Jiang Shukun was slightly curious, and turned into respect, knowing a lot about Su Yan.

Su Yan smiled lightly: "Father and second brother are the heroes of this time. She just thought of rewarding the literati, but Jiang Shuncheng can use it to the side, and he can make such a movement, which shows that he is a powerful character, "Without my father's strategy, without my second brother's carefulness and sleeping in the open for months, how could I have today's success." ”

Jiang Shuncheng bowed slightly, and praised Su Yan's indifference and arrogance, "On the government side, how many people accept Zhao'an?" ”

Jiang Shukun thought for a moment, "The counties and prefectures of Jindi have reported the list, there are more than 120,000 people, and there are more than 20,000 people who have not yet gone to the government to report. ”

The father and son talked about the affairs of the states and counties in Jindi.

Yu called Su Yan, "They are chatting, and our mother and daughter are going to talk." Mama Tian told the kitchen that a good table of wine should be prepared today, and it is rare for the second master to come back and let him have a good meal. ”

Just as he was about to go to the side room to speak, a big girl came to say: "Old lady, Master Yu asks to see." ”

On April 25th, Yu Maocai, the old man of Yu, brought his wife and children to visit once, and they talked very happily, and when they left, Yu gave cloth and ingredients, and privately stuffed 200 taels of silver tickets to Maocai's wife. For Yu Maocai and his wife, they just gave some pastries that Yu loved to eat when they were young ladies, and they got hundreds of taels of silver back, which can be regarded as a small fortune.

There are many brothers and sisters in the Yu family, four of them are from the concubine and five are from the concubine. She has two older brothers. One of them was a brother from the same mother. There are two older sisters, the eldest sister married away from home in her early years, and she lost news as early as 20 years ago. In the early years, Yu's father originally wanted to point out the second sister of the concubine to Jiang Shuncheng, but she refused to marry, and the Yu family volunteered to marry a poor family, but he enjoyed the glory because of this. After Jiang Shuncheng's career. Sister Shu also broke off contact with the Yu family.

The Yu family also has a younger brother, two younger brothers, and one younger sister. Because there are many brothers and sisters of the same mother, there is a small discord between the concubine and the concubine, and there is little contact. The visitor was the younger brother of the Yu family, who was the third among the boys in the family that year. Yu's eldest brother went twelve years ago. Yu thought of his deceased parents, and became closer to this younger brother.

Yu said to Jiang Shuncheng: "Your father and son go to the side room to talk, I want to see the fifth brother of my mother's family." ”

Jiang Shuncheng and his son left the hall with a smile.

Mama Qing took the girl to clean up and put the refreshments on the table again.

As soon as the pick-up was done, Yu Mao led his children and grandchildren to arrive, supported by two grandsons who were about seventeen or eighteen years old. He staggered, his hair gray, and wore a maroon robe of rich and stretching lines. smiled: "I haven't seen you for a few days, and the third sister is getting more and more energetic." ”

Yu's gaze stayed on the children and grandchildren behind Master Yu, one by one they were cleanly dressed, although they were not luxurious materials. It's decent.

More than 20 years ago, the Yu family left Jinyang and never returned, and rarely exchanged letters with his mother's family. At that time, because her brothers were mean to her father's affairs, she had some disagreements with her mother's brother, and she was angry with her mother's brother and didn't want to deal with it. I didn't expect that the eldest brother and the second brother would never see the last side. In that case, many relatives died.

Yu Shile motioned for him to sit down, "I see that you are more energetic than last time." ”

Master Yu sat down on the Taishi chair, pointed to the three middle-aged men, and said, "Come and meet your third aunt." ”

The three of them stood in a row and saluted respectfully: "Jianzhang (Jianzhong, Jiantong) meet the third aunt and greet the third aunt!" ”

Yu Shi looked at a man with dyed white hair on his temples, "I still remember that back then, when I left Jinyang, Brother Zhang was still a child, and now he is all born and hairy." ”

Jianzhang's tears flashed, and he called out softly, "Auntie", and tears slid down.

Su Yan was slightly stunned, a big man cried when he said he cried, she faintly heard her mother mention it, saying that this cousin Jianzhang seemed to be two years younger than her eldest brother, and he was crying like a child at the moment, tears were raining down, but he couldn't stop it.

"Jianzhang was young at the time, and he didn't know that his aunt had not returned for many years since she left, and he didn't think that he would finally see his aunt again now. When my aunt was in Jinyang, I always liked to go to your place and play with Cousin Hong and Cousin Kun on holidays......"

Jiang Shuhong is now an official of the imperial court, I heard that he is already a big official of the court, but they are becoming more and more indifferent, when they were young, they also rushed to the exam, passed the children's exam, and got a show, but they didn't even pass the exam, and they didn't have the heart to enter the examination room after the age of thirty.

Jianzhang thought of their differences, I don't know whether it was emotion or really sadness, and he cried more and more uncontrollably, as if he had seen his relatives who had been reunited after a long absence.

Yu's heart was sour, "Don't cry, I didn't let the juniors see the joke." Jianzhang, this is your little cousin. ”

Su Yan greeted her, and the money was owed, "Meet the three cousins." ”

Isn't it said that they are about the same age as her eldest brother, second brother, and third brother, how come the three of them look at it, one is older than the other, and it seems that they are even older than Jiang Shuhong.

Jianzhang stretched out his hand to help him, "Little cousin, please come in quickly." ”

Su Yan looked at his hands, if it weren't for the decent robe outside, she would really think that he was a farmer in the mountains, his hands were rough, and he couldn't tell that it was the hands of a scholar.

Yu asked the girls to move the Taishi chair and enjoy the seats.

Yu Maocai said: "Don't hide it from the third sister, there are many people in the family now, and there is little porridge, and life is tight, even if Jianzhang is over thirty, he has to work in the field like a farmer." At that time, the Yu family was also a famous family in Jinyang, there were many brothers in the family, the mother passed away, the father and the aunts were arguing for the concubine and the sister-in-law to share the same, I and the family business of the big house and the brother of the concubine, I looked at it more than 30%, in fact, the good land, the good shop are more than they have ......"

When the Yu family left Jinyang, it was when the sons of the Yu family were noisy and separated, and she still clearly remembered that her father was angry with her aunt and sons after her mother passed away.

At that time, she complained that her father shouldn't have accepted so many aunts in his early years, and she hated her brother and brother for not arguing over the fields. No matter how big the family business is, where can it withstand several sons to share, it makes the Yu family lose its reputation and face in Jinyang City, and it also makes others laugh.

The deceased is gone, and the Yu family doesn't want to think about the past grievances and grievances, and when he saw his nephew and younger brother with a bitter face, his heart sank slightly. "When I came back, I was only busy catching up with my younger siblings, and I forgot to ask about the situation at home."

Yu Maocai sighed lightly, "The third sister also saw it, these are my three unfortunate sons, and Jianzhang has two sons and two daughters; Jianzhong has three sons and two daughters; Jiantong has a son and three daughters. After a pause, he pointed to the grandchildren who came with him, "Kowtow to your aunt and grandmother." ”

With a bang, the six grandchildren stood in two rows, the eldest was about twenty years old, and the youngest was only eight or nine years old, bowed down in unison and shouted, "Nephews and grandchildren visit my aunt and grandmother." ”

The Yu family stretched out her hand, and the contact had been cut off over the years, thousands of miles away, and she really didn't know how many grandchildren Yu Mao had, and when she saw it at this moment, she was also prosperous.

Yu Maocai said: "I was going to come to see the third sister early, but I heard that there are many things about you, and there are many powerful people who came to meet the third brother-in-law, so we ...... I really don't dare to disturb. ”

If it weren't for the fact that Jiang Shuncheng came back this time, he wanted to find a way out for the post-study students of the Xiling Jiang clan, and gave a sum of money to repair the ancestral hall and other things, Yu Maocai would not have found it. There are more and more people in the family, but the days are getting more and more difficult, and the wealth and prosperity of his childhood have long been gone.

Yu and Mama Tian whispered a few words, and Mama Tian went to the inner room in response, and after a while, she brought a tray covered with red silk. Uncovering the silk skin, inside was a row of neatly arranged red seals, and the Yu family beckoned to several children of the Yu family's grandchildren, and several people went forward one by one.

Yu said: "Come, this is a piece of my aunt's heart, there are not many things in it, a meeting gift of fifty taels of silver per person, study hard." ”

The youngest child's eyes sparkled when he heard of the silver, but he stood with his hands down to one side in an orderly manner.

Yu Maocai looked ashamed, "Let the third sister break the bank." I brought them here to meet the elders. The eldest brother went, and our house was counted as the rise and fall of people. Jianzhang's second son Zhenghao is a competitive person, he went to Enke, passed the children's test and the township test in one fell swoop, and wanted to discuss the child's way out with the third sister. ”

Yu Maocai's descendants, Zhenghao is his pride.

When the Yu family heard that there were competing children and grandchildren in their mother's family, they hurriedly said, "Who is Zhenghao?" ”

Yu Zhenghao walked out of the queue in a proper manner, and punched Qian'er, "Grandmother, it's me." ”

looks three points similar to Yu Maocai, and only those eyes remind Yu of his own mother. "Now you're a man?"

Yu Zhenghao responded "yes".

Yu Maocai said: "Third sister, this kid reads well, he is only eighteen this year, and he tried two times in a row last year, but he passed it successfully." Our Yu family is counting on him to shine on the lintel. We didn't understand anything about officialdom, so we had to come to the door and ask the third sister to give us ideas. There are also the eldest son Zhengqing and the second son Zhengyang in the second room, who also passed the children's examination last year, and they also read well. The eldest grandson, Zhenglu, stopped studying two years ago, helping Jianzhang take care of the crops and support the family. Alas...... Jianzhang is also a miserable person, Jianzhang's daughter-in-law went five years ago, leaving four children to blame the pitiful. ”

Yu can still clearly recall that when she left Jinyang, Jianzhang was just a child, pulling Shuhong and Shukun to cry and not let them go. Just like what happened yesterday, now that the eldest nephew has died of his wife and become a widower, how can she not feel distressed.

Last time, Yu Maocai and his wife came to see her, but they only said that they were good, but they didn't have time to say the specific situation at home.

Yu Shi was worried for a while: "Jianzhang, it's really difficult for you, without a wife, a person who is a father and a mother at the same time......"

Jianzhang recalled his deceased wife, thought of the hard life he had lived in the past four years, and said, "Auntie, I'm not bitter!" He wept bitterly.

Yu Maocai's heart was sour, "I'm not afraid of the third sister's jokes, my younger brother, I am a person who can't plan for my children and grandchildren, Zhenglu is almost twenty years old, and he has never even married a daughter-in-law." ”