Chapter 61: Orchid Enchanting
Leaning on Huo Mountain, near Fangxi, Huocheng has gradually become a market town from a small village by the river in ancient times, and then to today's county governance, and the Zhou surname has made great contributions to the hundreds of years of residence here.
Like other states and counties with the ancestral land of the wealthy family, if there is something wrong with the Zhou family in Huocheng, they will first follow the rule that the ugliness of the family will not be publicized, and the clan will deal with it by itself, and it will not be moved to the official family unless necessary, even if there are Jinshi and the first official in the family.
For hundreds of years, there are many people in the Zhou clan who have spread out and multiplied, and it is inevitable that there are some idlers who have nothing to do and are enthusiastic about clan affairs, and they find the mistakes of their clansmen every day, and drink orders to change them in order to receive thanks.
Therefore, when the rumor that the fifth grandmother of Xinan's Xiaozhou Mansion, Du Shi, gave birth to a monster, with the copper coins that came from nowhere, a few hands were poured on the street, and the door of the Banshan Villa of Zhou's Huoshan was blocked with more than 100 enthusiastic Zhou clansmen.
There were also honest people in the crowd, muttering, and whispering: "That kid is weird, but he is also Zhou Zhe's widow, and he has a relationship with the prince...... Shirong Gong retired from the court, and he also entered the rank and gave him a guard of honor, if he really wanted to protect it, it would be difficult to do it. ”
"We haven't heard any news from the Xibei Dazhou Mansion yet. Before going up the mountain, I specially reported that we were going to take the strange doll to worship the ancestors, and Second Uncle Huai didn't say it for sure! The shouting man looked proud, and affectionately called Zhou Huai, the current patriarch of the Zhou family, the second uncle of Huai, showing that his family had just been separated from the sect and was different.
"That's it...... It's ......"
In the midst of the noise in front of the door, someone grabbed a man who was hiding his face and wanted to slip away, and pointed at it. He shouted loudly, "Everyone." Look, Zhou Song of the Little Zhou Mansion! He's ...... here."
The sound of sudden realization came and went in the crowd. There were a few people who were close to Zhou Song's generation and were accustomed to being familiar with each other, and they had stepped forward to hook Zhou Song's shoulders with each other, beating their chests and posing in a posture of hatred and hatred. What's more, with a shy face, he thanked Zhou Song for his reward, patted his chest and promised that Zhou Song would get what he wanted.
What do you want? Zhou Song, who was tightly surrounded by the crowd, wanted to cry without tears.
These clansmen he didn't know at all said that Zhou Song had made money and silver and let them make trouble. But he also walked out of the gate of the half-mountain courtyard with anger, and he didn't walk long on the way down the mountain. He was coerced back again.
"Uncle Song, tell me, this time it's good to dispose of that little monster...... It's still a big deal, let's give the fifth master Zhe a step-kid on his knees, and take back all these other courtyards in one go...... If you want me to say, Grandpa Xian is also unfair, and the little monster has not been born yet, so he transferred this large area of fertile land and mountains to Wufang. If the little monster is gone, there will be a girl in your fifth room who wants to marry outside. That's it. Let our Zhou family's surname be another family's surname......"
The noise around him suddenly poured into Zhou Song's head, and his face suddenly turned red.
At home, Zhou Xian also heard his mother and wife complaining about Zhou Xian's emergency disposal of the industry, and he didn't think much about it at that time. But at this moment, being exposed by outsiders really made him ashamed.
"When will there be my eldest son in my father's eyes!". thought of the days when Zhou Xian escorted the ashes of his fifth brother out of Luojing and left him alone in prison. Zhou Song's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he said softly: "Originally." Daddy is biased towards the fifth brother, and when Zhou Zhe dies, he can't wait for me to die too......"
The uproar spread in all directions, causing even more righteous indignation. Although the people gathered here, when it comes to the roots, they don't know where to go, but it does not prevent them from maintaining their orthodox intentions.
Zhou Song knelt down again against the closed gate of the Mid-Levels Courtyard, his waist straightened. The panic and anxiety that he had been driven out of the house by his father was no longer there, and the people behind him who he had never seen with his eyes made him feel relieved.
"Out of ...... It's ...... come out", a voice shouted not far away, and a bunch of people who were all staring at the main gate turned their heads in unison, and Zhou Song slowly stood up.
The main entrance of the Mid-Levels Annex has steps, and what opens at this time is a car door not far away.
The crowd of good deeds rushed up, and the front row quickly stopped their steps and formed a column of their own, so that the people who came after them had to hit their backs.
"What's going on! This is ......", and the questioning voice behind it suddenly stopped.
"The Son of Heaven Gives the Horse and the Car......"
Ten pairs of knights wearing black robes and copper-colored beast heads on their belts, four in the front and six in the back, guarding the front and back of the two carriages, with serious expressions.
The front carriage was covered with a vermilion wheel, blocking the slightest wind, and four black horses were pulling it, upright and steady. Zhou Xian'an, who was wearing a purple Dake court dress, sat in the car, and Man Yun sat at his feet, holding his grandfather's hand, looking at his heart with his mouth and nose, as if he was deaf to everything outside.
Zhou Xianrong retired, and the Son of Heaven gave him a car and a staff, but he always felt that this homecoming glory weighed heavily on Zhou Zhe's life, so he never used it.
But people in the world always respect their clothes first and then others, even their own children. Dare to shout and call the crowd to the door, but it is just to watch the old father useless! Zhou Xian listened to the voice of someone calling Zhou Song outside the car window, and his heart was full of sorrow.
"I wanted to do it tomorrow, but I can only come out today. Let's hurry up, maybe when we come back, Brother Kai will still be awake. ”。 Zhou Xian looked down at Man Yun with a solemn face in front of him, and smiled loudly.
Man Yun nodded slightly.
She and Grandpa are going to go to the Great Zhou Mansion together to clarify her brother's affairs.
Zhou Kai, who was only a few days old, was naturally reluctant to run away with him, so for him, Zhou Xian placed another person in the car behind.
The latter carriage only uses double wheels, although it is still cold in spring, but the curtain has been replaced with a light white light veil, through the curtain that is stirred by the spring breeze from time to time, you can see the shadow in the car is more than two figures sitting on the opposite side, the posture is graceful.
The convoy headed towards Huocheng at the bottom of the mountain, following the flow of people like waterfowl foraging for food in waves, and there were many discussions while following.
"The guards of those escorts should be from the fifth grandmother of the Zhou family...... Speaking of which, they are all serious martial arts ...... in the army", and in the crowd that followed, some people remembered the old fist they had been subjected to. With a squeak, he slipped lamely.
But many persevered. Except for a few who were still concerned about whether the child born by Du Shi was in the car, most people were trying to figure out who the two women sitting in the flamboyant carriage were.
A woman in the house of a famous family. It would be nice to have a faint reputation in the market. On weekdays, even if you go in and out of the incense, you can't go straight to the second door, and there will be a fence to block it. Zhou Xian's team traveled, and the people in the car loomed to reveal a figure different from that of ordinary women, but a group of idlers were very excited to forget their original intentions.
The slowly advancing convoy deliberately stopped when it entered the gate of Huocheng. Not to stop for inspection, but to lift the fence of the rear car.
A gasp of surprise was instantly followed by a projected gaze. Gaze on the car.
In the car, two beauties with their hair draped over their shoulders sat opposite each other, because the Zhou family was in mourning, dressed plainly, a light green, and a white month. But the same clothes made of silk satin, the style is different from that of Middle Earth, and the chest is tight, but the waist is empty, and the exposed waist is not full of hand.
Even more bizarre are the two women. She is an identical interracial twin with a straight nose and deep eyes, and a well-defined silhouette. In the sun, the hair of the two waterfalls reflects a brownish-red sheen.
The convoy moved forward. More and more people were following the car.
"Their eyes are green!" , there were children in the crowd, and suddenly screamed. A few children ran away in fright. After a while, he ran back and continued to follow from a distance.
Among the two women sitting in the car. The green one stopped his head as if he was a little nervous, and the other woman held out her hand. Gripping her hand tightly.
Man Yun, who half-lifted the curtain and looked back, put down his hand, and said to Zhou Xian astringently: "Grandpa, that's enough." Let them put the curtain down. ”。
The two interracial beauties in the car in the back, Liv and Liling, were given to Zhou Xian by her maternal grandmother Mo Zhi ten years ago, and they are said to be from the desert country in the extreme west. As early as the fourteenth year of Yongde, they returned to Huocheng with the first batch of children of the Zhou family who returned to their hometowns, but because of their special appearance, they were arranged by Mrs. Meng to live in the courtyard of the Mid-Levels at that time.
They are all Zhou Xian's concubines, if they were not to be sold according to the rules, Zhou Xian should not show them in front of the public like this.
Zhou Xian opened his old tears, looked at Man Yun in front of him seriously, and motioned for her to call Du Xuanshuang, who was on the side of the car.
Zhou Manyun stretched out his little hand and beckoned, watching Xuanshuang lean towards the side of the car, and breathed a long sigh of relief. is also a woman, and the difficulty of showing up like this can be avoided.
"Xuanshuang! Let them get out of the car and go! Say hello to the people around you and look happy. Let's go to the Great Zhou Mansion, here, you can leave two people to watch, and allow them to walk around at will and talk to the people of Huocheng more......"
"Grandpa!" , Zhou Manyun's eyes widened in disbelief.
"In Huo City, now except for Brother Kai, there are only them. If you want Brother Kai to grow up in this hometown that belongs to him in the future, instead of hiding in the mountains, you have to let them do their best now. ”。 Zhou Xian said clearly, with a serious face. For the sake of Brother Kai, everything is not important, and letting the two alien beauties in the inner house wander outside, the damage is just a false name.
After understanding his grandfather's approach, Man Yun stopped making a sound and sat upright as usual.
The carriage continued to move forward, and the Xibei Northern Zhou Mansion in front of it was faintly visible......
"Sister! What to do? Watching them leave them in a strange downtown and drift away, Liv, the elder sister of the two red-haired beauties, had tears rolling in her eyes. Since they were four or five years old, they were resold and bought, and when they followed Zhou Xian at the age of sixteen, they began to have a stable life, hiding in the yard and relying on each other, but they no longer had to be looked at like they were being picked up, but now, there were suddenly more obscene eyes around her, which made her unacceptable.
"Sister! The old man said, when we finish this matter, let the little brother go to the genealogy. He's giving us back! Sister Liling quickly comforted her sister's ear, smiled and stretched out an arm to let a five or six-year-old child touch it.
Immediately after, two or three more children of about the same age came over and curiously touched Liling's hand.
"Isn't that good!" , Liling smiled, her two green eyes shining.
The pig paw of a middle-aged man inserted in the diagonal was slapped open by Xing Laosi, who was guarding the two sisters, with a knife on the back, so painful that the man hugged his hands and jumped from a distance, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.
Pulling her sister with a wry smile on her face, she strode forward, Liling's plump lips seemed to be able to drip honey under the sunlight, and quietly motioned to Liv to look at the posture of the young guard beside her.
"Sister! If I have to return to the deed, I will beg the master to let me go, and then find such a young and strong man!"
"Ryo! No, you can't! Listening to Liling's bold and presumptuous words, Liv's cheeks, which were already like jade, turned even paler.
Ignoring her sister's dissuasion, Liv walked into a musical instrument shop on the side of the road with her head held high, picked up a lute, and pulled it out with her heart, and chuckled happily.
After a while, the cheerful music sounded on the streets of Huocheng, but the one who played the pipa was replaced by Liv, who was forced by her sister to stuff the instrument into her hand.
The streets of Huocheng were empty for a while, and in the crowd of onlookers, Liling became more and more proud, dancing on tiptoe, twisting her waist lightly, folding her sleeves and leaning over. At the age of twenty-six, youth is about to pass, try your best, look forward to hearing the news, and prefer to be free.
A pair of beautiful big eyes like green jade unconsciously drifted towards the person who had been secretly observing...... (To be continued......)