The early autumn sun is warm but not dazzling to dye the water of Fangxi, and the water surface of Huocheng Taohuadu really seems to have a layer of peach blossom red.

More than 20 tall building boats stopped at the ferry, assembled and ready to go.

Zhou Yang, the third son of the Zhou family, took a brown embroidered bag handed by Zhou Xian, and knelt down again to bid farewell to his father without crying.

The three rooms will settle in Quanzhou, and the furniture and property that should be distributed to them are already on the ship, and there is only a handful of soil in Huo Cheng's ancestral house in this bag.

Zhou Yang's wife, Lin, also led her children to say goodbye to her and her brother and sister again, and slowly walked onto the boarding board.

"Please also ask the eldest brother and the fourth brother to respect the pavilion on behalf of the good life and honor the old father!" , Zhou Yang, who was on board the ship, held on to the railing on the side of the boat and shouted loudly to the shore.

Even though the parting was thick, the ship still set sail on time according to the calculated hour.

Zhou Yang looked at the old father who was still standing on the shore, plopped down and knelt down again, lying on the board of the boat for a long time. In the past, he always had a grudge against his father who didn't care about him and left him in the countryside alone, but when it was time to leave, he found that the tears still couldn't stop flowing.

Lin hugged his son, led his daughter and sister-in-law, and knelt beside her husband. Not only this ship, but also many Huocheng people who have also left their homeland on other ships say goodbye to their relatives so solemnly.

In the blurred vision, Taohuadu could no longer be seen, Zhou Yangcai raised his sleeve to wipe his tears, and whispered to his wife: "The wind is strong on the river, take Brother Xian'er back!" ”

See the wise and wise! In the fifteenth year of Yongde, Brother Qi, the sister-in-law who was sent away in the third room of the Zhou family, was not found, and the one-year-old brother Xian'er had already set his name Zhou Qia. Recorded in the genealogy.

Although Zhou Xian promised Zhou Yang that he would find Qi Ge'er's whereabouts, Zhou Yang and his wife had no hope.

Because as early as the first year of Taiye. The Zhou family found Zhou Gu, the clansman who took Qi Ge'er that day, in Runzhou, thousands of miles away. It's just that what was found was Zhou Gu's body.

The local government once buried Zhou Gu as a nameless drifting corpse. Fortunately, some of his belongings were kept, so that the Zhou family who tracked him down confirmed his identity. However, at that time, Zhou Gu was accompanied by a two- or three-year-old child, and asked along the road, because after a few years, the local people's impression of outsiders had disappeared.

It would have been good if the morning newspaper had been found earlier, such regrets would have been useless, and Zhou Yang could only admit the facts. It's just that he and his wife still have a little hope in their hearts, and they just want Brother Qi to live in the world and be taken in by well-wishers.

Then the great-grandmother's filial piety expired. The third room of the Zhou family was preparing to go south, and the Lin family had another sign of adding Ding.

I stayed until September of the fourth year of Taiye, when Brother Xian'er passed his first birthday, and then set off for Quanzhou.

The farewell people on the shore of the peach blossom ferry were also reluctant, and when the sail shadow of the fleet was no longer visible, it gradually dispersed.

"Seventeenth uncle, Jingting and Yousun are going south, which is also a good thing, the Zhou family has a large population. Always spread out. What's more, in recent years, there have been more and more people fleeing from the north in the south of the Yangtze River......", Zhou Tong from the Zhou Mansion in Xibei said while helping Zhou Xian slowly walk to the carriage of the Little Zhou Mansion. The two brothers, Zhou Song and Zhou Tan, hurriedly greeted and helped the old father.

Zhou Tong is now the patriarch of the Zhou clan, and his grandfather Zhou Huai also passed away in the middle of the year. The old man Huai has been living in the countryside since he was forty years old, and he no longer asks about the court for a long time. But when the news of the fall of Yanjing reached Huocheng in Jiangnan, he was still so angry that he had a stroke and collapsed. After dragging on for two or three months, I went.

Before Zhou Huai died. The affairs of the clan and the Great Zhou Mansion were also explained. If there are more children and grandchildren, sooner or later, it is better to divide them before the old man dies. Zhou Huai and Zhou Xian chose the same disposal method.

This time, there are several families in the Great Zhou Mansion who are near and far are also arranged to go south to Quanzhou with Zhou Yang. The young sun in Zhou Tong's mouth is his fifth brother.

With the big and small Zhou mansions as a model, there are a group of people in Huo City who have started their brains.

The team to Quanzhou gradually grew larger during the preparation period, in addition to the two houses of the big and small Zhou mansions to go south and the servants who followed them, some people with a large number of people surnamed Zhou also divided into Dingkou to follow the south, and many northerners who fled to Huocheng in the past two years also handed over the deed of sale to join the servants to follow south.

Huocheng County, who originally felt that the population pressure was increasing, chose to turn a blind eye to the migration boom brought by the Zhou family.

Zhou Manyun, who was sitting in the carriage on the way back, gently lowered the curtains of the car, and kept out the noisy sounds of listening to the crowd of people on the way back.

"A few days ago, your uncle brought Brother Ke to my room and begged me to take back my decision to let Sanfang go south, but I refused." , Zhou Xian closed his red and swollen old eyes, leaned on the soft pillow and whispered, he didn't talk much today, and his voice was already very hoarse.

"Leaving the Sanbo clan and reducing sibling strife is only one thing. It can also share the burden of the elder brother after inheriting the Zhou Mansion in the past, and it can also reduce the risk of the decline of the clan......"

"If only you could figure it out! Grandpa couldn't figure it out before, there was something at home, but he always felt that he would lose face when he came out. When he was about to die, he figured out that people still have to live a better life. ”

Zhou Xian sighed lightly and said, "Sister Yun! Grandpa also thought about it, although your uncles are no longer noisy, and your brothers are quite obedient. But time has changed, what will they do and think in the future, grandpa dare not bet...... Relying on the kindness and kindness of others does not last long, and you still have to rely on your own ...... to be a man"

What does Grandpa mean? Man Yun blinked in confusion.

In the rattling rut turning, Zhou Xian's voice sounded hard, "Marry for the first time, and marry again...... Leave it to yourself, if your mother has other ideas, Grandpa will be ...... by her."

"By her?" , Zhou Manyun muttered a sentence in his mouth, and looked at Zhou Xian when he understood the chewing, and found that Grandpa was leaning on the soft pillow as if he was asleep.

"Grandpa, it's really just Yun'er's own imagination, and she doesn't know anything about her mother......"

Manyun's voice grew quieter and quieter, almost inaudible.

Outside the window, there was a sudden sound of footsteps galloping, and the carriage stopped suddenly, and a subordinate who had been staying in the mansion gathered by the curtain of the car and reported urgently, "Master! The second master rushed to the street again! ”

Zhou Xian's eyes opened suddenly.

The convoy that was going to return to Xiao Zhou's Mansion immediately separated the two sides. A team returned to the house as usual, and a team escorted Zhou Xian and a few others in a hurry to Qinxian Street, which was said to be Zhou Bai's escape from the house.

There was chaos on Qinxian Street. Women and children with children frantically scattered along the streets on either side, while some bold men followed one with their clothes covered. Behind the "crazy man" in cloth shoes, he laughed and laughed.

In the eyes of people, the madman with red eyes is Zhou Bai who took advantage of the lack of people in his family.

He looked crazy, but the words he was shouting sounded fine, not the slightest insaneness, and the words were clear.

"Zhou Shirong spoiled his concubine and killed his wife! He imprisoned his wife and son-in-law, raised the ancestral hall of the house, and forced his son and daughter-in-law to separate. It is clear that he will do the shameless act of picking up ashes. As early as the fifteenth year of Yongde, Zhou Xian and Zhou Shirong lived alone in Jiangbei with their two daughters-in-law......"

Halfway through the words, Zhou Bai was stopped by several servants of the Zhou family who caught up, gagged and tied people up regardless of dignity.

"It's strange what this man shouted!" , someone looked at the situation and made a noise, which immediately attracted a circle of rolling eyes.

"Guest officer, you are a foreigner. The second master of this Xinan Xiaozhou Mansion has been taking it for many years, and the medicinal properties are top. and he was rebellious. Last year, he also ran out of the house twice due to overdose, similar to the current situation. If it weren't for the recitation of his dispersion, the five senses would be contradictory. Otherwise, the son will be expelled from the house by the old man Zhou for his father's disobedience...... That! You see, the uncle of the Zhou family is here, and the young man on the side is the grandson of the Zhou family. Serious concubine room, if Lord Zhou is raising his concubine, how can it be like this......"

"Yes. It is! Uncle Zhoufu is just a commendable filial piety, and he invited his husband to go up the mountain to guard filial piety for his grandmother. Later, when I saw that the mountain was quiet, I left a book to repair the text, and a few days ago, there was a collection of Wenchang official documents that he could have in the Jixian bookstore! ”

There are even idlers who know the "inside story" and pretend to whisper to others mysteriously, saying: "I heard that the second master of the Zhou family is imitating the five stone san of the previous dynasty, and that scattered party is very good at invigorating blood and essence...... If you use a woman to diverge, it's best to ...... It was also because the second master was good at this mouth and woman that he was disgusted by his father. When Old Master Zhou retired from the court, he was not the ...... of the Palm Seal Rite Department"

Man Yun sat in the car with the curtain not moving, listened to the surrounding discussions, and looked at Grandpa's calm and wrinkled old face.

Now, Grandpa is able to stabilize the Zhou family by taking advantage of the word of etiquette. And the remarriage of his mother and relatives that he talked about is not as simple as what Grandpa deserved before.

Someone outside the window gently buckled the wooden lattice, indicating that Zhou Bai had been taken back to Xiao Zhou's mansion. It also made Man Yun break out of his cranky thoughts all of a sudden.

"Let's go home!" , Zhou Xian instructed wearily.

Man Yun knocked on the window and replied, and the inconspicuous green cover car quietly moved again.

"You shall not live if you have done your own iniquity!" After a long time, Zhou Xiancai snorted lightly from between his teeth.

Human flesh and blood, gold and stone drugs should not be taken too much. What's more, Zhou Yangfu's five stone powder is really toxic. This prescription was released for half a year after being locked up in Huanxiang Courtyard, and Zhou Yang turned over the medical book to ask for a match. At that time, he yelled that he was suffering from cold, and refused the doctor invited by the government, but only handed over the prescription and asked the people to go straight to grab the medicine.

When the prescription arrived in Zhou Xian's hands, he also showed it to his children and grandchildren, and asked the doctor to make a modification of the amount before sending it in. He would have thought that Zhou Bai stayed in the Huanxiang Courtyard where a bunch of women gathered, and later, he purely used this loose recipe as a spring/medicine, which was better than nothing.

Because Zhou Xian had confessed to his subordinates at first, but he was not allowed to let the second master out, and all his needs were met, so when he found out that he was addicted to the first dependence and dissipated, it was already too late.

Poison can poison people, but it can also cure people.

But the drug family is no better than the doctor, and Man Yun, who has always been a little less compassionate, chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb. Grandpa and the second aunt did not speak, and she would not rush to the Huanxiang Courtyard to send it.

It is said that Zhou Song, who has been concentrating on studying since going up the mountain, is much stronger than Zhou Bai, and he only said goodbye to the third room this time, and will go back later, and has made an appointment to go down the mountain in the month to preside over the wedding of Zhou Ke, the eldest son of the spring season.

In contrast, the second uncle Zhou Bai's self-abandonment and indulgence step by step obviously made Grandpa sad and disappointed, and let him sink.

It's just that such a result may make several of the second uncle's children feel uncomfortable, especially Zhou Shen. (To be continued......)