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Chapter 31: Opening the Coffin and Post-mortem

"Everyone work harder and try to finish work at night. Don't be fucking procrastinating."

In the Zhang family's ancestral tomb, eight tombs were sweating profusely, and were intensively removing the floating soil on Zhang Ran's tomb and preparing to open the tomb.

"This is not too vicious to do things this time, and I am also blaming me for negligence. When your father was buried, he actually forgot to bury with your mother." Zhang Qi sighed softly.

"This cannot be blamed on the old patriarch. When my mother died, my father was alive. According to the rules, my mother could not enter the ancestral tomb. Maybe Aunt Zhou had never taken care of such a big event, and temporary negligence was inevitable. Now I have been full of filial piety for three years, so I should be buried with my parents." Zhang Mu looked into the distance with a confused expression and smiled.

Zhang Mu knew in his heart that Aunt Zhou did this simply because he thought that he would not be properly raised when he was alive and would be buried together when he died.

Since he sent Tao Xingchang away, Zhang Mu was looking for his father's belongings at home like a madman, and the rest were given up. His father was the General Banner of the Jinyiwei, the seventh-rank official, the official uniform, the official seal, and the waist tag, but he had never found it.

It’s not that Zhang Mu didn’t believe Tao Xingchang’s saying that his father was the General Banner of the Jinyiwei, but that if his father was assassinated, these things should not be handed over, and they should be in his father’s coffin.

"Grandpa, did my father learn martial arts when he was young?" Zhang Mu asked suddenly.

Zhang Qi recalled for a while and said, "I thought I had learned it from a very powerful master. At that time, the Yuan people were still there, and then there were wars and chaos. The people were like straw dogs, and their lives were as cheap as grass. Even a family like us would have a very difficult life.

It was probably because of Zhizheng's twenty-six or twenty-seven years that I forgot. Anyway, it was when Emperor Hongwu attacked Zhang Jiusi, your father was not at home and he didn't know what he was busy with outside.

In the second year of Hongwu, he suddenly came back with a very serious injury and later he was admitted to the imperial examination. He was the first scholar in our Zhang family. Your grandfather planned to ask him to take the exam again, but he refused to go there. It was still a sensation."

After hearing what the old patriarch said, it was in line with what Tao Xingchang said. His father did participate in the battle to wipe out Zhang Shicheng, and he made contributions if he didn't do it well. As for why he returned to his hometown later, Zhang Mu was a little confused, but after he returned home, he was probably always the court's eyewitness, otherwise he would not have been the chief banner.

Zhang Mu once said on TV that Zhu Yuanzhang was very cautious and wanted to rectify the administration and keep abreast of what officials did at any time. Zhu Yuanzhang implemented strict monitoring. Officials recited poems and paintings, invited guests and gave gifts, and even quarreled between husband and wife. Zhu Yuanzhang knew everything early in the morning.

And his father Zhang Ran has probably always played the role of making small reports.

"My grandfather just said that my father brought back a seriously injured person. Who is he?" Zhang Mu asked curiously.

"It's Yan Yuanwai from Yifeng Township now. Otherwise, you really think that with your husband Wang Hongtai, the Yan family will be willing to help?" Zhang Qi smiled.

Zhang Mu suddenly realized that no wonder the Yan family would send his favorite "Young Master" to him as a bodyguard. It turned out that there was something wrong with it.

"Master, young master, the tomb has been opened." At this time, the head of the grave hurried over and said.

Sure enough, under the bedding under the body, Zhang Mu found a red package, lifted it out vigorously, and spread it on the ground. Zhang Mu showed up at a glance. The bag was made of a scarlet official uniform, which was the uniform of the Jinyiwei. After it was spread out, there was a copper seal lying quietly inside, two inches per square and three inches thick. This was the seventh-rank official seal.

On the other side is a waist sign with the words "Zhang Ran of the General Flag of the Jinyiwei".

"Your father is the Jinyiwei?" Yan Su looked at Zhang Mu in amazement at this moment and said in shock.

"Cover the coffin first." Zhang Mu put his official uniform back into the coffin. Seeing the official seal and waist sign in the box he brought down, and Yan Su had just covered the coffin lid, he heard Zhang Qi shouting: "Muzhi, come up quickly. It's too cool to go downstairs. Be careful of your body."

"Don't tell anyone about this, it's important." Zhang Mu looked at Yan Su and said earnestly.
Chapter completed!
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