As soon as Gu Tingyu died, Mrs. Shao's body and mind were both physically and mentally destroyed. She had accumulated fatigue and sadness and was immediately sick and lying on the verge of death. The grandmother also said that she was "oversad" and could only hum on the bed. ~

Minglan knew that the situation was not good, and after thinking for a while, she secretly decided that she would not take over Gu Tingyu's funeral. Not to mention the rules of the Gu family, she would be unfamiliar with this situation. No matter how she did this, there would be someone to gossip. However, as the newly released Mrs. Hou, it was difficult to shirk it. After thinking about it, she solemnly asked Mrs. Xuan to help.

"It's not that I'm lazy and unwilling to work hard, but at this age, I have never had any major events? My brother's funeral matter is so important. If something goes wrong, maybe someone will say it." Minglan was frank and simply said it all. "The people in this mansion, only my sister-in-law, told me to be caring and relieved. If you don't help me, I won't know who to look for."

Mrs. Xuan was a good person who always loved to take care of things. Seeing Minglan so sincere and leaning heavily on her, she felt relieved. She immediately agreed and discussed with her husband when she went back.

"You agree to such a big thing?" Gu Tingbing is going northwest in the past two days. Gu Tingxuan was busy dealing with things everywhere. As soon as he came back, he thought it was not good. He hurriedly said to his wife, "We should not interfere in the matter of the family. Don't cause trouble again. It's better to have more trouble than more trouble!"

"What do you know!" Mrs. Xuan gave her husband a blank look and said in detail, "I thought about it before and after. Although I was a little annoyed, it was beneficial. First, her brother and sister did have difficulties. If this frivolous thing is done, it would be unhappy for the second brother Ye. If the little thing is done, there will inevitably be someone to gossip. If I take over the matter for her, she will definitely remember my benefits. Second..."

She brought the warm tea to her husband and lowered her voice, "Look at the situation in our mansion, it will be a matter of time before the family will be a matter of time. We will have to rely on ourselves for everything. But over the years, our father-in-law and father have asked the second brother to do big and small things. We have no way to do it, no people, and no money. Let's take advantage of this funeral, and we will make more useful friends."

Gu Tingxuan didn't care and shook his head and said, "We only have so many relatives and friends, haven't you met you long ago?"

"You!" Mrs. Xuan pointed her husband's forehead hard, "Can those who came to worship this time like the other brothers who came to pay tribute to each other this time? Most of them are power-based. Seeing that their younger brothers and sisters are willing to entrust such a big thing to me, can they look at us without looking at us?!"

Gu Tingxuan was always afraid of trouble, but thinking that his children were getting older, they wanted to say kinship and asked to study to study, and they would inevitably have to do errands in the future. They were always not good at relying on Gu Tingye for everything. He finally nodded with sigh.

To show sincerity, Minglan went to Shaw Brothers' office the next day to ask for the Marquis's house's counterpart and warehouse keys. It took a long time to explain his difficulties and the necessity of hiring foreign players. Unexpectedly, Shaw Brothers was so angry that he said: "... they are all there to my mother..."

Why didn’t you say it earlier! Minglan immediately killed the grandmother’s place again.

The lady was wrapped in a beige cucumber on her forehead, and she was lying sickly and taking medicine. After Minglan finished her second statement with emotion, she seemed to be stunned. She stared at Minglan for a long time, and looked at her with a slightly red look. Her heart was so scared that she asked her to get something from her mother.

Minglan secretly wiped her cold sweat and handed the cards and keys to Mrs. Xuan with satisfaction. She bit her to death, "I am young and can't stand alone." She was determined to be the only wife. The lady dared not ask Zhu to take over the matter.

Now there are rumors everywhere, pointing out that the stepmother of the grandmother, who has been "ulterior motives" for decades, would be even more unstoppable if Zhu asked him to take charge of this matter. He has been taking over power for decades, and he asked his eldest daughter-in-law to take care of her for good care of her for the excuse of becoming sick and weak. At this time, he would not let go!

Mrs. Xuan is a cheerful person, and with no one to restrain her, she did this funeral very well, low-key and respectful, and her courtesy is comprehensive but not complicated. When she should cry, the whole mansion cried and could be heard clearly half the inside and outside. When she should be hospitalized, the servants were interspersed inside and outside, in an orderly manner.

Minglan only needs to hold half a bottle of osmanthus oil, and cry a few times a day before going to Gu Tingyu Ling. She still has the strength to be familiar with the personnel relationships of the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, and glance at the treasury that she had been curious about for a long time.

She felt deeply that she had invited the right person, and she would express her gratitude to Mrs. Xuan every other day, changing words every day, and never repeating them. She praised Mrs. Xuan so happily, and she completely forgot about the fatigue and hard work of sleeping for only two hours a day.

In addition, Minglan spent most of the rest of the time in Shaw Family House.

According to the official statement of the Imperial Hospital, the Imperial Madam's illness is a problem of "mood" care, but Shaw Brothers is sick like a mountain, and he is extremely mad and almost like a dry and dry. Minglan was shocked and thought that instead of pretending to be sad outside, it would be better to take care of living people and would be easier to get along with in the future. ~

Shaw Brothers was not willing to pay attention to Minglan. No matter what Minglan said or did, she closed her eyes and looked at her coldly. Minglan was not angry. She only took care of her with kindness, looked at her prescriptions, tried the medicine, picked up some important things for the guests in the mourning hall outside, and told her that she brought Sister Rong to be her companion. She brought delicious and fun things from Chengyuan every day, so that the children could forget their sadness, and at least they could eat and sleep. Shaw Brothers was not a tough person. Seeing Minglan's careful care, she couldn't help but feel soft-hearted. Thinking that these old grudges should not be vented on the new wife who had just entered the house for a few months, she gradually changed her color and was much more polite and gentle to Minglan.

Seeing that she was discouraged and did not want to recover, she was just sad and became more and more serious. She said nothing about her childhood. She exaggerated her "fear", "willingness", "looseness" and all kinds of helplessness after the new death of Wei.

"...It's said that a motherless child is like a grass, and this is absolutely true..." Minglan had red eyes (I just cried again in front of the spirit), and choked gently, "My wife is excellent, but she has to take care of the whole family and several brothers and sisters inside and outside... If it weren't for my grandmother's pity, I really don't know..." A long ellipsis was left behind for Shaw to imagine it by himself.

Shaw was indeed frightened. She felt that the lady was a "good person" and she was not at ease to entrust her daughter to her. Thinking that her daughter had no father, if she had no mother again, what would happen in the future? Once her mind was firm, she would be cured most of the time. On the day of the funeral, she could actually get up and come out to thank her relatives and friends.

Of course, Minglan also received great praise. The lady praised her with a smile. While expressing her humility, Minglan thought to herself: Taking you as an example, I will study hard.

Speaking of which, this is the first time in Minglan's life that she has been so serious and thorough in giving people filial piety. Not only are the maids in the yard not allowed to wear bright clothes, but even Sister Rong has made two new clothes for her, and she herself can't find any problems from head to toe.

Four-color light monochrome willow branch pattern, a set of bright rice beads and silver ornaments, no color was seen, and even the coral tassels on the tip of the shoe were removed. Minglan put this outfit in front of Gu Tingye and asked how.

Gu Tingye raised the corners of his lips: "I'm probably dead, and that's what I'm going to do."

The lanterns at the gate of the Marquis’ Mansion were covered with a layer of plain white. Minglan thought that two little white lanterns should be hung at the gate of Chengyuan, and said, "It's almost time for three months." Unexpectedly, Gu Tingye said again: "The master has disappeared, but he has been hung for a hundred days. After hanging for so long, he doesn't know that he is dead."

Minglan sighed.

Well, this guy has a bad temper recently, speaks sarcasticly, and always sarcastic.

It’s like you have accumulated enough strength to wait for trouble for your enemy. Who knows that before you can really make a move, they will die by themselves and be buried in a grand manner after death. Most of the people who sell you face are unaware of the inside story (before you have time to create momentum), and they want to show grief in front of the spirit. He can’t say, ‘My brother and I are enemies in the past life, so you don’t have to work too hard’.

In fact, Minglan was not very happy, so it would be fine to hold a funeral, but the gifts given to the Hou Mansion for the price of the money... She felt aching in her heart. The big house had not yet been separated, so all the gold, silver and wealth had to be included in the treasury. But in the future, she would probably pay back the favors. I don’t know how much scum that the family would be able to be separated in the future.

But she still advised with magnanimity: "After all, the dead are the most important, and everyone is dead, what else can you do to get along with him?"

"Since I know that he won't live long since I can be sensible," Gu Tingye said with no expression on his face, "I didn't see him doing anything less."

The deepest impression he had of his elder brother in his childhood was that Gu Tingyu was half-dead and asked someone to help him drink medicine while slandering his father with bad intentions. From childhood to adulthood, he took a lot of pain from this patient. In his opinion, illness cannot offset the evil deeds, and sympathy does not affect hatred. People who do bad things should be dragged up even on the hospital bed to receive punishment.

This concept has a bit modern meaning, and Minglan immediately expressed great appreciation: "My husband is indeed clear in grudges, and he is a real husband."

Gu Tingye glanced at her, feeling much better, and cursed with a smile: "It's a pity that you don't go to the palace to talk to those scholars!"

Recently, he has a lot of opinions about scholars. Well, this is the second reason why he came in and was depressed.

Since June, he has officially served as the deputy general of the Governor of the Five Army Governors Office, led the governor of the Left Army, and was appointed as the Tai Shaobao. The result of his improvement in status was that he began to directly participate in the military-national political discussion. As the situation stabilized, all the undercurrents gradually turned into literary battles, and the front hall became a struggle field for various sects, and a group of people flew there every day.

When the posthumous title was given to the late emperor, they would argue; when the two empress dowagers had different treatments, they would argue; when the personnel changes were promoted and declined, they would also argue; when the administrative deployment of national decisions, they would not even eat food. In fact, the ancestral system of this dynasty was that civil officials were restrained by military officers, and most military officers reported and argued, and the work of civil officials was a civil servant.

In the past, when Gu Tingye was only concerned about one acre of three parts of the land, he could go in and out when standing in the hall to listen. Anyway, most important things would be copied and sent to the important officials for discussion. But now, he is half a civil and half a martial artist, so he had to keep his ears pointed and listen carefully. Because when the emperor was stuck by the civil servant and couldn't speak, he liked to ask the most, "My dear, what do you think this matter?"

——This love minister is usually taken as a role by Shen Congxing, Yao Ge Lao, and Gu, and others are in love.

I thought he was so tall that he thought! If he had the ability to be arrogant, why should he do this business? He made a living by licking his blood at the edge of a knife.

Should I add the word "wen" to the posthumous title of the late emperor? Is there a connection between this? Just like this, the two factions that have always had grudges can arrange their troops. From dawn to darkness, and full of words, it is also a classic, from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the inappropriate way of the late emperor favoring Concubine Xiao Rong in his later years.

This kind of quarrel is quite gentle. At least the emperor has no big objection. It is quite interesting to see the fight between the man below.

The new emperor was obviously too young and did not know how dangerous the court was. When the two factions could not argue, they asked the emperor to arbitrate.

If the emperor does not agree, it is unfilial. Before his death, the old emperor personally pulled you up from the barren land, cultivated you, supported you, and succeeded to the throne. Do you still think that the old emperor is not good?! Your conscience is very bad!

Then, there will be a series of scriptures that are not pulled or pulled, and a series of citations are cited according to the classics.

If the emperor agrees, it is unknown. Because the old emperor has dragged the appointment of the crown prince for more than ten years, the entire empire was bloody and stormed. The capital was slaughtered. How many loyal ministers and generals died in the two incidents before and after, but they still don’t give an explanation? Your Majesty, you must sacrifice your mere filial reputation for the sake of the justice of the people of the world!

Then, we will introduce scriptures in a series of ways.

Xintian is absolutely gone, Oh my god, I was shot even while lying down.

Fortunately, he also had helpers. He quarreled for half a year and it took his grandma to settle the matter.

Ahead, the court started to cause trouble for the treatment of the two empress dowagers.

The emperor naturally hoped to demand higher treatment for his biological mother, but a large group of civil officials refused to agree, saying that before the late emperor died, he had a verbal order in the house, "Waiting behind him, treating the imperial concubine well, and all the rituals are the same as the queen."

In fact, the old emperor was confused at that time. He was about to die of breath, and when he was in a drowsy state, he only recognized Concubine De who had been with him for many years. According to modern legal views, oral wills in this case actually cannot be counted.

After a full quarrel for half a month, the emperor was so angry that he gritted his teeth. Not only did the guys not give in, but he also kept saying that he wanted to calculate his seniority and asked Empress Dowager Shengde to live in the larger and more noble east side back hall.

Lao Geng, who was driving a deserter at the time, was accidentally named by the emperor. He accidentally said, "Old mother is naturally more noble than not." This sentence stabbed the hornet's nest.

Comrade Lao Geng immediately attracted a volcanic ash-like scolding, "not learning and ignorant", "not etiquette", "absurd and ignorant"... This is quite light, and it is more serious to say that he has "ulterior motives" and "inappropriate intentions".

Poor Comrade Geng was so distracted by scolding that he was distracted. It is said that he was helped by Zhong Dayou to go home.

According to Gu Tingye's speculation, the emperor actually sympathized with Lao Geng.

In the Shu border, where the folk customs are simple, the common solution is to avenge your enemies. If you have any problems, everyone will take a knife together and stab it with three or six holes. It is estimated that Comrade Geng has never seen such a very aggressive creature of civil servants. Most of them are gentle and elegant on the outside, cruel and tough on the inside, and never take action, and they will speak resolutely. They can curse you from ancestors until your aunt's second uncle's nephew recently went to the brothel without paying any money, and they will definitely kill people without blood.

The next day, Guan's music flew to the cabinet like snowflakes.

According to the ancient patriarchal ethics and rituals, it is important for a mother who is related to blood to have no mother who is related to etiquette. If he achieves great achievements, his mother will be rewarded and decreed, and he will not have anything to do with the concubine (it may be much better every day); if he insists on letting the concubine be honored, he must first be the mother and then reduce it to the concubine.

Lao Geng was very unfair. He had no intention of fighting against powerful etiquette.

In fact, if you analyze carefully, this is not the case in the emperor's family.

Empress Sheng'an was not promoted directly to the empress dowager from the throne of concubine. She was the one who had appointed the empress at the proof of the ceremony. Instead, the imperial concubine (Defei) jumped from the throne of concubine to become the empress dowager. She did not become the emperor, why?!

The civil servants were obviously confused about the public. They caught Lao Geng’s handle and tangled around, making noises, and one sentence involved a thousand miles away.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, he failed to resist their human wave tactics for a while. He was confused by the spits all over the sky and enthroned the two empress dowagers. Now the harem is hindered everywhere, and I think I regret it.

Someone probably pointed out the matter later. After thinking it through, the emperor became more and more determined. For the sake of his own mother and for his future life, even if Empress Dowager Shengde went to Taimiao to cry to the late emperor, he refused to give in a word.

He dismissed five or six officials who were in front of him in one breath and demoted more than ten more officials, which suppressed the arrogance of the man and also threw the blame for Empress Dowager Shengde's illness to those guys. The charge was to "stood the relationship between the Tian family and have ill intentions."

This battle is a great victory. I am pitiful Comrade Lao Geng. He is still sick at home and is so embarrassed that he dare not come out to see anyone.

However, Master Yao said that this kind of hard-working skill is not very useful, and the emperor has some reason this time, and it is not very involved in the real interests of the country. If the emperor always suppresses others with his power, his reputation would be bad.

Minglan nodded, saying that ginger is still the best. Master Yao said this.

It is better to listen to advice more, adopt the opinions of ministers more, and work together. After all, the emperor and Gu Tingye are still inexperienced, and many national affairs are still learning. The people's sentiments in the east, west, south and north are extremely different, and the official factions are complicated. If you insist on doing it alone, if something bad happens, there is no excuse to even hinder it, it is all the fault of the emperor, you, the emperor.

So classmate Gu had to get feces.

In order not to disappoint the emperor, and to avoid repeating the mistakes of Comrade Geng, he had to read more documents and files at night, analyze and ponder. He listened to the fights of scholars when he was at work, and did not dare to slack off for a moment. When he returned home from get off work, he had to go to his enemy's elder brother to cry. Even if he couldn't squeeze out tears, he had to scream twice. In this way, it would be strange if he was not depressed.

Fortunately, he is a very smart person. When his devil brother is around Qiqi, he can already make a few words in the court. And - according to Mr. Yao's words - he has very good interruptions.

A few days ago, the court discussed salt affairs.

The salt business has been chaotic over the years, private salt has become a trend, and official salt cannot collect taxes. The accounts are perfect, and the whole country is united. The late emperor sent several groups of people to investigate, either returning without success or trapping himself there, and finally returning to Beijing to report his life in a prison cart.

Nowadays, the emperor wants to rectify, and the officials quarreled as usual. The general meaning is that they cannot make trouble. Once the fuss starts, the world will become unstable again.

After hearing this for a whole morning, Gu Tingye caught the one who was yelling the most and asked with a modest look, "No matter what else, I will just ask if the salt business needs to be punished."

The official was so shameless for a long time, and he talked about a lot of consequences, the impact and difficulties.

Gu Tingye asked again, "Then what you mean is not to rectify it? Just let it rot?"

No matter how lingering the words, Gu Tingye only asked one question: Should the country and the people be rectified?

The salt tax accounts for one fifth of the national treasury income, and now it does not even have one fifty. The salt business has become so decayed that no official dares to say he will not rectify it, and the court is silent for a moment. Seeing this, the emperor's momentum is greatly boosted.

Very good. Since everyone thinks that salt affairs should be rectified, the next question is "how to fix it", "who will send to fix it", "is it a slow plan or a quick knife".

Minglan admired him very much. Gu Tingye was indeed aware of the separation and debate method before he had learned the policy of strategy for two days. However, when he came to the court to discuss the candidate for rectifying the salt affairs, Minglan couldn't help but be worried: "Do you... want to go?"
To be continued...