Chaos in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 99 The Three-Year Covenant (1)

Jiankang is not far from Wujun, it takes half a day by boat and half a day by ox cart.

Early in the morning, Guan Ziyang took the black slave to the pier for a boat ride.

I found one at random, negotiated the price with the boatman, boarded the boat, the boatman skillfully untied the cable, and the boat gradually left the shore.

At this time, a person suddenly flew three feet across the pier and landed on the boat, shaking the boat from side to side.

Looking closely, this man is tall and slender, wearing a beige long silk dress, which outlines a nearly perfect figure, with a full grip on the front waist, which sets off the unusually magnificent bulge on the ground.

Even though he covered his face with a snow-white silk scarf, Guan Ziyang recognized Xie Daoyun at a glance.

"Why are you here? Why don't you recuperate at home?"

"You cold person, you still know that I am injured. You will never come to see me in the past few days when you return to Jiankang!"

Guan Ziyang actually wanted to see her, but he has been busy with the affairs of the Jiaofang Secretary for the past two days, so he has not spared time.

But women don't listen to explanations.

Just as Guan Ziyang was about to answer, Xie Daoyun had already spoken first: "Okay, you don't need to explain. I heard from Tiewei that you are going to Wu County. No matter what you are going to do, I will forgive you if you take me with you."

"I'm going to see Luna."

"Are you going to Lu's house in Wu County?"

"Ah."

"Then go on your own, I'll go first..." After saying that, he was about to jump back to the pier.

He stepped on the side of the boat, turned around and asked, "Why are you going to the Lu residence?"

Guan Ziyang didn't know what she meant when she said she wanted to go together, and then said she wanted to go, so he said angrily, "I won't say anything, I'm going to see Lu Na!"

"No, the Lu family and our Xie family have always been at odds, and he is a filial piety in Wu County and has never been to Jiankang. How did you know him?"

As he spoke, he turned his face in front of Guan Ziyang, as if he wanted to see if he would lie.

"Be honest!"

Guan Ziyang was forced to lean back, what's the matter, I just don't hit women, you treat me like I'm afraid you won't succeed.

"I just want to find him to buy a house!"

"The house?" Xie Daoyun stepped back, put his hands on his hips, squinted at him and asked, "Which Lu residence is in Wuyi Lane?"

With Guan Ziyang's affirmative answer and his explanation, Xie Daoyun believed him.

But she wants to go together.

Since she was a child, she was a lady from a large family who never left her home. Her mother died young and her father was busy, so she went out without fear of being discovered.

As long as she colludes with the servants, she went to Sichuan and went back and forth for several months, and no one at home knew about it.

The only thing is that Xie Xuan went to her a few times, but was sent away by her servants.

This time, she pestered Guan Ziyang to go to Wu County again, and she didn't even know why she liked to follow this person in front of her so much.

"It must be because this person promised me to help me achieve my ambitions, um, yes! It must be like this!"

Xie Daoyun stared at Jiang Shui in a daze, and replied by herself.

When we arrived at Huating, we got off the boat and then transferred to the ox cart.

At this time, Huating was just a small town with only a dozen families, but there was a big house in the town, which was the ancestral house of the Lu family in Wu County.

But the Lu family has moved to Wu County.

When they arrived at Huating, they had to pay a visit first. If Lu Na was in their ancestral house in Huating at this time, they would not miss it.

Guan Ziyang asked Hei Nuer to knock on the door, and sent him a letter of greeting.

He and Xie Daoyun were waiting in the ox cart.

At this moment, Xie Daoyun took off her veil and folded it in half twice, before putting it on again, there was no looming feeling of the veil, and it completely covered her face.

Guan Ziyang asked suspiciously: "Tao Yuan, what are you doing?"

Xie Daoyun gave him a blank look: "Don't worry about it, I'll go to Lu's house later, just say I'm your maid, don't expose me."

Guan Ziyang smiled: "Okay, Xie's daughter will be my maid, it's what I wish for."

Xie Daoyun wasn't used to him either, and used a backhand to attack with a powder fist, which scared Guan Ziyang to beg for mercy.

This is a woman who is about to step into the semi-holy realm, she can't afford to provoke...

Not long after, the black slave came back and shouted outside the ox cart: "Master, only Lu Shi is at home in the Lu family. He said that he is not suitable to see guests during his filial piety, but let us have a light meal before leaving."

Guan Ziyang wanted to make sure that Lu Na was not there, so he went directly to Wu County, but the master had already invited him, and if he didn't go, he would lose face to the master, so he had to bring Xie Daoyun into the Lu residence.

It was the housekeeper of the Lu family who went out to greet the guests, and he confessed to Guan Ziyang again, explaining that Lu Shi was chanting scriptures and mourning for his mother in the Buddhist hall.

I have not been out of the Buddhist hall for a year, please forgive Guan Ziyang.

It seems that although he is a commoner, Lu Shi probably has heard of the title of the Northern Commander-in-Chief, and ordered the housekeeper to treat him thoughtfully.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, mourning was a big ceremony. Even an official in the court had to resign and go home to mourn when a close relative in the family died. The period usually ranged from three to three months.

During the mourning period, eating vegetarian food, batching hemp, weeping in front of relatives’ graves every day, and sweeping graves are all manifestations of filial piety.Ju Xiaolian is to investigate here.

Some people cried so much that they even passed out because of the death of an elder in the family, which is a manifestation of filial piety, and there are many people who enter the court as officials with this.

So during Lu Shi's mourning period, he didn't go out of the Buddhist hall for three years. In fact, it wasn't just him, but the scholar-bureaucrat class in the whole society attached great importance to mourning rituals, and most of them were like this.

Whether it is true or not, you have to do it for others to see...

Even if it is acting, you have to act for others.

Of course, there are people like Ruan Ji who lost their mother who disdain acting.

When Ruan Ji's mother died, Ruan Ji was playing Go when he got the news.

After hearing the news of his mother's death, he continued to play chess with a livid face. The person who played chess with him wanted to stop the game after hearing the news of his mother's death, but Ruan Ji disagreed, and he insisted on a winner.

After playing chess, Ruan Ji drank a few sips of wine, then burst into tears, and even vomited several liters of blood.

According to the rules of secular etiquette, one should not drink alcohol and eat meat.

But Ruan Ji drank and ate meat during his mother's funeral. When his mother was buried, he drank two buckets of wine before saying goodbye to his mother's body.

Because of the grief, he burst into tears and even vomited blood.

Can you say that Ruan Ji was not filial if he did not obey the funeral rituals?
The answer is definitely not. On the contrary, he probably has a deeper affection for his mother than ordinary people.

But because Ruan Ji is a person of true temperament, he disdains the worldly etiquette.

Guan Ziyang didn't know Lu Shi very well, and he didn't care if he was sincere in mourning, but it had little to do with him, and he didn't have time to pay attention to it.

On the contrary, at the Zhongshan Yaji, the Lu Chu who held a gem-studded sword but had ordinary martial arts skills was the son of Lu Shi.

Guan Ziyang and his party, led by the housekeeper, prepared to leave after a light meal.

Before leaving, the butler brought a plate of calligraphy and painting, and said: "My lady asked the old slave to give this to Mr. Guan, and said that he should appreciate it in his spare time."

Guan Ziyang accepted it and replied: "Then please thank your lady for me."

Say goodbye and leave.

"Hmph, thanks to me following, this girl from the Lu family is indeed a attractor!" Xie Daoyun said angrily.

(End of this chapter)