The snow falls in early winter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The sky is gray, as if covered with a layer of shadow. A cold wind howled through the hall, blowing a few broken baskets apart. The snow on the ground was accumulating.

The branches of the trees in the lord's mansion became bunches of silver bars. On this day, Lin Ruhai sat on a chair, his body no longer weighed much, he looked like a dried corpse, and his wide cotton clothes looked thin. Today he is dressed very neatly, and the black robe, with the silver pattern longevity, looks very complicated.

There were only Lin Lan and him left in the hall. Lin Ruhai deliberately wanted to get up and sit in the hall today, even if he lit three or four stoves, it was still very cold in this hall.

The atmosphere in the room was a little depressing, and Lin Lan smiled and said, "I made a little money a few days ago, and now I don't have to worry about eating and drinking in the Lord's Mansion, Dad, you don't have to worry about anything." ”

Lin Ruhai said in a hoarse voice: "When you tinkered with that cloth village in Jinling, I knew that the Lin family would not worry about spending money in this life, but you have to understand that the foundation is unstable, and all this you do is easy to be taken away by others as easily as picking flowers." ”

"Dad, rest assured, now the Lin Mansion is no longer the Lin Mansion that still needs to survive everywhere."

Lin Ruhai nodded with satisfaction and said, "Do you know what satisfies your father the most?" ”

"What?" Lin Lan looked at Lin Ruhai's vicissitudes of face and found that Lin Ruhai was very relieved today. Before, the Wang family and the aunts came to say hello one by one, and Daiyu, Yingchun and Tanchun also came to say goodbye.

Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "I married Daiyu's mother back then, this time, you are even more competitive, and you married two girls from Jiafu at once, which can be regarded as having a glow on your face." ”

"Daddy has won the prize."

Lin Ruhai looked at the snow floating outside the hall, and said weakly: "It's such a big snow, it was also such a big snow in the first year of Dengke, and it was not cold at all at that time. A few of us with gold list titles, holding wine jugs to each other, chanting poems and singing in the snow, that kind of hearty, I have never been so happy in my life. ”

His eyes were fixed on the snow in the courtyard, as if he had returned to that time.

"Dad was happy at that time, so naturally he didn't feel cold."

Lin Ruhai smiled and didn't say anything, lowered his head and squinted his eyes, and after a long time, he raised his head again, and said with a haggard face: "Didn't you ask before, our Lin family's ancestral grave is in Gusu, why is your eldest father's grave in Yangzhou?" ”

Lin Lan nodded.

"Back then, there was a Taoist priest who counted a hexagram when he passed by the ancestral house of the Lin family. The father's grave follows the son, and the family is prosperous from generation to generation. When your grandfather died, I was in the prefect of Yangzhou, so I was buried in Yangzhou. Later, it really worked, and it wasn't until a few years ago that your grandfather's coffin was moved back to Gusu, and the ancestral tomb in Yangzhou became an empty grave. Now that our Lin family has settled in Beijing, you have been knighted again. When I die, remember to bury me in Jingshi and let my father watch you. ”

Lin Lan hesitated: "Wouldn't this be a little bad?" "Falling leaves return to the roots, under such thinking, dying in a foreign country is undoubtedly a seemingly tragic ending.

Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "Buried in Jingshi, let my father watch you." On that day, you are also tired and want to go back to Gusu to rest, so you will take your father back with you and let your father escort you home. ”

The bell of Huangming Temple rang like a signal to return home.

While!

While!

Autumn harvest and winter storage, all things are reincarnated. Today's bell is particularly melodious.

"Let Daddy Watch You ......"

When he finished saying this, Lin Ruhai's eyes squinted, looked at the snow scene outside the hall, and slowly closed his eyes. Lin Lan looked at the neatly dressed black shroud, Lin Ruhai seemed to have an omen, and waited for death to come.

Lin Lan walked over, straightened Lin Ruhai's sleeves, and slowly walked out of the hall, standing in the courtyard looking at the vast snow scene. The wind and snow are coming, falling on the tips of the hair and on the eyebrows, and what can't be escaped is still a dead word after all.

The Wang family led the whole family to hear the news, knelt down in the hall and wept, for a while, the snow in the sky seemed to have become an endless vein, covering the entire lord's mansion.

Lin Lan's throat moved, and he said with a serious expression: "Steward Jia, inform the Rong Mansion." ”

"Yes."

"Erfeng, assistant to my mother to handle the funeral, white candles and white cloth or something, you can do it."

"Yes."

At the behest of Lin Lan's orderly order, the servants in the house began to operate.

Yinglian looked at Lin Lan, who was covered with snow, a little at a loss, and leaned the umbrella over, "Brother Lin......"

"I'm a little tired, help me into the house and rest." The pain of bereavement made Lin Lan a little numb, and she felt a little helpless for a while. Even if you have made sufficient preparations, when this moment really comes, the sky will be dark.

He is the head of the Lin family, and at this moment, the sky is really falling, and it is not his turn to cry. But he had to rest for a while, and there was still a lot of work to attend to during the night.

"Oh." Yinglian's height happened to be on Lin Lan's shoulder, holding Lin Lan's arm and walking towards the backyard.

Outside the wing room, Lin Lan said: "The arrangement of the mourning hall or something, everything is left to Steward Jia to preside." Don't let anyone bother me until it gets dark, okay? ”

Yinglian nodded with tears in her eyes. She understood what Lin Lan felt in her heart at this time. When Zhen Shiyin left home, she cried into tears, not to mention how Lin Ruhai died.

Lin Lan raised her feet weakly, stepped into the wing, and without taking off her clothes, she wrapped the quilt around her body, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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The descendants of the lord's mansion reported the funeral and spread the news to the Rong Mansion.

When Jia Mu, who was sitting on the warm kang, heard this, she also wiped her tears and sighed a few times. Mrs. Wang, Sister Feng and a few others who came to hear the news also cried twice, and said that they did not enjoy their lives. As soon as people have no excuses, they will talk about everything to fate, and no one can say that it has nothing to do with fate anyway.

Jia Zheng changed into a black cotton robe and walked into Rongqing Hall under the black umbrella held by the maid.

"Mother's Day condolences."

Mother Jia wiped it with a towel and said: "The white-haired person sends the black-haired person, Ruhai is my son-in-law, and now he is close to each other and has become your in-laws, and I am also sad when he leaves." Lin Mansion for funeral, I'm afraid I'm going to faint there, you go to handle it, don't lose etiquette in etiquette. ”

"My son knows."

Jia Mu said again: "If Daiyu girl is too sad, you persuade Lin Lan to bring her to me." I am her grandmother, so I brought it back to meet and comfort her. ”

"Yes."

Jia Zheng looked up and turned to leave. The birdcage on the verandah had already been received in the warm pavilion, and Jia Zheng stood in front of the porch for a while, until Jia Lian and Baoyu came over.

"Second uncle."

"Daddy."

Jia Zheng said: "Your uncle is gone. The things have been sent to buy them, the two of you sent them over on behalf of the Rong Mansion, don't be rude, those who should wear linen and filial piety should wear linen and wear filial piety, the Lin family has few heirs, you can fill up the number in the past, if the Lin family still wants people, Huan'er and Cong'er will also go over. ”

Although Baoyu was unwilling, she didn't dare to disobey, so she had to say yes. (To be continued.) )