On the morning of the third day.

The luxurious carriage sent by Zhou Yuanwai to pick up Lu Jinping came to the front of Lu Jinping's house, and it was Zhou Yuanwai's butler who came to greet Lu Jinping. Accompanied by Mrs. Gao's housekeeper, he introduced both parties.

Steward Zhou kept saying flattering words with a smile on his face, saying that Zhou Yuanwai felt extremely honored and grateful for Lu Jinping's coming.

Although many people in Tongzhou know Lu Jinping about his broken lord, the ancient information is extremely closed, and many things are not known ten miles away. Not to mention the matter of his broken lord, it is a major event that happened to the relatives of the emperor in the capital, and most of the people in other states and counties do not know about it when they leave the capital.

Therefore, this Zhoujiazhuang Zhou Yuanwai, which is thirty miles away, does not know the story of Lu Jinping, the broken lord, he learned from the old lady Gao that the invited is actually the dignified baron of the founding county, a doctor of medicine in the same state, and a medical officer with godlike medical skills, which not only made them overjoyed and flattered. Because her daughter was about to give birth, and she was doing her son-in-law's funeral, the room was full of relatives and friends, and it was inconvenient to leave, so she sent a housekeeper to take her family and invite Lu Jinping in her super luxurious carriage.

Lu Jinping had already changed into an official uniform, and he was too lazy to listen to Steward Zhou's meaty flattery, waved his hand, and took the maid Ye Qingqing into the carriage and went out of the city.

The luxury carriage roared out of the city under the escort of a team of family members, and drove along the official road to Zhoujiazhuang, thirty miles away, and arrived at Zhoujiazhuang near noon.

In front of the mansion, Zhou Yuanwai had already received a notice from the family who rushed back first, and waited at the door with his wife and concubine. Seeing Lu Jinping, after listening to the introduction of the housekeeper on the side, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to the ground: "The villain greets Lord Lu and Lord Lu!" ”

The seven or eight wives and concubines behind him, Yingying Yanyan followed Fuli, and said delicately, "Meet the lord!" ”

Lu Jinping is really amused by this title, but thinking about it, he is now not only a lord, but also a doctor of medicine, and an official in the imperial court. Although it is the lowest level of sesame officials, it is an official in the end, and in ancient times, there was a clear distinction between officials and the people, and the hierarchy was strict. What's more, he is still an authentic lord with a knighthood.

Lu Jinping is now an official and a lord, of course, he will not be too polite to a businessman, so he nodded lightly and said, "There is no need to be polite outside the Zhou Yuan. ”

Zhou Yuanwai took medicine and accompanied Xiao to introduce several of his wives and concubines one by one, and said apologetically: "The little girl is about to give birth, so I can't come out to greet the lord, I'm really sorry." ”

Lu Jinping was surrounded by Zhou Yuanwai and his wives and concubines like the stars holding the moon, and entered Zhou's house in a mighty way, and when he arrived at the courtyard, Lu Jinping was startled, and the courtyard was full of hundreds of people, or wearing linen and filial piety, or wearing black clothes, one by one with medicine and looking at him with a smile, and when he saw him come in, he quickly bowed down and saluted together, and said in unison: "The villain greets the lord!" ”

Zhou Yuanwai swept everyone around with a shy stomach, and then hurriedly bowed down and introduced to Lu Jinping: "These people are all relatives and friends of the villain, who came to attend my son-in-law's funeral. ”

Lu Jinping understood that this was Zhou Yuanwai's fox fake tiger power by supporting his face, so he smiled and stretched out his hand, held Zhou Yuanwai's hand, and said, "Brother Zhou, let's go to your son-in-law to put a stick of incense in front of the spirit first!" ”

The status of merchants in the Tang Dynasty was very low, no matter how rich you are, you will not be looked up against, especially in the eyes of officials and scholars. Unless you have someone in your family who is an official.

This Zhou member has been in business for generations, and there is no official in his family, so he has tasted the coldness of others and has always wanted to blend into the upper class, but although he has spent a lot of money, he still has not handed over any decent officials, let alone invited officials to his house. Finally, the baron of the founding county and the doctor of the same state agreed to go to their house, which made Zhou Yuanwai so excited that he didn't sleep well all night.

He was satisfied that he only expected Lu Jinping to show up, but he didn't expect that this Lord Lu would hold his hand and walk intimately in front of hundreds of relatives and friends, like a friend for many years. This glory made his whole body tremble with excitement, and he couldn't even speak, just hunched his waist and humbly accompanied Lu Jinping to the mourning hall, while grinning happily uncontrollably.

Although his son-in-law has just died, it's just that this week, the staff is very dissatisfied with his son-in-law, who eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and is addicted to alcohol, so there is no sadness, but he is secretly happy in his heart.

The Tang Dynasty was relatively open, and the last time the princess went down to an ordinary woman, and there were many men who remarried after they died, so it was not uncommon for Zhou Yuanwai to have this idea.

Zhou Yuanwai laughed with him, and in the envious eyes of those who came over, he accompanied Lu Jinping straight to the mourning hall.

Sitting in the mourning hall were the closest relatives and friends outside Zhou Yuan, all standing respectfully on both sides at this moment, bowing to Lu Jinping with a smile.

Lu Jinping is only now experiencing the majesty of being an official, he is just a petty official, because he has a false lord's identity, but he is already majestic in front of these flat-headed people, if he really changes to a high-ranking official like Mrs. Gao, then I don't know how respectful these people will be.

Lu Jinping took 40,000 yuan from others, but he just came to the catwalk, so he wanted to make up for it with some performance, so that the other party's vanity could be more satisfied, and he was also worthy of the 40,000 yuan paid by others. He took three sticks of incense, lit them on the incense candles, bowed before the spiritual seat, and then stepped forward and inserted the incense candles into the incense burner.

This action made Zhou Yuanwai even more flattered, it turned out that there was no requirement for incense after discussing with Mrs. Gao, which was really an unexpected surprise.

Those close relatives and friends outside Zhou Yuanwai couldn't help but feel even more envious and jealous when they saw that this old lady actually gave incense to Zhou Yuanwai's son-in-law.

Lu Jinping thought that since he was acting, he would do a full job, so he said to Zhou Yuanwai: "I'll go and pay homage to your son-in-law's remains!" ”

Zhou Yuanwai was so moved that his legs trembled, and he almost knelt down to kowtow to express his gratitude, and said honestly: "Thank you, lord, don't dare to work the lord's drive, the lord's presence has already made the villain shine......"

Lu Jinping shook his head and said: "Since you have come to mourn, it is appropriate to pay respects to the remains, let's take a look, since they are all here." ”

"Yes, yes! Thank you, sir, please here. ”

Zhou Yuanwai hunched his waist and turned his face sideways, led the way in front, and led Lu Jinping to the spiritual bed of his son-in-law who was parked behind a huge white cloth behind the spiritual seat.

I saw a corpse lying quietly on a fine soft couch, covered with colorful brocade and covered with a piece of yellow paper.

Zhou Yuanwai bowed his waist and said to the corpse: "Uncle, I don't know what kind of blessing you cultivated in your previous life, but you can get the lord to come to condolence for you in person, and you can also be comforted in the spirit of heaven, which is also the supreme glory of our whole family......"

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuanwai was moved to tears, and hurriedly raised his sleeves to wipe his tears, and this time, the long sleeved robe actually brushed away the yellow paper money covering the corpse's face, revealing a slightly swollen and purple face below.

On the mourning hall, a long string of huge white lanterns hangs high, illuminating the mourning hall as if it were daytime, so it is very real to see.

Lu Jinping couldn't help but sigh, and took a closer look at the deceased's face.

Zhou Yuanwai wiped his tears, only to find that the yellow paper on the face of his son-in-law's corpse had fallen, so he quickly bent down and picked it up and put it on the corpse's face again.

Lu Jinping asked Zhou Yuanwai: "I heard that your son-in-law was drunk to death?" ”

Zhou Yuanwai looked ashamed, and said curtly: "Yes, yes, it is the villain's lax discipline and the unfortunate family that caused such an ugly thing, it is really embarrassing to say it, and it makes the lord laugh!" ”

Lu Jinping asked again: "Where did he die?" How did you get drunk? ”

"It's at the widow's house in the town, and the widow opened a wine shop, selling wine is fake, seducing men is real, this stinky and shameless thing. My uncle is not angry, but he likes to run to the rotten goods, he doesn't drink the wine at home, so he has to spend money to drink the rotten goods. I scolded him several times, but he still secretly went to the widow's winery to drink. This time, I was even drunk and died at her house, making others laugh at me, I was really angry! ”