Chapter 253 Departure(1/2)
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"Xiaotang..." Xie Huaijin, who had changed to filial piety, seemed very uneasy. () He obviously didn't understand the meaning of doing this, but he instinctively knew something was wrong.
At this time, Mrs. Ji Er brought Ji Xiaoyun and Changsheng to come over.
"Okay." When Mrs. Ji Er saw Xie Huaijin's filial piety, she immediately thought of Mrs. Xie and her voice was choked.
"Xiaotang, you are all ready." Master Ji San hurriedly walked and said.
A little girl led the way in front, and everyone came to the backyard of Liuxianguan. Mrs. Xie's coffin was parked in a quiet room in the backyard of Liuxianguan.
"Uncle, I'll take Brother Huaijin to see you." Ji Xiaotang said softly when he walked to Mrs. Xie's coffin.
Before Ji Xiaotang could say anything to Xie Huaijin, Xie Huaijin was already in tears.
"Brother Huaijin, please kowtow a few more to my aunt." Ji Xiaotang felt uncomfortable when he saw this scene, so he pulled Xie Huaijin and walked two more steps in front of the coffin.
Without Ji Xiaotang's further prompt, Xie Huaijin threw herself in front of Mrs. Xie's coffin.
"Mom..., Mom..." Xie Huaijin cried and called her mother, and walked forward while kneeling, and his upper body pounced on the coffin.
Seeing Xie Huaijin crying sadly, Ji Xiaoyun also burst into tears, and then she couldn't bear it and wanted to go forward to persuade her. Ji Xiaotang reached out and stopped Ji Xiaoyun.
"Let him cry." For Xie Huaijin, being able to cry with joy is extremely rare in any aspect.
From now on, I'm afraid there will be no such opportunity.
When Xie Huaijin kowtowed in front of the spirit and cried for a while, Master Ji San coughed gently, reminding Ji Xiaotang that it was getting late and they had to hurry up.
Ji Xiaotang then went up to help Xie Huaijin up.
They could not open the funeral to Mrs. Xie, so they brought Xie Huaijin to the scene, and at least they had to take the funeral of Mrs. Xie and let Mrs. Xie be buried in peace. Soon, Mr. Ji San arranged for someone to lift Mrs. Xie's coffin. A small but complete mourning team followed in front of the coffin and left the side door of Liuxian Temple.
Mrs. Xie’s grave was chosen after Liuxianguan, which was a sunny slope.
The coffin was placed down. Xie Huaijin knelt down and cried again. Mrs. Ji, with Changsheng, Ji Xiaotang and Ji Xiaoyun, both worshiped in front of Mrs. Xie's grave, lit incense, and burned paper money. Seeing Master Ji San leading people to clean the grave.
There are only graves, no tombstones.
"Uncle, we will go to Beijing these days. We can't come here to see you from time to time... After arriving in the capital, I will take care of Brother Huaijin. Everything has been arranged. If nothing unexpected happens, Brother Huaijin will be safe in this life. ∮,...Don't worry." Ji Xiaotang silently prayed in front of Mrs. Xie's grave.
"...We will take good care of Huaijin. Don't worry, I will love Huaijin as my own child. Go with confidence and be reincarnated earlier. I will ask someone to recite a few more scriptures and burn more paper money to help you get a good birth. In the next life, live happily, with a family of descendants, and live to a hundred years old." Mrs. Ji Er said while wiping her tears with a veil.
"Uncle, aunt, I will take good care of Huaijin," Ji Xiaoyun said in a low voice.
Xie Huaijin cried for the past half a day, and his voice was already hoarse.
"Brother Huaijin, it's time for us to leave."
Xie Huaijin was obviously reluctant to leave, but she was used to listening to Ji Xiaotang's words. Ji Xiaoyun came to persuade him, and finally got up obediently and followed everyone back one step or three times.
"Can I come back?" Xie Huaijin asked Ji Xiaotang after changing back to the girl's outfit.
"Of course." Ji Xiaotang's answer was not hesitant at all. One day, they would come back if they wanted to come back. The arrival of that day was just a matter of time.
When he returned to Liuxian Temple, Old Lady Ji had already kowtowed in front of Gu Lao's uncle's spirit with Gu Xue'er. Everyone stopped in the temple and got on the car one after another and walked back.
Ji Xiaotang and Ji Xiaoyun's carriage followed Mrs. Ji Er's carriage. When they were about to enter the city gate, they felt that the carriage slowed down. Then they stopped.
Ji Xiaotang hurriedly beat the little girl and went forward to ask what happened.
Nowadays, there are inspections when entering and leaving the city gates, but the population is not large when Qingyuan travels, especially when encountering the chariots and horses of the Ji family, everyone will take the initiative to give way. If there is really no road, it will be blocked.
Soon, the little girl will come back.
The carriages and horses stopped because of the city gate inspection.
"Someone knelt in front of the old lady's car and said she was here to visit her relatives." The little girl reported to Ji Xiaotang.
Someone came to visit her?
"Sister, what relatives do we have in our family? I don't know?" Ji Xiaotang asked Ji Xiaoyun next to him.
Ji Xiaoyun was a little absent-minded, but she came to her senses when she heard Ji Xiaotang's question.
"I don't know either. There should be no relatives we don't know." Ji Xiaoyun was not very sure.
"Who is it? Do you understand?" Ji Xiaotang asked the little girl.
"It is said that it is the old lady's niece of her parents' family. She did not come alone, but a family. The old lady has already recognized the person and wants to take her back to the mansion to talk." The little girl said hurriedly.
Sure enough, in this moment, the carriage in front moved again.
Ji Xiaotang was confused, but he couldn't continue asking questions. ∏∈, when he got home, everything would naturally be clear.
The carriage stopped in front of the second gate, and Ji Xiaotang asked Madam Cheng to settle Xie Huaijin. At the same time, she asked the wet nurse to take Changsheng to rest first. She herself, Mrs. Ji and Ji Xiaoyun, came to Old Lady Ji's yard together.
When he arrived at Mrs. Ji's room, the little girl lifted up the curtain, and Ji Xiaotang followed Mrs. Ji and Ji Xiaoyun into the house.
There were indeed three more people with faces in the room.
Sitting under Mrs. Ji was a middle-aged woman who looked in her thirties. Behind her was a young man and a woman. At a glance, she knew that she was a sibling.
"This is Yao's Qin Niang, this is Qin Niang's children." Old Mrs. Ji said.
The three guests stood up long ago. According to Mrs. Ji's words, Mrs. Yao was the cousin of her distant family, who was older than Mrs. Ji Er. Mrs. Ji asked Mrs. Ji Er to call Mrs. Yao his sister.
As for Yao's children, the sister is named Zhou Nianhong, she is sixteen years old this year, and her younger brother is named Zhou Qiao, she is only thirteen years old this year.
Everyone greeted each other and sat in sequence.
Old Mrs. Ji seemed a little excited.
"...I didn't expect that we girls could still meet in this life. Qin Niang. I first met you back then, and you were only fourteen or fifteen years old. Now, your daughter is so old!"
Ji Xiaotang had never heard of Mrs. Ji's cousin like this. However, judging from Mrs. Ji's attitude towards Yao, she seemed to have been very close to her.
Did she know too little about the past of the Ji family? It shouldn't be this reason. Ji Xiaotang thought about it carefully and thought about all the experiences in his previous life, but she couldn't remember the Yao family no matter what.
Old Mrs. Ji, Yao and Mrs. Ji Er were talking, and Ji Xiaotang took this opportunity to look at the mother and son.
Yao has a slender figure. Her face is fair, with a melon-shaped face, willow-leaf eyebrows, and the tips of her eyebrows are slightly slanted, and there seems to be a faint layer of sorrow between her eyebrows. Obviously, Yao must have been a beauty in her youth. Even if she is old this year, she still has charm. Moreover, the melancholy look between her eyebrows and eyes adds a mysterious charm to her.
As for the two children of Yao, Zhou Nianhong looks 70% or 80% similar to Yao's. However, she does not have the charm of Yao. Instead, she shows a very rare resilience in women. Zhou Qiao is a pointed chin, thin, and not yet grown up.
Looking at the three people's clothes, they should have been a medium-sized family in the past, but now, these are amazing.
Ji Xiaotang withdrew his gaze and heard Yao telling Old Mrs. Ji about the misfortune that the Zhou family had encountered after the drought.
The Zhou family was also a family-running study and passed on to the family. It was originally very prosperous. However, the years of drought have made the family's situation worse than before. If it were just a drought, the mother and daughter would not have fallen to rely on relatives and friends.
The Zhou family is in Huai'an Prefecture. In the past two years, the Yao family's husband was tied up by the bandits. Although the Zhou family paid the ransom as much, the bandits still tore the Yao family's husband tore up.
After that, the Zhou family's life plummeted.
Without the men in charge, Yao and his son and daughter could not control the remaining family business at all. Not to mention that the bandits were eyeing each other, they were also jealous of the Zhou family’s family business.
Among them, there are many people who covet the Yao family.
Speaking of this, Yao sobbed in a low voice, and Zhou Nianhong and Zhou Qiao behind her also had red eyes. Zhou Qiao was young and started sobbing, but Zhou Nianhong pinched him and squeezed his tears back.
Yao couldn't stand in Huai'an. When he happened to hear rumors about the Ji family, Yao simply gritted his teeth and cleaned up the home's fine and soft materials, and led his two children and a few loyal servants to join the Ji family's old lady Ji.
"The Zhou family members do not regard us as relatives at all. They are even worse than those bandits. Now we are in the world and have no relatives. After thinking about it, only my aunt can surrender."
The Ji family gave alms in Qingyuan, and even those who had never met before were willing to help. They also had this kind of kinship with the Ji family, so the Ji family should not ignore their orphans and widows.
When Mrs. Yao talked about her various difficulties, Mrs. Ji sighed and looked at Mrs. Yao with great pity. In addition to her pity, she seemed to have a sense of guilt.
"We said that this Zhou family is very good, and the family is passed down through the farming and reading, and the patriarch is also a kind person. Why is it so now?"
"My aunt doesn't know that the old patriarch is good, but she has passed away long ago. Now the head of the family is the old patriarch's son, then..." Yao bit her lip and couldn't continue.
"It's that guy who wants to bully my mother!" Zhou Qiao said with his eyebrows raised.
Yao's pale face immediately turned red, and she lowered her head sadly.
Zhou Nianhong stopped Zhou Qiao from being too late. Seeing that he was not careful, he glared at him fiercely.
"There is such a person in the world who is inferior to beasts! Such a person actually became the patriarch!" Old Mrs. Ji sighed.
"My aunt is a lucky person. She has never seen those monsters and monsters outside." Yao then raised her head and said with a wry smile, "It was okay to have a peaceful life, but now no one can control anyone in this world, and those people have their true colors."
I heard Yao's words and read some books.
Mrs. Ji Er had a good first impression of Yao and was also very sad about the experience of their mother and son.
After sitting for a while, Old Mrs. Ji arranged for Yao and his son to live there.
"Grandma, haven't you heard you say we have this kind of relative?" Ji Xiaotang did not leave immediately, but asked Old Mrs. Ji.
Mrs. Ji Er also looked at Mrs. Ji, and she wanted to ask this.
"Oh..." Old Mrs. Ji's eyes flashed, "It's a distant relative. Her family has long been gone, and she has married far away. She hasn't walked around these years. She... If she hadn't had no other way, she wouldn't have come to us."
Old Mrs. Ji obviously didn't want to say more.
"What is the old lady's plan?" asked Mrs. Ji Er.
They were about to enter Beijing soon, and Yao family defected at this time. How should Yao family be resettled?
"Well..." Old Mrs. Ji thought for a longer time this time, "I'll ask them what they plan, if... I plan to take them to Beijing."
To be continued...