The night was deep, silent, and the cold rain was pouring outside the window.

The lights in Yining Hall are flourishing, shining out the magnificence of the room, and the old ancestor who has finished washing is half lying on the Luohan bed, holding a green old book and reading it fascinatingly.

"Ancestor, it's late at night, I'll help you go and rest." Mother Wu came in from outside the door, and as she spoke, she took a wet handkerchief and cleaned her hands, preparing to go to the bedroom to make the bed.

When her son is at the funeral, how can a mother lie down in peace?

"No need." The old ancestor didn't even raise his eyelids, paused, and said, "Go to the Green Jade Pavilion to see if Fang Fei has rested, and if he doesn't rest, he will call over to talk to me." ”

"Nope." Mother Wu brought the brazier over and put it in front of the Luohan collapse, the elderly are always very sensitive to temperature, "I just came in from outside, and I saw that the study room on Mrs. Tai's side was still lit, thinking that she was busy with the front yard during the day and didn't take care of it, so she had to be empty to make accounts at night." ”

The old ancestor let out a faint 'um' and tightened the tiger skin mattress covering his body, "Then don't bother her, the third watch has to arrange for the kitchen people to prepare breakfast, and it is estimated that there is not much time." ”

In the spirit sending team, except for the juniors, they can not come back until they are buried and filled, and the rest of the people can return as long as they are sent to the cemetery.

At the time of the second watch, people came back one after another, most of them people from the small kitchens of the various courtyards, who hurried back to prepare breakfast for the masters who had suffered all night, and then the people from the big kitchen, and the ladies of each room, hurried back to boil hot water and prepare to change clothes.

This trip, except for a few owners who helped hold umbrellas, the rest of the people were either self-sufficient, or bareheaded in the rain, the road was not halfway through, the clothes were soaked, the cold wind blew, shivering, the big kitchen was already boiling ginger soup.

The big maids and housekeepers in each room who were a little more decent were all assigned to make umbrellas for the monks who were funeral, and they had to wait until the burial was finished before they could return with the team.

The big maid Shuilian and Zhou's mother were all assigned to go out, and Lu Yuxuan only returned a few little maids, one by one, like a chicken in soup, and tired, hurriedly washed up, and after drinking the ginger soup, he went to the quilt to cover his sweat.

It was not until the end of the Yin period that the funeral troops returned to the Zhao family one after another, dispersed, went back to their respective courtyards to wash, and took a short rest.

dragged the tired body back to the green jade xuan, after the change was completed, Shui Lian went directly back to the house and lay down, Zhou's mother cheered up, went to the study with the lights on, looked for it, but did not see Fang Fei, and then went to the bedroom, and pounced again.

Zhou's mother was uneasy, so she woke up the little maid who came back to ask questions.

They shook their heads one by one, afraid that Zhou's mother would punish them, so they had to say vaguely: "Maybe I went to the big kitchen, yesterday I seemed to hear Chief Steward Zhao say that I would let Mrs. Tai help take care of it at night." ”

Zhou's mother was suspicious, and then went to the big kitchen, and asked the entire big kitchen one by one, but no one said that she had seen Fang Fei.

"Didn't I deliberately tell you to go to Mrs. Tai's side when I came back? Mosquitoes in the ears? Mother Zhou panicked, and as soon as she turned back to Luyuxuan, she took a few little girls out of the quilt with her ears pinched, knelt in a row, and asked one by one.

One of the leaders replied: "I was so tired when I came back yesterday that I fell asleep and didn't pay attention to ......."

The other continued: "The slave maid went to the bedroom to see, Mrs. Tai was not there, but the light in the study was on, so I thought that Mrs. Tai must be settling accounts, and the account room is not a place where slaves and maids can go, so I didn't dare to go over......"

"Mom, don't think about the worst, maybe Mrs. Er's wife went to the courtyard of the ancestors......

As soon as the funeral procession left last night, there were only three people left in the entire Zhao family's backyard, and Fang Fei was not in the Green Jade Pavilion, but it was very likely that he went to the ancestor's side. Thinking so, Zhou's mother dismissed a few little girls, planning to rest for a while, and go to Yining Hall as soon as it was dawn.

Yesterday, I was busy all day during the day, and I was tired for most of the night at night, Zhou's mother was really sleepy, and she was afraid that she would sleep after an hour, so she didn't dare to go to the bed to sleep, and only rested on the dresser.

At the end of the day, the maids and mothers-in-law of Yining Hall got up one after another and began to work, preparing a breakfast for the whole family, which was also the first meal after the funeral of the grandfather.

According to contemporary customs, when the elder of the family dies, the whole family must eat vegetarian food, starting from the death of the elder, at least 7749 days, some people will even eat for three years, during which they must not get meat for half a day.

During these days, the only meat meal that can be eaten is the rooster used to sacrifice to the gods before the funeral. But the number of the Zhao family is too large, and the main owner, aunt, concubine, and concubine of the second room of the big house add up to dozens of them, and they eat a chicken separately, and they have to chop it into diced meat to get a piece for everyone.

Chief Steward Zhao asked the cook to add other ingredients to it, and put a lot of precious medicinal materials into it, and stewed it into a big pot of chicken soup to ensure that everyone could get a bowl.

As soon as the time came, there were people in the big room who went to the main hall of Yining Hall in twos and threes, and there were many mothers with their children.

Grandma Song was no exception, and went with her son, son and son-in-law.

Zhao Rongzhao's eldest sister's name is Zhao Wanrong, she is the eldest daughter of the long house, and she is also the only one of her generation who is married.

The only deficiency is that Zhao Wanrong has been married for more than two years, but her stomach has not moved, and her husband's in-laws are holding their grandson eagerly, and they already have the idea of taking a concubine for their son.

The daughter pretended not to care on her face, but there was already a wisp of sadness between her eyebrows, she really looked like herself back then, Grandma Song saw it in her eyes and felt pain in her heart.

No one knows the pain caused by her husband's concubine better than her.

Back then, Grandma Song gave birth to Zhao Wanrong a year after passing the door, although it was a daughter, Master Zhao was still so happy that he was about to fly into the sky, the relationship between husband and wife was more harmonious, Qin Se and Ming, but unfortunately in the next five years, Grandma Song had nothing to do.

During that time, the eldest lord rejected his mother-in-law's opinion that he wanted to take a concubine for him several times, and Grandma Song was young and vigorous, and she breathed out with the eldest lord, and she also rejected her mother's kindness several times openly and secretly. This guide and the old lady originally agreed that as soon as the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son was born, he would be upset about the original wife who recorded the eldest lord in his name, and he did not want to record the eldest lord in his name anyway, until the old lady's original partner died, the eldest lord has always been the eldest son.

That incident not only offended the original Mrs. Tai, but also offended the ancestors.

Soon, the ancestor found an excuse to let the eldest master accompany her back to her ancestral hometown, and Grandma Song stayed alone in the capital, and when she returned to Beijing half a year later, there were four more beautiful aunts around the eldest master.

Grandma Song was heartbroken to death, but she still had to pretend to be virtuous and virtuous, arrange a yard for her aunt, reward things, and assign people.

Later, several aunts successively reported that they were pregnant, and those news seemed to be knives stuck in Grandma Song's heart, dripping with blood. Fortunately, Grandma Song is also pregnant, Zhao Rongzhao seems to have been sent by God to save her, otherwise, how could she survive those days?

Thinking back to the beginning, Grandma Song was full of bitterness, and patted her daughter's hand in the crook of her arm lovingly, the mother and daughter looked at each other and smiled, let go of each other, and had already arrived at the main hall of Yining Hall-

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I wish you all a happy April Fool's Day, and while you are tricking others, you must also beware of others being tricky~!

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