Chapter 47 A farce
The next day, after breakfast, the family set off to continue on the road. When they left the city, they stopped him again. Chen Danxia sat in the carriage and waited for a quarter of an hour. He was a little impatient, picked up a little curtains and asked softly: "Second brother, how long will it take to wait?"
"Sister, don't worry, I've seen the flag of Prince Anping." Shen Bomi whispered.
Tao, who was leaning against the cushion, closed his eyes and rested, opened his eyes. She had asked about it yesterday. The reason why Hening County strengthened its guard was because the prince of Anping and Chengxiang Gong mainly went to Lianxiang County and passed by this place.
Gao Jing, the king of Anping County, is the 14th son of the Supreme Emperor. His current half-brother, and his biological mother, Concubine Qin, was posthumously named Concubine Qin, after his death, he was appointed as Concubine Qin. After ascending the throne, he was appointed as Concubine Qin. In his dream, King Rui never made him king, suppressed him everywhere, forcing the Prince of Anping to rebel. If the prince had not interfered with him, he would have successfully seized the throne.
Princess Chengxiang Gao Ma is the ninth daughter of the Supreme Emperor, her current half-sister, and her biological mother Liangpin Bo is the cousin of Concubine Qin. In her dream, Princess Chengxiang was sent to the Northern Fan by King Rui to marry.
"Mother, sister, the carriage is coming." Shen Bomi reminded. Tao took Chen Danxia out of the carriage, and like other passers-by, he lowered his head and looked down at Prince Anping's carriage.
The carriage of the Prince Anping slowly drove over, and the curtains were raised high. The Prince Anping sat upright in the carriage, nodding to the people on both sides from time to time, looking in a manner that was friendly to the people.
When the carriage passed by Chen Danxia, she raised her head curiously and her eyes crashed into a pair of deep eyes, which made her look so shocked that she quickly lowered her head.
Prince Anping curled the corners of his lower lips. What a bold boy. No one dared to look up along the way. He did not recognize Chen Danxia as the little girl he thought was interesting yesterday. Chen Danxia is still dressed as a boy today, but he changed into a pink and blue embroidered five bats, without a bun, and tied two horn buns with the same ribbon.
When the carriage of the Prince of Anping and Princess Chengxiang left the city, the commanders of the city guarded the city were released and left the city and went to Jindu along the official road. There was a lot of rain in spring, so I stopped and stopped. On the first day of March, I arrived at a small town near Jindu at about noon. It was still half a day away from Jindu.
But Tao was not in a hurry to rush, so he stayed in the inn in the town. He begged two of his confidants to go back to Jindu to find out the news. The next morning, the person who went to Jindu to find out the news came back. Tao asked the wife Qi and "acted according to the plan."
Chen Danxia blinked and looked at her mother curiously. What was the plan? It was almost Jindu, so it should be solved for her.
After Madam Qi stepped down, Tao smiled and twisted her nose lightly, saying, "Tomorrow, I will feel wronged Jiuer will wear mourning clothes."
Chen Danxia's eyes flashed and he asked, "Is the old lady dead?"
"Yes, she is dead, Jiuer is going to cry. She is Jiuer's grandmother." asked Tao.
"Mom, Jiuer knows it, Jiuer will cry when she enters the city. If she can't cry, she will howl, let everyone know that Jiuer is very sad because her grandmother is dead." Chen Danxia smiled knowingly.
"Jiu'er is so good." Tao smiled with relief. Her daughter was smart and could be seen at a glance.
On March 3rd, on the Sunday Festival, according to customs, people traveling in the suburbs, and old ladies from various palaces who have never liked to go out suddenly became interested and went to Xiangminglou on the street leading to the Shen family.
At this time, the mule cart that the Tao was riding in entered the city, with white filial piety cloth tied to the eaves, and a wooden sign hanging next to the filial piety cloth, with a sunken word engraved on the wooden sign.
"The third wife of the Shen family in the former Grand Tutor's Mansion returned to Beijing to attend the funeral." Mrs. Qi said to the soldiers guarding the city gate.
The guards asked a few simple questions and quickly let them go. The mule cart continued to move forward amid the crying sounds, and soon arrived at the street where Xiangming Tower was located. At the entrance of Xiangming Tower, the wheels broke. Tao took Chen Danxia out of the carriage and cried, "It's almost time to get home, why is this happening again? Old lady, daughter-in-law is unfilial and she couldn't come back to see you for the last time!"
Chen Danxia grabbed the corner of Tao's clothes and cried. There was no way that her tears could not reach her. Shen Baimi was also with her mother and sister, lowering her head to shed tears. Shen Baiyu cried very exaggeratedly, beat her chest and stamping her feet, and shouted, "Grandmother, don't die, your good grandson is back, come to see you."
The servants also helped to cry together. The noise was so loud that the road was blocked. They also alarmed the old ladies upstairs who had become soft-hearted due to their age. They sent people to ask.
Mrs. Qi wiped her tears and said, "We are from the Shen family in Xuanshuang Lane. Before the New Year, we received a message from our family that the old lady was seriously ill and asked the third lady to come back to see the old lady for the last time. The third lady was so anxious that she packed her luggage and rushed from Lutai's hometown to Jindu. However, it was the Chinese New Year and the weather was cold, so it was difficult to walk on the way. Brothers and sisters were frozen and sick, and they were delayed until now to arrive in Beijing. The old lady must have been gone. How is this good? I don't know if the third master has rushed back from Tanzhou Prefecture?"
This is a lot of information.
The servants who came to inquire about the matter were clever. After thinking about it, they had some strange thoughts. Tao cried and said, "If the master can come back to see the old lady for the last time, our third room will be considered filial."
Among the onlookers, there was a person who was planted by the Tao family and said loudly: "Mrs. Chen, stop crying. Old Mrs. Shen is not dead. The Shen family has not hanged white banners since the New Year."
"Sister, are you true?" Congratulations asked.
"Of course it's true. My brother-in-law's cousin's cousin's uncle's eldest brother's son gave the Shen family five pairs of quails yesterday. I heard that Mrs. Shen ordered to eat fried quails. How could the old lady who could still think about eating them? "The woman said.
That's right, everyone onlookers nodded in agreement. An old lady upstairs also said, "I wiped the cards with Mrs. Shen at Duke Huang's mansion on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. I didn't realize she was seriously ill?"
"She is not sick, she must be sick. Her two daughters and two daughters can still dress up and go to visit everywhere?" said another old lady.
There were a lot of discussions upstairs. Congratulations on deliberately pretending to be puzzled and asked Mrs. Qi's sleeve: "Woman, since the old lady is not seriously ill, how could she send a message to Lutai before the New Year and ask the third wife to come back quickly?"
Mrs. Qi looked embarrassed, "This..." said many of these, but she could not answer Jinbao's questions.
She made a scrupulous attitude, and the woman said immediately: "It's not easy to understand. It's obvious that it's a mother-in-law's intentional trick to get her daughter-in-law. No matter how seriously ill the old lady is, she will not let her daughter-in-law take her granddaughter with her young granddaughter. She is only rushing home in the cold weather, and she is not afraid of the children being frozen out. Besides, your old lady is not sick yet. She is just trying to make trouble. She is really not a kind old man."
The old ladies in the teahouse agree deeply that they are mother-in-laws and have done things to control their daughter-in-law, but they will never do it so excessively or so obvious. As for this matter, Chen's mother is a person who is confused and should stay away from it in the future.
"Mrs. Chen San is a woman's house. She brought her son and daughter back. I wonder when Master Chen San came back?" someone asked.
Another family member showed up at the Shen family and said, "Mr. Chen San has not come back, and Mrs. Shen is not sick, how could he mess with his son back?"
"This old lady is so incredible."
"The son was born by himself and knew that he felt sorry for him. The wife was not born by herself, so she treated her as an outsider and was struggling to do whatever she wanted."
"It's not just to bother with your wife, but also with your grandchildren. You're such a cruel old woman."
Chapter completed!