Splendid Abandoned Wife

Chapter 21 Catch up
At dawn, Zhiruo and his party left the inn and continued on their way.Faster than expected, they arrived at the outskirts of Nandamen in less than half an hour. It was less than half an hour's drive from Zhenbei to the General's Mansion.

When the carriage was waiting in line at the city gate for inspection, Zhiruorang Ruchun invited Ling Xiang'er over and said: "Sister Ling, after entering the city gate, we will separate. I have asked the carriage driver to tell him, he I will take you to Ling Mansion."

Ling Xiang'er bent over: "Thank you sister Yin, but after thinking about it, it's better to go directly to the Hubu Mansion Office to find my father. Ah Cai and the others are not here, and my brother and I don't know where the Ling Mansion is. We only know that My father is an official in the Ministry of Household Affairs." Aren't they afraid that their siblings will occupy the position of the eldest son and eldest daughter?But they were the eldest son and eldest daughter, so naturally they had to get the upper hand and let their father's colleagues know about it.The old scholar next door likes to mutter when he is drunk, saying that officials attach great importance to face and reputation. No matter how dirty or smelly they are on the inside, they must maintain a bright and beautiful appearance.

Zhiruo was startled for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "Well, that's fine, you just need to tell the coachman. Again, meeting each other is fate. If you have a chance in the future, you two siblings can go to my village in Luo City. If you want to stay here for a while, you can also have someone send me a message." It was hard for her to say, "I can help if you need it." The Yin family was no longer the popular Zhenbei General's Mansion, and people wouldn't believe it if she told her.

Ruchun handed over a purse, Zhiruo took it and stuffed it into Ling Xiang'er's hand: "There are three hundred taels of silver notes in it, and some broken silver. You can keep it. The banknotes, uh, can be put in In that wooden bracelet of yours."

She was sure that for at least two or three years, Ling Xiang'er's sister and brother would not have an easy time in the Shilang's Mansion, and would even be in danger, until Ling Xiang'er entered Prince Ruijun's Mansion and became Prince Rui's concubine.

Ling Xiang'er didn't show any pretense, and nodded cheerfully and accepted: "I can't say thank you for your kindness. We, brother and sister, owe sister Yin something we dare not forget in this life." She already owed a lot, and she didn't care about adding another sum.Most importantly, they really need to.The words she heard last night made her deeply wary of the father she had never met, her black-hearted stepmother, and her life in Ling Mansion.In case..., defecting to Yin Zhiruo is also a way out.Somehow, she had an unfounded trust in Yin Zhiruo.

Yin Zhiruo couldn't help but secretly admire that Ling Xiang'er was a little girl born and raised in ancient times, her mother was a scumbag and her father was a scumbag, and she grew up with her clan aunt, but she was much smarter and more generous than the lady in her previous life, and she also knew how to face it better. Realistic and calm in the face of danger, it is no wonder that she entered the palace as a "second marriage" and was still able to stand out among the crowd in the palace with countless beauties, intrigues and shocks at every step.

After passing the city gate, at a three-way intersection, Ling Xiang'er's brother and sister rode in a carriage and left alone.Zhiruo really wanted to go directly to the place where his parents were buried.It's a pity, don't say she doesn't know where it is, even if she knows, she has to pretend not to know, she can't just "tell her dream", right?

On the day Yin Zhao was shot to death by random arrows, Mrs. Yin and her second and third bedrooms announced in public that they had severed ties with Yin Zhao's first bedroom. Xu Yuzhang and others presided over the burial of Yin Zhao and his wife, and even went to the cemetery. try to find.Zhiruo, the eldest aunt who had married out of town before anything happened to the Yin family, naturally had no way of knowing, so she could only talk about it after returning to the Yin family first.

Zhiruo was impatient, and kept asking around, not knowing whether he could catch up.

Just when she was secretly anxious, the carriage suddenly stopped, and Axiang's voice came: "Girl, there seems to be a funeral procession coming in front. The iron escort leader is talking to their people. They may have to let them go first..." Funeral procession team?Coincidence?Is it possible that Zhiruo brought it up with all his heart?Could it be...?
Before he could react, Axiang's exclamation came again: "Ah, isn't that the eldest young master? There are also the second young master, the second young lady, the third..."

Zhiruo pulled away the carriages and stuck his head out.Sure enough, the three people, no, the four people, who were flying in front of her were the younger brothers and sisters that made her worried. The eldest brother Yin Mingze was holding the six-year-old younger sister Yin Zhixuan in his arms, and all four of them were wearing sackcloth and mourning.

"Sister--eldest sister--eldest sister--" The cries of Yin Mingze and the others made Zhiruo burst into tears instantly.She jumped out of the car and ran towards them, hugging her four younger siblings tightly.

"Sister, my parents are gone... Wuwuwu... Those bad guys locked us up... Wuwuwu, Sister, Xuan'er is afraid, Xuan'er wants her parents..." We haven't seen each other for just a few days, but it's obvious that Yin Zhixuan, the "little fat cat" who had lost a lot of weight, hugged Zhiruo's neck and cried loudly.

13-year-old Yin Mingze already has the calm demeanor of his father Yin Zhao: "Sister, it was Brother Xu and the others who took us out of prison. Dali Temple refused to let my father be buried and couldn't produce any concrete evidence. It was Brother Xu and the others who went there. Please let us bury my father." The eldest sister will rush back, and Uncle Tie will accompany her, so she naturally knows what happened.

Zhiruo nodded, stood up, hugged Zhixuan, and walked towards his parents' coffins and the funeral procession with his three other siblings.

The funeral procession was not large and graceful, mainly consisting of some of Yin Zhao's old subordinates and the old servants of the Yin family who had been released earlier.As for the slaves who still belonged to the Yin family's main house, they were confiscated as well as the main house's property.

Although Yin Zhao's charge of treason has not been determined, the two charges of "resisting the decree and preparing to abscond" have the officers and soldiers who besieged and pursued him and even shot him to death with random arrows as "witnesses", so Xu Yuzhang and others can only fight for it. Burying the couple with dignity is the greatest "tolerance" the emperor has ever seen for the contributions of the two generations of generals of the Yin family to the Ying Dynasty. It is impossible to have a grand burial with too much fanfare. Cries of mourning and firecrackers are not allowed.

Zhiruo knew this information from Yu Dayong's letter to her in her previous life. Zhiruo snorted secretly: Resist the order and abscond?Abandoning his wife, concubines and children is definitely not something a father would do, right?I wonder what dirty tricks those people used to frame my father?
Suddenly, Zhiruo paused for a moment, and she thought of a question: With her father's always upright character, since he had a premonition of disaster, shouldn't he take the initiative to prove his innocence?How could she bear to arrange her huge dowry in order to "keep one for all"?Is there really any clue that falls into other people's hands?Also, what is in the mysterious envelope that her father left for her to keep and told her that only he or someone who can recite his father's strange poem can hand it over when she finds it?
Fortunately, Zhiruo's behavior and demeanor fell into the eyes of everyone, but he was suddenly faced with the grief and difficulty of accepting his parents' coffins.Tie Muyuan sighed, took the linen cloth found by an old servant of the Yin family and put it on Zhiruo: "My eldest niece, let's send your parents up the mountain."

(End of this chapter)