"Husband, you are just a mother-in-law and a son-in-law. You don't need to wear such grand clothes in mourning."
After Qinglian accepted the mourning clothes from Liu Mingzhi, she realized that the mourning clothes her husband was going to wear were obviously beyond the standards that a son-in-law should wear.
She was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly reminded Liu Mingzhi.
Liu Mingzhi saw the confused look on the beautiful face, raised his hand and put it on the beautiful woman's cheek, and said with tenderness: "Lian'er, my mother only has two daughters, you and Sister Bai Shao, and Bai Shao has two daughters."
Sister Shao, she...
As her husband's son-in-law, he is no different from his son.
She is now traveling to the west of Hexi Province, so it is right that my husband, my son-in-law, should come and show his mourning for her."
Qinglian looked at Liu Mingzhi with an moved expression. She was silent for a moment with hesitant eyes, but in the end she gently shook her head.
"Husband, I know your good intentions and your filial piety.
However, I still can't let you dress like this. After all, we still have father and mother here!
If the two elders find out about this by then, it will be hard for me to explain to them.
Husband, please wait a moment, I will go immediately to change you into other mourning clothes."
As Qinglian spoke, she raised her feet and walked around Liu Mingzhi towards the outside of the room.
When Liu Mingzhi heard Qinglian's words, he shook his head helplessly, grabbed the beauty's wrist, and stopped her from leaving.
"Husband?"
"Lian'er, my husband has already decided on this matter before.
After my mother passed away yesterday, it turned out that my husband was preparing to tell our old man that I was going to die for her!
As a result, before my husband had time to speak, the old man mentioned this matter to my husband first.
The old man told her husband bluntly that her mother had no sons, so her son-in-law would take care of her mother's affairs.
The old man has said so, so my mother will definitely not have any objections.
Neither of them care about anything, so what else do you have to care about?"
After Qinglian listened to Liu Mingzhi's explanation, she asked with a pretty face, "Really? Really?"
"What are you thinking about? Would your husband lie to you about such an important matter?"
After listening to her husband's angry words, Qinglian's red and swollen eyes could not help but condense with traces of mist. Tears kept rolling in her eyes and were about to fall down her cheeks.
When Liu Mingzhi saw Qinglian looking like she was about to cry again, he immediately took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped both sides of the beauty's eyes.
"Good Lian'er, don't cry, don't cry.
Do you still remember what your husband said to you? No matter what happens, your husband will be with you.
Believe me, as long as your husband is here, I will never let you suffer the slightest injustice.
unless"
Qinglian waited until her husband wiped the tears from her eyes, then nodded a few times while choking.
"Unless what?"
"Unless my husband dies, I can no longer protect you, nor can I protect all of you sisters."
“Bah, bah, bah, don’t talk nonsense.
If you say this again in the future, I will ignore you, and also make Sister Yun and the others ignore you at all.
Let’s not say such bad words. I will help you change into mourning clothes first.”
Liu Mingzhi nodded lightly, walked to Qinglian and opened his arms.
"Well, let's change."
Qinglian turned around and placed the mourning clothes in her hands on the dressing table, then leaned her waist and began to undress and untie Liu Mingzhi.
Qinglian took off her outer robe for Liu Mingzhi, picked up the mourning clothes on the table and put them on for her husband. At the same time, she lightly parted her lips and shouted.
"Husband."
"Human? What's wrong?"
"When you have time, help Lian'er thank her father and mother."
"Fool, we have been together as husband and wife for so many years, don't you understand the tempers of the old man and the young man?
If you pretend to know nothing about this matter and say nothing, the two elders will not care about anything.
If you really said something to the two of them, they would feel uncomfortable.
Then they will think that your daughter-in-law is having an affair with them."
"This... let's not talk about it then."
"That's right. Between a family, there's no such thing as thanks."
After a while, Qinglian carefully tied the white silk around Liu Mingzhi's waist.
"Husband, it's ready."
Liu Mingzhi nodded slightly, looked at Qinglian and asked: "According to the rules of your Miao territory, who should we be the first to announce the funeral?"
"Go to the chief of the Bai Miao tribe first, and then the elders..."
"I know, let's go there."
"Yes, husband, please."
"Together, together.
By the way, Lian'er, who is the current patriarch in the village? Have I met your husband?"
"It's Brother Wuge. You met my husband many times back then, but I don't know if you still remember him."
"Ug, Ug."
Liu Mingzhi murmured to himself a few times, then narrowed his eyes and recalled.
In just a few breaths, a figure of a Miao man with a strong physique and a sturdy back appeared in front of his eyes.
"Remember, remember, remember for your husband.
After we became husband and wife, you left Jiangnan and returned to Miao territory. He was among the people who went to Chengdu Prefecture to borrow grain from the Liu family.
Later, when we visited my grandma several times, he also came forward and led a group of Miao men in the village to entertain us.
Oh~I thought of my husband.
I asked why the name Wushanli sounded so familiar. The strong young man who was next to Brother Uge at that time seemed to be named Wushanli.
My husband remembered that this young man from the mountains seems to be the boss of Brother Uge and his family."
Qinglian heard the eloquent words and nodded hurriedly.
"Yeah, yeah, that's him. Husband, you have a really good memory."
"You, please stop complimenting me. To be honest, Lian'er, if you don't remind me, my husband may not be able to remember Brother Wuge.
Fortunately, my husband asked you in advance.
Otherwise, when we meet Brother Wu Ge later, he will recognize my husband at once, but I will not recognize him as my husband.
Then I would be embarrassed as a husband."
"Then there's nothing to be embarrassed about. After all, husband, you haven't been to Miaojiang for many years. It's understandable that you can't think of someone at once.
Forget about you, husband, when I, Sister Yun and others returned to the village a few days ago, they were stunned for a long time when they saw Brother Wuge before they realized what he was doing."
"That's true. After not seeing each other for several years, and then suddenly seeing each other and not recognizing each other's identities, there is really nothing to be embarrassed about.
Lian'er, please briefly tell me some of the rules regarding funeral arrangements in Miao territory with my husband.
When the provincial husband saw Brother Uge and the others, his eyes darkened and he didn't know anything."
“Roughly speaking, there is no difference from ours, mainly some details are different from ours.
For some specific matters, I can just tell Brother Wuge and the others."
"Lian'er, my husband's inner thought is that after I know the rules of Miao territory, I will see if I can fight with Brother Wuge and the others.
Try to handle the funeral affairs of my grandmother according to the customs and habits over there.
Grandmother, you only have a daughter, and my husband only has a son-in-law.
My husband wants my mother to live in a more dignified way."
Qinglian's steps suddenly stopped, she turned sideways and looked towards Liu Mingzhi, pursed her lips and thought for a long time. She looked at her husband with complicated eyes and shook her head gently.
"Husband, I hope that I can handle my mother's funeral affairs in accordance with the rules of Miao territory."
"Tell me what you mean."
"Husband, you hope that my mother's funeral will be grand and grand. This is your filial piety as a son-in-law. I can naturally understand your good intentions.
However, our grandma has always been a Miao, a Miao who grew up in the Miao border and grew up in the Miao border.
My grandma has never left Miao territory several times in her entire life.
This alone is enough to show that her heart is tied to Shiwanda Mountain in Miao territory.
Therefore, I decided to use the customs and habits of Miao territory to manage the funeral affairs of her old man.
Where is your husband!
If we follow the customs and habits of our Han family, we can certainly manage my grandmother’s funeral in a graceful manner.
However, this may not be what her old man in heaven wants to see.
Miao Jiang's customs may be a bit crude, but they may not be what her spirit in heaven wants to see.
Our filial piety is enough for her.
However, I think it is more appropriate to follow the rules of Miao territory.
After all, my mother was born in Shiwanda Mountain in Miao territory.
If we overstep our bounds because of filial piety, it may not necessarily be a good thing.
Husband, what do you think?"
Liu Mingzhi was stunned when he saw Qinglian's questioning eyes. He thought carefully in his heart for a long time and nodded silently while looking at the beauty.
"Lian'er, you are right. My consideration for my husband is too one-sided.
You are still thoughtful. It is good for us to have filial piety, but the idea of filial piety may not be good.
My husband listens to you, and I will follow what you said, Lian'er, and use the customs and habits of Miao territory to handle the funeral affairs of my grandmother."
"Husband, thank you for understanding my thoughts."
"Husband."
"Husband, what are you and Sister Lian'er talking about standing there?"
"Brother."
"father?"
When Liu Mingzhi and his wife heard the greetings from Qi Yun and the others, they immediately waved and responded to them, who were already dressed in mourning clothes.
"I'm coming."
"Sister Yun, husband, we are going over right now."
The two responded to Qi Yun and the others, and walked towards them with their feet raised.
"Husband, sisters, Brother Wu Ge lives in the bamboo house at the highest point of the village. Let's go over."
"Yiyi, Feifei, Chengfeng, Serena."
"Mother."
"Don't forget the rules I gave you last night for my mother."
Liu Yiyi and the others nodded without hesitation and said in unison: "Mom, don't worry, the child will never forget."
"Husband, sisters, you come with me."
When everyone was climbing towards the bamboo house at the highest point in the village, sisters Qi Ya and Wenren Yunshu came to Liu Mingzhi's side and gently tugged on her sleeves a few times.
Liu Mingzhi noticed the movements of the two sisters, turned to look at the two beauties, and asked softly with a puzzled expression: "Sister Ya, Shu'er, what's wrong? Is there something wrong with you two?"
Seeing her husband's puzzled expression, Wenren Yunshu raised her arm and pointed at her son Liu Zhengwen, who was holding the sleeve of his eldest brother Liu Chengfeng behind him.
"Husband, because of my mother's affairs yesterday, I didn't have time to ask you.
Why did you bring the child Zhengwen here?"
Qi Ya also followed Wenren Yunshu's words and asked: "Husband, before we came to Miaojiang, didn't you say that except for Yiyi, Chengfeng and the rest of the children, you would not tell the other children?
What now? Did something happen? "
Liu Mingzhi looked at the confused expressions on the pretty faces of the two sisters, turned his head and glanced at Liu Zhengwen who was wearing a white silk ribbon around his waist, and shook his head with a wry smile.
"Sisters, don't think so wildly, nothing happened.
The thing is like this, a few days ago, when my husband and Liu Song were about to set off for the Miao border, they suddenly wanted to do something that the old man had told them back then.
After careful consideration, my husband returned to the house and took this boy Zhengwen with him."
Of course, the two sisters Qi Ya knew who the old man their husband was talking about was.
Wenren Yunshu pursed her lips and thought for a moment. She looked at Liu Mingzhi with complicated eyes and asked sweetly: "Husband, what did grandpa tell you? Can you tell me about it?"
"What's the inconvenience for this? Shu'er, you are the old man's granddaughter. Naturally, my husband will not hide anything from you.
The situation is like this. Before the old man left our house for the last time a few years ago, he had a conversation with his husband about Shu'er's parents.
The old man told his husband...
This is probably what happened, so my husband brought the child Zhengwen to Miao territory."
Wenren Yunshu looked at the sighing look on her husband's face, bit her lips tightly with her teeth and fell silent.
After a long time, Wenren Yunshu looked at Liu Mingzhi with sad eyes, and said softly with her lips parted: "Husband, I understand the temper of my father and mother.
When we go to visit them, if the two elders are...if...
I hope you don’t mind, husband.”
"Shu'er, don't worry, no matter what the outcome is, my husband will not take it seriously.
I hope that the appearance of this child can resolve the conflicts between you, Shuer, and your father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Similarly, my husband also hopes that the two elders can accept my husband as their son-in-law."
"Yes, yes, thank you, husband."
After the couple talked, the group finally arrived outside the courtyard where Uge lived.
When Liu Mingzhi and the others stopped outside the courtyard, Wu Ge was pacing back and forth in the small courtyard with a depressed expression.
"Brother Wu Ge."
"Sister Qinglian...
No, no, no, Wuge, the leader of the Bai Miao tribe, has met the saint."
"Brother Wu Ge, you are too outspoken, please stop being polite."
"Thank you, Saint."
"Brother Wu Ge, I think you should already know about the death of my mother.
My younger sister, husband, and several other sisters have come to your place to report your death to Brother Wuge."
Wuge moved his eyes to Liu Mingzhi next to Qinglian, and knelt down without hesitation.
"The grass-roots people of the Miao and Bai Miao tribes, Uge, come to see His Majesty the Emperor, long live my emperor, long live the emperor."
Liu Mingzhi tidied himself up, leaned over and helped Wu Ge up.
"Brother Wu Ge, please forgive me."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Brother Wuge, you don't have to be so outspoken. Just call me Brother Liu or brother-in-law."
When Wu Ge heard Liu Mingzhi's words, he immediately shook his head like a rattle.
"The common people don't dare, the common people don't dare."
"Brother Wu Ge, as the saying goes, filial piety comes first, my grandmother has already left Hexi.
Standing here now are only Amu and her old man's son-in-law, not the current Emperor.
If you are so outspoken, my mother’s spirit in heaven will be unhappy.”