Chapter 1108: Sloppy Chaeff
Chapter 1108 Sloppy Chaifu
Jiang Ling still had serious errands in Yongchang, so the two of them couldn’t stay in the border town for much longer, so they went to the Ren family’s ancestral tomb in the north of the border town to pay their respects the next day.
This year, the border town has plenty of rain, and there are green grass outside the city. A tomb of the Ren family stands among the green pines and cypresses, but Jiang Liu feels very desolate and sad.
There are more than 20 graves buried in the three generations of the Ren family, but there is only one living descendant, Ren Lingsheng. How heavy should he feel every time he comes to the grave?
After placing the offerings, Jiang Ling and Jiang Liu knelt before the grave, and said, "Grandfather, grandmother, second uncle, great uncle, father, mother, uncles, aunts, uncles, and aunts, Ling Sheng brought the uncles who have not been there. Your daughter-in-law, Jiang Mulan, has come to visit your grave."
Jiang Liu also followed her brother to call the elders one by one, kowtow, and burn paper money, with tears in her eyes and a solemn expression.
After worship, Jiang Ling took her little hand and introduced to her which elder was sleeping in each grave. When he came to the tombstone of Ren Muyuan and his wife, Jiang Liu knelt down with his brother again and kowtowed to his in-laws.
After she and her brother got married, she might not be able to come to worship for a few years, so kowtow in advance was considered a complete ceremony.
On the left side of Ren Muyuan and his wife, Ren Chengyuan, the eldest brother of Ren Muyuan and Jiang Ling's uncle, is sleeping forever. Seeing the rounded upper left corner of his tombstone, Jiang Liu thought about how the grandfather of the Ren family, who had returned from disarming, went to the grave again and again and touched his son's tombstone, so that the edges and corners of the stone-carved tombstone could be smoothed out and kept spinning. Tears could not help falling down.
Qingshan buried the bones of loyalty, loyalty and filial piety are difficult to achieve.
Jiang Liu wiped away his tears, pretending to be relaxed and asked, "Brother, where will we be buried in a hundred years?"
Jiang Ling clenched her hand, "The graves are only three generations old, so we won't be buried here. As for where we are buried, it depends on where we take root, and then we will move the graves of our parents there."
Jiang Liu also knew the saying that the tomb was only three generations. She nodded, and after her brother recognized the ancestors of the Ren family, she said, "Brother, let's look for hidden grain nearby?"
In March, Jiang Liu followed Jiang Erye to the border town. Because the Khitan soldiers were still there at that time, the northern part of the city could not be searched, and only a few hills were found in the southern part of the city. Now that the Khitan soldiers have withdrawn, Jiang Liu still wants to give it a try. She couldn't find the hidden food, and she always felt that this trip was not satisfactory.
Jiang Ling was worried, "The mountains are high and the forests are dense here, so it is not suitable to go deep. It's better to leave the matter of finding hidden grain to General Yuan."
Although Jiang Ling learned from Yelu Gelu that the stored grain was in the hills northwest of the border city, but after repelling the Khitan army, Jiang Ling ordered people to rummage through the hills northwest of the border city, but did not find the whereabouts of the stored grain. Therefore, Jiang Ling speculated that perhaps Fu Chunchao was just using words to deceive Yelu Gelu.
Seeing that Jiang Liu was still a little hesitant, Jiang Ling advised, "Now that the famine in Suzhou has been resolved, it is not a big deal to find the remaining stored grain. Your safety is much more important than the stored grain."
If so, it is correct.
Jiang Liu blushed, and followed his brother back to the city in a daze.
About an hour after they left, a tall bearded man wearing a tattered Zuojing short robe carried a load of dry firewood and passed by the Ren family's tomb. Picking the burden slowly towards the city gate.
At this moment, Jiang Liu and Jiang Ling have returned to the mansion to pack up and set off for Yongchang. On the way back, a young unmarried couple shared a car and chatted.
"Yongchang has returned to us, and the two horse farms I run in Shandan can no longer be kept. I have selected more than 30 good horses to send back to the Kang'an horse farm last month, whether I want to keep it or I want to give it away. You have the final say."
According to the regulations of the imperial court, officials were not allowed to engage in commercial activities within their jurisdiction. If it were just one or two small shops, no one would be held accountable, but Jiang Ling, as the defender of Yongchang, had to lead by example, and of course he couldn't keep two eye-catching horse farms.
Jiang Liu felt extremely distressed and said, "So many good horses..."
Jiang Ling raised his hand and scratched her little nose, "Sold it for 80,000 taels."
"It's not too much." Jiang Liu asked, "Who did you sell it to?"
"Mu Chongyuan. If we need a good horse in Kang'an in the future, we can just ask Mu Chongyuan to buy it at a low price."
Brother, ruthless. Jiang Liu raised his thumb secretly, thinking of the day when he and Jiang Ling engaged, Mu Chongyuan pulled his brother to drink hard, and felt that it was too cheap to sell him two horse farms for 80,000 taels of silver.
Jiang Ling said again, "I'll take the silver taels back, and after Wansui confers the title of father on the mansion, we'll build a mansion next to it, what do you think?"
Jiang Liu asked in a low voice, "Brother, will you be able to seal Daddy Long Live?"
Jiang Ling smiled and handed her a piece of melon that had been seeded, "Uncle Qiu has been named the Marquis of Zhongyi, this time my father came to Suzhou and accomplished something that no one else could do, and saved his heart for Long Live. Long live, I must have even thought about my father's title, so I'm waiting for him to return to Beijing."
Jiang Liu took a bite of the melon, "Will Daddy be rewarded again, will it be too big to attract wind?"
"Since my father took the initiative to ask for an edict to come out of Beijing, it has been recruited. But you don't have to worry, my father is like a mirror in his heart, and nothing will happen." Jiang Ling also took a bite of the melon, thinking that the day his father returned to Beijing, Kang'an City would definitely will be sensational.
It's a pity that no matter how grand the scene is, he can't see it.
After the two people's carriage left the side town, the bearded man who was picking firewood arrived at the alley where Ren's house was located. When he saw the closed gate of the house, he gritted his teeth in hatred.
There was the sound of hooves, and the man immediately lowered his head and continued to walk forward while carrying the burden.
Yuan Xiayue arrived in front of the Ren Mansion and saw that the door was tightly closed, and said regretfully, "It's still a step late, they have already left. Go and ask them what time they leave, we might be able to catch up on horseback."
Fu Chunchao, who had not gone far, slowed down and paid attention to the movement behind him.
When I knocked on the door of Renfu, I learned that Jiang Liu and the others had only left for an hour by car. Yuan Xiayue took hold of the horse's reins, "It's still too late, let's go after it!"
Having said that, Yuan Xiayue and the four maids on horseback pulled the reins and urged the horse to turn around.
Although this alley is wide, the five horses turn around and need a bigger place. One of the maids failed to control the horse, and the horse's **** was pierced by firewood. Frightened, he raised his hind leg and gave Chaifu a hoof, kicking him in the chest.
Chaiv groaned and the burden fell to the ground.
"I'm sorry!" Seeing that someone was hurt, the maid hurriedly jumped off the horse to check the injury of the person. Chaif waved his hands in a panic to indicate that he was all right, and left with two bundles of firewood.
"You stop!"
Chaiv stopped, his muscles tense.
Yuan Xiayue urged the horse to come to the front, took out two pieces of silver, bent over and handed it over, "My horse hurt you, you can take this money to see the injury, if it's not enough to catch the medicine, then go to Yuan's house and ask the housekeeper for it."
Didn't expect that she was going to give him money, Chaifu looked up, then lowered his head and took the money with both hands, bent over and carried the firewood away.
Yuan Xiayue pinched her chin and tutted twice, secretly saying that although this Chaifu looks sloppy, he has a pair of good-looking eyes, looking like a fox.
(end of this chapter)