Chapter 43: Chemicals
Sure enough, as Ah Lu guessed, a little girl came to Hong Tea's yard from time to time the next day to remind Hong Tuo to prepare to go to Yang's Mansion to mourn.
Hong Tuo changed into plain clothes with a calm face and changed into plain clothes under the service of Doujiao, and picked a hairband of the same color to tie his hair, and was about to go out, when he opened the door, he saw Ah Lu standing at the door with a smile.
"Are you going to go out to Yang's Mansion, take me with you!"
Hong teased that Doujiao went out first, and then went to see Ah Lu, dissatisfied with the smile in her eyes, and had no good air.
"What are you doing with you?"
Ah Lu, who noticed Hong's teasing attitude, immediately smiled and said mysteriously: "It's not safe, I'll follow to protect you......"
Hong Tuo obviously didn't believe it, and asked her: "There are so many people who go to Yang's Mansion to mourn, what's unsafe, and there are beans to accompany me closely, and it's a bit unseemly for me to take a female guard to mourn!"
"I don't have to follow you as a human being, I can turn into a thing. ”
Ah Lu hurriedly explained, this time in addition to seeing if Yang Chong was honest, she also wanted to observe the Yang Mansion by the way, Master Yang died suddenly, and she was afraid of resentment.
"Melt?"
As a mortal, Hong Tuo naturally couldn't understand what the transformation meant, so he had to go to see her and wait for her to explain.
However, Ah Lu didn't explain anything, just asked Hong Lu to stretch out his hand, and then turned into a cloud of green smoke, and when Hong Lu reacted, there was no Ah Lu in the room, but there was an extra string of emerald beads on his hand.
The bead chain moved in his hand, Hong Tuo only felt that the palm of his hand was itching uncomfortably, so he picked up the bead chain, looked at it in front of his eyes, and shouted uncertainly.
"Green?"
The bead chain swayed, and Ah Lu's voice sounded.
"It's me, it's okay to take me with you!"
Hong looked at the bead chain with disdain, the chain made of round and green jade beads, which was something that the ladies and girls often wore, and resisted in his heart.
"What man would carry something like that?"
The tips of his fingers, the bead chain shook dissatisfiedly, and urged: "Hurry up, that maid is here to urge you." ”
Sure enough, the sound of beans sounded outside.
"Young master, the master let you pass. ”
Hong Kuo, who didn't have time to be entangled, could only put the bead chain that Ah Lu had turned into on his right hand first, and then straightened his clothes and hair, and only after confirming that there was no problem did he open the door and walked out.
Seeing Hong teasing out, Doujiao hurriedly followed, and when he turned around and closed the door, he realized that it was a little strange, what about the green girl?
Without waiting for Doujiao to ask, once Shen Hongtuo had followed the maid out of a long distance, Doujiao didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly followed.
The maid directly led Hong Shu directly to the door of Hong Mansion, there were two carriages parked at the door, Hong Tuo consciously walked to the second carriage, lifted the curtain and saw Hong Shu sitting inside.
Seeing Hong Tuo get into the car, Hong Shu smiled and nodded to him, Hong Tuo called "brother", and the two did not say anything more.
There were no words all the way, but fortunately, the Yang Mansion was not far from the Hong Mansion, so the silent atmosphere did not last long, and the carriage drove staggering for about a quarter of an hour, and the Yang Mansion arrived.
Hong Tu followed Hong Shu off the horse and jumped out of the carriage to see the gate of Yang's mansion, where Master Hong and Mrs. Hong were already standing at the door talking to Yang Chong.
Yang Chong lost a lot of weight, wore filial piety clothes, wore filial piety hats, and politely received every relative and friend who came to mourn, and changed into a person.
"Second brother, let's go over......"
Hong Shu glanced over there and reminded Hong Tea, who was standing still.
Hearing Hong Shu's reminder, Hong Shu came back to his senses and followed him.
“...... I also hope to persuade the Lingtang that the deceased has passed away, and the living must take good care of themselves. ”
Hong Tuo and Hong Shu approached, and they heard their father say some ordinary comforting words, but Hong Tuo understood that these words were just a few scenes.
Yang Chong's mother is a well-known heroine in Dou Cheng, who is tough and heroic, open-minded, and deaf and good at calculation, which mainly refers to things on the abacus.
Earlier, the Yang family was just a small rich family, and she was not confined to the inner house at all, she followed her husband to the north and south, and the husband and wife went through business together to earn the Yang family's current family foundation, even if she gave birth to Yang Chong, she could not pull her back to the inner house. Because of this, the uncles and aunts of the Yang family were busy with the family business, and only handed Yang Chong over to the housekeeper to be raised, and it was rare to ask twice a year, most of them were still scolded and reprimanded, so Yang Chong's relationship with his parents was not very good.
And the housekeeper who was entrusted with education was busy with things on weekdays, where did he have time to discipline Yang Chong, and Yang Chong was also the master after all, so he instructed the two little guys to take it with him, and the little guy didn't dare to manage him, so he was blindly arrogant.
When Yang Chong was a little older, he sneaked out of the house every day, and he was infected with a bad problem after being in the place where dragons and snakes were mixed once or twice, and when the uncles and aunts of the Yang family found out about their own Yang Chong problem, it was too late to correct it.
Since then, they have been constantly wiping their butts for the trouble that Yang Chong broke through, and no matter how they beat and scolded and educated Yang Chong, they were not moved at all.
If they had discovered Yang Chong's problem earlier, Yang Chong would not have gone astray.
Hong sighed regretfully, although he is also a gentleman, he has been disciplined by his parents since he was a child, and there is a bottom line for making mistakes.
After Master Hong finished speaking, Yang Chong turned his gaze to Hong Tea, he showed a helpless smile, and the eyes of many emotions were very sticky, which made Hong Tea, who was watched, quite uncomfortable.
"Funny brother, I haven't seen ...... for a long time"
Since the other party spoke, Hong Tuo couldn't help but answer, so he could only follow his words and say a few words of comfort dryly.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, Brother Yang has lost a lot of weight, don't be too sad, there are still many people in the family who need you......"
"Yes, aunts and uncles, please come in ......"
Yang Chong's eyes were terribly red, probably crying a lot, he commanded his subordinates to take the gifts brought by the Hong Mansion, and led the Hong Mansion and his party into the Yang Mansion.
Hong Tuo didn't care about anything, and walked into the Yang Mansion with his parents and brothers, if he could look back, he could see Yang Chong behind him showing full resentment towards his departing back.
And as the sleeves fluctuated, Ah Lu, who was hidden in Hong's right wrist, took all this into his eyes.
This person's resentment is too heavy, and he is afraid that he will not be able to let go easily, which is really difficult to do.
Ah Lu sighed in her heart, but at the moment when Yang Chong turned around, she suddenly saw a pale golden light flashing around Yang Chong's neck.
What is that!
Ah Lu was shocked, and when he wanted to take a closer look, he walked in a group of guests who came to mourn and blocked Yang Chong entirely.
And Hong Tuo, who didn't feel the slightest abnormality, followed his parents and brother to the mourning hall where the coffin was stopped, burned the paper money, and comforted Mrs. Yang who was standing on the side with a haggard face, and then they each found a seat and sat down.
Since it is a condolence service in the afternoon, it is necessary to go back after dinner after the condolence.
This is custom, even if Hong Tuo is not willing to stay in the Yang Mansion for long.
I found a corner and sat down, and the little maid came over to pour a cup of tea and left quickly, Hong Tuo didn't want to drink it, so he just sat there and watched the sad Mrs. Yang surrounded by waves of people who came to mourn.
Almost the same words came out of those mouths, and even some people had a secret joy in their eyes, and when they saw that Hong was upset in their hearts, they withdrew their eyes and were stunned, and the bracelet that Ah Lu had transformed into on his wrist seemed to be asleep, without the slightest movement.
Just when Hong was bored and almost dozed off, two familiar figures suddenly appeared at the main entrance of the mourning hall.