Chapter 008: Selling Yourself to Bury Your Father
Father-in-law Jiang came out of the general's mansion, and chased out a little girl who was about fifteen or sixteen years old behind him.
"Father-in-law, go slowly, presumably you are looking for the Xiyue girl you and your master sent that day, right? She's no longer in the house now! After she got better two days ago, she went out of the house with the major general, saying that she wanted to see her father, who was seriously ill at home! I was afraid that you would be in a hurry, so I ran out to inform you! ”
Father-in-law Jiang looked at the clever girl in front of him, and was very grateful in his heart, and thanked her: "Thank you girl for telling me!" Does the girl know where the girl lives? ”
"I don't know much about this, but I heard Baguha say that he seems to live in the compound of Mao'er Hutong, and my father-in-law can go to the neighborhood to inquire again!"
"Thank you, girl, I'll go!" Jiang Gong announced goodbye to the girl and asked the groom to drive the carriage in the direction of Mao'er Hutong.
When he arrived near the alley, Father-in-law Jiang got out of the car to inquire.
Father-in-law Jiang had never been to Mao'er Hutong before, but when he arrived here, Gonggong Jiang knew that there was such a depressed and dilapidated place in the original flower-filled capital, and people's residences and clothes were very shabby, and it could be seen that life was also a problem.
In such a place, there would be such a girl who is out of the world and like a fairy.
Jiang Gonggong sighed to himself.
An old woman in ragged clothes heard that Father-in-law Jiang was inquiring about Xiyue, so she wiped her eyes with her shabby sleeves: "You mean Miss Xiyue, it's so pitiful, her old father died of a serious illness yesterday, she couldn't even buy a thin coffin because of her father's illness, this will be estimated to be still in the shade of the big tree at the entrance of Nanjiekou, she wants to 'sell herself to bury her father'!" What a filial child, but it's a pity that we can't even take care of ourselves, otherwise how could we let her kneel there under the blazing sun! ”
When Father-in-law Jiang said this, the old woman also squeezed out two tears.
O hard-working woman, she was forced to jump into the river that day, and in just a few days, her father died!
Father-in-law Jiang followed the place the old woman said.
It is said that after Mu Xiyue was sent by the young general that day, the young general invited the best Langzhong for her father and grabbed the best medicine, because she was in a hurry to go out, she didn't have much silver on her body, but she left it to Xiyue, and Xiyue was very grateful.
But after those medicines were eaten, the silver was also used up, and his father's illness did not improve, he was already seriously ill and was beaten by the shopkeeper a few days ago.
Although Xiyue's body is now occupied by An An, in ancient times, as Xiyue who was possessed by An An's soul, she really didn't know what she should do? It's really a penny, is it a hero, there is nothing valuable in Daddy's house. Although he is Xiyue's father, he is also his own father now, as a daughter, how can he let his father wrap a straw mat in the ground, that is a big unfilial piety.
Even if there is no good coffin, it is a thin coffin, but a thin coffin costs two taels of silver, plus others, Xiyue is really powerless, although now she has passed on the skills of the Xiyue girl in the past, blowing, playing and singing, and is proficient in everything, but on this hot day, can Daddy's corpse wait until he earns the money for the coffin?
Shigetsu fell into great confusion.
When Daddy was dying, he gave himself a piece of transparent mutton fat jade Ruyi jade pendant, which can be called the best grade from the perspective of material selection and workmanship, but Daddy said a shocking secret, saying that Xiyue was not his own child, it was he seventeen years ago after singing a song, he heard the baby crying in the field, saw that it was a newborn baby girl, saw that no one came to pick it up, felt pitiful, and took her home, and there was such a pendant in her swaddling clothes.
Dad saw that the pendant was not an ordinary pendant, and knew that Xiyue must not be the daughter of an ordinary family, so he put this pendant away, even if the family was down in recent years, he didn't take this pendant seriously, because it was a mystery about his daughter's life experience!
Daddy also warned Xiyue not to take this pendant out for him, then he would die and not feel at ease!
Xiyue fell to her knees, her legs numb, and her eyes were red and swollen from crying.
She can't go to Er Qing anymore, she has already troubled him so much, she can't trouble him anymore!
She came out this morning and now it's almost dark, there are many onlookers and sighing, no one dares to really buy her, Xiyue is anxious, Daddy, what should I do? I'm really useless, as a daughter who was raised so big by you, but I ended up like this!
Xiyue hugged her father's old piano and played a sad music.
Father-in-law Jiang finally saw Xiyue in the crowd.
I saw her wearing linen and filial piety, and on the side was an old man covered with a white cloth, her slender fingers plucked the strings, and the big words next to her read: 'Sell yourself to bury your father'! Her piano plucked a pathetic melody that brought tears to your eyes.
Father-in-law Jiang walked over, and he ripped off the straw mark on Xiyue's back: "Miss Xiyue!" "Father-in-law Jiang wants to help her up.
Xiyue looked up and saw a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes and fair skin calling her name, she wondered who was coming, why she didn't have the slightest impression, she couldn't care so much, since he ripped off his straw mark, then it meant that he wanted to buy himself.
Xiyue knocked down with a bang: "This lord, if you help me bury my father, I will serve as a cow and a horse for the rest of my life!" ”
Grandpa Jiang was sad for a while!
"Hurry up, Miss Xiyue, my master and I are the ones who saved you in the river that day, today I am entrusted by our master to see how you are, I didn't expect that I haven't seen you for a few days, and the girl has suffered such a big disaster! You can get up, you don't have to be formal! Xiyue heard Er Qing say that he was entrusted to take care of her, and she didn't have time to ask who she was entrusted with, and today she saw that the person who saved him that day came to help her bury her father, and she was grateful, and she knocked her head on the ground three times.
"Don't dare, Xiyue doesn't dare!" Father-in-law Jiang grabbed Xiyue.
Shizuki's forehead was already blue.
Father-in-law Jiang hurriedly took out the silver ticket and sent someone to buy a good coffin, and when he took care of the funeral of the Xiyue girl's father, it was already dark!
What's going on now? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should be in a hurry!
But he is just a father-in-law, how can he bring her into the palace?
Now that Er Qing is not here, how should Miss Xiyue arrange?
Today is a difficult time for Grandpa Jiang.
"Master Jiang, where is your master? I want to thank him in person for saving him that day! Fang Cai Xiyue asked Gonggong Jiang what to call him, he only said his surname, he categorically did not dare to say that he was from the palace, nor did he dare to reveal the slightest information about the prince.
"Our master is an official in the court, and it is inconvenient to see the girl for a while! Girl, don't you think that's good? I will arrange the girl to stay in the inn for a few days, and then I will make arrangements for our master! ”
Xiyue didn't dare to ask any more, he didn't say what his master did, naturally he had his reasons, since he helped bury his father today, then everything should be arranged by him!