The festival is close to Chongyang, the original Jiangnan custom, to hang colorful silk, with bluegrass, pine, cypress, green bamboo, dogwood, etc. to build a stage, with various colors of chrysanthemum decoration, offering all kinds of cakes and fruits, please Antarctic immortals to descend, give the family a lot of blessings and longevity. In order to make Mrs. Jia's mood better, Lin Mansion used a lot of thought to set up a platform in Mrs. Jia's backyard, and the whole Lin Mansion is even more colorful silk flying, very spectacular, now Mrs. Jia is gone, these must be put away, the colored silk is put away, all changed to prepared white cloth, Lin Steward came to ask Xue Pan if he wanted to dismantle the stage, Xue Pan shook his head, "Since it is prepared, it is a pity to dismantle it, let it go first." ”

Then rush to make the clothes of the family, the female dependents are all dressed in linen, the men wear filial piety, and all the sacrifices, welcome the family members who are sent to, and be responsible for the preparation of all kinds of miscellaneous things, so they must be well arranged, fortunately, although the Lin Mansion is very sad and sad, but very kind, although Xue Pan is only a guest, but the people of the Lin Mansion will not underestimate Xue Pan, as soon as he is instructed, they all do it seriously, so it made a fuss all night, and in the second half of the night, Li Rubang and Qi Dazhuang and other Xue family stewards took care of the reassignment of Yanyin, and came to help together, There was so much strength in such a large number of people, and by four or five o'clock the next morning, everything was ready.

Xue Pan saw that there was nothing outside, and came to see Lin Ruhai again, Lin Ruhai was also sleepless this night, his eyes were red, and he bowed his head to write a letter in the signing room, Xue Pan was behind him with a maid holding a tray, "Shibo, life and death are fateful, wealth is in the sky, Mrs. Gu went peacefully, since people have gone, please mourn, don't be too sad." ”

Lin Ruhai sighed, but didn't say anything, Xue Pan ordered the maid to step forward, "The kitchen stewed bird's nest, and I invite Shibo to drink a little." ”

"Thank you nephew," Lin Ruhai motioned to the maid to put down the bird's nest, reluctantly drank a sip or two, and then put it down again, "I'm writing to Beijing, I really don't know how to talk to my mother-in-law, hey, thinking about how healthy my wife was when she descended in the past, but now she unfortunately died early, and my mother-in-law blamed me, I really don't know how to deal with it." Hey, her old man is already very old, and she knows about it rashly, and she doesn't know how sad she is. ”

Lin Ruhai's mother-in-law is the elder of the Jia family, Mrs. Shi, she loves her little daughter very much, so it must be an extremely miserable mood for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, Xue Pan nodded and said, "In this case, Shibo might as well say more good things, Mrs. Gu was very peaceful when she passed away, so she must be able to relieve her pain a little." ”

"That's the only way," Lin Ruhai sighed, "All the relatives and friends in the world have to tell them one by one, although this matter is not a good thing, but it is all to be said." ”

Xue Pan's funeral has already been done, oh, it is naturally Xue Pan's father's funeral, although he was very ignorant at that time, but once he was born and twice matured, at this time he came to handle Mrs. Jia's funeral very calmly, he said some important things, and asked Lin Ruhai, "There is a nephew outside to take care of, if Shi Bo is not afraid, all the affairs will be handed over to me, there are important guests, Shi Bo goodbye, but at home, when the women come and go, there is still one person to preside, Sister Lin is sad, it is not good to preside over it, It is better to ask Shibo to be unconstrained by that place, and to invite a wife to preside over the acquaintances. ”

When Xue Pan's father was at his funeral, his family presided over the Xue Wang's family, and Baochai was very generous, this was not a bad thing, Lin Daiyu was still young now, and she was very sad, and there was no serious female dependents at home to help her, so I was afraid that it would not work.

Lin Ruhai pondered slightly, "This thing is not easy to do, I was originally a guest house, there are not many people who know each other here, and I also know that the aunt at the head of the family can't get on the stage, but now I don't know where to find someone." ”

can only look for it slowly, the two of them are still talking, Jia Yucun came to report, and told a very unexpected news, "Lord Lantai, Brother Shi, Lord Yanyun is here." ”

Xue Pan frowned slightly, "What is Yang Belun here for?" He didn't have any conflict of interest with the salt envoy, but there was such a fuss yesterday, Xue Pan was born close to the Lin family, so he naturally shared the same hatred and didn't want to see this sinister villain, "If you come to mourn, it's too early." ”

When a family member passes away, the days before are generally reserved for relatives and friends, and then there are related business contacts, and finally if it is a high-ranking person, Shangguan will come to mourn at the time of the funeral.

Lin Ruhai's face was blank, "He is here to admit defeat, yesterday's matter, there is a nephew who presides, his salt envoy has been completely defeated, not only the matter of the salt introduction and reform faction can not be handled, but also offended me, and even offended the saint, if he takes away the errand and does it well, it is not good for the saint to deal with him, but now, his future is already in the old man's thoughts." ”

"Shibo, this person can't be spared," although Xue Pan didn't have deep feelings for Mrs. Jia, he could see that Lin Ruhai and Lin Daiyu were so sad, he couldn't help but feel a little sad, and he was even more angry, "Yesterday's incident, counting, is really a fluke for us!" ”

Xue Pan is stunned and bold, yesterday he launched it without caring about it, if it was replaced by a poor dick silk office worker in later generations, he would never dare to do so, courage is sometimes proportional to financial resources, Xue Pan is unwilling to link money and decisiveness so much, but he also has to admit that he must not dare to do such a splashing thing.

When there was nothing to do in the second half of the night, Xue Pan thought about today's success, and when he thought about it, he couldn't help but sweat coldly, if it wasn't for Ma Song and Sang Hongyang to deliver the message in the morning, knowing that Yang Bailun was taken by Hou Jing to coerce Lin Ruhai, this day's events were strangled to death from the beginning.

But the nature of the salt merchants is so left and right, Xue Pan got the information, so he hurriedly sent Mama Wang to deliver the message, at the last moment, Lin Ruhai couldn't stand the pressure and was ready to give up, Mama Wang stopped in time, this is simply the courage of Zhang Fei Heng Spear Yang Bridge, Lin Ruhai persevered, Xue Pan launched here, three news were released in a row, the salt merchants broke up one after another, and the Hou family and Yang Bailun were naturally defeated.

All kinds of coincidences, and the persistence of Xue Pan and Lin Ruhai, can be exchanged for such a good situation, if not, I am afraid that at this time, Lin Ruhai is already an excerpt of resignation, and Xue Pan will inevitably not be able to get the salt lead, so he can only say goodbye to Yangzhou and return to Jinling to squat home.