The old lady stayed at Xie's house for seven days before mourning.
In the past seven days, Xie Zhongcheng led many people to search for Xie Shiwei's whereabouts, but could not find even a trace.
Many people thought that the Xie family had deliberately hidden people, and they became more and more disdainful of the Xie family. Some evildoers went to the Yamen to report to the officials, accusing the second young master of the Xie family, Xie Shiwei, of brutally killing the old lady of the Xie family.
Officials from the government came to Xie's house to investigate what happened.
Xie Jingyu was already ill. When he heard about this, he was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood.
Yun Chu walked into his room with the medicine: "The old lady will die with her eyes closed. Only when the government finds out the truth can the old lady rest in peace. Husband, don't worry about this matter and just take good care of your health."
She handed the medicine in her hand to Aunt Jiang who was waiting at the side.
Aunt Jiang carefully waited for Xie Jingyu to drink a large bowl of black concoction.
"Madam..." Xie Jingyu said, "Can you please Madam, in the name of the Yun family, ask an imperial doctor to diagnose my pulse for me?"
He had a very panicky feeling, as if his body was slowly losing control.
"The doctor I hired for my husband, Dr. Qiu, is the most famous doctor in this field in the capital. He is not even as good as the imperial doctor in the palace." Yun Chu pressed the quilt for him weakly, "Doctor Qiu said that you drank too much and were depressed. My heart is very angry, that's why I'm like this. As long as I take the medicine well and adjust slowly, I can return to normal... The old lady still has some things to deal with after the funeral, so I'll go and do it first."
Xie Jingyu raised his hand and grabbed her sleeve: "Madam, I only ask you for this one thing. I really need an imperial doctor."
Upon hearing this, Yun Chu smiled: "Are you sure that you only asked for this one thing from me?"
Her smile made Xie Jingyu feel particularly dazzling, and his hand gradually relaxed.
"Aunt Jiang, take good care of me."
Yun Chu dropped these words, turned around and walked out.
Aunt Jiang said softly: "You don't know something. Madam has been up almost day and night about the old lady's affairs these past few days. In addition, the second young master is missing. People from the government come here from time to time. It's all Madam who is dealing with... I am also here. I want to share the burden for the madam, but I don’t have the ability. If I can serve you well, I will share the worry for the madam.”
Xie Jingyu closed his eyes and said no more.
Yunchu returned to his yard. As soon as he sat down, and before he had a sip of tea, the woman in the yard rushed in anxiously: "Madam, the eldest lady is making trouble in the old lady's yard."
Yun Chu frowned: "What's the fuss about?"
"Isn't the old lady old? There are still many good things in the warehouse. The eldest lady asked Mother Zhou to hand over the key to the warehouse. Mother Zhou refused and made a fuss. Aunt Yu and Aunt Tao also came and made a fuss. "
Yun Chu sneered.
Even before the old lady's bones were cold, the Xie family began to fight for this little profit.
She said: "Madam is still here, and I, the head mother of the house, am also here. How can they compete with each other? Tingshuang, please go over and give the key to the warehouse to Madam. Let's see what Madam says."
Tingshuang nodded and went to do it. After a while, she came back and handed the key to Anshou Hall's warehouse to Yun Chu: "Madam said that Madam is now the head of the Xie family, so the old lady's belongings will naturally be kept by Madam."
Yunchu picked up the key and played with it. She really didn't like the old lady's things.
She said: "Open my warehouse and I will choose a few things."
In a blink of an eye, Tingshuang is getting married.
According to the custom of the Yun family, when a girl close to her gets married, the master prepares a dowry of about a hundred taels of silver, which is considered to be very generous.
Yun Chu prepared a banknote of five hundred taels, and also selected a complete set of gold and jade hollow heads and noodles, plus some pieces of fine cloth.
"Husband, Madam!" Tingshuang saw these things and her voice trembled with fright, "Slave, I can't bear it, please take it back, Madam."
"You can afford it." Yun Chu put the things on the table, "I have sent people to the government to cancel your slave status. From now on, you will be free."
Hearing Shuang's plop, he knelt on the ground: "Madam, how can I be so virtuous as a servant..."
Yun Chu helped her up.
In her previous life, the fire in Xie's family probably happened the year after tomorrow. In short, it was impossible for her to experience this fire in this life.
However, it doesn't mean that she will forget the scene when Ting Shuang desperately threw himself on her and blocked the falling beam for her.
"Tomorrow you will get married. I will give all the girls in Shengju a day off, so we can go live in the courtyard of your new residence together." Yun Chu said with a smile, "You can rest for a month after the marriage, and then go to the hot spring village to work. At that time, you were in charge of the village as the mother in charge, and I would not treat you badly in terms of wages."
Ting Shuang's throat was choked and she couldn't say a word.
The next morning, Grandma Xi, whom Yun Chu invited, dressed up Tingshuang and put on her wedding dress. The sedan went out from the side door of Xie's Mansion, where Yu Ke was waiting.
This is how servants get married. Being able to leave the palace through the side door is considered a great honor to the master.
Yun Chu took the maids and ladies from Shengju to have a wedding drink, but as the master, she was afraid that staying there would make her feel constrained, so she left after a glass of wedding wine.
Tingxue and Tingfeng stayed here to join in the fun, while she and Qiutong returned.
On the way back, she passed by a Baobao Pavilion and thought that the makeup she prepared for her concubine Yunran seemed to lack an excellent hairpin.
She picked up her skirt and got off the carriage and walked into the Baobao Pavilion. It had been a long, long time since she had visited a jewelry store. When she walked in, she was almost blinded.
There are many dazzling gold, silver and jade items on the counter for those who walk in to look at at will. If they are interested in buying, they will be taken in by the shopkeeper and better items will be brought out for selection.
"Madam, this is our new hairpin. Take a look at it. Do you like it?"
Yun Chu is actually only twenty years old. Although he has been married for five years, he still likes the things these women like in his heart.
It’s just that in the past few years, my attention has been distracted by too many things, and I have basically never bought jewelry for my hair. The hairpin on my hair is still some makeup given by the Yun family when I got married five years ago.
When she saw these jewelry, she felt happy immediately.
She now has hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on hand, so it's not too much to buy some things to make herself happy.
"This, this, and this..."
Her hand pointed in the tray.
The shopkeeper was overjoyed to buy so much at once, as he had met a big customer.
"I don't want these three, wrap up the rest." Yunchu looked at the shopkeeper, "Is there any more? I'll take a look."
The shopkeeper was stunned.
There were twenty small hairpins on a tray, but the lady actually asked for seventeen, and it was not enough, so she wanted to look at it again.
He nodded quickly: "Madam, I will bring the new goods later."
The shopkeeper quickly called the waiter and brought out all the newly arrived hairpins, hairpins, earrings, bracelets... and placed them in front of Yun Chu.
She chose some for her mother and sister-in-law, and the maids in the yard also bought one each.
In addition to these, she also bought two longevity locks.
One is for Brother Yu and the other is for Chang Sheng. I just don’t know when I will see them again.
"Thank you, madam!"
She was about to get into the carriage when a pleasant female voice sounded behind her.
She turned around and saw Mrs. Luo of Marquis Xuanwu.
