Greetings, Ninth Uncle - Chapter 32

[Chapter 32]

It was only in the evening that the family property was divided, and it was only at night when Old Marquis Cheng went.

After the servant came out to announce the funeral, the courtyard suddenly burst into tears.

Both the wife and the servant girl bowed their heads and wept at the moment.

Old Madam Cheng swayed and almost fell backwards.

The female family members were startled and hurriedly shouted: “Old Madam!”

Mrs. Cheng was immediately supported by the maid, and Cheng Yujin also walked over to hold Mrs. Cheng’s arm: “Grandmother, how are you?”

Mrs. Cheng The man became calm and walked in with a cane: “The husband and wife for most of my life will leave today. I will send him the last ride.”

Cheng Yujin helped Mrs. Cheng to go inside, and the people in the inner room were already kneeling. In the whole room, seeing Mrs. Cheng coming in, everyone avoided: “Lady.”

Cheng Yuanxian and Cheng Yuanhan also stood up: “Mother.” Mrs.

Cheng walked straight inside, and everyone by the bed stood up and gave Cheng The old lady gives way.

Mrs. Cheng sat sideways on the edge of the bed, and saw that Mr. Cheng quietly closed his eyes in the tent, and let out a long sigh.

“You didn’t want to look at me when you were alive. I didn’t expect to die, and you didn’t see the last side.”

Mrs. Cheng looked up and saw Cheng Yuanjing standing not far away, calm and indifferent, with a posture like bamboo.

Just standing there, it is already very different from others, it is really Xie Tinglanyu, elegant and profound.

When Lord Cheng died, he could always see the child in his eyes, so he must be at ease.

At this time, the inside and outside of the house were full of people, and the Princess Qingfu, Mrs Ruan and others also stood at the door of the outer hall holding their handkerchiefs, watching Old Madam Cheng silently.

Mrs. Cheng quickly came back to her senses, she moved, and Cheng Yujin immediately stepped forward to support Mrs. Cheng’s arm.

Mrs. Cheng said, “Miss, kindness, kindness, kindness, and grace, come up and kowtow to grandfather.”

Cheng Laohou passed away, and this was their last kowtow to grandfather.

Cheng Yujin folded her skirt and knelt down, silently giving a full set of gifts.

等磕头之后，程瑜瑾立刻赶回院子换衣服。她出门的时候就穿了素色衣服，可是现在程老侯爷已经去世，她要换上孝衣了。

丧事讲究非常多，又不如喜事兆头吉利，所以整个宜春侯府都显得乱糟糟的。丫鬟和主子每个人都很忙，然每一件事都安排欠妥，也不知道到底忙在哪里。程瑜瑾赶到的时候，灵堂后面供内眷休息的院子空空荡荡的，连个丫鬟都看不见。程瑜瑾顺着抄手游廊，穿过厢房时，听到里面传来隐隐约约的说话声。

“……霍夫人上次来就说了，想要早点完婚。现在正好撞到公公的孝期，墨儿可怎么办？”

“为长辈守孝天经地义，霍家若是因为这些事挑剔，那这婚不成也罢！”

另一个女子的声音跟着增大：“二爷您消消气，你突然这么大声音，小心招来人！我当然知道要守孝，爹去了我亦伤心不已，恨不得将自己的寿数挪给爹。墨儿的孝心也是一样的，你从小看着墨儿长大，墨儿是什么样的孩子，你还不知道吗？”

程瑜瑾脚步顿了顿，她立即就认出来，这是阮氏的声音。方才另一个说话的男子，想必是程元翰了。

屋里的阮氏继续说道：“只不过如今情况不同，靖勇侯都二十一了，寻常男子在他这个年纪，早就抱儿子了。可是他前些年因为霍家侯位的事没法说亲，之后又上了战场，婚事就一年年耽搁下来。如今好不容易腾出空来，婚事早就耽搁不得。原本我们和霍家说好半年内完婚，可是正好撞到了孝期，霍侯爷怎么还能再等一年？墨儿的婆婆本来就难缠，现在有了现成的理由，万一她开口说要给霍侯爷纳妾，那该怎么办？”

程元翰的声音听起来很是疑惑：“霍家怎么敢？正妻未进门就纳妾，他们这样做不怕坏了名声吗？”

“Why don’t they dare!” Ruan’s voice sounded eager and said, “People with strict rules pay attention to not accepting concubines before the wife enters the door. First, it is to give face to the wife, and second, it is afraid of giving birth to a concubine eldest son, which will be broken. The concubines and concubines are inferior. But after all, Marquis Jingyong is old, and after all, it is the heir that is important. If the wife cannot enter the house, Marquis Jingyong accepts a concubine for the son, and others will not say anything, and maybe they will praise the Marquis Jingyong. Respect the wife, and let the wife feel at ease to keep filial piety to grandfather.”

Cheng Yuanhan’s voice was silent, and Mrs. Ruan took advantage of the situation and said: “It’s a year, and there is no Bizi soup, it is impossible to guarantee that there will not be a concubine blood. If it is a daughter, it will be fine. , What if it’s a son, what can

Mo’er do?” Cheng Yuanhan didn’t speak anymore, Ruan shi lowered his voice, Xu Xu said something, and the voice gradually became indistinguishable.

Cheng Yujin pretended to hear everything, took two steps back lightly, and walked in deliberately with a louder voice.

The couple in the wing thought that someone was coming, and immediately stopped talking.

After Cheng Yujin walked into the main hall, Mrs Ruan soon came out of the wing and leaned over to see who was coming.

She saw Cheng Yujin when she entered the door, her expression froze: “eldest girl, why are you here?”

“I’m here to keep a vigil for my grandfather.”

“You are my daughter’s house, and the old lady didn’t mean to feel bad for you, so that you and Mo’er don’t have to come here. Did you stay up all night?”

“My grandmother loves me, and as a junior, I have to show my filial piety. Besides, the third brother is guarding the mourning hall when he is so young. I’m fourteen, so what’s the point of staying up all night.”

Ruan said Without speaking, Qing Fu and Mrs. Cheng were arranging a mourning hall in the front hall, and the servants were in a mess. Seeing that there was no one in the backyard, Mrs. Ruan quickly brought Cheng Yuanhan to discuss countermeasures.

Unexpectedly, someone suddenly came, but it was Cheng Yujin.

Ruan Shi couldn’t help but have some doubts, but she thought that she stopped talking when she heard the footsteps just now, and the content of the conversation should not have been heard.

Ruan Shi paid attention to Cheng Yujin’s face again, and found that Cheng Yujin was unaware, and the maid was busy preparing for the spirit watch.

Ruan Shi was completely relieved, stood for a while and went out.

After Ruan Shi turned around, Cheng Yujin glanced at her back and silently retracted her gaze.

Handling funerals is very labor-intensive. After a whole night, everyone in the Cheng family looked tired.

In theory, children and grandchildren should guard their elders for seven days. However, when it was dawn, many people made excuses and went to the next room to rest.

Cheng Yujin hadn’t slept all night. At this moment, her face was white, her eyes were red, and she was dressed in filial piety.

Du Ruo felt sorry for Cheng Yujin, others were being lazy, but Cheng Yujin actually knelt down for a long time. Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one in the mourning hall, Du Ruo quietly said to Cheng Yujin, “Girl, do you want to go to take a break?

” It is time for people to come to the door to offer condolences. Her tired face can show filial piety, but too much will affect her beauty.

The eldest girl from the Cheng family, who had been perfect for more than ten years, couldn’t accept that she was ugly, so she hurried to the tea room to recover her anger while no one was there.

Du Ruo brought a cup of hot ginger tea and put a cup of ginger tea into his stomach, Cheng Yujin felt his body warm again.

Forsythia brought the cakes from the courtyard, and at the moment he was carrying the dishes out, while he was still talking about Cheng Yujin: “Miss, why are your hands so cold? Although it’s summer, the ground is still cloudy and damp at night, so the girl knelt down like this. On the ground, how can this be bearable! If the slave will bring you knee pads, it will be better for you to kneel.” The

heat was suffocating, and Cheng Yujin’s eyebrows were hidden behind the mist, so he could not see clearly.

Du Ruo felt that Cheng Yujin seemed to have something on his mind, and asked in a low voice, “Miss, are you still thinking about the second wife?”

Forsythia didn’t understand, what did the second wife say?

It’s a pity that no one has time to explain to Forsythia at this moment, Cheng Yujin put down the tea cup and sighed: “Huo Changyuan is really not small, it’s normal for them to think like this.”

This is what Du Ruo didn’t understand, Du Ruo asked: ” Girl, keep filial piety to your grandfather, and you can accumulate filial piety, but the second wife is very anxious today. Girl, what do you think the second wife is doing?”

“What else can you do?” Cheng Yujin covered her lips and hit lightly Yawned and said, “It’s not that I’m afraid of long nights and dreams, and I want Cheng Yumo to marry someone while she’s hot and filial.”

“Ah!” Du Ruo was very surprised. Forsythia heard this and probably guessed what happened.

The old marquis suddenly went away last night. Cheng Yumo was about to keep filial piety for his grandfather and was not allowed to get married within a year.

Nguyen Shi was afraid that the delay would be too long, and the Jingyong Hou Mansion couldn’t wait, so he took a concubine and came back.

Therefore, I want to take advantage of the hot filial piety and let Cheng Yumo marry in advance.

Parents stick to three years, grandparents stick to one year.

But the marriageable age is so long. If you keep your filial piety every time, and the children and grandchildren of the appropriate age are dragged up, it will be difficult to say kisses, especially women.

Therefore, there is also a folk saying that if there are unmarried children and grandchildren in the family, after the death of the elders, they will not feel at ease, and the living souls will stay in the world for the day.

At this time, the children and grandchildren hurriedly take advantage of the hot filial piety to marry and let the elders enter the reincarnation with peace of mind, which is also a kind of filial piety.

Either get married within three months, or wait a year, what Ruan wanted to do was to let Cheng Yumo marry in Rexiao.

Forsythia didn’t understand why Cheng Yujin looked solemn. She put the cake plate away and said, “Girl, anyway, the Huo family has nothing to do with you. What are you worried about about the second room? Although there is a saying that Rexiao got married, but After all, it’s not very elegant. As long as people who pay attention, they will not let their daughters get married in a hurry. When others talk about it in the future, they will also point out that the second girl is in a hurry to marry, and she doesn’t even keep the filial piety to her grandfather. This is the second house asking for it. What does the girl care about them?”

Cheng Yujin shook her head: “If Cheng Yumo is my sister, I don’t care when she gets married, and if I want to get married during the filial piety period, I will ignore her.”

“Girl, are you Say…”

Cheng Yujin sighed deeply: “The elders are in order, if the second wife persuades the old lady to let Cheng Yumo marry first, what should I do? My sister is married before my sister is married. Isn’t this telling others clearly that I was abandoned by the family.”

Du Ruo and Forsythia finally understood the benefits of this matter.

They looked at each other and saw anxiety in each other’s eyes: “Girl, what should I do?”

Cheng Yujin was silent, she thought about it all night, and found that there was no solution to both.

She couldn’t sacrifice her reputation, and she couldn’t let Nguyen get rid of her thoughts. For the current plan, she could only get her future husband as soon as possible.

As long as she finds her next home before the situation expands, and she is verbally engaged, it doesn’t matter what gossip others will say this year.

Without further ado, she had to close the net as soon as possible.

Cheng Yujin’s eyes gradually became firm, Lin Qingyuan, she was bound to win.

Cheng Yujin went to the mourning hall to guard after a little trimming.

The condolence occasions for female relatives and men are separate. The news of the funeral was sent out at dawn. Now every household must have received the news. Starting today, female relatives will come to the door to offer condolences one after another.

Unlike the red event, the people who attended the white event were all people who could issue orders from a family. How could Cheng Yujin let go of such a good time to show his face.

Although she already regarded Lin Qingyuan as her fiancé in her heart, if there was a better option, would she have no reason to refuse.

With such a plan in mind, Cheng Yujin knelt upright in the mourning hall.

Her face is as white as a piece of paper, she is full of filial piety, her demeanor is sad and calm, and she is pale and beautiful. People who come and go will all look at her.

After the sun climbed high, there were obviously more people who came to offer condolences. Cheng Yujin was always beside Mrs. Cheng. Mrs. Cheng was in poor health, so Cheng Yujin took on the task of ushering and sending her as she should.

The wives who came to comfort Mrs. Cheng met, and inevitably asked Cheng Yujin a few more questions.

Cheng Yujin was very satisfied with the result.

Instead of Mrs. Cheng, she sent a wave of Mrs. out. When she came back, she bumped into a group of people she knew very well.

Huo Xue was sitting with Ruan and the others. When she heard the voice, she turned back subconsciously, not prepared to see a girl in white clothes clasping her hands and standing quietly at the door under the sun.

The sunshine in June was just right, and the golden light shone slightly on the person. She stood quietly in the sunshine, and her beauty almost made people think it was an illusion.

The girl should be pretty and filial, except for the cumbersome jewelry and noisy colors, under the pure white, her black hair and red lips, her cheeks like snow, and her eyebrows and eyes are picturesque.

Huo Xue was a little dazed at first sight. At this time, the wife next to him saw it and asked curiously, “Is this the daughter-in-law of the Hof people? Good looks, good temperament, the Hof people are really lucky.”

Ruan, who was on the side, heard , the smile on his face stiffened.

She heard that Huo Xue’s was coming, and she ran over to entertain Huo Xue and several other wives, but she didn’t expect to hear such words.

Ruan Shi couldn’t even keep smiling, and Huo Xue’s face couldn’t be said to be pretty.

The two of them hadn’t figured out how to round up the field, and Cheng Yujin had already walked in from outside.

She was generous, and Shi Shiran saluted the ladies with a calmer expression than Huo Xue’s and Ruan’s

. Eyes, Cheng Yujin nodded and smiled in the eyes of everyone: “I am the eldest girl of the Cheng family, Cheng Yujin, who has broken off from the Huo family, not the fiancee of the Duke of Jingyong.”