Chapter 103 Death 1
Li Tian listened attentively to Cao Si's words and heard that her aunt could return to the capital after years. She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She also listened to Cao Si's trivial report on the situation of shops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Road and other places. She looked at Cao Si's daughter-in-law and ordered with a smile, "Brother Cao has worked hard this trip. You can also rest for a few days and do something for Cao Si Ge. Delicious food.
Cao's fourth daughter-in-law responded with a smile, and the two withdrew together. Yingluo read a Buddha's smile and said, "It's good that my aunt will come back. There is finally someone who is really good for the fifth lady and can speak."
"Well," Li Tian answered absent-mindedly, thought for a moment, turned to the east wing, lifted the curtain in, looked at Yue Niang sitting on the couch and said, "I'm sorry to bother you to go and tell the shopkeeper Cheng two things. One is to let him pay attention to the whereabouts of the four princes, and the other is to pay attention to the official department to inquire about his uncle Jiang Qingyuan's performance this year and Next year's dispatch.
"Good!" Yue Niang readily agreed and jumped out of the bed. This time, she didn't jump out of the window and went around the door.
Li Xiaozu was specially called over by the fourth prince to say a few words. In the evening, he came out of the government office and was blocked by Second Master Ding. He insisted on drinking a few cups with him. Li Xiaozu couldn't refuse and went to the Fairy Tower to drink with Second Master Ding. He was lively to the front and back to the Duke of Yongguo.
Grandma Zhou took Li Xiaozu in, busy preparing people to wake up and sprinkle soup, and served Li Xiaozu to bathe and wash. Although Li Xiaozu drank a lot of wine, he was so excited that he was not sleepy. He pulled Zhou Da to talk about how the fourth prince talked to him incoherently. How enthusiastic is Second Master Ding? Zhou Da Grandma was confused. He drank half a bowl of sobering soup and asked little by little for a long time before he figured out what was going on. The stunned second King Kong couldn't figure out. How did the high-ranking fourth master know Li Xiaozu? Why did you ask him to ask a few words that even Li Xiaozu thought it was gossip?
"Don't just giggle. How can there be so many good things for no reason? What the hell is going on?" Grandma Zhou pushed Li Xiaozu, who only giggly and couldn't close his mouth, said anxiously. Li Xiaozu shook his head vibly. His eyes were so drunk that he couldn't hear Grandma Zhou's words at all. Looking at Grandma Zhou Da's giggle a few times, he fell down on ** and fell asleep in the blink of an eye.
Grandma Zhou slept well, sat and thought for a while, sent someone to call Mother Xiao in, said Li Xiaozu's words, and looked at Grandma Xiao and said worriedly, "Dalang is a person with no eyesight. I don't understand how the fourth master knows Dalang? How can it be such a good thing to ask him to talk so deliberately?
"Is it the palace of Nanning County?" Mother Xiao hesitated and said, Zhou Da\Grandma frowned: "How can our house have such a friendship with the prince's palace of Nanning? I don't usually go back and forth."
"In addition to the Nanning Prince's Mansion, where else is there? It's just that their house often comes and go with the fourth master, I think," Mother Xiao mysteriously pointed to the direction of Qingtongyuan: "The prince of Nanning must be in front of that aunt. Grandma thought that since she came back, the little lady of Nanning County's mansion has not said anything. It is rare once a day, and the princess of the county has also sent people twice every three days. Come on, send this and that. Anyway, we are still relatives. Besides, we have married the Xu bachelor's family now. I think our house will really get better in the future.
"That's also," Grandma Zhou said relievedly, "It can't be all your fault. She lost 5,000 taels of silver, and these 5,000 taels..." Grandma Zhou remembered the source of the 5,000 taels of silver and took a breath of heartache: "Originally, it was extracted from Dalang to provide supplies. Who knows that her precious daughter was calculated by others? Now the third wife's dowry is not as poor as that of the old lady back then. She wants to think that she can tie the necks of all the people in the house and eat or drink. A penny is bigger than the moon in the sky!" Grandma Zhou became more and more angry. She spat gently and said, "She also said that the old lady had emptied the mansion. What's the difference between her and the old lady? Look, when the third lady gets married, the government will have to be moved empty than the empty shelf! You want me to supplement with silver, ah! Think about it!"
"Grandma!" Mother Xiao glanced at the dim second door and shouted reproachfully. Grandma Zhou shouted heavily and looked more lazily and went back to the inner courtyard with Mother Xiao.
The next day, he did a day of magic work. In the evening, Li Zhongzhi came back from the government office and first went to the Duke of Yongguo Mansion. He didn't let anyone send a message in. He only went to Zhuxiang and asked about the time of the festival the next day and went back.
Early the next morning, before dawn, Li Zhongzhi and his wife took their son and daughter-in-law, and several elders and several families who did not have five services to the Duke of Yongguo Mansion.
Mrs. Yang was extremely surprised. This year of death is just a pillar incense. No one in the clan has ever been here? What happened this year? However, Mrs. Yang couldn't think much about it. While urgently sending someone to invite Li Zhongchao, the drunken Duke of Yongguo, rushed to the front yard with Grandma Zhou. Li Xiaozu was preparing to go out and quickly sent the little man to the building store to ask for a half-day leave. This year's death seems to be a little unusual.
Every year, this day is the most painful time for Li Zhongchao and the most drinking time. When Li Zhongchao finally rushed to the front yard with a dark and puffy face, everyone had stood neatly and quietly, waiting for him.
In the melodious chanting, Li Zhongzhi was at the top, and Li Zhongchao's auxiliary sacrifice led everyone to perform the sacrificial ceremony. Li Zhongchao and Mrs. Yang were about to let several elderly and Li Zhongzhi enter the main hall to sit and drink tea. Li Tian stopped in front of the crowd, with tears on her face. She looked at the patriarch Li Zhongzhi and several elders and said, "Four Weng Weng , Six Weng Weng, Seven Weng Weng, Uncle, Tian'er has something to say, and we should ask Weng Weng and uncles to make the decision.
Mrs Yang stared at Li Tian with a straight face, and there was a strong uneasiness in her heart. What is this girl going to do?! Li Zhongchao's mind, which had been soaked in wine for many years, was dull and turbid, and looked at Li Tian in a daze; Grandma Zhou looked at Li Tian blankly, looked at Mrs. Yang's black face like the bottom of the pot, and looked at the crowd. He didn't know what Li Tian was going to do, and Li Xiaozu was even more confused. Mrs. Xu's eyes shone and stared at Mrs. Yang with undisguised excitement; Mrs. Liu looked at Li Tian warily, quietly pulled the third master Li Zhongjing, and winked at him. The two took half a step back together.