Step by step lotus flower

Chapter 480
Because the eldest princess's mansion now only has Lu Wenyi as the master, and there is not even a female family member who can be in charge. Although Grandma Lu is helping to be the director of the house, the wives and grandmas who come to mourn cannot be greeted by the servants. After laying the incense, the female relatives were all led to the upper room of Mrs. Lu in the Duke's Mansion, accompanied by Mrs. Lu's sister-in-law and Second Grandma Lu.

Mrs. Lu has just experienced the pain of bereavement, her body does not allow her and she is not in the mood to greet everyone, and the other is that she hates Princess Fuhui in her heart, even if the latter is dead now, she is unwilling When they made faces with her, they were only accompanied by Lu Mingxuan, saying that the sick would be taken care of by Rongtaiju, and no outsiders would be seen.

At that time, people paid much attention to mourning and glory after death. Even ordinary people had to do their best to manage their deaths. What's more, Dingguogong's Mansion and Princess Changgong's Mansion are also first-class and prominent families in the capital. The funeral of the princess and Lu Zhongyu took 49 days for the funeral. From the first seven days to the seventh day, the three aunts and six family members had to go to worship again, which was solemn.

The funeral took such a long time, and it was lively for outsiders to see. Only the owner knew how tired he was, and it was only March [-], not to mention Grandma Lu, who is now in charge of the funeral in the two houses, and Lu Da, who only helps to accompany the guests. The wife, sister-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as Lu Mingxuan who only accompanied Mrs. Lu every day, were exhausted. They only hoped that the funeral would be over soon and that everyone could relax for a few days.

As for the reasons for the sudden "sudden death" of Princess Fuhui and Lu Zhongyu, the guests who came to express their condolences naturally had many curious people. The old man and Lu Zhongmian issued a gag order early in the morning. Even if no one issued the gag order, Mrs. Lu and the others knew that they could not speak, so they all kept silent, not only kept silent, but also restrained the people in their respective houses to take care of themselves Therefore, after nearly a month, no outsider knew the reason for the sudden death of Princess Fuhui and Lu Zhongyu.

After five or seven days, since the day when Princess Fuhui and Lu Zhongyu both died suddenly, the people who were ordered to report the funerals to Lu Mingzhu and Meng Haina finally escorted the two of them away in a hurry. return.

At that time, Mrs. Lu was being served by Lu Mingxuan to drink the medicine. Although she wanted to prescribe some medicine, she no longer blindly abused her body because of sadness and self-blame. After all, she still hurt her body. After the imperial doctor came to see her, she prescribed two prescriptions Let her take it in the morning and evening, but she is lazy to take the medicine, so this job fell on Lu Mingxuan, no matter if she was acting coquettishly or foolishly, she made Mrs. Lu obediently take all the medicine every day.

A little maid came in and bowed her knees and said: "Go back to the old lady, the county master and the fourth son-in-law are back, and they are kowtowing incense to the eldest princess and the third master in the mansion over there. Grandma specially sent someone to report to the old lady first."

Mrs. Lu stopped drinking the medicine, then pushed Lu Mingxuan's hand holding the medicine bowl away, and refused to take it any more. After a while, she said calmly, "Got it, you step back!"

The little servant girl didn't know where she had offended Mrs. Lu, her face turned pale with fright, she heard Mrs. Lu asked her to back down, as if she had been pardoned, she hurriedly bowed her knees and said "yes", and retreated in small steps.

Mrs. Lu sighed towards Lu Mingxuan: "Accordingly, your sister... Si girl came back from all the way, I should be very happy and comforted, but when I think of... I can't be happy or comforted at all. If I had encountered such a thing, I would have known that such a horrible thing would happen to me when I was old, what would I do for so long, I would rather die early, and be clean instead!" As he said, he couldn't help but fall Tears come.

Seeing that Lu Mingxuan felt sour, she didn't know how to persuade Mrs. Lu to be good. Lu Mingzhu was her granddaughter. Although she did so many ridiculous things later, how could she have no feelings after suffering for so many years?However, now that her son died in the hands of her daughter-in-law, and her granddaughter was born to her daughter-in-law, how could Mrs. Lu not be angry with Lu Mingzhu because of Princess Fuhui? What else can the elderly do!
In fact, Lu Mingxuan discovered Mrs. Lu's ambivalence as early as the first time Lu Wenzhu came to see her after the incident, but Lu Wenzhu always liked her more than Lu Mingzhu. Being well-behaved and sensible, she didn't show it too obviously, and she didn't directly resort to it like she is now.

But no matter what, the three of them, grandparents and grandchildren, could never go back to the past.

About half an hour later, Lu Mingzhu and Meng Haina, accompanied by Lu Wenting and Grandma Lu, came to Rongtaiju to greet Mrs. Lu.

I haven't seen her for more than half a year, but Lu Mingzhu has lost a lot of weight. Maybe it's because of the news of the death of her parents and the fact that she has been on the road day and night for a long time. Her complexion looks even worse. The intertwined colors seemed to be able to blow her away if the wind was stronger. If she hadn't come in with the crowd, but met Lu Mingxuan alone, Lu Mingxuan might not have believed that she was actually Lu Mingzhu.

Looking at Meng Haina again, he didn't see much tiredness on his face, probably because he was a military general, it was common for him to rush on the road, and he was used to it.

But it is also because he was born as a general, not to mention very tall, but he still looks a bit strong, not handsome, and there are several faint scars on his face, which can only be regarded as upright. Not to mention the comparison with He Zhixing, even the comparison with Lu Wenting and Lu Wenzhu is quite far behind, so it's no wonder that Lu Mingzhu couldn't get along with him.

As soon as Lu Mingzhu and Meng Haina came in, they knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times to Mrs. Lu on the futon that the girl had arranged in advance, and said: "Granddaughter (grandson-in-law) has seen grandma, please greet grandma."

It is not only because the two have come back from a long distance, but also because this is the first time that Lu Mingzhu has returned to her natal family since she got married. Whether it is her as the newlywed mother or Meng Haina as the new son-in-law, it is customary to give this grand gift to the elders .

Although Mrs. Lu now has complicated feelings for Lu Mingzhu and Lu Wenzhu, who both want to see and don't want to see, but seeing that Lu Mingzhu's face is pale, her eyes are red and swollen, her voice is hoarse, and her whole body is on the verge of falling, she still can't help but feel soft-hearted. , because he was busy, he asked someone to help the two of them up, and asked in a voice: "Is the journey going smoothly? Is the body still able to handle such a busy journey day and night? Can I have dinner now?"

When Lu Mingzhu said that she had eaten dim sum and was not hungry at the moment, she hurriedly said: "How can I just eat dim sum? I was on the road before and didn't have any hot meals. Now I'm home It’s over, it’s natural to be healthy and nourishing.” He immediately prepared the vegetarian banquet.

But Lu Mingzhu shook her head and said in a hoarse voice: "Grandmother really doesn't need to be prepared, you just have to be prepared. Thinking of my father and mother... I am not in the mood to eat." Before he finished speaking, tears welled up in my eyes.

(End of this chapter)