When Yu Xia sent Master Zheng out, Bai Zhenqian next door also happened to open the door.

What came out with her was a handsome young man, and when he saw Yu Xia, he immediately smiled gently.

"This is the famous Mr. Yu, right? In Shimoliu Wuzhi, I met Mr. Yu. ”

Then he made a gesture.

Yu Xia also hurriedly returned the salute.

Liu Wuzhi greeted several other people with a warm face.

"White girl, then I'll come back to you tomorrow." At the door of the inn, Liu Wuzhi said to Bai Zhenqian with a smile.

When everyone was sent away, the inn, which had been quiet for a moment, immediately opened a discussion.

As a result, the object of discussion was not the super-rich Master Zheng, but Liu Wuzhi.

"That's Liu Gongzi, right?"

"Sure enough, Zhilan Yushu, the wind is unparalleled!"

"The white girl is also delicate and cute, the two of them are really talented men and women!"

......

"What's the matter?"

Ling Wufeng pursed his lips with a look of disdain.

Yu Xia was a little curious, "This Liu Gongzi's name is a little familiar, who is it?" ”

"The name of this person was on the intelligence of the previous scientific expedition, he is Xie Yuan of this year's Xiangzhou Township Examination, and he is a popular candidate for next year's Spring Huiyuan."

Bai Zhenqian smiled, "The key is that this person has an outstanding demeanor, a humble gentleman like a breeze and a bamboo, and he is weak in his age, but he has not yet married." ”

"It's the Langjun that this Xiangzhou woman to marry dreams of in her heart! I didn't expect to take the initiative to come to me because of feng shui problems. ”

Ling Wufeng was very disapproving, "Chunfu is about to make other students have already gone to the capital, he is good, and he still has the kung fu to run to the inn, I think he has to run for nothing when he enters Beijing this time." ”

"Hey, how do you speak, Ren Liu Gongzi didn't offend you, how can you curse people like this!" Bai Zhenqian was unhappy.

Ling Wufeng pursed his lips, "Okay, okay, I was wrong, I was wrong." ”

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you."

Bai Zhenqian turned her head and left.

Yu Xia and Guo Tong glanced at each other, smiled and said nothing.

Mrs. Dong still failed to survive the New Year.

On the twenty-sixth night of the lunar month, the people of the Dong Mansion banged on the door of the inn.

"Mr. Yu, our old lady, go!"

When Yu Xia hurried to Dong's house, a white flag had been hung in front of Dong's house, and the mourning hall had been arranged.

The family members of the Dong family all wore white filial piety clothes.

Some relatives of the Dong family had also come in a hurry after getting the news, and when Yu Xia arrived, they were kowtowing to the coffin.

The coffin was a gloomy wood prepared early in the morning, which was not very valuable, and the Dong family chose to make the funeral as simple as possible.

Mrs. Dong is happy and mourning, and she needs to stop for seven days.

"But today it's twenty-six, if you really stop for seven days, it's the New Year!"

It was Mrs. Dong's cousin who spoke, and Mr. Dong called him the fourth uncle.

It is not auspicious to be buried at the beginning of the year.

Yu Xia handed them a piece of paper.

"This is the auspicious day of the zodiac that I just calculated according to the old lady's yin and yang characters, on the nineteenth day of the first month, it is considered a new year, and it is not a taboo to be buried at that time."

Since Yu Xia said so, the Dong family has no objections.

Yu Xia took a look at the Dong family's family members again, those who were pregnant, those who had menstrual affairs in the future, those who were unlucky in those days, and those who belonged to cattle and snakes, all of whom needed to be avoided on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month.

"Everyday items such as paper, hand towels, and fans were put in the coffin?"

Young Master Dong nodded, "None of the things you explained dared to be left behind." ”

Yu Xia looked at the layout of the mourning hall again, as well as the paper people and paper horses that the Dong family specially found someone to tie, there was no big problem, and the monk who invited him from the mountain temple to recite the scriptures and send the spirit had also arrived, so Yu Xia did not stay longer.

"Then I will come back on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, and we will bury the old lady on time when the sun sets."

Young Master Dong sent Yu Xia out, and the monks were already greeted by Master Dong and sat on the futon, taking out the burned scriptures and the wooden fish for chanting.

"Why did the Dong family hold a funeral and find a little girl who has not dried up to be the master of the hall."

It was a little monk who spoke, only twelve or thirteen years old, because of his talent, he specially asked Master Huizhao to bring it over this time.

The little monk is now spoiled by the whole temple, and it is when he is arrogant and arrogant, when he sees that the Dong family is so polite to a little girl who is younger than himself, he immediately feels unconvinced.

Master Huizhao lowered his head and burned the scriptures, and his tone was neither happy nor angry.

"Meditate and chant the scriptures, don't be burdened by the red dust and false fame."

The little monk flattened his mouth and honestly bowed his head and recited the scriptures.

The monk invited by the Dong family is a high-ranking monk of the Izumo Temple on Liandang Mountain outside the city, and has a large number of believers in Xiangzhou.

The people of Xiangzhou do not have the idea of Buddhism, Taoism, rivers and lakes and Xuanmen, in their eyes, these are all masters, so they all believe it.

Moreover, chanting sutras for the deceased is indeed more suitable for monks, but feng shui points need feng shui masters.

Therefore, please ask the monk to chant the scriptures excessively, and ask the feng shui gentleman to set up a grave in the same place, this seemingly nondescript collocation is very natural in Xiangzhou.

Yu Xia is also happy, these days in the inn to practice drawing talismans, occasionally with the empty Bai Zhenqian and others to go out to enjoy the local customs, with Liu Wuzhi as a guide, but it saves a lot of trouble.

The year was spent at the Xilai Inn.

The Chinese New Year's Eve shopkeeper put the shop juniors back home, and stayed at the inn to accompany the few remaining guests.

Wang also moved in here a few days earlier, firstly, because it was more convenient for them to be in the same place with Yu Xia, and secondly, because many inns were closed for guests during the Chinese New Year.

Everyone has parents and family, and at such a moment of reunion, everyone is like an arrow.

Yu Xia and Bai Zhenqian sat together, with Cheng Buchi, Wang Wang Zhongzhen, Guo Tong and Ling Wufeng on the side, and an uninvited Liu Wuzhi.

Several people sat at a table, and the table was full of sumptuous meals,

"Shopkeeper, is it because of us that you can't go home for the New Year?"

The shopkeeper warmed the wine for them, and when they heard Yu Xia's question, they replied with a smile: "My parents left early, and I had a wife in the early years, who had a quarrel with me and left the nunnery as a sister-in-law. ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately gave up a seat.

"Since you can't celebrate the New Year with your relatives, just come with us!"

The shopkeeper refused, sat down with a smile on his face, and turned his head to quietly wipe his tears.

"You've lived here for so long, and I know that you are all respected people, but I didn't expect to have such a warm heart, but you made me laugh."

The shopkeeper's eyes were still shining with tears, and he sighed heavily, raised the wine glass in front of him, and drank it all.

The others glanced at each other, picked up the cups in front of them, and drank them with their heads up.

The atmosphere was immediately lively.

When he was drunk, a young man in orange walked down from the second floor, with a stuffy face, and his interest was not very high.

The shopkeeper was about to stand up and greet him, but the boy walked straight to the table.

"For the New Year, do you mind having an extra pair of chopsticks?"