Chapter 924
Although Jiangbeiting is not in Xianyang, Jiang Pu, a fourth-rank official in Jiang Mansion, is in charge. Although he also doesn't like his willful niece, Jiang Chuyue died to protect Qinghe Hou. Although he is still an unmarried daughter, he cannot stop and have funerals according to the rules. Chen Xu arranged for the housekeeper to come and tell him that Jiang Chuyue must be buried with a ritual, and Jiang Pu had to summon the Jiang clan's legitimate tribe to arrange a mourning hall for funerals.
At noon, Chen Xu, who was pale-faced, dressed neatly and brought all his family to Jiang Mansion to worship.
"The Marquis should be recuperated in the mansion when they are injured. How dare you work? The Marquis comes to pay their respects in person!" Jiang Pu led the Jiang clan members to greet him personally at the door.
"If it weren't for Miss Chu Yue, I would be the one who lay in the wooden coffin today. I am sad and regretful. I can only express my feelings when I come to pay my respects. I still don't know how sad and painful the magistrate of Jiang County will be. Alas~"
After getting off the car, Chen Xu looked at the mourning hall with a sad expression.
"If the marquis is so concerned, I think Yue'er will be relieved when she comes to the ninth fountain. Marquis should not be too sad. The matter is hasty and the fourth brother is not in Xianyang. Everything is in a hurry and simple manner. Please do not blame me, please~"
Jiang Pu wiped the corners of his eyes and sighed slightly and took Chen Xu and others to the mourning hall to pay tribute.
The mourning hall that was built in a hurry was hung with white banners and white cloths, and swayed slightly in the breeze. A hurriedly made beech thick coffin was placed in the center of the mourning hall. There were several ice magazines under the coffin. The strong cold air emanated from the ice magazine. The entire mourning hall exuded a strong coldness. Therefore, as soon as we stepped into the mourning hall, everyone could not help but feel their bodies tightened and their breathing became heavier.
Under the open coffin lid, Jiang Chuyue had neat makeup and a delicate face. She was wearing a light blue silk skirt, her eyes were closed and her fair cheeks seemed to have a faint smile.
Looking at the girl lying alone in the coffin, Chen Xu felt a tingling pain in his heart, and the little things he knew with Jiang Chuyue kept appearing in his mind. Although the two had not had much interaction, Chen Xu remembered each time deeply. He could not say he liked this girl, but this time he went to Peixian and then to Wuzhong and Langya. He walked together for thousands of miles. He knew Jiang Beiting's thoughts and Jiang Chuyue's thoughts. Although he had been silent and followed like a shadow, Chen Xu could still feel Jiang Chuyue's faint and indescribable sadness and sorrow at any time, just like losing his soul. Only when he occasionally talked to Chen Xu could he feel her vitality.
In this era, women who have not been married and have no husband's family cannot be buried with a grand funeral, and they cannot be buried in the Jiang clan tomb. They can only find a barren mountain to bury them. As Jiang Chuyue's only legitimate brother in Xianyang, although Jiang Chuxing was also extremely painful, he could only arrange his funeral. Xianyang is more than 2,000 miles away from Pei County. He must be buried before the Jiangbeiting couple rushed back, and may even not wait for the news of Jiang Chuyue's death to reach Pei County.
Shortly after Chen Xu came to Jiang Mansion to pay his respects, Jiang Chuxing came in from outside with red eyes. After seeing Chen Xu, he choked up and thanked him.
"Brother Jiang asked me to come up, Miss Chu Yue saved me and died, how could she be buried in the wilderness..." Chen Xu helped Jiang Chuxing up with both hands. After pondering for a long time, he turned his head seriously and seriously to look at Shui Qingrou Ying Shiman and Meng Wan. "Although I have no marriage with Miss Chu Yue, I have an unmarried couple's appointment. Although this appointment is just a show, I can't bear to see Miss Chu Yue has nothing to do. I want to bury Miss Chu Yue in the Chen Cemetery in the name of my fiancée. What do you think?"
"Mr. Marquis, this matter must not be done!" Not only Jiang Pu and the Jiang clan were shocked, but even Jiang Chuxing shook his head pale.
"What's wrong? Miss Chu Yue is commensurate with my husband, and this matter was arranged by Brother Jiang, and the Jiang County Magistrate and his wife agreed..." Chen Xu looked at Jiang Chuxing.
"Miss Chu Yue sacrificed her life to save Yi Bo Yuntian. I have no objection to my husband's arrangements!" Shui Qingrou Ying Shiman and Meng Wan were both blessed with their eyes.
"Then let's arrange it like this!" Chen Xu nodded slightly, carefully observed a piece of jade pendant that he had been holding in his hand again, then sighed and placed it beside Jiang Chuyue. After thinking for a while, he took off one of his jade pendants and put them together.
"The Marquis and the three Marquises are so kind to the third sister. I think the third sister will be very happy if you know about it. Chu Xing thanks the Marquis and the Marquises for their parents and the third sister!" Jiang Chuxing was moved and prepared to bow again.
"Brother Jiang, don't use such a great gift!" Chen Xu held Jiang Chuxing and shook his head, and then ordered the butler who followed him to discuss the funeral with the Jiang clan.
Although Jiang Chuyue came to pay his respects due to his identity problems only to some relatives and friends of the Jiang family, not many people, shortly after Chen Xu left, a large number of Xianyang people and famous merchants suddenly came in groups, including Chen Ping, Zhang Cang, Li Shun and Qi Mao, and Meng Yun and other groups of playboys came to pay homage. As time went by, after hearing that Jiang Chuyue would be buried in the name of Qinghe Marquis' fiancée, the whole of Xianyang started to yell in surprise and confusion. All civil and military officials and princes and princes and ministers began to act and brought a large number of gifts to Jiang Mansion to pay homage. Finally, even the palace moved when it came to the news. Fusu and several other young men came to pay homage. Concubine Jiang Concubine Zheng Concubine Shu Concubine Yun Concubine also sent palace servants to pay homage.
A funeral that should have been extremely simple finally turned into a grand ceremony that alarmed the entire Xianyang. Due to the sudden change in Jiang Chuyue's identity, officials from three provinces and six ministries came one after another. The Ministry of Rites sent officials to specially organize funerals and organized craftsmen and prisoners to dig tombs and build mausoleums in a mountain forest in Chen Xu's fief.
Three days after the spirit was stopped, under the escort of hundreds of imperial guards, Jiang Chu Yuelingshu left the city to be buried. In addition to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion and hundreds of people from the Jiang family escorted the hearse, hundreds of thousands of people in Xianyang City also saw him off.
The day after the funeral, Xianyang Metropolis Daily published a first-page condolence tribute. The Marquis of Qinghe personally wrote it, and a line of black characters were published: The meaning is poor in the sky, and the pain of Chu Yue!
"Husband, you have done well enough. Don't hurt too much. Your health is important!"
After the funeral, yellow paper and white silk were scattered everywhere in the newly fallen cemetery, and countless white banners swayed around the tomb in the wind. The guests dispersed. Chen Xu and his family came to worship melons, fruits, fragrances, candles and worship again.
Shui Qingrou, Ying Shiman, Meng Wan and Fan Caiying were with each other, and countless servants from the Qinghe Marquis' Mansion silently lowered their heads and wiped their tears.
"A man cannot be resurrected after death, but unfortunately, what's the use of doing more?"
Looking at the rising green smoke and the unextinguished paper money, Chen Xu silently looked at the black tombstone engraved with the "Tomb of the Chu Yuezhi of the Fiancé of Hou Xu in Qinghe", and his face was desolate when he sighed.
Some people and some things are only realized after missing them, but no matter how much they do, they have almost no meaning. He only wants to appease Jiang's family, and at the same time expresses his guilt towards Jiang Beiting.
He promised to take good care of Jiang Chuyue, but he didn't expect that he would make such a big mistake when he was about to arrive in Xianyang.
Blood debt can only be paid for blood.
Chen Xu's eyes gradually became icy and sharp.
In addition to Jiang Chuyue's funeral, more than 20 people died of guards and young men who protected him, as well as groom servants who accompanied him. Although Chen Xu did not need to worry about burial, he died because of him. Therefore, Chen Xu also carefully inquired about it. Most of these guards were people with families, and they also had parents, wives and children at home, and they all needed to be properly comforted.
Although Chen Xu had made an advance judgment on the assassination of Xiang and Ji brothers, he still underestimated Xiang's determination and the appeal and ruthlessness of the Ji brothers. After following along the way, he learned that Chen Xu would return to Xianyang through Hangu Pass, a premeditated ambush began to be arranged in a strict manner. He first arranged for bandits to pretend to be mountain people to prepare huge rocks to block the valley on both sides of Hangu Pass, and then dressed up as business trips and pedestrians assassins entering and leaving Hangu Pass every day to attack. In order to prevent Chen Xu from escaping, two different groups of different groups were set up at the entrance of the valley.
Archers, after an extremely fierce and tragic fight, although the Ji brothers did not succeed, almost all the assassins involved in the ambush in the valley were injured, and most of the archers at the valley entrance were killed or injured, but neither the mastermind nor the leader arrested. Chen Xu had no idea what happened later after he was unconscious on the spot. However, according to the news brought back by Xiao He and Liu Bang who stayed in the aftermath of Hangu Pass, according to the arrangements of the Hangu Pass to identify him, there was a bandit in the valley that looked like the bandit leader Ji Xin, but he had been blown away by Taiyi Divine Thunder.
Because there were many casualties and injuries in business trips and pedestrians, it was no longer clear which were the assassins found by the Ji brothers and which were innocent civilians. However, a group of teenagers under Chen Xu died, seven of the guards died, and seven of the accompanying grooms, helpers and maids were injured, and more than fifty people were injured.
It took Xiao He and others four days to transport all the dead and injured people and the carriages in Hangu back.
Seven or eight days passed in the blink of an eye, and after a series of funerals and busyness, Qinghe Marquis' Mansion finally calmed down, but Chen Xu finally couldn't insist on vomiting blood and falling into a coma again.
Chapter completed!