The concubine will not accompany you: General, Madam ran away again

Chapter 238 The fifth sister is gone

For a while, the car was as silent as night, only the sound of horseshoes and wheels on the bluestone slabs could be heard.

After a while, the carriage stopped, and Fang Hua's voice came from outside the car, "Princess, we're here."

Huarui and Huarui got out of the car first, and then helped Mu Shuyao, old and new, to get out of the car. At this time, they had all changed back into women's clothes, and Parsley and Vanilla followed behind Mu Shuyao and entered Mu's mansion through the side door.

But this time Mu Shuyao didn't hurry back to Biluoju, but headed in another direction. The four servant girls looked at each other and followed immediately. They walked around the rockery and walked through the corridor. The gate of the courtyard where he lived when he first returned to Mu Mansion.

It's just that the current Qingyuan is even more dilapidated than what she saw when she first came back, and even the gate of the courtyard is a little precarious. Mu Shuyao carefully pushed open the crumbling gate. The pines and cypresses, which were supposed to be lush and evergreen, were covered with many dead branches at this time. It was presumably because no one took care of them after she moved away, so this situation happened.

Mu Shuyao didn't care too much about it, and today she came here on a whim to take a look. A breeze blew past her face, and the cold wind was mixed with a trace of fireworks.

Not only her, but the four maids around her also heard it. Huarui and Xiaofang held up the lantern and shouted, "Who? Who's there?"

Apparently, the people hiding in the green garden didn't expect that someone would come here this night, and they were impatient for a while, and there was a bang bang sound, as if they kicked something over.

Parsley and Herb immediately rushed to the sound like arrows flying off the string, and dragged them out after a while.

"Third Sister Fa, Fourth Sister, it's so late, what are you two doing hiding here?" Mu Shuyao stepped forward to look at the expressions of Mu Wan and Mu Jiaqing, and stretched out her hand to take off her cloak and put it on Mu Wan on Ting.Hua Rui also quickly put a cloak on Mu Jiaqing.

"Second sister." Mu Jiaqing called out pitifully before she was about to speak, but she saw Xiang Cao coming over with a copper basin, and there were still a few unburned papers in it.

Mu Shuyao looked at the two with puzzled eyes, and asked gently: "What's going on, who are you burning paper money for?"

"Second Sister, please don't tell me, okay?" Mu Wanting also knows that it is a taboo to secretly burn paper money on New Year's Eve. If her father finds out, she will be beaten and scolded at least, or even resort to family law up.

"Then you should tell me what's going on." Mu Shuyao glanced at Mu Jiaqing, but seeing that her face was full of mourning, she turned to Mu Wanting and said, "What happened?" thing?"

"Second sister, fifth sister, she's gone." Tears rolled down her eyes after speaking.

"Fifth sister is gone?" Mu Shuyao felt an indescribable strangeness in her heart when she first heard the news. She turned her head to look at Mu Jiaqing, only to see that her eyes were also filled with tears, but there was a flash of joy in her eyes. Seeing the uncontrollable emotions, Mu Shuyao felt even more strange in her heart.

"Today, today, when you all went to the palace banquet, a young master from Lianhua nunnery came to inform that the fifth sister had been ill for more than a month and she went early this morning." Mu Wanting said with a sob.

"Been sick for more than a month?" Mu Shuyao repeated, "Didn't the people from Lianhua Nunnery come to inform father when she was sick? You won't treat her so slowly."

"Second sister doesn't know. I heard from the sister-in-law that the fifth sister just fell ill, and their abbot sent someone to notify mother, but mother said..."

"What did Madam say?"

"Mother said that if you become a monk, you will be homeless. Please take care of it." Mu Jiaqing continued: "It's better for Aunt Ye to use her own body to let the sister-in-law of the Lotus Nunnery take good care of the fifth sister." Mu Jiaqing looked at it gratefully Mu Wanting glanced at her before continuing, "However, the location of Lianhua Nunnery is remote, and Fifth Sister is seriously ill. After struggling for a while, I went."

"It didn't happen today?" Mu Shuyao asked uncomfortably. No matter what, she always had a weird feeling, but she couldn't figure out where the weirdness was.

"Yes." Mu Jiaqing replied with one word, then lowered her eyes again and remained silent.Most people always think that she is her own sister after all, even if she was often bullied by her before, and now she passed away suddenly, the older sister would naturally feel sad.

But Mu Shuyao felt more and more weird, but she couldn't figure out where the weirdness was. It seemed that everything was reasonable.

"Go back quickly." Mu Shuyao sighed. Mu Yongnian and Mrs. Wang couldn't count on Mu Yongnian and Mrs. Wang for this matter, so she had to come by herself, and said, "After a few days, I'll send someone to take Fifth Younger Sister Take it back and let her go with dignity."

Although she didn't like Mu Yuqing very much, death was like a lamp going out, and all grievances and grievances were gone, so why did she hold on to her.

Unexpectedly, Mu Jiaqing shook her head, "The sister-in-law of the Lianhua nunnery said that the fifth sister had a last word before she left, and she didn't want to be buried in the dark soil. She was afraid that insects would bite her, so she asked the abbot to take her body away." Turned into ashes and buried beside mother."

"Since it is her last wish, it is natural that the deceased should be the first." Mu Shuyao said solemnly: "Someday, I will tell the old lady to take you to the Lotus Temple and let the abbot perform a ritual ceremony for the fifth sister. , can be regarded as the whole of our sisterhood."

"Sister, I would like to thank Second Sister on behalf of Fifth Sister." Mu Jiaqing saluted.

"Hurry up and go back. Burn paper money here on New Year's Eve. It's not good if you get caught by your father. I know you guys are sad, but I think Fifth Sister has a spirit in the sky and will understand you." Mu Shu Yao reminded again.

"Yes, my sisters will leave." Mu Wanting hurriedly left Qingyuan with Mu Jiaqing and walked to Aunt Ye's yard.

Mu Shuyao stared at the paper money in the copper basin in a daze for a while, then ordered Xiang Cao to clean up the traces, and returned to Biluoju surrounded by everyone.

Back at Biluoju, Xiaofang immediately twisted a hot handkerchief for her to wash her face, the vanilla turned up the brazier in the house a lot, the stamens exchanged the cold tea on the table for heat, and the parsley went to tell the kitchen to boil water. Let Mu Shuyao take a bath.

After taking a sip of hot tea, Mu Shuyao felt her body warmed up a lot, and seeing the four maids busy, she said with a smile: "Don't be too busy, it's New Year's Eve, one of you will get some side dishes later, we will do it by ourselves The people in the small courtyard also had a good meal, and everyone has been busy for a year."

"But, the princess is quite late now." Vanilla said with some embarrassment, although Mu Shuyao's proposal moved her, but she also knew that she would have to get up early tomorrow, and it was not good to go to bed too late.

"It's okay, it's all about watching the new year." Mu Shuyao rubbed her belly and said, "Besides, the food eaten in the palace has already been digested, so you won't let me go to bed hungry."

"Okay, then Huarui and I will go, Vanilla, go get a bottle of wine in the cellar, and let's have a good New Year." Xiaofang said happily: "Everyone has no relatives around, so we all treat each other as our own relatives." gone."

(End of this chapter)