Chapter 359 Death from illness
"Uncle Han, my father expected that you would serve the country and the people, and he would not stand idly by when he knew about it, so he intended to use you to uncover Shen He's poisoning and death, but he was really harming you with loyalty," Wang Jun placed three cups of wine in front of the tombstone, and offered a stick of incense in front of his eyebrows, and muttered a prayer, "Wang Jun is here to represent my father, and I ask Uncle Han for your guilt, I hope you can forgive my father under the nine springs......"
After saying this, Wang Jun, who knelt in front of the tomb with incense, bowed three more times and inserted the incense in front of the tomb.
When Qingyang was offering incense, he turned his head to look at the bamboo shed more than ten zhang away, and saw Han Qian sitting curled up on the bamboo couch, holding the scroll and reading, as if he didn't pay attention to this side at all, and he should have seen through the role played by Wang Wenqian in the Jinling upheaval.
However, Qingyang also heard that Han Daoxun was able to be transferred from Chuzhou to Jinling because of Wang Jixiong's appreciation and recommendation, and he thought that Han Qian probably wouldn't transfer his hatred for Wang Wenqian to his father Wang Jixiong and his queen Jun, right?
"Sacrifice student Han Daoxunwen - Wei, on December 21, the sixteenth year of Tianyou, I lived in Runzhou Grass Hall and heard that you were tortured and died, shocked and grieved, and made a sacrifice to express my sincerity to the spirit of the heavens......"
Wang Jixiong trembled with a quinoa cane, and did not let Wang Jun support him, his voice trembled and hoarsely read the memorial he wrote for Han Daoxun in Runzhou, and then burned the memorial in front of the tomb.
Zhao Ting'er, Xi Ying, Han Laoshan, Feng Yi and others, who accompanied Wang Jixiong on the mountain, were even more worried about whether Wang Jixiong's old and weak body could support him to walk down the mountain.
After Wang Jixiong burned the sacrificial text, Han Laoshan hurried over and hugged him with Wang Jun.
"When your father was younger than you at this time, he studied prison law in my mountain hall for two years, and I regarded myself as a teacher, and I can't rely on the old to sell the old, I think I am also qualified to sit in front of you." Wang Jixiong trembled and walked to the bamboo shed with a quinoa cane, and regardless of whether Han Qian wanted to or not, he asked Wang Jun to support him, and sat down on the bamboo couch in the shed with difficulty, and sat opposite Han Qian.
Han Qian's bamboo shed for holding the scroll and reading is very narrow, and entering the shed is a simple bamboo couch, with a small case on it, full of books and pen and ink, Han Qian sits on one side of the small case, and Wang Jixiong sits on the other side.
Qingyang thought that probably no one would bring a chair for her, but she was unwilling to miss hearing what Wang Jixiong and Han Qian were talking about, so she stood next to the bamboo shed and stretched her body lazily, and said: "The scenery here is good, you can watch the blue water lingering ......."
Wang Jixiong glanced up at the county lord of Qingyang, and didn't say anything, there was a teapot in front of the case, picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of herbal tea, took a sip, stared at Han Qian's face with cloudy old eyes, and asked:
"Your father cares about the livelihood of the community, and he does not hesitate to destroy his reputation and be in a different place for this. At this time, Liang Chu has suffered great changes, and if you are not careful, it will be thousands of miles of red land, blood and pestle, you probably don't really think that living in the mourning mountains is to keep filial piety, right? ”
"My father's head can't break through the south wall in different places, there is always exhaustion of manpower, there is always poverty in material resources, the world is like this, even if Han Qian doesn't want to see thousands of miles of bare land and blood drifting, what can he do?" Han Qian put the scroll in his hand in front of the desk and said, "When the ancient fisherman was in troubled times, it was inevitable that there would be a sigh of the water of the waves, how could Han Qian be exempt from vulgarity? ”
Wang Jixiong said: "In the name of the fisherman's father, Qu Fuzi said that 'the saint does not stagnate in things, but can move with the world' and 'the water of the waves is clear, you can wet me, and the water of the waves is turbid, you can wet my feet', etc., which are regarded as the guideline for the Confucianism of the world, but Qu Fuzi has the theory that 'the whole world is turbid and I am clear, and everyone is drunk and I am awake'. Qu Fuzi did not go to the dust of the world with the whiteness of Haohao, and finally preferred to go to Xiangliu and be buried in the belly of the river fish, so that he could be a minister of Chu through the ages. I think when Daoxun was tortured, there should have been a decision in his chest that 'it is difficult to turn the tide and would rather go to Xiangliu'! ”
Han Qian was silent, his hand shrunk in the sleeve of his robe, holding tightly the blood letter that his father left him when he was about to be executed, and he didn't know how to deal with Wang Jixiong's words.
"I came from Runzhou, all the way through the mountains and rivers, the Anning Palace and the new emperor Yi's edict has spread all over the Xuanjiang Prefectures, the world is bewitched by the edict, all mistakenly think that Daoxun is a harmful minister, and I can't recognize Daoxun's sincerity at the expense of destroying his reputation for the country and the people. What I can do for Daoxun is to write a sacrificial text to show his sincerity," Wang Jixiong stood up tremblingly, and said, "Of course, Daoxun was violently tortured to death, and Wen Qian was the initiator, and I, as Wen Qian's old father, am also ashamed in my heart!" ”
Speaking of this, Wang Jixiong didn't wait for Han Qian to react, so he motioned for Wang Jun to help him go down the mountain; Wang Jun glanced at Han Qian with a complicated mood, his lips pursed, and finally he was speechless and helped his grandfather down the mountain.
Qingyang looked at Jiang Shu with some ignorance, Wang Jixiong said these words, and then went down the mountain?
Wang Jixiong had the intention of persuading Han Qian to enter the WTO, but he really didn't care at all who would sit on the throne in the end?
Seeing that the county lord of Qingyang wanted to speak and stopped, Han Qian arched his hand at her and said, "Forgive Han Qian for his filial piety, he can't send the county lord to Yueyang ......."
Seeing Han Qian's eviction order, Qingyang's beautiful face was slightly cold, but she couldn't figure out what Han Qian really thought in her heart, and she didn't want to say soft words to show weakness, so she could only go down the mountain sullenly.
Qingyang and Jiang Shu discussed and planned to ask Wang Jixiong to go to Yueyang with them the next day, but when she woke up the next day, someone came to tell her that Wang Jixiong had fallen ill last night and was bedridden.
Qingyang rushed over to visit, Wang Jixiong is indeed more decrepit and weak than yesterday, rushed from Runzhou to Xuzhou to hang Han Daoxun, and can not take a relatively comfortable waterway, nearly a month of trekking through mountains and rivers, for a person of his age, it is really a difficult test, almost exhausted his last energy.
Qingyang saw Wang Jixiong looking so weak, and he doubted whether he could leave Xuzhou alive.
However, Qingyang didn't want to stay in Xuzhou anymore, and visited Wang Jixiong, so he went north from Longya City with Jiang Shu, drove to Chenyang to change boats, and went all the way down the Yuanshui River to Yueyang day and night, hoping to save the two days wasted by Wang Jixiong's coming.
Qingyang is also eager in his heart, hoping that after arriving in Yueyang, he can send someone to Shu to see his father as soon as possible, and finally determine the status of marrying into Dachu, instead of "eloping" without a name and no share like now.
However, when they crossed Dongting Lake by boat and were about to enter Yueyang, the Xuzhou messenger chased them from behind by a fast sailboat, and only then did they know that they had only been away for two days, and Wang Jixiong had died of illness in Longya City, and the messenger had made a special trip to Yueyang to report the funeral.
Although Wang Jixiong said that he hoped that he would be buried in Xuzhou after his death, Han Qian insisted on sending a ship to send Wang Jixiong's coffin and his grandson Queen Jun to Yueyang, and obeyed the disposal of Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan.
In the end, it was under Wang Jun's bitter plea that Han Qian allowed Wang Jixiong to be buried for three days in Xuzhou before leaving; Counting the days, the coffin ship will depart from Xuzhou today, but the speed is even slower, and it may take a few days to reach Yueyang City.
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Qingyang didn't care about Wang Jixiong's death, and she didn't think that Wang Jixiong's death had any substantial impact on the current situation in Dachu, but when she entered Yueyang City with Jiang Xu, there was another real bad news waiting for her.
Except for Li Zhihe who led his troops to guard Shaozhou to guard against the possibility of two rebels retreating to Yongzhou, and Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang, who led his troops to unite with Chuzhou's troops in Runzhou, the important figures of the Tan Wangfu family almost all gathered in Yueyang City.
In addition to Shen Yang, Zheng Hui, Chai Jian, Zhang Ping, Gao Chengyuan, Guo Liang, Zhou Yuan, Li Chong and others, Han Daoming and Han Daochang did not stay in Runzhou for too long.
Almost the day after Han Qian returned to Xuzhou, they also arrived in Yueyang and joined Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan.
In addition, Zheng Yu, the head of the Zheng family and the official army in Huangzhou, who is also the father of Zheng Xingxuan, also led some other big clans and eunuchs in Huangzhou to Yueyang to see King Tan and wait for appointment.
Yes, the arrival of the princess Wang Chan'er and the little princess Li Yao under the escort of Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang, Han Daoming, Han Daochang and others is definitely not good news for the county lord of Qingyang.
It's just that Jiang Shu left Jinling and returned to Yueyang earlier, and when he was in Xuzhou, he didn't know that the imperial concubine had left Runzhou, so there was no way to remind the county lord of Qingyang in advance.
After they entered the city, they were directly arranged in a remote courtyard far away from the town general's mansion, and they didn't even see Yang Yuanpu's face.
Qingyang's heart and lungs almost exploded, grabbed Jiang Xu, who was about to leave, and stared at him sternly and asked:
"Do you think Han Qian had expected this situation in Yueyang a long time ago, so he hid in Xuzhou and didn't come out?"
"Where can Jiang Yu guess Lord Han's thoughts?" Jiang Shu couldn't help but sigh, secretly sighing that Han Qian might have this guess, but what Han Qian was thinking in his heart, he couldn't see through it after all, and in the face of the question of the county lord of Qingyang, he didn't know how to answer, but said, "Jiang Shu returned to Yueyang, His Royal Highness has another send, and he will send others to take care of the county lord's daily life." If the county lord has any needs, he will go down when the time comes. ”
"Can I summon the person sent by His Highness?" Qingyang couldn't help but ask dejectedly.
Jiang Yu smiled bitterly, he had just returned to Yueyang City and had not yet figured out the situation, thinking in his heart that if His Royal Highness sent someone to serve the Qingyang County Lord, it would not be a big problem, but if the concubine was wary that the Qingyang County Lord and Han Qian had secretly formed an alliance, and insisted on sending her people to keep an eye on the Qingyang County Lord, and even postponed her marriage with His Royal Highness indefinitely, the situation was really not optimistic for the Qingyang County Lord.
However, His Royal Highness has no way to go against the will of the concubine, and he has no way to do anything.