It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival. The pedestrians on the road are heartbroken.
On the Cold Food Festival, people from the capital went out to pay homage to their ancestors. The Qiao family, young and old, men, women, and children gathered together to burn incense in the Ksitigarbha Hall of the Huguo Temple.
The women of the Qiao family looked at the unfamiliar names on the tablets and felt puzzled!
I wonder why the Madam insisted on coming here to burn incense on such an important day?
Aren't we going to the ancestral hall in Laohu Town today to pay respect to the deceased old lady? Why are we paying respect to the tablet here first?
On the way back to the city, Xu started explaining to the woman in the car!
"The tablets enshrined the old lady's father and her elder sister who died young. My mother-in-law's family had no descendants, so after she came to Beijing, she asked people to enshrine the tablets of her relatives again.
Every year on this day, my mother-in-law would come here in person to burn incense, and she has never stopped doing so for many years!
Before she died, the old lady told us that no matter who of us is in the capital, we should go to burn a stick of incense during festivals, which is also a way to show filial piety to her."
When Xu said this, she looked a little dazed.
Is that woman really just my mother-in-law’s sister? Isn’t my mother-in-law the old man’s only daughter?
Her husband has never mentioned that her mother-in-law has any brothers or sisters, nor has she heard that her mother-in-law has any relatives like uncles or younger brothers?
But why are the words "Qiao" written on the tablet?
Why did my mother-in-law specifically instruct my husband's brothers to go to the memorial service in person every year before she died?
This is much more serious than treating your own affairs after death!
Xu couldn't help but recall that half a month before she moved out of Xiaoyao Village, her mother-in-law came back from the county town and fell into a coma. When she woke up, her temperament changed drastically and she acted decisively!
Is there any connection between them?
Xu didn't dare to let her wild thoughts run wild, and she was even unwilling to explore the unbelievable truth...
That night, Qiao Yunxin and his wife had an incredible dream.
In the dream, they seemed to be there.
Their mother did not have that much strength, so she did not go up the mountain to hunt, nor did she save Master Xu and get a reward of thousands of taels of silver to improve his family's living conditions.
Nor did he rescue Heng Wen and the Fan family from Xiaoyaohou Mansion on the way to the capital.
They are not as lucky as in reality, who can ride in a carriage, avoid the snowstorm, and arrive at Lao Hu Town with enough food and warm clothes!
Relying on their own two feet and bringing their children, they followed the tide of refugees and came directly to the capital!
Many of Sanniang, Silang and Wulang's children were killed along the way. Even his own four children were only breathing their last breath when they reached the capital!
Later...
Later, A'niang took out the token of trust and sent her husband and his two brothers back to their respective clans.
Unfortunately, this wishful thinking and unprepared behavior caused my husband's brothers to end up with their families broken up and their lives ended in misery within just a few years.
Her husband died on the battlefield, not even a complete body was left.
She struggled with her child in the backyard of Xiaoyao Marquis's mansion, and soon became a victim of the struggle for fame and fortune among those in power.
Less than a month after Qiao Yunqing and his wife returned to their family, Sanlang and the prince of Xiaoyaohou were bitten to death by a vicious dog at a banquet.
The couple had no children, and within six years they became scapegoats for the eldest illegitimate son of their family and died on the way to exile.
And the third brother returned alone to the Zhou family, which practiced the Gu-raising method of selecting successors. Even though he was the nephew of His Majesty, he did not have a good ending.
The King of Qi and His Majesty in the dream did not have the salt mine that A Niang had given up, nor the good seeds that A Niang had provided for free, nor did A Niang rebuild the Qingyang Academy to continuously supply the court with talents that could compete with the aristocratic families...
The royal family is also a puppet in the eyes of the aristocratic families. If they don't like you, they will ruin your reputation and make you die inexplicably.
Without A Niang's help, General Fan Boqing of the Zhennan Army and Heng Wen, the next successor of the Northwest Army, both died on the way back to Beijing.
Xiaoyao Hou died on the battlefield, and his husband was sent to the vanguard camp by Heng'an. Although he became a general by virtue of his military merits, he was isolated and surrounded by enemies, so his fate can be imagined!
Your Majesty, things are not as smooth as in reality.
Not to mention this life, where you can rule the country with great force, sweep away the barbarians in all directions, and finally unify the north and the south.
The aristocratic families control the country's economic lifeline and military power. Your Majesty is trapped in the deep palace and has no time to take care of himself. Even if he wants to take care of Qiao Yunting, he is unable to do so.
The powerful aristocratic families don't even take the royal family seriously, let alone an heir who was brought home halfway and is neither talented in literature nor in martial arts?
As soon as the couple closed their eyes, the scenes in their dream appeared in their minds like a kaleidoscope.
This dream is so real!
The pain of having one's heart pierced by thousands of arrows and having one's family torn apart seemed real.
Qiao Yunxin touched his pounding heart, his thoughts in a mess, and his wife was crying quietly beside him.
He thought he had scared the other person by overreacting.
Just ask, okay!
It turns out that the other person entered the same dream as himself!
"Don't be afraid, they are all fake!"
Xu shook her head and said, “Husband, this is so real, it’s like we experienced it ourselves!
If it weren't for mother-in-law suddenly showing off her talents, making money and letting you three brothers learn literature and martial arts, we would probably have to face the experience in our dreams!
My dear husband, my mother must be a fairy invited by my mother-in-law!"
Qiao Yunxin quickly covered his wife's mouth: "Swallow these words and never mention them in front of outsiders. Mother is still mother, but she is no longer hiding her light under a low profile!"
Seeing Qiao Yunxin's overly eager affirmation, Xu really wanted to ask: Is it really good to deceive yourself?
Qiao Yunxin is not a fool. How could he not feel when a person's character undergoes a drastic change?
But the other person was her mother, who always cared about the family and never planned anything against her.
He has been more sincere to the three brothers than their own parents over the years.
Faced with such a person, he would rather believe that A Niang could not bear the burden of them, so she prayed to God for help to come and change their fate!
"Don't think too much, dreams are just dreams after all, don't take them seriously.
Grandma has passed away, we just need to live a good life to live up to her painstaking efforts!"
"Um!"
"Tomorrow I will send someone to bring the tablet from the Huguo Temple and place it in the ancestral hall so that my mother can be reunited with her family!"
"Okay, I'll go to the Huguo Temple tomorrow and ask the abbot to choose an auspicious day!"
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