Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Lantern Festival
In the front hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the walls are hung with mourning cloths, different wreaths are placed around, the huge spirit card is placed in a high position, the dark coffin is parked in the hall and is facing the door, and the side lady Liu Lin and those aunts are mourning around the coffin of Bailiqin, each pregnant with a ghost.
Aunt Huang was crying and crying, heartbroken, and kept burning money in the brazier, she was looking forward to her daughter flying on the branches, but she didn't expect to wait for a cold corpse.
Balisilei and Wuxin came to the door, and when they saw that the people in the hall were wearing snow-white mourning clothes, he snorted coldly.
The aunts raised their heads in some surprise and knelt down one after another.
"I've seen the master, second miss."
"Get up."
He waved his hand and walked in, unintentionally following a step behind him, her eyes looked at the coffin, and happened to meet Aunt Huang's.
The heartbroken Aunt Huang turned red when she saw Baili Wuxin, picked up the hot brazier, and ignored her hot fingers.
Fortunately, Bailisley kicked the brazier back with a quick kick, and Aunt Huang hit the coffin.
"Ahh
Screaming in shock, the aunts were so frightened that they turned pale and rolled into a ball.
Mrs. Liu Lin knew the weight of Baili Wuxin in Baili Silei's heart, she stood rationally and did not make any moves, she looked at Aunt Huang regretfully.
This Aunt Huang can be regarded as a relatively well-behaved person in the house, and she has never offended anyone on weekdays, but she is so reckless today, and the house will not be able to keep him in the future.
Aunt Huang fell to the ground and broke an arm, dizzy for a moment and spit out a mouthful of blood.
The aunts knelt on the ground and looked at their noses, not daring to make any sound.
They come from various forces, and their purpose is not simple.
Aunt Huang's fate can be regarded as a warning to them.
Baili Silei has never pampered any aunt in the house, they can't bear the red apricot out of the wall, and they haven't been blamed, Aunt Huang is ambitious, no wonder it ended like this.
"Ben Xiangnian spared you for the sake of your daughter who has not made waves in the house for many years and died, come and reward twenty boards and send them back to the aunt's house."
Bailisilei's voice was cold without a trace of emotion, until the guards dragged Aunt Huang out, and he looked at Liu Lin.
Liu Lin is the best at observing words and feelings, and after some speculation, he knows that this Aunt Huang can't survive, and she has to solve it in private.
She understood it and ordered someone to find another brazier to burn paper money, which was considered to be burned for their mother and mother.
Wuxin lit an incense stick and inserted it into the incense burner, looking at the cold spirit card.
Bailiqin, may you stop being a pawn in the next life, and be an ordinary person.
They made an example of the chickens and monkeys, and the people of the entire prime minister's house were afraid and did not dare to make mistakes to provoke the 'care' of the master's family
In the afternoon, Bai Lilu and the palace maid couldn't stand the torture with torture tools, so they signed and confessed to the crime. And added that it was done by Li Wan and Lord Tang together.
Li Wan was arrested and imprisoned, and she was already delirious, and she was completely frightened before she was tortured.
Tang was involved in a murder case, suspended from his duties, and placed in a prison for strict supervision.
Lord Wang had already mastered more evidence, and now when the opportunity came, he found out that Lord Tang was involved in buying and selling officials, bribery, forcible j, cheating, etc., and there were as many as 50 major crimes that were enough to kill his head.
Those who were good friends with Lord Tang were implicated, some people wisely chose to retreat as advance, and some people stubbornly chose to live and die.
The Son of Heaven was furious, and a murder case even affected half of the court, doesn't it prove that he is incompetent in the court.
A holy decree arrested Master Tang and all the suspects suspected of buying and selling officials, bribery and other crimes.
As for Li Wan, strip off the title of Mrs. Yipin and take back the gift of the Empress Dowager.
Baililu was punished for shaving his hair and imprisoned for life in Jinguang Temple for practice.
This officialdom turmoil caused by the murder lasted for more than a month, and the people sighed and became a topic of laughter before and after meals.
Immediately, an unknown person revealed that Baili Lu was not Xiangye's daughter-in-law, shocking the whole city.
And Li Wan committed one of the seven offenses, and people were also crazy, and Bai Lisilei sent her back to the Li Mansion with a letter of resignation.
Li Wan defected, Liu Lin was undoubtedly the happiest, which meant that she had the opportunity to sit on the position of wife, even if she had never been favored by Baili Silei, but this was no longer what she was pursuing.
She knows that it is better to please Baili Wuxin than to befriend Baili Wuxin, if she is friendly with Baili Wuxin, Baili Silei loves the house and Wu will naturally be better for her, she often goes to Wuxin Courtyard to be a female celebrity, talking about homely things, and trying to make the two closer several times.
And Wuxin gradually chatted with her for a few sentences, asking for some embroidery work, using needles as pens, using threads as colors, nourishing temperament, and living a small life very comfortably.
On the seventh day of July, under the influence of the Thousand Illusions, whether you are a queen or a maidservant, you can spend the festival freely on this day, without being bound by the "Female Ring".
On this day, women will visit close friends in the boudoir, worship the Weaver Girl, learn from the female red, and pray for blessings, but with the change of time, this day has also become a day of crazy show of affection and love for dog food between couples, and the worship has also become the Yuelao Temple.
The streets outside the house were noisy, sitting by the window unintentionally, a smooth black hair slid out of the windowsill, the blue sky was misty, and the plum trees outside the window were filled with mist.
She looked at this piece of plum forest, Mei is one of the four gentlemen, frost and arrogance, when all the flowers are withered, he is unique, one branch is the best.
Baili Daddy said that Mei was her own father.
"Miss! The spider caught last night had a very dense web, and the lady succeeded in tricking. ”
In early spring, he carried a purple wooden box with a very dense spider web inside, which meant that there would be good things this year.
"Hmm."
She was so excited that she just wanted to sleep early in the morning, but the sound of gongs and drums beating and paradling through the streets outside made her unable to sleep at all.
Late autumn is full of curiosity about such a festival, and it is only after asking for it that I have no intention of asking for it.
In the bizarre bazaar, there are pairs, a group of three or five friends, in the early spring and late autumn, they buy and buy the new items on the street without saying a word, and before they know it, they have come to Caiyunpu.
Looking at the overcrowded Caiyunpu in and out, Wuxin was also much happier.
Caisheng's management ability was gradually revealed, and she explained the new clothes drawings and discussed the precautions with the embroidery girl.
In early spring, seeing that Caisheng was too busy to turn around, he volunteered to stay and take care of the store.
Qiqiao Day is a national festival with no curfew, so the climax is focused on the night, and the streets are lit up with colorful lights, and the dream is blurry, and it looks like being in a sea of fire.
With the surging crowd, the two of them soon came to the Lantern Festival Center.
An ancient tree stands here, its branches covered with new and old red threads, obscuring the original appearance of the tree.
Talented and beautiful women have hung red threads on the branches of the old moon, tied to love, and recited poems and sentences, just for the smile of Bo's favorite person.
And not far from this tree is the Yuelao Temple, the Yuelao Temple is not big, although the sparrows are small, many people will choose to go to the Yuelao Temple to ask for a signature, ask about their marriage.
"Stay! Don't run! ”
Suddenly a roar erupted in the crowd, only to see a man in his twenties, thief-eyed man grabbed a cloth bag and ran away in the direction of Wuxin, in line with the idea that more is better than less, she turned sideways and let go, but that person seemed to have taken a fancy to her, deliberately bumped into her, unintentionally caught off guard for a while, and was hit back several steps, seeing that the center of gravity was about to fall to the ground unsteadily, a pair of hands quickly hugged her.
"Xin'er, when did you learn to throw yourself into your arms."
Her face was full of black lines, why did she meet this guy again.
"Jun Ruxi, why are you here?"
"Why am I here? Today is the annual day of begging. ”
He continued to hug her recklessly, and he happened to wear clothes of the same color today, especially on such a misleading festival, which aroused hot eyes.
Today I can be alone with Wuxin again.
Jun Ruxi is very much looking forward to this, this is the first festival he has had with Wuxin, and he must use this to promote the relationship between the two, he looked at Shu Qi with a look like an idiot, Shu Qi nodded vigorously when he received the task, he pulled Wanqiu, and whispered in her ear.
"In late autumn, you haven't let go of the river lantern, but it's fun, as long as you write your wishes, you can get it."
"River lanterns? Sounds like it's fun, let's go put the river lanterns together. ”
"But, your young lady......" He skimmed at Wuxin with his eyes, and at this time Wuxin stared at him with death-like eyes, and he couldn't help but shiver and hide behind Late Autumn.
Late autumn didn't see the dark tide surging between the two, and she jumped up and grabbed Wuxin's hand.
"Miss, I heard that this river lantern has your wish written on it, and the wish will come true, let's go and see."
"Okay, let's go together."
Jun Ruxi didn't wait for her to answer, pulled up Wuxin and walked straight ahead, late autumn and Shu Qimei looked at each other, and gradually walked more and more slowly and fell behind.
This pair of handsome men and beautiful women have attracted the envy of many people, and there are also poetic scholars who use them to compose poems.
"Sugar gourd, sugar gourd, son, buy a string of sugar gourds for your lady, it's not expensive, it's three dollars."
The old man who sold sugar gourds came over and asked kindly, but he used the wrong name, and began to explain after listening unintentionally.
"No, uncle, we are not lovers......"
"Four strings."
Jun Ruxi interrupted her, directly took out a tael of silver and gave it to the old man, carefully selected four sugar gourds from above, and stuffed the best one into Wuxin's hand.
Wuxin held the sugar gourd with a confused face.
"Hey, Childe, it's too much, or ......"
The old man was relieved from his stunnedness, anxiously to return the money to Jun Ruxi, he honestly sold the sugar gourd for a lifetime, and he only made a penny for a sugar gourd, this two are too much.
"My lady is happy, I reward you, you don't need to sell sugar gourds these days, go home with your wife." He hooked his shoulders and looked like he had sworn sovereignty.
"Thank you, Childe, thank you, Mrs. Childe."
The old man wiped the corners of his eyes gratefully, for the sake of livelihood, he hadn't gone home for a long time to accompany his wife.
Jun Ruxi looked at Wuxin's eyes as if he had swallowed a fly, his mood became more and more happy, and it became more and more pleasant to arouse his mother.