Out of the fifteenth, picked an auspicious day, Cheng Ke took Li Xiaonuan, brought dozens of cars of daily things, with personal guards, long attendants, small servants and maids-in-law, a group of one or two hundred people, and set off on the road in a mighty way.

Li Xiaonuan looked at the mighty convoy, looked at Cheng Ke with some depression and muttered:

"It's just the two of us, why did you pack so many things out? What do you want so many people to follow? Didn't we say that the light car is simple, go quietly, and return quietly. ”

"Well, isn't this just going quietly, there are only a few cars, how many people, in the past, the emperor and I went to Shangli Town, openly and secretly, thousands of people."

Li Xiaonuan glanced at Cheng Ke, no longer entangled in the fact that there were few cars and fewer people, turned around and knelt on Cheng Ke's chest, and said with a smile:

"When it's far away from the capital, you take me on a horse, this is a good time for spring, it's best to ride a horse, I haven't ridden a horse yet!"

"Good! It's easy! Wherever you say, we'll go where you want! ”

The two walked very slowly along the way, walked slowly and played slowly, and walked straight for almost two months before entering the Xiuzhou territory.

The steward who rushed to Xiuzhou Mansion a few years ago took out the boundary of Xiuzhou, invited Cheng Ke and Li Xiaonuan, and reported carefully:

"Obeyed the order of the young lady, the tomb of the old lady did not dare to overhaul, that is, according to the original slight repair, after the New Year, the small one saw the posthumous seal of the Ministry of Rites, and let people in front of the tomb of the old lady, according to the regulations to put the altar to enjoy the hall, and did not dare to be too luxurious, that is, the sacrifice field is a little less, and the small general can buy all the land within a radius of five miles, and there is not much, the young lady looks, do you want to expand it again, buy it within a radius of ten miles?"

"No need, that's enough, hard work for you."

Li Xiaonuan flipped through the title deed in his hand, roughly calculated, and said with a smile, Cheng Ke sent Xiuzhou Zhizhou away, turned around and came in, looked at the steward and asked:

"Is there a place to live?"

"Back to the master, there is no place to settle in Tianwo Village, the little one has found an inn in Xiali Town and chartered it, and has sent people to scrub it inside and out."

"We'll just stay for one night, that's it."

Li Xiaonuan pulled Cheng Ke, whose face was gloomy, turned his head to look at the steward and ordered:

"Leaving Xiali Town, my master and I will take a boat to Shangli Town, and rest at the Yunjian Inn in Yunpu Town at night, you go and talk to Steward Sun, and let him send someone to prepare first."

The steward hurriedly agreed, and carefully withdrew.

Li Xiaonuan watched the steward go out, looked at Cheng Ke and sighed,

"When you go out, there are always such and such inconveniences, and this is already good."

"I led soldiers to fight, and I slept in the open air, but I don't care about this, I'm afraid you won't be used to it."

Cheng Ke hugged Li Xiaonuan and said pityingly, Li Xiaonuan laughed silently, looked up at Cheng Ke, and said while laughing:

"The first time I went back to Tianwo Village, I stayed on a boat at night, a very small black boat, squeezed three or four people, I lived at that time, I felt that there was really no better place than that, and now compared with that time, there is no better place than this, besides."

Li Xiaonuan stretched out his hand to hold Cheng Ke's neck, with a smile on his face, and said in a soft and sweet whisper:

"It's the best place to be with you."

Cheng Ke lowered his head against Li Xiaonuan's forehead and sighed with satisfaction.

The next morning, the sky was just white, and the two left the inn, took a sedan chair, and rushed to Tianwo Village.

Tianwo Village has already been arranged, the head of the Li family, the old lady Li who is nearly seventy years old, with the people of the family, rushed to the ancestral cemetery of Tianwo Village in the middle of the night, waiting for Li Xiaonuan and Cheng Ke.

The feng shui of the ancestral tomb of the Li family seems to be the most prosperous woman surnamed Li! Mrs. Li looked at the ancestral cemetery sadly and sighed, the glory of Mrs. Li a few years ago, although he was also invited by the governor of Yuezhou, and was listed among them, although Mrs. Li was the girl of the Li family, but in the final analysis, it was the glory of the ancient family, the waist pole was the straightest, it was the ancient head, and Mrs. Li's heart was always sour.

This has just passed the New Year, and it is a girl from the Li family, so this time she is chasing the seal, it is the real descendant of the Li family, alas, although this is still the blessing of the girl of the Li family, but in the end it is much different, and now the girls of the Li family are all in demand, but the men of the Li family must also have a strong head, in the end, the revitalization of the family depends on men!

Cheng Ke got off the sedan chair, ignored the officials and clan elders who knelt on the ground, turned around and hugged Li Xiaonuan down, and then raised his hand to signal,

"Get up, don't be polite, I will accompany Neiko back to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and he should follow the family etiquette."

Old lady Li had a smile on her face, blinked her eyes, and hurriedly turned her head to look at Lord Huang, the governor of Xiuzhou, who bowed down and politely let in,

"Old lady, please."

The prince of Runan and the eldest princess returned to their hometown to worship, but they had to obey the family etiquette, how could they obey the law? He doesn't have a clue, let alone the rules.

Li Xiaonuan looked at the blink with a smile, you look at me, I look at your people, and said with a smile:

"The tomb of my father and mother has always been taken care of by my uncle, so today I would like to invite my uncle to come and preside over this ceremony."

Old lady Li blinked, hurriedly turned her head and asked her son next to her, and the son ran out, and after a while, he led a thin old man in his sixties to walk over.

Li Xiaonuan hurriedly signaled to Lan Chu, Lan Chu understood, hurriedly walked over, helped the old man, and said with a smile:

"The old lady is slower, if you bump into it, but the young lady is not filial."

Master Li slowed down in embarrassment, bowed his waist, respectfully supported his uncle, and said in a continuous voice:

"The old lady is slow, don't dare to be in a hurry."

Li Xiaonuan took two steps forward, bent his knees with a smile, and saluted,

"Give the uncle a gift, I haven't seen him for many years, and the uncle looks very tough! How is the eldest lady? ”

The uncle stopped, looked at Li Xiaonuan carefully, and smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum.

"Is Ahmad's Xiaonuan back?"

"Yes!"

Li Xiaonuan agreed crisply, stepped forward to help the uncle, pointed at Cheng Ke, and introduced with a smile:

"This is the son-in-law of the Ahmad family."

Cheng Ke looked at Li Xiaonuan with a surprised face, listened to Li Xiaonuan's introduction, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Cheng Ke has seen uncle."

Uncle looked at Cheng Ke carefully, turned his head, looked at Li Xiaonuan, and asked hesitantly:

"It's not that you are married to a prince, such a young descendant, he doesn't look like a prince."

"Uncle, don't care if it's like it or not, we're marrying a person, not the throne, you just look at whether the person is good or not."

Li Xiaonuan said seriously while laughing, and the uncle looked at it carefully,

"It's a good offspring."

Lord Huang took half a step forward and said with a smile on his face:

"Old lady, this is a really good offspring, capable of literature and martial arts, last year put down the rebellion of the North Third Road, and beat the robbers in the north back to his hometown, it is your niece and son-in-law!"

Uncle looked at the smiling Lord Huang in amazement, and was nervous for a moment and didn't know how to answer, Li Xiaonuan smiled clearly, helped the uncle, let Lord Huang, and asked the uncle while walking forward,

"Lady's health? What about the two sisters-in-law? How many grandchildren have you added? ”

"I added two male boys, but added three female babies, your aunt, gone, the year before last, I left, an illness, I didn't stay, I still remember you before leaving, I went to Shangli Town the year before last, I heard that you followed the ancient family into Beijing, and I didn't inquire about the future, and I don't know if you're good, just a few years ago, an uncle came to our village, and I heard your letter."

The uncle was chattering, Li Xiaonuan stagnated under his feet, and said in a low voice:

"Later, Uncle will take me to put incense on the eldest mother."

"Alas, when I heard your letter, I went to talk to her, she lived to be more than fifty years old, and she was also happy and mourned, and when she was old, she had to go, don't go to your heart, don't be sad."

"Hmm."

Li Xiaonuan agreed in a low voice.

The group walked to Li Qingshan and Li Lian's grave in front of the platform and stood up, the platform was full of guards, long and small servants, the uncle led Li Xiaonuan and Cheng Ke, and bowed, Lord Huang and Mrs. Li led the crowd, followed by the ups and downs of kowtowing, although the surrounding was full of people, but it was silent, only the uncle chattered:

"Ah, Xiao Nuan came to see you again, Xiao Nuan's son-in-law is a good offspring, Xiao Nuan has grown up"

Li Xiaonuan sacrificed Li Qingshan and Li Lian's family, stood up, folded his hands, closed his eyes and secretly prayed a few words, and then turned around to worship the eldest mother before exiting the cemetery. Li Xiaonuan tilted his head to look at Cheng Ke and said in a low voice:

"I want to go to my uncle's house for a glass of water, will you go?"

"Hmm."

Cheng Ke agreed with a smile, Li Xiaonuan smiled and said to the uncle, holding the uncle, Cheng Ke followed closely behind Li Xiaonuan, Lord Huang and Mrs. Li followed, and the group entered the village and walked all the way to the courtyard of the uncle's house.

Cheng Ke stood in the courtyard with a big bowl full of hot water, looking at Li Xiaonuan who was sitting on a small stool, taking a sweet sip of tea in the bowl, and talking to his uncle, I couldn't understand how Xiaonuan swallowed such a dirty bowl and such dirty water? !

Li Xiaonuan entrusted the sacrificial field to the uncle, and the careful uncle explained,

"These fields, in addition to the sacrifices throughout the year, beside them, the uncle looks at the distribution to the poor and widowed families in the village, if there are children who love to study, they will also subsidize some, and they will be handed over to the uncle to manage, and every other year or two, the uncle will send the eldest brother and sister-in-law or the second brother and second sister-in-law into Beijing to go to the Runan Mansion to find me and talk."

After talking for more than a quarter of an hour, Li Xiaonuan got up and said goodbye, ordered someone to call Mrs. Li, returned to the inn, and called the steward to come over and order:

"You and Mrs. Li are discussing, putting some worship fields, and then finding a suitable place, building a academy, and handing it over to Mrs. Li."

Li Xiaonuan turned his head to look at Mrs. Li and said gently:

"First of all, Mrs. Li often told me that the Li family has a lot of children who are smart and willing to learn, but they are too poor, and the Li family is unable to provide for these children to study, and the Li family has withered from generation to generation.

Mrs. Li hurriedly agreed, and didn't know what to say for a while, Li Xiaonuan didn't say much to him, and explained a few words to the steward, and asked Mrs. Li to go back.