In the winter of the fifteenth year of Yuanping of the Great Qi Dynasty, Yanpu, a small town belonging to Tongzhou, a three-entry courtyard that looks quite solid, and many people gathered in and out. The main family and the subordinates were busy in a dull and oppressive atmosphere, while relatives and friends sat silently in different living rooms, either silent or sighing.

The Qin family's big house is naturally not a prestigious family, but in the small town of Yanpu, it is really a solid family.

As we all know, Mrs. Lian is the pillar of the Qin family's big house.

Last month, Mrs. Lian, who has always been physically tough, suddenly fell ill, and her condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and in just one month, she survived to the point of running out of oil and drying up.

Early this morning, Lang Zhong had already given a message, let's prepare for the future, the old lady will be in this half a day's business.

That's why the relatives and friends of the Qin family got together and waited to see Mrs. Lian on her last journey.

Mrs. Lian on the sickbed breathed weakly, but in her vague meaning, she vaguely remembered that there was a very important thing that had not yet been implemented, and she had to settle down properly, and she must settle down properly...... She couldn't just leave...... Resolutely not ......

With the strong struggle in Mrs. Lian's heart, the girl who was staying by Mrs. Lian's side also exclaimed: "Wake up, the old lady is awake!" ”

"Yes, is it......" Even the old lady's three sons stepped forward together, and the daughters-in-law also got up from the brocade stool and came over, "Mother, mother, how are you?" ”

Even the old lady has been asleep since yesterday, and it has lasted for a day and a night, and her breath is getting weaker and weaker, and everyone thought that the old lady would probably fall asleep like this, but she didn't expect to finally wake up.

This is a return to the past, right? Seeing that Mrs. Lian opened her eyes with a little spirit, the descendants of the Qin family who looked at her were sad.

Even the old lady was full of children and grandchildren, and they all gathered in front of her sickbed at this time.

At a table in the outer room, an elderly lady heard the movement, and stood up, walked to the door of the inner room, and looked into it from a distance.

But after all, she is not even the old lady's close relative, and without the greeting of the master's family, it is naturally not good to enter without permission, but she just waited with a sad face, hoping that the handkerchief handed over since childhood can remember to see her when she is dying.

Even the old lady reluctantly opened her eyes, and her sight was as clear as she had never been in recent days, and her spirit was much better.

Her eyes swept over the faces of everyone in front of the bed, but she skipped her sons and daughters-in-law with different expressions, and fixed on Mama Liu, who had served her for most of her life.

"I ...... I, the shroud I prepared myself, incense...... Xianglian, you go and get it, help me put it on ......" Even the old lady was still very weak, but the meaning of the expression was very clear.

Mama Liu's face changed slightly, and she returned to normal in an instant, bent her knees, and turned around to find the shroud that Mrs. Lian said.

The three brothers of the Qin family and their respective daughters-in-law looked at each other in surprise.

Mother, what does this mean? Seeing that at the last moment, she didn't explain anything, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she wanted to change the shroud she had prepared.

Does the mother think that those of them who are sons will not even prepare the mother's shroud after a hundred years?

"Mother......" As soon as the Qin family wanted to speak, they were stopped by the bored eyes that Mrs. Lian looked at. I had the heart to explain a few more words, glanced at the people around me out of the corner of my eye, and closed my mouth very depressed.

Mrs. Lian looked away with great effort, chased after Mama Liu's back, and looked at it well.

The grandchildren on the periphery vaguely heard what their grandmother said, but they didn't hear the specific content, didn't understand what was happening, and only knelt quietly behind them.

In the strong expectation of Mrs. Lian, Mama Liu held a set of shrouds and stood in front of the sickbed under the gaze of her children and grandchildren.

Mrs. Lian raised her eyes with difficulty and said to her son and daughter-in-law, "I...... I'm not going to do it, all of you go down, go...... Go and prepare for the funeral, and ask Xianglian to change my clothes for the funeral. ”

"Mother, you are in good health, why can you say such frustrating words?" The third elder of the Qin family comforted.

"You ...... It's to see that I can't do it, don't take me seriously, right?! Even the old lady's voice was weak, but Yu Wei was still there, and her eyes showed a little sharpness in the past.

The three sons looked at each other and retreated one after another, and when the boss of the Qin family beckoned the others in the house to leave, he gave his wife Zhang a look without a trace.

Zhang got up, but instead of leaving, he quickly grabbed the shroud that Mama Liu was holding in her hand, and said: "Mother is heavy, Mama Liu can't do this alone, daughter-in-law stay and help." ”

The sudden change made Mama Liu startled, and she hurriedly hugged the shroud and pushed it back, wanting to dodge.

The weak Mrs. Lian instantly widened her eyes, glaring at Zhang as if she was about to breathe fire, and her mouth made a sleepy beast-like "uh-uh" sound.

In a hurry, the originally sallow face held back a few sickly flushes, and he couldn't say a word.

Zhang was also startled, and at the moment when he was about to let go, he suddenly felt that the touch of the shroud was wrong, and there seemed to be something in the middle...... Seems to be paper? Or a piece of paper?

She looked at her mother-in-law suspiciously, then turned to Mama Liu, and asked sharply, "What did you put in your mother's shroud?" Could it be a cursed talisman? You evil slave!! ”

Such an unusual reprimand immediately stopped everyone in the Qin family who was about to quit.

"What's wrong?!" So much so that the middle-aged Qin family boss instantly became stronger, and he stepped back in two steps, asking while drinking.

"It's over......" Mrs. Lian looked at her children and grandchildren who had gathered from the new gathering, and closed her eyes in pain.

It's over, it's all over, she has worked hard all her life and given everything she has. Seeing that her life is coming to an end, she just wants to live better underground, and such a simple wish can't be realized, she ...... Unwilling to ......

She could hear the cacophony of voices in front of her, questioning, fighting, brocade tearing......

Then, the sound of "hiss......" gasping one after another, fully expressing the disbelief of everyone present.

Even the old lady opened her eyes again, and the silver ticket was scrambling in the hands of her children and granddaughters-in-law, and her desperate eyes were even colder.

Her shroud was prepared by herself, and Mama Liu helped during the period, and no one else knew that there was this shroud, let alone the secret.

The mezzanine of the shroud is sealed with silver tickets of different denominations, the denomination is not very large, but after years of accumulation, the number of silver tickets added up is not small.

It's something she saved from between her teeth for years.

She worked hard for the Qin family all her life, and after a lifetime of selfless hard work, she finally got only these. This is the guarantee she has prepared for herself to live in the underworld.

These...... These unfilial descendants...... What qualifications do they have to compete for her silver ticket? She worked hard for the Qin family, young and old, to provide them with food, clothing, shelter and transportation, shouldn't she ask for some funeral goods after a hundred years?

But her sons and daughters-in-law, as well as her wretched husband, how can anyone be willing to understand her and pity her? They only know to sit back and enjoy it, where are they willing to prepare real money funeral goods for her?

If she dies, their father and son, young and old, will only get some worthless paper figures, paper horses, and paper-paste houses to fool her and fool her with her life's hard work.

These things that bury conscience, if the papier-mâché things can be used in the underworld, how can the prince and the prince make such a gorgeous cemetery and burial when he dies?

It was precisely because she saw through these coldness that she retreated to the next best thing, chose silver tickets instead of burials, and secretly brought these silver tickets and burials into the cemetery.

She believed that when she went to the Netherworld, the silver ticket she took out must not be comparable to those paper money and paper paste. With the silver ticket as a guarantee, she will definitely be able to live a good life in the underworld.

"It's all mine!" Even the old lady's voice was weak, but very resolute.

When the people of the Qin family who were scrambling heard the voice, they remembered that this was in front of their dying mother's sickbed, and their movements were all stagnant.

The boss of the Qin family hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Mother, where did you get so much silver?" Our family has less than two thousand taels of silver in their accounts. This, this, this, this is about 10,000 taels, right? ”

“…… I earned it, and you ...... All of them...... Everyone's food, use, and shelter are all earned by me, and they are all earned by my life's hard work! The last tone of the light was like a struggle for his life.

There were a lot of people in the room, but there was silence.

Even the old lady was angry, and her thoughts began to be confused.

What kind of expression are they looking at her?! What do they all mean?!

She worked hard for the Qin family all her life, so that they could live a worry-free life. But none of them are grateful, none of them have a conscience!

Mrs. Lian moved her eyes with her only remaining spirit, looked angrily at her husband Qin Xiangru, who was squeezed aside, and scolded inarticulately: "You, you, you are still a ...... Is it a man?! ”

This is her husband, who has never known all he is to hide in a corner.

In the face of his wife's rebuke and angry eyes, the old and eclectic Qin Xiangru's face was full of sadness and confusion. He was indeed the father of three sons, but his three sons, even his grandson, never took him as a father or grandfather seriously.

There is only one person in charge of this family, and that is their mother and grandmother, the old lady of the Qin family. He is cowardly and incompetent in the eyes of everyone in the family, and even in the eyes of his subordinates, and he is a dispensable person in the family.

He didn't care that his wife sewed a silver ticket in his shroud and took it away, but he couldn't care about his son and daughter-in-law, who had always been disdainful of him.

He didn't even know what his wife would face for the rest of his life with his position in the family after her death.

Qin Xiangru's cowardice made Mrs. Lian lose her last hope.

How could she be so miserable?! Why did the heavens treat her like this?!

thinks that she is even clever and smart, shrewd and capable, but she married such a wreck.

She is no worse than others, even better than them, but she has worked hard all her life, but because of the decline of her husband's family, she is constrained everywhere, and in the end she can only watch the two sluts who are not as good as herself soar and show off their power in front of her.

Even the old lady's eyes, which were gradually losing their lustre, seemed to be pulled by some kind of traction, and she looked at the richly dressed and transcendent old woman by the back door through the children and grandchildren who were busy tearing their shrouds and snatching silver tickets.

Her blurred vision seemed to really see the sarcastic look on the noble woman's face, and her heart tingled even more in despair.

It's her, it's this Yuan Dongchu, the daughter of a poor boatman, no good family will look up to her, so she can only marry a second son who is as unbearable as her.

But why is she so good? Unexpectedly, the lucky man got on the Yongguan Hou Kanghao, and became a noble lady who Yanpu Town and Tongzhou County will always look up to and welcome.

Why?! Why?!

and Zhou Cailan, the wife of the Marquis of Yongguan, a good-for-nothing woman, just because of her good luck, she married Kang Hao when she was weak, and she was able to become a noble Mrs. Hou!

Why? Why is she so lucky? How can a grass chicken become a phoenix?

She is even Qiaozhen shrewd and capable, a hundred times stronger than the two of them, but why is God so unfair to her?

The noble lady who was resented by Mrs. Lian was Yuan Dongchu, the old lady of the Gu family who was famous all over the world.

Mrs. Yuan is one year younger than Mrs. Lian, but she looks more than ten years younger than Mrs. Lian.

At this time, she was also shocked: the silver tickets scattered from the shroud torn off in front of the sickbed looked a lot. With the Qin family's family background, Qiaozhen actually saved so much silver?

The important thing is, Qiaozhen is going to take so many silver tickets to the grave?

She......

Yuan Dongchu was a little surprised that he didn't know what language to use.

Everyone in Yanpu Town knows that Lian's husband is weak and incompetent, and his sons are not growing up. Although the Lian family has been worrying about the Qin family and their children and grandchildren all his life, the life of the family is only a little more prosperous, and compared with the wealthy family, it is still a little tight.

Even though Yuan Dongchu and Zhou Cailan have help, the Qin family's life has been hovering at the solid level, and there has been no improvement.

Of course, if it is compared with ordinary people, the life of the Qin family is still much better.

But there are so many silver tickets in front of you...... It's different from people's perceptions......

With so much silver, it is the most conservative business, and you can also buy some cultivated land, Zhuangzi and shops, plus the annual interest, the Qin family can become the richest person in Yanpu Town, and it will never be the current situation.

Under Yuan Dongchu's surprised gaze, in the hustle and bustle of the Qin family's children and grandchildren grabbing silver tickets, Mrs. Lian gradually lost her vitality......