Chapter 73: The Crying Spirit
Where did the people who came to report the news know, they only kowtowed and said: "It was seen when the servant of the Murao Saburo family took his daughter-in-law to Shangcai's mother's house, and only recognized Cheng Bo and the second lady, but the leader should be the third mother of the big house." ”
Zhao Song thought for a while and said: "Before the eldest brother passed away, he ordered a family affair for Sanniang, which should mean to hand over the big house to Sanniang, she stopped at Shangcai, maybe she wanted us to welcome the eldest brother?" ”
He said: "It should be so, go and tell everyone to clean up a little tonight, and we will go to Shangcai early tomorrow morning to welcome the eldest brother back." ”
The housekeeper should go down and go down first to pass the word, but Zhao Song's son Zhao Ming was full of doubts, "Father, why is it that only the second brother and sister and the third mother help the coffin back to their hometown, and help them?" ”
He said: "Even if Ji Zhi is busy, then he should let Da Lang take care of this matter, he inherited the title of the eldest earl, he should do his filial piety, he can't go back, and he should let his son help the coffin back to his hometown, why only let the coffin of the orphan and weak mother of the long house return to the hometown?" ”
Zhao Song frowned slightly, "Just ask tomorrow." ”
Early the next morning, the voices of people, horses and cows were mixed in Zhaojiawu Fort, knowing that the coffin of the old patriarch had returned to Shangcai, many people from the Zhao clan had to follow to welcome the coffin.
Before dawn, Cheng Botian had already taken a few parts of the car and came to Xiping gently.
At noon, Uncle Cheng only stopped to nibble on two mouthfuls of dry food, and after the horse drank water, he got up, "Let's go, it's more than an hour away, everyone hurry up." ”
Everyone was about to put away the water bladder and get on the horse, when they saw a lot of horses and ox carts driving on the other side of the official road.
Cheng Bo pulled his horse to the side of the road, wanting to wait for their team to pass before leaving.
Walking in the front were two horses and a carriage, Cheng Bo's eyes met the people on the horses, and then he slid away quietly, sweeping the carriage with a glance.
Suddenly, he saw the emblem on the car with sharp eyes, and immediately turned his head to look back, and after confirming that it was indeed the emblem he was most familiar with, his eyes widened slightly.
He immediately lost a few steps forward, raised his hand and asked loudly, "Is it someone from the Xiping Zhao family sitting in the car?" ”
The carriage slowly stopped, and the guards on the horse looked at him vigilantly and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Zhao Song opened the curtain and saw it, and was stunned by Uncle Cheng's gaze, "Uncle Cheng? ”
Cheng Bo was also surprised, and shouted loudly: "Goro, oh, no, the fifth master, it's the fifth master!" ”
Zhao Song immediately got out of the car, and Cheng Bo knelt on the ground, "The little one will meet the fifth master." ”
"Hurry up, why are you here? The eldest brother's coffin really returned to Shangcai? Why don't you send it back to Xiping? ”
Uncle Cheng knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, "The little one went to Xiping to report the funeral on the order of Sanniang, and he also asked the fifth master to come forward to preside over the funeral of Lord Lang, but I didn't expect to meet the fifth master halfway." ”
Uncle Cheng cried and took out a letter to present, and said: "Fifth master, our girl is crying, she is really ashamed of the Hui people, so she can only quietly ask me to invite the fifth master, and ask the fifth master to help." ”
Zhao Song immediately took the letter and opened it.
In the letter, Zhao Hanzhang started from the fact that Zhao Changyu was framed for murdering the king of the East China Sea, and said that Zhao Changyu refused treatment for the sake of the entire Zhao family and chose to die of illness at that time.
Zhao Song saw tears in his eyes, his nose was sour, and when he learned that Luoyang was surrounded, the king of the East China Sea actually escaped from Luoyang with the emperor and gave up the entire capital, and he was suddenly shocked, "The king of the East China Sea, this thief, is misleading the country!" ”
Seeing that their family fled together, they were robbed on the road, and many of the servants' belongings were lost, only a few of them barely escaped under the protection of their grandfather's coffin, and they were separated from Zhao Ji on the way.
Although Zhao Hanzhang wrote vaguely, as soon as Zhao Song saw what was written in the letter, Sanniang escaped back, and saw his grandfather's coffin scattered among the fields, and the weak mother and younger brother collapsed on the side of the coffin and cried bitterly......
Zhao Song was so angry that his nose was puffing, "Zhao Ji is incompetent, he can't even protect a coffin, and he also lost the mother and son of the long house, it's just, it's ......."
Zhao Song found that he couldn't find the right words to scold, and his son Zhao Ming on the side looked anxious and picked it up for him, "It's a beast." ”
Zhao Song: ......
He glanced at his son, Zhao Ji is a beast, so what is his ancestor? What are they who have the same ancestor as Zhao Ji?
You can't scold anyone, where can you scold yourself?
Zhao Song folded the letter and asked, "Sanniang has suffered such a big grievance, why don't you help the coffin back to Xiping and ask the clan to call the shots?" ”
"This ......" Uncle Cheng said after a tangled face: "Sanniang said, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, the eldest master is the uncle personally selected by the lord of Lang, and now the Zhao family is the second master in charge, such a thing is extremely bad for the reputation of the clan, so ......"
Zhao Song snorted coldly, "I'm afraid of him?" ”
Zhao Zhongyu is the second in the family, but he is the eighth in the clan, and he is younger than Zhao Song, so Zhao Song is not afraid of him.
Zhao Changyu probably also thought of this, and only let Zhao Hanzhang help the coffin back to his hometown.
Zhao Song received the letter and immediately got into the car, "Let's go, go to Shangcai!" ”
The group rushed to Shangcai with great momentum, Zhao Hanzhang was choosing something for Zhao Changyu to accompany the funeral, and when he heard the movement, he saw a middle-aged man getting out of the car, and saw the courtyard full of Susu, a pair of Zhao Hanzhang's eyes, and the other party's tears welled up in his eyes.
Zhao Hanzhang: ......
The middle-aged man stepped forward restrainedly and looked at her with red eyes, "You are Sanniang, right?" I haven't seen you for many years, but I've grown into adults. ”
Cheng Bo immediately said: "Sanniang, this is the fifth master." ”
When Zhao Hanzhang heard this, he immediately gave a long sigh, "Fifth uncle." ”
Zhao Song saw that she was saluting, and he didn't mind, he stretched out his hand to support her, and the two grandparents went in hand in hand.
Wang and Zhao Erlang also changed their filial piety clothes today, and were sitting in the mourning hall burning the stalks, when they saw Zhao Song, she hurriedly pulled Zhao Erlang to get up and salute, "Fifth uncle." ”
Zhao Song didn't have a good face for her, nodded coldly, swept over Zhao Erlang, and looked up at the mourning hall with a sad face.
The clansmen who came with Zhao Song cried sadly, and there was a cry in the originally cold mourning hall.
Someone also brought the child, the child couldn't cry, the adult squeezed the child hard, the child cried, and the crying in the mourning hall also rose accordingly, and it was estimated that there was a funeral here two miles away from the courtyard.
Zhao Hanzhang: ......
These are all relatives, and they can't be persuaded yet, and the Wang family couldn't stand it anymore when they were crying, so they cried directly on the ground.
Zhao Hanzhang didn't know how true the crying spirit was, but Wang was obviously really sad, and there was panic in her crying, she hurriedly stepped forward and knelt beside her, reaching out to hug her.
I don't know what's so terrible about Xiping's hometown, she is so afraid of these people?
Qinggu saw that Zhao Hanzhang couldn't cry tears, so she quietly retreated, and re-entered after a while, and went to help the Wang family with a sad face, but took out a handkerchief to wipe Zhao Hanzhang's tears.
Zhao Hanzhang, who had no tears, burst into tears, and the heavy ginger juice tasted so spicy that she couldn't open her eyes.
Fu Tinghan, who came from the backyard, happened to see this scene.
Only...... It's very strange.