Everyone was taken aback, and hurriedly put Fangsi down, the body was cold and stiff, and it was obvious that it had been dead for a long time. It turned out that yesterday Fang Si cried until midnight, and told her mother to go to Aunt Song to intercede again, but Guo's mother sighed and said: "Mrs. listens to the uncle in everything, you don't see that the uncle is already iron-hearted." It's all your fault for being a prisoner, and it's still affecting me if you don't say anything. Leaving the Song family, what kind of place can we go? Which of our relatives can be trusted? Saying that, he hated it, slapped Fang Si twice, and cried: "It's really my life, I gave birth to such an unconscious bastard thing as you!" Let you endure it for two years, but you don't listen, and you are blind to such a good errand and future. Uncle Strange Dao looks down on you, you want to be a nasty beast like a flower, and you can't get on the high platform! ”

When she heard this, Fence's tears became more and more miserable. Guo's mother muttered for a long time, but her hands were not idle, and she cleaned up all the ladders she had saved in the Song family over the years, and she was too precious to see people, so she sewed pockets into her clothes and took them with her. She already regarded the Song family as a retirement home for the second half of her life, so there were a lot of things, and there were always three big boxes, but it was too conspicuous to carry it out like this, so she had to pick the most expensive and important one and hold a box.

Mother Guo couldn't help but feel pain when she looked at the rest of the things, and saw that Fang Si was still crying in the corner, and the anger came out again, and she went up and hit her twice, and scolded sharply: "The present world!" Why don't you pack my things yet! , crying what are you crying, I'm not dead yet! He pinched and twisted Fang Si into the second room.

Fang Si burst into tears, opened the box, and saw at a glance the long collared robe that she had made half for Song Ke, holding the dress and crying softly, and she didn't dare to let Guo's mother hear it, and said secretly: "Uncle, my little Lang Jun'er, why are you so ruthless!" Now for the sake of a Chen Xianglan, she sees me as dung, and she is anxious to drive me out, and I can't count the affection and benefits I have for you in the past! ”

cried once, gritted his teeth and said secretly: "The Song family is hard-hearted and will not tolerate me, and now all hopes have become empty, why go home and be idle again, it is better to die cleanly, at least the soul is still in the Song family, whether to leave or not!" ”

rummaged through the cabinets, found a set of his favorite bright clothes, and stared at it for a long time. Guo's mother peeked and saw that the cages in the room were opened, and she thought that Fangsi was packing her things, so she went with confidence. Na Fangsi washed her face, changed her clothes with tears, opened the mirror box to draw her eyebrows and sideburns, groomed herself, put on all her precious jewelry, and sat in front of the candle until the third watch. When I walked outside, I saw that the lights were all off at Guo's mother's place, and it was obvious that she was asleep.

So he turned back, tore a pair of white silk trousers and knotted them into strips, stepped on the stool and knotted the silk on the beam, put his head in, and kicked off the ground with his feet, and drifted to the Yellow Spring.

Early in the morning, Guo's mother came to call the door after freshening up, and when she pushed the door, she saw Fangsi hanging on the beam, first screaming in shock, and peeing her pants on the ground as soon as her legs were soft.

The person who came put Fang Si down, only to see that she was neatly dressed, wearing heavy makeup, but she was staring at her neck, her face was bruised, her tongue was spitting out her elder, and her death was hideous and terrifying. Guo's mother stroked the corpse and cried, and she couldn't stop crying with "heart, liver and flesh" in her mouth, and cried again: "How can you let me live if you die!" Crying again: "If you are not angry, why are you so angry!" ”

Crying straight and stiff, everyone pinched and rubbed their chests, Guo's mother woke up with a groan, and when she turned her head and saw the corpse, she cried again.

When Aunt Song got the news, she hurriedly helped Song Tanchai's hand, and when she saw the tragic scene of Guo's mother hugging the corpse and crying bitterly, tears rolled out, Song Ke hurriedly stepped forward and said: "The death is too unbearable, mother, please go back, I will take care of this matter." ”

Aunt Song trembled, pointed at Song Ke with a Buddha bead, and said with tears: "This, this is what you stirred up...... Now that there is a lot of life, are you satisfied? Fancy, the poor clever child...... couldn't speak, covered her face and began to cry.

Song Ke made a look, and Song Tanchai lightly persuaded Aunt Song away.

Xianglan sighed silently, and secretly said that this Song family is really a disaster, which is to drive Fang Si away, this is to send silver, and to send jewelry materials, it is obviously to send a great god, but I didn't expect to add this disgusting incident. She was very pitiful and sorry for Fangsi, but she pitied her stupidity - although Fangsi was a slave, she had not suffered much in the Song family, and she lived more decently than ordinary young women.

wanted to step forward to help, but was afraid that Guo's mother would respond to her in her heart, so she quietly pulled Song Ke's sleeve and said: "Fang Si is different from other maids, since she died in the mansion, if you don't handle this layer of white things, it will inevitably make people poke your backbone and say that you are not lenient, what kind of regulations does the uncle have?" ”

Song Ke rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Just do it as usual, even if her mother takes a fancy to her, she is a girl, and it is not easy to go beyond the rules, and she will give Guo's mother more money afterwards." ”

Xianglan was worried about Song Ke, thought for a while and said, "Uncle still has to study, and the affairs of the academy can't be delayed." ”

Song Ke smiled bitterly: "I don't care, who in the family can take care of it?" Mrs. don't count on it, my sister is a boudoir lady, and she doesn't want to make a fuss. ”

Xianglan said: "If you can trust it, I will help you sort it out." ”

Song Ke hesitated: "Can you do it?" ”

Xianglan smiled: "Why not? If it doesn't work out, I'll ask you for advice. ”

Song Ke saw Xianglan's smile like jade, and his originally irritable heart calmed down, and said secretly: "At present, there is a lack of someone in the house who can take care of it, let her do it, it is really impossible for me to clean it up." He nodded and answered, and paid another hundred taels of silver from his account, leaving it alone for the time being.

Xianglan took charge of it, picked out a row of houses in the back seat and made a mourning hall, found a white cloth from the warehouse, dressed it inside and out, and sent someone to buy incense, wax paper money and other colorful things, coffins and other things.

When Song Ke came back at noon, everything was ready. He went to the mourning hall and put a stick of incense on Fangsi, only to see Guo's mother sitting in the mourning hall with a dull gaze, at the mercy of others, as if she had been fooled.

Song Ke returned to the house, Xianglan was reconciling the accounts, and when she saw him coming, she said: "Together with the coffin, a total of forty taels of silver have been dissolved, this is the breakdown, you can look at it quietly." ”

Song Ke took a look at it and was satisfied. Xianglan said again: "It's just that Fang Si died in the main house, in the end, it makes people respond, the uncle paid one hundred taels from the account, and the rest of the money is better to change the beams, and invite a monk to chant the scriptures, one to relieve the heart, and the other to comfort Fang Si's spirit in the sky." ”

Song Ke was also uncomfortable because Fang Si died in his mother's room, and when he heard this, he said, "Just do as you say." He went to pull Xianglan's hand and said, "Thanks to you, this experience has saved me trouble." ”

Xianglan's face was slightly red, and she withdrew her hand. Song Ke valued Xianglan more because of this, and felt that she was smart and respectable, so he didn't mention it for the time being.

At the moment, because of the heat of the day, the mourning will start on the third day, and the spirit will be placed in the Jingyue Nunnery, and the funeral will be rich. Aunt Song inevitably cried again, and wanted to leave Guo's mother behind after the incident.

Song Ke frowned and said, "Fang Si died here, my mother wants to keep Guo's mother, wouldn't it be sad to let her touch the scene every day?" It's better to send her to the old house in the capital, and the Song family will give her a pension and send her to the end. ”

Aunt Song sighed and agreed.

said that Guo's mother was still looking forward to Aunt Song being able to keep her, who wanted to stay until the funeral was over, but Aunt Song had not moved. She couldn't help crying: "I'm an old woman and I'm lonely, I don't know where I can go in the future...... I also really can't live without my wife. ”

It's just that she lives in the back room now, and it's rare to see Aunt Song, and now it's Juan Hua who is serving Aunt Song, and she got Song Tanchai's order to seal her mouth to death, and warned the little girl, so Mother Guo's crying words didn't come at all.

Fangsi's burial has been completed, and Song Ke urged Guo's mother to go on the road again, she is not good at staying, taking advantage of Song Ke's absence, to kowtow to Aunt Song.

When I entered the inner courtyard, I saw Xianglan wearing a pink fen white phoenix tail dress, bright as the dew on the flowers, looking forward to the brilliance, and was talking to Juan Hua, the two covered their mouths and ate and laughed.

Mother Guo's eyes were red, and she secretly hated in her heart: "If it weren't for this little goblin, my daughter would have lost her life if she was so good!" Now she lives freely and nourishingly, but pity my daughter for dying so miserably...... "I will be full of resentment and anger on Xianglan."

Xianglan Yuguang had caught a glimpse of Guo's mother coming in, and saw that she seemed to be ten years old in the past few days, already full of gray hair, and pity in her heart, but seeing her resentful eyes, she couldn't help but be shocked, thought about it but understood, shook her head, and secretly thought: "Poor people must have something to hate, if she hadn't taught her well, how could Fang Si have come to this point." Listening to the little girls, Fangsi cried until midnight that night, and her mother beat and scolded her, and maybe Fangsi's death also had the cause and effect of her mother's beating and scolding. She hates me now, and she can't help it. ”

Pulling Juan Hua and making a look, Juan Hua turned his head and saw that Guo's mother was walking up the steps into the house, and hurriedly called, "Mom, do you want to see Mrs.?" My wife is chanting, let me speak. He hurriedly lifted his skirt and went in.

Guo's mother deliberately raised her voice and said: "The old slave is about to return to Beijing, and I have come to kowtow to my wife." ”

Aunt Song heard it in the house and hurriedly said, "Let her come in!" ”

As soon as the master and servant met, they naturally burst into tears and wept relatively well. Guo's mother wiped her tears and said: "I blame me, I came to kowtow to my wife to thank me, but when I came, I invited my wife to cry." As he spoke, he kowtowed on the ground and said in a dumb voice: "Even if the old slave is reluctant to give up his wife, he is going now, and there will be no goodbye in the future, so the wife should cherish herself...... Old Slave ...... The old slave is really ......," he said, choking.

Aunt Song couldn't hold it anymore and cried.

Xianglan stood outside the window and peeked in, and said secretly in her heart: "This Mother Guo is really a capable person, she is simply choking his wife's death hole, and she can cry and talk, if she persuades her wife to be soft-hearted, it will be bad." Frowning and thinking about it, he walked away lightly. RS