Although Xie Xianzhi was embarrassed to speak, he came to ask his younger siblings for help, so he finally opened his mouth.

What he wanted was actually very simple. Xie Pu is going to leave Beijing tomorrow, and after seeing him off, the family can go back to the Xie family's mansion to pack their personal belongings, and Xie Xianzhi is naturally no exception. But now that he has recovered from a serious illness, it is the time when he is weak, even if he really returns to the mansion, it is estimated that he will use his mouth to work, and he can't be expected to do any hard work. So he had to rely on the people around him to do the work of packing things.

However, the people waiting around Xie Xianzhi are really inconvenient to work now.

Xie Xianzhi didn't have a girl, so he came back from Pingnanbo's Mansion alone. After experiencing Wenzhu's betrayal, he lost confidence in the subordinates sent by the Cao family. However, he did not send people directly to Yaxing according to his father Xie Pu's intentions, but carefully asked Qingsong, who was the most trusted among them, and knew what kind of experiences the people around him had after he left Pingnanbo's Mansion.

Ping Nanbo planned to let the girls waiting around him sneak into the Xie family as assassins, but most of the girls didn't have the courage to cry and beg the former to let them go. In addition to Wen Zhu's choice to betray the master for the sake of marriage and future, there is another girl's approach, which is also quite different - Calamus categorically rejected Ping Nanbo, claiming that she would never betray her master Xie Xianzhi, for which she received more than a dozen slaps, and was beaten twenty boards, and there are still very obvious red and swollen palm prints on her cheeks, and she is limping when she walks.

If it weren't for Cao's concern for his son's feelings and a few words of dissuasion, Calamus might have been killed directly.

Calamus was originally a descendant of the servants of the Cao family, but her parents died early, and there were only a few distant relatives such as cousins and cousins left among the relatives, and the relationship was not very good.

In addition, although he is also a child of a family, Qingsong, who is loyal to Xie Xianzhi, also cried goodbye to his family.

Xie Xianzhi was very moved by the loyalty of the two, so he left them behind, and the others all let them go. However, instead of sending the people to the tooth shop, he returned the deed to them and let them leave on their own. If some of them don't want to stay in Pingnanbo's mansion, they can just leave with their deeds. But if someone still thinks that the Cao family is their destination, or thinks about their relatives who are still in the Cao family, he will not stop others from reuniting.

At that time, Xie Xianzhi also went to explain his thoughts to Xie Pu: "I was forced to be separated from my family by the Cao family, why should I let these people who have served me suffer the same sin?" After all, they didn't betray me like Wenzhu, so I should have fulfilled my master-servant friendship with them for many years. ”

Xie Pu felt pity and agreed.

The two calamus and green pine who stayed, the latter had Xie Xianzhi and Xie Huizhi as guarantees, and they had always been familiar with other people's little people, and they soon got along with the people. But before Calamus was injured, she was forcibly dragged off the hospital bed and escorted to Xie's house with others, Xie Xianzhi felt very sorry for her and immediately let her recuperate. Anyway, the general chores can be solved by green pine.

Now Xie Xianzhi asked Xie Mulin and Xie Jinzhi for help, because he was sick and weak, and the big girl calamus was injured and had difficulty moving, even if there was a green pine, he might not be able to get busy. Therefore, after arriving at the Xie family's mansion, he may have to borrow manpower from his younger siblings.

Of course, Xie Mulin and Xie Jinzhi will not refuse.

Xie Xianzhi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, then hesitated again, and said hesitantly: "I don't know my father...... For Big Sisters...... What do you think? She wasn't at home, and no one else could clean up the house for her. But after all, she is still the daughter of the Xie family, and she will come back one day, so she can't give everything to others, right? ”

Xie Mulin vaguely seemed to understand something, and said with a smile: "This matter is easy to do, I'll tell my mother when I go back and seal the eldest sister's personal belongings." At that time, the eldest brother can send things directly to her, and he will keep them for the time being, and then return them to her when he has the opportunity. Anyway, my fourth sister and I won't be greedy for her things. ”

Xie Jinzhi said: "I see that there are a lot of clothes made for the eldest brother in the luggage sent by the Pingnanbo Mansion to the eldest brother before, but I am afraid that after the mansion was copied by the officers and soldiers, the people of the Pingnanbo Mansion have already visited it...... I've cleaned up all your things. All that can be left is nothing important, or old clothes that are out of season. The eldest brother asked people to seal these up for the time being, and the eldest sister shouldn't be in a hurry to use them. Recently, Pingnanbo Mansion is holding a funeral, and our family has a grudge against his family, so it's better not to come to the door at this time. ”

Xie Xianzhi understood that Xie Jinzhi was thinking about himself, his heart warmed, and he smiled: "Second brother, don't worry, I won't be stupid." He paused, "I have already sacrificed him once, even if it is all my nephew's affection." If he can use me to poison my father, he will no longer be an elder I respect. I will not go to his spirit to offer incense, nor will I mourn his death. He is here today, and he is also to blame, no one can blame him. ”

It's good that Xie Xianzhi has this awareness, Xie Mulin and Xie Jinzhi are very satisfied. The three brothers and sisters spoke for a while, and then they dispersed. Xie Mulin later went to Wen's to talk about the items in Xie Yinghui's courtyard, as well as Xie Xianzhi's request, and Wen's was also very considerate, and unsurprisingly agreed to his daughter's proposal.

Nothing happened overnight. Early the next morning, everyone in the Xie family got up to freshen up, sat in the main hall of the outer courtyard, and had a reunion breakfast. Even Wanqin, who has been semi-grounded, rarely appeared at the dining table - her younger brother Ye Jinrong will also follow Xie Pu to Beiping with the shopkeepers, and she will naturally appear and give her brother a ride.

Xie Pu glanced around at his wife, concubine and children, and was a little emotional for a while. After going through an ordeal, some of his thoughts have changed, and his views on his family are a little different from what they used to be. Thinking that several children have grown up and become more sensible and caring, he can't help but feel relieved.

With red circles in his eyes, Wen replaced wine with tea, led the concubines and children to pay tribute to Xie Pu, wishing him a smooth journey and a bright future, and did not forget to tell him to take care of his body on the road and write more letters to his family......

Xie Pu drank the tea offered by his wife, concubines and children, and almost couldn't eat breakfast, but he was not sad. After breakfast, he had to go to Xie Jinkun's house in the neighborhood to bid farewell to his eldest uncle Xie Zeshan, and then detour to the back street of Cheng'en Temple to say goodbye to his mother, Mrs. Xie. In this way, we can officially leave Beijing and go to Beiping.

The process of bidding farewell to the two elders went very smoothly. Xie Pu took his family and several large carts of luggage to the wharf next to the Lishe Bridge, changed the waterway, took a boat to Tongjimen, and then went out of the city to the direction of the Yangtze River waterway, and then changed to a hired big boat at the riverside wharf.

The sun has risen high, and today the sun is shining, the clouds are light and the wind is light, and it should be a good weather for the road. It's just that when the Xie family and his party came to the Dongshuiguan area by boat, they actually encountered a blockage of the river.

Looking at the Tongji Gate not far ahead, they could clearly see that a fleet of ships coming from the other direction blocked not far in front of them, filling the river to the brim. On both sides of the riverbank, there were also many people and horses who walked with them, and they were all dressed in white and wearing filial piety.

Obviously, this is a funeral procession.

Everyone in the Xie family couldn't help but feel very unlucky. And when they found out that the mourning family turned out to be Pingnanbo's Mansion, they felt even more unlucky.

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