Chapter 992 Funeral
Mrs. Chu left at noon, and everyone was busy preparing for her death, and they didn't even bother to have lunch.
Mrs. Zhuo had already ordered her servants to prepare a bag of copper coins, ready for Chu Xuanyu to take it to the well to buy water for Mrs. Chu to wash herself.
Chu Xuanyu is Mrs. Chu's nominal eldest son. This job should be done by the eldest son. However, Mrs. Chu asked Chu Jingwu to do it.
"Your father is her biological son, and you are her biological grandson. If you buy her water, she will be happy." Mr. Chu said, "You don't want your grandmother to feel uneasy after she leaves, do you?"
This is unreasonable. The eldest son is still alive, but the eldest grandson is asked to buy water...
However, Mrs. Chu spoke, and no one of the juniors present dared to disobey him. Chu Jingwu had no choice but to put on the mourning clothes that had been prepared long ago, tie a horse rope around his waist, and wear a white mourning hat on his head. Then, he led the The other juniors of the Chu family went to the well to buy water.
After buying the water, Mrs. Zhuo, as the nominal eldest daughter-in-law of Mrs. Chu, should do the washing, wiping and dressing. However, Mrs. Chu directly ordered Mrs. Chu to do it.
Mrs. Chu is Mrs. Chu's eldest granddaughter-in-law. It's okay for her to come here. However, Mrs. Chu keeps talking one after another, just to prevent Chu Xuanyu and his wife from getting involved in Mrs. Chu's affairs. This makes people think too much.
Mr. Chu's rejection of Mrs. Chu was very strong.
Chu Jingwu looked at Mr. Chu sadly several times, opened his mouth to say something, but in the end, he lowered his eyelids feebly and did not dare to say anything.
Old Mrs. Chu seemed not to have seen it. After Mrs. Chu, with the help of several powerful wives, cleaned Mrs. Chu's body and put on the shroud, Chu Jingwu, Chu Jingxiu, Chu Jinglan, Min Sibo and others all moved closer and began to prepare themselves for burial. .
An hour later, Anjun Prince's Mansion sent more than a dozen servants to the houses of relatives and friends to inform them of the funeral one by one.
Xia Zihan and others had already put on mourning clothes. Even Chu Yixuan and Chu Yijie, two little buns, put on white mourning clothes. When they arrived at the mourning hall, they kowtowed to Mrs. Chu.
After the two buns kowtowed, they were taken away by Nuan Yu.
The second child felt that Mrs. Chu's funeral was boring, there were many people coming and going, and it was very noisy. He didn't like it very much, and he didn't want to kneel for Mrs. Chu in the mourning hall, so he secretly went to accompany the two little buns.
What the third child likes most is the excitement. However, because there are too many guests and it is a funeral, he does not dare to mess around. He just wears mourning clothes and follows Chu Xuanyu with a proud look on his face, pretending to receive the comings and goings. guest.
Chu Xuanyu glared at him and said, "Go and play with your second brother."
The third child pouted and was very unhappy, "My eldest cousin asked me to go and kneel at the funeral, but I don't want to go."
Mrs. Chu has always disliked him. Every time during the New Year and holidays, when her family had a reunion dinner, Mrs. Chu's eyes would be cold when she saw him, as if she had seen an enemy.
He doesn't like Mrs. Chu either.
He also heard the old manager say that when his father was a child, Mrs. Chu always beat his father and abused him, almost beating his father to death.
Huh, since Mrs. Chu doesn't like people in their family, then he shouldn't kneel to her. Anyway, she also has grandchildren, great-grandsons, and grandsons. So many people kneel to her, and he's not the only one left. .
After the third child made an excuse for himself, he followed Chu Xuanyu to play with peace of mind. Oh, no, it was to receive guests.
Mrs. Zhuo and Xia Zihan had been waiting in the side hall to welcome the female relatives who came to pay homage. What Zhuo and Xia Zihan didn't expect was that Mrs. Zeng came to pay homage to Mrs. Chu in person, using a cane.
After Zhuo family's Xia Zihan mother-in-law and daughter-in-law received the news, they left the guests in the side hall and hurried to the mourning hall. Before they arrived at the mourning hall, they saw Princess Qinghui helping Zeng out.
Xia Zihan hurriedly stepped forward, supported the maid on the other side of Zeng's family, and gave her seat. I won’t be picky either.”
"I miss my two great-grandchildren, so I came to see them." Mrs. Zeng patted her hand and said with a smile, "Mrs. Chu has gone. The house may be so busy that you and your mother don't even have time to see it. When you look at them, grandma comes to help you take care of the children. It’s just that grandma’s legs and feet are not flexible, so you don’t mind.”
Xia Zihan smiled and said, "Grandma is the best at teaching children. I was taught by my grandma. Now my grandma can help me take care of those two skinny monkeys. I am very happy."
Mrs. Zhuo also echoed, "Mom, you want to live a long life. From now on, you will have to watch the two young men get married and have children. That will be five generations living under the same roof."
"If I live to be a hundred years old, I will become an old goblin." Zeng grinned and said happily, "By then, I will really be disliked by thousands of people."
When people get old, they are disliked by others. She rarely goes out now. Even when she is at home, she seldom cares about family affairs, leaving them all to Qinghui alone.
She was afraid that if she took care of things too much, she would be disliked by others when she got older.
Although Qinghui is a cheerful and kind-hearted girl, she is not someone who would criticize her elders harshly.
But she was still worried.
As this person gets older and lives longer, he will think more.
Xia Zihan's eyes turned red and she held Zeng's arm tightly, "Old goblins will be old goblins. If grandma becomes an old goblin, I won't dislike you either."
Then, she looked at Qinghui and said, "You can't dislike grandma either."
Qinghui murmured, "When you have an elder in your family, it's like having a treasure. Grandma is now the treasure of the Chu family. Whoever thinks I'm in a hurry is the one."
It made Mrs. Zeng smile.
After sending Zeng Qinghui to the Little Flower Hall, Zhuo hurriedly left and went to the side hall to receive the female family members. Xia Zihan stayed behind to accompany Zeng and Qinghui.
Not long after, another maid came with the second princess and Princess Mingzhu.
"I guess you must be here." The second princess smiled, looked at Zeng again, and asked with concern, "Old madam, you look good recently, how is your health?"
"My health is much better. With the medicinal herbs brought back by Doctor Bai, my body is half as strong as before." Zeng replied with a smile.
Xia Zihan led the two buns forward and saluted the second princess, Princess Mingzhu. The second princess and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of Princess Mingzhu, despite the protests of the two buns, hugged each other curiously.
"Oh, these two children look exactly like Chu Jingqi when he was a child. They seem to be printed from the same mold." The second princess looked at what she was holding, then looked at what her daughter-in-law was holding, and saw that they looked exactly the same. He asked curiously, "If it weren't for the different clothes, Chu Yu, you wouldn't be able to tell who is the boss and who is the second child, right?"
"I really can't recognize them." Xia Zihan said with a smile, "These two children have the same temperament, and there is no other distinguishing mark in their appearance. We can only tell their size from the color of their clothes."
(End of chapter)