Madam Hou

Chapter 100

Yinniang really couldn't care less about being sad and sorry, Lin Houye passed away, Lin Fengqi had to go to court Ding You, and Yinniang also had to make preparations for the funeral.

Great Yan values ​​filial piety, and several generations of emperors since the founding of the country have also been filial people. The name of "unfilial piety" is also a stain on official career.It can be said that if you still want to hang around in the officialdom, you will definitely not have the reputation of being unfilial.Therefore, no matter how regretful Lin Fengqi was that he couldn't go on the expedition, he had to obediently show up to Ding You.

Yinniang was also too busy to attend to the funeral.First of all, he helped Lord Lin enter Renxiaolian, and he also had to put away all the festive and colorful objects in the mansion, hang white curtains, arrange the mourning hall, prepare the coffin, and prepare the mourning clothes for the funeral, etc.

Arranging objects and arranging the mourning hall are fine. Although cumbersome, they are not difficult. Now the trouble is the coffin and the mourning clothes.Most people's coffins and sackcloth mourning clothes are prepared in advance, but Lin Houye passed away suddenly, and he was in good health before his death. He didn't look like he would die in recent years, so these were not prepared.

It is actually easy to make coffins as long as there are coffins, but people of different social classes can use different coffins.Like common people, coffins can only be made of pine or cypress.Pine and cypress are soft and have poor corrosion resistance, so people of some status will not use them.Like the official family or the rich and noble family, catalpa and nanmu are used.Among them, nanmu is the best material for making coffins. Nanmu is hard, impervious to water, and highly resistant to corrosion. It is like the golden nanmu specially used by the royal family, which is known as a thousand-year-old non-rot.

Of course, Lin Houye cannot use golden nanmu, but as the first-grade marquis, he can use fragrant nanmu which is slightly inferior to golden nanmu.But the same fragrant nanmu also has a difference in age. The older the nanmu, the better the coffin.

The 50-year-old fragrant nanmu stocked by Hou Zhong is not enough to make a coffin, and the 30-year-old is too low-grade.Ordinary people will use the best coffins possible within the specifications in order to show their filial piety when attending funerals.But good things are hard to find. Xiangnanmu doesn't mean that you can find it if you just look for it. Even if some people have it in their treasury, they are ready to use it, not necessarily willing to sell or borrow it.

There are also sackcloth and mourning clothes. The master and servants in the mansion add up to hundreds of people. Even if the sewing room is forced to work day and night, it will not be able to get out within ten days and a half months.Although this is difficult, Yinniang can still think of spending money to go to the garment shop and invite some tailors to come in to rush to make it. The most troublesome thing is the coffin.

Lin Fengqi asked people to search around the coffin shop in the capital, but they couldn't find the 50-year-old fragrant nanmu.The couple were at a loss for what to do about it, and finally Yin Niang suggested: "It's better to use the 30-year-old nanmu to build a coffin. Anyway, there is still some time to cure the spirit, so we will send people to several counties adjacent to the capital to find the coffin. Yixun, and then replace it with a 50-year one when it is buried."

Lin Fengqi's frowning did not relax, but he said helplessly: "It's the only way."

Yinniang sent people to go to the storeroom to take out the nanmu, and was about to give it to the coffin master, but happened to meet the steward of Kang Guogong's mansion.The mansion has not yet sent people to the various mansions to report the funeral, but Yinniang does not know how the Duke Kang's mansion, who is still keeping his filial piety, knows about the death of Lord Lin Hou.When the steward entered the door, besides polite words such as "Please forgive me", he continued: "Our wife heard that Lord Hou is going in a hurry, and I am afraid that there is no time to prepare the coffin and mourning clothes for the house. Madam told me to ask, the house Some time ago, when the old man was attending the funeral, there were still some old nanmu and hundreds of sets of hemp clothes left, if the mansion needs it, people can come to the mansion to pick it up."

When Yinniang heard this, she felt that Kang Guogong's mansion was a timely help, and she also lamented that Mrs. Ying really knows how to behave.

It was not the time to be polite, Yinniang graciously accepted Ying's kindness, and expressed her great gratitude, then sent someone back with the steward of Kang Guogong's mansion, and brought up the nanmu and hemp clothes.Nanmu was sent to the coffin master to make the coffin, and the hemp clothes were distributed to the masters and servants in the mansion for them to change into.

After the mourning hall was set up, Yinniang sent people to each mansion to report the funeral.

When the coffin stopped, people from various prefectures came to express their condolences one after another with offerings of three lives. Yin Niang knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the visitors one by one, to the back.Yin Niang felt that her head didn't belong to her anymore.

Mrs. Chen naturally also came.

Mrs. Chen entered the door, covered her handkerchief and cried for a while. After saying a few words to Mrs. Linhou, "My mother-in-law, please mourn", she looked at Yinniang who was kneeling on the ground together, sighed silently, and then followed The servants of the Hou Mansion went to the flower hall.

Yinniang knelt in the mourning hall for a while, and when there were few people at noon, she found an excuse to report to Mrs. Lin Hou and Lin Fengqi, and then left the mourning hall and returned to the backyard.

Mrs. Chen was led by Qinghua to the backyard to wait a long time ago. When she saw Yinniang coming in, Mrs. Chen hurriedly went up to hold her daughter's hand, and said distressedly: "Why is your face so pale, but you are tired?"

Yinniang stretched out her hand to wrap her mother's hand, and said, "Mother, I'm fine." Then Yinniang asked about Master Chen again.

Father was injured, Yinniang logically wanted to go back to visit him.It's just that the Yongning Hou Mansion is also busy with the funeral of Lord Lin Hou. As a married woman, Yin Niang naturally has to put her husband's family first.

Mrs. Chen sighed, and said: "For your sister's sake, several imperial physicians have come to see her, and they all said that life is safe, but I'm afraid I can only spend my next life in bed."

Yinniang breathed a sigh of relief, and comforted Mrs. Chen, saying: "Finally, my life is saved. This is already a blessing. Look at my father-in-law..." Yinniang did not continue.

Mrs. Chen thought that Lord Lin's death had something to do with Master Chen, so she couldn't help being annoyed and said, "I think it's better to lie on the bed. If you have feet, you can walk and cause trouble everywhere. Now I'm only worried that because of his relationship, the people in the Hou Mansion I will blame you." Then she asked Yin Niang worriedly: "Tell me the truth, did your mother-in-law and the eldest son blame you for this?"

Yin Niang comforted: "Mother, don't worry, my mother-in-law never blamed me, and Brother Feng Qi is still as good to me as before."

Mrs. Chen saw that Yin Niang's expression didn't seem fake, so she said in relief: "That's good, that's good."

Yinniang said a few more words to Mrs. Chen before returning to the mourning hall.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter. Although there were antiseptic medicinal materials, the body was afraid of decay. Therefore, after seven days in the mourning hall, Lord Lin's body was carried to the Lin family's ancestral grave for burial.

There are many things to do during the funeral, kneeling and crying during the day, and guarding the spirit at night, which consumes a lot of energy, not to mention organizing funeral banquets, arranging monks to perform ceremonies, etc. After a funeral is over, When Yinniang went to the back, she felt like her footsteps were floating.

After the funeral is over, the next thing is the title.Lin Fengqi accepted the title as the son of the eldest son, and his status was undisputed. In addition, Lin Fengqi was a high-ranking figure in front of Emperor Jinghui, and with the help and supervision of the concubine Jing, the order of the acceptance of the title was quickly made.

Since then, Lin Fengqi has been promoted to be the Marquis of Yongning, Yin Niang has been officially promoted to be the Marquis of Yongning, and Madam Lin has officially retired as Madam Lin.

The title of title is settled, and the Yongning Hou Mansion is officially closed.

The outside work has been completed, but in the mansion, Yin Niang still has to arrange the moving matters.

Mu Detang is the residence of the son and wife of the son. Lin Fengqi and Yinniang, who have been upgraded to Lord Hou and Mrs. Hou, are really not suitable to live here. Yinniang and Lin Fengqi will move to the residence of Lord Hou and Mrs. Hou for generations. Tangrong Courtyard, while Mrs. Lin Tai, as a widow, moved to the slightly quieter Fushou Courtyard in Yongning Hou Mansion.

After all these things were done, the results of what Lin Fengqi asked Director Lin to investigate had already come out.Lin Fengqi met Director Lin directly in the inner courtyard, and Yinniang sat by and listened.

It turned out that Lin Fengqi's suspicion was not wrong, there was indeed something strange about Lin Lao Hou Ye startling the horse.

The horse that Old Hou Ye Lin was riding when the accident happened was brought up by a concubine of Master Chang Cao’s family. This bastard likes to walk horses and dogs just like Old Hou Lin, and except for these In addition to my interest, I have another hobby: gambling.

Because of this hobby, he was chased and beaten by Mr. Cao with a stick all over the house at the age of more than 30 when he even had a daughter-in-law, which is enough to show how deeply he loves this hobby.From what he heard, he had won that horse from a man in black.He lived for more than 30 years, and he always lost more and won less. As a result, he won everything in the bet with the man in black.After the man in black lost all his money, he even pushed up his last horse, and the result can be imagined.

After he won the horse, he took it to Xishan the next day to show those pig friends and dog friends.His original intention was to show off, but he really didn't expect Lin Houye to ride it, and finally fell off the horse.As for the person who first urged Master Lin to ride a horse, he didn't know him. He only went to Xishan to play with them in the past two days.

Manager Lin asked someone to investigate the person who urged Master Lin to ride the horse. Except that he had a close relationship with a lieutenant general next to Master Xue Er, his identity and background could not be found out.

With the words "excessively close", although it can be suspected that it has something to do with the Ningguo government, it cannot be proved.What's more, he just said a few words, even if it proves to be related to the Ningguo government, it will not constitute a crime.

Director Lin wanted to check the horse again, but the horse disappeared after the accident, and even the bones were not found.Mr. Cao's concubine also said that after the horse threw Mr. Lin off, it ran into the woods and never came back.He felt that the horse was unlucky, so he didn't look for it.

The matter is found here, and it can basically be stopped.If the horse-throwing incident is regarded as a conspiracy, the person most involved in this is the owner of the horse, the concubine son of Mr. Cao.And who is Mrs. Cao? He is the elder brother of Concubine Cao Gui, and after further investigation, even Concubine Cao's natal family will be involved, and there is no way to continue.

(End of this chapter)