Chapter 226 Self-contamination
In order to cover up, Luo Shixin and Pingyang broke up in Guanzhong and returned to Chang'an first.
Luo Shixin reported to the Ministry of War. In order to thank Li Shimin for his initial help, he specially gave Li Shimin a pair of bear paws of the big brown bear hunted in Funiu Mountain for Li Shimin to taste.
When I returned home, I asked about the situation at Uncle Fu's home. With Uncle Fu, the old butler with outstanding skills, everything was normal and there was nothing to worry about.
But soon he was instructed by the Zheng family to hold a funeral for Zheng Liwan.
Luo Shixin's eyes also showed sadness. After more than a year, he had let go of what he should have, and he could not let go of what he could not let go of.
Like Zheng Renji, Luo Shixin has done the fact that Zheng Liwan has died, but when this confirmation comes, he will inevitably be sad.
After rushing to the Zheng family, the visitor finally found Zheng Liwan's jewelry from the pawnshop. After investigation, he found out that it was a poor and honest woman who found an unknown female corpse in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Seeing that the female corpse was wearing gold and jade, she secretly hid the gold and silver jewelry for the sake of the sick children at home. Then she followed the regulations on burning the corpse and burned the body to avoid causing a plague.
But because of guilt, I specially collected the ashes and buried them.
After this news passed, the woman sold her jewelry to a pawnshop, thus confirming that Zheng Liwan was dead.
Luo Shixin heard the most, but he didn't know whether he should be happy or sad.
What was happy was that Zheng Liwan finally had a place to settle down, and she was not buried in the fish's belly, and her corpse was gone; what was sad was that the little hope disappeared with the confirmation of the news.
Luo Shixin naturally would not suspect that Zheng Renji was telling a lie. No father would fake his daughter's safety. However, he didn't know that at the time when Zheng Liwan first disappeared, he accompanied Zheng Renji to search for it. When he was ill, he personally asked the doctor to feed the medicine and took good care of him.
This journey is a long way to know the power and show true love in times of adversity. Luo Shixin's behavior moved those who are as stubborn as Zheng Renji. He only sighed that his daughter's life was hard and she was unable to marry such a good son-in-law.
Luo Shixin was sincere to Zheng Renji. Zheng Renji was sincere and did not want to see that the Luo family had no descendants because of Zheng Liwan. As a descendant of orthodox Confucianism, the matter of reproduction and descendants was extremely serious. Luo Shixin was only twenty-three years old and had not yet married and had children, which was extremely serious. Therefore, he agreed to Cui's excessive demands.
Luo Shixin helped to handle the marriage and once again proposed to let Zheng Liwan be held at the funeral as the wife of the Luo family.
In ancient times, the situation of favoring boys over girls was extremely serious. Women were not allowed to enter clan ancestral halls. Women who were not married would be like homeless ghosts after death and could not enjoy the incense of future generations. When Zheng Renji was still able to be worshipped by his father, but once Zheng Renji was a hundred years later, he would not be able to enjoy the incense.
The ancients were superstitious about this, so people kept raising incense to Yang Su and Yang Xuangan in Funiu Mountain. In that case, Situ Shu also sent people to Yang's ancestral hall to add some incense to sacrifice.
After seeing the incident, Zheng Renji still refused to change his original intention. He was very moved and agreed to his request. He felt that his choice was correct.
In this era, there is no saying that a husband is mourning for his wife. Luo Shixin is not ruthless to Zheng Liwan, but his personal personality cannot stand the red tape. Everything can be avoided if it can be avoided. So he held a simple ceremony and moved Zheng Liwan to the Luo family, and it was all right.
After dealing with Zheng Liwan's affairs, Cui immediately came to the door and wanted to arrange a marriage for him again.
As a daughter of five surnames, Cui was also influenced by etiquette and law since childhood. She was very serious about the matter of inheriting the family line. She was really worried about Luo Shixin's current situation.
Luo Shixin said in surprise: "Fang Gang finished Li Wan's funeral, how can he say it morally? Isn't my sister-in-law too anxious?"
Cui was shocked and said for a while, "What morality? It's natural for this wife to die and remarry again." He said without hesitation, "You are so old, how can I be my sister-in-law?" But then again, you are not very popular. Recently, many famous families have come to me to find out, and they all want to marry your daughter to you."
Only then did Luo Shixin realize that in the Tang Dynasty, there was no wife who died at all. In the short term, the husband could not talk about marriage and marriage, but instead encouraged remarry. Only women would mourn and keep their rituals because their husband died. However, because the Tang Dynasty was open, they were not encouraged to keep their rituals, but encouraged remarry.
Even so, Luo Shixin refused Cui and did not want to consider things in this regard for the time being.
Cui had no choice but to do anything, and this kind of thing was really unforceable.
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Pingyang specially visited the Qinling Generation for a few days, and with a new mood, he visited the Qinling Mountains scenery and did not return to Chang'an until today.
When she entered Chang'an, Pingyang did not go back to the mansion directly but went straight to the palace. Some things still need to be handled by her.
Pingyang has the privilege of entering and leaving the palace, so he goes straight to the Tai Chi Hall where Li Yuan is.
Li Yuan, the west hall of Taiji Palace, was listening to Li Yuanji's full of foolings, saying that the convenience of moving the capital to Xiang Deng's generation was the only way to avoid the enemy's rest and rest.
Li Yuan was quite satisfied with the Chang'an country and did not have much intention of moving the capital. However, Li Yuanji has always been idle and playful and causing trouble, which made him, the father, worry. It is rare that his son cares about the political situation of the Tang Dynasty, has his own political propositions, and does not want to undermine his enthusiasm, so he lets him speak. He does not evaluate his views, neither agree nor object to him, and allows him to develop in this way.
Thinking of his three legitimate sons and one legitimate daughter, the eldest and second brothers are both wise and brave, and he is worried about it for a while. The fourth brother also knew that he wanted it, and began to make progress, caring about state affairs and participating in state affairs. The only legitimate daughter seemed to have a bit of a play, and she couldn't help but comfort Lao Huai and laughed secretly.
Seeing Li Yuan happy, Li Yuanji thought he had put on the idea, and he was talking even more vigorously and talked endlessly.
Li Yuan went in and out of his left ear, and suddenly got the news of Pingyang's request for a visit. He smiled and said, "This girl is finally willing to come back, and he knows that he will definitely come back soon." As he said, he interrupted Li Yuanji's long discussion: "Silang, this moving of the capital is not a small matter, and you need to be cautious and cautious. Go back and search through ancient books and find information. Look at the rise and fall of several prehistoric dynasties, look at their target needs for choosing a capital, and then make a conclusion after understanding it in detail."
Li Yuanji secretly scolded Pingyang for being a bad thing and dismissed helplessly.
Outside Tai Chi Hall.
Li Yuanji looked at Pingyang who was walking towards him and shouted lazyly: "Second Sister."
Pingyang stood in front of Li Yuanji and said, "Since you still call me second sister, then listen to my advice. Refrain from interacting with those friends and Liu Can, I will not tell my father about it. lest he will scold you again. This is only once, and you will not be an example, you should do it yourself."
Li Yuanji, who was as domineering as others in front of Pingyang, had to lower his head and said, "Yes, I understand."
Pingyang bypassed him and walked into the lobby.
Li Yuanji gritted his teeth, looked back at Pingyang's back angrily, and thought angrily: "Each one, one is like this. When you were young, you didn't care about me, why should you care about me when you were old? I, Li Yuanji, can't take my own way."
Tai Chi Hall West Hall.
Li Yuan deliberately said with a stern face: "I have been there for several months, and I still know how to come back."
"Father!" Pingyang stepped forward happily and said in a coquettish tone: "My daughter misses her father, so she will naturally come back."
"Hmph!" Li Yuan said bluntly: "I think it's Luo Shixin who is back. You are bored alone. You are just back now. You are pretending, just come back together. I'm the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Who dares to talk nonsense? I chopped his head."
Pingyang said in shame: "I'm a little embarrassed."
Li Yuan originally wanted to raise an army to ask for punishment, but Pingyang stood in front of him alive, but could not speak anymore. He could only pull Pingyang down and said caringly: "Tell me about your father, how are you doing with Luo Shixin? He went to visit Li Jing, what are you going with?"
Pingyang sighed lowly and said, "Father, you think too much. My daughter went out for a trip because she knew that the general had left the court and was in a bad mood. When she was traveling, she heard that the south was in chaos and was worried and worried. She couldn't help but rush to Jianghuai. My daughter is the general of the Italian country, but she really has nothing to do with the general. Don't be too worried about her father."
"This..." Li Yuan's face suddenly became extremely ugly. After looking at Pingyang for a while, he sighed: "Okay, okay! My father doesn't care if he asks."
I thought that good things were coming, but now I realized that it was Pingyang's wishful thinking and sent it to him. I was naturally extremely depressed.
Pingyang looked at Li Yuan and felt guilty. She didn't want to deceive her father, but she couldn't let Li Yuan linger on such things, and she didn't want anyone with a heart to harm Luo Shixin.
Because of Liu Can's emergencies, her whereabouts with Luo Shixin were exposed. If you continue to entangle in this regard, it is difficult to find out that Luo Shixin went south and did not go to visit Li Jing, but to rescue Pei Qingyi, and committed the crime of deceiving the emperor.
No matter how big or small, deceiving the king is a sin that cannot be ignored, especially those who are interested in deliberately targeting it.
Luo Shixin and Li Yuanji had a bad relationship, and Liu Can offended him again. Pingyang was most worried that even if Li Yuanji had an intention to investigate the matter, he targeted Luo Shixin. In order to prevent this, Pingyang simply defamed himself and sacrificed his reputation and cut off the possibility of Li Yuanji's investigation.
Just imagine a widow who cares about a man, who pursues him thousands of miles away. This widow is still Princess Pingyang of the Tang Dynasty. If it spreads, it would be so ugly.
Chapter completed!