Chapter 143: Xishan Ancestral Tomb (Second Watch)

When the eldest lady heard this, she didn't follow it.

Why did they lose the Zhuwen in the second room, so they had to take out the long room and put it together?

But when she thought about it again, the old lady was already very anxious, and if she didn't agree here, the old lady would definitely turn her anger on her.

The eldest lady quickly rolled her eyes and thought, and finally suddenly clapped her hands and said happily: "Look at my memory!" Before I came, for the sake of safety, I specially prepared two copies of the congratulations! Jade, go look in my house. ”

The emerald magpie snorted, turned and ran back.

After a while, Jade held a greeting and handed it to the old lady.

The old lady was relieved, and she never exaggerated her wife's half a sentence, but she said unprecedentedly: "The eldest daughter-in-law really thought about it this time!" ”

The second wife was supported by the pearl and stood aside, and secretly poked her head to glance at the blessing, but the more she looked at it, the more familiar it became.

Isn't that the one she threw away?

The second lady looked at the eldest lady in disbelief, although she couldn't see clearly through the hat, she could imagine how proud the eldest lady was smiling at the moment.

Right now, the old lady is boasting about the eldest wife, and even the second master is saying that he is fortunate to have a sister-in-law. The second lady knew that no one would believe what she said now, and she clenched her teeth, and her face hidden under the hood was hideously distorted.

This side has been fully prepared, and the old lady took the group to the ancestral tomb of Xishan.

Xishan was originally a barren mountain, and later the imperial court conscripted the past to prepare for the great development of forests, and the grandfather of the Jiang family was a businessman before entering the office, and he was particularly discerning, and he bought the land in Xishan before the imperial court approved it.

Really. Not in three years. The court approved the document. To recruit the entire West Mountain, the price paid to the grandfather was more than 30 times the original purchase.

Grandpa made a small fortune by relying on Xishan, but in the end he gave up business and bought a petty official to do it.

The ancestral tomb of Xishan is adjacent to Xishan, it is the only corner that was not requisitioned by the imperial court, and the grandfather entrusted the old lady to bury him next to this West Mountain, and the old lady simply built an ancestral tomb here.

This ancestral tomb is not big. Of course, don't dare to build too big, otherwise it will anger the heavenly family.

Su Xue swept it quickly, there are about thirty or forty tombstones in the ancestral tomb, counting from the grandfather, it is only four generations to Su Xue, which shows that the heirs of the Jiang family are still prosperous.

I heard that the old lady had fifteen brothers and sixteen sisters, but after having a family, they split up, although they were for the same clan. But it's not in the same ancestral hall anymore.

And the Jiang family is the most promising, and it can be regarded as the Jiang family in Jizhou.

The old lady led the crowd through the rows of tombstones. Su Xue also kept walking behind her, and when she reached a certain place, the second master in front of her suddenly paused.

Su Xue looked at the second master's gaze and couldn't help but be stunned.

The tombstone is engraved with Feng's.

It was Feng's tomb.

After Su Xue saw it clearly, her eyes also softened, that is the biological mother of this host, I heard that she is an extremely beautiful and gentle woman, but it is a pity that she has a thin face.

Feng's grave was clean and clean, without a trace of weeds, and it seemed that someone had taken care of it. As for this person, Su Xue's first thought was the second master.

But thinking about it again, the second master is far away in Jizhou, how can he come to Jiangnan alone?

After thinking about it, I felt stupid, the second master couldn't come over, and I could ask someone to take care of it on my behalf.

The second master only made a short pause, and then continued to walk forward with the old lady's steps.

After a few more graves, we arrived at the old lady's grave.

The old lady's tomb is bigger than the one on the side, Su Xue paid special attention to it, the old lady's left is the Yuan family, and on the right, it is the He family.

Look, they should all be the old lady's aunts before her death.

Su Xue is a little strange, these two aunts are surrounding the old lady on the left and right, where is the old lady placed?

Looking at the old lady's extraordinarily large tomb, Su Xue suddenly understood.

It seems that the old lady has already made a decision, and when she is at the end of her life, she will come back and bury the old lady in a tomb.

Thinking of this, Su Xue sighed slightly.

There is already a pile of black ash and three incense sticks in front of the old lady's tomb, and it seems that someone has already come to worship.

And Su Xue also noticed that there was also black ash and incense in front of the He family's grave on the side, but the Yuan family did not.

It was only later that Su Xue learned that the Yuan family had no children and no daughters in her life, and she died of depression two months after the old lady died.

And He is the biological mother of the third master, Jiang Yutai.

It is not difficult to think that the person who left those black ashes and incense is the third master.

The third uncle, who has never been masked but is often mentioned by the eldest and second masters, and angered the old lady because of this, turned out to really come to Jiangnan.

The old lady stood in the middle, the two rooms of the big room were separated on both sides, the old lady personally put on the incense, the eldest lord and the second lord read the blessings respectively, and the grandson Jiang Yonghong sprinkled the wine and offered the food box and brocade silk, and then the granddaughters who did not come out of the pavilion served the rice soup and tea one by one.

In the end, the old lady offered a blessing, burned the blessing, and everyone knelt down and kowtowed three times, which was considered to be the end of the worship.

The old lady walked through several more tombstones and went to pay respects to her grandfather and grandmother.

Jiangnan in winter is bright late and dark early, and when you finish worshipping here, the sky is already slightly dark.

After worshipping her ancestors, the old lady was very depressed, and she didn't say a word on the way back to the house, and everyone didn't dare to say anything.

Su Xue walked in the crowd, and suddenly noticed that there was no second master in the crowd, she frowned, and slowed down quietly.

In the end, he quietly broke away from everyone and turned back.

The rest of the people all had heavy faces and walked back with their heads down, only Wanyue glanced back silently, and happened to see Su Xue's back as she drifted away.

Wanyue didn't say anything, turned back quietly, and continued walking.

Su Xue turned back and went straight to Feng's tomb, and as she expected, the second master was standing in front of Feng's tomb.

Su Xue's footsteps suddenly became heavy.

The desolate wind whistled by, blowing the big coat of the dark cloud mink on the second master's body, constantly agitating and making a whirring sound.

"Father's ......"

I don't know how long it took. Su Xue shouted softly.

The second old man turned his face sideways. I saw that it was Su Xue. I was a little surprised.

"You...... Also coming? ”

I don't know if it's because of the wind, the second master's voice is hoarse.

Su Xue slowly walked closer, only to see the red eyes of the second master.

"Since you're here, please say goodbye to your mother."

Su Xue nodded silently and obediently stepped forward to kneel.

The second master's face was even more surprised, and after a while, he softened again.

"In the past, you didn't have the slightest affection for your mother, and you never wanted to come and worship her." He whispered. Although he tried his best to hide it, he was also full of helplessness and sadness.

Su Xue lowered her eyes slightly, this host is really indistinguishable, her own mother does not worship, but she has no defense against the stepmother......

After a silence, she suddenly whispered: "In the past, I often heard my mother say that my grandmother didn't like my mother, so I thought that my mother was not a good wife and did not please my mother-in-law. No matter how much the mother is at fault. also gave birth to Su Xue in October, Su Xue should not be so unfilial. ”

The second master was stunned after hearing this. Anger gradually surfaced on his face, and he gritted his teeth with hatred and said, "Cao's family, she actually said that? ”

Although the wind was blowing in her ears, Su Xue also felt the anger of the second master.

She turned her head and hurriedly explained: "Mother didn't say that her mother was not, she said that her mother was from a poor family, and it was understandable that she didn't understand the rules of a big family......

The second old man was so angry that he clenched his fists and said in a muffled voice: "Fault...... Your mother didn't make the slightest mistake when she was alive! ”

After that, he became ashamed again, looked at Feng's tombstone and said sadly: "The fault is mine, and the fault is all in my ......."

He muttered to himself, his eyes full of pain.

Su Xue didn't understand what the second master was referring to, whether it meant that he failed to protect the Feng family, made her suffer a lot of grievances, and finally left alone, or did he insist on taking her back to Jiangfu, but he couldn't give her a name, and ruined her life in vain?

Su Xue looked at the second master walking in front, trying to get an answer from his heavy and lonely back, but in vain.

The next day, relatives and friends in Jiangnan came to the door one after another, and the old lady and the second master were busy setting up banquets and entertaining, and for a while, the cold ancestral house was not lively.

The ladies and ladies went to the flower hall one by one to meet the guests and chat, and when they met the generous and enthusiastic relatives, the juniors could also get some beautiful gadgets and small gifts.

But only the second wife avoided and didn't dare to come out to meet the guests, and many relatives asked from time to time, but the old lady just perfunctorily said that the second wife was unwell and was recuperating.

The second wife insisted on taking the medicine every day, and although the red rash on her face had faded a lot, it never dissipated.

The second wife was worried, and I don't know which three-year-old baby from the family was running around greedily, so she got rid of the nurse who was waiting with her and ran into the second wife's house.

The second wife was anxiously looking at the indissible marks on her face in the bronze mirror, and when she heard the sound of the door, she thought it was pearls and cherished incense.

After all, everyone in the house is talking and laughing with the guests in the flower hall, who will come to her side?

So the three-year-old baby went into the house.

He wanted to see if there were any delicious snacks here, but unexpectedly bumped into the second wife.

"Ahh There are hemp seeds! As soon as Xiaowa saw the second wife, she pointed at her and screamed.

It was also this exclamation that alarmed the pearls and cherished incense that were pounding jade grease on the side, and they ran over to take a look, only to know that the little baby had come in.

The second wife was also startled by the screams of this little baby, and got up angrily and asked, "Which little baby!" Who let you in? ”

"Hemp! Hemp! There are hemp seeds here! Xiaowa pointed to the second wife and shouted while jumping.

The second wife was so angry that her whole body trembled, and she couldn't care about anything else, so she stepped forward and waved her hand to hit the little baby.

The little baby was clever, and when she saw that the second wife was menacing, she quickly got under the black lacquered wooden table.

"There's a hemp seed in the West Village, too! There's a hemp seed here, too! Hemp seeds, hemp seeds! The baby was still giggling. (To be continued......)

PS: The second watch is here! I'm sorry for being half an hour late. Ask for pink tickets, ask for collections, ask for all kinds of support~