incense as a medium

Chapter 64
Yesterday in Japan was supposed to be a door-return ceremony, but because of the funeral of the Qi family, this time the door-to-door ceremony will be over.

In the evening of that day, Liu Bailu received the wound medicine from Liu Su's family. She looked at Shuangjiang, and she must have tried to inform her mother.

As for the wound medicine that was obviously leaked from the palace, she didn't want to ask where it came from, so she asked Shuang Jiang to apply the medicine to her, and then went to the mourning hall to watch the night.

During this day, Liu Bailu had figured out the entire funeral process.

Small burial today, big burial tomorrow, after the big burial is the day when relatives and friends come to express their condolences, so even though Liu Su, who knew her daughter was injured, wanted to come and see Liu Bailu, but at this juncture, she couldn't come rashly.

Qi Zheng is the next patriarch, and Qi Mo is the clan's wife, and both of them have to take care of all the big and small matters in the clan.So Qi Zheng and Qi Mo's meant that they could be buried within seven days after being dead.

However, Qi Ding used the reason that Qi Zhen was an official of the imperial court at any rate, and wanted to stop his spirit for 49 days, not to mention that Qi Peiyun is now in a coma, and his life and death are unknown. At any rate, he has to wait for Qi Peiyun to wake up and attend the funeral Only then can he be buried.

After a day of disputes between Qi Dingshi and Qi Zheng, they managed to get the [-]th day to stop the dead.

Liu Bailu looked down slightly at the smoke curling up in the copper basin in front of her eyes. Tonight, she was going to keep vigil till midnight, and then Qi Pei'an would come over to take over, and she herself was going to copy a Diamond Sutra for tomorrow's funeral. It was covered over Qi Zhen's body.

However, Mrs. Qi Ding has sent someone to invite the monks from Tzu Chi Temple to come over to do the work. Liu Bailu doesn't think that Mrs. Qi Ding will use the scriptures copied by himself, the "sangmen star", as a quilt.

Child hour arrived soon, and Qi Pei'an, who had taken care of Qi Peiyun in the west wing for most of the night, came to the mourning hall yawning.

Liu Bailu got up and glanced at Qi Pei'an, who was weak, and asked in a low voice: "How is your elder brother's injury?"

All day today, she couldn't find anyone to ask her a question, and now that Qi Pei'an came to her door, she would not let it go.

Qi Pei'an shrank his shoulders, and said: "The doctor said, it's because of being too tired in recent days, and the injury has not healed before he fell into a coma, but it's not a serious problem."

After hearing this, Liu Bailu understood why Qi Peiyun fell into a coma. Leaving aside his injury, he was poisoned by such a vicious poison before. Although he was said to be cured of the poison afterwards, his body was actually injured. It would be strange if he fell ill.

"You go to watch the spirit. I'll take care of your elder brother." After Liu Bailu finished speaking, he ordered Shuangjiang to take the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to the west wing room, and then walked out.

Lifting the curtain, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew in, and her hot body immediately felt much more comfortable. However, she tightened her clothes tightly and pushed open the door of the west wing.

The west wing room was originally the residence of Fang Xiaoyou and Qi Pei'an, and the simple room was a bit cold after some decorations were removed due to the funeral.

Qi Peiyun was covered with a fine cotton quilt, Liu Bailu's fingertips slid across the soft quilt, and then touched his forehead, the hot palm touched the cold forehead, She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Qi Peiyun suddenly opened his eyes, and looked at Liu Bailu without blinking.

She was startled, and after dodging subconsciously, she met his gaze again, but unexpectedly, Qi Peiyun's eyes closed again.Liu Bailu calmed down, helped him tuck the quilt, and then opened the window. The cold wind came in, and Liu Bailu frowned looking at the empty yard.

Although Qi Zheng and Qi Moshi were here to help, they returned to the inn at night, leaving only three or five servants at their beck and call. Could it be that Liu Bailu can be manipulated?She thought and thought, and finally closed the window.

Liu Bailu came to the table of the Eight Immortals, looked at the pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and asked, "Are you ready for tomorrow's affairs?"

There are a lot of things to do in the funeral tomorrow, so logically speaking, I should be busy now. When my grandmother passed away, she watched her mother busy for three days and nights before the funeral. How can she be so peaceful today?

Shuang Jiang was momentarily blindsided by the question, and said, "Is there anything we should prepare for?"

One word awakened the dreamer, Liu Bailu smiled slightly and said, "It's nothing."

She doesn't have to worry so much about Qi Ding's treatment of her. As for Qi Zhen, she only needs to do her part.

Looking at the big white paper, Liu Bailu's eyes flashed, poured out the water in the brush washer, picked up a paper knife, and slashed at the palm of his hand.

Shuang Jiang was startled, quickly took out the handkerchief, and said, "What are you doing, Miss?"

Liu Bailu gently pushed Shuangjiang's hand away, watched the blood dripping into the brush, and said, "Write scriptures silently."

"Miss!" Shuangjiang stomped her feet anxiously. In ancient times, there were indeed dutiful sons who pricked blood and wrote scriptures for their elders to show their filial piety, but the one who passed away was only Miss' father-in-law. Why should Miss do this? "You're still hot!"

"It doesn't matter." Liu Bailu saw that the blood was bleeding a lot, just now he drew a veil to cover the wound, and began to write silently.

Over the years, she has copied quite a few scriptures of various kinds, and the Diamond Sutra has copied no less than a hundred volumes, and she wrote silently without any stagnation.

On the second day, when it was less than Mao, Liu Bailu cut three bloody mouths in the palm of her hand in succession. Just after she finished copying the scriptures, she looked at the handwriting that was gradually drying up, and said to Shuangjiang: "You look after this, don't let it go before I come back." People move."

"Where is Miss going? It's still early." Shuang Jiang asked.

Liu Bailu said lightly: "Do your job well, don't ask what you shouldn't ask."

Although it was not yet dawn, there were already people in this alley getting up to work.

Liu Bailu saw Grandma Zhou coming out with a basket next door, and quickly stepped forward to salute: "I met Grandma Zhou."

"Oh?" Grandma Zhou didn't have a good impression of Liu Bailu. It's better to stay away from a woman of Kefuke's father, not to mention Liu Bailu is so young and beautiful, with a pair of peach blossom eyes that are seductive even with a straight face. , "At this time, you are not guarding the mourning hall, what are you doing?"

With tears in his eyes, Liu Bailu said: "I just entered the house, I will have time to make a few sets of clothes for my father in the future, I will go to the street to buy some sets of clothes for my father so that he can wear them on the road."

Grandma Zhou also came to help yesterday, and she knew exactly what the Qi family had prepared. Now that Liu Bailu said this, her eyes softened a little, and she said, "She is filial. You just married , I don’t know the place, I’ll take you there.”

"Thank you Grandma Zhou, let me carry the basket for you." Liu Bailu stretched out his hand as he spoke.

The white muslin handkerchief was covered with blood, and Grandma Zhou was taken aback: "This is in your hand..."

Liu Bailu withdrew her hand, pulled her sleeves to cover it, and said, "I copied the scriptures for my father, but today my mother invited the master of Tzu Chi Temple to perform a ritual, and maybe the abbot of Tzu Chi Temple copied it. I don't know..."

Liu Bailu's eyes dimmed, everyone saw what Qi Ding did yesterday, and based on Qi Ding's hatred for Liu Bailu, it goes without saying that this scripture is useless.

The newly entered daughter-in-law used her own blood to copy the scriptures for her father-in-law. Granny Zhou let go of her prejudices and said, "No matter how mysterious the abbot of Tzu Chi Temple is, he can't compare to the filial piety of his daughter-in-law. Don't worry." , I will definitely get your mother to agree to use your quilt!"

"Thank you Grandma Zhou." Liu Bailu quickly saluted gratefully.

Liu Bailu followed Grandma Zhou very obediently, with a smile on her lips and sadness in her eyes all the way, neither too sad to make people feel uncomfortable, nor too happy to make people feel that she was happy for her father-in-law's death.

Liu Bailu didn't talk much along the way, and his docile and well-behaved appearance was particularly pleasing.

Since it was still early, no shops on the street were open except the rice shop, Liu Bailu frowned and said, "Today is the funeral, if you can't buy clothes..."

Grandma Zhou patted her chest and said, "Let me introduce you to a shop. This is a time-honored shop in Yongkangguan. The price is fair and the items are good. My shroud is ordered at his house."

"Thank you Grandma Zhou." Liu Bailu thanked her in a hurry, but her already pale face due to the injury was even more ugly along the way.

Seeing this, Grandma Zhou asked with concern, "What? Are you okay?"

Liu Bailu shook his head slightly and sighed, "It's fine."

On the wedding night, Qi Peiyun left his bride and ran away. This matter has been told many times as a joke by the neighbors. However, Qi Peiyun and Liu Bailu both returned from injuries a few days ago, and then Qi Zhen passed away. , this matter made everyone sigh.

So the neighbors who came to help with the funeral the first day didn't see the young couple Liu Bailu and Qi Peiyun, and they knew it well and didn't ask much.

When she arrived at the Shoucai shop, Grandma Zhou explained to the shopkeeper with a straight face: "This is an honest and filial girl. Her father-in-law is gone and the family is too busy, so she used her private money to buy clothes for her father-in-law. You can't lie all over the place." Bully the little girl."

Shopkeeper Yu said with a smile: "How is this possible? Don't you know my shop? Don't worry! My lady, what kind of clothes do you want? How many sets?"

Liu Bailu pondered for a while, Qi Zhen used to have a high official position, the most ideal thing is to buy him a set of official uniforms, but after all, Qi Zhen is a body of guilt, regardless of whether there are official uniforms here, buying it back is going beyond .

She thought about it for a long time before she said: "One set of Zhu Zishen clothes, and four sets of clothes, shoes and socks for the four seasons. The materials must be the best, so you can buy them at this price."

Liu Bailu took out an ingot of about five taels of silver and put it on the table.

Shopkeeper Yu's eyes lit up as soon as he saw it, and he said without a word: "Okay, okay, I'll prepare it for you."

"Wait!" The curtain of the inner room was lifted, and Liu Bailu looked up. A woman in her thirties gave the shopkeeper a glance, which made shopkeeper Yuan retract her hand holding the silver. She walked out slowly, staring coldly. Staring at Liu Bailu, said: "This is unfilial, Kefu, Kefu's woman, we won't do your business in our store!"

(End of this chapter)