Chapter 8, Section 1 Aunt Bao dies
In the first year of Jingyou, in March, the spring was bright.
Luzhou City, at the gate of Baofu, is plain.
In the ancestral hall, there is a coffin in the middle, and there is a portrait of Mrs. Bao on the wall in the middle, which is Bao Zheng's mother, Mrs. Zhang, and in front of the ancestors.
Zhan Zhao patted Bao Zheng's shoulder and said, "Brother Bao, people can't be resurrected after death, let's mourn and change!"
Zhan Yan also looked sad: "Mrs. Bao is good to me, I also regard Mrs. Bao as my own mother, I should also put a stick of incense on Mrs. Bao, and Mrs. Bao will go all the way." Zhan Yan lit three sticks of incense and bowed three times as she spoke, and inserted it in the incense burner.
Zhan Zhao handed Bao Zheng three incense sticks that had been lit, Bao Zheng took the three sticks of incense from Zhan Zhao's hand, his eyes kept staring at the portrait of his mother, for a long time, before bowing, and then Zhan Zhao inserted the three sticks of incense into the incense burner.
Bao Zheng turned around, looked at the many servants, he took out some silver from the money bag of his clothes, and said: "Everyone, please listen to me, you are all with my father, many years of old people, now, my parents have died, I don't need so many people around me to serve, these broken silver will be distributed to you, the woman will keep it as your dowry, and the men's wine should be your road entanglement!"
The servants rushed up, the silver in Bao Zheng's hands was looted and emptied, and the servants left Bao Mansion one after another.
Zhan Zhao patted Bao Zheng on the shoulder and said, "Brother Bao, they are all gone, but I am still here, and I will always follow you."
"And me". Bao Zheng raised his head and saw a woman dressed in white plain clothes with tears in her eyes, which turned out to be Bao Zheng's wife Dong Mingzhu.
Bao Zheng: "Mingzhu, why are you here"?
Dong Mingzhu: "If my sister is still here, she definitely doesn't want to see you so sad and sad now."
Bao Zheng: "My father is gone, my mother is gone, Li Yuru is not here, in this family, for so many years, you can't be physical, so you rely on you to support it alone."
Dong Mingzhu's wedding maid Xiaolian supported Dong Mingzhu.
Bao Zheng walked around the Bao Mansion and walked towards his parents' cemetery.
From now on, I will be here for three years of filial piety for my parents
Dong Mingzhu was very worried: "Here, but there is nothing here, not even a shelter from the wind and rain"?
Zhan Zhao had an idea: "Why don't you help build a grass house together?"
Zhan Yan: "Then I'll help find firewood!"
"Then Xiaolian and I will help everyone get some food!"
After the division of labor was completed, they went to work, and only Bao Zheng was left in front of the tomb.
In the afterglow of the sunset, the general framework of the grass house has been built, and the grass house can accommodate three people, with three rooms, each of which has a grass shop, in addition to a kitchen, a hall.
Zhan Zhao and Zhan Yan sat on the grass, and Mrs. Bao and Xiaolian had already boiled the soup until it was fragrant.
Zhanzhao Zhanzhao sniffed: "Well, it's so fragrant, the grass house is built, and my stomach is hungry!"
Zhan Yan strategically walked towards Mrs. Bao: "You gluttonous cat, go over by yourself, don't expect me to be like Xiaolian, you think you are Brother Bao!"
Xiaolian was walking in the direction of Bao Zheng with a bowl of soup, M Zhanzhao got up, jumped up and caught up with Zhanyan.
Dong Mingzhu said softly: "In this mountain and wilderness, there are only these wild vegetables, I have wronged you"!
Zhan Yan said while drinking wild vegetable soup: "It's okay, Gai Ming'er, I'll go to Baofu to have a look, unless there are still some dishes, and then ask Zhan Zhao to bring them to Mrs."
Zhanzhao: "Hey, why am I going to get it, why don't you go?"
Zhan Yan "I, I'm a girl, by the way, we can stop by and buy some tea seeds and come back to plant"!
In the middle of the night, the crickets began to rattle.
The moon is bright and the breeze is blowing.
Bao Zheng sat in front of the tomb, Zhan Zhao accompanied him, Zhan Yan fell asleep on Zhan Zhao's shoulder, Dong Mingzhu walked behind Bao Zheng with a cloak and put it on for him.
Dong Mingzhu said softly: "It's late at night, it's cold, put it on!"
Bao Zheng looked at Zhan Zhao and Zhan Yan: "Take her into the house to sleep, you are all tired today."
Dong Mingzhu also motioned for Zhanzhao to take Zhanyan into the house to rest.
Zhanzhao: "Okay, you have to call me if you have something"!
Zhan Zhao got up and picked up Zhan Yan and walked towards the house.
The next day, Zhan Zhao was standing outside, practicing martial arts with his long sword, and Zhan Yan yawned and claimed a lazy waist.
Zhan Zhao stopped, took a piece of paper wrapped in his clothes, and handed it to Zhan Yan:
I haven't eaten breakfast yet, let's eat a bun!"
Zhan Yan asked curiously, "What about that?"
Zhan Zhao: "Now it's the third watch of the day, when you go to Baofu, everyone has to starve to death, I went to Baofu alone, took some food, and bought some steamed buns by the way, which was originally reserved for myself to eat when I was hungry, and now I will eat it for you"!
Zhan Yan said with an aggrieved face: "Oh, it turns out that you don't really want to give me food, then forget it, I won't eat it"!
Zhan Yan stuffed the bun back into Zhan Zhao's hand, and Zhan Zhao pretended to eat: "If you like to eat or not, if you don't eat it, I will eat it myself"!
"Okay, I can hear the voices of the two of you from afar, this is the cemetery, you two are so noisy, how can the second elder rest in peace!" Bao Zheng said as he walked towards this side.
"Brother Bao, I, I didn't mean to, I'll go back to the hospital first, I'm not here these days, maybe there will be patients looking for me!" Zhan Yan turned around and took two steps, here Bao Zheng motioned to Zhan Zhao to chase her back, and Zhan Zhao followed behind Zhan Yan helplessly.
"Okay, don't be angry, no one drove you away, just let you be quiet, after all, it's the cemetery of the second elder"!
Zhan Yan said with an aggrieved face: "However, I really want to go back and have a look, besides, this grass house can't live for the two of us!"
Zhanzhao: "Brother Bao and Mingzhu are in one room, you and Xiaolian are in the other, isn't there another room"!
Zhan Yan actually laughed when Zhan Zhao said this, and the two of them went to help Mingzhu and Xiaolian cook together.