Before dawn, the paper money in the sky was sprinkled, with the crying Jiang Song falling into the pot, Mr. Yin and Yang waved solemnly, and the funeral procession began to move slowly.

Xu Hao and other disciples walked in the front in filial piety clothes, eight great monks recited scriptures, eight gangs in the middle carried heavy coffins, and Cui's crying and crying coffins walked beside them. A few disciples had just arrived from afar, so they had to wear plain clothes to accompany them, and the neighbors lined up in two rows to follow behind, and the line of nearly two or three hundred people formed a long line.

Most of the cemeteries of the people of Xiaojia Village are located on a sunny slope of Qingshan in the north, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water, and the feng shui is very good. In less than half an hour, when the sky was just dawning, we arrived at the foot of the mountain.

The mountain road was difficult to walk, and it took another half an hour to come to the cemetery. Xu Hao looked at it, but saw that the slopes of the grassy col were full of graves. Among them, there are some of the Xu family, some deceased family members are buried, there is no place of their own, and the ancestral tomb of Fengyang's hometown is the future destination.

Under the guidance of Jiang Tao, he found a large circle of good places occupied by Jiang Song, Jiang Song deliberately used stones to form a boundary before his death, and the graves of other people's families were far away from his house, and the big guy was inevitably angry and sighed.

In the past, several people began to dig in the earth, and the monks recited mantras and so on. Taking advantage of this time, the villagers went to their own cemeteries to weed and incense, put on the offerings they brought, and then kowtowed.

Xu Hao and other disciples were busy placing the offering table, filling it with three animal sacrifices, and the preface teeth were arranged in shifts. When the coffin is buried before noon, it is necessary to take turns to go forward to offer incense and wine, and to perform five prostrations, and to mourn and cry.

Xue Wen ran forward and backwards, carrying a pocket full of silver coins in his hand, and walked over and said, "I counted and calculated, because the whole village more or less understood. Coupled with the expenses of our disciples, the Xu family will pay for half of the expenses, and there will probably be one hundred and eighty taels of silver left, what should I do with this money? I can't give Jiang Tao a gamble, and it's not good to take my wife away to get married, so the big guy will discuss it. ”

Zhao Liang asked in surprise: "How do you know that the master is going to get married?" You have to keep it for three years, right? ”

Xue Wen mouthed Nunu, the father and daughter of the Cui family, who were standing in the distance and talking in a low voice, and said: "Cui Bao has talked about the family, just wait for the first seven days to let the master remarry immediately, with Jiang Tao's temperament, I can't wait for people to leave, who do you guess that person is?" Just now I asked the matchmaker in the village. It turned out to be Liu Laoshi, it's really an honest person who doesn't do honest things, and Jiang Shi is still thinking about revenge when he leaves. ”

The big guy was speechless when he heard it, but it was a pity that Jiang Sheng had done too much evil in his life, and he had no confidence to fight for him. Even if he knew that Liu Laoshi was holding a grudge and intended to marry the Cui family to humiliate the Jiang family, but it was also the Ming media who was marrying, and no one could blame anything.

What's more, in terms of local customs, Jiang Song is dead, but Liu Laoshi inherited someone's wife. The reputation must be hard to hear. However, Liu Laoshi has been tossed by the Jiang family in the past few years, and his face has been swept away, and he doesn't care about his reputation at all, he just wants to take revenge on Mr. Jiang's wife repeatedly on the bed.

No way. Everyone can only swallow this breath, Xu Hao doesn't want to meddle in things, what can you say if you and I are willing to do it?

Zhao Liang came up with an idea and said: "This silver will bother Lao Xue, you will save it for Jiang Tao, and the two young masters of the Xu family will take care of it." In this way, I am not afraid that Jiang Tao will force the old Xue family to beg for it. ”

Xu Ji nodded and said, "Cheng." With my brother here, he dares to make a mistake. Someone suddenly said: "Jiang Sheng has accumulated a lot of money before his death, and no one knows where to hide it." can't be hollowed out by the Cui family behind his back, leaving an empty house for Jiang Tao. ”

Xu Wen, who was silent, suddenly sneered: "When I go down the mountain, I will order people to search them out, point them out in person, and divide them according to the law." ”

Soon these words reached Cui Baoren's ears, and he hurriedly walked over and said with a bitter face: "Everyone, you give a comment, Jiang Song has been ill for a few months, and he is reluctant to spend a penny, and every time the little old man thinks about his daughter's affection, he has taken a lot of silver money to come over to help, my daughter can't eat or sleep well, and she has served him for so long, isn't it worth a three-year wife?" You can't just give a few dozen or two properties and send my daughter away, right? ”

Xue Wen said truthfully: "Cui Baoren's words are true, and he has indeed spent a lot of money, and I testify." ”

Xu Wen held his own identity and waved his hand to signal everyone not to speak, frowning and silent, Xu Hao and Zhao Liang walked aside when they saw this.

Suddenly, Jiang Tao ran over, pushed Cui Baoren away, and shouted: "My stepmother is about to get married, and I can't keep my heart if I leave someone, I don't blame her if she wants to leave." But she has been married for less than a year, and she has not given birth to a son and a half daughter, so she is not qualified to inherit my father's property, and she is not allowed to take away an inch anyway. ”

Cui Baoren did not refute with a sneer, but looked at Xu Wen, Cui Shi angrily wiped his tears while complaining for himself, she said a word Jiang Tao would say a word, and soon the two quarreled, and everyone saw this and persuaded them to be a family and not to do anything wrong.

Zhao Liang frowned and said: "Jiang Tao has become the same as Master Jiang, and he doesn't care about anything for the silver. ”

Xu Hao chuckled and said: "The Cui family doesn't suffer, Master Jiang is seriously ill and delirious, Cui Baoren has come over again and again to help, and it is true that he has helped a lot." But with his reputation for plucking goose feathers, the father and daughter secretly don't know how much benefit they take, and they don't lose money. ”

Zhao Liang was stunned for a moment, and sighed for a long time: "It's really a group of villains." ”

At this moment, Xu Wen felt that he was sitting on wax, because he had never dealt with such trivial matters about disputes over family property and money, and he had no experience.

Not to mention Xu Ji, he never paid attention to any family matters, and expressed to the boss with his eyes that he couldn't help.

Xu Wen groaned and didn't speak, Jiang Tao and Cui's louder and louder they became, and Zuihou simply tore his face and yelled, and no one could persuade him.

Suddenly, Xu Hao said slowly: "If you have something to say, you will make a lot of noise and yell and bury the two of you together." ”

Even though they knew that Xu Hao was scaring people, Jiang Tao and Cui's who were also bluffing suddenly didn't dare to quarrel anymore, looked at each other viciously, and turned their heads.

Xu Wen breathed a sigh of relief and secretly scolded himself for not suppressing people first? On the contrary, he cheapened the third child, so that the big guys thought he was easy to speak.

Jiang Tao preemptively said honestly: "Last night, I took advantage of the time to relieve my hands, and went to the house to rummage through the cabinets, but who knew that I didn't find any silver, so I turned out 5,000 Wenbao bills. I went to ask her, and she said she didn't know, and thought my father had been frugal all his life. How much money did you save? It's just gone? It must have been secretly stolen by her, waiting for me to go to the yamen to sue you. ”

Cui Shi was so angry that he trembled, took a deep breath to calm down his mood, and said: "Everyone commented, not long after the slave family married his deceased father, he regarded me as an outsider in everything, and refused to entrust me with a penny of money, even the silver from the government that day was given to Jiang Tao untouched, but he took it and lost it all. caused the slave family to run to beg my father and Xue Xiucai. After buying back the coffin and owing forty taels of silver to the store, the slave family asked Xue Xiucai to help testify, and in front of him, he finally found some scattered silver or something valuable, and the slave family took out their dowry clothes and jewelry, and scraped together enough money for the coffin. ”

Jiang Tao said disdainfully: "Do you have that kind heart?" I wish my father was dead, don't think I don't know that you carved a villain's curse behind your back and secretly sent good things to your mother's family. ”

Cui Shi sneered at each other: "You are filial." Filial piety doesn't even see a shadow all day long, and when you go home, you clamoring for money to gamble, and your father is angry and dead by you. ”

Just talking like this, Jiang Tao couldn't tell the ins and outs because he was away from home for a long time. On the contrary, Cui's heart is careful, everything is organized, and the head of the cost is the way, and everyone nods frequently.

Jiang Tao suddenly became anxious. He said without hesitation: "You fart!" Over the years, the students have sent bundles and thank-you gifts sent by the school. a lot of silver earned when he was in Mu's house; Testifying with others, taking bribes to make peace, robbing brokers, defrauding and blackmailing, and even pulling it out, didn't ten taels of silver enter the door that day? None of that.

Shan said that he wrote a fake book by Zhao Juren in his early years, and the total amount of gold and silver obtained was no less than four or five hundred gold. There are also three large sums of money, each at least forty or fifty taels of silver, where did it go? Can silver fly? ”

Cui Shi shouted, "All these things have passed through your eyes, but I have not heard half of them. And my father said that the silver was returned to your father in person, who told him to die when you were not in front of him, I think he didn't know where to send the silver at that time, his eyes glared at the boss, and scolded you vigorously The lamb king has not been created, but unfortunately the silver is lost, what's the use of you complaining about me? If you don't believe me, search my house. ”

The big guy was in an uproar, and they all looked at Zhao Liang with a wry smile with sympathy, Xu Hao sighed: "Good and evil will be rewarded in the end." ”

Xu Wentie's face turned blue, and he said angrily: "Don't say anything, when you go down the mountain, you have to find out the silver when you dig three feet into the ground, and then return Lord Zhao first." ”

Jiang Tao and Cui, who were foaming at the mouth, were immediately dumbfounded, and the people around them showed disdain, only to find that they didn't choose their words, and their intestines were blue at this time.

Such a farce was temporarily stopped, and when poor Mr. Jiang was about to be buried, he was despised by the villagers again. Anyway, even if Jiang Song knew after death, he would definitely not care about anyone's opinion, he worked hard to make so much money, and he didn't take a penny away after his death, and he calmly went to the ground.

Xu Hao was too lazy to care about the ending, and was about to leave after going down the mountain, Zhao Liang followed him into the Xu family's carriage without saying a word.

Xu Wen saw that the two of them were leaving, but he didn't have the heart to investigate in person, so he ordered the housekeeper, Shi Shiran went home, Xu Ji thought about it and followed.

Xu Hao stomped his feet and shouted, "Why did you leave?" If you have a beginning and no end to do things, won't it make the whole village laugh? ”

Xu Wen heard that it made sense, but he couldn't pull his face and turn around, so he simply pretended that he didn't hear it and left, making Xu Hao slap the carriage fiercely, and he had nothing to say.

There was no way for Xu Hao to stay and deal with the aftermath, and by the way, Zhao Liang was also pulled back. Now that everyone has it, they all want to see how much money the Jiang family has hidden.

That night, from the Jiang family's cellar, thatched hut and other hidden places, nearly 2,000 taels of real gold and silver were raised, and they were packed with ceramic pipes, and the whole village was boiling.

Jiang Tao's eyes were red, and he couldn't wait to get everyone out. And Cui's father and daughter secretly regretted that they had not searched carefully these days and lost so much silver out of thin air. In fact, the silver and clothes abducted by their father and daughter were probably no less than two or three hundred taels, but they were especially not satisfied.

Zuihou Xu Hao asked the government to come and the chief to testify, and a thousand taels of silver were weighed and counted to Zhao Liang in person. Who knew that Lord Zhao said that I don't want the silver, so I left it to the village to repair the school to build bridges and pave the road, and immediately won the applause of the whole village, and they all praised him for his high wind and bright festival.

Xu Hao admired it in his heart and said with a smile: "Since the Jiang family is rich, there is no need for everyone to help each other, and the molecules who have one penny of silver per person will be given back." Forget the dozens of taels of silver I took out, Jiang Tao, are you convinced? ”

Jiang Tao didn't dare to say no, Cui nodded dejectedly, Cui's father and daughter were helpless with black faces, who let the news of remarriage be known to everyone and lost their position.

Xu Hao immediately explained the matter to Xue Wen, and didn't want the disciples to say that the money they took out was justified in going back? Say nothing and don't take anything, and so do the villagers. Probably do what you can with the gift, don't hurt your muscles and bones, someone Zhao Zhuyu is in front, who is embarrassed to take back the money?

Xue Wen simply proposed that the total amount was only more than 100 taels of silver, which should be used as a restraint for the children of poor families, and also let the children who could not afford to go to school be enlightened, which was unanimously agreed by the whole village.

Zuihou had 1,000 taels of cash left, and Xu Hao gave Cui 200 taels in charge, and Jiang Tao was distressed.

gave the chief five hundred taels and asked him to help Jiang Tao buy some fields; Two hundred taels were given to Xue Wen for safekeeping, and one hundred taels were left for Jiang Tao to live.

Although Cui's father and daughter were not convinced, they were under the eaves and had to bow their heads. (To be continued......)