The mourning service for the deceased needs to be lowered by one level, and the mourning for the deceased is all from the great service, and the same is true for the son who died as a young man, nine months for the first mourning, five months for the middle mourning, and three months for the lower mourning.

In this way, the servants of the Shen Mansion are also wearing the true colors of "great merit".

And because the deceased is a junior, although the gate of the Shen Mansion is hung with a white lantern, the gate is not white.

Zhang Hui wore a plain clothes, prepared a prayer post, and came to worship.

The porter didn't know him, but seeing that Zhang Hui was very stylish, he brought a post, and since Chen was a friend of Shen Rui, he welcomed him to the south room to serve tea, and sent someone to report it.

Shen Rui had already woken up on the night of Shen Jue's death and changed into filial piety clothes.

Within the five suits, the upper and lower relatives are just funeral conventions, and they have always been respectful and humble, and there is no obstacle between different peers, and filial piety robes and hats are also required during the funeral. Therefore, Shen Rui needs to surrender "small gong" for Shen Yan.

The pine and cypress are in the center, and the cigarette is gone.

The monks and Taoists who were invited are doing the dojo.

Today is the fourth day after Shen Jue's death, not the day of "receiving three", and it is also scheduled to be mourned on the seventh day, so the relatives and friends who got the news either finished worshipping or waited for the mourning to come, and there were only a few teenagers in the Songbai Courtyard.

Shen Rui is a bereaved family, Shen Quan is a family relative, and He Taizhi, Yang Zhongyan, and Qiao Yongshan are in-laws. As for the new friends Shen Jue made in Nancheng Academy, due to the limited time they have known each other, with the master of the academy coming over yesterday, it can be regarded as a complete friendship. In addition, Xu Wu, Gao Wenhu, Tian brothers and others got the news and also came to worship yesterday.

When he first learned that Shen Jue was coming, Shen Quan was a little angry with Shen Rui.

Shen Jue's situation in Shangshu Mansion is unknown to others, but Shen Quan is clear. He didn't complain about Shen Cang and the Xu family, after all, one of those two was busy with court affairs, the other was lying down to recuperate, and even his heir Shen Rui was free-range, not to mention his nephew Shen Jue.

Shen Jue's name is the heir, but the heir's father is outside, and the heir's mother is "recuperating" outside the city, and having parents is equivalent to having no parents, which is the time when Shen Rui, a cousin, needs to take care of him.

However, when he saw Shen Rui, who was unconscious, Shen Quan also woke up.

Shen Rui was born in the same month and the same year as Shen Jue, and he is still a half-grown teenager, but he has always been steady, which makes people ignore his age. Shen Jue's sudden death today, although there are reasons why his relatives can't take care of him, it is more of an accident; When Sun died of illness, Shen Rui was deliberately neglected and almost died of starvation, but it was only because Shen Rui survived later that he didn't think about it carefully.

If you really want to talk about it, Zhang Lao'an, who ordered Shen Rui to "recuperate", is hateful, Shen Jin and Shen Juren, who ignored the nine-year-old Shen Rui, are also accomplices in aiding and abusive, and Guo and Shen Li, who are saddened by Sun's death, are suspected of being "ungrateful".

Shen Quan truly understood Shen Rui's dangerous situation back then, and the inexplicable and unclear mustard in his heart about Shen Jue's "great change in temperament" after recovering from illness was finally dispersed.

The deceased is gone, and holding this and that one accountable is just to make one's heart feel better. Shen Quan is not a fool, and he doesn't know how to understand the relationship between Shen Rui and Shen Jue, the most uncomfortable thing at the moment is Shen Rui.

He was ready to talk about how to comfort Shen Rui after waking up, but Shen Rui didn't give him this opportunity after waking up.

Shen Rui did not cry sadly, but took over the funeral very calmly and prepared in an orderly manner.

However, He Taizhi and Yang Zhongyan have two, one is Shen Jue has a deep friendship, and the other is like-minded with Shen Jue, the two got the news and came to worship, regardless of it, they cried fiercely, seeing that Shen Jue was just dead, there was no junior to send him to the end, the people of Shangshufu were thin, there were no other cousins, and the mourning hall was inevitably deserted, so they stayed to help.

Qiao's family is Shen Jue's foreign family, and the masters of Qiao's family also got a funeral letter on the same day. Master Shen sent his eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law over, while Second Master Shen and Third Master Shen personally brought juniors to the door.

Looking at the mourning hall, only the little maids and maids who served by Shen Jue's side before his death wore linen and filial piety, and several young people from relatives stayed to offer incense, and Master Qiao San also left his son.

In this way, above the mourning hall, there are several teenagers who take turns to offer incense.

In the past few days, Shen Rui has not shed a single tear, but no one thinks he is cold.

The living people went like this, even if they were panicked, not to mention that Shen Rui and Shen Jue were under the same roof, getting along day and night.

In addition to grief, everyone had to persuade Shen Rui in a roundabout way.

On this day, Shen Quan and Qiao Yongshan went to visit the third master in the West Courtyard, and Yang Zhongyan and He Taizhi were talking with Shen Rui.

"Birth, old age, sickness and death, who can avoid it, but leave early and leave late...... In a few decades, you and I will be just a loess ......," Yang said.

"Buddhism says that there are six ways of reincarnation, and Cousin Jue may have been reincarnated...... "He Tai's way."

Although Shen Rui still had a faint pain in his heart, he had already accepted the fact that Shen Jue had left. Tossing and turning at midnight, he also had extravagant thoughts, hoping that Shen Jue would be like himself, and his soul would be reborn in another world. Although it sounds a little illusory, with his own example, why is it not possible?

Shen Rui is not a real teenager, so he naturally knows how big Shen Jue's death is the blow of the Shen family. Seeing that the family is full of old and weak women and children, if he doesn't stand up, does he want the elders to endure the desolation of "white-haired people sending black-haired people" to handle the funeral?

Yang Zhongyan and He Taizhi had a sense of consolation, and Shen Rui also appreciated it, and said with a little expectation on his face: "I just hope that the Buddha has a spirit, and Brother Jue can be successfully reincarnated and reincarnated as a human, even if the past is forgotten, as long as he can be safe and rich, he will marry a wife when he should marry, and he will have a child when he should have a child, and he will taste all the flavors of this world......

While a few people were talking, a small servant came over and sent Zhang Hui's post.

The name "Zhang Hui" is not unfamiliar, when he met the two brocade guards when he was in Gao Wenhu half a month ago, Yang Zhongyan asked the names of the two with a little curiosity and inquiry.

Gao Wenhu's master is still there, his name is "Luo Kedi", and he sounds majestic, but he is a hereditary hundred households of Jinyiwei, not a noble background; I inquired about the name of this meeting, but it was amazing, the second grandson of the British Principal, and the younger brother of the heir of the British Mansion.

These nobles who were knighted for their military merits are far from being comparable to those of their relatives, not to mention that the British Mansion is still the head of the Mansion of the Princes and Uncles with foreign surnames, and now the power of the guards in the capital is in the hands of the British Princes.

Shen Ruizheng pinched the post and frowned, Yang Zhongyan bounced his head, glanced at it, and exclaimed, "Why is he here?" ”

Shen Rui knew Brother Shou's identity, but he was not too surprised. It was only because of Shen Jue's funeral that he wavered from his previous "speculative drilling" behavior. For the sake of the wealth that you can't see in the future, you ignore the relatives around you, even if you go straight to the top in the future, what's the point?

Seeing Shen Jue who was killed, the third master who fell again had more or less his influence.

It was only because Shen Ruigong was famous that he put reading the imperial examination as the first priority, and studied diligently every day, which influenced Shen Jue to start working hard.

Shen Jue's body was wasted, in addition to Qiao's sins last year, there was also the hard work of the first half of the year, and before he could recover his strength, the patriarch died of illness and traveled thousands of miles. Layer by layer, even adults can't stand it, let alone a teenager whose body has not yet grown.

The third master, because of his body, was raised by Shen Cang and Xu Shijiao to be a rich idler. Now he is "self-motivated", although he is thinking about his son, but he also has the pressure of Shen Rui, a studious nephew. But the body of the third master is really not optimistic.

If the Shen family's small long house was a real teenager, and now he was studying step by step, he would not be as smart as Shen Rui, nor would he be like him, because he knew history, he would have a sense of urgency and put pressure on the people around him.

Yang Zhongyan saw that Shen Rui was still pondering, and hurriedly said: "Cousin Rui, this is not only the young master of the public mansion, but also the official, it's not good to be lazy."

Shen Rui put down the post and said, "That being the case, sit down for a while, and I'll go to greet you." With that, he got up and went out.

He Taizhi was a little puzzled on the side: "Who is this meeting?" Why do you come to the door at this time? ”

"It's Brother Shou's in-laws, and it should be Brother Shou who came to worship." Yang Zhongyan replied in his mouth, feeling that something was wrong in his heart.

If you want to say that Brother Shou is young, it is reasonable to say that it is inconvenient to come out, why hasn't he shown up for such a major event as friendship now? What kind of person is he, if he is just a relative, he can make the grandson of the Guogong Mansion run errands three times and twice?

"If you don't get the news, you won't come back, if you don't show up when you get the news, just send someone over, and this Shou brother's shelf will also be bigger. I used to see him arrogant, and he could make friends, but now it seems boring. He Taizhi complained.

After half a cup of tea, Shen Rui had already greeted Zhang Hui and came to Songbai Courtyard.

Shen Jue has been buried, and there is a coffin parked above the mourning hall.

Zhang Hui and Shen Jue have only met once, and they are not very impressed with the young man, let alone have any sad emotions. Now that I've come here, I'm just here on order, and I'm a little curious about Shangshu Mansion.

Although there is some clear meaning between the martial arts family in the capital and the civil official family, it is just that they are officials of the same dynasty, and they see each other's dynamics in their eyes, which can be regarded as "knowing oneself and knowing the other". Even if Shen Cang did not enter the cabinet, the Shen family was a family of eunuchs, and Shen Cang's father and son were both in the high position of Jiuqing, and they were second only to the three ministers in the capital.

Three years ago, Shen Cang's nephew Shen Luozhi died, and the Shen family found out that it was an accident, but there were some other rumors on the side of the noble family.

Zhang Hui is sixteen years old this year, and he was thirteen years old three years ago, which is the age when teenagers are greedy for fun.

During the Double Ninth Festival that year, he was obsessed with his brother and went to Xishan to run a horse together.

Just before Shen Luo's accident, he also stayed in Ma to greet a friend of his brother. Because Shen Luo was wearing brocade clothes, looking good, and riding a white horse, at first glance he looked a little similar to his brother, Zhang Hui thought it was the gentleman of the Hou Bo Mansion, and when he heard from his brother, he knew that it was a young man from the Shilang Mansion, and he was surprised at that time.

Unexpectedly, when he waited until the evening, he heard the elder entourage beside his brother tell his brother about Shen Luo's death......