Jiang Guangshi has reached the age of ancient times, but he has always been strong but he is obsessed with alchemy and seeking immortals, Jiang's mother has repeatedly advised him to take care of himself more, enjoy the joy of family at home, and do not have to travel all sides for the pill, where can the pill change the fate of the pill. Jiang Guangshi was not angry, and waved his hand to signal her not to interfere, and still went her own way. In the past three years, I have eaten a lot of pills, but my body has deteriorated, and in this year's wax moon, I have been bedridden and unable to walk, and I used ginseng to hang for a few days and then drove to the west.

At the end of the month, the first heavy snow fell, the entire general's mansion was covered in silver, and the steps outside the mansion were covered with snow overnight, and the crescent moon was still hanging in the sky, and the servant woman came out of the small door in the east and west corners of the mansion with a bamboo broom and a rag. In the house, too, only the sound of brushing and clearing snow was heard.

After passing through the hanging flower gate and walking through a corridor of copying hands, I saw the brightly lit mourning hall from afar. Jiang Chutao took her sister Chuju's hand, holding a food box in her small hand, which contained bowls of bird's nest soup and a bowl of millet porridge with eight dishes of side dishes. Both sisters wore green ribbons on their heads, and they stepped into the mourning hall very carefully.

Half an hour later, a room of Zen monks resting in the east had breakfast, and they had to get up again to recite the "Great Compassion" to spend their souls. Seven pairs of altars were erected in front of the mourning hall to do things, and the incense ashes burned in the hall were still falling, and the incense boxes were almost filled. The altar was filled with rituals, and the fine coffin was shining with a faint light, facing the main hall. Chu Tao's mother, Liu, Aunt He, and Aunt Wu all knelt on the ground, dressed in white clothes, facing the sky, grief-stricken. Uncle Kai, Uncle Duan, and the three aunts shed tears while persuading the elders, and their heads were surrounded by red silk satin.

The tradition of the Jiang family has always been like this, and the generations in the funeral are even more distinct, the daughters-in-law wear white and filial piety, the grandchildren wear red, the great-grandchildren wear green, and the great-grandchildren wear yellow scarves.

Chu Tao swept away and didn't see her grandmother, and turned to the side room. Knowing that my grandmother was so devastated that she cried and fainted several times, she must have rested in the side room. Sure enough, the first three or four old grandmothers in the house gathered around to give their grandmother a good breath, and Chu Tao saw at a glance the second sister Jiang Chuying, who was tied with green satin like herself, and she was comforting her grandmother softly. Hatsu Tao bowed to her grandmother and said, "Grandmother must take care of the Holy Communion, otherwise she will ......," and she began to cry as she spoke.

Mother Jiang opened her eyes, her face was like ashes, she moved her mouth, and after a long time of delay, she said to Chu Tao: "Good boy, you also go and persuade your other elders." Mrs. Fang Zhongjinghou has been here? ”

Hatsu Sakura said softly: "I've been here, the old ancestor will fall asleep." The second uncle took the name card and returned the gift according to the old practice, and the arrangement was stable. Chu Ying was careful, noticed the food box that Chu Tao was carrying, and said: "Ancestor, get up and eat something, Chu Tao's sister Baba sent it over, don't ignore this piece of filial piety." ”

Mother Jiang burst into tears, tremblingly drank half a bowl of bird's nest, and said, "Good boys, you are all good children." ”

After serving Jiang's mother, Chu Tao turned back to the main hall. After kneeling for a while, I heard the noise of gongs and drums outside, and the cannons were flying wildly, and in an instant, everyone turned around and sat up. A sharp and thin voice pierced through the smoke of gunpowder: "The Eighth Prince has arrived!" Concubine Zhen has arrived! According to the order of the eldest and youngest, the people inside first straightened their clothes, knelt down and kowtowed together with the music, and the first peach and the first orange knelt beside their mother Liu on the left and right.

Dozens of little eunuchs led the way in front, all the way about eight teams of palace maids carrying incense, at this time the sound of suona blew more and more vigorously, the first three carriages pulled rare and exotic products, and then you can see the sedan chair inlaid with gold, the yellow curtain was lifted by several palace maids, and a few little maids came up to help out of the concubine, and the back sedan chair was filled with the eighth prince Xue Zicheng, stepping on the back of the slave. Concubine Zhen's face turned sideways, she sighed first, she couldn't worship before the spirit, she had to bathe and change her clothes first, and when Concubine Zhen finished changing her clothes and arrived at the main hall of the mourning hall, everyone knelt down and bowed.

Chu Tao was young, and couldn't help but peek curiously at this strange aunt, only to see that she was wearing red silk satin like her mother, wiping her forehead in front of her forehead, a pair of watery apricot eyes were hazy below, thin lips under her straight and small nose were pursed, and a round face was like Aunt He, with an extraordinary bearing, and she couldn't tell her age if she was properly maintained. Look at a stocky boy behind him, with a pair of thick lips under his nose and a green head on his head, the same generation as Chu Tao, it is Xue Zicheng, the eighth son of the emperor today, and it is needless to say that he is arrogant.

Chu Tao thought in his heart, I heard that the eighth prince and I were born in one day, I am a few hours older than him, no matter what prince he is, he still has to call me a third sister in terms of seniority. Thinking in his heart, he straightened up again to look at Concubine Zhen. It is also strange to say, this aunt who only has one side of the relationship is very good to the three nieces in the family, the palace is newly made palace flowers, popular clothing styles, princesses love to play with double-sided drums, etc., the aunt always sends people into the general's mansion as soon as possible, and even the two nephews are not as good as this favor.

Chu Tao heard the nurse next to her say that at that time, there were few people in the General's Mansion, and only Aunt He gave birth to a child, and the first daughter of the Jiang family was selected as a school-age show girl to enter the palace draft. My aunt has been a little show girl since she was a child, and she is very favored. But my aunt entered the palace for many years before giving birth to the eighth prince, and the eighth master was favored and crowned king early.

Chu Tao said to Chu Ju: "My aunt is really beautiful and fragrant, and she looks younger than her mother." After saying this, Chu Tao was glared at fiercely by her mother.

When Concubine Zhen saw her biological mother, Aunt He, her eyes were red first, and then she looked at the crowd, as if she was looking for something. Retracting her gaze, Concubine Zhen seriously kowtowed in front of the spirit, and then was helped up by everyone and chatted with Liu and others.

Chu Tao also wanted to say a few words to her sister Chu Ju, but found that Chu Ju was staring at her sister-in-law and her new husband in a daze.

Chu Tao's sister-in-law Jiang Shihua Fangling is nineteen, born by Jiang's mother, because she had a serious illness a few years ago and delayed her marriage, but she didn't want to delay it in the past few years, Jiang Guangshi's health is getting worse and worse, which hurts Jiang's mother very much, if she delays it again, there is a white matter at home, and her second daughter will have to delay for three years in vain, wouldn't it be more difficult to find relatives?

Jiang's mother has always had her own calculations for the marriage of her children, when she married the daughter of her cousin's family to her son, and now she and her daughter-in-law are not only mother-in-law and daughter-in-law but also relatives, so they are naturally more comfortable than other families. What's more, her cousin and niece are well-behaved and docile, and she focuses on her mother-in-law and husband in everything, which is more in line with Jiang's mother's wishes. At that time, the Jiang family had already found a good family for Chu Ju, and they were about to propose marriage, who would have thought that Jiang's mother would call the shots, saying that it was not difficult for Chu Ju to find a good husband at a young age, and Shihua could not delay, and finally turned Chu Ju's marriage into Shihua's happy event.

First, he was afraid that he would not be able to marry Xiaoxiao, and secondly, in order to be happy, Jiang Shihua soon married Xu Jiangshan, the third son of the wing forward. All of a sudden, his husband became the husband of his sister-in-law, and Chu Ju was angry and complaining, but he gritted his silver teeth and could only act as if nothing had happened.

Because of this reason, Chu Tao also stared at the new uncle, holding Chu Ju's hand with a small hand. Hatsuju turned his face, a hint of annoyance flashing across his crimson face.