Chapter 270: Funeral
There are a lot of people in Ningfu today, although Ning Hong is just a servant, but his father's generation still has a lot of friends in the court, and Ning Lao Taijun is even more of a lady, and these relationships have been maintained very well for Ningfu over the years.
Now that Mrs. Ning is gone, these people have also come to the door to offer condolences.
Ning Hong is a man after all, and he is in charge of the reception, and he is not the housewife to do it, so Ning Lian should have taken over, after all, she is still in charge of the affairs of the Ning Mansion.
But Ning Lian had a big belly, and Ning Hong was also worried that something was wrong, so he had to ask Ning Zhao.
Ning Zhao didn't shirk this time, not for anything else, but to personally send Ning Lao Taijun on his last journey.
Jin Yuan stayed in the Ning Mansion for two nights in a row, and before dawn on the second question, he returned to the Shangshu Mansion and changed into a new official robe to go to the early dynasty.
After the morning was dispersed, he didn't have time to change his official robe and rushed directly to Ning Mansion, the carriage stopped, and Jin Yuan saw a familiar person as soon as he got out of the car.
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Jin Yuan got out of the carriage and walked towards the comer, greeting respectfully.
Murong Cheng raised his hand and replied, "Lord Jin doesn't need to be polite. ”
"Old Taijun Ning died of illness, and the palace should have come to visit earlier, but the East Palace was busy with affairs, and now he is free." Murong Cheng said, raised his hand and made a gesture of please, and said with a smile: "Let's talk inside." ”
Jin Yuan hung his head and also made a gesture of please, and waited until Murong Cheng took a step ahead before he followed behind/entered the Ning Mansion.
The condolences came and went, and the two met many acquaintances along the way, all of whom were ministers of the DPRK and China.
Murong Cheng and Jin Yuan reaped the 'festival mourning' all the way and finally came to the mourning hall.
Murong Cheng saw Ning Jian at a glance, his brows frowned imperceptibly, and then his eyes swept around again, as if he was looking for someone.
Jin Yuan is also looking for someone, he is looking for Ning Zhao.
Ning Zhao was not in the mourning hall, so he must have received guests in the main hall.
Thinking of this, Jin Yuan raised his feet and entered the mourning hall, took off three incense sticks and lit them, bowed to the coffin in the middle, and inserted the incense into the incense burner.
After doing all this, he turned around, and saw that Murong Cheng was still staying in the courtyard and did not come in, as if he felt Jin Yuan's gaze, Murong Cheng also raised his feet and walked in.
After doing the process of lighting incense and worshipping, he turned his head to look at Ning Lian, and asked as if unintentionally, "Has His Royal Highness the King of Chu ever been here?" ”
Ning Lian had already seen him and wanted to say a few words to him, but seeing that Murong Cheng didn't want to care about his intentions at all, Ning Lian didn't come forward in a rare way.
She has been wronged enough these days, and she really doesn't have the heart to entrap anyone.
Hearing this, Ning Jian raised his head slightly and replied, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu has come down." ”
Murong Cheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Where is he?" ”
"After condoling the old lady, you should be in the main hall at this moment." Ning Lian replied.
Murong Cheng nodded, raised his feet and left, after taking two steps, he paused again, looked back at Jin Yuan, and asked, "Lord Jin wants to go over together?" ”
Jin Yuan smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Of course." ”
He was going to find Ning Zhao, but he didn't see him for a morning, Jin Yuan was very worried, worried that she was not in good health, and she would be overwhelmed by the hard work of receiving so many people.
Fortunately, with Aunt Dou's help, Ning Hong couldn't handle it alone, and he was happy to see it.
When the two of them went to the main hall, Murong Ji, the king of Chu, was chatting with Ning Hong, his eyes swept over Ning Zhao who was sitting on the side, intentionally or unintentionally, and Jin Yuan frowned slightly when he saw it.
Murong Cheng also saw it, glanced at King Chu meaningfully, and then looked at Jin Yuan again, with a malicious smile on the corner of his mouth.
Jin Yuanquan didn't see it, he walked straight in and greeted Murong Ji, "Your Royal Highness the King of Chu will see your majesty." ”
Murong Ji was still gentle and polite, got up and saluted Jin Yuan back, and said, "Lord Jin mourns. ”
Raising his eyes and seeing Murong Cheng, Murong Ji paused, arched his hand at Murong Cheng again, and said, "Brother Huang is also here." ”
"Hehe......" Murong Cheng chuckled, glanced at Ning Zhao, and then said to Murong Ji: "Father asked the emperor to come to mourn on his behalf, and the emperor wants to bring his father's heart." ”
"The royal brother naturally doesn't dare to slack off." Murong Ji replied.
The two said a few words briefly, and Murong Cheng arched his hand towards Ning Hong again, his face turned serious, "Lord Ning, please mourn." ”
Ning Hong looked haggard, and hurriedly bowed to Murong Cheng, and replied, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness, Prince." ”
After asking Ning Hong, he naturally arrived at Ning Zhao, Murong Cheng was just about to talk to Ning Zhao, but Ning Zhao suddenly got up, blessed a few people, and said: "The condolences guests have all arranged to marry in the side hall, the time is almost up, I will go to the kitchen first to see, how the lunch is prepared." ”
Jin Yuan stretched out his hand to hold Ning Zhao's hand, and also said to Murong Cheng and the others: "I will go with my wife, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Chu, please sit down for a while." ”
With that, the two of them walked out of the main hall together and headed towards the kitchen.
Murong Ji looked at Ning Zhao's background for a long time and didn't retract his gaze, Murong Cheng turned his head to look at him, suddenly laughed, walked two steps, and asked softly, "Brother Huang didn't know that Brother Huang had such thoughts. ”
Murong Ji was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened suddenly, and he replied: "Don't misunderstand, the imperial brother doesn't have any thoughts. ”
"Really?" Murong Cheng looked at the direction in which Ning Zhao disappeared again, and smiled meaningfully.
Murong Ji met his smile, quickly opened his eyes, and said to Ning Hong: "A few days ago, because of the matter of the fourth princess, my father had a head disease, and I wanted to come to visit in person, but I was weak, so I asked this king to come to condolence instead to show his heart. ”
Ning Hong hurriedly bowed respectfully in the direction of the palace and said: "The emperor's heart has been felt by the lower officials, and I also ask His Royal Highness the King of Chu to thank the emperor for his concern when he goes back." ”
"It's nature." The topic diverged, Murong Ji secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Murong Cheng did not mean to be aggressive, and the three of them chatted with each other.
Because of the relationship between Murong Cheng and Murong Ji's identities, the lunch of the two was served in the main hall, and Ning Hong personally accompanied him, and Jin Yuan also accompanied him.
The rest of the guests who came were all placed in the side hall for dinner, and they were all received by Ning Zhao personally, and Ning Zhao also wanted to go over to help, at least this kind of thing that was shown in front of others could not be taken by Ning Zhao alone.
It's a pity that she is pampered, and recently her body has suffered again, and she is pregnant, as soon as she came out of the mourning hall, she felt dizzy and her legs were weak, and she had no choice but to let someone help her back to the room to rest.
Three days later, it was the day of the funeral, Ning Zhao turned around for a few days, when he saw the coffin buried and covered with soil, Ning Zhao's whole person seemed to be emptied, his eyes were dark, and the whole person was directly soft.
She frightened Aunt Dou this time, but fortunately, Jin Yuan was always with her, quickly arranged the follow-up matters, and took Ning Zhao straight to Miaochun Hall.
"She's just overly sad and tired all day long, and her heart is damaged."
Meng Sui slowly withdrew his hand, got up and said to Jin Yuan, "I'll prescribe some medicine for her in a while, and go back to recuperate for a few days." ”
With Meng Sui's words, Jin Yuan's hanging heart finally fell to the ground, he breathed a long sigh of relief, took a deep look at Meng Sui, and said, "Thank you, Imperial Doctor Meng." ”