77. Holidays

Ah Hao is on vacation, he stays at home every day, he doesn't go out to socialize, he helps Geng Qiu deal with housework during the day, like the big family in Beijing that must be handed over, he must not be offended at will, how to deal with it, Geng Qiu has really not dealt with this kind of thing, and Ah Hao must guide him.

At night, of course, the two of them had to exercise well, Geng Qiu couldn't wait to live such a day every day, in order not to be disturbed by outsiders, he simply ordered the door to be closed, making it look like the master was not at home. In fact, the two of them just want to live a little life of kissing me and me.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Ah Hao took Geng Qiu, A Niu and Liu Chengning, three masters, opened an ancestral hall in his house, offered the tablets of his relatives, and recorded the names of Geng Qiu and the three of them in the family tree. also invited the prince and Zhou Lord Yu Mingyi as witnesses. Because he has long since lost his close relatives, in fact, he has no relatives. Ah Hao counts up to three generations and is a single seedling, Ah Hao also has an aunt, that is, Liu Chengning's mother, Ah Hao originally had a younger brother, who also died early. And Ah Hao's mother clan has long been gone. In fact, the General's Mansion has not been prosperous.

Because Ah Hao changed his name and surname before, although he returned to his original surname Cheng Wenhao earlier, Wen Hao was given by his father, and he was originally called Cheng Xuan, the word Wenhao. But the names of the two children have not been changed, and this time they have been changed together, Liu Chengning changed his name to Cheng Wenning, and Ah Niu changed his name to Cheng Yuanqing. Geng Qiu also wanted to change his name, but he was too lazy to change it, so he called Geng Qiu directly. Some documents still have to be filed in the yamen, because there is a holiday, Ah Hao will get it first, and it will be good to take it directly after the New Year.

Afterwards, Yu Mingyi asked: "A Ning directly changed his surname to Cheng, I wonder if his biological father will come to the door?" ”

"What about coming to the door? Did he dare to go to the crown prince? Ah Hao sneered. That family, he didn't go to their trouble, because he didn't spare his hands, now that he is free, if they come to the door, he has to think of a way to fix them. Although, they are not as happy now. The crown prince is not as approachable as he seems, in fact, he doesn't know how many things he has done, otherwise, he would not be sitting firmly on the top now, and even the emperor can't help him. And when he followed Ah Hao's father, he was familiar with Ah Hao's aunt, if it weren't for being jealous of the emperor and the queen of Yuan, I can't say that Ah Hao's aunt would still be a princess. Ah Hao didn't know about these things, but Zeng Dashan knew a little bit about them in private, so that family had already been ruthlessly rectified.

"But A-Ning is a talent now, and the future will definitely not be bad, and the family will not necessarily give up this fat sheep." Geng Qiu said with a smile.

He can now see clearly that the more the family is, the more private things there are. Especially Ah Ning is now promising, Ah Hao is a civil and military general, a close minister of the prince, and it is not impossible for that family to want to come up by virtue of their blood relationship. And the world pays attention to filial piety, which fake scholars, will definitely stand and talk without backache, if A-Ning refuses to recognize his biological father, they will not say that A-Ning is not filial, and he doesn't even recognize his biological father, and there will be people who take the opportunity to make trouble. There are a lot of people who don't like Ah Hao now, because there are also many people who have been retaliated against, especially those who were related to him in the first place, and now they are all in dire straits, and they are even no longer there.

"I don't know them. Anyway, when the third uncle took me away, I was only five years old, and I was half dead. Cheng Wenning said indifferently. He wasn't very old at the time, but he remembered his mother's death and the scene when the family wanted to kill them.

He was originally the most proud grandson of the family, but he was usually loved by those people who were afraid of melting in their mouths, but they completely changed overnight, and those people were eager to take his life, so they refused to stop. After the third uncle and they left with Ah Ning, Ah Ning was sick for a long time, and he was completely frightened, and he didn't remember what his biological father looked like, but he still remembered the pain and hatred.

"Well, the human heart is the most terrible thing. Some people can give up anything for the sake of fame and fortune. Yu Mingyi sighed. Recently, he has also suffered a lot of anger, although the Fang family was asked by the crown princess to think about it at home, but he still kept making trouble, her good son was even more uneasy, he came to Lord Zhou every day, just wanted to divorce his wife and marry another, and also counted on Lord Zhou to find him an official position. Lord Zhou's current situation is not as good as before, he has been promoted, and he has to be valued by the prince. He felt that his worth immediately increased.

Lord Zhou can't wait to tear this son apart, he really can't deal with it, if he is a capable person, it is not a problem to find an official and a half-job, the key is whether this person has the ability to be higher than the sky, and he is more ungrateful. Master Zhou only hated himself for not teaching him well, and now he can't break his temperament.

"Young Master Zhou, are you still coming here to make trouble?" Ah Hao asked.

"Hmph, I don't dare now, I have already ordered the porter not to let him in. What is it? Yu Mingyi sneered. If he hadn't seen it in front of Master Zhou, he would have ordered someone to break Young Master Zhou's leg a long time ago. It's really not a thing, it's not young, it's thirty years old in the new year, and in a few years, my daughter can get married, and I'm going to hold my grandson, after so many things, I don't know how to reflect at all, and I daydream all day long. He couldn't figure out for Lord Zhou, how to teach this scum.

Lord Zhou can't say what he suffers, right now, the son and daughter that the Fang family gave him are useless, he can only hope that his son will give birth to a grandson, and he will definitely bring it over and raise it himself. As soon as he thought of the Fang Clan's appearance of wanting to die with everyone in his arms, he became irritated and uneasy, he had no way to take the Fang Clan at all. Fang's left-hand nature is becoming stricter and stricter, and there is a large family member who is talking in her ears every day, which makes her hate Lord Zhou more and more. Lord Zhou is now afraid to go back to the Zhou Mansion. I can't wait to kill all the people of the Fang family in order to be quiet.

This time, Young Master Zhou and Master Zhou are of the same mind, the other party's family is not pleasing to the eye, scolding his wife every day, and accepting a few beautiful girls in the room, although the Fang family takes care of his mother's family, but he also does not like the daughter-in-law from the declining criminal minister's mother's family, and even she regrets marrying such a wife for her son in her heart, but she refuses to admit it, but for the sake of blood relatives, she does not allow her son to divorce his wife and marry another, but it is absolutely no problem to accept a few concubines. What's more, the daughter-in-law didn't give her a grandchild, and the two granddaughters were also normal, so they didn't expect anything at all.

Not to mention the mess in Lord Zhou's mansion, Ah Hao opened the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, and Geng Qiu remembered a major event, "Ah Hao, is the grave of your parents and younger brother going to be moved to the ancestral grave?" ”

"No, let them stay there quietly. I'll take you to their graves another day. Ah Hao said that he didn't dare to bury them in the ancestral grave, although the emperor copied the general's mansion, but did not copy their ancestral grave, but the ancestral tomb is far away from Beijing, and is in the run.

That place is on the outskirts of Beijing, it is actually near Meishan in Tongxian County, not ten miles away from Meishan, there is a small Zhuangzi there, it is the general occasionally put a little private property, no one knows, but it is a desolate place, just a few acres of thin fields, but there is a large shoal, sparsely growing some wild trees and grasses, you can run horses. Usually, there is only one room to take care of here, basically only self-sufficient, and there is no output at all. After a long time, the general forgot about it.

The general placed it here just to be able to come out and relax. Instead, a tall three-room brick house was erected, but after it was placed, it didn't come once. This place is not too far from Beijing, and the location is remote, and no one knows. At the beginning, Ah Hao and Zeng Dashan buried the general's husband and his youngest son here. Ah Hao ordered the people in that room to continue to take care of Zhuangzi, take care of the cemetery during the New Year's holidays, put on some offerings, and burn some paper money. After Ah Hao returned to Beijing, he only went to Zeng Dashan once. Only then did the man in that room know that the main family is actually a famous general, and he takes care of the grave of the three of them. Zeng Dashan also arranged for someone to renovate the cemetery, but he didn't even dare to leave his real name at the beginning, and the cemetery was extremely simple. After the tomb is repaired, I just wait for Geng Qiu and the others to come back, and then go to the grave together in a proper manner.

The day flickered and it was Chinese New Year's Eve. The two eldest sons of Zeng Dashan's family also came to the General's Mansion for the New Year, and because Zeng Dashan lived in the General's Mansion with his younger siblings, they simply came over together for the New Year.

On this day, the palace ordered some ministers to enter the palace to eat together in order to show grace, Ah Hao and others got up early, changed into court clothes, entered the palace one by one, and had a social meal with the prince before hurrying home.

A big meal has already been set up at home, Geng Qiu also personally cooked a few dishes that Ah Hao likes to eat, as soon as Ah Hao entered the door, Ah Niu shouted: "Dad, Dad, hurry up and change clothes." My father was in the kitchen for a big meal. "Geng Qiu is rarely cooking next time, and everyone has forgotten what he cooked.

"Okay." Ah Hao said with a smile, put the food he brought back from the palace on the offering table, and then went back to the house to change his regular clothes.

After a while, Geng Qiu shouted, "It's time to eat." ”

Then, the general's mansion was brightly lit, and there were three sets in the main courtyard, one was the four masters of A Hao, Geng Qiu, A Niu, and Aning, one was the Zeng family, and the other was the three uncles, three aunts and Dr. Li, and everyone toasted together to celebrate the festival.

Everyone ate the reunion dinner with a bang, and then kept the New Year together, got together to drink tea, snorted some melon seeds, talked and laughed, the children played together, set off fireworks, and the palace also specially rewarded some beautiful fireworks to Ah Niu to show grace. Ah Niu and a group of teenagers shouted and set off fireworks, and the originally deserted General's Mansion instantly became lively.

In the second half of the night, after eating dumplings, Ah Niu and other children couldn't stay up and went to sleep, but Ah Ning and others accompanied the adults to keep the New Year, Ah Hao saw their eyelids fighting, so he smiled and said: "Chang An and Chang Ping, they are not young, it's time to marry a daughter-in-law, do you have any rules in your heart?" ”

Sure enough, as soon as he mentioned this topic, he immediately drove everyone's sleepy bugs away.

Zeng Changping and Zeng Chang'an's embarrassed faces turned red, and they said in unison: "We don't know anyone, where can we find our daughter-in-law?" ”

"I have to rely on you to take care of this matter." Zeng Dashan said and looked at Geng Qiu and A Hao. Zeng Changping and Zeng Changan married each other, and the choice was not wide. The two are just low-level military attachés, and they don't have any family background, although they have a relationship with the civil and military generals' mansion, they don't have much to rely on after all. And there are many small generals who are crowned officials at the same time as the two of them, all of whom are official bodies obtained by following the prince to fight and rely on military merits, but there is a family to rely on, so they don't have to worry about a way out, and their marriage is sent to the door.

People like them who are from poor backgrounds and work as low-level military attaches in Beijing are ordinary people, and they don't look down on them, but the girls from small official families whose conditions are slightly better are not willing to marry them. In fact, Geng Qiu and Ah Hao don't have any good friends in Beijing, where do they know which families have suitable girls, where can they be matchmakers.

"I'll inquire another day if there are any suitable side branches in the two uncles who have befriended me, distant relatives and girls, and then I will talk about it." Ah Hao smiled, he knew this, he couldn't run away.

"If you want to be able to endure hardships and keep your family, the delicate lady can't. And we don't have to dislike the people we came from. Zeng Dashan said. His children were from too low backgrounds, and some even came from beggars. Although he has been trained by him and lived with Ah Hao Gengqiu, he is still vulgar to the people of Beijing, and his future is not necessarily bright.

"That is, I don't pick my appearance, my character should be good, and I should be hearty and neat." Zeng Boss said. He is the eldest and has several brothers, and the choice of the sister-in-law is extremely important.

"Well, it's better if the family is simple, we don't have the ability to pull a large family." Zeng Lao Er said.

"What about you little ones, what do you say, what kind of sister-in-law do you want, second sister-in-law?" Geng Qiu asked with a smile.

"Be like Brother Qiu, who can cook. Be pretty. The two little ones shouted.

"You are in the General's Mansion every day, and you can go back to your brothers' mansions to eat a few meals, and you still expect your sister-in-law to cook herself." Xinghua said. This little girl is actually the most assertive person, and she is also very capable and works very neatly. It is very valued by Geng Qiu and Ah Hao.

"So what, Brother Qiu is all in person, could it be that the sister-in-law married to our family is more powerful than Brother Qiu?" There was opposition.

"Come less, with the conditions of our family, where to find such a good sister-in-law, I just hope, sister-in-law don't want the bottom of the door too high, it's good to look down on us."

"The door is too low, and the little family is not good."

Everyone had a heated discussion on this issue, and the sky brightened up unconsciously.