"The personal maid of Saint Gu Ya, hey..." Pan Nanan looked a little strange. Li Luo was curious and asked in a low voice: "Are there any rumors about her?"
"It's not a rumor. The prince doesn't know that this Gu Ya saint has been in Zhuocheng for more than a year. She visited all the big and small yamen in Zhuocheng and just barely entered the Tianlao! Our inspection department is here.
The most frequent ones, I came here once before and after Guyu. Mr. Yang couldn't bear to be disturbed and couldn't rush out. Every time, he had to wait until he had seen enough and had eaten and drank before leaving. Not to mention how annoying it was."
Li Luo was startled. It was really unexpected that this Rangsi Baoyin could be so casual and elegant. But if she was just playful and curious, let her go. It was meant to be a marriage, but now she was alone in Zhuocheng and there was no conclusion. Come to think of it,
The Dagan court didn't have much face to criticize others harshly.
Li Luo glanced at it, a little confused, but didn't pay much attention to it. He paid attention to the Tian family members who were wearing mourning clothes in front of the mourning hall.
Tian Gong's eyes were slightly closed, and he stared blankly at his brother's coffin behind the spirit tablet. Next to it was the coffin of his nephew Tian Shouye. Tian She had no heirs yet, and no one wore mourning, so he could only park it in the backyard and bury it together.
The ancestral grave of the Tian family. I remember that two months ago, Tian Cheng happily asked me to drink. He said that Shouye had taken over the errand of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and worked for the palace. This was a good opportunity to shine on the lintel. At that time, he felt happy and drank too much.
A little while ago, I was reminiscing every bit of the Tian family’s past with my elder brother who was already over seventy years old. But who would have thought that overnight, the three generations of the eldest son and grandson of the Tian family would all die suddenly, mysteriously, and mysteriously.
Tian Gong couldn't remember when the clan decided to have a funeral tomorrow morning. He was confused, as if he was being pushed step by step, until he suddenly woke up when he was sitting in the mourning hall and looking at his eldest brother's memorial tablet.
God came. Tian Gong rubbed his eyes, moved his lips, looked at the busy people in Tian's house, and sighed silently. Now that things have happened, there are no people left. If he were buried earlier, he could save the time to see things.
Thinking about people.
In the summer, the weather was hot and it was difficult to store the body. A lot of ice was added to the mourning hall, but it was still difficult to cover up the faint smell of corpses. The sun was shining outside, but it was still a bit cold in the mourning hall. Tian Gong pulled up his clothes and couldn't bear it.
Tian Gong suddenly sneezed, which attracted a cold look of resentment from a woman on the side. Tian Gong secretly smiled coldly, but there was no strange color on his face. He was just an ignorant and shrewish woman, even though he still wanted to call her sister-in-law. Since then.
When the news of Tian Cheng's death came out that day, the Tian family was still immersed in shock and grief. Mrs. Zhang couldn't wait to jump out. Overtly and covertly, she wanted to take over the power of the Tian family and become the mistress of the family and issue orders.
It's a pity that this is the Tian family, not the Zhang family, and it's not her turn as an outsider from the Zhang family to dictate to the Tian family.
Tian Gong thought about it, and suddenly his thoughts drifted away from his brother. What his nephew said last night made sense. Tian Cheng was gone and Shou Ye was dead. It was him, the second master, who should have the final say in the Tian family. Thinking about it.
Here, Tian Gong coughed lightly and straightened up, with a sad yet majestic expression on his face. As for the short-sighted Mrs. Zhang next to her, she just let her be the clown and got better and better.
It is magnanimity, the more it can set off the vulgarity of the woman.
Two people came into the mourning hall. They offered a stick of incense and did not kowtow. They just bowed. Tian Gong didn't pay attention. He stood up to greet them, but he took a second look at the two people. One of them was wearing a bamboo hat on his head and a coarse cloth.
Come and pay your respects to your brother or the apprentice craftsman you have taught in the business.
When she arrived at Zhang's place, the old lady didn't even raise her head or stand up. She was mumbling something, but she didn't know what she was talking about. Beside her, a middle-aged woman and a woman in her thirties with tears on her face pulled a child and bowed to return the greeting. They were polite and considerate.
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The man wearing a bamboo hat paused slightly, nodded, and walked out gently. The three officials outside the door went straight into the mourning hall and bowed politely. Except for the Zhang woman, everyone else had already stood up.
Looking at the three people in front of them with respectful expressions, they were none other than Xie Xiaoshi, who were wearing inspection uniforms.
"Mrs. Tian, Mr. Tian, my condolences, we will do our best to find out the truth. The Tian family has suffered such a disaster, and Mr. Tian still needs to take care of it. The dead are gone, but the living are like this..." Xie Xiaoshi said politely
After a few words of greetings, unexpectedly, before the words were finished, Mrs. Zhang said sternly: "You don't need to worry about the affairs of the Tian family. Several officials are still focusing on how the three of us Tian family died."
Bai! In broad daylight, the universe is clear. This is the foot of the emperor. Is there any royal law?"
Xie Xiaoshi was stunned for a moment, but he didn't get angry. His words didn't sound right, but they were indeed true, but they sounded harsh.
Tian Gong was taken aback and shouted hurriedly: "Second sister-in-law, please be careful, these officials are adults from the Inspection Department and are here specially to investigate my elder brother's case."
"Just handle the case. It's not the people in the yamen's turn to rule over the Tian family's affairs..." Ms. Zhang muttered. Although her voice was low, it could be heard clearly in the mourning hall.
The color drained from Tian Gong's face. The inspector's reputation was well known. Although ordinary people rarely interacted with the inspector, the shadow of the famous tree was in Zhuocheng, ranging from the emperor's relatives to the traders and footmen.
Who has never heard of the name of the Inspection Department?
Xie Xiaoshi frowned slightly and asked calmly: "When did our Inspection Department tell you about the Tian family's household affairs?"
Mrs. Zhang raised her eyes and glanced at Tian Gong, and said harshly: "The Tian family naturally takes care of the affairs of the Tian family. We know whether we work hard or not. Who is the head of the Tian family is not decided by outsiders."
Xie Xiaoshi was startled and couldn't help but laugh. It turns out that it was just an unintentional polite word. In the ears of the widow of the Tian family on the ground, it became Xie Xiaoshi's intention to make Tian Gong the next head of the Tian family. No wonder it was like this for the first time.
Vitriolic.
Tian Gongqi's face turned pale and he shouted: "Second sister-in-law, I respect you for the sake of my eldest brother. My eldest brother's bones are still cold, so you can't talk nonsense here!"
"You still know that your eldest brother's body is still cold? You are probably in a hurry to drive us orphans and widows out of the Tian family gate so that you can become the head of your Tian family. I tell you, you are dreaming!" Mrs. Zhang sneered.
Tian Gong's face turned from white to red. Xie Xiaoshi only glanced at it and knew that the elder of the Tian family probably did have this idea in his heart, but he didn't expect that Mr. Zhang would say it out so shamelessly.
"You are so slanderous! It's... it's so unreasonable!" In terms of eloquence, it seems that Tian Gong is not even a little bit worse. Zhang's eloquence is so eloquent that his spittle flies everywhere.