Since I met you, people are dying every day

"I want to put incense on Mr. Tang's grave." Ye Sirui said.

The request came almost without thinking.He was amazed at his naturalness, as if Tang Lianggong was really his good teacher and helpful friend.Xia Shu said, "Okay, I'll go with you."

Ma Lu was still hesitant, "Sir, didn't you come here to solve the case? Have you found any clues to solve the case now?"

There was a hint of complaint in his words.But Ye Sirui already understood him, so he didn't get angry because of it. "You're right, I have to talk to Madam Tang first."

There is no need to look at other things.He put away the two memorials related to him and walked outside the house.Stopped a maid and asked, "Where is your wife?"

The servant girl reported a place quickly, but none of them heard clearly.Ye Sirui said: "Ask her if it's not convenient to see Mr. Ye at this time, and just say that Mr. Ye has something important to discuss with her."

After a while, the servant girl trotted back and said, "My lord, please come with your servant girl."

Ye Sirui didn't bring any tea this time, Xia Shu must be inconvenient, Ma Lu is not a servant after all, "Go out and wait, I will go by myself."

Mrs. Tang wore a very delicate double-breasted jacket with a vertical collar, a horse-face skirt, and a plain robe wrapped around it. She stood casually with her hands on a chair. "What's the big deal, my lord?"

"Master Tang passed away unfortunately, Madam must be overly grieved..."

"It's none of your business whether you're sad or not!?" Mrs. Tang retorted fiercely, Ye Sirui ignored him, and continued to say: "Mrs. Tang is too sad, and she wants to burn Mrs. Tang's relics on the seventh day of Mrs. Tang's life." .”

Mrs. Tang showed doubts. Due to the loss of her husband, she could not wear jewels, emeralds, gold and silver, and only wore plain paper flowers on her head. "You want me to burn his relics. What good will it do you?"

It seems that this woman is not confused.Ye Sirui has always been gentle and courteous, but his words are not polite: "This has nothing to do with Madam, Madam just need to remember that these burned things are belongings outside your body, and after the first seven days, you can move out of the state office and start a new life." lived."

Mrs. Tang lowered her head and thought for a while, then she revealed a gentle smile.She never showed a good face in front of Ye Sirui, and when she suddenly smiled, Ye Sirui was a little sluggish. "Master Ye is right, it's my concubine who is confused. For the first seven days of my husband's death, please honor Mrs. Ye."

Ye Sirui smiled and nodded.

After finishing business, it is time to visit the cemetery.Ye Sirui deliberately changed into plain clothes, wearing a black gauze hat and a black horn belt around his waist.He and Xia Shu went on horseback, Ma Lu said he wanted to go around the city.Ye Sirui took the opportunity to arrange tasks for him.

Tang Lianggong's cemetery is in the suburbs.After all, he was the magistrate of a state. It is said that the funeral was held in a grand style, which was completely contrary to the simplicity of his life.It's just hard to say how many people who attended the funeral were genuinely sad for him.

The cemetery has four-foot-high walls.They tied their horses to trees outside the wall and entered on foot.Along the road, there are stone tigers, stone horses, stone wangzhu and other animal statues.The stele is seven feet high and two feet eight inches wide, and Tang Lianggong's name is engraved on it.

There is an incense burner in front of the grave.Ye Sirui came over with incense, lit three sticks of incense and prayed, "Master Tang, Ziqi is still young and doesn't know people well, so don't blame him for a long time. If you are angry or angry, Ziqi will bear it all. To save each other with death, I will live up to my lord's expectations, try my best to eradicate the culprit, and avenge my lord. If Master Tang is alive, please bless Ziqi to solve the case smoothly."

After he finished speaking, he felt relieved.This nondescript eulogy is just right for Tang Lianggong, he doesn't necessarily want others to cry and be downcast when they come to see him.He must hope that Ye Sirui can solve the case smoothly, so that his sacrifice will not be in vain.

Xia Shu also took the incense and knelt down, "A man has gold under his knees, but he can kneel down and kneel down to his parents."

If Ye Sirui's words are nondescript, Xia Shu's words are simply outrageous.If you can only kneel to the sky and kneel to your parents, what is it to see officials and even the emperor kneeling?Xia Shu went on to say: "Master Tang is dedicated to serving the public. He can be called the parents of the people in Jiangbei Prefecture. Xia Shu is willing to kneel for you."

He held up the incense and kowtowed, got up and put the incense into the incense burner. "Is there anything else you want to say?" Ye Sirui said, "It's nothing, let's go back." He refrained from asking Xia Shu about it.Xia Shu is a killer, and it is inevitable for people in the world to be rebellious.Anyway, Ye Sirui didn't intend to let him see him and salute, so why should he care about these things?

The two scanned the quiet cemetery again, and rode away.

When the two returned to the state office, Ma Lu had already returned. "This Pu County is a good place with outstanding people."

"How do you say that?" Ye Sirui asked.

"The results of the township examination are released today. Among the candidates in Zhili, there are eleven in Pu County!" Ma Lu said, "God, a county has eleven candidates in the exam a year! There are Songhe County and Lin County. The academy has never seen such a grand occasion!"

Ye Sirui didn't care much. "It's just eleven cases. After all, Pu County is where the Jiangbei Prefecture Government Office is located, and the state school is also located here. It's normal to have a good academic style." He skipped this topic, "Is the matter settled?"

"Of course, my lord can rest assured that Ma Lu is doing business." Ma Lu said solemnly.Knowing that he had the capital, Ye Sirui ordered Cha Ming, "Take the money to buy wine for Uncle Ma!"

Ma Lu accepted the reward with a smile.

In just two days, it was the Seventh Memorial Day for Foreman Tang Liang.According to folklore, Lord Tang's widow was so distraught that she couldn't bear to look at things and think about others, and wanted to burn Lord Tang's relics. Master Li understood her pain of losing her husband and generously agreed to her request.

On that day, Li Xiang closed the hall for a day, and set up a mourning hall in the county government to preside over the ceremony in person.All the officials of the prefectural government wear plain clothes and burn incense to pray.After the ceremony was over, Li Xiang ordered someone to bring up a big brazier and asked Mrs. Tang to burn the relics.

Mrs. Tang wore mourning clothes today, without any makeup, she was quiet and generous, charming and charming, without any trace of the years left on her.Wearing a black veil, she stepped forward, sobbing softly, her body trembling extremely gracefully.She first offered incense and prayed silently, and then ordered the servant girl to sort out the piles of manuscripts, pieces of clothes, and pieces of Doufang calligraphy and paintings, and put them into the brazier one by one. Burn to ashes.

In the end, only a wooden box was left, but Mrs. Tang ordered the servant to put down the brazier.Ye Sirui lowered his head, but silently raised his eyes to look at her.Li Xiang asked: "Madam Tang, what is this? Why didn't you burn it together?"

Mrs. Tang glanced at him, and said softly: "This is the memorial that my husband reported to His Majesty. I don't dare to hurt the face of the sky. I am willing to offer it in front of my husband's spirit tablet, and we will be buried together in the tomb some day."

Li Xiang lowered his eyes, "So that's the case, Madam is very thoughtful."

After burning the relics, the ceremony is basically over.It's just that relatives need to stay in the mourning hall that night.Naturally, Mrs. Tang didn't need to come in person for this kind of thing, and her personal servant girl acted as a goddaughter to watch the night on her behalf.After entering the watch, the mourning hall was officially closed.There was only one servant girl in the mourning hall, and the candles were brightly lit. The guards guarding the gate inevitably slacked off and yawned repeatedly.

The servant girl who was watching the night knelt on the mat, dazed, and woke up from time to time with her head hanging down, and quickly sat up straight, and soon fell asleep again, her head bit by bit.

Candles are lit everywhere in the house, if you don't look at the spirit card, there is really no gloomy feeling.The maid soon fell asleep again.

Just after the third watch, when everyone was slacking off, all the candles in the room went out in an instant.

The rustling clothes rubbed against each other, making a low voice.

"Who? Who?" The servant girl woke up and screamed in horror.

"This is what you are looking for?" There was a sudden clanging and fighting in the darkness, and the infiltrator was secretly surprised.A light came on, and Ye Sirui held the night watch maid with one hand, and slowly raised the wooden box in front of the spirit tablet with the other.Immediately someone rushed over to him.Xia Shu's sword was out of its sheath, and the injured infiltrator held his wound and screamed.

The maid screamed again, and Ye Sirui casually comforted her: "Don't be afraid, it's fine."

More than one person came, and they quickly showed their short knives and set up their positions.Xia Shu Jujian said coldly: "Sneaking up on girls in the dark, is this the way to go?"

No one responded to him, and the group of people, all wearing night clothes and masks, rushed over with their swords drawn.Xia Shu had no fear, raised his sword to fight, the sword flashed, and his voice contended.The maid was already covering her eyes in fright, Ye Sirui was inevitably a little worried.After all, Xia Shu has more enemies with fewer, not to mention his advantage is his excellent lightness skills, and he is not good at melee combat, so he will inevitably be at a disadvantage.But Ye Sirui quickly breathed a sigh of relief: Ma Lu led people to rush in through the main entrance and join the battle.

The person brought by Ma Lu was the guard who escorted Ye Sirui to Bing County before, and he had dealt with him before, and he could be bought for his own use with a little money.As for the other servants of the state government, forget it.

Ma Lu and the others joined in to attack the infiltrators, Xia Shu took the opportunity to stretch out, and with his lightness charge, the leader charged straight over, stabbing his shoulder with a sword.This attack was very sure, but the man had some kung fu, and quickly dodged it for a moment, Xia Shu quickly retracted his sword, and happened to pick off the man's face scarf.The man brought by Ma Lu was carrying a lantern in addition to his saber, the face of that man caught Ye Sirui's eyes, Ye Sirui was in a daze, and then sneered.

Xia Shu didn't fight with him, he pulled out to attack others, under the attack from both sides, many stalkers were injured, but their martial arts were not low, and the yamen servants didn't take much advantage.The person whose mask was taken off by Xia Shu shouted in a low voice: "Retreat!" He took the lead and rushed to the yamen servant behind him with his sword drawn.

Ma Lu shouted: "Grandpa, I don't want to let you go!" and was about to jump on him, Ye Sirui shouted: "Ma Lu stop!" Ma Lu jumped into the air and retreated.The other yamen servants were even more unwilling to work hard, and the stalkers broke through the siege and escaped successfully.

"What are you doing in a daze! Chase!" Ma Lu angrily ordered.The yamen servants looked at each other in blank dismay, and there was no movement.They just took the money and said that they came to do a little favor for Mr. Qian, but who knew that this gang would be a terrible favor.What's more, chasing out of the state government is acting without authorization, and the magistrate may punish him?

Ye Sirui walked forward with a lantern and said: "Everyone has worked hard today, go back and rest. Tomorrow, the Japanese officials will send someone to send you the hard-earned money. Brothers who are injured will pay double for the medicine."

Everyone dispersed.Ma Lu was angry and annoyed, "Why did your lord stop me?"

"Because you can't beat him." Ye Sirui said, then turned to Xia Shu and asked: "Next time you chase, can you accidentally miss and take his life?"

"Why?"

"Because he is Kuang'er's father-killing enemy."