Harem Changwu Biography

Chapter 64
It is said that once entering the palace gate is as deep as the sea, it is extremely difficult for a woman who has entered the palace to leave the palace again.

like me.

I have been in the palace for ten years, but the first time I left the palace in the past ten years was tonight, and this time I went out of the palace because it was the opportunity that Qi He had arranged for two days to find.

And I came out of the palace suddenly this time just to pay homage to Chu Bufan.

"Qihe, go knock on the door."

On a hot but quiet night, I stood at the gate of Chu's house, looked up at the door plaque of Xiaobu hanging on the door of Chu's house for a day, and turned my head to talk to him.

"No." Qihe went to knock on the door after I said.

It was already past Xu time, and there was no one on the street. When Qihe knocked on the copper ring on the gate, the sound was very loud.

"Which one?"

Not long after Qihe knocked on the door, a voice sounded from inside the gate of the Chu family, and then the gate was pulled open less than half the width of his body, revealing a slightly younger face.

"My little brother, my wife and your old man are old friends, and today I came here to pay homage to your old man." After that face was revealed, Qi He showed a shallow but polite smile at the man, and said.

"I don't know who you are?" The man in the door turned his head and looked at me standing under the stone steps covered in a black cloak after hearing Qihe, and then asked Qihe.

"My master's surname is Ming." Qi He replied.

The Ming surname is not unique in our dynasty, it exists in other counties, but at the feet of the emperor, there are not many people who can be named Ming.

The person inside the door seems to have seen the world, so even though I am wearing a suit that is easy to be vigilant at the moment, the person opened it quickly after hearing Qi He's words.

"Madam, please come in quickly." After the man opened the door, he didn't go in to report, and welcomed us in directly.

"I don't know where is the mourning hall of your old man? Please let me lead the way." After Qihe and I entered, Qihe said to the man who had closed the door again.

"Ma'am, please come with the little one."

The Chu family is a wealthy family in central Beijing, and their house occupies a large area.

Qihe and I followed the young servant from the Chu family who led us in, and we walked for nearly a quarter of an hour before arriving at the mourning hall.

"Madam, please wait here for a while, let me go in and let me know." After walking outside the mourning hall, the young man who had been leading the way before turned around and said to me.

I nodded my head when I heard the words, but didn't say anything, but Qihe thanked the boy after hearing what the boy said: "Brother, please trouble me."

Perhaps it was because of the hot weather that the gate of the mourning hall was not closed. I looked in along the gate and saw Chu Bufan's coffin facing the entrance of the mourning hall.

It was getting late at this time, and the Taoist priests who performed the rituals had already gone down to rest, so at this moment in the entire mourning hall, only members of the Chu family were guarding the spirit.

However, the Chu family has great achievements, and Chu Bufan has four generations under the same name, so the family has a large population.

At this moment, the descendants of Chu Bufan's name are male and female kneeling on both sides of Chu Bufan's coffin, from the entrance of the mourning hall to the back of the coffin.

After entering the mourning hall, the boy who led the way walked to the left of the kneeling man until he reached the kneeling man closest to Chubufan's coffin, and bent down to talk to the kneeling man's ear. .

Although it was a little far away, I couldn't hear what the boy was talking about, but it was related to me, so when the boy got up, the person kneeling on the ground turned his head to look at me and his fellow outside the mourning hall. After one glance, he got up and walked out of the mourning hall.

"Cheng Meng misses my grandfather, I don't know Madam..." After walking in front of me and Qihe, the man bowed to me and saluted, and was about to ask me something, but was greeted by the eldest daughter-in-law of the Chu family who came out. Chen interrupted.

"Lin'er, don't be rude." Mrs. Chen scolded that person, and then she was going to salute to me: "The woman has seen Mrs...."

"I'm here to pay homage to Lord Chu." Upon hearing Mrs. Chen's words, I said quickly, and at the same time gave Qihe a look, making Qihe stop Mrs. Chen who was about to kneel down and salute.

I purposely came here late at night, and now I interrupted Mrs. Chen to prevent her from saying the word 'Queen Dowager', and then called me myself, naturally because I didn't want to reveal my identity.

Mrs. Chen is not stupid, she naturally guessed the meaning from my words in an instant, so she didn't insist on kneeling down to salute after I said it, but bowed and stretched to me for half a body salute, and then said: "Madam please."

I am a female guest, so the one who entertained me was of course Mrs. Chen, so when Mrs. Chen and I entered the mourning hall, the person at the back who was called Lin'er by Mrs. Chen, who presumably was the eldest grandson of Chu Bufan, also followed in. Then return to where you knelt before and kneel down.

Maybe it's because I'm dressed in a black cloak from head to toe is too weird, or maybe I just heard Mrs. Chen's words to stop Chulin. It seems to me that there is obvious curiosity in the eyes, as if they are curious about my identity.

I walked all the way into the mourning hall under these curious gazes, and didn't stop until I reached the offering table in front of Chu Bufan's coffin.

But even so, I didn't untie the cloak on me.

Mrs. Chen had been following me before, and now after I stopped in front of the offering table, she walked up from the side, picked up three green incense sticks from the offering table, lit them, and handed them to me: "Madam, please .”

"En." I took the Qingxiang from Mrs. Chen, made three bows to Chu Bufan's coffin, and Mrs. Chen inserted it again.

"Is Mrs. Chu okay?" After offering incense to Chu Bufan, I looked around at the people in the mourning hall and asked after seeing that Mrs. Du was not among them.

"Thank you for your relationship, madam. Thanks to the doctor sent by madam to take care of me, my mother-in-law has woken up once today." Mrs. Chen replied after listening to my question, and then asked: "Madam, do you want to tell my mother-in-law?"

"Since I came here once, let's go see her." I nodded and said.

"Madam, please follow me."

(End of this chapter)