Listening to Bai Yunbian's merciless reply, Xia Jingyun did not get angry, but said calmly: "Miss Ning Bing is a miserable person. Although I am not responsible for her death, I still have something to do with it. Now she died here, except for a maid. There is no one else around, so what does it matter if I send her on her last journey?"
He looked at the white clouds and said, "Those so-called scholars are proud of having sex with prostitutes and drinking wine, but now they are accusing me?"
Bai Yunbian stopped talking, and Gongsun Jing continued:
"If it's just a gift, we have nothing to do. Just like the young master, you had a bad relationship with Mr. Qian because of him. Although we were worried, we didn't stop it. But this matter is different! To bury a prostitute is to consider yourself close. , You are completely unnecessary! Why not just ask a few laborers to carry him to the burial place, and let me supervise him and bury him alive, which will not be considered as neglecting the deceased. "
Compared to Bai Yunbian, Gongsun Jing's tone was much calmer.
"I want to correct you on a question. She is no longer a prostitute, she is already a normal woman who redeemed herself."
Xia Jingyun looked at him, "I admire her final awakening and her final chastity. So, what's wrong with me doing such a thing for a normal person?"
Su Yuanshang took over, "Gao Yang, if you are just one person, there is nothing wrong with doing this. I personally agree with it, and at the same time I admire your virtue and benevolence. But now, the image you represent is different. Concubine Zhu De, represents the Marquis of Jiang'an and the Marquis of Jiang'an. Your behavior will reach the ears of many people and will be interpreted by them. Your behavior is indeed unwise. What's more, under your leadership and with everyone's joint efforts, everything is developing prosperously. Can these personal emotions be put aside for a while?"
He sighed, "You have just repelled the Qin family's offensive, and if you act like this, the situation that may have been able to be calmed may be interpreted by others as throwing the Qin family's face to the ground and trampling on it until death. That would be troublesome."
There was still some skill in Su Yuanshang's words. He first affirmed Xia Jingyun's emotions, but then remonstrated with him from a utilitarian point of view.
Xia Jingyun pursed his lips and said, "Mr. Su, Ning Bing could have escaped in the end, and the other party would not have actually killed her. She was threatening and intimidating the people behind her because of Qin Yuwen's followers, and she was worried that it would affect me. She caused losses to me, so she was willing to give up her life. Shouldn’t I be more grateful and respectful to such a person?"
Before Su Yuan stopped speaking, Xia Jingyun looked at Feng Xiuyun again.
Feng Xiuyun sighed, "You have nothing to do with her, right?"
Xia Jingyun, who had been waiting carefully, almost failed, and couldn't laugh or cry, "It's not too late?"
Feng Xiuyun's cold face showed no emotion or anger, and she nodded, "Then I have no objection."
Su Yuanshang, Gongsun Jing, Bai Yunbian:.
Speechless, they had no choice but to look at Chen Fugui.
Chen Fugui was slightly nervous when he was looked at by so many important figures he once looked up to, "Master, is there any danger?"
Xia Jingyun smiled, "That's not the case."
"The little man has nothing to say, just stay with the young master."
Su Yuanshang, Gongsun Jing, Bai Yunbian:.
Xia Jingyun took advantage of the situation and stood up, "Since we don't have any objections, the matter is settled. Mr. Gongsun, please go and make all the preparations for the funeral. I will personally carry out the funeral tomorrow morning!"
A moment later, in a garden in the backyard, Xia Jingyun and Su Yuanshang were walking side by side.
Su Yuanshang said softly: "I still think your actions are a bit irrational. If it were anyone else, it wouldn't be a big deal, but you are different. You have great talents and want to achieve great things. It is indeed necessary to have benevolence and righteousness, but sometimes , these emotions should also be restrained a little."
"If I were that kind of person, would I have been able to impress Sir?"
Xia Jingyun teased at first, then slowly stopped his smile and looked deeply into the distance, "Mr. Su, I'm feeling really panicked, and I really want to make some noise to vent."
Su Yuanshang looked at him in surprise, "Is it because of the auction in the morning?"
"Of course, among the many things that happened after entering Beijing, the auction was a trigger."
Xia Jingyun said softly: "Staying here in Zhongjing City, looking at these powerful people for a long time, it seems that they are in a different world from the ones we have seen before. Seeing them in rich clothes and fine food, deceitful and intrigues, but I have forgotten that this is Outside the city, in this hot summer, there are still so many poor refugees who cannot afford to eat or wear clothes and are struggling to survive. They complained that there were few heavy snowfalls and many snowy scenes last winter, but I don’t know how many refugees were able to survive the cold winter because of this.”
He looked up at the sky, "In an auction, I spent more than 100,000 taels of real money and bought five useless mirrors. Each of them only hurt my body. But it was somewhat like rouge and as hard as ice." A woman was sold into a silver cave just for the three to five taels of living silver, and began a doomed miserable life. I saved one Rouge, but failed to save the second Ning Bing. These hundreds of thousands taels of money For me, there is no special joy, but it is heavy and depressing.”
He stared at Su Yuanshang with a heavy gaze, "Other people might think I'm being pretentious, but sir, you should understand me."
Su Yuanshang nodded slowly, "Just indulge yourself. This matter won't have much impact. As for the rest."
There was some firmness and belief in his eyes, "Isn't that the goal we are working hard for?"
Xia Jingyun laughed and said, "Mr. Su, actually I have another consideration."
Su Yuanshang asked with a face expression, and Xia Jingyun whispered a few words.
Su Yuanshang's eyes lit up, he thought for a while, and then nodded, "If this is the case, I support you!"
The next day, early morning.
Jiang'an City woke up one after another with yawns and eye droppings falling to the ground. A hearse slowly drove out of a street. There were four filial people in front and behind carrying white flags and scattering free money. The man took the lead, and a woman supported the coffin and walked slowly towards the south gate.
Residents and passers-by subconsciously glanced sideways, wondering which family was dead. Looking at this battle, the family was well off and had a thick coffin.
Some people took one look and then looked away, while others stared at the leading man and whispered, "Tsk, tsk, he looks so good-looking!"
Wu Laosan is the steward of Laiyang Hou Mansion. He was ordered to go shopping today. Because he got up too early, he was walking listlessly when he was suddenly elbowed by someone around him, "Hey! Look, that leader My little brother! He’s quite handsome!”
He looked along and suddenly froze on the spot.
Yesterday, he accompanied the master and his wife to the Record of the Stone, and he recognized that handsome face that turned to ashes!
What kind of big shot is this, so that Mr. Xia from the Marquis of Jiang'an can be buried in person?
He hesitated for a moment, then ran to the mansion to report the news.
Similar scenes continued to play out as the funeral procession slowly moved forward. It didn't take long for the news to reach the ears of many powerful people at an alarming speed.
On a high-rise building, two princes stood by the window, looking at the coffin slowly passing by on the street below, their expressions uncertain.
"Burial for a prostitute! Xia Gaoyang has simply disgraced the face of all the powerful people like us!"
"Those who are lucky enough to get into a humble alley can hardly understand what is the character of a powerful person and what is the heritage of a noble family."
"Because of this incident, many noble and upright people disdain to join the concubine's service."
"Isn't this a good thing!"
In another elegant teahouse on the second floor next to the road, Qin Sichao, the son of Prime Minister Qin and the number one son of Zhongjing City, was also standing by the window, watching Xia Jingyun slowly walk by, with a smile on his face, "Chong Jingyun." Love is so important, Xia Gaoyang really makes me feel ashamed!"
Malan Street is where Fenghe Pavilion is located.
The girls in the museum were all wearing rare plain clothes and gathered at the street corner, waiting for Ning Bing's coffin to pass by and say their final goodbyes to her.
Perhaps feeling the pressure from the Marquis Jiang'an Mansion, or perhaps wanting to appease the people in the pavilion, the owner of Fenghe Pavilion also acquiesced to this matter.
"coming!"
Someone with sharp eyes shouted, and everyone quickly stepped up and looked up.
I saw a not-so-shabby team slowly walking over.
These people have often experienced the birth, old age, illness and death of those around them. They have seen former matchmakers and courtesans die of illness or loneliness. How many people can receive such treatment, with nothing more than a thin coffin or even a roll of straw mat. , just buried hastily in a mass grave.
Those with a shallower mind couldn't help but murmur: "If I die and be buried in such a glorious way, I will be satisfied."
As the team approached, they saw the little maid Ying'er standing on the right side of the coffin, supporting the coffin and walking away. This little girl who was once a bit charming and a bit unruly seemed to have grown up overnight. , his face was calm and solemn, his mouth was pursed, and there were still tears on his face.
Only then did they see the face of the man walking at the front. Everyone suddenly widened their eyes and looked at that figure in disbelief.
Who are they?
She is the courtesan who wears gold, silver, silk and satin, and is flamboyantly decorated, and for whom everyone spends a lot of money. She is the dream lover who many people long for to be intimate with;
She is also a prostitute who is useless to everyone, a bitch who is ridden by thousands of people and slept with by thousands of people, and the most despised existence in this world;
But in the final analysis, they are miserable people who have been reduced to prostitution, and their lives are arranged like puppets. Their lives are bleak, and they have to suffer a lot of bullying. Once they get old, they lose their beauty, have nothing to do, and are riddled with diseases. , and even more so the prostitute who is repeatedly rejected;
It is the rootless duckweed that sways with the wind in the mortal world and has no stability in its life.
And this is not the real key. The real key is that their lives have never been bright.
Once a prostitute, always a prostitute.
So what about redemption? So what if you behave well?
Their downfall was due to the pressure of fate, but even if they mustered up all the courage to try to resist fate, try to control their own fate, and did not want to live a life that they themselves despised, the world slapped them hard and told them They, don't even think about it!
Just wallow in the mud! You are no longer worthy of being human in this life! I will no longer be qualified and live like a normal person!
But now, there is such a person, who is the star in the sky, the moon in the clouds, but is willing to cast his gaze and shed a glow for caged sparrows like them.
He bent down and paid the funeral in person.
Tell them, you have redeemed yourself, you are innocent, you have kept your innocence and chastity, and I will recognize you! I will never look at you the same way I look at a prostitute again!
Let them know that you are despised and spurned only because of your identity. As long as you have a good heart and work hard to make progress, one day you will get rid of this identity and you can feel free to be happy, angry, sad, and happy like a normal person.
As long as you have hope, life is not completely bleak!
This is a kind of gloom and depression that outsiders can never understand, but at this moment, Xia Jingyun has become the light of their lives.
They felt the same and burst into tears with gratitude. What's more, they even covered their mouths and started crying.
On the side, Gongsun Jing, who was helping with contact, sighed when he saw this scene, and said softly: "Ladies, go up and see Miss Ning Bing off for the last time. Don't delay."
One by one, the crying girls walked out of the street and walked to the coffin. Each of them sprinkled a handful of paper money, and then the leading girl Chunli gently placed the white cloth flowers in her hand on the coffin.
She looked at Xia Jingyun and bowed deeply, "Mr. Xia, thank you very much for burying Sister Ning Bing. You also left a last thought for us who are suffering and have hope for the rest of our lives."
Behind her, the girl from Fenghe Pavilion also bowed deeply to Xia Jingyun.
Speechless tears flowed.
After completing the process, none of the girls who were supposed to leave immediately after seeing them off did not move away, but silently followed the team.
Xia Jingyun glanced at them but did not drive them away.
On a tall building nearby, a young man who heard the news and came to see the excitement sneered, "In order to gain fame and reputation, he doesn't even let go of this reputation. He is indeed a stingy person with a mud-legged attitude."
The person next to him smiled and agreed, "That's not true. But he doesn't know that such a reputation is never a good thing for powerful families like ours. If he knew the consequences, he would probably regret it, haha! "
Gongsun Jing watched this scene from a distance. Although he was touched by the kindness and tenderness in his heart and was a little moved, he still felt that the gain was not worth the loss.
With so many risks and so many troubles, it doesn't work to win the support of a prostitute in the Fenghe Pavilion!
But before he could sigh, several more girls walked out of the street ahead.
"Mr. Xia, we are from Wanhua Pavilion, and we also want to give Sister Ning Bing a ride. Is it okay?"
Xia Jingyun nodded, "Thank you."
Several girls stepped forward, placed a piece of white cloth flowers on the coffin, and then looked at Xia Jingyun, "Mr. Being respected by others. Innocence and dignity to us are not things that can never be picked up again after being thrown away. The rest of our lives are no longer without thoughts, there is hope in life, and there is no end to the light even in death."
After saying that, they all bowed to Xia Jingyun, but did not go back, but silently followed the team.
At this moment, several girls walked out of an alley ahead.
Then, three, five, ten.
In several nearby alleys, women from brothels were walking out one after another and gathering towards the coffin.
Holding flowers wrapped in white cloth, they silently came to the coffin, saluted and presented flowers, and then silently bowed to Xia Jingyun, or followed the procession, or stopped to watch him leave.
The city is full of brothel prostitutes, all worshiping one person.
Xia Jingyun looked ahead and moved forward solemnly.
(End of chapter)
