Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 300

The place Prime Minister Ling stayed most often during his lifetime was the study in the front yard, where many of his things were kept.After the brothers of the Ling family brought Ling Jingquan in, they began to rummage through the books on the bookshelf, and quickly found a letter stuck in an Analects of Confucius.

"Fourth son Yuxuan personally signed." Ling Yulou who found the suicide note handed it over to Ling Yuxuan.

After Ling Yuxuan took it, he immediately tore open the envelope and took out the suicide note specially written for him.The more he looked, the more shocked his face became, and then tremblingly said: "How is this possible, why didn't father tell me earlier?"

Ling Yulou reached out and patted Ling Yuxuan on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "It's true. On the second day after Jingquan adopted, my father told me that General Zhen Guolong could testify." General Zhen Guo sent Ling Yuxuan many One of the teachers, caring for Ling Yuxuan a lot.The third son of General Zhen Guo and Ling Yuxuan have an inseparable friendship.

Ling Yuxuan raised his head abruptly, and said eagerly: "Since the emperor knows, why didn't father tell me earlier? Father has not committed the crime of deceiving the emperor." The suicide note his father gave him stated that his biological mother was the son of General Mo who was unjustly killed by the emperor. As a young girl, the emperor discussed with him and decided to let him succeed the Mo family, revive and glorify his grandfather's lintel.

Ling Yulou shook his head and said, "Father didn't say anything." He also asked his father, but his father just refused to say.

Ling Jingquan was dumbfounded when he heard that, as the eldest son, the fourth uncle actually wanted to inherit someone else's family, so his grandfather wanted to adopt him under the uncle's name as the eldest grandson, and his father acquiesced in the decision of his mother and grandmother.

"I understand." Ling Yuxuan raised his face and closed his eyes, letting crystal tears roll down from the corners of his eyes.

The Ling family has been scholars for generations, but his father hired martial arts masters to teach him martial arts for him when he was very young, and asked good military generals to teach him the art of war.Not only did he not reject those, but he also liked them very much, and he learned quickly, so he gave up his pen and joined the army to become a soldier in the black shirt army after passing the examination at the age of 16.

The reason why the emperor loves him so much is because he felt guilty and unjustly killed his grandfather and two uncles, right?
The emperor is most afraid of the collusion of military generals, but the emperor doesn't take it seriously when he sees that he has a good relationship with the Long family, and often asks him to go to the Black Mountain military camp to meet more generals.He originally thought that the emperor wanted him to find a way to control the black-shirted army so that he could suppress possible princes' rebellion in the future. It turned out that the emperor wanted him to inherit his ancestral business and defend his family and country in the future.No wonder the emperor asked him if he wanted to lead troops to fight in the north.

"Yuxuan, after father's three-year filial piety, you can recognize your ancestors and return to your clan." Ling Yuxuan patted Ling Yuxuan's shoulder again, and said kindly, "Even if your surname is no longer Ling, we can still be brothers."

People in the world generally adopt children to continue their own incense. The most fearful thing is that the adopted children have no clear relationship with their original parents, brothers and sisters, so that after their own death, the children inherit their own inheritance, but they have to return to their biological parents and original family, so in the past Since the previous dynasties, the state has clearly stipulated that after the child is adopted, it has nothing to do with the biological parents; the biological parents regret after adopting the child and want to get it back. If the stepparents sue the government, the biological parents will not only refuse The child still has to eat the board.

After Ling Yuxuan was born, in name and law, he had nothing to do with the Ling family. From then on, he could only worship his father as a nephew or guest when he came to worship on his death day.This is the same as Jingquan's successor, from now on he can only call his parents, uncles and aunts who gave birth to him.However, Jingquan was adopted by his uncle and is still a member of the Ling family. If Yuxuan wants to inherit a foreign surname, he will completely cut off his relationship with the Ling family.

When the immediate family member dies, the official wants to stay at home.Ding You, a civil servant for three years, and Ding You, a military officer for a hundred days, he hoped that during the three years of Ding You and Jingquan's stay at home, Yuxuan, who did not need Ding You, could help the Ling family maintain the prosperity on the surface, and prevent the Ling family from appearing. The desolate situation of tea cool.

"Well, we will always be brothers." Ling Yuxuan opened his eyes and said in a deep voice.

"Let's go, let's go out and change clothes." Ling Yulou said gently, motioning Ling Jingquan to go out together.

Ling Yuxuan nodded, folded the letter and put it in his arms, looked around the study room he was very familiar with, suppressed the strong sadness in his heart, and left here with the third brother and his son.

Prime Minister Ling's personal servant has already washed Prime Minister Ling's body and put on layers of shrouds.Mrs. Cui commanded all the stewards in the front yard and back house of the prime minister’s mansion to put away all the festive objects in the mansion, hang white lanterns at the gate of the prime minister’s mansion, open the storeroom and take out white cloth to make mourning clothes and ribbons, set up the mourning hall, and send people to report to the emperor in the palace. In mourning, send someone to report the funeral to the residence of the married women of the Ling family, and go to the Ministry of Rites to invite the master of ceremonies who will preside over the funeral...

The Cui family has been in charge of the affairs of the mansion for a year. During this period, they have also prepared for the marriage of the eldest granddaughter of the mansion, the full moon banquet of the mansion's first grandson, and the [-]th birthday of Mrs. Yipin. Although it is the first time to hold a funeral, after all, she has attended many times for the other wife's master For funerals, know the taboos and etiquette.

After Xiao Wenqing returned to the Fushouyuan, he ordered his servants to put away all the festive things in the courtyard, then returned to the room, took off all the gorgeous ornaments on his head and body, and asked Agate to find him a complete set of black and white dresses , to start the replacement.She has never experienced a funeral, so she doesn't know if the third sister-in-law will prepare mourning belts for every servant in the small courtyard of the inner house, but she knows that the mourning clothes for her, Yuxuan and Xiaoxiao will be uniformly distributed by the government.She will definitely not be able to attend elder brother Wenhua's wedding in February. She needs to discuss with her godmother and ask her to continue preparing for Wenhua's wedding on her behalf, so that her husband's family's funeral does not overwhelm her natal family's happy event.

"Your Excellency is back." Hearing the voice of the servant girl outside, Xiao Wenqing immediately got up and went out to greet her, and saw Ling Yuxuan entered the door with a melancholy expression.

"Yuxuan, sit down first, Xin'an Xinning, come here quickly and wait for your lord to wash and change clothes." Xiao Wenqing ordered.

"Yes, ma'am." Xin'an Xinning said, quickly getting ready.

Ling Yuxuan walked to the cradle placed in the main room, looked at his son Xiaoxiao who was sleeping soundly inside, and said with emotion: "It's so nice to be a child, without any worries."

"Yuxuan, have you found your father's suicide note?" Xiao Wenqing asked with concern.

"En." Ling Yuxuan took out the suicide note in his arms and handed it to Xiao Wenqing, "You can also read it."

(End of this chapter)