Chapter 182: How Should I Live?
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"Hello sir!"
"I've seen the big man!"
……
Along the way, the oncoming family and maidservants were very skillful in saluting, although they were inevitably curious, but their respectful attitude showed a high level of professionalism.
"Big Palm ......" A familiar face appeared, and he greeted him with joy, but the title blurted out changed instantly: "Master, you are finally back!"
Xu Chen smiled and nodded, the once familiar face was a little strange for some reason.
"It's all good, the old man is back, dare to be as lazy as before, be careful of your skin!"
"Got it, Steward Hou!"
Xu Chen, who retracted his gaze, suddenly said: It turns out that he has become capable!
But this ability made Xu Chen feel ...... Dazed.
The confusion continues.
Along the way, the originally empty yards and corridors were filled with rocks, flowers and plants, and the nouveau riche courtyards began to have the elegance of one step at a time.
The road to the dining room was not far, but Xu Chen saw the scenery of the four seasons.
Liang Wanting led two personal maids to stand in front of the dining room, and when she saw Xu Chen coming from a distance, she said a blessing: "Welcome back uncle!"
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "It's still the same as before, it's so grand, I'm not used to it!"
Liang Wanting straightened up and said with a smile: "Uncle already has an official body, and the husband is also on the list today, there should always be an official eunuch's family, so as not to make people laugh." ”
"Whatever you want......" Xu Chen just smiled slightly.
Entering the dining room, there were maidservants and fish rushing in, holding delicate cups and bowls, fortunately, the food in the bowl still retains its original characteristics, but the colors are more vivid, and the presentation is more exquisite, which awakens some of Xu Chen's long-term memories.
"These dishes are all made by the slave family with reference to the uncle's recipes, and I don't know if they are in line with the uncle's taste. Liang Wanting looked at Xu Chen with a hint of apprehension in her eyes, obviously not just for the table in front of her.
"It's very good!" Xu Chen took a bite of the dish and couldn't help but praise: "It's much better than what I made!"
Sensing the look of his brother and daughter-in-law, Xu Chen looked around, still smiling and praised: "It's different to have a woman in the family!"
"Thank you!"
Xu Chen's gaze made Liang Wanting's worried heart fall.
"Uncle is slow to use. Saying that, Liang Wanting was another blessing, and then turned around and left.
In the empty dining room, Xu Chen enjoyed the experience of being served and eaten alone.
The taste of rice is really different!
The courtyard is still the same as before, but it is more spacious, the original wall has been pushed to reconstruction, and it has been fully doubled, the barracks-like dwellings are gone, the bunk beds are gone, and everyone has had an independent single room for more than three hundred years. Nearly half of the courtyard and rooms of this house have been bulldozed, two rows of exquisite small buildings have been built, and the rockery and fish pond in the backyard have disappeared, becoming a magnificent martial arts arena, and all kinds of new equipment can be seen everywhere.
The courtyard spreads to the east and west, and the newly purchased land is being built, but fortunately, the last thing Xu Chen and his gang lack is money, not to mention just doubling the expansion, it is easy to buy a few squares.
"Big brother, you're back!"
When I walked towards the martial arts arena in the backyard, I was greeted by teenagers who stayed at home one after another.
The clothes on the teenagers have become more elegant, the materials are still the same, but the styles and patterns have become more novel, which is no different from the rich sons who can be seen everywhere on Chang'an Street, but has a more heroic atmosphere.
"Fortunately, there is no powder, incense ......"
Thinking like this in his heart, Xu Chen, who walked to the martial arts arena, saw that there were still many brothers sweating.
"Big brother, that ......" a few well-dressed teenagers beside him hesitated to speak: "We...... That ......"
"Want to go out?" Xu Chen smiled slightly.
"Hehe!" several people smirked and said embarrassedly: "I made an appointment with someone, and I didn't know in advance that my eldest brother would come back today......"
"Go!" Xu Chen said with a smile.
"Okay!" Several people were overjoyed, and said with a smile as they walked out: "Let's come back early, and then pick up the wind for the eldest brother in the evening!"
"What's the wind, Lao Tzu hasn't left again!" Xu Chen glanced at him.
"That's, what a big deal!"
"Come back in the evening and have a few drinks with your eldest brother is the right thing!"
"That's it, it's ......"
Yin Luo stopped the drill and walked over with a calm face.
"What, someone owes you money?" Xu Chen quipped.
"Big brother, you should take care of it!" Yin Luo casually threw away the stone with the size of the grinding plate, and said with an unhappy face: "I know all day long that I go out to spend all day drinking, and I am already lazy!"
"Are there any lazy people in the daily exercises?" Xu Chen smiled.
"No!" Zhang Tianyi put away his sword, walked towards Xu Chen, and said with a smile: "Every morning exercise, everyone is still the same serious!"
"Are they serious?" Yin Luo said angrily: "My mind has long been out of this!"
"This ......" Zhang Tianyi smiled bitterly: "You can't let them have the same strength as us, right?"
"I'm not talking about intensity, I'm talking about attitude!" Yin Luo said angrily: "They have begun to forget who they are, and they run to Pingkang every once in a while, and they have all learned to compete with Brother Gongzi and be jealous!"
"At this age...... Xu Chen smiled: "It's inevitable!"
"If it's just playing with women, then forget it, but they've forgotten their roots!" Yin Luo shouted: "Food and clothing, everything should be the best, it's not that I haven't eaten good and expensive before, but now I have learned to be poor and exquisite, and I like to play pomp......"
"Big brother, go to the account room and see how much the expenditure has increased this month! In the past, when the third brother was here, he had to use the money to get a little, but now that official lady is here, everyone has to carry a few ingots of gold!"
"Miss Guan?" Xu Chen was slightly stunned.
"It's the second sister-in-law......" Zhang Tianyi smiled awkwardly.
"Who are we?" Yin Luo laughed angrily: "Three years ago, we were all beggars who couldn't eat!"
"Okay now, let's talk about pomp!" Yin Luo stretched out his hand and pointed around, sneering: "The City Lord's Mansion in Keelung City is not as magnificent as here!"
"This is in Chang'an!" Zhang Tianyi was busy playing a round game, and said with a smile: "The scene of the official eunuch still has to be told......
Not far away, Zhao Ming, accompanied by Chai Lao, walked towards Xu Chen with little effort.
"Don't worry!" Xu Chen stopped the two people beside him and hurriedly greeted him.
"Big Palm ......" Seeing Xu Chen, Zhao Ming's emotions were a little excited, and he remembered the new rules at home only after shouting, and hurriedly changed his words: "Master!"
"Hehe, there are more than three hundred masters in our family!" Yin Luo, who walked behind him, sneered.
"It's the same for anything!" Xu Chen waved his hand and said gently: "You can call me eldest brother in the future." ”
"Huh?" Zhao Ming was stunned, his body was unstable again, and Xu Chen hurriedly supported him.
"I ...... I smashed the errand and returned ...... Also ......" Zhao Ming's eyes instantly moistened.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Xu Chen helped Zhao Ming, Chai Lao pushed the wooden wheelchair forward, and when he sat down, Xu Chen asked Chai Lao: "What's the matter?
"The old slave doesn't know!" Chai Lao shook his head, also looking confused: "I have taken a lot of pills, and my bones have completely grown, and there is no problem with flexion and extension, but I still don't have flexibility when I walk, just like ......."
Chai Lao thought for a while before he said: "It's like forgetting how to walk, like a child who has just started to learn to walk at the age of one or two." ”
"Could it be a problem with the meridians?"
Xu Chen felt that it might be that the nerves in his legs were seriously damaged, and the pills might not be able to recover, but whether the nerves he once knew were the same thing as the meridians in traditional Chinese medicine, Xu Chen actually didn't know very well.
"When you check the pulse, the meridians are very smooth, there is no problem!" Chai Lao shook his head.
Regarding the pulse in traditional Chinese medicine, Xu Chen is not very clear, and even the old Chinese medicine doctors in later generations themselves are a little unclear, and few of them are clear about the pulse or the meridians.
In later generations, there have also been scientific research institutions that have studied the human body with the most advanced medical equipment, but without exception, they can only prove the existence of meridians and acupuncture points mentioned by traditional Chinese medicine, but there is no way to find specific fingers in the human body, and all that can be found are muscle tissue and nervous system.
Such a complex scientific research problem, Xu Chen once only passed it from the magazine, and asked him to tell the reason, but he really couldn't do it!
"Exercise more, come a little bit, don't worry!" Xu Chen patted Zhao Ming's shoulder and encouraged.
"Well, I will!" Zhao Ming said with tears in his eyes: "Boss...... Big brother, don't worry!"
"You saw it too!" Chai Lao pushed Zhao Minggang away, and Yin Luo couldn't help but say: "In addition to talking about pomp, these people in the family have also begun to call people!"
"Respect and inferiority, class ......" Xu Chen sighed lightly, and suddenly remembered that Zhang Tianyi was once a young master of an official family, so he asked: "Tianyi, do you think this family can still get used to now? Is there any difference from your previous home?"
"Me?" Zhang Tianyi pointed at himself, stunned for a moment, and then shook his head with a wry smile: "I was taken up the mountain by the master when I was very young, and I can go back home every year for the New Year, and I don't feel anything......"
For more than a month, Xu Chen has also been reflecting, reflecting on whether the changes he has brought to the teenagers are suitable for them, and whether they can adapt to things such as democracy and freedom after they grow up.
There is no if in life, and there is no turning back, since you have embarked on this road, danger and death are difficult to avoid, Xu Chen has always been a calm person, although he blames himself for Zhao Ming's suffering, but he will not feel sorry for himself to the point that he can't extricate himself.
The route cannot be changed, but the way you walk can be adjusted.
From the beginning, Xu Chen looked forward to giving these people some more advanced ideas and a better way of life, such as equality, such as democracy......
In the farms of Shengzhou and in the inner city of Shengzhou at the moment, Xu Chen does not have any thoughts of oppression and exploitation of these people who follow him, and even rejects the class division.
So when Xu Chen brought a large group of people into Beijing, this courtyard was actually more like a small village, each family lived their own life, and Xu Chen would only let these nominal guys and their families come over to help when he was too busy.
Xu Chen never had the idea of dividing.
But not long after coming to Chang'an, there were still some problems.
At present, Liang Wanting takes care of this courtyard in the usual way of feudal officials and eunuchs......
"The door of the mansion!" Xu Chen couldn't help but sigh with emotion, for a long time, he raised his head and said, "Let's take a look again!"