Zeng San walked in from the outside with a basin in his hand, accompanied by two boys supporting him.
Zeng San has been in poor health for a long time these years, but he still insists on serving Jin Qing personally and not letting others interfere.
Just when Zeng San was about to soak the towel and wash Jin Qing's face, he suddenly heard the twins crying: "Mom, wake up!"
The hot towel in Zeng San's hand fell to the ground with a bang, and he stared blankly at Jin Qing lying on the bed: Master, are you really leaving like this...
There were cries in the house.
The corpses of Lan Tao, Lan Zhe, Liu Xinmei and Liu Dapeng were all returned to the temple in the capital for burial.
The bones of generations of the Lan family are stored in the back hill of this temple, where masters chant sutras and pray every day so that they can be prosperous and healthy in the next life.
But in order to prevent people from discovering Jin Qing's situation, Lan Ruyu could only choose to keep it secret.
She first put Jin Qing in the carriage and found a Feng Shui treasure to bury Jin Qing's body, and then sent the children out of the city within seven days.
Using the weapons left by Jin Qing, Lan Ruyu kept the matter a secret for nearly three months.
Six months later, facing the official officials who came to announce the decree for King Xi and his wife to go to Beijing with their son, King Xi and his wife smiled at each other and got into the carriage escorting them back to Beijing.
The reason they didn't leave before was because they couldn't let go of the Northern Territory they had brought up with their own hands. Now that the emperor has sent people to take over Northern Territory, they should naturally accept the emperor's upcoming thunderous wrath calmly.
Fortunately, the children have grown up and have their own careers and lives. Their lives are worth living...
Clinker, the carriage stopped and went, but instead of taking them back to the capital, they were sent outside the customs.
Lan Ruyu originally thought that these people planned to deal with her and King Xi privately.
Unexpectedly, after these people delivered them to their eldest son waiting outside the customs, they left with two death row prisoners who looked very similar to them.
Lan Ruyu, who had always been smart, was confused for the first time. She asked doubtfully why these people took such a big risk to let her and King Tao go.
But they were told that these people had owed favors to the swordsmith of Huaiyin Marquis Mansion for various reasons...
Lan Ruyu, who had narrowly escaped death again, cried on King Tao's shoulders: The eldest sister is always their eldest sister. No matter whether she is a biological sister of the same mother or not, the eldest sister has done everything a parent can do.
But they left the eldest sister's remains alone on the barren mountain outside Beijiang City.
The carriage continued walking west, where the future of the Lan family lay.
A hundred years later, Northern Xinjiang has become a necessary place for economic exchanges between small countries.
It's just that the dynasty has gradually become decadent, and the new emperor likes a luxurious and ostentatious life. When he can't make ends meet, local officials have to increase local taxes in order to maintain the emperor's daily expenses.
The people complained, the dynasty weakened day by day, and local officials began to use their apprentices to trade and make money.
A Hu merchant, whose appearance was very similar to that of the people of the imperial dynasty, brought a caravan to the imperial city. They rented a barren mountain and claimed to grow delicious grapes.
The officials inspected the barren mountain and found that there was nothing fishy about it, so they gave the mountain to the Hu merchant.
These officials were also smart. After Bao came out of the mountain, they did not forget to send people to secretly check what Hu Shang's conspiracy was.
Unexpectedly, after this Hu businessman got the mountain, he directly dragged a group of people to the mountain to open up wasteland. It looked like he was going to start a big fight.
Seeing this situation, the officials were secretly happy and secretly planned that after the Hu merchants had tidied up the wasteland, they would find a reason to drive away the people, leaving the Hu merchants to suffer a loss while they made profits from it.
The workers on the mountain had food to eat and money to earn, so they naturally worked extremely hard. In just one month, a large piece of wasteland was opened up.
Shang Hu was willing to spend money, hiring more and more workers, and the daily expenses kept spreading out like running water.
The more the officials watched, the more beautiful they became. Finally, they simply took back the people they were following, waiting for the day when the Hu merchant was finished.
Just a few days after the people he was following left, Hu Shang took his personal servant to the depths of the barren mountains. That was the main destination of their trip. They were members of the overseas Lan family.
Hu Shang's great-great-grandfather was the eldest of the twins that Jin Qing brought up.
This Hu Shang has been learning the family history of the Lan family since he was a child. Not only him, but all the children of his generation were reminded by their parents that their ancestor was named Lan Rushi, who left the dynasty and died in the northern border to protect them. , without the patriarch, there would be no Lan family as it is today.
No matter which generation they are, the descendants of the Lan family must find a way to bring the remains of their ancestors back to the overseas Lan family. They cannot let their ancestors stay on the barren mountains of northern Xinjiang without any incense to support them.
Hu Shang grew up listening to Jin Qing's deeds and respected Jin Qing very much in his heart, so he volunteered to return to northern Xinjiang to take away Jin Qing's body.
They found Lan Rushi's grave according to the instructions on the map in their hands, and carefully dug out Lan Rushi's coffin.
But what surprised them was that there was another coffin buried where the soles of Lan Rushi's coffin were facing. The remains in that coffin seemed to be that of a man much shorter than Lan Rushi.
Hu Shang stepped forward to check, but found that the man seemed to have been buried after a normal death.
The man held a small brocade box in his palm. Due to the decomposition of the corpse, the parts of the brocade box that were in contact with the body were already somewhat rotten.
Hu Shang opened the brocade box and found that there was a piece of cloth full of words written on it.
Although the cloth is also rotten, the words on it can still be read clearly.
"My name is Zeng San. I have wandered around the world and deceived people since I was a child. I have nothing in my heart except those yellow and white things.
I thought I would spend my whole life wandering like this and starve to death on the streets when I grow old. Little did I know that God showed mercy and allowed me to meet my master. He was also the person who pulled me out of the quagmire and changed my life.
I love money very much, but in my heart, the master is gold, silver, copper coins, banknotes, rare treasures, my faith, and everything I have.
Just because I was a liar, how many times I lay awake all night, regretting my mistake, my heart was filled with sorrow, I couldn't express my words to my master.
If there is an afterlife, I am still willing to serve my master and wait for orders, just like the Marquis's family is as deep as the sea, and I hope to be part of the Lan family.
Blue three. "
After folding the cloth and putting it back in its original place, Hu Shang sighed slightly. To be able to raise such a loyal servant, it seems that this ancestor is really not an ordinary person.
That night, Hu Shang's carriage quietly left Northern Xinjiang. On his carriage were two wooden boxes with mezzanines placed side by side. In the mezzanine were the wrapped remains of Jin Qing and Zeng San.
Hu Shang left without looking back, not caring whether the workers on the mountain would be in chaos because of this: he had already given the money that was due, don't think that he couldn't see the greed in these people's eyes.
The carriage went faster and faster, and Hu Shang from Northern Xinjiang felt relaxed as he watched him go away. With the blessing of his ancestors, the Lan family will definitely get better and better.
