At this moment, there was a deep sadness in every corner of the Ling Palace, and people were crying everywhere. Even the cats in the palace were leaning down at the door of the mourning hall and were reluctant to leave for a long time.

The servants in the mansion were so sad that they could not rely on them to handle the funeral. The Seventh Prince called the people in his mansion to come and help, but because of the war, the shops in the city that could buy coffins and paper candles were either closed or beaten or robbed and burned during the war, so they could not buy anything for a while. The body of the fifth prince could only be stopped in the mourning hall.

It is said that it is a mourning hall, but it is just the front hall of the Ling Palace. Because it has not been decorated with white silk spirit banners, it does not look like it is about to build a spirit. Only a group of servants kneel around the corpse and cry.

The Seventh Prince had no choice but fortunately, the Hong family arrived in time and took over the funeral.

The Hong Family business involves the entire industry. There are two shops selling funeral supplies in Shangdu City, which are opened by the Hong Family. So the servant took Hong Family's token to call the door. Soon the shop's shop's shop's shop brought people to deliver all the items they needed, and even the coffin was brought with them the best available one.

The seventh prince breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Hong Shi sincerely, but Hong Shi was not in good condition because there was no news from the Hong family, and the people she sent to the Hong family to inquire had not come back yet. On the way out of the palace, she met many officials from the city. She reported to her home and asked her, and the officials also answered her enthusiastically, but the results given about the Hong family were: the Hong family was smashed and looted by Guo Wenyu, and all the Hong family members disappeared, and no one was seen.

Hongshi said that she believed that the Hong family was fine because she knew that the Hong family had a place to hide. But she always worried in her heart if she didn't see anyone.

The Seventh Prince also sent people to Hong's house, and even told the officials on the street to focus on the Hong's shops. If they needed help, they would do their best. However, the sent out still did not bring back valuable news.

Hong was organizing the funeral of the fifth prince with concern, and was in a very orderly manner. Even the mourning clothes of the people in the mansion were prepared in a short time. The white silk banners in the mansion were hung, and the flowers made of white silk were hung at the door of the Lingwang Mansion.

Under the aura of this atmosphere, the crying sounds in the mansion became louder. The servants knelt in the mourning hall and kowtowed to their master. The eunuch in charge fainted from crying. After waking up, he insisted on kneeling in the mourning hall, saying that he would not leave the fifth prince even if he died.

The seventh prince told Hong, "That was the eunuch who served the fifth brother since he was a child. He has been with him since his fifth brother was not as tall as the table. In the past, he was beaten by the fairy concubine in the Chahe Palace. Unexpectedly, the fifth brother was gone after a few years of good days."

Hong wiped her tears and threw a handful of paper money into the fire pit in front of her.

Lin saw him and said hesitantly: "Is it useless for us to burn paper? I have heard before that the reason why we keep the spirit and burn paper is done by juniors and peers is because there is a saying among the people that elders can't receive the people under the paper. Speaking of which, although we are concubines of Duke Wen's Mansion, if we count by seniority, we are also elders, so we should not burn this paper money, and burn it for the children, so that the fifth prince will not be able to collect it."

Hong nodded, "You make sense, I have heard of this statement. Forget it, let's not burn it anymore. But there is a saying you said wrong. Now we can't say that we are concubines of Duke Wen's Mansion. We can only say that we were concubines of Duke Wen's Mansion before. Before the accident, Duke Wen had already divorced us and had changed the documents of the government. We have nothing to do with the Bai family."

"Yes, it's me that I said it was wrong. Before, it was the past." Lin corrected it immediately, but at the same time he was confused. She told Hong, "I used to think that Duke Wen's Mansion was the destination, and that Bai Xingyan was the only one who relied on. My greatest fortune was to be able to enter Duke Wen's Mansion in this life. It was because I could never come out of that mansion. But this year, this idea became increasingly weak. Even when I got the divorce paper, I didn't think that this would be a little sudden, and that I would not feel that I would be homeless in the future and become an abandoned woman by a man. What do you think this is giving up?

Hong told her: "This is not giving up, it is because we finally recognize the reality, it is because the cliff has stopped and turned back. I used to please Bai Xingyan so desperately for my two children and Aran, just to survive in that mansion, and even to pay thousands of gold and silver from my parents. But what did I change to? In the end, I was just a money house that could come to withdraw money anytime and anywhere. The Bai family only wanted to get me when they needed money. The favor he had for me was not even because of my beautiful face, but because of money."

Lin agreed with this very much: "Yes, in his eyes and heart, in addition to money, power, women or children, it is just a footstone on his way to fame and fortune. As long as he can climb up, he will not care whether we are dead or alive."

The seventh prince heard the two women's words and suddenly felt that he was actually lucky.

It is said that the most ruthless imperial family is. Indeed, there are many ruthless and unrighteous people in his family, including so many concubines in the harem and so many brothers and sisters. He has also been framed, and his third brother almost killed him many years ago.

But compared to the Bai family, he still thinks that the Jun family is very good. At least there is a wise master on it, and there are wise queens sitting beside him. At least he will get two smiling faces when he calls his father and mother. At least no matter how old he grows, his mother will remember to make each of them a new set of clothes, new crown, new shoes and new socks during the holidays.

His father was not the kind of emperor who only talked about the king and ministers but not father and son. Compared to Bai Xingyan, his father was more humane, more reasonable, and more concerned about his relatives and children. Even the concubines who had not favored him for many years were doing his best to give them a good life and care for them.

Compared to the Bai family's children, he is lucky.

Someone hurriedly ran in outside the mourning hall. It was a little maid. When he came in, he knelt in front of Hongshi, crying and laughing: "Madam, the entourage beside the second lady is back, bringing news from the Hong family."

Hong quickly got up, but she got up violently. She fooled her for a while and almost fainted.

Lin was startled and quickly helped her. Bai Zhenzhen and Bai Haoxuan, who were kneeling on the ground to burn paper for the fifth prince, rushed over to support Hongshi, and looked out of the mourning hall together until they saw the sword light coming in, Bai Zhenzhen hurriedly asked, "How is the Hong family?"

Dao Guang didn't keep it a secret and immediately said, "Don't worry, Miss Four, Mrs. Hong, don't worry, Hong's family is fine, everyone is fine. As soon as the rebels started to cause trouble, the master of the Hong family hid in the secret room with all the people in the mansion. Not to mention that the masters are fine, even the servants of the Hong Mansion will lose no losses. Even the mansion was robbed and smashed, it didn't look very good."

Bai Zhenzhen breathed a long sigh of relief, "It's good that people are fine, and the mansion is not afraid."

The worry that Hong had been holding in her heart finally relaxed. She sat on the ground like a paralyzed person, tears pouring out loudly, covering her face with her hands, and couldn't help crying.

Only then did Lin realize that Hong Piaopiao was always holding on, because she knew that she could not fall down, and there were so many children. If she fell down, the people in this mansion would have no backbone. Although Hong Piaopiao did not have to support the overall situation like Bai Heran, she was also the spiritual pillar of the family. Only when she held on, her children could stand it.

At this moment, Lin truly realized the gap between himself and Hong. It was not the distance between having money or not, but whether he could bear the courage and confidence of the entire family.

She felt that she should learn from Hongshi. The ability to charm men in the past was useless. Now that men are gone and their homes are gone, she has to support her daughter. She cannot let her daughter lose her father and not have a strong mother to rely on. Even for her daughter, she will change herself from this moment.

The funeral of the Prince Ling's Mansion was organized in an orderly manner. The third wife Guan left the two children to guard the fifth prince, and she took a carriage and returned to the general's mansion first. It would be impossible not to go back. The General's Mansion in Zhenbei was a mansion mainly cared for by the rebels. There was a night of war, and the General's Mansion was like the Red Desert. When the brunt was affected, those people smashed around the city. One of the important targets was General's Mansion in Zhenbei. She had to go back and see how the servants in the mansion were and how many were left.

On the way back to the mansion, the third lady passed by Xiaobai Mansion. The carriage did not stop, but she just raised the curtain and looked at Xiaobai Mansion.

The gate of Xiaobai Mansion was closed and she couldn't tell what was going on inside. She didn't want to stop and inquire. Bai Xingwu lost his mother and could understand that he could not come back to the truth, but if he couldn't figure it out in the future, the relatives would probably have to be cut off.

In the palace, the imperial guards took Bai Mingzhu and Jun Changning down from Wuming Mountain and sent them to Qingming Hall.

Emperor Tianhe was exhausted all night and was in a bad state of mind. Empress Chen was always with him. After the court officials took their families out of the palace, the emperor and the empress did not stay in Mingluan Palace, because Emperor Tianhe said that sitting in Mingluan Palace, he could think of the three girls of the Bai family shed blood and tears on their faces, saying that this was the first time he saw the tears in the eyes of people, which could be blood.

He knew that Bai Yanyu was too sad, so why didn't he be sad? He was not a biological child, but he was always raised by his parents. He has never been a hard-hearted emperor. Although he had to do many things, he believed that he would be worthy of his true heart in his life.

So Lao Wu's death made him feel distressed, and the blood flowing out of Bai Yanyu's eyes became an indelible sadness in his heart.

Queen Chen stayed with him until Bai Mingzhu and Jun Changning were brought in, and then she pulled his sleeves lightly and reminded in a low voice: "When you are here, don't just be sad, you still have some serious things to deal with. There must be an explanation on the other end of Han Gan. You know that A Ran's temper, I'm afraid the other end of Gebu is not stable, so Han Gan cannot be confused for the time being."

Emperor Tianhe nodded, "I understand that marriage is imperative..."
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