HLnovel Chapter 366: No Announcement of Death Yet
Chapter 366: No Announcement of Death Yet
Shi Mingwei turned his head abruptly and glared at Rong and Shen fiercely: "My mother is gone, and the funeral should be given way to the people of the third house? Who are Shi Yao and Shi Mingchen? My mother is the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, a super-rank official!"
Rong was so scared that she took a step back and glanced at Shen. Why did she mention Shi Mingchen's engagement at this time?
The engagement can be made at any time. After all, Zheng is just an aunt from another family. The nephew should give her face and observe filial piety for ten days or half a month.
Only Shi Yao's wedding date cannot be postponed.
The sadness on Shen's face faded: "Xiaoer, I am not the head of this family. This decision was made by the old master and the old lady. If you have any objections, go and ask them for mercy."
Shi Mingwei looked around at the others who were crying without saying anything, his eyes reddened, "Okay, okay, okay, my father is sick, and you are riding on our head like this! I will go to my grandparents to argue with them and ask them, where is the etiquette and rules for the elders' funeral to give way to the younger generation's wedding!"
He took a deep look at Zheng's emaciated face, wiped the remaining tears on her cheeks, got up, turned around and ran to Ganlu Hall.
Shen said nothing.
If they were not afraid of disrupting Shi Yao's marriage, the old duke and the old lady would not have ordered the use of the best medicine to keep Zheng alive.
I’m afraid Zheng died last month.
In the past few days, Zheng's life was on the verge of collapse. Martial law had been imposed inside and outside the Tangdi Courtyard, and the servants and guards had surrounded the courtyard to prevent the news of Zheng's death from spreading.
Moreover, if funerals and weddings conflict with each other and are held on similar dates, it is a folk custom to hold the wedding first and then the funeral.
Shen choked up and said, "Third sister-in-law, let's quickly give sister-in-law a bath and change her clothes so that she can pass away in a dignified manner."
Rong pressed her eyes with a handkerchief, tears welling up in her eyes: "Sister-in-law has worked hard for the Duke's Mansion for most of her life, and she should die in a dignified manner."
Fu Nanjun thanked them both and then told the maids to carry the coffin and ice.
Le An Ning protected the children, coaxed them and prevented them from getting close to the corpse.
As expected, Shi Mingwei ran to Ganlu Hall to argue and never came back because the old Duke locked him up in the ancestral hall to prevent him from causing trouble.
There was no way he could get out before Shi Yao got married.
Not to mention how Shi Mingwei made a big fuss in the ancestral hall and cried out his dissatisfaction to the ancestors, the news of Zheng's death quickly reached the ears of the masters of each courtyard.
The Duke of Zheng, who was suffering from an illness, learned that Zheng had recovered from her illness. He struggled to get up and went to see his wife for the last time. He was panting heavily with every step and finally reached the door, where a maid came to announce the death.
He saw stars and fell backwards.
From now on, he no longer has a wife, only a deceased wife.
The old lady cried and the old duke accompanied her in silence.
Shi Mingkui ordered his men with a cold face: "Send more people to look for the fourth grandmother!"
His eyes were complicated.
Gong Xuan was undoubtedly the wife that suited him best. When he doted on Zhuzhu, she also doted on Zhuzhu. When he had grudges against the eldest son's wife, she also had grudges.
The couple have been united in heart since they got married.
During the time that Gong Xuan was away, he was thinking every day about how to bring her back.
At the same time, he was also reflecting on whether he was wrong or Shi Yunfan was wrong.
Why did Shi Yunfan go against him, cut off his descendants, and exterminate his entire clan? Why did he hate him and the Shi family so much?
Later, he gradually realized that he was indeed wrong.
Because now, he also hates the eldest branch of the family and the Duke's Mansion.
Why should he take the blame for his second brother and be killed?
Ruining his career and his dignity as a man is more shameful than killing him.
He wanted to ask what happened in his previous life, but unfortunately he was too embarrassed to meet Shi Yunfan. After Shi Yunfan was reborn, he no longer regarded him as his father, and would not take the initiative to get close to him or try to persuade him.
Every time he looks at someone, he looks at them as if they were an idiot.
He did nothing but watched quietly as the Shi family's ship sank.
After Gong Xuan left, Shi Mingkui became more and more lonely and often went to play chess with the old Duke.
The grandparents seldom talk to each other.
But by watching the chess moves, he realized that his grandfather was determined to make a desperate move.
When Zheng died of illness, Shi Mingkui's impetuous and violent heart gradually calmed down.
He also didn't know whether he should hide Gong Xuan if he found her, or hand her over to the eldest house for disposal, to calm the eldest house's anger, reconcile the third house and the eldest house, and reunite the Duke's Mansion to resist the pressure from outside.
He still has a secret in his heart.
It’s the maid named Shannai.
The servant reported to him that Shannai had met Wang Fan once, and within a few days she had become his second brother's mistress.
He had the news concealed and not reported to the Duke of Zhenguo and the old Duke, and he also helped Wang Fan clean up the mess.
What’s interesting is that his people found out that Le An Ning also knew about this. After all, they were husband and wife, and their maids and servants overlapped, so it was not surprising that she knew about this. However, Le An Ning neither made a fuss nor mentioned it to anyone.
Shi Mingkui slowly drank the whole pot of wine, with an inexplicable look on his face. He stopped thinking about it and ordered someone to bring water: "Master wants to take a bath."
When the other masters heard that Zheng had passed away, they all cried a little. When the news reached Guanju Courtyard, Shi Yao wanted to pretend to shed a few tears, but Muxiang advised her: "Young lady, good things are about to happen. It's not auspicious to shed tears."
Shi Yao held back her tears.
She only visited Zheng once, and after seeing her miserable condition, she had two nightmares at night.
Whenever I want to sympathize with her, the scene when the maid opened her window in the middle of the night and tried to freeze her to death when she first arrived in the capital automatically emerges in my mind. I also think of the scene when Gong Xuan drugged her and tried to destroy her innocence.
Zheng’s shadow is behind everything.
As a result, she could no longer sympathize with Zheng.
Instead of sympathizing with her, I should sympathize with myself who was crying helplessly in the cold wind, covered with a quilt.
Ji Yun sighed, "Life is unpredictable. The eldest lady was such a noble person in the past, how could she pass away in such an undignified way?"
If the news got out that Zheng was burned to death by her nephew's wife or her own niece, many people would laugh at her.
Death becomes a joke, even in the underworld there is no peace.
He had done so many bad things in his past and present lives that it was a worthy death to die in this way.
Ji Yun hugged her daughter tightly and said softly, "Don't be afraid, your mother is with you."
Shi Yao understood what Ji Yun meant and whispered, "Mom, I'm not afraid."
The next day, the Shi family and the Du family got engaged.
The formal engagement banquet was held in the northwest, with the second master Shi Jizhen and his nephew Shi Mingwu going to the Du family to propose marriage. Rong also sent a well-respected old nanny to meet Miss Du.
In the capital, people from the Du family also came, with the purpose of visiting Shi Mingchen.
The person who came to the Du family was Du Jinhui’s brother, Du Jinyang.
Du Jinyang had only been in the capital for a few days and had thought it would be difficult to inquire about the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. However, when he asked the neighbors, people couldn't stop talking about all the gossip about the Shi family over the past six months.
Du Jinyang: “…”
Everyone else is numb from listening.
He immediately sent people to inquire, and found out that every detail was clear. He sent gifts to the home of his father's uncle who was in the same class as his father, and further inquired. He learned that the Shi family was in a difficult situation in the court!