Chapter 20: Grave Sweeping (Recommended)
Hao Mengyun thought of Meng Qingze's ability to do business, and suddenly had a little more confidence in his little apprentice.
She took a deep breath, "Then I'll just wait to see you clean up those guys." ”
Meng Hao smiled calmly, "Don't worry, I will definitely not let them rely on the inheritance left by my father and mother to eat, drink, have fun, and be powerful." ”
Those things belonged to Meng Qi, and of course Meng Zhen wanted to help him get them all back.
She turned her head to look at Su Shen, "Ah Shen, you tomorrow..."
"I'll come with you, too."
Meng Hao has no opinion, Meng Qi has no right to express his opinion, and Hao Mengyun and Yan Zhenwu are not at all outside Meng Hao's "life-saving benefactor", so everyone decided to go out collectively tomorrow to accompany Meng Zhen and Meng Qi to the grave of Meng Qingze and his wife.
After dinner, Yan Zhenwu took Su Shen away, and Meng Zhen slept with Xiao Meng Qi in Hao Mengyun's house.
Nothing was said all night.
Early the next morning, Meng Zhen got up early and made millet porridge, potato cakes, boiled eggs, and cold cabbage for breakfast.
Before leaving, Meng Zhen bought 20 baked cakes and 20 vegetarian buns at a stall at the mouth of the alley to cushion everyone's stomachs on the road.
The carriage hired by Yan Zhenwu was rushed to his door by the coachman on time, and everyone got into the carriage one after another with incense, candles, paper money, wine offerings, and some things to eat and use on the road.
Hao Mengyun, Su Shen, Meng Zhen, and Meng Qi sat in the carriage, but Yan Zhenwu sat on the other side of the carriage, and walked all the way to the mountain with the driver in charge of driving the car.
Yan Zhenwu has a bold personality and righteousness, and his friends are all over Ninghai County.
He can be friends with a scholar and squire landlord like Meng Qingze, or he can be with a small official, a servant, a small vendor, a coachman... Even the little gangsters and little beggars on the street make friends.
This is also why he was able to keep such a great beauty as Hao Mengyun in the troubled times before the founding of the new dynasty.
Even Hao Mengyun went to Meng's house to be a martial arts master for Meng Hao, but Yan Zhenwu introduced her.
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"That's it, I'm tired of coming here to pick us up and take us back to the county seat in an hour." Yan Zhenwu motioned for the coachman to stop, and then reached out to hug Xiao Meng Qi off the carriage.
When the others also got out of the carriage one after another, he took ten more fragrant baked cakes that were still warm and handed them to the coachman, "This is the baked cake that my niece bought in the county seat, if you are hungry, you can eat a few mats." ”
The coachman waved his hand again and again, but before he could say no, Yan Zhenwu couldn't help but stuff the baked cake into his hand, "Give it to you, you will take it." ”
"Hey-" The carriage driver Erkang handed, but Yan Zhenwu strode towards Hao Mengyun and them without looking back.
The coachman knew that the baked cake was not going back, and he was helpless and inevitably felt a little excited and happy in his heart.
Although he was born and raised in Ninghai County, his family background is not as good as that of most ordinary farmers living in the ravines.
At least they still have land to cultivate, they can rely on the mountains to eat and rely on the water, as long as the family has enough labor, how can they be half-full all year round, but their family can only rely on doing odd jobs to earn living needs.
Not only do the men in the family have to go out every day to find work, but even the women have to keep washing and sewing to earn a few changes to subsidize the family.
But even so, they still don't have enough to eat and wear.
Not to mention the "extravagant" behavior of going out to buy baked cakes to eat, they are reluctant to even add a little fine grain to the coarse grains and vegetables they often eat at home.
Now that he has ten white flour baked cakes given by Yan Zhenwu, the coachman will eat them if he is willing to whin.
As soon as Yan Zhenwu left, he immediately stuffed all the baked cakes into the cloth pocket he carried with him - he wanted to take these ten baked cakes home and improve the food for the old lady, daughter-in-law and several children of the family.
Speaking of Yan Zhenwu, he walked fast with his long legs, and it didn't take long for him to catch up with Su Shen, a beautiful young man who was holding Xiao Meng Qi and walking behind Meng Hao and Hao Mengyun.
Picking up Xiao Meng Qi, who was waving his little fat hand to greet him, Yan Zhenwu smiled slightly and nodded to Su Shen.
Hao Mengyun glanced at him, and then climbed the mountain without looking back.
Meng Hao was in no mood to pay attention to Yan Zhenwu at this time, the closer she got to her father's tomb, the more uncomfortable Meng Zhen felt in her heart.
Even Xiao Meng Qi was affected by his sister's emotions, and the little guy was held in Yan Zhenwu's arms in a daze. You can hang an oil pot with a pout.
A group of five people walked silently to the tomb of Meng Qingze and his family, Meng Hao took Meng Qi to kneel in front of the grave, and Hao Mengyun, Yan Zhenwu and Su Shen helped place the tributes and clean up the wild grass.
Meng Zhen kowtowed three times, and then looked at Meng Qi and kowtowed three times.
"Father, mother, I took Ah Qi to see you."
"Master and Uncle Yan have taken good care of Ah Qi, and the brutes who killed you, my daughter has already sent them all underground to make amends for your sins."
In the future, my daughter will take good care of Ah Qi, so that he can grow up happily and healthily. Our family's property, my daughter will get it back as soon as possible, and it will never be cheap for the Meng family. ”
“......”
After chattering for a long time, Meng Zhen asked Meng Qi to say a few words to his father.
Meng Qi had already cried into tears, Meng Zhen coaxed him for a while, and the little guy said a few words, "Ah Qi... Ah Qi thinks about his father and mother, so he thinks about it. Ah Qi... Ah Qi will obediently listen to his sister in the future. ”
Yan Zhenwu, Hao Mengyun and Su Shen also couldn't help wiping away tears, Su Shen was touched by the sadness and remembered his father and mother who died early, Yan Zhenwu and Hao Mengyun were sad about the unfortunate death of Meng Qingze and Wu Shi.
A group of five people stayed on the mountain for most of the hour, until Yan Zhenwu and Hao Mengyun also burned paper, put on incense, and said a few words in front of Meng Qingze's grave, and then everyone packed up their things and prepared to go down the mountain.
After crying for too long, Meng Zhen and Meng Qi's eyes were red and swollen, Yan Zhenwu and the three of them were slightly better than them, but they were also very limited.
The group got into the carriage one after another in silence, and the coachman turned the head of the carriage and drove the carriage back to Ninghai County.
"You told your father and mother before that you were going to take Ah Qi to Mujiaji Town to resettle down?"
Back at Hao Mengyun's house, Yan Zhenwu, who had been holding back his words, couldn't bear it anymore, he took the teapot and poured water for himself, and asked Meng Zhen this question.
Meng Hao bowed slightly, "Only by re-settling down can we completely get rid of the Meng clansmen." Otherwise, as you said, they will definitely fight Ah Qi's idea. ”
From the perspective of the world, she is just an insignificant female doll adopted by Meng Qingze and his wife, and she has no value for those people.
Meng Qi is different, he is Meng Qingze's rightful heir, as long as he is there, what Meng Qingze and his wife left behind will definitely not be inherited by others.
So how will those people treat Meng Qi?