Coach Song, Cao Wu, and Tang Daqian all heard the conversation just now.
Cao Wu asked: "Who is Hua Zifang?"
Jia Yun said: "A friend of mine."
Cao Wudao: "Since your friend's father has died and you want to visit the funeral, Daqian and I will go with you."
As he spoke, Cao Wu looked at Tang Daqian: "Daqian, are you going?"
He was a somewhat reckless person, but he also believed in loyalty. In his opinion, even if the father of one of Jia Yun's friends died, since he stood by and heard it, he should go with Jia Yun to visit the funeral and offer sacrifices.
Tang Daqian, a mature and steady man, couldn't laugh or cry at this moment, thinking quietly: "We are good friends with Brother Yun, that's true, but now it's not Brother Yun's father who has died, but the father of one of Brother Yun's friends has died.
Well, why should we go to visit the funeral and offer sacrifices?"
No matter what he was thinking, Tang Daqian would not say that. He felt that saying such a thing would embarrass both Jia Yun and Cao Wu, so he smiled and said: "That's fine, I just took the opportunity to go outside to relax. I have been practicing more recently for the martial arts test."
, I haven’t left martial arts school for almost a month.”
Jia Yun smiled and said: "Then we will go together."
He did not refuse, because it was good for him. Having Cao Wu and Tang Daqian, two wealthy young masters, with him would help him gain face and make the Hua family grateful to him.
In the past two years, Jia Yun and Hua Zifang have become friends. Jia Yun did this mainly to attack people, but also because he got to know Hua Zifang and found that Hua Zifang had good character and was good at getting things done.
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In the original work, because the Hua family was so poor that they couldn't even afford food, Xiren was sold into the Rongguo Mansion as a maid.
Later, Xiren said to his mother and Hua Zifang: "Although dad is gone now, you have managed your family, built a business, and regained your strength."
Xiren only had one older brother, Hua Zifang, and his father died early. The Hua family later became successful, which shows that Hua Zifang is good at getting things done.
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"drive!"
"drive!"
"drive!"
There are three horses, one black, one brown, and one yellow. They are all good horses and can run very fast.
The black horse is Jia Yun's horse.
The brown horse is Cao Wu's horse.
The yellow horse is Tang Daqian's horse.
Three top martial arts students from Class A of Jing's Martial Arts School, and three martial arts students who were about to take part in the annual martial arts examination, rode away from Jing's Martial Arts School together at this moment.
Three horses, with twelve hooves churning, galloped from the south city towards the west city.
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The Hua family did not want to stay away from the Rongguo Mansion.
Today's Hua family is no longer as poor as it was a few years ago and cannot even afford to eat.
Because he got some money from selling Xiren, and in recent years, Xiren has given some money to the family, and Hua Zifang is a good worker, so the family's situation has improved.
But it was just an upgrade from a poor family to an ordinary family.
A few years ago, the Hua family only lived in a dilapidated bungalow, but now they live in a dilapidated small house, which is similar to the dilapidated small house of Jia Yun's family.
This dilapidated small house is located in an alley. It is a second-hand house bought by Hua Zifang two years ago.
Just last night, Hua Zifang's father died of illness.
At this time, a funeral was being held in the shabby little house of the Hua family.
There were a lot of people at the scene, dozens of people, crowded into the dilapidated small house.
None of the Jia family's masters came, but Jia's mother rewarded the Hua family with twenty taels of silver and sent a housekeeper's wife to help. This housekeeper's wife was a concubine of Mrs. Wang and was known as Zhou Rui's family.
In the original work, later Xiren's mother died of illness, and the Rongguo Mansion rewarded the Hua family with forty taels of silver. However, Aunt Zhao's younger brother Zhao Guoji died. Tanchun was managing the inner house at the time and rewarded the Hua family with twenty taels of silver on behalf of the Rongguo Mansion. Aunt Zhao was dissatisfied with this.
, making trouble with Tanchun, means that as her daughter, Tanchun should not do this.
However, it makes sense for Tanchun to do this. This is the rule of Rongguo Mansion.
Aunt Zhao is Jia Zheng's concubine. She is a son of a family in the Rongguo Mansion, that is, a domestic slave, and belongs to the "family." When her younger brother died, according to the rules, she was only rewarded twenty taels of silver, not to mention that Zhao Guoji was also in the Rongguo Mansion.
The family gave birth to children.
Xiren was from Jia Baoyu's house, and her status was similar to that of Aunt Zhao. However, she was not born in the family, but was bought from outside. She belonged to "outside". Her mother died, and according to the rules, she was rewarded with forty taels of silver.
Isn’t this strange? Why are those “at home” rewarded with less silver, while those “outside” are rewarded with more silver?
Actually it's not surprising.
First, the status of children born into the family is low.
Secondly, when a family in the Rongguo Mansion gives birth to a child, they have received favors from the mansion for generations. However, for people like Xi Ren who are "outsiders", their family members do not enjoy much of the favors from the Rongguo Mansion. They have to ask for favors from the mansion even to meet Xi Ren.
Thirdly, when a son of a family like Zhao Guoji dies, the Rongguo Mansion will pay the bulk of the expenses for the funeral, coffin, grave, etc., and it is not just a reward of twenty taels of silver.
Therefore, the treatment of Tanchun in the original work is correct, and Aunt Zhao is unreasonable.
But now the attacker is just a maid next to Jia Mu, not Jia Baoyu's roommate. In this case, her father died of illness, and Jia Mu will reward twenty taels of silver instead of forty taels.
Hua Zifang was very busy at this time. As the only son in the family, how could he not be busy after his father died? He was busy arranging funerals, busy welcoming and seeing off guests...
Even though she was very busy, Hua Zifang still walked out of the courtyard several times and looked at the entrance of the alley, looking forward to Jia Yun's arrival.
In his heart, Jia Yun is not only a friend, but also a noble person, not only because Jia Yun is now more and more appreciated by the Rongguo government, but also because Jia Yun will probably take the martial arts high school in the future.
Moreover, many people at the funeral now know that Jia Yun has won the first place in the Wu County Examination and the Wu Mansion Examination this year. Among them are nearby neighbors and servants of the Jia family...
In Hua Zifang's view, it was a honorable thing for these people to see Jia Yun come to attend his father's funeral.
Although there were many people at today's funeral, there were no noble people. In Hua Zifang's heart, Jia Yun was now considered a noble person.
Xiren has been granted permission by the Rongguo Mansion to come back to attend his father's funeral.
Nowadays, she has grown from a little girl to a young woman, and it can be seen that she is a beautiful woman.
At this time, she was wearing a white mourning dress and sitting beside the coffin in the hall, looking sad but elegant and touching.
Although she, as a maid next to Jia Mu in the Rongguo Mansion, could not meet foreign men at will, but on the occasion of her father's funeral, she did not care about such etiquette, not to mention that she was only a maid, not a young lady.
At this moment, Xiren looked sad, but there was a sense of expectation in his heart.
Hua Zifang told her that she had sent someone to Nancheng to inform Jia Yun. Jia Yun would probably come to visit the funeral and offer sacrifices.
Time flies by, and in the blink of an eye, it has been almost two years since she first met Jia Yun on the street with light snowfall. During this period, she never saw Jia Yun again.
However, during this period, she heard people talk about Jia Yun many times in Rongguo Mansion. Whenever she heard it, she could not help but think of the handsome young man riding a horse in the snow that day.
She knew that now the young man had passed the Wu County Examination, first place in the Wufu Examination, and was about to take the Wu Year Examination.
She also knew that Jia Zheng told Jia Mu that the young man would definitely be able to pass the martial arts examination, and he might become the first martial arts officer.
Although today was a day of mourning for her, when she thought of seeing the young man she had never forgotten again, a bright and warm sunshine seemed to appear in her gloomy heart.
"Will Mr. Yun really come to pay my father's funeral? My brother said that he and Mr. Yun have become friends. Is this true?"
Xiren asked this question in his mind countless times.
At this time, the crowd gathered in the small courtyard outside the hall suddenly became commotion.
Three horses, one black, one brown, and one yellow, appeared outside the gate of this dilapidated little house...