Chapter 98: Letter of mourning
Early in the morning.
Wen Mingqian just got up, and before he could have breakfast, Ma Ping'an came outside to report the news.
Ma Zhang asked him to stand at the door and answer.
“Back to Madam, Aunt Song died in the middle of the night last night.”
"What symptoms are there?" Wen Mingqian was naturally not surprised. She knew that this family could not accommodate the Song family.
"It's a hemorrhagic collapse. The illness occurred suddenly and there was no time to call a doctor." Ma Ping'an answered simply and completely.
"Do the old lady and the master know?" Wen Mingqian asked again.
"The master already knows. I will finish the letter for you and then go to the old lady." Ma Ping'an added, "But yesterday the old lady sent Mother Xu over to see Aunt Song. . ”
“What should I do if the master finds out?” Song Xiulian is dead. It’s not easy to just roll up the mat and drag it out.
It doesn’t look good, and it doesn’t sound good either.
Besides, this is an internal matter. Wen Mingqian is in charge of the house now, so naturally it is her turn to take care of it.
So she always wanted to ask Gong Xu and the old lady what they meant.
"The master said that the weather is hot now, and he and the old lady are not feeling well. Keep everything simple, and there is no need to express condolences to relatives and friends." Ma Ping'an told Gong Xu's original words.
Gong Xu said this yesterday, but Yunying did not tell her after Wen Mingqian returned home, just because she knew that Wen Mingqian did not want to interfere in Song's death, so she might as well just keep it clear.
"In this case, you don't have to go to the old lady's place. You should go back to Ruixiangju's courtyard and watch the cooking!" Wen Mingqian stood up and said, "I'll go to the old lady's place to tell you, and ask for instructions by the way."
Mrs. Gong naturally knew that Mrs. Song was dead for a long time, but she did not tell the truth.
After hearing what Wen Mingqian said, he sighed: "It's a pity that she died at such a young age. There's nothing we can do about it. The weather is hot, so we can't hold it back. Let's take it out and burn it early." Since she can't enter the ancestral grave, we can choose a better cemetery for her and spend some money."
"This is right. Our family has no rules about treating concubines poorly." Wen Mingqian said in a normal tone, without any hint of it. What resentment does she have towards the Song family? "It's just that I thought I should tell her mother-in-law at least, even if it's polite."
Mrs. Gong thought for a while and said: "That's alright, then send someone to tell her." Just say it! There is no need to inform other people. It is too late for everyone to escape the summer heat, so why bother our relatives and friends? It seems that we are inconsiderate."
"What the old lady said is true, then everything will be done as you say." Wen Mingqian listened respectfully.
"Grandma, madam, is my little mother gone?" Gong Baoan walked out of the room crying.
He hadn't seen Mrs. Song for several days. People told him that Mrs. Song was sick and needed to be taken good care of, so brother Chang'an brought him over to live with his grandmother.
Brother Chang'an takes good care of him and is willing to play with him, so he doesn't think much about his biological mother these days.
But once he heard that his biological mother was dead, he couldn't help crying.
"Good boy, don't cry. Your little mother is seriously ill and she is gone. The elders will love you in the future." Although Wen Mingqian and the Song family were at odds with each other, she had never had any intention of harming Gong Baoan.
Children are innocent, not to mention that this child has the blood of the Gong family flowing in his body.
"Take the fifth young master to one side and don't let him go over there. The weather is hot, so be careful of the deadly anger attacking him." Mrs. Gong ordered the people who followed Gong Baoan. Gong Changan took Gong Baoan's hand and said, "Don't be afraid, fifth brother, there is still me! I will accompany you."
Besides, Song Xiang and his wife heard the Song family's Shocked by news of death.
"How can a living person just say that she is gone? I went to see her a few days ago and she was fine." Song's sister-in-law, Ge, said.
"Aunt Song suffered from hemorrhagic collapse caused by miscarriage. The situation was really stable a few days ago, but I don't know why it suddenly worsened." The person who went to deliver the letter was Ma Pingan, "This is also unexpected."
"You solved it unexpectedly? What did your master say?" Song Xiang changed his face in surprise.
“Our master was deeply saddened by the death of Aunt Song, and he also fell ill. Before I came to report the funeral, the master gave special instructions, saying that the weather was hot and the body could not be kept, so it was inconvenient to suspend the body, let alone work. Relatives and friends. If you two go to express your condolences, hurry up. We will have to send them outside the city. "Ma Ping'an has business matters and won't bother with them.
After that, he left.
"It's really unreasonable!" Song Xiang was so angry that he smashed the tea cup in his hand. "My sister has no merit in his palace family for so many years, but she has also worked hard. If she is not allowed to mourn, and her relatives and friends are not allowed to express their condolences, what does this mean?! "
"Don't be too busy to get angry," Ge Shi said to Song Xiang in a low voice after driving the little girl out who wanted to clean, "We don't know about the girl's miscarriage. It must be tight enough. I know that she was not able to sit firmly during this pregnancy, but it shouldn't be considered a miscarriage.
What's more, the girl's health has always been good, even if she had a miscarriage. , it won’t cost her life!”
Song didn’t tell her mother-in-law’s family after her miscarriage, just because Wen Mingqian had been locked up at this time, and she was afraid that the Gong family would be unhappy if she called her mother-in-law’s family. , thinking that the news would leak out and the family scandal would become public.
She originally thought that after Wen Mingqian was completely cured, she could talk to her brother and sister-in-law in detail, and then she could show off in a big way. Who would have thought that he would lose his life first.
"I'm also suspicious. Seeing the Gong family acting like this, my sister probably died in some unknown way." Song Xiang wasn't a light-hearted person to begin with, not to mention that Song's death was indeed a bit strange.
“The reason why I can’t run away is because of the poisonous hand of the Wen man.” Ge said, “She looks friendly on the surface, but in fact she has been incompatible with the girl for a long time.”
“In this case "I want to see my sister's body. If there is anything fishy about it, I won't allow them to be buried." Song Xiang said and immediately asked someone to come in and change his clothes.
Here, Wen Mingqian told Ma Ping'an: "Now that you have reported the funeral to her parents, take the coffin out immediately and ask them to rush after her.
If you can catch up to meet her, , that’s due to their fate as brothers and sisters. If we can’t see each other, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
Ma Ping'an understood, and immediately asked someone to use a thin-skinned coffin to pull Song's body out of the back door.
When Song Xiang arrived at the front door, he was even more unhappy when he saw that everything was the same as before, and there was no sign of a funeral.
After entering the door, I went to the Song family's yard and found that the coffin had been pulled out.
By the time he chased him outside the city, half of Song's coffin had been burned, and he was so angry that he stamped his feet.
Looking back, I remembered that I should ask the servant who had served the Song family in the past to find out more, so I returned to the Gong family.
But he was told that Mrs. Yang and others had been called to the old lady's place to do some work and it was inconvenient to see him.
In fact, these confidants of the Song family have been locked up for a long time, and they can only be dealt with slowly after the news has passed.
But how could Song Xiang be so willing? He only believed that his sister's death was unjust.
(End of this chapter)