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Chapter 196 Yu Meishunhua's Death in the Hot Summer

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    In the seventh year of Yanyou [1320], a "solar eclipse" occurred on the first month of Daxin.

    This is not an auspicious sign!  Maybe something weird will happen this year.  Within a few days, Emperor Renzong died in the "Guangtian Palace" in Dadu.  On March 11, the seventeen-year-old Shuode Bala, with the support of the Empress Dowager Daji and the right prime minister Tiemu Dier, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the "Daming Palace". He was named "Gejian Khan"  Later Yuan Yingzong.

    As soon as the new emperor came to the throne, he did two major things:

    One thing is that the emperor personally took the lead in calling on the people in his belly [the area directly under the Central Secretariat] to "two meals a day" and donate the saved food to Datong, Fengzhou Zhuyi, Chenzhou, Jiading and other states, as well as  Hungry people in the whole province of Henan.

    The second thing, he punished the corrupt prime minister Timudier who supported him to power.  However, the prime minister went through the back door of the empress dowager and killed the loyal minister He Sheng who exposed him [1].

    On the day of He Sheng's funeral, the common people in the capital rushed to burn the coins and pay homage to his spirit.

    [1] "July 15th Book" Fang Hui. Poetry

    It is difficult for my family to be a vegetarian, so I am too busy to do cursive writing.

    It is indeed the case today, and the ancients believed it.

    A few days ago, Meng Jiang worked hard and finally gave birth to a big and fat boy for the Jiang family, but he caught up with the emperor's new policy-simple food and clothing.

    No, just after breakfast, Meng Jiang yelled that she was hungry, and asked her eldest daughter Shunhua to make her dinner quickly.

    Shunhua made millet porridge for his mother, and scooped two spoonfuls of brown sugar into the porridge in the bowl, and stirred it evenly with chopsticks;  The egg was too hot, she accidentally dropped the egg on the ground, and the shell broke.

    Shunhua squatted down, picked up the egg, and peeled off the shell, revealing the attractive white.

    She really wanted to put it in her mouth at once, now she is at the age of growth, and after a few months, she hasn't even eaten a full meal, let alone such an attractive egg!

    This hot egg went back and forth between her hands and mouth for several rounds. Finally, making up her mind, she carefully broke off a small piece of egg white and put it in her mouth.

    As he was savoring carefully, he heard a "bang" at the door of his house, and then his father's voice came Didn't his father send the funeral for He Sheng, a first-rank university scholar?  Why did you come back so soon?

    Shunhua panicked and stuffed the egg into his mouth at once. He wanted to swallow it whole, but he didn't want to choke. After a while, he rolled his eyes and fell straight to the ground

    When Jiang Xiang entered the door, he was taken aback and hurried to find someone to rescue him.

    After the old Chinese doctor arrived, he rescued him for a long time, and finally shook his head regretfully and said, "Get ready for the funeral!"

    People in the neighborhood of Bashe, you talk to each other: "A good big girl, how can she be gone if she disappears?"

    Meng Jiang hugged her daughter's body and cried loudly.

    Neighbors advised her: "Mother Hua, you must not cry during confinement, you will get sick after sitting down!"

    "That's right, Shunhua's mother," another woman said, "Today is still Ghost Festival, so don't cry indiscriminately, or it will attract ghosts to beg for their lives!"

    Meng Jiang choked and cried, and told Shunhua's sisters not to cry, and the neighbors helped Meng Jiang to her bedroom.

    In the main room, only a few people from the family were left, discussing how to deal with the funeral.

    Just at this time, the neighbor's third mother-in-law, who always liked to watch weddings and funerals and was nosy, walked in.  As soon as she entered the door, she first gave Jiang Xiang a good reprimand: "Your third uncle said he wouldn't let you go, and cried for that He Sheng, you must not listen! Are you okay now?" The third mother-in-law said again, "I also  I reminded you, today is July 15th, Ghost Festival, you can't go anywhere, why don't you listen, kid?"

    Jiang Xiang also felt wronged, "I just listened to you, so I went to take a look and came back quickly!"

    The third mother-in-law said: "But just by looking at you, you lured the kid into the house? You took away the soul of your own daughter"

    The second uncle who was not out of the "five clothes" also said: "You say you, a plain-headed commoner, and the affairs between officials and people have nothing to do with you!"

    The third mother-in-law looked at the girl who surrounded the corpse and said: "On Ghost Festival, all ghosts are on holiday. They wander around the world, and if they find a good-looking girl, they will take them away"

    When the sisters heard this, they were so frightened that they cried again, wondering who the kid would take away next?

    The fifth "General" turned his head to look at this sister, and then at that sister, and smiled disapprovingly, as if taking away so many sisters.It's not her turn

    The third mother-in-law scolded: "Don't cry, anyone who cries will be taken away!" Seeing Lao Wu laughing again, "General, why are you still laughing? You heartless thing"

    Afterwards, the third mother-in-law turned and said to Jiang Xiang: "The ghost gate of the underworld opens at midnight on the 14th and closes until midnight on the 15th. All ghosts must return to the underworld before the gate of ghosts closes, otherwise they will stay in the underworld.  Become a lonely ghost"

    Jiang Xiang asked: "What does San Niang mean?"

    The third mother-in-law said: "According to the rules of Yandi, those who die accidentally and are not married cannot be buried in the ancestral grave, let alone a three-day morgue."

    Jiang Xiang asked the second uncle with a sad face: "The second uncle means"

    The second uncle said: "The weather is hot now, and I don't feel well for a long time. I think we can bury it on the same day!"

    So, Jiang Xiang arranged to organize people, the coffin saw wood to make a pair of thin-skinned coffins, and the grave repairer helped to dig a dirt pit hastily on the nearby hillside.

    [2] "Tang Feng. Ge Sheng" Book of Songs

    Ge Shengmeng Chu, stalks and vines in the wild.

    Yumei dies here, who will be alone.

    Ge Shengmeng thorns, vines in the field.

    Yumei dies here, who will live alone.

    The corner pillow is bright, and the brocade quilt is rotten.

    Yumei dies here, who will be with Dudan.

    Summer day, winter night.

    After a hundred years old, return to its home!

    Winter night, summer day.

    After a hundred years old, return to his room!

    ?The setting sun is like blood, the fields are vast, and the sweltering heat keeps sweltering, and the evening wind does not know where to hide.  The treetops are wilted, and even the noisy maemis are unable to sing, and occasionally only one or two mournful and shrill crows can be heard outside the village

    A group of people carried the coffin to Xiaotu Mountain in the northwest.

    Arriving at the cemetery, just as he was about to be buried, he saw Meng Jiang stumbling towards this side supported by two neighbors.

    As soon as Meng Jiang arrived at the cemetery, Jiang Xiang said distressedly: "Didn't it be agreed that you will not come!"

    Meng Jiang said breathlessly: "The child likes it, I, I, I will wear it for the child" Then, he took off the crystal clear jade bracelet from his wrist.

    Jiang Xiang wanted to take the bracelet, but Meng Jiang said: "Let me put it on for my daughter The child has always wanted it, but I am not willing to give it to her This is the only thing my mother left me  "

    The coffin bearer withdrew the coffin again, parked it on the ground, untied the rope, and the coffin lid was gently opened.  Isn't the coffin lid wedged with big iron nails?  Oh, how can such a thin coffin board be nailed?  This thin coffin board can only be embedded with small nails.

    Meng Jiang crawled down beside the coffin, stretched out his hand to take Shunhua's little snow-white hand, put it near his mouth and kissed again and again, put the bracelet on his daughter's wrist, and couldn't help crying on his back: "My  Dear daughter, who will accompany you in this barren mountain This long night, who will accompany you Girl, girl, don't be afraid, wait here for mother Wait for mother to take your younger brother  My sister has grown up, I will come here to accompany you for my mother"

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    Notes

    ¡¾1¡¿The beginning and end of the "He Sheng Incident"

    At the beginning, Zhang Bi, a native of Kaiping, was a wealthy family.  When Bi died, his slaves demanded money from the people's house, and Fude beat those who owed money to death.  There are those who rule the prison, teach the slaves to lead Bizi, and go to prison together.  Prime Minister Tiemu Dier received a bribe of 60,000 yuan, but he was not upright in the end.  Sheng Su hated Tie Mudie'er for being greedy and violent. He lived in the same alley and did not communicate with him.  Wen Bishi, Yang Duo'er, the prime minister of Yushi, is the only one.  Yang Duoer only supervised Yulong Timur and Xu Yuanyuan in words.

    So he impeached and played the prime minister, arrested and ruled his left and right, and got the facts of the bribes to hear.  The emperor also hated Tiemu Dier and wanted to punish him.  Tiemu Dier hid in the Empress Dowager's Palace, and the Empress Dowager only took away her seal and ribbon.  When Yingzong ascended the throne, in the dark, Tiemu Dier came back to occupy the position. Yang Duoer and Xiao Bai, the political affairs of Zhongshu Pingzhang, lived in the same day.  And he falsely accused Sheng of taking a chariot to meet the imperial edict, disrespecting him, and killing him.  On the day of Sheng's death, the common people fought over paper money and cried beside the dead body.  At the beginning of Taiding period, he ordered to avenge his grievances, and bestowed the meritorious officials of Tuizhong Xuanli Baode, Tai Tuo, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and Shangzhu Kingdom, and he was named Qin Guogong and posthumously Huimin.  In the third year of Zhizheng, he was given the meritorious officials of Tui Zhongliang Festival Tongde Yi Dai, Taishi, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and Shangzhu Kingdom. He was named Jingyang King and changed his posthumous title Zhongxuan.

    Two sons: the only one, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Zhongshu Zuo Prime Minister, supervised the revision of national history;  Sun Jun, Prince Zhan Shi.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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