While they were talking, Yujia, Yufei, Yuxia, and Yuqing all came. The second girl, Yujia, was about to get married, so she couldn't stay longer on such an occasion, so she worshiped her little brother in front of his soul, and then met the five

Mr. Wu and his wife said a few words and were supported by the maid.

Neither the fifth master nor the fifth wife could say anything.

Although Yuxia was restrained by the eldest lady, and her brother in the fifth room was dead, she still had to come and have a look. She came over after asking for instructions from the eldest lady.

Regardless of whether it was true or false, the sisters naturally cried again when they saw Enge'er. Yulan persuaded the fifth wife for a long time, and finally she stopped crying. Now she was aroused with sadness again, and she kept shouting:

"My miserable child, teach me how to let go..."

When the sisters saw her crying miserably, they started to cry louder for a while. Yulan was careful and sharp-eyed, and when she saw Yuxia, Yufei lowered her head and cried loudly, but the two of them pressed the handkerchiefs against their eyes for a long time.

But the child was still dry and comfortable. Yulan couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart. Her cousin died but she couldn't squeeze out a drop of tears. In this era, the family ties in the big house are really thinner than a piece of paper!

Fortunately, the eighth girl and the ninth girl were really crying there. Especially the eighth girl, Yu Xin, cried so hard that slugs came out of her nose, and Yu Lan finally felt a little comforted.

The old lady also sent someone to report the news early in the morning. Su's mother and Xinghuang helped her in. When she saw her little grandson, the old lady couldn't help crying. "Mom!" The fifth lady threw herself into the old lady's arms and just shouted.

With a cry, tears poured out of his eyes like a flood bursting from a dam.

"Poor my little grandson, he has just reached the age of 10, why did he die without any luck! How did this old woman like me suffer?" Born in this era, the old woman inevitably favors sons over daughters. She attaches great importance to her grandson and her kindness.

Although I had been mentally prepared for my brother's death, I was still inexplicably sad for the moment.

The second wife was a little anxious when she saw her. After all, the old lady was old. It was not a problem to cry like this all the time. If she broke her body from crying, it would be a big deal. She was about to go over and persuade Yu Lan, who was sitting next to the fifth wife,

He had already supported the old lady's arm and advised: "Grandma, please forgive me! Engel has left us and we cannot come back if we cry. If you continue to cry like this, if you break your body from crying,

But it’s a good thing. The fifth uncle and the fifth aunt just lost their children. If you fall ill again, you still make them alive. Listen, the fifth aunt has already burst into tears. Let’s not recruit her again.

"Okay." She said softly, and the whip went into it. The old lady knew that what she said was unreasonable, so she wiped her tears, stretched out her hand to gather the disheveled hair of the fifth wife, and said: "Your niece is right, the child is gone."

It's you who have ended your fate with him. Over the past year or so, you have worried about him and suffered a lot, so you are worthy of him. Send him out properly, and your health is also important. You are young and young.

Just give me a fat and white grandson in a few days!"

After much talk, he finally managed to persuade the fifth wife for the time being. Yu Lan saw that this was not an option if this situation continued. If the fifth wife stayed here, she would only get emotional. If she continued to cry like this, her iron-clad body couldn't bear it. So she turned to the fifth wife's personal maid, Li Xiang.

With a wink, the two forced Mrs. Wu to go back to the upper room to rest.

A hint of appreciation flashed in the eyes of the second wife. This niece is becoming more and more capable. If nothing else, just speaking of her communication skills and ability to assess the situation, it is not comparable to ordinary people.

At this time, the fifth master came forward and asked the old lady to go back and rest. The old lady saw that the maids and women in the house were in a mess and there was no one to take care of them. She couldn't help but feel a little angry. She called Yuxin over and asked, "Why hasn't your mother come yet?"

?" There was a bit of sternness in his tone.

Yu Xin said solemnly: "My mother caught a cold and was bedridden for a while, so she couldn't come here." Although she was usually domineering, she was not completely unreasonable. She also felt that it was inappropriate for her mother to refuse to treat her illness despite being well.

.

"Feel cold?" The old lady paused the faucet crutch in her hand, and her tone became very impatient: "It was fine yesterday, but today she is infected with cold? She got sick at the right time." This eldest daughter-in-law, she

He knows too well that he is too narrow-minded to tolerate others, and always tries to stumbling upon the fifth wife from time to time. There are only two reasons: first, the fifth wife has a son, but she does not; second, the old lady favors the fifth wife.

, she is not angry.

The fifth wife's son is dead, and I'm afraid she is secretly happy at this time. But as the head mother of the house, she holds the key to the house, but she is so disregardful of the overall situation. The old lady is really a little angry. She used to do it for the sake of the Queen Mother.

I always give her three points, but this time she went too far.

The old lady waved Xinghuang over: "Go to Yiningju and invite the eldest lady here for me. Tell her that if she doesn't come, my old lady will go and invite her in person. Go quickly!" The words were very serious,

The eighth girl's face turned slightly pale as she listened.

Xinghuang trotted out. After a while, he led the eldest lady in. As soon as she entered the house, the eldest lady pretended to cough a few times. She first went to pay homage to Brother Eng before the funeral, and then came to pay homage to the old lady. The old lady

He looked her up and down, his gaze was like an awl, which made the eldest lady feel uncomfortable. Then the old lady said: "I heard that you have contracted the cold?"

The eldest lady's face changed slightly, she lowered her head and said, "My wife is ill at the wrong time."

The old lady said calmly: "Nothing happens at the right time. It's just that a young child in the family has recently died, and it's absolutely impossible to have no one to take care of. Since you are sick, just hand over the cards and keys and ask the second daughter-in-law to take care of it for a few days. You can do it yourself."

Just go and rest and take good care of yourself."

The eldest lady raised her head in astonishment: "Mom? I used to be the director, but now there are so many things at home, I'm afraid the second brother and sister won't be able to get involved for a while..." The old lady is going to temporarily deprive her of the power of housekeeping. How can the eldest lady agree to it?

The second wife snorted coldly: "Although I am stupid, I am confident that my nephew's funeral will be a beautiful one!"

Seeing that the two sisters were still fighting at this time, the old lady said impatiently: "What, you still have doubts about my arrangement?"

If my mother-in-law doesn’t show off her power, do you think I’m a sick cat?!

As soon as the old lady got angry, the eldest lady immediately withered: "Daughter-in-law, I don't dare! I just obey my mother's orders!"

The old lady nodded slightly and said to the second wife: "Without further delay, the second wife will go with your sister-in-law to Yining Residence to get the key. Enge'er is my grandson after all, although the child is too young to do anything big.

, but you can’t wrong him, you can’t lack everything you should have, do you understand?”

The second wife said loudly: "My daughter-in-law understands that she will live up to the old lady's trust." Seeing the eldest lady's defeat, no one was happier than her.

"In that case, what are you doing standing around? Go quickly!" So the two sisters left Jichunxuan and went to Yining House in the main courtyard to hand over the cards, keys and account books. They saw the second wife looking triumphantly like a winner.

The eldest wife felt even more depressed.

When the second wife returned to Chunxuan, she took her capable mother and maid with her, and first asked people to rearrange the west wing room according to the ritual, and then assigned tasks to each of them, including announcing the funeral, picking up the guests, and other matters.

, arranged in an orderly manner.

After a while, Mr. Yin and Yang came and agreed with the fifth master that they would suspend the funeral for three days, ask the monks from Jueen Temple to do the water and land dojo, and be buried after five days. The old lady made the decision. She also informed the fifth wife that the fifth wife was already a spirit.

We are all in mourning, only mourning and nothing else to say.

Early the next morning, many relatives of the Yang family, disciples of the old man, and colleagues of the first, second, and fifth masters came to pay their respects after hearing the news. The fifth wife’s natal family is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, and many of the Xie family are officials in various places, and the capital

There was only one distant clan uncle named Xie Ruichun, who worked in Dali Temple. After receiving the news, he immediately came with his wife and son to pay homage.

After offering sacrifices in front of Engel's grave, the servants led Xie Ruichun to the outer courtyard to have tea. Xie Ruichun's wife, Geng, took her son Xie Zhiyuan into the main house of Jichunxuan where the fifth wife lived to visit.

It was May weather, the door to Mrs. Fifth's room was open, and the maid led Geng and Xie Zhiyuan outside the house. They heard a clear and clear voice from a distance, which was as comforting as eating a bowl of ice cream in the summer.

"...The dead are gone, but the living are like this. If he knew about your relationship with Enge'er, mother and son, he would never want to see you so sad and sad. You are still so young, so you must not hurt your body, no matter what.

We have to have another child, otherwise, if we can’t save everything, someone else will have to..." The voice gradually dropped, and the fifth wife’s intermittent crying also became lower.

"Mrs. Geng is here!" the little maid announced outside, opened the curtain, mother and son went in.

The room was well lit, and I saw the fifth wife lying on the rosewood Arhat bed, her complexion was pale, and the tears were still wet in the corners of her eyes. Sitting next to her was a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a plain white gown and no makeup.

, with skin as fresh as snow and clear eyes, Geng couldn't help but take a few more glances.

"Auntie, you're here!" Mrs. Wu struggled to get up from the bed to greet her. Mr. Geng quickly stepped forward and held her down. "Lie down well on the bed. How long has it been before you still pay attention to these false etiquettes! Engel!

How could such a young child be gone without saying anything..." As he said this, he took the handkerchief to wipe his tears.

The fifth wife immediately burst into tears.

I finally tried to persuade her, but you come to recruit her again! Yulan is so depressed.

He quickly stood up and interrupted, bowed and saluted: "I have met Mrs. Geng." Mrs. Geng was only in her thirties. Although she was a generation older than the fifth wife, she was still very young. The Xie family was one of the best in Jiangnan.

In large families, this situation is not uncommon.

Mrs. Geng was very fond of her when she saw that she was generous and well-behaved. She took her hand and asked: "Which girl from your house is this? I have never seen her before. She is so beautiful!"

The fifth wife introduced: "This is my eldest brother's daughter, ranked seventh, Sister Lan. Thanks to her being by my side these days, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to bear it!"

When she heard that Yu Lan was ranked seventh, a trace of uneasiness flashed across Mrs. Geng's face, which quickly disappeared. She smiled and said, "She is such a good girl. Not only is she handsome in appearance, her conduct is beyond praise."

Mrs. Geng pulled her son behind her and said, "Why don't you meet your cousin and niece soon?"

Yu Lan had already seen a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old following Mr. Geng. He had a dark complexion, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a tiger-like head, which made him quite cute.

Xie Zhiyuan can be regarded as a foreign man, but now that the elders are all here, the two of them are still relatives, and they are a generation apart. When the fifth wife lost her son again, Yu Lan did not hide behind the screen.

Go behind.

Xie Zhiyuan met the fifth wife, and Yulan came over to salute him again, calling him "cousin!"

Seeing his honest look, Yu Lan found it quite interesting for a moment. The little maid moved a chair and asked Mrs. Geng and Xie Zhiyuan to sit down. She had to comfort the fifth wife a few words. Yulan sat aside, bowed her head slightly, and listened quietly.

Xie Zhiyuan couldn't help but glance at her secretly, and then quickly looked away.

Yu Lan saw it, and when she saw his curious and shy look, she couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled. Xie Zhiyuan couldn't help but feel so embarrassed that even his neck turned red.

Mrs. Geng saw that the topic was chattering around, so she brought it up to her son. "Xie's family is from a famous family in the south of the Yangtze River, with a family of poetry and etiquette, but this evil son has no idea how to make progress. He didn't like reading when he was born. He only likes to dance with guns and sticks all day long."

, his father and I told him countless times, but he just couldn't change. Later, his father didn't bother to discipline him, so he hired a gun and stick instructor and learned some martial arts casually. A few days ago, he went to take part in the martial arts examination.

I'm so lucky, I actually passed the exam..." The fifth wife spoke of her son, with a sense of pride in her tone.

Within a year of the Great Chu Dingding and the Central Plains, various systems were becoming more and more complete. Although the military attachés still regarded military service as the "right path" and supplemented it with those who came from the imperial examinations, under the strong promotion of knowledgeable people, the military examinations were also becoming more and more important.

Pay more attention to it.

Relatively speaking, although the status of military attachés is not as high as that of civilian officials, their promotion as a military official is much faster than that of civil officials in the imperial examination. If you pass the imperial examination of Wu Jinshi, you can directly become a third-rank general. However, as a rule, the number one scholar in Wen Dynasty is only

A seventh-grade Imperial Academy editor.

There's simply no comparison.

Yulan couldn't help but look at Xie Zhiyuan with admiration. She didn't expect that he had achieved fame at a young age. A fifteen-year-old martial arts practitioner was already very rare from any angle. No wonder he had such heroic spirit.

Compared with Chengzu, Chengzong and others have completely different temperaments.

According to her understanding, the martial arts examination is different from the ordinary rude and reckless men. In the Dachu system, the martial arts examination tests strategy first, and then the archery and horse test. Those who fail in the strategy are not allowed to test the archery and horse.
Chapter completed!