At the beginning, only Gao's, Bai Lu and others were relatives and friends to do for Zhou Kai's washing, which was really cold, and after negotiating with the Zhou Mansion in Xibei, Zhou Xian decided to hold a lively and grand full moon ceremony for his grandson.

Since it is to correct the name, the full moon ceremony naturally has to be held in the ancestral house of Xiao Zhoufu on the south bank of Fangxi, according to the list pulled by Zhou Xian's relatives, the inner and outer houses are combined, and the banquet can be opened hundreds of seats just by inviting the relatives.

The eldest grandmother Xie Shi, who had just taken over the power of the Zhou Mansion for a few months, muttered a few words to her father-in-law unwillingly, saying that the Zhou family had just encountered a great disaster, and the deceased was not safe, so it was not appropriate to be extravagant, and it was also afraid of the blessing of the child.

The eldest daughter-in-law refused so bluntly, and her eldest son Zhou Song passively confronted the attitude of hiding in the Dan Yuan since she saw Zhou Xian in the Great Zhou Mansion that day, which annoyed the old Zhou Xian, who was bent on congratulating the Zhou family. He directly called the third grandmother Lin, who was in charge of the ancestral house in Huocheng, and handed over the handling to her.

And the Lin family had already received the news, knowing that Zhou Tong, the eldest grandson of Zhou Huai, the patriarch of the Zhou Mansion in Xibei, was going to serve as the praiser at the full moon ceremony, so he was busy taking over the pair of cards to deal with family affairs.

Zhou Huai, who is nearly eighty years old, has passed away his eldest son, and according to the rules of the clan, his eldest grandson Zhou Tong is undoubtedly the next patriarch.

Although the mother-in-law and sister-in-law are the noble daughters of the Xie family, after all, this is in the Huo City of the Zhou family, and as the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, you have to follow the general trend of the Zhou family! The Lin family, who felt confident and supported, swept away the misery as soon as he got busy, and resumed the neatness of being the master of the house when he was alone in Huocheng in the first three rooms, and tried to arrange everything perfectly, not for the milk doll who was still staying in the mid-level courtyard, but for his own reputation.

As soon as the attitude of the Xibei Northern Zhou Mansion came out, the Mid-Levels Villa received many relatives and relatives who visited diligently every day. Man Yun took Zhu's mother and others to help deal with it, and he was also anxious. Exhausted.

On February 25, the eldest sister-in-law of the Du family, Jiang Shi, traveled south and arrived in Huocheng.

The mighty Du family convoy. With a few carts of heavy salutes, he followed more than a hundred and ten sturdy Yandi soldiers.

The convoy deliberately went around Huocheng County, and then suddenly went out of the city again and went to the Banshan Courtyard where Du was still in confinement. The Jiang family just wanted to deliberately put up a formal four-grade flattering posture to remind Huo Cheng and outside the city that the fifth grandmother of Xiao Zhou's mansion, Du Shi, was not an orphan girl without branches, and she had her own father and brother behind her.

Jiang Shi is about thirty-four or five years old, with a round face with goose eggs, and a pair of thick sword eyebrows that are not inferior to men, which suddenly makes her appearance less delicate. It's a little more aggressive.

But in fact, the Jiang family is significantly fiercer, and his words and actions are still extremely honest.

Zhou Manyun stood beside Du Shi and kept looking at Jiang Shi, she felt that she didn't have any impression of this eldest aunt in her memory of her previous life, but for some reason, Jiang always gave her a feeling of déjà vu, which was extremely strong.

Jiang Shi also took Du Shi's hand and cried, and waited for the tears to be wiped away. went straight to the point and said, "Little sister! I came this time to meet my father-in-law. He told me about the situation of your mothers, and listened to the words. He is also interested in letting the children follow you back to Yanzhou, probably because he thinks that there are many foreigners who are begging for a life there, and life will be better for Brother Kai. But. I've pushed it directly to his old man's house. ”

Straight refusal? Zhou Manyun was very surprised, she has been tormenting between the choices she has been going to stay recently. As a result, as soon as the eldest aunt came, she rejected their plan to go to Yanzhou.

"Little sister! Let's be honest. You grew up in the Northland, and you also know that the men at the border pass are struggling for their lives on the edge of the knife, who knows when those nonsense people will come to the door again. At the beginning, my father and mother allowed you to marry into the Zhou family, firstly, I saw that you and Zhou Zhe were indeed on the right track, and secondly, I was also selfish, and I didn't want you to marry in the north, which increased the danger of being a widow. It's just that my brother-in-law went so early, no one could have imagined it......

Sanniang! Originally, I received the news that my brother-in-law had gone last year, and my father was going to send someone to pick you up. But because of the drought in the north, not only my Chen Dynasty, but even the territory of the Han Kingdom of the Qi nationality is the same, those who don't eat and drink are not just going south to eat? After a few battles, your eldest brother and second brother were scarred again, and even your father coughed up blood a few times. ”

Du's eyes widened in horror, and his arm, which was still unable to move easily, stretched out with difficulty, trying to grab Chiang's wrist.

Jiang patted his sister-in-law with his backhand, and whispered comfortingly: "It doesn't matter, fortunately, my father is now in a high position, so I don't have to go to the battlefield to fight hard, the doctor said that he is just tired, and it is good to raise it with his heart." Due to the frequent wars between the DPRK and China, when I set off from Yanzhou, I added him the title of General of the Patriotic Nation. To be honest, Zuo just wants to call our Du family to continue to work hard...... So before I came, my father and your two brothers discussed for a long time, thinking that if you want to go back, you may have to wait another three or two years. ”

"Wait another three or two years?" , Manyun didn't think about it, and followed the parrot to learn a word. Jiang Shi said that "wait another three or two years", which reminded her of the words she had heard in her previous life when she was a child.

"Yes! It's only three or two years! Jiang Shi smiled and grabbed Man Yun's hand, pinched her little face, and deliberately lowered his voice: "According to the news from Luojing City, the emperor is only this year. If the Son of Heaven is really gone, as soon as the Hanguo in the north receives the letter, it will definitely commit a big offense, this kind of bad thing, those barbarians are used to doing it, not to mention that this year has encountered another disaster year. ”

"If there is a war, how many of you will stay in Jiangnan or haode. Here are those little people jumping up and down, let's stay away and ignore it! When the situation is settled, I will pick you up again. Jiang Shi waved his hand, his face was hearty, as if everything was under control.

Yes! I forgot that my grandfather, General Du Hengcheng, was the eldest of the tiger generals surnamed Du in the Yandi border pass in the last years of the Chen Dynasty.

Man Yun stared at Jiang's fearless smile, lowered his head, and smiled bitterly.

At this time, she still didn't remember whether she had seen the Jiang family in her previous life. But according to the current situation, coupled with the old things that Jing Guogong heard before he returned to Yandi, Man Yun figured it out, it is very likely that in the previous life, the Du family also had plans to take her away or want to take care of her, but the world made people.

Bai Lu, who I saw when I was nine years old in my previous life, was dressed plainly and wore hemp in a bun. It should clearly be a look of filial piety. And Bai Lu was originally an orphan girl taken in by Du Mansion, without a father or mother.

May of the sixteenth year of Yongde. Emperor Xiao died, and the northern border was indeed wolf-smoking. Twelve border cities were plundered, but the roots were not harmed.

What's worse is that in the first year of Taiye, the late emperor of the Chen Dynasty was determined to disturb the shame of the first emperor in Xuehanguo, gathered a large army, and vowed to counterattack and sweep Mobei.

After two years of war, the army of the Chen Dynasty was defeated, and the Hanguo Iron Cavalry entered the entire territory of Yanzhou...... In the fifth year of Taiye, the Li family in Youzhou bought back Yanzhou from Hanguo. Youyan is one, so you have to rest and recuperate...... In the first year of Yining, no, in the fourteenth year of Taiye, the Xiao family pretended to be Emperor Chen's edict and reprimanded the Li family for joining the Han Kingdom, claiming the title of emperor, and leading the army to Fuyan......

"Du Jia...... Du Jia...... Where did the Du family go? Zhou Manyun frowned and beat his head angrily. I hated myself in my previous life, I had many opportunities to check the old files, but I was restrained, and honestly never looked at it more than I asked.

"Sister Yun!" , Zhou Manyun, who was standing on the side and suddenly burst into tears, frightened Jiang Shi. She hurriedly stood up, took Man Yun in her arms, and comforted her softly. Said: "Sister Yun! Don't cry, don't cry...... My aunt will really take you back to Yanzhou. My brothers and sisters in the family are looking forward to you! ”

"Brother Huan in my aunt's family is two years older than you. This time my aunt came, and he cried and shouted that he wanted to follow you. Wait for you to go to your house, even if you rob him of all his fun, if he doesn't give it to you, my aunt will help you beat him......"

Jiang is obviously not very good at coaxing children, and his handy move is to sell out the mess of his eight-year-old son Du Huan.

In her mouth, the cousin that Man Yun hadn't seen yet was disgusted with cats and dogs, and he was useless.

How can it be, I was confused in my previous life, so in this life, I can only take one step at a time. couldn't bear to make his mother and aunt sad, Zhou Manyun reluctantly showed a smile, echoed Jiang's words, and nodded indiscriminately.

"If it weren't for the hardships at the border, I would have liked to bring Man Yun back immediately." , Looking at the back of Man Yun being led down by Xiao Man, Jiang sat back on the side of Du's bed, and couldn't help but sigh: "If she marries her brother, the Du family doesn't say that she accepts concubines, and it saves a bunch of bad things like here!" ”，

"Brother Huan is very good! Boys just need to be skinny! I want Kai'er to play a little martial arts. Don't ask for anything else, you can protect yourself, just don't be like his father. Du's voice gradually became quieter, and his eyes turned a little red.

"Brother Kai's martial arts practice is easy to say, and there are a bunch of ready-made masters. This time, the people I brought with me plus Xuanfeng and them, and there were only a dozen or so who went back with me. The old man told me to leave it for you! ”

"Sister-in-law! This uprooted them, is it? ”，

"Done! How can it not be! It's all specially picked by Daddy...... Not to mention the orphans raised by the Du family, those old people who follow their fathers also want their children and grandchildren to leave roots in Jiangnan......"

Zhou Kai's full moon ceremony was held as scheduled, and the relatives who watched the ceremony in the main hall of Xiaozhou Mansion in Xibei crowded into a pile, looking up, a large area of black pressure.

As a praiser, Zhou Tong stood aside and read the proclamation, and Zhou Xian, who was dressed in purple, trembled and offered incense and saluted to the ancestors in the main hall.

After the ceremony, Zhou Tong leaned over at Zhou Xian, and after getting up, he preached solemnly: "Yingzi!" ”

The second aunt, Gao, walked out of the back hall slowly with Zhou Kai in her arms.

There is filial piety at home, and the package wrapped in Zhou Kai is a plain white brocade with silver threads, shining in the sun. The Du family's actions that had just come out of the moon were still a little inconvenient, so the Gao family temporarily took over the mother's duties in the ceremony, and the part of the next ritual that needed to be completed by his father was undertaken by Manyun's second uncle, Zhou Bai.

Zhou Bai, who was wearing a dark dress, walked in front of Gao, lowered his head, and kindly hung a warm and smooth jade pendant on Zhou Kai's swaddling clothes.

Jade is an ancient jade with a heritage, and it will follow Zhou Kai for the rest of his life, and the gentleman is like jade.

Gao moved his eyelashes slightly, and whispered faintly: "Thank you, Fujun!" ”。

This thanks, Gao is sincere and sincerely grateful. She has always thought that her husband is ridiculous, but this time Zhou Kai's full moon ceremony, Mrs. Zhou and the big house couple were dissatisfied, and they all said that they were sick and avoided it, and it was Zhou Bai who took the initiative to kneel and beg Zhou Xian, and asked his father-in-law to let them help with the two husbands and wives in the second room.

In any case, Zhou Bai, as the brother born to Zhou Zhe, can do his best in this matter, which has rounded the face of his father-in-law and nephew, and made Gao suddenly feel that her husband is not so hateful. If he doesn't like his husband, and the relationship between husband and wife is weak, he has to get by, and he can do his duty as a son and a father, even if it is not bad.

Zhou Manyun, who was standing in front of the crowd, kept staring at Zhou Bai as he took his brother's hand, worried and worried.

Compared with Zhou Song, the uncle who doesn't cooperate if she is unhappy and picks her son directly, she is more afraid of the second uncle who is always gentle and elegant. According to his previous life, Zhou Bai was not just obsessed with beauty.

Although he knew that it was impossible for Zhou Bai to make a black hand to his younger brother Zhou Kai in public, Man Yun still relieved the stuffiness in his chest after Zhou Bai completed the naming, recognition and other ceremonies and retired from the main hall and returned Zhou Kai to the Gao family.

"Huocheng Zhou's Shaoliantang, the second born male named Kai in the second month of February of the Bingxu year, and the sixteenth grandson of the Zhou family...... His father Zhe, the word Jinglin. Its ancestors are prominent, and the word is glorious. Zeng Zu Hao ......"

Zhou Tong, who presided over the ceremony, announced the identification of the child, which was the first recognition of Zhou Kai, and then, when the clan opened the ancestral hall, the text would be burned to the ancestors, and the ancestors would receive it, and Zhou Kai would be sure to enter the genealogy.

Zhou Manyun looked at the serious or envious expressions on the faces of the clans in the smoke of cigarettes, and his mind was full of thoughts.

Such a grand full moon ceremony is a special honor for the sons and grandsons of the Zhou family, and the general concubines do not have to toss so complicated at all, and there is less possibility of dying until they are four or five years old.

"Blessings to the guests!"

Zhou Manyun followed the praiser's prompt, folded his hands, closed his eyes, and prayed that the ancestral spirit would bless his younger brother and allow him to have no worries, joy and peace in his life.

"Daddy! I don't like Huo Cheng, but blindly escaping here may not be fair to Xiao Zhou Kai. I don't force glory and wealth, but the glory and dignity that Brother Kai should enjoy as a son of the Zhou family, I can't give up as a sister because of fear and boredom! Father! Yun'er has thought about it! I will stay and protect Zhou Kai as an adult! (To be continued......)