The carriage turned a street and headed in the direction of the southwest corner of the city, where it was the last one.

"Although it is the boundary of the capital, the area in the southwest corner is occasionally not peaceful, so we must be cautious." Cui Jingshi admonished.

"Hmm." Luo Xuyan nodded in agreement.

Walking out of half the street, a young man leading a horse walked out from under an archway, and when he was the first to see the oncoming Cui Jing, he was slightly stunned.

Cui Jingshi also noticed him, and his eyebrows raised.

Neither of the two spoke, until Luo Xuyan, who was lying at the window, saw the young man, "Zhao Gongzi? ”

After not seeing him for a few months, his eyebrows were still gentle and elegant, and at the moment when his eyes met, he smiled and nodded to Luo Xuyan, "I haven't seen you for a long time, Miss Luo." ”

Luo Xuyan noticed that the brocade robe on his body was much more expensive than when he was in Xiazhou.

And the horse he was holding was black and shiny, only four horses' hooves were as white as snow, looking at the bones and muscles, well-proportioned and strong, and he was a first-class horse.

However, there didn't seem to be anything to say between them, Luo Xuyan said simply: "Zhao Gongzi, I still have something to do, and I won't delay you." ”

"Miss Luo walks slowly." Yin Huaizhao glanced deeply at Cui Jingshi.

Cui Jingshi smiled coldly and rode forward.

Luo Xuyan didn't notice the little look between them, and after walking away from Yin Huaizhao, she didn't take him to heart at all and looked at the surrounding buildings.

After walking for a while, gradually a cry came into her ears, Luo Xuyan looked up and saw several people in linen mourning clothes gathering in front of a house and crying.

Cui Jing saw her watching and motioned to the driver to stop.

Luo Xuyan jumped out of the carriage, came to the family, and took a closer look, it turned out that the man of the family died in an accident, and the family used the last bit of money to organize the funeral, just to let him walk with peace of mind and dignity, but who knew that the coffin he bought was actually made of rotten wooden boards, and the surface was confused with weeds and lacquer, and they were deceived.

Seeing that it was not early, when it was time to go out of the funeral, when several young people carried the coffin, they only heard a cracking sound, the tattered coffin board could not bear the weight of the dead, it cracked, and the body fell out, which scared the family into a face, and then cried and chirped for a long time, not knowing what to do, because the family really couldn't scrape together the money to buy another coffin, and they didn't have the courage to find a coffin shop theory.

"Isn't it possible to wrap it in a straw mat?" The old woman cried.

The middle-aged woman beside her had already cried red with her eyes, and opened her mouth, unable to agree with this decision.

Her man has worked hard for this family all his life, but when he was about to enter the earth, he still couldn't live in peace.

Luo Xuyan looked at the mourning hall made of broken straw sheds, the broken coffin boards were torn apart, and the deceased was temporarily covered with straw mats.

Several neighbors shook their heads and sighed, but no one was willing to rely on the past to help them, not because the family had a bad reputation, but because business was not good this year, and the family was barely able to eat and wear, and they didn't have much money to spare.

When Luo Xuyan turned her head to look at Cui Jing, she took out her purse and said, "Please send someone to buy a coffin, just the one I just went to." ”

Cui Jingshi nodded and asked someone to buy a coffin.

Luo Xuyan stepped forward and said, "I've already asked someone to buy a coffin, grandma and auntie, don't cry first." ”

The middle-aged woman was stunned for a moment, and then excitedly took Luo Xuyan's hand, "Thank you, Miss, thank you, Miss, your great kindness, we will never forget" As she spoke, she was about to kneel down and kowtow.

Luo Xuyan hugged her, "Okay, let's comfort your family first." She looked at the broken grass shed, "Here, I'll clean it up for you." ”

"This" middle-aged woman thought that she had heard it wrong, looking at the dress and jewelry of the young lady in front of her, she was radiant, she must not be an ordinary lady, but she actually wanted to help them clean up the mourning hall?!

Luo Xuyan had already rolled up her cuffs and said softly: "That's what I do, auntie doesn't need to be surprised." ”

But these words made the middle-aged woman even more shocked, a delicate little girl was actually doing white things?!

When she was stunned, Luo Xuyan had already come to the broken grass shed, leaned over and lifted some straw mats slightly, and the corpse was placed for a few days, although the weather was already cold, there was still a smell coming from the surface.

Luo Xuyan was accustomed to this, and gently placed the straw mat aside, as if the deceased was just sleeping, and she had to be lighter so as not to wake people up.

As soon as the straw mat was placed, she came over when she saw Cui Jing.

"Just have me here, you can wait outside." Luo Xuyan didn't want Cui Jingshi to meddle in white affairs anymore.

Cui Jingshi said: "Didn't you say that the good time for the funeral is about to pass?" I'll give you a hand, you can do it faster, so you won't be delayed. ”

Luo Xuyan glanced at him, didn't object anymore, and said, "Okay, you go and help me get a basin of water first." ”

"Okay."

Luo Xuyan untied the deceased's hair that had been tied up in rags, first combed it slightly with her fingers, and then asked the middle-aged woman who had calmed down for a wooden comb, combed the deceased's hair, tied it back up, then trimmed the deceased's beard with scissors and razors, wrung it out with a handkerchief that had been watered, and carefully wiped the deceased's face, hands and feet.

The deceased must have done heavy work before his death, with thick calluses on his palms and scars on the back of his hands and arms from years of labor.

She sorted out the clothes on the deceased's body, looking at the materials and styles, she should be willing to take them out and wear them during the New Year's holidays.

Luo Xuyan tried her best to tidy up her clothes and cover the scars on the deceased's arms.

When the middle-aged woman saw her so dedicatedly cleaning up her husband, her eyes couldn't help but sour, and she was about to cry again.

Luo Xuyan heard a low sob, and motioned for Cui Jing to take the middle-aged woman aside.

He had seen the funeral of Jingzhou Thorn Shi with Luo Xuyan last time, so he knew that the tears of his family could not fall on the deceased, and it would make the deceased walk unsteadily.

Luo Xuyan cleaned up for the time being, and Cui Jingshi's people also bought a new coffin and picked up all the fragments of the broken coffin before.

"Come, let your children hold you by the side, and together we will carry your husband into the coffin." Luo Xuyan said to the middle-aged woman after a simple arrangement in the coffin according to the specifications of ordinary people.

"Eh, here it is." The middle-aged woman beckoned, arranged for the young children to come over, and helped them to the side.

Everyone worked together to place the deceased in the coffin, and after the family had one last look, the coffin board was covered.

"Alright, let's go to the funeral." Luo Xuyan clapped her hands and said softly.