My name is Mu Chongwen, I am the top three in this dynasty, reasoning, such a fame should be an official, but because my eldest sister is the queen mother of the dynasty, my father is afraid that our brother will be criticized for becoming an official too early, and it will be said to be nepotism, so it is stipulated that we can only enter the official career after we are twenty-five years old, I am twenty-four years old this year, and I have not yet reached the age that my father stipulates that I can enter the officialdom, but I can show my ambitions in the officialdom next year!

My eldest sister Mu Caiwei is a legendary woman, I remember when I was a child, my eldest sister was still very weak, and she didn't dare to cry out loud when she was bullied, at that time she was often bullied by the uncle's sister who picked bottles, Mu Chongfu and Mu Chongcai always bullied her, and once used a slingshot to discount the bridge of her nose, at that time she didn't even dare to say a word, only covered the injured bridge of her nose and went home......

But since she was thirteen years old in the winter when she fainted from hunger, she woke up like a different person, and suddenly became very strong, and not only led us out of starvation, but even scoundrels like my uncle and grandfather were defeated at her hands.

Under the leadership of the eldest sister, we not only ate a full stomach, but also lived a good life, the family moved to the town to open a barbecue restaurant, back then, when the emperor's brother-in-law was still the king of Qin, I met my eldest sister, at that time my eldest sister was still a small village girl with a yellow face and a thin chicken, but her maverick personality charm deeply attracted the brother-in-law of the king of Qin, the brother-in-law of the king of Qin fell in love with her, regardless of the disparity between the family, broke through many obstacles, and married my eldest sister as the crown princess.

Later, my brother-in-law ascended the throne and became the emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom, and the eldest sister became the queen justifiably, and became the only woman in my brother-in-law's life.

In our Great Jin Kingdom, from the princes and princes, down to the peddlers and pawns, there is no one who does not know how my brother-in-law dotes on my eldest sister, that year, on the day of the wedding of my brother-in-law and sister, my brother-in-law made a will, saying that the harem will never accept concubines, and the wishful thinking of the courtiers who plan to send their daughters to the palace to make real government capital is completely shattered.

Because of the eldest sister, our family has prospered, my father was a fallen talent, under the support of the emperor's brother-in-law, all the way to the second rank of the court, the official position of the crown prince; 's mother was bullied by her mother-in-law in a Mujia village to a village woman who went to sell her hair to make a living, and was promoted to the second grade of Mrs. Fate, and was once rated as one of the three beauties of the Great Jin Dynasty; The second sister Mu Caifei became the wife of the general Mo Ziqi, although the second brother-in-law has an indifferent temperament, but he is really good to the second sister, and after more than ten years of marriage, the couple has never had a word of discord; Sister Mu Caidie married the eldest brother-in-law's younger brother King Jing and became Princess Jing, the couple just got married, it was like paint glue, the two of them were like a person, and even those of us who were brothers were happy.

In fact, if it weren't for the eldest sister's status as the queen, the second sister and the younger sister would not have been able to marry so well, even if Mo Ziqi and King Jing fell in love with the second sister and the younger sister, my family's family was far from worthy of others, and they were not qualified to be their wives at all.

Therefore, we all borrowed the light of the eldest sister to have the current one!

Including my martial arts and talents, it is also thanks to the blessing of the eldest sister, answering that my brother-in-law sent someone to teach us, the master who taught me and Wu'er martial arts, is the emperor's brother-in-law's side of the guard chasing the wind and the moon, they carefully taught us for more than ten years, and taught us all the skills without reservation, so that the two of us also have a good martial arts!

My literary attainments are also very good, when I was very young, my brother-in-law let me and Wu'er enter the Royal Academy, and the most qualified Confucianism in the Great Jin Kingdom taught us to read and reason, and now we have both gained fame, and we have been tested by our own ability, it can be seen that these years, we have not wasted time, and have been living a very fulfilling life.

My younger brother Mu Chongwu, nicknamed Wu'er, has now been promoted, but he has not yet been hired, Wu'er is twenty-one years old, but because of me, he has not yet married. He always said that the elder brother is not married, but the younger brother marries a daughter-in-law first, and he will be spurned.

Only I know that this kid is just using me as a shield, because he doesn't want to marry at all.

It's not that we don't want to marry a daughter-in-law, in fact, I've been keeping an eye out for the right daughters since I was fifteen years old, but none of them are to my liking.

I also want to follow the example of my sister and brother-in-law, marry only one woman in my life, and live a lifetime with her affection and love, so this woman must be my favorite, otherwise, marry back home, all kinds of unsatisfactory, and spend a long life with her?

The mother and sister are both peerless beauties, known as the three beauties of the Great Jin Kingdom, and later the younger sister gradually grew up and replaced her mother and became the new Great Jin Three Beauties.

Accustomed to seeing the beauties in the family, Wen'er and I naturally have a higher vision than others, and we are determined to find a woman who is comparable in appearance and temperament to our mother and sisters, but unfortunately, women who can compare with the looks of our mothers and sisters are not rare, but there are no women at all.

Not only that, these so-called famous ladies are hypocritical, not at all as gentle, generous, natural, and easy-going as the women in our family, so in line with the principle of preferring lack to abundance, our brothers have not yet found a satisfactory woman.

Originally, I was not in a hurry, I wanted to choose a woman to spend my life with, it was not so easy to choose, I wanted to choose slowly, sooner or later I would meet such a woman.

However, my mother couldn't wait, especially after the eldest prince and the third prince got married, my mother muttered in my ear all day long: "Look at you, Wen Qi is not even, your nephew is about to marry a daughter-in-law, you are still single, are you ashamed?" ”

My mother has always been a gentle and watery character, and she can't speak loudly, but because of my marriage, she has gradually evolved into a woman close to a fierce woman over the years, and every time I refuse a family affair that she thinks is a good match, she will persuade me for a while, scold me for a while, and then cry for a while, and make a fuss......

I also felt very guilty when I saw my mother like this, but it was a matter of my life, and I really didn't want to compromise, so the matter of marriage was delayed.

A few days ago, at the banquet of the eldest sister's Thousand Autumn Festival, my mother's behavior made me almost hit the wall......

I couldn't stand it, so after the banquet, I left a letter to my family and went out to travel......

My first stop was to go back to my hometown in Mujia Village, Bianfu, where I was a seven-year-old child. The impression of Mujia Village is still in poverty, backwardness, hunger and ignorance.

Despite this, I still have deep feelings for this place where I was born and raised, and the impression left on me by Mujia Village is not only painful, but also has many good memories.

For example, in the spring, I went to the mountains with my sisters to dig wild vegetables, and my friends went to the stream to catch loaches, and in the summer, I drove the geese and ducks raised by the family to the mountains to graze, and by the way, I picked mushrooms with flowers.

With these wild eggs, my mother gave us several tooth sacrifices, and I can still recall the tempting smell of eggs......

In autumn, we carry baskets to pick up leaks in other people's fields, pick up the corn, sweet potatoes, ears of grain and soybeans that others have missed, and take them home to keep them to satisfy our hunger when there is no food......

Although many years have passed, those childhood memories are not at all

Over the years, I have been in the capital, not only busy with martial arts, but also busy with school, this desire has been hidden in my heart, and now I can finally move freely, the day I left the capital, I went all the way north, to the direction of Bianzhou Mansion to fight horses.

When I traveled, I didn't take my servants and subordinates, but only rode a fast horse, prepared enough coils, and hurried alone.

In less than a month, they rushed to Mujia Village in Bianzhou Prefecture.

Back in his hometown, Mujia Village has changed rapidly in the past ten years. I remember that when we left, only the patriarch's family lived in a brick house, but now every family lives in a brick house, and the potholes and uneven village roads in the village are also paved with green bricks and stone slabs.

It seems that we have been away from the village for more than ten years, the families in the village have lived a good life, and the previous days are really hanging in the balance, many families not only built brick houses, but also built brick courtyard walls, brick horse sheds, and one or two horses are tied to the horse shed, which is very magnificent.

I remember that in the past, only the patriarch's family and the uncle's family had horses in the village, but now almost every household has a carriage, but the number of horses is slightly different.

Entering the village, no one knows me anymore, the villagers sitting at the door to enjoy the shade shook their fans, all looked at me curiously, I relied on my childhood memories, found a place not far from the ancestral hall at the west end of the village, pushed the door and walked in.

My family is adjacent to the Jiujin family, I remember that the kid in Jiujin wanted to marry my eldest sister as his wife, and my father and mother seemed to have the intention of marrying the eldest sister to him, who would have thought that the eldest sister who was yellow, thin, weak and incompetent back then was actually the golden phoenix in the chicken nest, soaring into the sky, married the most powerful man in the Great Jin Kingdom, and became the queen mother of the Great Jin Kingdom?

Brother Jiujin would never have thought that the object of his long-term crush turned out to be the future queen mother, I really don't know what kind of mood he will be after learning the news!

I thought as I returned to my home, and when I got home, my three small low, dim huts had been turned into houses made of blue bricks, but they were still in the same pattern, the size and style were exactly the same as before, and the furniture was all available, although it was not a high-end thing, but in the countryside, these things were already very good.

Moreover, on the window of the house, there is actually a piece of glass, glass for the Zhuang family, is definitely a great luxury, the price of a glass is worth ten taels of silver, the glass on my window, is the only piece of glass in the village!

Wandering in the old home, my thoughts are surging, and the scenes of my childhood come to mind from time to time: climbing trees to dig birds' nests, going down to the river to catch loaches, those bits and pieces of memories are so vivid and interesting, people can't help but cherish them......

After staying at home for a while, I walked out of the house and wanted to go to Uncle Mu's house to have a look.

In my memory, Uncle Mu's family and Uncle Zhou's family were very good to our family, and they helped us a lot during the most difficult years of our family.

When I went out, a group of people from Mushi Village were already standing outside the door.

Mujia Village is remote and isolated, and there are few outsiders in the village, so suddenly a young man dressed in gorgeous clothes and riding a tall horse will come, no wonder everyone will come to watch.

"Yo, where did this come from? What do you do in the former residence of the queen mother? ”

"Childe, may I ask who you are from the queen's mother's family?"

The villagers greeted me warmly, and in the crowd, I suddenly saw the obviously old Uncle Mu, although I haven't seen him for more than ten years, I can still recognize him accurately.

"Third uncle!" I yelled at him.

The third uncle was stunned for a moment, pointed to his nose and said, "This son, are you calling me?" ”

I gave a salute and said, "Third uncle, I'm Chongwen!" Mu Chongwen of the Mu family in the west of the village has not been seen for more than ten years. You don't recognize me anymore, do you? ”

"Hey, are you the eldest son of Xiucai's family?" The third uncle stared at me in amazement.

Although his father is now the second rank of the court and the head of the dynasty, the people in the village are still used to calling him Xiucai or Mu Laoer.

"That's right, it's me, I'll come back and see!"

As soon as my identity was revealed, the crowd immediately exploded.

"Oh, Wen'er is so old, tsk, life is really not resistant, when I left, I was still a little baby with two buckets of snot, and now I have become adults."

"Wen'er, are your parents okay? Why didn't they come back? Is the Queen Mother okay? I heard that your second sister is married to a general as a wife, your family is really blessed......"

"Wen'er, have you married a daughter-in-law, which girl is it, why don't you bring your daughter-in-law back to show you?"

In the face of the enthusiastic villagers, I was a little overwhelmed for a while, so I had to answer one by one: "Entrusted as a blessing to the villagers and elders, my father and mother are very good, and the queen is also very good, they are very busy, and they will come back to visit everyone when they are free." ”

The latter question about whether I married a daughter-in-law or not was automatically ignored by me. Fortunately, the villagers didn't ask questions, and continued to talk affectionately around me.

A young man with a short figure squeezed to the front of the crowd, grabbed his hair, and said embarrassedly: "Wen'er, do you still recognize me?" I'm a loach, we used to catch crickets together when we were kids! ”

Of course I remember him, this guy was a naughty guy when he was a kid, and he took me everywhere to get into trouble.

"Loach, of course I remember you, I haven't seen you for more than ten years, are you okay?" I asked him with a smile.

Mu Loach heard that I still remember him, and immediately smiled happily and said: "Okay, good, it's all thanks to the blessing of the queen's mother, the mansion of Bianzhou Mansion has built a road for our village, more than ten years ago, the queen mother came back, leaving a lot of good seeds for everyone, everyone planted the seeds given by the queen, and the annual harvest is two or three times more than before, so ah, our Mujia village is rich now, and the famous girls in the neighborhoods are vying to marry in our village, now, Except for the two brothers of your uncle's family and Mu Erlaizi, the men in our village have daughters-in-law.... ”

Before the loach finished speaking, he heard Uncle Mu cough for a while, and then he squeezed his eyes vigorously at the loach, probably because he was afraid that I would not be happy to hear about the two brothers of the uncle's family.

As soon as Uncle Mu reminded him, Loach regretted his speech, and hurriedly said: "Our village now has a free school, and the little children don't have to go to other towns to study, and they don't have to worry about not being able to pay the bundles......"

I didn't avoid the matter of my uncle's family, and asked the loach calmly, "How is my big house now?" Where do you live now? ”

When the loach heard me ask, he hurriedly looked back at the third uncle and the patriarch, and saw that they nodded, so he turned back to me and said: "Wen'er, your grandmother has died a long time ago, your uncle went crazy more than ten years ago, and last year he beat your uncle to death, when the river was enlightened this spring, your uncle fell into the river and drowned, and now there are only your two cousins left in the family, but they are not in good health, they can't do crop work, and they have been relying on the help of the village people to live all these years, and they are very depressed!" ”

When I heard that their family had come to a deserved end, I stopped dwelling on the sins they had committed against us in the past. Although Mu Chongcai and Mu Chongfu are still alive, they are only alive, and it is no longer worth me to do anything to them.

The third uncle warmly invited me to his house as a guest, but it happened that I had not eaten yet, so I readily agreed.

When I arrived at the third uncle's house, the third aunt came out, she couldn't recognize me anymore, and after the third uncle introduced her, the third aunt cried excitedly, and talked a lot about the troubles of our sister and brother when they were young......

A teenage girl was hiding in the house timidly, and the third uncle called her out and asked her to come and see me, calling me uncle.

This little girl's name is Sister Mu Xi, and she is the daughter of Sister Cailian, who died of blood collapse when Sister Cailian gave birth to her.

Ji Wanfu father and son after the death of Sister Cailian, swept away all the property of the third uncle's family and fled, Sister Xi was brought up by the third uncle and the third aunt, and now it has been married to the son of the nine-catty brother who opened a restaurant in the town, and he will be married in two years.

Because of my arrival, the villagers were afraid that the third uncle's house would not have food to entertain the guests, so many people took the initiative to send chickens, ducks, eggs and vegetables, and a few women rushed over to help the third aunt clean up.

The patriarch and the third uncle sat in the hall and talked with me, and some of the elders of the family also rushed over and sat there asking me questions. While talking, I overheard that they were going to have a clan meeting tonight, and when I asked, I found out that since the holy decree was uploaded a few months ago, for the queen mother's Qianqiu Festival, the people of Mujia Village were exempted from the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes throughout the year, and everyone knew that today's queen mother is really the eldest daughter of the Xiucai family.

There is a queen in the village, this is a great event, the people of Mujia Village are very proud, and Mujia Village has naturally become a phoenix nest.

The patriarch felt that since the village was a phoenix's nest, it should not be managed like other villages, so he gathered the men of each family together to discuss, and finally everyone decided to implement the communist system of having land and farming, food and food, money and clothing, and every once in a while to distribute grain, rice, vegetables and money to everyone to show that they were different from other villages.

I happened to have nothing to do, and I had the idea of going to see the clan association, and after dinner, I walked with the clan elders to the ancestral hall at the west end of the village.

When I arrived at the ancestral hall, I saw that there was a bench with a long table, and the clansmen sat neatly.

Everyone sat up straight, the daughter-in-law of the village poured tea for everyone, and in a corner of the ancestral hall, there were bags of rice, bundles of vegetables and baskets of eggs.

Some time ago, the patriarch assigned the task of raising chickens and ducks to each family of the clan, and after raising them, they were recycled and distributed to the clansmen, so as to save a lot of money to buy, but no matter how to do it, there is no absolute fairness, the chickens and ducks raised by the clansmen and the chickens and ducks purchased are not the same size, and there are fat and thin.

A few years ago, there were many people who did not have enough to eat, but since planting the seeds given by the queen, now they can not only eat enough, but also eat well, and the family also has the silver saved, and some old people who have no children do not have to worry about no one to support, and they have money in the clan.

Between people, there is always a bit of interest relationship, the patriarch hopes that the clan can have one mind, don't always care about petty profits, care about personal gains and losses, the clan will do the best thing, but it can't be perfect, what is missing is nothing more than a bite of food, the men are easy to say, they are afraid that the woman will be careful and make trouble.

The clansmen are not without a little idea, a pig, there is a lot of meat, you love to eat pork belly, you may not be able to catch up, maybe it is lean meat without any oil and water, this aspect is all rushed to where to count.

"Patriarch, you don't have to worry about this, we are living a good life now, not bad for these three melons and two dates, make trouble for this trivial matter, isn't it embarrassing for the queen to spread it? We are all the queen's own family, how can we do such a thing that is not on the table? ”

Bao Ziniang, the most angry in the clan, publicly stated that she used to be a person who liked to take advantage of others, and she would not miss a radish and a head of garlic, in the final analysis, her family was still poor and she couldn't eat enough, so she always wanted to save more and save more money.

But over the years, the reputation is not good, the money has not been saved, in the cold winter wax moon, in addition to firewood, in order to save a few copper plates, reluctant to use a charcoal basin for heating, as a result of a body of problems, from time to time back pain, the province of copper plate all spent, buy decoction, not cured.

The patriarch led the clansmen to a meeting, Bao Ziniang felt the most, she came to the stage in front of the clansmen and admitted her mistakes to everyone, she used to be cautious, now look, the silver is really not saved, it is earned, with the support of the queen, are the people in the clan afraid that there will be no good life in the future?

After the fat aunt made a statement, several people who love to fight on weekdays also came to the stage, and everyone used tea instead of wine, releasing their previous suspicions, and their feelings were harmonious.

Seeing this situation, I am also deeply touched, I think that the clan meeting is not just as simple as sending a little two meters of money to the clan, but also instilling a spirit in the clan, but also a kind of cohesion, to put it bluntly, it is to brainwash everyone. The interests of the Mu family are supreme, everyone is a relative, an ancestor, we must work together, as long as the clan is prosperous, every family will not be short of food and clothing, and can always live a good life!

The next day, I asked the loach to help me go to the town to buy incense, candles, paper horses, bathe and change clothes at the third uncle's house, go to worship the ancestors of the Mu family, and left three hundred taels of silver for the third uncle, asking them to help take care of Mu Chongfu and Mu Chongwen.

Although these two people used to be very bad to us, and I wanted to kill them when I was a child, yesterday's clan meeting gave me a deep feeling. Anyway, everyone is a member of the Mu family, and they can't write two Mu characters in one stroke, the past has passed, and they have been punished, so don't worry about it anymore......

In the afternoon, I left Mujia Village and went to the south, where I had befriended Dong Qi, the son of Princess Chaoqing, who had moved to her hometown in Tongzhou with her horse five years ago, and Dong Qi had gone there with her parents.

During this period, Dong Qi has been in correspondence with me, and he invited me to visit Tongzhou several times, claiming that it is a paradise on earth with spring all year round and pleasant scenery.

In those years, I have been busy with my studies and martial arts, and I can't take a break, but now that I have time, I will go there, which can be regarded as fulfilling my dream of traveling to the south of the Yangtze River!

Dong Qi's grandfather was the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, his father was a famous man in the capital when he was young, he was very handsome, and he liked to write poems, adjust fat and make powder, there were countless confidants in the Chu Pavilion Qinglou in the capital, and later after the eldest princess of Chaoqing, because the eldest princess of Chaoqing was jealous and domineering, the couple tore their faces and competed a few times, he was defeated, and since then he has collected his thoughts, and he has been doing five good things at home behind closed doors.

Dong Qi has an easy-going temperament, not as unobtrusive as his father, nor as unreasonable as his mother, so he has a good relationship with me. When I rushed to Tongzhou Mansion to look for him, he was very happy, cleaned an elegant courtyard in his mansion, and arranged for me to stay.

The yard where I live is called 'Listening to the Rain', because it is rainy in the south, and this courtyard is facing water on three sides, every time it rains, the rain falls in the lake, and the sound will be extraordinarily clear, so it is named Listening to the Rain!

I lived in Dong's house, during this period, Dong Qi invited me from time to time to visit Tongzhou's gardens, landscapes, ancient temples, famous temples, the days were very leisurely, in a blink of an eye has come to November, a certain day, it is Dong Qi's mother Chaoqing eldest princess's birthday, I live in a guest house, although I don't want to, but I should go to worship the birthday in order to show respect for the eldest princess.

When I paid my respects, I found that the garden of the owner was full of noble ladies and daughters, most of whom were the ladies of the Tongzhou Mansion, although Dong Qi's father was only a concubine, but his grandfather was indeed a member of the court, and the princess status of the eldest princess of Chaoqing was enough for them to come and talk about it!

When I visited, the eldest princess of Chaoqing was kind to me, very elder-like, not at all arrogant and domineering, and thoughtfully introduced me to all the ladies here, and when the ladies saw me, they praised me as a good young man with a clear appearance and a chic manner.

Just as everyone was sparing no effort to praise me, a woman covered in dirt and a disheveled hair suddenly rushed out from the side, and the woman ran and cried, shouting to the eldest princess of Chaoqing: "Mother save me, Mama Niu wants to kill the child!" ”

The ladies present were stunned, who is this girl? Why is it so wolf, but it is called the mother of the eldest prince of Chaoqing?

An old lady beside the eldest prince of Chaoqing, Zhu, stepped forward to stop the girl, and said angrily: "Where did the madman come from, dare to sprinkle on the birthday banquet of Her Royal Highness the princess, and don't tie me up." ”

As soon as the words fell, a group of maids and women immediately rushed up, and the eagle grabbed the girl like a bird, gagged and gagged, twisted the arms and twisted the arms, and caught the weak girl to death.

At this time, an old woman in plain clothes ran over, pushing and beating the group of maids who were holding the girl like crazy, crying and scolding: "You are a man, even if the third girl is a concubine, she is also the flesh and blood of the horse master, how can you do this." ”

As soon as the words fell, the eldest princess of Chaoqing exclaimed: "Mrs. Zhang, what did you say?" Don't...... Could it be that she is...... Quick, you guys quickly brush up her hair and let Hongu see her face? ”

Hearing the order of the eldest princess, one of the few people who twisted the girl stretched out his hand and brushed up the girl's hair in front of her, revealing the girl's delicate and delicate face.

When the eldest princess saw the girl's face, she clutched her chest and trembled and cried out, "My son, who made you so bad!" ”

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