Chapter 105: In the Dark
Go to Nanyang from the official school, if the sky is beautiful, you can arrive in two days. It's just that nearly half of the way doesn't pass through the official road, and the mounds are not easy to walk. The car rolled over the loess slope, and the people in the car were dizzy. It didn't rain for several days, and a foot of dust rose outside the window. On such a hot day, if you don't want to make a fuss, you can only hide in the carriage and put down thicker curtains on both sides, which is really hot.
The hot sun was climbing overhead, there was no shelter on the side of the road, and the car was as hot as a steamer. Chunying touched her forehead with a wet towel, and fluffed her fan for the girl, but her back was already wet.
The girl who was left in the girls' school to take care of the house, and temporarily entrusted Miss Ran to take care of it. Fortunately, I didn't take her with me when I went out this time, otherwise, with this girl with me, I must have been unable to stop complaining, chattering, and disturbing people.
The seventh girl wore a thin gauze skirt, and even then, she was sweating.
"Mrs. Dafang's letter was sent to the county guard's mansion, and it would take half a month to say the least. After seeing it by my father, I asked us to go directly to the ancestral house, so back and forth, how many times have we been delayed. I'm afraid that they arrived, and the people were also buried and buried. It will not be in the middle of summer, and the spirit will stop for more than ten days, not to mention the smell is unpleasant, but the body is also decomposed. ”
If you really want to talk about it, it is the same Jiang family, although the master of Dafang behaves absurdly, she doesn't want to have much contact with Dafang in her heart. But this person is really gone, and there is still a little sigh and melancholy in my heart.
The Jiang family somehow didn't know that her father's generation was really not prosperous. In addition to the eldest master Jiang Li from the old lady, the second master Jiang He, and the third master Jiang Wu born by an aunt.
Long before she was born, Sanfang suffered a calamity. It is said that her father Jiang He is not the most prominent son of the Jiang family, but the third master Jiang Wu, who was born to her aunt, is more proud of his knowledge. It's a pity that natural disasters and man-made disasters did not catch up with the prosperous era of Qingping, and human life is like grass mustard, which is really worthless.
When Sanfang moved his family to the county to take office, he encountered horse bandits wandering in the county. There are more than 20 people up and down, and none of them survived. The family property brought with him was looted, and even the three horses used for the set of cars were also taken away, leaving nothing of value behind.
When the government received the letter and sent someone over, the scene was real, in the wilderness, where could the whole corpse be left. All that remained were horrific and gruesome stump bones.
When the bad news came, Old Lady Jiang immediately fell on her back in anger. When a person is old and loses a child in middle age, he is the most decent one. Overnight, there was only one concubine left in the third room of the Jiang family waiting to give birth. Encountering this blow, Mrs. Jiang was in a hurry and suffered a stroke. The life is saved, but he can fall into a half-body disease, and he is raised in Rongshan Hall all the year round. The old lady is in charge of all the housework.
The old lady looked forward to the concubine's stomach and left a lone seedling in the third room. Who knows, the sky does not fulfill people's wishes, and after all, only a female doll is obtained. Since then, the third room has been completely cut off from the incense, and the old lady looks up to the sky and sighs, disheartened, and rarely asks about family affairs.
Some time ago, it was easy to be moved by the old lady, and I thought that I would not have many days to live in the future, so I didn't want to be shy with my old face, and I planned for the big house again. took the door of the old friend for the eldest master. Who knows, next year you will be able to get an official position, but in the blink of an eye, the eldest master died in prison, was beaten into a trick, and lost his life in vain.
At this point, the Jiang family is considered to be a real person, leaving only the second room alone to support the scene outside. There are orphans and widows in the big house, and there is only one orphan girl left in the third room.
The seventh girl had expected that when she went back this time, the old lady would never give her a good face, for fear that she would lose her child, and she would be angry with her. Thinking about it this way, the condolences for going back are a little lighter.
Chunying naturally knew the difficulties her girl would encounter when she went back, so she silently handed over a glass of water, and only picked up a good one. "You also said that this is not a good day to stop. By the time you go back, those smoky scenes have already ended. At that time, you will respectfully pay a pillar of incense to the tablet of the old man, and do your best. You don't have to get involved in the housework of the big house, isn't it just what you want? ”
Sure enough, she is the most satisfying girl, and what she says is likable. The seventh girl nodded again and again, tilted her neck and drank all the water in the cup.
Chun Ying is right. If she really wanted to cry and mourn with the people in the big house, she really didn't feel sad to go to that part. If you really want to say that people are sad, I'm afraid that the fifth girl is more sincere than her.
This time, the two masters of the Jiang family in Lushan, along with her and Jiang Rou, went all the way to Nanyang to mourn. Jiang Nan and Jiang Yu are very calm and unfazed. She was never welcomed, so she didn't bother to pretend to be that scene. Only the five girls, when they heard the bad news at first glance, and after being shocked, their eyes immediately turned red, and everyone in the women's school knew about it.
Jiang Rou couldn't learn what she was doing, so she had to help people go back quickly. Seeing Jiang Nan, the five girls burst into tears, and threw themselves on him and cried bitterly.
At that time, she was standing against Jiang Yu, and the two looked at each other, and Jiang Rou was a little inexplicable. The one who is close to Jiang Rou is Mrs. Dafang, and the one who can talk is also Mrs. Dafang. I don't know what to do, and I thought she went back to mourn Mrs. Dafang.
was muttering to Chunying, the fifth girl was afraid that she would be sad at this time, so she heard the soldier driving outside, "whoo" dragged it for a long time, but the car stopped halfway.
was wondering, so I heard Jiang Yu knock on the door outside. Chunying went over and opened the door, and the seventh girl knelt inside and poked her head out, only to see Jiang Yu dressed in royal blue satin, followed by a soldier with a changed face.
But it was the prince's private soldier, and it was inconvenient for that person to come forward in person, and the arrangement that should be made was more thoughtful than her.
"Second brother?" There is no shop in front of the village here, it is very open, at a glance, except for the sparse old branches, there is not even the shadow of a tea house, and it suddenly stops, but why?
Jiang Yu glared at her, and waited until she pouted and went back to sit up straight, and then explained the reason to her.
"The heavy rain is coming, and if you go further, you can't find an eaves to rest on for more than ten miles. I had to turn around the corner, and there was a dilapidated mountain temple on the path, barely sheltered from the rain. ”
"It's going to rain?" She lifted the curtain and looked overhead, the sun was still shining, what kind of rain was it?
Seeing that she looked puzzled, the sergeant behind Jiang Yu bowed his hand, and his dark and solemn face did not smile. "The girl didn't know that the rain in the mountains was very different from the outside. We and other marchers often sleep in the open air, and the wind carries the smell and is wrapped in moisture, and you can know it by smelling it. The rain came quickly, and the rain was very heavy, and I asked the girl to take care of some of them, and go to the temple to avoid the wind and rain, and then it was not too late to go on the road. ”
This person spoke sonorously and powerfully, smashing into her ears word by word, and he was a safe person given by the prince, where is there any reason for not believing. She nodded hurriedly, and said that everything was arranged.
So the group turned a corner halfway, and by chance, there was destined to be a cause and effect in the dark, and none of the people who should be involved could escape.