Chapter 53: Greeting
Since Chen Ping had been informed in advance, it was not surprising to see a large number of talents gathered at the entrance of the village when the carriage of the group drove into Liujia Village.
Due to the absence of female dependents, An Ruyi, Liu Rong, Liu Yue, and Jiang Fang did not get off the carriage this time.
Old Man Liu, Liu Heng and Liu Huairan, Jiang Zijie, Jiang Jianwen, and Jiang Yiwen all got out of the car. After a short greeting, everyone returned to Mumao Villa together, entered the hospitality hall, and sat down according to the guest and host.
Only Liu Huairan, Jiang Jianwen, and Jiang Yiwen felt that their time wasting was still a little worthwhile—if the pile of valuable meeting gifts they received was counted.
After greeting the Lord Zhenguo and having a meal together, those people packed up and left satisfied.
In the evening, the two families could finally sit together and have a meal, and after finishing the meal, Liu Huairan took out a bunch of meeting gifts he received that day for his sister Liu Yue and Jiang Fang to pick. Jiang Jianwen and Jiang Yiwen were not stingy when they saw this, and they also contributed to the meetings they received.
A few children chattered and giggled with great interest around the pile of greeting gifts and began to divide them, and some of them met something that several people had taken a look at, and they directly grabbed it.
They really don't lack these things. From time to time, Mumao Villa will collect some precious and rare good things at the branches in various places. An Ruyi often takes a small part out and divides it with the children after looking at it, although it is a small part, but it adds up to a lot. Not to mention that there is no shortage of precious things in it.
In addition to her own Liu Huairan and Liu Yue, she has not forgotten her sister-in-law and several children of her sister-in-law's family.
Speaking of which, although there is no lack of precious things that Liu Huairan, Jiang Jianwen, and Jiang Yiwen received today, they are not a little worse than the things they usually receive.
There are many precious things that they have seen, and ordinary things have long been out of their eyes. They're going to snatch it, it's more of a joke.
The two places are separated, but the contact, letters, and gifts between each other have not been broken, and the relationship between the cousins is still good. I didn't get rusty about it.
Seeing that they were making a lot of trouble, Old Man Liu was a little puzzled, and wanted to get up to take a look, but before he could move, Liu Heng saw his eyebrows, and quickly stopped it, and told the reason.
The old man looked at it carefully, and sure enough, several children had smiles on their faces, and it was for fun. He was relieved, but fortunately he didn't pass, otherwise the children would have been embarrassed. The old man laughed a few times. He said, no matter how much his grandchildren say it, they shouldn't be shallow-eyed.
After laughing, the old man's playfulness became great, and he also joined in the fun, and went over to say: "Which of you grabs the most things, and the most precious one has a reward." ”
As soon as the old man's voice fell, several children glanced at each other and made a tacit understanding of each other.
The youngest Liu Yue looked at her great-grandfather with a pair of cute eyes, and asked in a soft child's voice, "Does your great-grandfather mean what he says?" ”
"That's natural." Liu Fuguan teased her, "Is Yue'er afraid that Zengzu won't be able to get something?" ”
"That's not it, it's just how to decide?" Liu Yue shook her head, "What if the person who is judged is unfair?" And what if two people's things are worth about the same amount? ”
"Well, that's right, everyone will have a little error in judging the value of things, so in this way, great-grandfather suffers a loss, if there is a difference in the value of two people's things within a hundred taels, even if they both win, how about rewards?"
Liu touched his chin and laughed.
"And who's going to decide?" Liu Yue nodded in satisfaction, and then asked.
"In this way, there are gentlemen in Zhuangzi who specialize in teaching antique knowledge, so let's find three of them and let them judge separately, how about taking the middle?" Liu Fu looked at Liu Yue with a little appearance that was afraid of encountering injustice, and felt very cute. So I quickly came up with the fairest suggestion in my head.
"Okay." Liu Yue was satisfied, happily returned to her own territory, and gestured to let everyone put everything on the table and distribute it in turns.
Several children are very cooperative, you and I will take one piece, and this time they will take it quickly and crisply. There aren't many things, one person takes one or two pieces and it's gone.
When Liu oversaw the suggestion, everyone put down their respective topics and gathered around to watch.
I laughed secretly at this look.
The old man is planted this time. It was unanimously calculated by the children. A discerning person can know at a glance that the value of the things in front of everyone is about the same, and the difference will definitely not exceed one hundred taels. Liu Yue was waiting for the old man here!
The old man also laughed, the difference was that he was laughed at by himself. It's really capsized in the gutter, and he was calculated by his own great-grandchildren, his old face.
The result is self-evident, and the three gentlemen who were summoned to judge the value of things all left in confusion. Who here doesn't know this skill, even the youngest Liu Yue is qualified to be a teacher. That skill is still one of them made a special trip to Stone City to teach it, what's the matter?
Five people, everyone has a reward. Old Man Liu couldn't cry or laugh, and in order to "take revenge", he specially took out five things with different values from the storage bag. Naturally, no matter how low the value of the things that Old Man Liu shot, it can't be low. It's just, huh, see how you divide it? You're too tender to fight me. Ginger is still old and spicy. The old man said that he was going to win back a game anyway.
Looking at the things taken out and Liu Weiguan's triumphant look. The five of them looked at each other and secretly complained that their great-grandfather (maternal great-grandfather) was too naïve.
Liu Heng, An Ruyi, Jiang Zijie, and Liu Rong saw it, and they also smiled dumbly in the face of the old man's childlike innocence. I didn't dare to laugh too obviously, so I could only turn around and laugh secretly.
Looking at the children, no one cares about the value of things at all, the youngest picks first, and the older ones pick their favorite things one by one and take them away, and they are all happy.
They were overjoyed, and only glared at the old man's angry beard.
When she talked about it at bedtime, An Ruyi couldn't bear it anymore, and complained to Liu Heng fiercely, and tears of laughter came out.
Liu Heng didn't think it was funny, but when he saw An Ruyi Lecheng like this, he also laughed unkindly at his grandfather.
The rest of the days weren't so easy.
It takes a lot of time to reconstruct the family tree, write the preface, the precepts, the family lineage, the family regulations, the ancestors' behaviors, the family documents, etc.
Then you have to look at the terrain to find a piece of feng shui treasure land as the ancestral grave of the family, and then find a master to chant sutras, practice things, and move the grave......
It is also necessary to set up an ancestral hall and demarcate a place as a family sacrifice field, etc., and so on, and a bunch of complicated and trivial things.
Fortunately, the emperor had already given Liu Heng Liujia Village and a large area of nearby land. This undoubtedly saved Liu Heng a lot of trouble.
It took a whole month for the branch to come to an end. You can finally stop and take a breath.
The Jiang family had already resigned and gone back.
As soon as he rested, Old Man Liu resumed his eyes on the day when Liu Huairan began to cultivate.
Liu Yue also took care of herself under the supervision of her grandmother and began her daily homework.
Liu Heng and An Ruyi saw that everyone was busy and embarrassed to be lazy, so they often hid in Ruyi's residence and began to practice boringly.