MTL - My Stepmother is Soft and Charming-Chapter 515 Kneeling Hall

 “My condolences to the general, my condolences to the prince.”

 When they heard this, Gu Shaoyu and Shang Zhiping both stood upright and said to the man.

 “Thank you.”

 This is the twelfth group of people coming and going today. Neither of them is good at showing emotions, so apart from these two words, nothing else can be said.

Therefore, the person who expressed condolences could only sigh and turned around to leave. As he was leaving, he met Du Jingyi. She was also dressed in mourning clothes and came out with a sullen face. She seemed to be going to give instructions. She just went there now. Rushing back.

 “My condolences, madam.”

“Thank you for taking this trip, adults. If my father-in-law is alive in heaven, he will be happy.”

"Madam, you're welcome. We used to be friends with the Duke of Guo, so it's only natural for us to come and see him off now that he's gone. I see you all look bad. As a filial piety, we still have to do it. Just take more care of your body.”

 “Thank you for your concern.”

Compared to the two kneeling uncles and nephews inside, Du Jingyi was much more polite, so the adults who might have been a little unhappy just now left the Duke's Mansion with understanding.

 When their dignity is done, they will stop joining in the fun.

Du Jingyi sent away these and welcomed others, over and over again, in an endless stream.

 Compared with her long-sleeved and good dancing skills, her elder sister-in-law Liu seems much duller.

She then knelt behind Ping'er, looking like she was in a trance. She cried the most sincerely among the others, and naturally her eyes were red and swollen.

Compared to others, when she married into the Duke's palace, her mother-in-law and her husband were very proud, so she also received a lot of care from her father-in-law.

With her status, she had never been wronged by her father-in-law, and he would often give her a reason to stay away from home and send her a lot of good things, so at that time she really respected her father-in-law and her mother-in-law.

But the good times did not last long. In just a few years, her husband and mother-in-law died one after another, causing their Dongyuan lineage to almost disappear. At that time, she also gritted her teeth and hated this father-in-law, hating him for trusting Mrs. Wei. Although He has never done anything to offend Dongyuan, but his inaction is the biggest problem.

 However, now that he is gone, she has thought about this issue repeatedly during the short period of time when she was taking care of his remaining years.

After all, if a man like my father-in-law has such a temperament, he cannot give high hopes to him. Why should all the blame be put on him? Moreover, he has suffered enough "retribution" in recent years, so Sister-in-law Liu, the tears at this moment are real, the pain is real, and the miss is also real.

Du Jingyi knelt next to her. Seeing how sad she was crying, he handed over the handkerchief and comforted her.

"Sister-in-law, don't be too sad. You and Ping'er are the only ones supporting the family now. If you are too sad, wouldn't Ping'er have to fight alone? So the dead have passed away, but the living still have to continue to live their lives."

Sister-in-law nodded. She naturally understood the truth, but she just couldn't help it.

Instead, Ping'er turned around, patted her mother's shoulder, and comforted her.

"If mother feels unwell, go back and rest for a while. Your son and uncle are here to watch over you. Everything will be fine."

Hearing this, sister-in-law Liu felt warm in her heart.

The son she has protected all her life has finally grown up. Looking at his increasingly strong body and mature face, her sister-in-law is also proud of her son, and then she said. "I'll go to the side room and wash my face. I'll come back later."

Ping'er nodded, and Gu Shaoyu next to him also chimed in.

“Sister-in-law, let me go with you. Her body is not very strong and she doesn’t have to kneel here every day.”

He is as strong as Gu Shaoyu and as young as Ping'er. He is afraid that his skin will fall off if he kneels for this month. However, Gu Shaoyu does not want his wife and sister-in-law to suffer the same fate. Last time for the funeral of his grandmother, they Both of them were tortured quite a lot.

Gu Shaoyu remembered that when he came back and met his wife, her tentacles were all bones and there was no flesh at all.

She was already very thin, and if she had to go through this process three or two times, she might not be able to bear it.

After hearing what he said, the sister-in-law certainly understood what he meant, and then she took Du Jingyi's hand and said.

“Help me go there, I’m crying so hard that I can’t see the way clearly.”

Du Jingyi naturally knew what everyone meant, so after taking a worried look at his general Heping'er, he got up and helped his sister-in-law to rest nearby.

In the mourning hall, the uncle and nephew were still kneeling straight, waiting for the people who came to express their condolences to return gifts to them.

In the side room, the sister-in-law cleaned her face, then sat down tiredly and sighed twice.

"I don't know what's wrong? I just can't stop crying. Even though my father-in-law made many mistakes in the past few years, now he has returned to dust and dust. Once he leaves, there will really be only one person in the Duke's Mansion. We are left alone, orphans and widows, and we always feel... we always feel a little lonely."

 Her words fell into Du Jingyi's ears, and he was also very sad.

Speaking of it, over the years since she married into the Duke's Mansion, she has really had little contact with this father-in-law. Then she moved to the General's Mansion, and then went south to Jinling City for many days, and she got along very little with him.

 So, although she was sad, she didn't think about it like her sister-in-law, so she could only say comforting words.

"Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? Although you and I live in two different houses, we will always be blood relatives with broken bones and connected tendons. Besides, after the national and family funerals are over, Ping'er will always have a happy event. When the time comes, new couples are married and children are born, which will naturally make up for the empty space of this huge mansion."

“That’s right, it’s a good thing that my sixth brother took the initiative in this matter. Otherwise, we might not have been able to wait for the eldest lady of the Li family.”

"How to say?"

Du Jingyi was a little confused about this. Why did he mention this so well?

"After we got married, Mrs. Li and I had quite a lot of contact. We would send each other things from time to time. That day I asked Mama Ou to go there in person, and I heard that the second lady was already preparing. It’s time to enter the palace draft.”

"So fast?"

"Originally, the day of the draft was set in spring, when everything blooms and revives. It's almost midsummer now, so we naturally have to prepare for it. I heard that it will be held in early autumn, when the late emperor will be a hundred days old. The period of filial piety between the royal family and ours is inherently different.”

 National mourning, for all the common people and officials, must be observed for one year.

During this period, there is no drinking or having fun, no display of flowers, no happy events, so every household follows this. (End of chapter)