Uncle Meng snorted coldly, "Don't even think about such a good thing. Those two brats hate us so much, and you still want them to remember our kindness? Let's see if they will return to the capital. If they do, they won't be able to keep the yard!"
Regardless of what the eldest wife of the Meng family was planning, after they left, Yu Jiao saw that the house was in a mess, so she cleaned up the table first, and asked Meng Fei to place Liu Sanniang's ashes and Meng Qingyun's tablet, and then a group of people started to clean up the house.
It was not until noon that the courtyard was cleaned. Bai Lu went to the restaurant in the city to bring back some food. After dinner, Yu Jiao took Meng Fei and the small gift she had prepared to the headmaster's house in Mengjia Village. Their family was dwindling in number, and they had conflicts with the eldest wife. Since Liu Sanniang's funeral was to be held, they had to inform the villagers.
The head of the village pretended to be polite, accepted the gift, said some words of pity for the siblings, and promised to personally lead Meng Fei to report the death of each household, and to let all the villagers, young and old, go to help on the day of the funeral.
In the afternoon, the people from the coffin shop came to deliver the spirit banners. Yu Jiao took Jianjia and the others to set up the mourning hall. A few women knocked on the door. It turned out that they had heard Meng Fei go to report the death, and they felt sorry for the two siblings who had to deal with the funeral alone, so they came to help.
Yu Jiao expressed her gratitude and with so many people around, the mourning hall was set up quickly.
The coffin was made overnight and would not be delivered until three days later, so the funeral was scheduled for three days later. A banquet was also required for the funeral, so Yu Jiao invited a chef from the city and bought the rice, flour, vegetables and meat needed for the banquet. After everything was ready, Yu Jiao took Meng Fei to Qingyu Village.
When she entered the village, she saw Song sitting under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village sewing shoe soles. Yu Jiao stopped the carriage, lifted the curtain and got out.
Yu Jiao hesitated for a moment, then called out, "Mom."
When the carriage stopped, several women who were doing needlework nearby called Song to go and see. At that time, the Yu family was the richest family in the whole village, and the brothers of the Yu family were constantly coming in and out of the carriage every day.
Hearing this call of "mother", Song was surprised and happy, and stood up at once, "Jiao girl, why are you back?"
She didn't even bother to take the sewing basket, but walked forward, took Yu Jiao's hand, and with a smile on her face, wanted to take her home.
The women nearby didn't dare to recognize her at first, but they came to their senses when they heard Song calling her "Jiao girl". They kept looking at Yu Jiao secretly with ingratiating smiles on their faces, trying to make themselves familiar to Yu Jiao.
The news about the Yu family's affair spread throughout the village. The daughter-in-law chosen by Yu Laoer's family for good fortune was actually a lucky girl, the daughter of a high-ranking official from the capital who had been exiled!
They all ate the Yu family's wedding candy a while ago. The second son and his wife of the Yu family went from house to house in the village to announce the good news.
The fifth brother of the Yu family was a promising man. Not only did he become a third-rank official in the capital, but his daughter-in-law, who was adopted as an official's daughter, did not despise Yu Qizhe's background and married the fifth brother in the capital in a grand ceremony.
Now, who in the village does not envy Song and Yu Mengshan? They all dream of being like them, raising a son who becomes the top scholar in the imperial examination, and then marrying a daughter of an official family as their daughter-in-law!
What's more, the daughter-in-law here is first-rate at making money. The people in their village can live better than those in the surrounding villages because of Yu Jiao.
So they all greeted Yu Jiao warmly, "It turns out that Jiao girl is back. Come to our house for dinner when you have time."
Yu Jiao smiled back, took Song's hand and walked home, explaining to her as they walked that she had come back to take care of Liu Sanniang's funeral.
After hearing this, Song patted Fei Ge'er's head and said to Yu Jiao, "Funeral matters are more important. Your father and I will go there tomorrow. Our two families are considered relatives after all."
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