After being choked to death by a copper coin, she became a demon Jin Ji in the other world

[Oh, no more jokes, that sentence is from the poem "Li Sao". You know how many times your sister Mi Yuan taught me to recite "Li Sao". ]

[If I don't understand the meaning of that sentence, your sister Mi Yuan will really jump out of the dimensional wall and hit me. ]

【Hahaha, the master is so naive. 】

Chapter 144 An Old Friend Visits

Wuyang City is one of the Five Yangs of Ju. It was previously granted to Shen Yuelan by the king and queen. After more than two years of governance by Mi Ping, it has basically returned to its pre-war state.

Although this place is nice, Shen Yuelan cannot stay here for long. She plans to stay here for fifteen or sixteen years, and then move again and go to the Three Jins to stay for a while. It just so happens that the Battle of Changping will start at that time, so she will help Xun Kuang and his wife if she can.

The steward of the lord's mansion was one of the people Shen Yuelan met in Yan State. His name was Le Bo. Shen Yuelan took a look at this guy. He was wearing rags at the time, so she didn't see anything special about him. But seeing him again now, he seemed a little extraordinary.

However, Shen Yuelan was too lazy to care about him. Since he was content with the status quo, why should she be the bad guy and expose him? After Mr. Mi left, she was short of people to govern the city, so how could she let him run away?

[Le Bo, you and Mi Ping have worked hard over the past two years. ]

[What are you saying, my lady? It is said that one should not meddle in other people's affairs if he is not in the position to do so. The same is true in reverse. Since I am in the position of manager, I must be loyal to my duties. This is the bottom line of being a human being.]

[Shan, Le Bo, I previously entrusted the political affairs of Wuyang City to Mi Ping, but now that Mi Ping has passed away, Wuyang City has lost its backbone.]

[I think you are calm and measured in your work, and have a serious attitude. You are a person who can accomplish great things. How about you replace Mi Ping? ]

[My lady, I am too old to take on this responsibility.]

【Oh, how does Mi Ping compare to you? 】

[Uh, Mi Jun is indeed older than me. ]

[Since there is such a good example before you, your old age is not a reason for you to refuse this matter. ]

[In that case, I will obey your orders. ]

After finding a new [Prime Minister] for herself, Shen Yuelan planned to take a tour of her lord's mansion, but before she could get up, she was stopped by her newly appointed prime minister.

[Hmm? Anything else? Le Bo?]

[Yes, Madam, it is about the funeral of Lord Mi. During his reign, Lord Mi was benevolent and loved the people like his own children. When the people of Wuyang heard the news of Lord Mi's death, they were extremely sad. At this moment, they are all wearing mourning clothes outside the lord's mansion, kneeling to bid farewell to Lord Mi.]

Shen Yuelan was slightly stunned when she heard that. Her charming eyes looked through the thick courtyard wall and saw thousands of people kneeling in an orderly manner outside the lord's mansion, quietly praying for Mi Ping.

Shen Yuelan suddenly realized that she might not be able to take Mi Ping with her. Mi Ping built the ideal country in his poems in Wuyang. He no longer belonged to the State of Chu, nor to Shen Yuelan. He only belonged to this land where he poured his last bit of effort.

Shen Yuelan sighed lightly, went back to the inner room, moved Mi Ping's body out of the painted coffin, and called Le Bo in.

[Le Bo, go find some fragrant orchid wood to make a coffin for Mi Jun, and have someone wipe Mi Jun's body thoroughly and change him into clean and tidy clothes.]

[Also, there should be a lot of angelica, angelica shunmang, safflower, liuyi jieche, and duheng fangzhi placed inside and outside the coffin as burial objects. These are what he liked when he was alive.]

[Now that things have come to this, I am not afraid to tell you that this Mi Jun is Qu Yuan, the Chu State official who drowned himself in the river. By chance, I rescued him. You have only been with Mi Jun for a short time, so you don’t know what he likes, but you should have heard about Qu Yuan’s likes.]

Le Bo was stunned by the huge amount of information for a moment. He and Mi Ping lived under the same roof, but he couldn't see through his identity. He really was getting old.

[Is Mi Jun actually the doctor of Qu Yuan? Ah, yes, Mi Jun’s personality is indeed similar to the doctor of Qu Yuan in the rumors. In this case, I know how to arrange it. ]

[Well, remember, the only people here are Mi Jun and Mi Ping. Doctor Qu Yuan had already jumped into the river and died for his country three years ago.]

【promise.】

Le Bo was a reliable man, and he implemented Shen Yuelan's request at a very fast speed. After hearing the lord's order, many people spontaneously looked for fragrant flowers and plants as burial objects for Mi Jun.

Shen Yuelan looked at this magnificent scene and couldn't help but sigh:

[The ancients regarded the four lines of Hengqu, "to establish a mind for heaven and earth, to establish a destiny for the people, to inherit the lost knowledge of the past sages, and to create peace for all generations," as their lifelong ideals. However, in my opinion, these words are somewhat false and not as good as Mi Ping's virtue at this moment. ]

[Hmph, how can such flowery words be compared with the benevolent government and virtue of a down-to-earth person? Yue Lan, if you want to compare, you should find a good object.]

Shen Yuelan looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was Gan Yuelong who came. She was overjoyed and rushed straight into Gan Yuelong's arms. Gan Yuelong was unable to react in time and was knocked back a few steps by her.

[Oh my, isn't this my deputy captain? How come you have time to come and see me? ]

[Humph, a certain heartless girl is having so much fun in the Warring States Period that she didn't even call home. Little Su Jiu and Little Su Xuan are worried about you, so they asked me to come over and check if anything happened to their little master.]

Shen Yuelan scratched her head in embarrassment when she heard that, but she quickly realized that this guy was just talking nonsense. Su Jiu and Su Xuan were both in the other world running their businesses and had no time to take care of her.

Moreover, after completing the task, they will return to the origin of the other world, so there is no need to make a phone call. Those two little ones are not these old foxes, and they have not yet mastered the ability to take advantage of loopholes.

[Hehe, Sister Yuelong lied to me again. The one who is worried about me is not those two little ones, but you. ]

[Humph, I know you're asking, you little heartless guy, you didn't even bother to call me and report your recent situation, forcing me to come all the way to see what's going on with you.]

No matter how much they talked or how much they quarreled, the two of them saw that it would take some time to prepare for Mi Ping's funeral, so they went back into the house and chatted about their recent situation.

Shen Yuelan told Gan Yuelong about the iron-blooded family relationship between herself and Bai Qi's family, described the tragic love between Xunzi and his wife, narrated the political ideals of the King and Queen of Qi, and praised the patriotism of Qu Yuan and Chu.

Although the story was dull, Gan Yuelong listened to it with great interest. She had been to the Warring States Period before, but after the Great Revision, all traces of her in this era had been wiped out, and she once again became an outsider of this era.

[Hehe, I looked at your stay record. You have only been here for three years, but you have experienced so many people and things. It is not an exaggeration to say that you are a troublemaker.]

[What? Aren’t all civil servants in the other world like this? I heard Shangguan Xi say so. Don’t scare me.]

[Oh my, my Yue Lan has grown up and is not easy to deceive anymore. 】

[Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Although Su Jiu and Su Xuan weren't really that worried about you, they still prepared some supplies for me to bring to you when they heard I was coming.]

[Here, there is the fine wine brewed by Su Jiu and the food and clothes prepared by Su Xuan. It should be enough for you to use for more than ten years. If you run out of them, just call me and I can send them to you easily.]

[Wow, thank you so much, Sister Yuelong, please help me bring good things to the two little ones. Also, these are the souvenirs I prepared. I have divided them among you. They are mainly some bronze artifacts from the Chu Dynasty. They are good as decorations.]

Chapter 145: Things Get Out of Control

[Wow, there are quite a lot of things. Did you empty the Chu treasury? ]

[No, I was just unlucky when I was teleporting, and was directly thrown into the main battlefield of the Yan-Ying War. I thought that since I was here, it would be impolite not to take something back.]

Gan Yuelong rolled her eyes when she heard this and couldn't help but feel speechless at Shen Yuelan's bandit logic. Shen Yuelan's move was purely to increase the workload of the Time Management Bureau. However, they were all dead things and it wasn't a big problem.

Therefore, Gan Yuelong was too lazy to talk to her.

[Sister Yuelong, since you are here, why don’t you stay here for a while? It would be boring to go back home with nothing but documents.]

Gan Yuelong thought about it. Although Shen Yuelan's proposal was extremely tempting, she still rejected Shen Yuelan's suggestion.

She and Shen Yuelan had stayed in the Song Dynasty for a long enough time, which had delayed some work that was inconvenient to talk about. Before she finished those tasks, she would have no chance of taking a vacation.

[No, I'm not you. There's nothing else in my mind except slacking off. I have other work to do. I won't accompany you. Just do your task well. If you have any problems, call us old guys. Got it?]

[I know, I know, Sister Yuelong, don't be too tense. Too much rigidity will lead to breakage.]

[I know, I know, you are still educating me. ]

After Gan Yuelong pinched Shen Yuelan's smooth little face, she left the door contentedly.

Shen Yuelan rubbed her little face which was pinched red, looking helpless. Her face was not chubby at all, so there was no need to pinch it.

At this time, Shen Huanyan walked in slowly from the door. She told Shen Yuelan that the preparations for Mi Ping's funeral had been completed. Leber asked her to ask Shen Yuelan when would be the appropriate time for the burial.

Shen Yuelan pondered for a moment and finally decided to keep the body for three days. Mi Ping was only a doctor during his lifetime, and three days was in line with the etiquette of the Warring States Period.

During this period, the people of Wuyang can say goodbye to Mi Ping, and Le Bo can take this opportunity to dig Mi Ping's tomb bigger. After all, he was a doctor when he was alive, so his tomb should not be too shabby.

After receiving the order, Le Bo immediately began to prepare. During the three days that the body was kept, there was a constant stream of people coming to pay their respects. Even Xunzi, who was far away in Linzi, came with his disciples to pay his respects.

Shen Yuelan did not meet with him. After all, the other party did not seem to have such an idea. After completing the sacrifice, Xunzi left in a hurry. However, Shen Yuelan noticed that the direction Xunzi left did not seem to be Linzi, the capital of Qi, but the Three Jins in the west.

At this moment, Xun Kuang looked a little more paranoid and gloomy, and less indifferent and elegant. Shen Yuelan sighed softly as she looked at the receding figure.

[Alas, you are really affected? I hope we won’t become enemies, Xun Kuang.]

After watching Xunzi, whose temperament had changed drastically, leave, Shen Yuelan once again met an acquaintance. Who else could it be but the king and queen? At this moment, the king and queen came in plain clothes, holding a little boy about one year old in her arms.

The little boy's eyebrows and eyes are 80% similar to those of the queen. It seems that this boy should be the queen's son, the King of Qi Tian Jian who was starved to death among the pines and cypresses by Qin Shihuang.

After completing the sacrifice, the Queen brought her son to the lord's mansion, apparently intending to let Master Jian meet Shen Yuelan.

【Come here, Ajian, this is Aunt Lan. 】

Shen Yuelan looked at the child in the Queen's arms and didn't know how to face him for a moment. When she thought about how he surrendered the whole country without mobilizing a single soldier, causing the destruction of Qi, Shen Yuelan felt disgusted.

It's not that there weren't emperors who lost their country, and it's not that failure was not allowed, but you had to at least die with dignity like Emperor Chongzhen, who allowed the thieves to dismember my body but did not harm any of the people. At least it seemed like that was the case.

Instead of being foolishly deceived by an envoy to go to Qin State and then starved to death in the wilderness.

Having said that, no matter how dissatisfied Shen Yuelan was with Prince Jian of Qi, she should not show such a negative attitude in front of the child's mother. The incompetent person was Prince Jian of Qi more than fifty years later, not the young master Jian in front of her.

Shen Yuelan reacted quickly and adjusted her expression, trying to show that she liked Gongzi Jian very much, but it seemed too late. The Queen obviously read something from Shen Yuelan's expression.

Even the expression on her face when she looked at her own child was no longer as loving as before. Shen Yuelan's heart skipped a beat, knowing something was wrong. She hurriedly tried to make excuses for herself and cover up the matter.

[Oh my, the little baby is so cute, and looks just like her mother. This is our first meeting, and Auntie Lan doesn’t have anything good to give you. Well, this, this is for you.]

What Shen Yuelan gave to Master Jian was a large jade disk that she had looted from the capital of Chu State. It seemed to be quite old and was just the right gift for a child to play with.

However, this did not seem to dispel the Queen's thoughts, which made Shen Yuelan even more worried. Sometimes it is not a good thing for a friend to be too smart.

After confirming a fact from Shen Yuelan, the king did not stay with Shen Yuelan for too long. After briefly chatting with Shen Yuelan, he returned to the palace with his little bastard.

However, the posture of holding the child, which was completely different from when she entered the room, made Shen Yuelan more and more certain that the queen seemed to know something. She felt that the situation was becoming increasingly out of control. It seemed that after dealing with Mi Ping's funeral, she would have to go to Linzi to take a look.

With the end of the wake, Mi Ping's funeral officially began.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a relatively stable system of funeral etiquette was basically formed after Confucius, and people generally strictly observed this etiquette regardless of their wealth or status.

These include [lanqu (qīn)] (clothes covering the corpse), [fu] (calling back the soul of the dead), [weichi] (when the body is not yet stiff, a hard object is placed between the teeth to facilitate holding and feeding after bathing), [juzu] (using a swallow table to restrain the feet so that they do not deform and facilitate wearing shoes after bathing), [weitang] (the corpse is not decorated but a curtain is set up in the hall), [sheshi] (bathing, haircut, manicure, dressing), [fan] (also known as han), and other pre-burial funeral ceremonies.

There are many funeral rites, such as the crying position, morning and evening offerings, and placement of funerary objects during the funeral period; the funeral procession ceremony and the funeral rite of announcing the gifts of deceased persons; the burial ceremony of lowering the coffin into the tomb; the offering ceremony of wine and food; and the ceremony of welcoming back the tablet of the deceased.

There are also the first, second and third Yu soul-warming ceremonies; an annual memorial ceremony is held during the mourning period, which is called the "small memorial ceremony"; the "big memorial ceremony" is held twenty-five months after death, the "禫祭" (removing mourning clothes) is held twenty-seven months after death, and there is also a three-year mourning period and other post-funeral rituals.

Le Bo strictly followed the rules in carrying out the funeral ceremonies before and during the burial, but Shen Yuelan was powerless to do anything about the series of post-burial rituals.

However, I heard that Qu Yuan's relatives and disciples have been mourning for him for three years, and there are also people from Wuyang city here. I think there should be quite a few people willing to mourn for him, so Shen Yuelan doesn't need to do anything unnecessary.

Chapter 146: A sharp turn for the worse

After dealing with Mi Ping's funeral, Shen Yuelan prepared to go north to Linzi City to take a look. However, before that, she had to report to Hua Liluo.

[Sister Hua, call Sister Hua, this is Xiao Lan. ]

[Ah, I know. I have your phone number saved. If you have something to say, tell me now. I was in a meeting all night last night and I am so sleepy now.]

[Oh, really? What I'm about to say might make you work overtime.]

[Um, can I not listen? ]

[Of course, but your workload will be even greater in the future. ]

[Hey, you little bastard, stop using that inappropriate ending and being sarcastic. Just say what you want to say.]

[Hehe, it’s nothing, I just found two anomalies, and I feel they may change the course of history.]

[One is Xunzi Xun Kuang, who married a Chu woman who shouldn't have been by his side. After I sent the Chu woman back, Xun Kuang felt something was wrong. I felt something might happen.]

[The other one is the Queen of Qi. It seems that someone has revealed some historical facts to her. Today, she actually brought her child, Prince Jian, and came all the way to me. She wanted to prove something through my expression. I felt something was wrong.]

Hua Liluo felt a little confused after hearing this. How could Xunzi's wife be able to travel through time and space in a small range after the great revision? And who told the queen something she shouldn't know? Hua Liluo didn't believe that there was no one with ulterior motives behind this.

Oh, maybe this little girl is right. I'm afraid I will have to work overtime again.

[Ah, you little bastard, you've added to my workload! ]

[Eh? Sister Hua, how can you say that? If something happens, no matter how big or small it is, you have to deal with it. Dealing with it early will save you a lot of trouble. I am helping you reduce your workload.]

【Haha, then I have to thank you too. 】

[In that case, I'll leave the monitoring of this incident to you. I can't spare the time to come over for now, so you can help me take a look. If there are any questions, please communicate with me in time. My phone is open 24 hours a day.]

Hua Liluo hung up the phone after she finished talking. Listening to the beeping sound coming from the other end of the phone, Shen Yuelan looked up at the sky speechlessly. It felt like she had just reported it to loneliness. In the end, she would have to solve this matter by herself.

Forget it, since I’m going to stay here anyway, I might as well go to Linzi City.

Shen Yuelan's mood was different during her two trips to Linzi City. Two years ago, Shen Yuelan went there with the intention of learning about history and exploring the unknown, so she was very happy along the way.

But this time, Shen Yuelan will face the possibility of becoming an enemy of an old friend, so her mood is not very good. In fact, Shen Yuelan has already prepared for the worst.

If the Queen and the people behind her are determined to change history, then Shen Yuelan doesn't mind being [Lie Yi] and destroying the State of Qi again!

Just as Shen Yuelan was marching towards Linzi City with great momentum, at the same time in the Palace of King Qi, the Queen was having a meeting with the mysterious man opposite her.

[How about it, was what I said correct? Was the little girl disappointed when she saw your son?]

[Humph, I was blind to the truth. I didn't expect that what you said was true? The State of Qi will really perish at the hands of this rebellious son, but what I didn't expect was that the man... was actually a banished immortal.]

[Heh, exiled immortal? You are good at praising that little girl, but, for you, it's almost the same. ]

After learning the course of history, the queen hesitated briefly, but that was all.

The presence of Shen Yuelan and Gongzi Jian could only make her hesitate for a moment. In the end, the Queen still firmly chose Qi State, as always. She decided to cooperate with the mysterious man to resist the so-called gods together.