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Liu Wenyuan used only more than three taels of silver to buy a cemetery and a thin coffin for his wife outside the city, and then rummaged through the cabinets to find the wedding dress of his wife when she got married. After carefully wiping his wife's body, he touched his wife's cold stomach and gently put the wedding dress on his wife.

After the coffin shop brought the coffin, Liu Wenyuan asked them to put his wife's body in the coffin, then borrowed a car from a neighbor and drove his wife's thin coffin all the way out of the city. With the help of a neighbor, he buried his wife in the ground.

On top of a new tomb, there is a wooden plaque that reads "The Tomb of Liu Huang's Magnolia".

Liu Wenyuan stood in front of the grave in a daze, the neighbor looked at it and sighed, stepped forward to help burn the paper money, and dragged Liu Wenyuan back to the city in the car.

There is no resurrection from the dead.

The living still have to live, even if it is painful, they still have to live.

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In the city, Zhou Shixiang and Qian Qianyi, who was nearly eighty years old, had a very harmonious conversation.

As early as two years ago, Zhou Shixiang asked Zhang An to send people to Jiangnan to contact people who had restored their sight, and Qian Qianyi, as the head of those who had recovered his sight in Jiangnan, was the key contact object. It's just that although the Taiping Army rose in Guangdong at that time, it was still limited to Guangdong Province, and the distance was too far, so Qian Qianyi did not attach too much importance to Guangdong, but spent his energy on contacting Jinxia.

Later, even if he knew that the Guangdong Formation beheaded Prince Jian Jidu and conquered Guangxi and Hunan, the momentum was far greater than that of Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, and Qian Qianyi's attention to the Taiping Army was still not as good as that of the Jinxia Zheng Army. Most of the money and food resources secretly provided by the Jiangnan Restoration people contacted by him were also used for Zheng Jun and Zhejiang Jun.

The main reason for this is that the Taiping army is too far away from the south of the Yangtze River, and the gentry of Jiangnan are not as strong as the Jiangnan gentry, but the Zheng army of Jinxia can enter the river at any time, and its strength is not weaker than that of the Taiping army, so it is impossible for the people who have restored the sight of Jiangnan to seek the near and far. Another reason is that Yanping Wang Zhengsen is a student of Qian Qianyi, and his cousin Damu is taken by Qian Qianyi, so in terms of intimacy, Qian Qianyi is also more inclined to his student, rather than a Xiucai who has never heard of or met.

Qian Qianyi was going to Nandu, but because he heard that the Taiping army sent troops from Zhenjiang to attack Liang Huafeng, he realized that the Taiping army would inevitably use troops in Suzhou. Changshu is not far from Suzhou, once Suzhou is recovered, he can come immediately, so he has been waiting at home for the news of Suzhou's recovery.

Qian Qianyi was very confident in the Taiping army's recovery of Fuzhou, and he asserted to Hedong Junliu that Liang Huafeng and Guan Xiaozhong were not in agreement, and it was difficult to work together, and they would inevitably lose. Sure enough, he expected it, but Qian Qianyi thought that the Taiping Army was loyal to Guan who had conquered the siege and was waiting to be killed in a bloody battle, but he didn't expect to enter the city without losing a single soldier.

Because of the heavy snow in the world, Qian Qianyi was nearly eighty years old, so Hedong Junliu did not agree with her husband to come to Suzhou City in the snow, but Qian Qianyi heard that it was Zhou Shixiang, the Duke of Yue, who led the army to conquer Suzhou this time, so he insisted on coming and lost his temper for this. Liu Ru couldn't persuade him, so he had to order his family to prepare a carriage and accompany him to Suzhou. There have always been people in the Qian Mansion from the Military Intelligence Department, so they sent the news back immediately and escorted them all the way.

The people in Jiangnan of the Military Intelligence Department know that the marshal attaches great importance to this old uncle, and maybe he will be of great use, where do he dare to let this old uncle have an accident.

After Zhou Shixiang was repaid, he personally went to the city gate to pick up Qian Qianyi, and did not neglect him because of Qian Qianyi's previous indifference to Guangdong. In his opinion, although Qian Qianyi had a bad record of degrading the Qing Dynasty during the Hongguang period, he always insisted on secretly opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, squatted in the Qing Dynasty prison three times, and scattered all his family wealth, so that after his death, his wife Liu Ru was forced by the Qian family to commit suicide in anger. Therefore, no matter how unbearable this old man was back then, he always paid for it for the rest of his life, which was much stronger than the Donglin disciples who repaired the "History of the Ming Dynasty" for the Manchus in Beijing, and the Han officials who suppressed the Ming army for the Qing Dynasty in the provinces.

No one is perfect, and no gold is red.

In the past 17 years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been too many characters like Qian Qianyi who first descended to the Qing Dynasty, and then repented and wrote a chapter of restoring the Ming Dynasty with their lives.

Zhou Shixiang thinks that Qian Qianyi is worthy of respect, at least he was not the one who led the opening of the Nanjing City Gate in the first place, and he is better than Li Chengdong, Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren, Jiang Pai and others, he did not have his hands stained with the blood of the Han people.

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"Old Zongbo!"

After seeing Qian Qianyi, Zhou Shixiang was a late-born disciple ceremony, and he did not put on a grand show at all. In addition to him, all the high-ranking generals in Suzhou came to greet him, and Jiang Guozhu, the new governor of Jiangsu, also bowed with a surrendered prefect, Yan Shaoqing.

Qian Qianyi was a little apprehensive, afraid that Zhou Shixiang would despise him because of his bad deeds in the Hongguang period, but he was very excited to see the young Guogong leading his subordinates to treat him so ceremoniously. When Liu Ru helped him get out of the car, he could feel that his husband's hands were trembling.

Qian Qianyi excitedly helped Zhou Shixiang up, and after his mood calmed down a little, he introduced Liu Rushi to Zhou Shixiang.

Zhou Shixiang looked at Liu Ru, one of the rumored "Qin Huai Bayan", and was very emotional, the vicissitudes of time, now what he sees is not an Oiran, not a Bayan, but a woman with white sideburns, a heroine who always follows her husband and insists on regaining her sight!

"Hedong-kun!"

Zhou Shixiang called Liu Ru with respect. He didn't call her "Mrs. Qian", because Jiang Guozhu told him in advance that Liu Ru was a woman and a man, so he never liked others to call her "Mrs. Qian", but liked outsiders to call her "Hedongjun".

"Hedongjun", Liu Ru was stunned at first, and then a little happy. She looked curiously at the young prince in front of her, who had not yet been established.

Zhou Shixiang introduced a cadre to Qian Qianyi, and all the generals stepped forward to salute, and when Jiang Guozhu and Yan Shaoqing also came to salute, Qian Qianyi was inevitably stunned, but immediately understood that these two people must have descended to the Duke of Yue.

At this time, the wind is strong, Qian Qianyi is an octogenarian, how can he stay at the city gate for a long time. Zhou Shixiang invited Qian Qianyi and his wife to get into the car and personally rode a horse to lead the way. This move made Qian Qianyi believe that he was not wrong.

treats Qian Qianyi so solemnly, in addition to respecting his feats, Zhou Shixiang also has the heart to take advantage of it. He needs to use Qian Qianyi's fame to stabilize the hearts of the gentry in Jiangnan, which is not in conflict with him using Jiang Guozhu to deal with these people in the back of the prison, because, at the moment, stabilizing the situation in Jiangnan is the first priority. (To be continued.) )