Chapter 264: Shocking Funeral
When the grandmother went out, her back was soaked, and she saw Yunxia standing at the door like a door god, and said anxiously: "The old slave knows everything, can you let my son go now?" ”
Yunxia nodded expressionlessly, "Go back, don't talk nonsense, if I can catch you once, I can catch your whole family for the second time." ”
Mama struck a stirring spirit and walked away quickly through the corner door.
Yunxia saw her leaving, so she went into the door with a tray and sent food to He Zhichun and Cui Jiu, which was the crucian carp rice noodles from Zhiweiji, accompanied by a plate of orchid radish, fresh and spicy, which made people feel refreshed.
"Today, is the surname Yang going to start opening a warehouse to release grain?" He Zhichun ate the rice noodles with chopsticks and asked.
Cui Jiu shook his head, "Starting tomorrow, the old thief has made a lot of money, and he bought a lot of grain from the second brother yesterday, and the second brother's people slaughtered him like dirt, haha!" Then just wait for the money to be collected. ”
He Zhichun was also happy when he heard this, "The dog thief deserves it." Why isn't Daddy here? ”
Cui Jiu looked at He Zhichun with a smile, "You're embarrassed to say, but you didn't get up." As soon as Daddy was early in the morning, he led the imperial doctor to distribute medicinal materials for water purification to the county orders of various counties, and also sent people to transport forged lime. Later, I will follow Lu County's order to the countryside to have a look. Ah Qiao should go with him. ”
"Well, I'll go when I'm done eating."
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By the time He Zhichun and his entourage stood in a small county in Jingzhou, the sun was already shining.
Unlike the laughter and laughter in Jingzhou Mansion, this place is full of devastation, white cloth and black flags everywhere, and the sound of crying.
The flood left a muddy horizontal line on the wall of the house, as if to show his "great achievements".
In the mud, a six- or seven-year-old child, lying motionless on the ground, had been dead for a long time, his body was somewhat rotten, and he emitted a disgusting smell.
As soon as the people approached, a large mass of mosquitoes buzzed and flew up.
On top of the tree beside him, there hung a fat pig with a frightened face, dripping blood and grease.
The strong men who had already met He Zhichun and his entourage in the flood fight on the embankment, and when they saw them coming, they all had red eyes and saluted He Zhichun respectfully.
Each of them wore a white cloth around his waist and carried a thin-skinned coffin to and fro.
"The weather is hot, and it can't be stopped, so the villagers will help bury them first. It's very chaotic here, your lord should go back to Fucheng first, we still need your blessing in Jingzhou. ”
An old man wearing a short beat, squatting on the ground and burning paper money, was shocked when he saw He Zhichun, and comforted.
He grabbed another stack of paper money, looked behind He Zhichun, and saw the Lu County Order stiffened in place, sighed, and stretched out his finger, "Mingfu go home quickly." Your daddy is still waiting for you. ”
He Zhichun looked in the direction of his finger, and there was a dilapidated earthen house not far away, which had collapsed in half.
On the threshold of the room sat an old man with dull eyes.
And in front of him, five corpses were neatly arranged.
Lu Xian Ling only felt a thunderbolt on a sunny day, his feet were like a thousand pounds, and he couldn't move half a step.
He has a family of seven, and only he and his father are the only two people who can breathe!
Lu Xun's eyes were red, "Lu Ming Mansion, go home"
Lu Xianling howled, fell to his knees with a thud, crawled while crying, and crawled towards the half-collapsed house.
"A-Niang, Xiufang...... It's that I can't stand you! I haven't let you live a good day...... I ......"
When the surrounding villagers saw it, they couldn't help but hide their faces and cry.
Lu Xianling saved many people, but his family was not saved, and he did not go home for more than half a month in order to fight the flood.
Lu County's father is already a dying old man, he heard his son's voice, his originally cloudy eyes seemed to have a glow, and in the blink of an eye, it was monstrous anger!
Without saying a word, he turned around and entered the house, picked up a flat pole, rushed towards Lu Xianling, and hit him with a flat pole on his back, and directly knocked him to the ground.
"You son of a! The whole family tightened their belts for you to read and write, thinking that our family would be better off when you became an official. But lo and behold! Lo and behold...... Look at what happened to us! ”
"If I knew this, it would be better to let you just not know a word and farm at home...... At least let my great-grandson live! He's only three years old! The loess is buried in my neck, why didn't God accept me, an old immortal. I'm going to take them! ”
The father of Lu County's order threw the flat burden to the ground, sat on the threshold again, and cried loudly.
Lu Xian Ling crawled and kowtowed, until he reached the dead family members, trembled and opened the bamboo mat covering their faces, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fainted immediately.
Father Lu took a look, hugged Lu Xianling and cried again, "You son of a!" It's hard to want my white-haired person to send a black-haired person, and send it again! It's better for such an old man to hang himself together! ”
The imperial doctor who came with him hurriedly stepped forward and pinched the people of Lu County, woke him up, and helped him to a cool place.
The old man who burned the paper money saw it, held his paper money, squatted in front of the door of Lu County Ling's house and burned it.
"Lu County Ling is a good person, don't blame him if you have a spirit in the sky, bless him, good people should have good rewards! Folks, let's raise some money as a family and help Lu County Ling bury his family first. ”
When He Zhichun heard this, tears couldn't stop falling, do good people really have good rewards?
"Folks, don't break the bank, I'll take care of this matter." He Zhichun choked up and couldn't speak, and glanced at Xue Gui.
Xue Gui sniffed, and hurried back to the city to pull the coffin, shroud, incense, candles and other things.
In this small county town, where there are coffins, they have long been snatched up.
When Lu County Ling heard this, he cried again, "Lu has been a county magistrate for fifteen years, and he can't even afford a thin coffin!" Not worthy of a son, not worthy of a husband, not worthy of a father! ”
He Yu sighed, walked over and patted him on the shoulder, "But you are a good official of the people." Condolences. ”
Although it is sad, but the work still has to be done by people, He Yu, under the leadership of Lu Xun, put clean water alum in the water of each well in the county, as well as some medicinal materials.
He Zhichun divided her thirty-six guards into thirty, and sprinkled forged lime everywhere on the roadside where there were corpses, and sprinkled grass and wood ash if there was no forged lime.
In doing so, we can reduce the number of diseases.
Soon Xue Gui led a group of people to drag the coffin back from the city, and many villagers gathered around to help the burial.
There is also the team that sings night songs, blowing suona and singing.
"In the small hills and valleys of Jingzhou, there is a Lu family chong. Aunt Lu's own son, he is a big hero......"
Lu Xian Ling walked around the coffin like a walking corpse, and the villagers all consciously followed him and circled around the coffin.
This is a funeral custom, filial sons and grandchildren, circling around the coffin.
The strong men in the village spontaneously carried the coffin and went up the mountain for burial.
Xue Gui and another guard took the paper money and sprinkled it as they walked.
Lu Xian Ling knelt down in five steps with the spirit card in his hand and walked towards the top of the tomb mountain.
On the top of the mountain, rows of new graves had been erected, and a layer of paper money was scattered on the ground and trampled into the mud.
Another layer of paper money fell, covering the previous family's ......
He Zhichun stood on the high mountain and looked down.
The saint was already a very diligent emperor, but in the peaceful and prosperous era under his rule, there were still such tragedies.
She suddenly remembered what Wang Wenlin had said to her, the lives of these people, their joy and well-being, were all the responsibility of the people who were emperors.
When I heard it, I already felt that it touched people's hearts, but now when I look at it in my eyes, I feel that it is a real shock.
Can she really carry such a heavy burden on one shoulder?
Cui Jiu walked behind her and didn't speak, just grabbed her hand firmly.