After Aluo briefly explained the matter, he said: "I have calculated that I only have one hundred and fifty taels of silver in cash, and the remaining three hundred taels, I don't know where to raise it."
Xianyue thought for a while and said: "I still have 600 taels of silver notes left here. You can take 500 taels tomorrow to cover your mother's body."
A Luo waved his hands hurriedly and said: "How can this happen? The master has been fined half a year's salary by the emperor. The only thing left that can be used is these six hundred taels. If it is given to a slave, what will the master do?"
Xianyue smiled slightly and said: "I am in the palace, and there is no place to spend money. Besides, you also said that it is only a fine of half a year. Now four months have passed, and the remaining two months will soon be
arrive."
"But..." Aluo wanted to say more, but Xianyue had already said: "Okay, this matter is settled."
A Luo knew that although the food in the palace did not use silver, it did not mean that there was no need to use silver. Xianyue was not like the Gao family and others. Someone outside the palace would send money from time to time. She only had those personal
For example, if the palace officials or the imperial doctors came in the future, she would not even have the money to reward her, so she would have to be laughed at by the palace officials who followed her.
A Luo's eyes were red and he knelt down and said: "My slave has no way to repay the master's great kindness. In this life, the next life, and the next life, the slave will serve the master."
"Silly girl, get up." Xianyue smiled and pulled Aluo up and said, "Other than the emperor, you are the closest person to me. If something happens to you, why should I not help you?"
"No matter what, the master's kindness will be engraved in my heart forever." A Luo insisted on saying this before standing up.
Xianyue smiled and said: "I'll go and do this tomorrow. I think you can't wait any longer. After you get it out, you can ask Uncle Jiang to arrange a place to live. You can rent it first and wait for it later."
You can buy another small house with the money. Anyway, don’t wrong your mother."
A Luo didn't know what to say, so she could only nod her head vigorously. The next morning, she took the banknote and left the palace to find Uncle Jiang, asking him to take her there to redeem her mother's life.
After listening to A Luo's words, Uncle Jiang did not move for a long time. He just looked at A Luo with a kind of pity. After a long time, he said: "There is no need to go there, there is no point in going."
A Luo asked in confusion: "Why? I have already brought enough money, isn't it the old boss who wants more?"
"No, yes...yes..." Uncle Jiang sighed heavily and said, "That's all, you will know about this sooner or later, there is no need to hide it from you. Just last night, the brothel where your mother was was leaked.
, many houses were burned down, and one person was burned to death."
"Burned to death?" A Luo's heart tightened, and he quickly grabbed Uncle Jiang's hand and said, "Who is it? Who was burned to death?"
While waiting for Uncle Jiang's answer, she kept praying in her heart, never... never be her mother, but the truth is often so cruel, the more you don't want it to happen, the easier it will happen.
Uncle Jiang said with an unbearable look on his face: "The person who escaped before I could... is your mother."
A Luo stood there in a daze, not even blinking. For a long time, she screamed: "No, I just found my mother, she won't just leave me like this, she must still be alive, must be alive!"
"
Uncle Jiang sighed and said, "Oh, I can't believe this is true. You and your daughter have just met, but it is true. Miss A'luo, please..."
A Luo suddenly interrupted him and said sharply: "No, I don't believe it! Uncle Jiang, take me there, take me there!"
Seeing that she insisted on doing this, Uncle Jiang had no choice but to take her to the brothel where she had been yesterday. Before she even got close, he smelled a burning smell. When he got to the backyard, he saw that the original row of bungalows were all empty.
It was burned into ruins, leaving only some ruins. Some women about the same age as Wang were talking around there, and the old man whom I had seen before was also there.
Without waiting for Uncle Jiang to speak, Aluo walked quickly to the old man and said nervously: "Where is my mother? Where is my mother? Tell me, where is she?"
"Your mother, which one is your mother?" The old man was confused by her. When he found out it was Wang, he said angrily: "He's dead. He didn't escape. He was burned alive." After that, she muttered.
He said: "It's really strange. There was a fire for no reason, and everyone else escaped. She was so fast asleep that she didn't even know she was burned."
Uncle Jiang's eyes flashed, and he came over and said to A Luo who didn't know what he was talking about: "You have heard it all, don't think too much about it, I'm sorry."
"How could this happen...how could this happen?!" A Luo squatted down and held her head in pain, tears falling down. She had obviously brought enough money to take her mother out of the brothel, so why did things suddenly become like this?
, just one night, why? Why did God take away her mother after she found her? Why was it so cruel? She just wanted to stay with her mother and fulfill her filial piety...
When Lao Bao was about to leave, A Luo suddenly remembered something, grabbed her by the corner of her clothes and asked, "Where is my mother's body?"
The old man nonchalantly pointed to a straw mat piled in the corner and said, "Well, isn't it right there? I haven't buried it yet!"
A Luo dragged his heavy legs to the straw mat, stretched out his hand several times and retracted it. After a long time, he finally opened the straw mat, revealing the body underneath that was burned beyond recognition.
A Luo knelt in front of the corpse and cried bitterly, calling Wang over and over again, but Wang would never respond to her again, leaving her with only endless grief.
With Uncle Jiang's comfort, A Luo barely stopped crying and said with a choked sob: "Uncle Jiang, I... I'm going back to the palace soon. I want to ask you to help bury my mother. Is that possible?"
Uncle Jiang nodded and said: "Don't worry, I will let your mother be buried properly. Just go back to the palace." At this point, he suddenly said "Hey" and said: "What's wrong with your mother's neck?"
There seems to be a scar?"
Arrow looked carefully and saw that although the body was charred, the scar on the neck could still be barely recognized, and it looked as if the wound was deep and fatal. It was strange, how could there be such a scar on his mother's body, and where did it come from?
Come on, who was hurt?
A Luo thought for a long time, but still couldn't come up with a clue. Instead, he had an unbearable headache, as if a needle was pricking him. When Uncle Jiang saw her like that, he just thought he was sad about Wang's death, and after a few words of comfort, he said: "
You stay here for a while while I go buy a coffin."
Hearing this, A Luo temporarily put aside the doubts in his heart, took out the banknotes in his sleeves, took out two hundred taels and handed them to him. His eyes were red and he said: "Mother has never enjoyed any blessings in her life. If there is any money left,
Yes, please ask Uncle Jiang to ask some eminent monks to perform a ritual ceremony for my mother, so that she can be reborn in a good family in her next life and not have to suffer as much as she did in this life."