Lonely non-good minister

Chapter 217 The Unexpected Incident
They were honest and obedient, and Song Yuan immediately freed his hands to look elsewhere.

According to Emperor Taikang's request, he will see the results of the farmland reform before the autumn harvest next year. There is no more intuitive result than taxation. Therefore, the farmland reform must be completed before the end of next spring sowing, so as not to delay the autumn harvest. result.

She had been busy for half a month when she left early and returned home late. As soon as she returned to the mansion that day, she was stopped by Chunyang at the gate, "The fifth master arrived home today, and the funeral is imminent. The side concubine has already explained the situation to the prince. The young master has been here for a few days." Don't go out, and accompany Fifth Master to kneel and send the funeral together."

"Okay." Song Yuan went to the courtyard of the concubine Wang: "Can we arrange where to stop?"

Chunyang tied and wiped her forehead for her, and tidied up her clothes again: "Go to the Little Jin'an Temple outside the city. When the time comes, the young master must stay with the fifth master all the time. According to the rules, those who will be in charge will teach the young master. Don't worry, young master."

Arriving at the courtyard of the Queen's Concubine, Song Yuan lifted his foot to enter. The courtyard was filled with the smell of incense and smoke. When he entered the main room, he saw a young man with broad shoulders and a broad back kneeling in front of the coffin. Putting the paper money into the basin, the woman next to her led the two children, her eyes were red from crying, seeing Song Yuan coming in, the woman pulled the children to salute.

Song Yuan hurriedly helped the child up, then knelt beside the young man: "Fifth brother, my condolences."

Song Fu nodded slightly, and when he spoke, his voice was hoarse: "Thank you Concubine Shen for taking care of me. The maid told me that when my mother was dying, Concubine Shen was by her side, so she didn't let the loneliness of leaving mother."

Yeah?Song Yuan didn't know these things.

Song Fu stopped talking, just burned papers and kneeled silently. He rushed all the way back and didn't have time to rest. Naturally, the children couldn't rest either. The two children fell ill that night, and the fifth sister-in-law was busy taking care of them. Only the two brothers can be left behind.

Song Yuan silently threw the bait in her hand into the fire. The repeated movements made her tired and sleepy, but this was obviously not the time to rest. She glanced at Song Fu quietly. Although talking could refresh her mind, she and Song Fu really If you are not familiar, it is not appropriate to talk about anything.

After a night of silence, at dawn, Chunyang came to ask Song Yuan to rest, and Wang's mother also came to invite Song Fu to Shen's yard. At this time, it is polite to persuade Song Yuan as a aunt.

After staying up for several nights, it finally came to the day of the funeral. Before dawn, white flags were erected on the street outside the mansion, and the coffin was carried out. Song Fu walked in front of the coffin with a tablet in his arms. Holding a filial stick, there were many people accompanying the funeral. Except for the two heads of the Zhongshan King and the Shen family, the side concubines in the mansion were all out, and the concubines were naturally unable to participate. The princess also got into the carriage with the side concubines, and the children of the younger generation were also left behind by the Shen family, and only the daughter-in-law followed.

There are road sacrifices set up by various families along the road. Song Fu went to thank each family, and only came out of the city after the sun had passed. After walking for half a day, they arrived at Xiaojin'an Temple to stop. When the side concubines arrived at the residence, they immediately arranged for their female relatives of the same generation to stay there, while Song Yuan followed Song Fu to offer incense and bowed down.

At night, the monastery was very gloomy, and although there were many people accompanying the night watch, it was still scary. After dinner, Song Yuan stood at the door to cool off, and Song Fu suddenly walked up to her.

"You've been up for a few nights, go back to the house and rest. I'm going to stop tonight. I want to talk to my mother alone."

Song Yuan stood up quickly: "Okay."

She is a sensible person, she prayed before the coffin and hurried away, turned the corner and saw the darkness ahead, Song Yuan immediately stopped and looked at Wei Yan, Wei Yan looked at herself suspiciously, not knowing what she was looking for .

"Where are the lanterns? You didn't mention one?"

Only then did Wei Yan come to his senses: "This subordinate forgot."

He was just about to go back to pick up one, when a little novice came over with a lantern: "I'll lead you there."

Someone led the way, and Song Yuan couldn't wish for it. He followed the little novice and walked a part of the way in the dark. After passing through the small door, he actually arrived at the resting meditation room. There were not many funeral men accompanying him, and they all lived in the nearby meditation room. Song Fu did not come back to rest. , Song Yuan asked Wei Yan to stay and live in the same room with him. After a tiring day, she quickly lay down after washing.

Wei Yan fell asleep on the other side of the small table. Before going to bed, he was startled by the leaves shaking on the window outside, and asked in a low voice: "My lord, I heard that ghosts like temples the most, and they will come out at night. Standing on someone's bed and staring."

"Shut up." It's really not pleasant to say such things at night.

Song Yuan fell asleep quickly, and Wei Yan dared to fall asleep only after listening to her breathing evenly and continuously. He would snore, and if he went to bed earlier than Song Yuan, he would disturb her, so he could only wait for her to fall asleep.

It was just that he was drowsy, when he heard the noise coming from outside intermittently, the wind blowing through the treetops, the rustling made the noise not so real, Wei Yan got up and opened the door, but there was no movement when he listened carefully, he thought his ears were ringing I patted my ears in doubt and went back to sleep.

A few temples away, the noise just now has already alarmed the people in the meditation room here, especially the place where the side concubines live, the lights are brightly lit at the moment, Xiao Shen who has already fallen asleep was also called up, dressed neatly to go When they arrived at Concubine Liu's room, they saw Concubine Li was already there, and both of them looked very unhappy.

"You sit first." Concubine Li signaled Xiao Shen not to ask what's wrong with her face full of displeasure. What.

"Concubine Shi Zi, sit down too." Concubine Liu then said, "You all go out and stay away."

Chunyang and the others are confidantes, they can't stay here, Xiao Shen immediately had a bad feeling, and when everyone went out and closed the door, Concubine Liu spoke with a gloomy face.

"It's such a misfortune for the family that such a humiliating thing happened." Her hands were shaking with anger: "Just now, Concubine Li and I heard that the fifth master was guarding the coffin. I went to persuade the child, but I didn't know how far I went, I ran into Chang Ning and a man under the tree, hugging their ears and rubbing their hands together, and when I heard it closely, the one who was crying was actually discussing elopement."

This news made Xiao Shen and Lin's expressions pale in shock. Seeing that Lin was too scared to speak, Xiao Shen could only ask, "Did you catch him?"

"Chang Ning caught him. The man ran away when he heard us talking. It was so dark at night that he couldn't see what it looked like, and Chang Ning refused to tell." Concubine Liu was furious.

They all have daughters. If the scandal caused by Chang Ning is spread, how can their daughters raise their heads in her husband's house?
Xiao Shen remained silent, at this time a mother also opened the door and came in: "Side concubine, the girl still refuses to speak."

(End of this chapter)