge of the inner treasury earlier, and I should know it." ”

As soon as Qi Baobox heard this, he called someone to pass on Father-in-law Bai.

Yun Yao couldn't figure it out for a while, so she found a chair and sat down, and said to the little palace maid next to her, "Go, get some good tea and snacks from the queen's mother." ”

The little palace maid was full of embarrassment.

Qi Baobox smiled: "Don't embarrass her, I don't have any good things here now, even if it's a little good, I have already told those people in Beiliang to trample on it." ”

Turning around, Qi Baobox told the little palace maid: "Go and boil the little dragon and phoenix group tea that you just turned out, and then ask the imperial dining room to make a few small snacks." ”

The little palace maid took the order, and after a while, the tea came, but there was no dim sum, but the white father-in-law came.

Father-in-law Bai is already old, he looks like he is sixty years away, he is hunched back, his head is gray, and he is a little trembling when he walks.

When he entered the door, Qi Baobox hurriedly asked the little eunuch to help him, and Father-in-law Bai entered the house to give Qi Baobox a gift first, and Qi Baobox smiled: "Get up, at such an old age, you don't need to be so polite." ”

Subsequently, Qi Baobox asked someone to bring a chair for Father-in-law Bai.

Waiting until Gonggong Bai sat down, Qi Baobox asked, "I called you here to ask what good plates are in the Emperor's private treasury?" ”

When she asked, there were a few tears in Grandpa Bai's cloudy eyes, and he didn't care about wiping them, and whispered, "The slave really knows." ”

Speaking of which, Bai Gonggong thought that the top plate was prepared by Emperor Chengping to make longevity materials, if he asked someone to get it...... But after thinking about it, Emperor Chengping now doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and he doesn't know if he can go back to Chang'an in this generation, and those longevity materials are kept in vain, so it is better to say it and sell it today, so he said: "In the early years, the Emperor Taishang made a large piece of gloomy wood to keep, and wanted to wait for a hundred years to make longevity materials, and now it is still in the private treasury." ”

"Gloomy wood?" Yun Yao asked in surprise: "Is that the 10,000-year-old immortal and incorruptible gloomy wood?" ”

Bai Gonggong nodded: "Don't look at the Emperor Taishang is rich in the world, but this gloomy wood is really not easy to get, especially the more rare one that can be used as longevity materials, and it is also a coincidence that the Emperor Taishang can go, so he is hiding, only now...... Alas, the Emperor Taishang doesn't know what to do, and it's useless to keep this gloomy wood. ”

"What about the gloomy wood?" Yun Yao asked again.

Bai Gonggong thought for a while: "In addition to the gloomy wood, it is golden silk nan or red sandalwood, and there is also a piece of hemlock wood, which is not bad." ”

"Then ......" Yun Yao pondered for a moment before asking Qi Baobox: "Just use gloomy wood and golden silk nan, what do you think?" ”

Qi Baobox nodded knowingly: "Just take it and make it, there is nothing to disagree with if you want to come to Your Majesty." ”

Qi Baobox understood Han Xin's thoughts, Changle's death made Han Xin feel distressed or something, he was hurting the three princesses at this time, he really hated to bury them in a grand manner, and naturally he didn't care about a few coffins.

Looking at Father-in-law Bai, Qi Baobox ordered: "You go and bring someone to get some plates and send them to Qi Mansion." ”

Father-in-law Bai promised to get up as soon as he said it, but he looked extremely unwell, and he got up several times before getting up, Qi Baobox asked the little eunuch to send it again, and Father-in-law Bai saluted and held the little eunuch's hand and said goodbye.

Yun Yao thought that those plates would not be able to be delivered for a while, so she simply drank some tea here in Qi Bao Box, and when the snacks came, she ate a few more pieces to cushion her stomach before leaving.

By the time Yun Yao went back, the palace guards had already sent the plates.

Yun Yao ordered someone to put it in the wing, she went back to the house to get a pen and paper to paint, Yun Yao wanted to make a coffin is naturally different from the next one, she has been in the Great Zhou Dynasty for several years, and she also knows many things about the ancients, and knows very well that the tombs of those princes and ministers and rich and noble families are the most likely to be stolen, that is, the imperial tombs of the previous dynasty are now broken in several places, looking at the good ones, who knows if there are tomb robbers who have gone in and patronized.

Yun Yao was naturally not happy to let Princess Changle's tomb be stolen after many years, the gold, silver and jewelry that accompanied the burial were trivial, she didn't want to see Princess Changle's body pulled out of the coffin to be insulted, so the coffin that Yun Yao wanted to make was something that no one else could open.

Moreover, Yun Yao also designed some mechanisms to be installed in the tomb of Princess Changle, so that Princess Changle would not be disturbed after being buried.

She made many drawings until late afternoon when she watched the sky get dark, and then she stopped.

called a little girl over, Yun Yao packed up the drawings, and while asking the little girl to wait for her to wash, she sent someone to see what Qi Jing was doing now and when she would come back.

When Yun Yao washed up, a mother-in-law came to say, only saying that Qi Jing had to be busy for the past few days, so Yun Yao didn't have to wait for him.

Yun Yao also knew that Qi Jing would definitely be busy for a few days, and when she heard this, she immediately took the big clothes that had been prepared for Qi Jing earlier, and asked the kitchen to prepare a few good dishes and order someone to send them to Qi Jing together.

After finishing all this, Yun Yao couldn't stand it anymore because she was tired, so she only drank a little porridge and lay down.

Yun Yao slept very well this night, she has been on the road for several days, and she slept in the tent at night, although she also burned the stove, but where could she get warm in the house, she had to be frozen awake several times in the middle of the night every day, and today she finally arrived in a warm room, slept on a comfortable high bed, and all the fatigue came to her heart for a while, making her sleep to death.

On the second day, Yun Yao got up on the third day, and when she got up and asked, she learned that Qi Jing only came back in the middle of the night, and left early in the morning.

Yun Yao didn't ask much, she hastily ate some food and then stuffed into the wing room and knocked on it, Yun Yao worked fast and well, and it only took three days to make four coffins.

The coffin she made was different from the usual style, wider and taller than usual, and it looked carved with various patterns from the outside, painted with red lacquer, and painted with some gold dust, but there was a hole in the inside.

At the bottom of the coffin, Yun Yao carved mountains, rivers and plants, a layer of green thick velvet blanket was laid on the top, and various colors of birds and beasts were carved on both sides, and the sun, moon and stars were carved in the coffin cover.

After the coffin is ready, it is natural to put the corpses of the three princesses and Qi Yuma into it, and then mourn the scenery.

The funeral of the four people was presided over by Han Xin himself, and the dignitaries and civil and military ministers in Chang'an City all came to mourn, showing great sorrow.

But no matter how beautiful the funeral is, Princess Changle is dead or dead, and she can't live anymore.

During the day, Han Xin personally sacrificed four people, and all kinds of people came to worship, Yun Yao didn't want to cause trouble, so she didn't show up, and when there was no one in the mourning hall in the evening, Yun Yao wore plain clothes and took the girl to send Princess Changle and Qi Juma on the last ride.

She was wearing a plain white cotton robe, a white fox fur cloak, a long bun, and only a few silver ornaments to fix it, and the whole person was as pure as the snow.

Yun Yao took some food in her hand, as well as some incense candles.

She walked into the mourning hall, walked to the tablet of Princess Changle and Qi Yuma, put the favorite dishes of the two on the tablet, lit incense and candles, bowed three times first, then dragged a chair and sat down, looked at Princess Changle's spirit card and laughed first: "I really didn't think that we would meet again like this, you lie there, I sit here and chat, even if it is talking, it is just that I said you...... I can't even hear it. ”

A line said, Yun Yao's eyes tears rolled down, she felt uncomfortable, and she didn't wipe it, letting the tears fall: "I remember that you wrote to me some time ago that you wanted to come to Suzhou to have a look, I was very happy in my heart, thinking that when the spring was warm, I would grind with you, and I had to grind you to Suzhou, who would have thought that it was not yet spring, you just went, and you didn't even go to Suzhou, but I carved the mountains and rivers of Suzhou in your coffin, and also painted the night sky of Suzhou, you lie there and take a look, It's like going to Suzhou. ”

Having said this, Yun Yao couldn't cry: "My temper is not very good, and I am not something that can tolerate people, for so many years, there are few people who can really be good with me, you are the first one to really make friends with me, and I have always regarded you as a confidant, I have loved to talk to you about everything over the years, you go, I'm afraid I will never find such a confidant as you again, who can I talk to if I encounter difficulties in the future?" (To be continued.) )