When Liu Xingzuo "groaned" in his heart, he secretly felt that something was wrong, and pushed open the door of the old mother's room, only to see that on the hanging rope beam of the old mother, a wisp of ghost, had already returned to his homeland.

The wife, who came to greet her mother-in-law with Liu Xingzuo, only shouted "mother" at that time, and then fainted.

Liu Xingzuo has always thought that he has been in the army for a long time, and he is used to seeing life and death, and his heart has long been as hard as iron, and he only feels that there is nothing in the world that can move him. But he didn't want to see the scene in front of him, so he was shocked, so he hurried over, untied the old mother from the rope, and saw a letter on the table, but he didn't look at it, and directly stuffed it into his arms, and carried the old mother to the bed to place it.

After thinking about it, Liu Xingzuo couldn't help but blame himself secretly, only that he forced his old mother to follow him back to the south last night, and the old mother was unwilling to be tired of herself, so she committed suicide by throwing herself into a rope.

However, Liu Xingzuo is not an ordinary person after all, and the experience of hiding his thoughts about planning to return to the south for many years, and the experience of wrestling between life and death with Tartar still made him calm down at the first time.

Liu Xingzuo placed his mother's body and hugged his wife into his arms, and then took out those letters and read them, but they were the last letters left by Liu's mother:

"Wu'er Xingzuo:

Don't be sad when you see faith. The mother left first.

Since you were a child, your mother has never lied to you, but this time, your mother is going to break her promise.

My mother knows that my son is a filial person, and she will definitely find a way to take her mother south to return to Daming.

However, there are a large number of people returning to the south this time, and the stakes are very high. Now that the Tartars are powerful and mostly cavalry, if something is urgent, everyone may not be able to escape safely. If only our mother and son have fallen, but all the people who have returned to the south trust my son, so my son needs to be thoughtful, and he cannot put everyone in danger because of his mother, otherwise it will be unjust. This is one of them.

Second, breaking the family is the country, and the courtiers are also duty. This time, my mother will take the first step to see your father, so that he can know that your father will be happy that my son is now returning to his homeland and serving the Son of Heaven. If there is a mother, the matter is urgent, if my son surrenders to Jiannu, it will be disloyal, if not, it will be unfilial, which will make my son a dilemma.

For the mother's body, my son can be cremated, and the mother's ashes can be brought back to the homeland for burial, and the land of the homeland can be buried, and the mother is already satisfied. But I can't see the day my son is crowned, it's a pity.

After that, my son should be loyal to the king, otherwise, I will hate my mother in the ground. ”

After reading it with tears, Liu Xingzuo was already in tears. He knew that he still put too much pressure on his mother last night. In other words, it is equivalent to forcing his mother to death, and he is the real unfilial piety!

At this point, Liu Xingzuo still made a quick decision. Stuffed the old lady's last suicide note into his arms again, and then sorted out the old lady's remains a little, so that it did not look like hanging, but like a natural death in a dream, and shook his wife awake, and before his wife could speak, he immediately covered her mouth and instructed her: "Don't say anything about this!" To the outside world, he only said that the old lady was too homesick and had gone last night. Otherwise, I will have to worry about my life! ”

After all, Liu Xingzuo's wife had also seen some storms, and immediately nodded to indicate that she understood. Seeing this, Liu Xingzuo let go of his hand, took off the rope and cut it, and threw it at the bottom of the bed. Why did you leave your son behind and go by yourself! ”

Seeing this, Liu's wife also cried, the previous shock, and the grief that she had endured just now, all broke out at this moment, only turning into a voice: "Mother! ”

At this time, the sky was already bright, and the maids in the house heard that there was movement in the inner courtyard, so they rushed over with Liu Xingxian, the housekeeper and others who heard the news. When I entered the old lady's room, I found that the old lady was lying on the bed, her body was already hard, and Liu Xingzuo, the master of her own family, was kneeling in front of the bed with her wife and crying into tears.

Seeing this, Liu Xingxian ran to Liu Xingzuo's side, knelt on the ground and cried: "Mother! Then I couldn't stop crying.

The others, whether they were true or not, fell to their knees and wept bitterly. A few maids wept even more when they thought of the benefits of the old lady's treatment of her own people.

In the end, the housekeeper stood up first, came to Liu Xingzuo's side, glanced at the old lady's body, and said with Liu Xingzuo: "Master, the old lady has gone, you mourn." The old lady's funeral needs to be handled by you with a charter. ”

Liu Xingzuo burst into tears and sobbed: "Lord is in a mess at the moment, and I don't know what to do." It is imperative to let the lady and her younger siblings tidy up the old lady's appearance first. Other things, more on that later. ”

The housekeeper hurriedly bowed down, but said: "Master, first tidy up the old lady's remains, this is how it should be, but this kind of thing, it seems a little inappropriate to let the lady and the second master's wife do it?" Do you want to punish a few mothers-in-law to do it? ”

Liu Xingzuo was furious when he heard this, slapped the housekeeper with his backhand, and said angrily: "Old dog! The old lady was most hurt by the two of them when she was alive, so what's wrong with letting them sort out the old lady's remains? If you dare to make noise, you will not be spared! ”

Seeing this, Liu hurriedly stepped forward to grab Liu Xingzuo and said to Liu Xingzuo: "Husband, if you are angry, this matter will be handled by the concubine and her younger siblings." After that, he turned his head to Liu Xingxian's wife who got up just now and said, "Brother and sister, this matter will be handled by you and me, don't anger your eldest brother." ”

Then he said to the housekeeper and the other maids and subordinates: "There is no need to wait for this matter, let's go down and do other things." ”

After Liu Xingzuo went out with Liu Xingxian, seeing that there was no one else in the house, Liu Xingzuo's wife said, "Brother and sister, don't blame my sister-in-law." It's just that this matter is very important, and my husband didn't tell me clearly, only that if we are careless, our whole family will worry about our lives. ”

Liu Xingxian's wife is also a virtuous person, and she didn't say anything when she heard this, but just looked at her sister-in-law with an inquiring gaze and pointed to the southeast direction.

Liu Xingzuo's wife first shook her head, and then nodded again: "I don't know." However, I think it should be. I just don't know why this happened. ”

The two of them already had a plan in their hearts, but they no longer spoke, just patiently sorted out the remains for their mother-in-law, and called the maid to take the longevity clothes that had been prepared a long time ago and put them on for Liu's mother. In the meantime, even more careful attention.

There are two kinds of people who are hanged. One is that the cervical vertebrae are torn off and die, which is generally not abnormal in appearance, and the twist on the neck is shallow; The other is due to the tightening of the rope, unable to breathe, due to suffocation, this is the previous one, the twist is extremely deep, the tongue sticks out of the mouth is extremely long, and the eyes are also protruding, which is extremely terrifying.

The two of them were doubly careful, changed into a shroud for Liu's mother, and carefully sorted it out, so that if the shroud was uncovered, the skew would not be visible.

After everything was done, the two called the Liu brothers in.