As soon as Hui Niang's body was brought back, Shen Xi sent someone to Zhan Shifu to ask for leave, preparing to guard Hui Niang's spirit. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On the same day, a mourning hall was set up in the Zhuangyuan Mansion to stop the spirit for Hui Niang, and Shen Xi wanted to make the movement bigger, so that everyone thought that Hui Niang was indeed dead.

Shen Xi kept a vigil for Hui Niang in the mourning hall, and also showed his dissatisfaction with Xie Qian, Liu Daxia and others...... I can do things for you without reward, and you just killed people like this, and I now suspect that people were deliberately set on fire by you!

Among the courtiers, the first one to come to visit was Xie Duo, whom Shen Xi respected the most.

At the beginning, Xie Duo and Hui Niang also had a relationship, and after learning of Hui Niang's death, Xie Duo was very emotional and personally went to Shenxi Mansion to mourn.

Shen Xi greeted him as the host, and the two went to the back hall together, Xie Duo asked the details, shook his head and sighed: "Lu Sun's family planted pox to save people for the people of Lingnan, and its law spread all over the country, and now even the people in the capital are making words for her." This is really an injustice from heaven. ”

Shen Xi nodded: "The shopkeeper has indeed saved countless people, but he has not died well." ”

Xie Duo sighed: "The old man must enter the imperial court, please ask Your Majesty to seal the Lusun clan, speaking of which...... The old man was still in Lingnan on the order of the emperor, and he has been in a hurry for nearly nine years. ”

Although Xie Duo also came after the fact, Shen Xi was very moved when he heard this, others were afraid of getting involved with a businesswoman, but Xie Duo did not avoid suspicion and came to condole, and also offered to ask for a decree for Hui Niang.

Hui Niang itself has the title of "goddess doctor", plus Hui Niang has not remarried until she died, she is considered a virgin, and according to reason, she can obtain a chaste archway. Even if Hui Niang committed the crime of bribery, but the case was not concluded after all, and Hui Niang died without fear of crime, the court really should not continue to investigate.

"Thank you so much for your words."

Shen Xi got up and saluted Xie Duo respectfully.

"Get up, the old man is doing it from his heart, not to ask for your gratitude." Xie Duo sighed, "The old man has a bit of friendship with Lu Sun's family, so he has to put incense on her." ”

After speaking, Xie Duo, accompanied by Shen Xi, went to the tablet in the lobby of the front yard to offer incense, and the neighbors in the courtyard curiously wondered who this old man with extraordinary manners was, and when they learned that it was the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and the priest of the country, they were all shocked.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the squire is already a very big official, and those who are well-versed in literature and ink know that this Guozi Priest Wine is recognized as the most knowledgeable person in the Ming Dynasty, and the most important thing is that the Guozi Priest Wine is nominally the gentleman of all the students in the world.

"This Lumen Sun family is really a good life, there is no son, but there is a champion Lang to guard her filial piety, and now there are big officials like Shilang to mourn her and offer incense, if it is me, it is worth it to die."

"Don't look at your own virtues, who will mourn you when you die? At most, your poor relatives. ”

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After Xie Duo finished putting on the incense, he came out together accompanied by Shen Xi, and when he arrived at the door, the carriage was ready, but there was a person who was secretly crying beside the carriage, it was Ning'er, the old man of the Lu family.

At this time, Ning'er was dressed in men's clothes and followed Xie Duo to come, but she was not qualified to go in and kowtow to Hui Niang, so she could only wait outside.

"Thank you, congratulations." Shen Xi saluted.

Xie Duo nodded, got into the carriage with Ning Er's support, and the carriage slowly left, gradually disappearing at the end of the alley.

Shen Xi looked at the shadow of the passing carriage, was stunned for a while, and was about to go back, but saw another carriage coming in the distance, and this time it was Shen Xi's old friend Su Tong who got off the carriage.

"Brother Shen...... I came to mourn my brother! ”

Compared with Xie Duo's sincerity, the condolences in Su Tong's mouth seemed to be coy, Su Tong was not familiar with Hui Niang, and he actually cried when he came, if he didn't know, he thought it was Kong Ming crying Zhou Yu.

Shen Xi smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly, it was rare for Su Tong to have this heart, and he didn't ask for too much.

Invite Su Tong inside, Su Tong went up and put incense on the tablet, and then asked: "Brother Shen, how did the good man of the house die?" ”

"Where did you hear about my aunt's death?" Shen Xi asked rhetorically.

Su Tong hesitated: "Yesterday I had a drink with a group of friends, and I was very shocked to hear about the accident that happened to the family. When I came out of the house today, I heard that the house was mourning, so I specially rushed over ...... "Su Channel," but my brother didn't know the reason. ”

Shen Xi nodded: "It's a long story, but in fact, it's just that the people don't fight with the officials." ”

"Alas!"

Su Tong sighed when he heard this, "Now that I'm just a little bit of a move, why don't you know the hardships?" But the way of the world is like this, what can I do? ”

Su Tong was also born in an official eunuch family, but in his generation, except for knowing some friends who were officials, he no longer had much backing, and Su Tong himself was beaten by Gao Chong, the grandson of the prefect of Tingzhou, also because he had no power and no power.

Su Tong's character is not bad, the reason why he is so determined to climb up is just the common character of all scholars in this era, saying that it is for the country and the people, but in fact, it is to be able to advance to the scholar class and change from the ruled to the ruler.

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On the first day of condolences, Shen Xi received a lot of people, only Xie Duo was the only official, and other officials, even if they were Shen Xi's colleagues in the Hanlin Academy or Zhan Shifu, they didn't mean to come to worship after hearing the news.

The one who died was just a businessman, a widow, and a guilty body, and no one wanted to be involved with Hui Niang.

That night, Shen Xi personally guarded Hui Niang's spirit, and he was accompanied by Xie Yun'er and Lu Xi'er.

Xie Yun'er has been helping Shen Xi burn paper, and after Lu Xi'er cried for a while, she leaned on Shen Xi and fell asleep.

"Xianggong, you've been working too hard these days, so let's go back to your room and rest, here...... There are concubines. Xie Yun'er said with tears in her eyes.

"It's fine." Shen Xi sighed lightly, "I can stand it, Aunt Sun has taken care of us since we were children, if I can't even send her on the last journey, I can't feel at ease." ”

Xie Yun'er is a person who does what she says, she said that she wanted to accompany Shen Xi, so she really accompanied Shen Xi to guard the spirit for one night.

It was only in the morning of the next day that she reluctantly went back to her room to rest at Shen Xi's insistence. As for the daytime, it was Lin Dai who came over to accompany Shen Xi and Lu Xi'er to keep the spirit.

In the morning, an official sedan chair came to the door of Shen's house.

Because of the escort of officers and soldiers, Shen Xi, as the head of the family, had to come out to greet him, but when he saw Xie Qian getting down from the official sedan chair with a black face, he raised his head and glared at Shen Xi, with a bit of harshness in his expression.

Xie Qian didn't even say hello, and walked directly to the gate of the mansion, and the neighbors knew that the comer was not good at a glance, so they avoided it one after another.

Xie moved to the main hall in the front yard, the person stopped, and did not rush inside, took out something from his arms, handed it to Shen Xi and said, "See for yourself!" ”

Shen Xi opened it, but it was an edict of edict, sealing the Sun family of Lumen as a "widow".

In the Ming Dynasty, all officials above the fifth rank were meritorious, and the wives of the first-rank and second-rank officials were called "Mrs.", and the mother-in-law was called "Mrs. Tai". The third product is "lady", the fourth product is "respectful", and the fifth product is "pleasant". Below the fifth grade, it is the lady of the edict, the sixth grade is called "Anren", and the seventh grade and below are "widows".

When he was alive, he was given a "seal", and after his death, he was given a "gift".

No seal and no product are called women.

But this is just a matter of title, no one cares about calling Niangzi, Anren, and Mrs. casually at home, but the officials are very concerned about fighting for their mothers and wives.

"Elder Xie Ge, what does this mean?"

Shen Xi saw that the imperial court was just a "widow" who had been ordained, and he clearly despised Hui Niang...... Since it was canonized by the emperor himself, and the object was a goddess doctor who had countless living people and was even known as the Buddha of ten thousand families, how could you seal a decree, but now it is better to only give a "widow", it is better not to seal it.

Xie Qian said angrily: "What, dissatisfied?" ”

Shen Xi does not have the qualifications to be dissatisfied, thinking about it carefully, something is better than nothing, with this title, at least Hui Niang's crime has been washed away, and the Lu family will no longer be guilty, as for whether the property can be taken back, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is that Lu Xi'er is no longer the daughter of a sinner, and she can be an upright person in the future.

"The student thanked Xie Gelao." Shen Xi saluted respectfully.

"Thank me for what? Thank you, go thank your majesty...... There is also Xie Lao's sacrificial wine. Xie Qian mentioned Xie Duo, and his tone was a little more respectful, after all, in terms of knowledge, Xie Duo was still above him. But because of his more prominent status, when people in the court mention "Mr. Xie", the first thing that comes to mind is not Xie Duo, but he Xie Qian.

Shen Xi saluted again: "Congratulations to Elder Xie Ge." ”

"Yo, you're in a hurry? Why, do you think the old man will disturb the mourning hall here? Won't I be allowed to go in and put incense on it? Xie Qian rolled his eyes and said.

Shen Xi made a gesture of "please", and saw Xie Qian step by step into the mourning hall, first looked around, and then the female dependents had already gotten up and retreated.

Xie Qian went up and took the incense, but it was not one stick, nor three sticks, but two sticks, and after lighting it, he didn't salute, and directly inserted the incense into the incense burner.

Shen Xi knew that this was exquisite, and the meaning of the two sticks of incense was to say that Xie Qian was ashamed in his heart and was not worthy of the three sticks, which showed that Xie Qian blamed himself in his heart, but he just had a good face and didn't want to express it, but he told Shen Xi in this way that he was very sad about Hui Niang's death.

After the incense, Xie Qian didn't stay much, turned around and went out, and Shen Xi personally sent him off.

When he arrived at the door, Xie Qian turned around and said, "You still have to take care of the errand of the imperial court, don't you have no relatives and no reason, you still have to keep the system for her?" ”

Even if Shen Xi wanted to keep the system for Hui Niang, he couldn't find any reason.

Because seriously speaking, there is no blood relationship between Shen Xi and Hui Niang, and because Lu Xi'er has not started, he is not even a wife. Now he is collecting the funeral for Hui Niang, which is already considered benevolent and righteous.

In Xie Qian's cognition, since you have done your best, go back to complete your business as soon as possible, and don't affect your future because of the death of a widow.

Although this move seems realistic, in fact, Xie Qian is also thinking about Shen Xi.

Shen Xi thought that he had contradicted Xie Qian in Xie Mansion before, and now Xie Qian could persuade him so calmly, even if he was dissatisfied with Xie Qian, it would be appropriate to reduce it a lot.

"Rest assured, after Lu Sun's burial, the students will have an explanation with the imperial court." Shen Xi didn't say to go back, nor did he say to resign, looking like he wanted to continue to think about it.

Xie Qian looked at Shen Xi, shook his head, and leaned into the sedan chair, which could still be heard by Shen Xi sighing when the sedan chair set off.

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