Xie Mulin and his entourage arrived outside Jinling City by land, and did not enter the city directly through the nearest city gate, but made a detour to the Sanshan Gate in the southwest.

Sanshanmen is a city gate for amphibious, and it is the intersection of the outer Qinhuai and the inner Qinhuai, which is very prosperous and lively. When foreign merchants enter Beijing, if they take the waterway, many of them go through this city gate. Xie Mulin and the others took the land route, but they still chose to start here, not to take the waterway, but because they entered the city from Sanshanmen, which was the closest to the Xie family's current shop in Luolang Lane.

Luolang Lane is located near Chaotian Palace, which is a gathering place for the dynasty to sell high-grade silk and satin, high-end ready-to-wear, silk embroidery and other trading houses. The Xie family originally had a huge shop here, but it was swallowed up by the Cao family, and I don't know if it fell into the hands of the Chengenhou Mansion or the Pingnan Bo Mansion. Now the Xie family has rented a small house with a façade in an inconspicuous place at the end of Luolang Lane, and while buying and selling silk and cotton cloth, they also store some different goods, ready to be shipped to Beiping for sale, which is a temporary place to stay.

Because almost all the businesses here are engaged in the textile and embroidery business, and they are not worried that after the Cao family occupies the Xie family's original shop, they will use excuses such as robbing business to bully the Xie family again, so the shopkeeper Mao took Liu to settle down here, stay away from the people under the Cao family, and borrow the old connections, and the life will be smooth. Although the business can't be compared with the past, the clothing business in Beijing is not the main business of the Xie family at the moment, so it doesn't matter.

Xie Xianzhi didn't plan to follow Shopkeeper Mao into the city. He still remembers that his father Xie Pu once said that he was not allowed to set foot in Jinling City until he was promoted in the examination. Before, because he was in a hurry to pick up his sister, he didn't care about it for a while, but then he was reminded by his younger siblings, so he had to remember it again. Xie Mulin had already repeatedly instructed him to wait for news outside the city and leave the matter of contacting the sisters to her. Xie Xianzhi has been taken care of by his second sister all the way, and he thought that the journey would be very hard has been safely and steadily, without illness or pain, and has not slowed down the trip, so now in front of his second sister Xie Mulin, his tone of voice is much weaker. What Xie Mulin said made sense, and he didn't dare to refute a word.

Shopkeeper Mao didn't worry about leaving the two children to spend the night in an unfamiliar place, and wanted to persuade them to follow him into the city, go to the house behind the shop to settle down, and then find another place to live when they found that there was nothing to do in the city. But Xie Mulin had an idea in his heart, and Xie Xianzhi was also willing to listen to his sister, so he had no choice but to let them, but he still left Liu and acted as a guide for the brother and sister. In such a commercially developed area outside the Sanshan Gate, Liu Guy can still help a lot.

So, after the shopkeeper Mao left, Xie Mulin asked Liu about the situation nearby, so he asked him to come forward and set a courtyard in a relatively famous inn outside the city gate, although he only stayed for two days, it was enough to ensure safety, tranquility and food. There is a noble person behind this big inn, and that noble person happens to have a mediocre relationship with the Cao family, it is Xie Yinghui's husband, the Ma family, the eldest princess of Yongning, who has been the backer for most of the past six months, and other idlers dare not come to the door to cause trouble. Xie Mulin took his brother and his entourage to live in, and spent money to ask the shopkeeper of the inn to help, and invited a doctor who was well-known in the neighborhood to come over, and checked the pulse of his eldest brother Xie Xianzhi, and made sure that he was in good health, so he was relieved.

Since Xie Xianzhi is safe and sound, and the two brothers and sisters have a safe place to live, Liu can go back to the city to meet with Shopkeeper Mao. If the shopkeeper is not at ease, just send someone over every day to ask, and he doesn't need to worry about anything else. After returning to Beijing after the new year, he still has to prepare to start a business, after the spring of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal resumes, the caravan people also have to transport goods to the north, allocate goods, arrange personnel, and take care of food and accommodation...... There are many things waiting for him to do, and Xie Mulin doesn't plan to let him be distracted from taking care of his brother and sister anymore.

After staying in the inn, everyone took a short rest and slept to their heart's content. After taking a nap, Jia Da was ordered by Xie Mulin to take the little servant Shi Yan to enter the city first, go to the Xie family's mansion in Pearl Bridge, and report the arrival of her brother and second sister to the eldest lady Xie Yinghui, give her a surprise, and also bring Xie Xianzhi's handwritten letter by the way.

As for the green pine beside Xie Xianzhi, he would go to several famous temples inside and outside Jinling City, such as Xitian Temple, Bao'en Temple, Qingliang Temple, Jinghai Temple, etc., to inquire about the funeral of Duchess Cheng'en, and where she would stop and so on. When there is accurate information, Qingsong has the silver given by Xie Xianzhi, he can rent a temporary residence for the little master nearby, and prepare for Xie Xianzhi and his sister to come to worship his grandmother. Several temples are far and near, and this is not something that can be done in a day and a half, so Xie Mulin gave Qingsong and the two three days of time.

In fact, Xie Mulin didn't have a lot of trust in the old people of the Cao family around Xie Xianzhi, and Jiang Pu stayed by Xie Xianzhi's side to wait, and the residence was in an unfamiliar location, Qingsong was paid to do things again, and a servant woman who was loyal to the Xie family and acted calmly should be able to prevent the news from leaking for the time being.

Although Xie Mulin feels that the Cao family is now in turmoil, and he may not have the leisure to embarrass a grandson who has a bad relationship, but the Cao family has a lot of stupid people, and she doesn't want to take risks, so she can let Xie Xianzhi do what she wants to do in a low-key manner and leave the capital with her sisters, why does she have to let the Cao family know that he is back?

On the first day of Xie Mulin's siblings' arrival in the capital, everyone was very efficient. They had a safe and comfortable residence, contacted Xie Yinghui in the city, and also learned that the Cheng'en Hou Mansion had indeed arranged for the Duchess of Cheng'en to be buried after the 7749th day of the funeral in the mansion, and the coffin would be placed in the Bao'en Temple, waiting for the right time before being transported back to the southwest hometown for burial.

In her reply, Xie Yinghui denounced Cheng Enhou and his wife's contemptuous arrangement of their stepmother. The funeral will only stop for 7749 days, which is a rare treatment among the magnates of their level, not to mention that the coffin will only be sent to the Bao'en Temple and placed there, neither doing things, nor looking for Mr. Feng Shui to find a good place, even the incense lamp oil wax is handed over to the monks in the temple to act as agents. It is said that except for the few confidants and big girls who were most valued by the Duchess Chengen during her lifetime, there will be no one else to guard and take care of this noble lady's coffin, and wear filial piety offerings for her, chant scriptures and pray for blessings.

Mrs. Cheng Enhou only allocated a small amount of silver to the big girls as their daily living expenses. They lived in rented houses at the back of the temple and went back and forth every day to serve in front of the spirit of the deceased lord. If you want to get a little better, you have to pay out of pocket. Under the banner of filial piety for her mother-in-law, Mrs. Chengenhou let these girls go, but withheld all the private houses and dowries of Mrs. Chengenhou. For the sake of this private house, Mrs. Ping Nanbo reappeared and took her son to quarrel with the Chengenhou Mansion, claiming that her husband was the only biological son of her mother-in-law, and her son was her mother-in-law's only grandson, and her mother-in-law's dowry and private house should be inherited by her own flesh and blood.

She also sent someone to find Xie Yinghui, asking Xie Yinghui to come forward for her mother and help her sister-in-law Cao Shuqing also fight for a share. Even if Cao Shuqing didn't return to Beijing, it didn't matter, the things were snatched back, and her aunt could keep them on her behalf.

Where would Xie Yinghui believe her? said that he was sick and refused, but the grief and sadness in his heart could not be suppressed no matter what.