After Li Lijun sent the letter, she packed her luggage faster.

After receiving the news, the elders of the clan either came to the door in person or sent friends to greet her. They all confirmed that she was really sending her mother out of the city for burial and would stay near her mother's grave to observe mourning. They comforted Li Lijun and advised her to remember to come back often.

Chang'an City also often wrote to them to tell them the current situation, while secretly scolding the Sui King Li Dai in his own home for his ridiculous behavior and hurting the children's hearts.

They did not doubt Princess Dou's intentions. Unlike the servants in the Sui Palace who favored the successor king Li Dai, most of the female family members in the clan felt that Princess Dou's character was reliable, just as they believed that the successor Princess Chen was also a generous and good wife.

Generally speaking, the fact that a person as old as Li Dai is jumping around there is enough to prove that Princess Dou is definitely not a mean stepmother. Even if everyone once misunderstood her, after nearly thirty years, most people know it.

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During this period, the heir king Li Dai returned home once. But he did not spend the night at home. He only briefly met with the Sui King. The father and son talked about something behind closed doors, and Li Dai left in a hurry. When he left,

He had a brocade box in his hand, and his expression looked very excited. He didn't even notice that his wet nurse was chasing her out with someone. She wanted to talk to him but didn't catch up with him, and she didn't bother to go see him.

His children - even the eldest son who he always loved and cherished and the younger son who had just "lost his mother", seemed to have some big urgent matter and he had to rush to do it.

Li Lijun ignored her father's wet nurse, who was beating her chest as if she had missed a hundred million, and went to inquire with Princess Dou. She confirmed that the Sui King had only mentioned to Li Dai that he would kill his late daughter-in-law Chen on the "May 7th" day.

Zhao Chenji was not mentioned about sending his coffin out of the city.

Li Dai didn't care about his deceased wife's funeral at all. He left all matters to his father's officials and servants. It didn't matter that his daughter had to go to the funeral with him. He focused all his attention on the new wife he was about to marry.

Mrs. Guo Guo promised to be a matchmaker. It was said that she was a beautiful and charming daughter of the clan, and it was very likely that she was named Pei! Li Dai wanted his father to help him find out which girl from the Pei family would become a matchmaker.

His wife? What about her appearance and temperament? What are the official positions of her father and brother? Is the dowry rich?

In order to ensure that this ideal marriage would fall on him, Li Dai also asked his father for several pieces of valuable jewelry, which were all left by his mother during her lifetime. He planned to give these rare jewelry to

It was given to Mrs. Guo Guo as a gift to thank the matchmaker.

The King of Sui didn't want to take out the jewelry, but his son persisted and said it well, so he couldn't refuse. He was not happy to accept Mrs. Guo Guo as his daughter-in-law, and he had no objection to the birth of a daughter from the Pei family.

He could still trust the Pei family's upbringing. If his son could really marry a good wife with a prominent family background, he would no longer have to worry about his son's future. Therefore, after hesitation, he took out his deceased wife's belongings and handed them over

Gave it to my son.

Li Dai took the jewelry and left excitedly. He had no idea that his wet nurse had tried her best to send him a message, but she kept missing him.

Li Lijun was very satisfied with this. What Li Dai reported to the Sui King happened to be reminded by Xiao Gao Lishi. She knew that it was impossible for the Pei family to really marry a daughter from the clan to Li Dai, but Li Dai didn't even have the relics of his late mother.

She left. When Mrs. Guo Guo showed her cards to him, she still didn't know how he would react.

Li Lijun really wanted to stay and watch the show, but thinking of her own business, she decided to rush to her mother's "May 7th" day, take all her confidants, say goodbye to her grandparents, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters, and leave with her late mother's coffin.

Sui Palace.

When she left, the eldest brother Li Jianrang supported the maid Cang Cui and escorted her out in person. He looked at her with a complicated expression and spoke hesitantly, as if he was ashamed.

Li Lijun just smiled at her eldest brother, without asking him what he wanted to say. She bowed and turned around to leave.

She knew that this brother was not bad in nature, but he could not decide his own future. His actions were often restricted by his family members and attendants, and he had no clear idea in his heart. What could he talk to her about? Wait until he knew better.

After realizing what she wanted, it was not too late for her to have a good talk with him.

She has confirmed that the toxins in Li Jianrang's body have basically been eliminated. His current poor health is just the wind and cold caused by the change of seasons. He will recover after more rest. The people around him will take good care of him. At present, she has no

Why do you need to worry about this brother? Anyway, he will stay at home. When his father marries a new wife and has other concubines, he will probably gradually realize how lucky he was to have a virtuous man.

Loving stepmother. There are some things that people only learn to cherish after losing them.

It was still Ding Wulang who escorted Li Lijun on his trip. He was basically regarded as the leader of Li Lijun's guard during the period of mourning in Saga Mountain. His original position in the Sui Palace has been replaced, and his subordinates who got along well with him have also been assigned

Follow him and leave. If it were him in the past, he would probably be angry again, right? But now he is very calm.

Although there is no prospect of promotion, being with the Fourth Lady will save you a lot of troubles, and there seems to be nothing wrong with it. The husband of Duke Lin's Mansion has many unsatisfactory things. He is a small military attaché from a small family.

What's there to be reluctant to do?

Ding Wulang worked very hard today to maintain the order of the funeral procession. He was originally the captain of Xiaowei. Although he was demoted, his level is still the same. Now he is leading guards who have always been friendly with him. There is no

As a result, they all cooperated with him very much. Although there were many people in the funeral procession, it was not chaotic at all. It left Daozhengfang in an orderly manner, walked through Chunmingmen Street in front of Xingqing Palace, and headed east out of Chunming

Door.

Everyone I met on the road praised the funeral procession in the Sui Palace for its orderliness, pomp and circumstance without disturbing the people.

Prince Shen's Mansion, who also lived in Daozhengfang, set up a road memorial next to Fang Nei Street, while the road memorial sheds of the three princes of Ning, Xue and Qi were set up on Chunmingmen Street. After leaving Chunmingmen, other clans were added on both sides of the road.

, the roadside sacrificial shed of the royal family.

Li Lijun held the memorial tablet of her late mother Chen and followed the hearse in a carriage. Along the way, she met countless elders or seniors from the royal family who came to express their condolences. She thanked them one by one, but the specific social tasks were all handled by the royal palace Sima and the royal family.

Ding Wulang, the guard commander, came forward to do it for her. Only the elders of the clan who were relatively close to her would come to her. Someone asked why her father Li Dai was not in the funeral procession. She did not answer directly. She just made vague excuses and called the palace.

Sima couldn't make a mistake, but those who asked had already guessed the answer from her words and sighed.

The reputation of the successor king Li Dai was once again tarnished without his knowledge.

After leaving the Chunming Gate, Li Shen, the Erlangjun of Prince Zou's Mansion, followed him and became part of the funeral procession. Under the gaze of everyone, he could not say anything to Li Lijun, so he just nodded to her, and then

He turned around and went to discuss the specific arrangements for this journey with Sima, Ding Wulang and others of the Sui Palace.

When the funeral procession passed by the road memorial tent set up by Lin Guogong's mansion, Lin Jiulang followed up on his horse and walked to Li Lijun's carriage to greet her.

Li Lijun lifted the corner of the car curtain and looked at his leg: "Will your injury heal so quickly?"

Lin Jiulang smiled: "You can't walk without crutches, but it doesn't hurt to walk slowly on a horse. Thank you so much for that day. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to walk!" Then he lowered his voice and said, "I still want it.

Thank you again for your suggestion that day... I, Aweng, have accepted the order and will soon be appointed as the strategic envoy of the Five Lingnan Prefectures."
Chapter completed!