Shang Cheng had just told a few people what he knew, and Lao Song, the coachman of Huo Shiqi's family, came over in a panic. He was accompanied by Huo Liu's eldest son. In the cold winter weather, there is still snow on the roofs of the corners of the walls, and the cold north wind is still drilling into the clothes along the neckline and cuffs, but Lao Song and the boss of the Huo Six families are all sweating, their faces are like frost, and the thin sweat on the top of their heads is curling. They greeted Liu Laozhu and Shang Cheng indiscriminately, and they didn't bother to say a few words, the boss of the Huo Liujia family immediately led the two girls to walk out, and beckoned the second girl to follow as they walked.

Lao Song also brought Huo Shiqi to Liu Laozhu, which was nothing more than that he entrusted all the affairs of the family to Liu Laozhu and Shang Cheng.

Shang Cheng sent the two of them to the carriage at the entrance of the alley. As he walked, he asked, what happened to Master Gu, how could he say that he would leave?

Lao Song couldn't say anything about this matter, and the boss of the Huo Liujia only knew a little, as if it was because some big man sent by the imperial court inspected the camp in the south of Yixian County, and found that there were a few unclear places in the accounts when he checked the accounts, and finally he didn't know how to involve Gu Shaomiao. Gu Shaomiao thinks that the accounts have obviously been manipulated, and it is obviously unfair to use this as a evidence, and the big account of the Weimu Yamen should also be brought up for comparison, which can convince people; And he thought that the senior member did not have the right to check the treasury of the Wei Division, so he contradicted the senior member for a few words. As a result, the senior officer immediately overturned the table, stripped Gu Shaomiao's official uniform on the spot, removed his errand, and asked his entourage to beat Gu Shaomiao out of the Nancheng camp. Gu Shaomiao already had dizziness and distress, and he was insulted so much in public, he was ashamed, angry and anxious, and before he got home, he was already dead......

Shang Cheng asked: "What kind of official was sent by the imperial court, why did he check the accounts, and how did he dispose of the grain...... Gu-sama? ”

The eldest of the Huo Liu family carried the two little sisters into the carriage, and then let the second girl sit in as well, took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and said with a wry smile: "Brother-in-law...... Alas, Master Gu's temperament is too straight, and he doesn't talk and do things around the corner. In fact, if the account is wrong, you can ask for a new check, even if there is a mistake, it is also divided into unintentional mistakes and intentional harm when registering. He sighed again. He didn't even look at it, he was a grandfather, his status was noble, and he was a general who led the troops to fight, so dealing with him was like dealing with ...... Hey, but he was going to touch the stone with the egg, and the result? …… The most pitiful thing is the big girl, who has to be widowed at a young age. ”

Shang Cheng's brows immediately furrowed.

Since he knew that Gu Shaomiao died, he had always sympathized with the misfortune of the eldest girl, and felt sad and sorry for this little girl, and felt that she should not go through such a great ordeal at her age, but he never turned his mind to what the eldest girl should do after the widow, until he heard the boss of the Huo Six family say this, he realized this cruel reality that the eldest girl is now a widow.

His mouth squirmed, but he didn't say anything.

Is it true that widows in this age cannot remarry? Or is it that the wife of a person like Gu Shaomiao does not have the right to choose her own life again?

That doesn't seem to be the case. As far as he knew, there were several cases of widows remarrying that he had heard about, and there was also a little widow of Zhao Ji among the family affairs mentioned to him by others; Another example is Yao Sanniang, who is opposite his house, who remarried after her ex-husband died of illness. But he is a little unsure, because the life of ordinary people in this era is very different from the life of the official eunuchs, many ordinary things that are commonplace in the eyes of the people are another thing in the eyes of officials and scholars, like Huo Liu's own sister, when she was young, she married Nanzheng for less than two years and the man died of a sudden illness, and she never remarried......

After sending them away, when he turned home, he saw that Lianniang had already packed up a black coat for him.

He suddenly felt very guilty and ashamed. Oh, as soon as he heard about Gu Shaomiao's death in the morning, he hurried back to report the news, and he forgot the most basic etiquette, he should have gone in and bowed to the deceased three times.

Lianniang didn't think there was anything wrong with this, he couldn't go into the valley mansion to mourn the eldest girl's husband. According to the customs of the township, if it is not a close friend of relatives, it is extremely disrespectful for the deceased and the deceased's clan to go to mourn without a notice from the deceased's family. Fortunately, he didn't come to the door recklessly, otherwise not only would he not be able to get off the stage himself, but even Huo Shiqi would be laughed at, and he actually befriended a dealer who didn't know etiquette......

But now he has to go to the funeral. The boss of the Huo Liujia has already come, although he has come to take the second and third sisters into the county, but he has also reported the news of Gu Shaomiao's death, so Yu Shangcheng and Liu Laozhu have to go to the Gu family immediately to mourn and mourn - they are friends of Gu Shaomiao's father-in-law Huo Shiqi, the Huo family has such a big incident, they have the responsibility to express their sadness, sympathy and condolences to their friends. This is "righteousness" between friends.

Shang Cheng listened to Lianniang's words in silence, and nodded thoughtfully. His wife's words made a lot of sense, which also made his mood lighter.

It wasn't until the evening that he and Liu Laozhu came back from the county town.

Lianniang and Yue'er, who had been waiting for them, immediately served soup and steamed buns to the two of them to eat and drink. After dinner, he sent Liu Laozhu's father and daughter to the mouth of the alley, and when he turned back and turned off the lights and lay on the kang, he solemnly said to his wife: "You must always guide me in the future." There are a lot of things I don't really understand, and I don't know if I'm doing it right. ”

He couldn't help much with the Huo family's affairs for the time being, Huo Shiqi's house was taken care of by Liu Laozhu, and he didn't need to worry about anything, so he hurriedly borrowed Uncle Zhuzi's pack horse, and sent the grain, money, silk and silk distributed to Shanwazi by the store, as well as the New Year's goods he prepared for Shanwazi's family, to Lijiazhuang. For his arrival, the two of them were overjoyed, killing chickens and cutting meat to entertain him, and wanted to keep him for a few more days, but he remembered the Huo family's affairs in his heart, and only rested at the Shanwazi's house for one night, and hurried back to Huojiabao.

Huo Shiqi's family never returned. It wasn't until the afternoon of the twenty-second day of the lunar month, when he was preparing to cook a pot of scallion pancakes in the stove room, that someone came to tell him that the Huo family's carriage had returned. The man also saw Huo Shiqi and Erya helping the seventeenth aunt out of the carriage.

He left the work in his hand and went to Huo Shiqi's new mansion.

After not seeing each other for more than ten days, Huo Shiqi's face became even darker and thinner, and even the hair on his sideburns became fluffy and thin, mixed with a few clear white hairs; There was a deep pain and deep weariness in his eyes and on his face. Seeing Shang Cheng come in, he didn't even have the strength to speak, he just pointed to the chair next to the table and motioned for him to sit down and talk.

Shang Cheng comforted him and said: "Uncle, don't be too sad, after all, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck, and when things come to this point, you need to be more open-minded." Don't worry about Lord Gu's affairs, there will naturally be an explanation in the government at that time. I came here today mainly to comfort you and my aunt, you and my aunt have been tired for so many days, you must have a good rest and raise. Don't worry about things at home, Uncle Zhu can handle it; If Uncle Zhu can't keep up, I can help too. I have already told Lianniang that she will cook the meals at home during this time, and if you have any housework, you can just give it to her, and you must let your aunt rest more......

Huo Shiqi wept while listening to him, wiped his tears and personally poured him a bowl of tea and soup and handed it to him. The seventeenth aunt who was lying on the kang in the inner room in despair, after listening to him arrange things so carefully and carefully, couldn't help but choke up and asked Erya to come out and say two words of thanks instead of herself.

After another conversation, Shang Cheng asked how Gu Shaomiao's aftermath was arranged.

"After guarding the fifth and seventh days, they will help them back to their hometown."

Gu Shaomiao's two sons, who were on an errand in the transfer division in the south of Yixian County, have now reported their worries to the yamen, and they will send Gu Shaomiao's coffin back to their hometown in Dingzhou after 5735 days of keeping watch according to their local customs. The eldest girl, the two descendants of the Gu family and their families, as well as Gu Shaomiao's two concubines, all have to go back. They had to serve a three-year mourning period for Gu Shaomiao in their hometown in Dingzhou......

When Shang Cheng came out of Huo's house, it was almost dark, and there was goose-feather snow in the sky. Everything in the heavens and the earth has become a boundless white.

This seems to indicate that his first little year in this world will be spent in this white sky.

It was at this time when the snowflakes were flying, that the current Yixian county magistrate was dismissed by the official of the Yanshan Weimu Mansion, and was immediately escorted to Yanzhou on the charge of "favoritism and fraud to deceive the officials". On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, a winter thunder shook Duanzhou City, and the governor of Duanzhou Prefecture, Zhizhou, general judgment, and inspection were ...... Eleven officials were implicated in the "favoritism and fraud case" in Yi County, and all of them were locked up. Immediately afterwards, dozens of officials in the 29 counties of the three prefectures of Yanshan Wei were either investigated, dismissed, or demoted to investigation, and dozens of yamen up and down the whole guard, hundreds of officials, and thousands of secretaries and offices, all of them trembled and panicked. On February 17, the imperial court issued an edict that Yanshan Wei Mu was removed from his post due to "old age and infirmity", and immediately returned to his hometown to retire, and the post of Wei Mu was taken over by Lu Ji, the former governor of Shangjing Plain Prefecture. With this edict jointly issued by the three provinces, there is also the resume of the new Wei Mu Lu Jiqi: Lu Ji, the character Bofu, a person from the Shangjing Plain Prefecture, a Jinshi in the second year of the Eastern Era, and successively served as the editor of the Hanlin Academy......

When people were speculating about the connection behind this series of events and what kind of complex meaning it revealed, that is, on the day of February 17, the yamen of the Yanshan Health Department, which is located in the Wuyi Lane of Yanzhou City, quietly changed its flag, and on a purple flag larger than the general flag in front of the Yanshan Wei Governor's Mansion, it was the words "Great Zhao Yanshan Xingying".

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