Chapter 1014
General Guo Arrives
Chapter 1014 General Guo Arrives
But no one really scolded the Mi family.
After all, Mi Dong was dead, and now the people in the city were sympathizing with him, so they only scolded Madam Mi for being unvirtuous and ruining the Mi family for three generations.
These insults were reported to Mrs. Mi every day.
Mrs. Mi really wanted to follow the example of the Qin family. She rushed to Mi Dong's mourning hall, overturned the table and shouted: You are scolding me for nothing. Mi Dong ordered me to do all these things. I am the most innocent!
Am I not virtuous?
Did I ruin three generations of the Mi family?
Oh, the child belongs to the Mi family, and the Mi family is also in charge of the child's upbringing. Women have no right to interfere. If he fails to educate the child well, you blame me?
Mrs. Mi is now constantly in a state of switching between "turning the table over and doing nothing, and enduring it for the sake of her children and grandchildren."
Mi Dong's funeral was not grand, everything was kept simple, so his body was only kept for three days before being carried to the Taizhou Academy Cemetery outside Taizhou Mansion for burial.
Ying Zilin did not steal Mi Dong's limelight. He waited until three days after Mi Dong was buried before announcing the date for the grand memorial service for Mr. Yong.
The festival lasts for three days on the third day of the winter month.
After the date of the worship was set, Ying Zilin, with the help of his uncle Ying and Dean Cui, led the teachers and students of Taizhou Academy to host the grand worship.
The work was complicated and every step had to be carried out according to ancient rituals. Ying Zilin endured the pain night after night, and although he became very thin, he did not fall ill.
Zhou Rong was ill for a while, but he recovered quickly. On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, he led the sacrifice together with Ying Zilin, Xiaobai, Lin Mujia and others.
This is very inconsistent with ancient etiquette.
The person leading the sacrifice should be someone of the rank of Uncle Ying, Chief Cui, or the heir apparent of Marquis Wenchang.
However, after discussion between Madam Cui and Principal Cui, they decided to let the young people take over. Madam Cui's original words were: "I have experienced the pain of the generation gap, so I know the importance of inheritance. This time, let the young people handle this important matter."
During the reign of Emperor Taizong, female nobles were given the power to retain guards, lead soldiers and weapons, and enter other people's homes to rescue the women.
But now, Madam Cui has searched all over the world, and she has only found a girl from the Qin family.
The rest of the so-called ladies from noble families and wives of wealthy families were nothing more than a group of beautiful cat slaves who were carefully pampered.
So when she saw women from various families coming to donate money at the city gate that day, she was moved to tears.
But it's not enough!
What she imagined as a child was that all the female guards of the proud women could completely transform into a female army.
……
Woo-woo-woo!
On the third day of the winter month, the whole city was filled with the sound of pottery flutes, mourning Kang Rong.
Sacrificial sheds were built at Yili Di, Wuli Ting, and Shili Po outside the city gates of Taizhou Prefecture to facilitate the people of Wei to worship Kang Rong.
A white cloth banner was hung on the sacrificial shed to commemorate Mr. Rong, a righteous man.
When Prince Ming's simple carriage left the city, he saw a crowd of people coming to pay tribute to Kang Rong like a dragon.
At the sacrificial shed at Shilipu, many ragged country folk came to pay their respects, crying with genuine emotion: "Wow, Mr. Rong is unparalleled. He has given us poor farmers a way to survive. If it weren't for Mr. Rong's generosity in opening his private warehouse to donate grain and grass, we might have survived this winter, but we wouldn't have made it to next year's harvest!"
After the news of the spy crime spread, they kept their eyes on the four major highways, but the imperial court had not sent any food and fodder to the Northeast Province.
The more they looked at it, the more frightened they became... This proved that the imperial court had no more food to send, and if a war really broke out, they would only be able to collect the food rations from ordinary families!
The cold winter is already unbearable. If food rations are collected again, every household will probably have one or two elderly people starving to death before next year's harvest.
Young Master Ming lifted the carriage curtain, gazing at the vast crowd of worshippers. The leader of the assassins, seeing this, assumed he intended to pay respects to Kang Rong, hoping to gain favor upon returning to the capital. He said, "Young Master, the offerings are ready. Would you like to pay your respects?"
Upon hearing this, Master Ming curled his lips slightly and uttered, "Is he worthy?"
A loser who became famous by dying cannot stand a stick of incense from him!
"Bring some food made from fatty meat." Master Ming gave the order after lowering the curtain.
The leader of the death squad quickly handed him a kind of crystal meat made of fat: "Keep it warm, the temperature is just right, please enjoy it, young master."
Master Ming picked up the jade chopsticks and picked up a piece of crystal meat made of fat. As soon as he put it in his mouth, it was greasy and sweet. Although it was not unpalatable, it made him frown in displeasure.
But he still finished half a bowl of crystal meat... He is a little thin now and must gain weight and get back the baby fat on his face.
When older people and those in higher positions see younger generations who still have baby fat, they always treat such younger generations as children who are still ignorant of the world and will be wary of such children.
When he returned to the capital, he had to pay a visit to Emperor Wuxing, so he had to gain some weight and look like an innocent and harmless young man with baby fat.
Ah, so, why don’t you go see a doctor?
If it’s too late, I’m really afraid that you will become a pervert.
……
On the fifth day of the winter month, the last day of the Kangyong Festival, a large number of soldiers and horses arrived on the main road at the northwest gate of Taizhou Prefecture. Their military flags were like a forest, like a dark cloud pressing down on the city.
Bang bang bang!
The sound of the soldiers running shook the earth.
Whoohoo!
The soldiers' breathing was like the roar of a tiger and the breath of a dragon, which frightened the people of Wei near the northwest gate and made them run back into the city in a hurry, fearing that these soldiers would chop people down.
The guards at the northwest city gate were also frightened. They quickly closed the city gate, set up roadblocks and other equipment, and sent people to notify Deputy General Zhao, Deputy General Wen and others.
He then waved his flags, signaling to the troops at the northwest gate: "Who are the generals coming? What is the purpose of the march?"
General Guo, the commander of the army, saw the meaning of the waving flag and cursed, "What a coward! Seeing us carrying the Great Wei army flag, they dare not come out of the city gate to inquire, and can only use flag signals! If the Rong bandits were so cowardly, I would laugh in my dreams, but my ancestors, these are our Great Wei defenders. Tsk, scouts, go and negotiate with them, and tell their commander to open the city gates and come to greet me within a quarter of an hour!"
"Yes!" Two teams of scouts galloped to the northwest gate, waving their flags and telling the defenders, "We are the Great Wei troops from the Northwest Province. Our commander is Marquis Guo, the founding father of the Northwest Marquisate. General Guo, under the orders of His Majesty, has come to garrison Taizhou Prefecture."
The scout produced another token and shouted, "General Guo has issued a military order. All garrison commanders at Taizhou Prefecture are to leave the city walls within a quarter of an hour to welcome the commander in. Those who fail to arrive within that time will be punished according to military law!"
The scouts in the northwest of the Wei Dynasty were almost omnipotent. They had loud and clear voices, and their shouts were clearer than those of the messengers, so the guards at the city gates could hear them clearly.
Shocked, panicked, and some even doubted.
"Is this true? Did our deputy commander receive the order from the commander-in-chief to come? Could it be that the northwest has been penetrated by the Rong bandits, and these soldiers are just the Rong bandits in disguise?!"
Ah this?
"The bandits are very cunning, so it's possible!"
"Since the suspicion is reasonable, let's leave them alone for now and wait for Vice Admiral Zhao and Vice Admiral Wen to arrive."
"Okay, this is a good decision." The guards unanimously decided to be cautious. They waved the command flags and signaled them to wait for a while, then waited for Deputy General Zhao and his men to arrive.
Deputy General Zhao was born in the northwest and knew General Guo, but he did not receive the military order from General Guo to come to Taizhou Mansion to serve as the chief general defending the city.
Therefore, after hearing the report from the soldiers, he frowned, but at least he rushed to the northwest gate to check the situation.
However, this round trip had already exceeded the fifteen-minute time allotted for opening the city gates to welcome the general, which violated military orders.
General Guo was so angry that he yelled, "Zhao Tietou, get off here! Is this how you defend the Taizhou Palace for His Majesty?!"
(End of this chapter)