Funeral? Could it be that Wang Mingchuan is dead?

Wang Qifang's heart moved, and she couldn't help but think a little excitedly.

Well, well, it's not that she is not filial, she crosses her fingers every day and hopes that her father will return to the West as soon as possible, it is really this father's Tai Chi product, and life is a scourge.

In Wang Qifang's great anticipation, the mourner was wearing a plain sè cotton robe with a white sè belt around his waist, and knelt on the ground when he entered the door, and said with a crying voice: "Hui Qi Niang, our fifth young master is gone." ”

Fifth, fifth young master? Who? Wait, Wang Qifang squinted her eyes and thought about it, and after thinking for a while, she realized that this fifth young master was not Wang Jinjue who was kicked out of the Wang family with Wang Mingchuan.

Is he dead?

I can't tell if it's disappointed or a little sad, Wang Qifang's face is not very good-looking, and he asked in a deep voice: "He, why didn't he?" How is my father? "It's really a scourge to live for 10,000 years, and it's not Wang Mingchuan who died this time!

"After the fifth young master entered Beijing, he had more contacts with the Zheng family" Gengxu's change, when it was, it was...", the person who came stopped talking, but the meaning was already very clear, Wang Jinjue caught up with the Zheng family, and in the coup d'état a few days ago, he was cleaned up by the prince's family as a confidant of the Zheng family.

Wang Qifang nodded knowingly and motioned for him to continue.

The person who came kowtowed and continued: "The master and the eldest young master are fine, the day before the coup, the eldest young master unfortunately contracted a cold, took leave from the yamen, and recuperated at home, so he escaped that catastrophe. The old man was trapped in the recreation workshop, although he could not go home, but fortunately, the recreation workshop was well stocked, and he was besieged by the officers and soldiers for a few days, and the people inside did not suffer. ”

What is this? Is it a big life or is it crooked?!

When Wang Qifang heard this, she admired the old man Wang who had avoided the disaster in the brothel of the Qinglou, he was really a big and good life, and he couldn't accept it.

"Well, got it, you go back first."

Anyway, Wang Jinjue is her nominal brother, and now that everyone is dead, she has to go to Lù anyway. It just so happened that she was also worried that her brother and sister-in-law would take the opportunity to visit them.

Just as Wang Qifang guessed, in the following days, there were constant funerals in the capital, and there were mourning music every day, and Bai Sè's paper money was withdrawn layer after layer, and the whole city seemed to fall into endless sorrow.

After seeing Wang Jinjue's funeral, Wang Qifang took the child to see Zhao Tianqing's funeral.

Before coming to the Zhao family, Wang Qifang had guessed the current situation of the Zhao family, but she never imagined that the once prominent Confucian Chamber of Commerce Zhao family would end up like this: the scorched ruins of the looted room, the incomplete furniture, and the Zhao Yongnian's husband who was stunned by the sick.

Little new brother"

Seeing the white and chubby Sun Ban, Zhao Yongnian's crooked mouth trembled due to the stroke, and his stiff hand trembled and stretched out to the little new brother, and tears rolled out of his cloudy old eyes, "Come, come, come." ”

Brother Xiaoxin looked back at his mother, and after seeing his mother nodding, he walked to the sick chuáng with a solemn face, hugged his little fat paws and saluted Zhao Yongnian: "Grandson, please say hello to grandfather." ”

"Okay, okay, you, you're okay." Zhao Yongnian said vaguely, while holding it in his arms with a hand that could still move, and it took him a long time before he took out a yellowed booklet and a seal, and handed it to Xiao Xin'er tremblingly, "Take it, take this is the secret book of the Confucian Chamber of Commerce and the seal of the Zhao family, and the Zhao family will hand it over to you in the future." ”

Xiao Xin'er didn't make a move, but looked back at his mother again, his big watery eyes were full of sleepiness.

"The old man and the new brother are still young, so it is better for you to keep this seal. Besides, isn't there still a third young master, the little new brother has inherited the position of the president, and the rest is still left to the third young master. ”

Wang Qifang was not interested in the Zhao family's industry, and Zhao Yongnian hurriedly handed over the seal representing the status of the head of the Zhao family to Xiao Xin'er, clearly wanting to tie the Zhao family to their mother and son.

The third young master of the Zhao family is still alive, and Brother Xiaoxin, as a nephew, has already won the position of president, if he takes over all the properties of the Zhao family, he knows that Zhao Yongnian wants to use the name of the president to keep the Zhao family's shop, but what he doesn't know is that the brother is too domineering and does not leave a little way for his uncle.

If this is the case, Brother Xiaoxin'er will receive this seal, which is equivalent to getting a heavy burden for nothing, and it is difficult to say who this property belongs to in the end, so she will not do such a thankless thing.

"That's right, sister-in-law, oh no, Grandma Li is right." A hurried voice came from the door, and before the words fell, I saw a twenty-six or seventeen-year-old man running out of breath, followed by Mrs. Zhao's right-hand man Yinqiao, the man came to the sick chuáng in three steps and two steps, almost fell to the ground, grabbed the things in the old man's hand, and said: "Father, the little new brother has become the president of the Confucian Chamber of Commerce, and this secret book is just for him, but the seal can't be given." I'm your only son, and even if you split up, you can't give everything to the second room, so you have to leave half of it to me. ”

"You, you, you" Hearing his son's words, Zhao Yongnian's hands trembled even more angrily, and a mouthful of thick phlegm blocked the waiting room, he repeated one word several times, but he couldn't spit out half a word of the rest.

Seeing this, Wang Qifang smiled coldly in her heart, and glanced at the overwhelmed little new brother, who nodded, and said to the third young master Zhao who was holding Zhao Yongnian's hand and preparing to grab something! "Third uncle, you are my grandfather's only son-in-law. The Zhao family's property should be inherited by you, and this seal is still held by you. Hearing Xiao Xin'er's words, the third young master's face was full of joy, and he broke his father's hand hard, handed the secret book to Xiao Xin'er, and he was very careful to hold the seal in the palm of his hand, and kept saying: "Dad, you heard it, it's not that I want, but my nephew forced it into me, you can rest assured, I will definitely promote the Zhao family's industry in the future, and I will never let you down." ”

Wang Qifang couldn't help but shake her head when she saw the ugliness of Third Young Master Zhao, and called Brother Xiaoxin, "..............., go and wake your father's spirit." ”

As she spoke, Wang Qifang took her son's hand and walked slowly towards the front yard. Don't look at Zhao Yongnian behind him, he rolled his eyes in a hurry.

"You, you cough cough"... Seeing that Wang Qifang had already led the little new brother away, Zhao Yongnian coughed violently twice for a while, spit out the thick phlegm, his trembling hand poked at the laughing little son, and scolded hatefully: "Bastard, the Zhao family will be defeated in your hands sooner or later The third young master Zhao is not happy, he reached out to hold the old man's fingers, pursed his lips, and retorted: "Father's words and sons can't agree with it, it's obvious that Zhao Tianbai is disobedient and unfilial, and he actually led outsiders to raid his own home, which hurt most of the Zhao family's ancestral business, why did it become my fault?" To put it mildly, if it weren't for the son's desperate efforts to save you and your mother, you would have known that you were going to hand over the seal to that little bastard, and I wouldn't care, father, what's wrong with you, father, father........."

Zhao Yongnian heard his son's words, "I don't care, and then he didn't catch his breath, rolled his eyes, and suddenly fell down."

Before Wang Qifang's mother and son walked to the temporary mourning hall, news came from behind them that Zhao Yongnian had gone.

Yes, this time it was a trouble-free affair, and the father and son mourned together.

Zhao Yongnian, the only one with a clear mind, died, and the Zhao family was even more chaotic, and the third young master Zhao was busy counting the properties in hand, as well as busy searching for the house deeds and land deeds hidden by Zhao Yongnian, and he didn't care about such a trivial matter as the funeral, and let the housekeeper at home deal with it casually.

Seeing this, Wang Qifang did not insist, only let the three sisters and brothers of Yuan Niang follow the rules and keep their spirits, cry and mourn, and invited the monk to do the dojo in the name of Xiaoxin Ge'er, and finally Xiaoxin Ge'er came forward to send Zhao Yongnian and Zhao Tianqing father and son out, the funeral is not considered a long committee, but it also takes care of the number of rites, at least the people who experienced the funeral can't find out whether Xiao Xin'er is not, and finally buried the two in the ancestral grave of the Zhao family.

After the funeral, Yuan Niang took her two younger siblings to Zhao's house for the last time, and after recovering with Mrs. Zhao, who was half sick, she left Furong Fang.

Since then, the Zhao family has nothing to do with them.

In this way, half a month has passed since the day of the funeral every day, and when the wax moon is approaching, the capital has gradually restored the atmosphere of previous years, and the pedestrians who come and go have begun to lù happy on their faces for the New Year.

Wang Qifang sat in the study of the East Room, holding a hand stove in her hand, listening to Zizhu calculate the accounts with a pen of a pen.

"Affected by the change of Gengxu, the income in the fourth quarter has generally decreased, freight, herbs, medicinal materials, and groceries" Zi Zhu Lisuo flipped through the account books, and the other hand crackled with the abacus, and the voice was crisp to report the specific figures.

Wang Qifang nodded, "Well, there is no way, it is fortunate that the shop was not burned down by the rebels, and it is good to lose some money to eliminate the disaster." ”

Zizhu sipped his horns and said with a smile: "I didn't lose money, I just earned less than in the previous three seasons." By the way, Aster has sent a letter, say, say one"

"What do you say? Is there something going on on the island? ”

Wang Qifang was stunned, she had been away from Taohuā Island for a few months, and she was still worried about what would happen to the island in the past two days. Now seeing the appearance of Zizhu, I sighed in my heart, and couldn't help but sit up straight, and asked with a solemn face.

"Hehe, the island is fine, this year is another bumper harvest, the tenants are happy to open huā, and they say that it is thanks to the blessing of the owner, and they are living a good life. What Shion said was another thing, about Sister Amethyst. ”

Zizhu saw that Wang Qifang wanted to be crooked, and explained with a smile, "Ziyuan said that there is a silly boy on the island who has fallen in love with Sister Amethyst, think about her courtship." But" Speaking of this, Zizhu quietly raised his eyes and looked at Wang Qifang, and said with a bit of temptation: "Sister Amethyst was heartbroken by what happened before, and she didn't agree with anything this time." ”

"Silly boy? Who is it? Does he know about Amethyst's past? Is he sincere? Wang Qifang sensed Zizhu's temptation, and said with a smile: "Ghost girl, you are still playing tricks with me." You ask Amethyst, as long as that kid really wants to marry Amethyst, I will persuade Amethyst and personally go back to officiate at their wedding. ”

"Really? Oops, that's great, I'm going to write to Shion. ”

"What's so good?" Yuan Niang and Grandma Sun walked in, and after Grandma Sun saluted Wang Qifang, she asked casually, and heard Zizhu smile and say, "It's nothing, and after that, I didn't ask anymore, but came to Wang Qifang's side, and said: "The old slave wants to ask for a grace from the young grandmother, and the old slave is expected to adopt a righteous son." "It's a good thing, hehe, I have already asked Grandma Sun to wait, you said Yizi?!" @。