Xibei Dazhou Mansion sits in the north and faces south, and the avenue in front of the main gate is adjacent to Fangxi, which has changed the river course slightly, and takes the good intentions of the golden plate and jade belt.

Thinking that someone copied the shortcut to report the letter, the black rivet gate of the Great Zhou Mansion was already wide open, and I vaguely saw that there were already people standing at the door, waiting to welcome the guests.

The carriage that Zhou Xian was riding with Man Yun stopped about a hundred steps away from the Great Zhou Mansion.

Zhou Xian, whose actions were still significantly difficult, got out of the car with the support of Man Yun, and his lean hand signaled to his granddaughter an ancient stone plaque that was no more than two feet old on the embankment on the left side of their place to get off.

"Let's tie the boat!" Although it is still a little far away and cannot be seen clearly, Manyun remembers that the three big characters carved on the stele are the handwriting of Wende Gong, the ancestor of the Zhou family in the previous dynasty.

It is rumored that the Zhou family crossed to the south that year, originally wanted to go south with the Tuojiang River to the big cities and ancient towns in the Herun area, but the boat line was just right for the low water and could not move forward. When the ancestors of the southward migration were sad, the ancestors appeared in the night, the wind blew the boat, and came to a beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers, and waited to get off the boat to go ashore to watch, and the staff in his hand was propped into the soil, and immediately turned into a green tree, and the branches and leaves were luxuriant......

When the day dawned, the fleet of the ancestors of the Zhou family turned the tributary of the Tuojiang River, went down the river, and sure enough, they came to the same place as the scenery in the dream, so the Zhou family took root in the place where it was still called Fangxi Huokou at that time.

And tie the boat, and tie the week.

No matter how prominent the identity of the people in the clan is, in front of this monument, they must get off the sedan chair and dismount, which is the rule.

Zhou Manyun lowered his head, stabilized Zhou Xian, who was wearing a purple robe of a second-grade master, and followed his grandfather step by step towards the gate of the Great Zhou Mansion. I secretly sighed in my heart, I experienced several mountain bandit blackmail and official blackmail in my previous life. The Great Zhou Mansion has passed away two patriarchs in a row, and several elders in the clan who are respectful and respectful have passed away. The wide open space paved with neat bluestones in front of the "and tie the boat" has lost the solemnity of this time. It has become a place where children can play freely.

After the grandfather and grandson walked more than ten steps, the host who was about to welcome the guests did not dare to hold it up, and rushed out to welcome them......

"Yu San'er, the little girl who is holding Zhou Xian, is Zhou Zhe's daughter?" After hiding far away in the periphery of the Great Zhou Mansion to watch the lively crowd, the fat businessman from Yunzhou, who came to Huocheng a few days ago, took a few closer glances at Man Yun's back and asked the local helpers hired by him.

Yu San, who drank old wine together and began to do chores for Yunzhou merchants since that day, contacted the market rumors in the past few days. After pondering for a while, he nodded and responded: "Look at the size and dress up...... It should be the girl in the fifth room of Xiao Zhou's Mansion! ”

Then, he blocked his mouth with his hand and said softly: "Master Gao, I heard that Grandma's doll was born on Friday, and it was a ...... brother."

Glancing at the crowd around him again, Yu San felt unstable and pulled the sleeve of the owner Gao Weiming. Pulled him out of the pile.

Let's go, the well-informed Yu San lowered his voice, and sighed very much about the peculiarities of Zhou Zhe's posthumous son in the rumor.

"Hehe, what's that! That is, in the city of Huo. If you go to the north...... The military men and poor families in the Youyan area can't afford to hire a daughter-in-law, so they save some rations and brown rice on the waist of their pants in the famine year. Go to the customs to bring a foreign woman back to have children, and there are more such children in the offspring! ”。 Gao Weiming pursed his lips disdainfully.

"Master! Is this true? Yu San, a forty-year-old bachelor, had two eyes shining. A look of eagerness to try.

"Can there be fake? Let me tell you, just Du Dayou, the father of the fifth grandmother of the Zhou family, Du Dayou, don't look at the current general leader of 100,000 soldiers and horses in Yanzhou, think that back then, the surname Du was just a ...... under the hands of the old man", Gao Weiming was shocked to say a little too much, shook his head, and changed his words: "It's just a poor soldier." It's just that the Huocheng Zhou family deceived the Du family's mother's family, and they took advantage of the large number of people in Huocheng, so they had nothing to do. ”

Speaking of the bullying of the Huo Cheng Zhou family, Gao Weiming was sincerely disgusted.

After the New Year, he and his men ran in Huocheng for a few days, but it was not easy to find a place to stay. Huocheng is a fish and rice town in the south of the Yangtze River, self-sufficient, and also has its own merchant shops selling all kinds of goods from the north and south.

Thinking about it, Gao Weiming asked very seriously: "Yu San! Two days ago, let's look at a few shops on Jinyuan Street in the county, you said that they were Zhou Xian's family, and it was not easy to buy or rent. I looked at Zhou Xianying and was very distressed by the five rooms, if we take a little walk and give the little brother a full moon gift in the snow, it should be easy to take it, right? ”

"Master! It's hard to say! Yu San hurriedly shook his hand and said with a wry smile: "Shirong Gong has also just returned to his hometown!" In the past, the Zhou family was in charge of Mrs. Meng, and these chores were also taken care of by the third master of the Zhou family in Huocheng all the year round! ”

"Then who do you say?" Gao Weiming's eyes widened when he heard this, "If it doesn't work, we won't be in Huocheng!" We have rented shops in the surrounding Hezhou, Qingyuan, Lianfang and other places. ”。 This is not to bluff Yu San, originally in his eyes, Huocheng is also a place of chicken ribs, but there is a fate, and he has to set up a point in Huocheng, so he has to do it. But if it doesn't work, if you want to write to the north and explain it clearly, you can also cope with the past.

"Master, don't worry, don't worry! Let the little ones think again! I'll ask someone to go to the Gao family to inquire, really, I have a brother who is following the third master of the Zhou family......", Yu San was so anxious that he pulled Gao Weiming's sleeve, for the high commission.

Zhou Xian took Zhou Manyun to the news of the Zhou Mansion in Xibei, like a light catkins, crossed the bank of the stream and floated into the ancestral house of the Little Zhou Mansion.

Zhou Yang, who was being calculated behind his back, looked at his wife who was hiding her face and crying in front of her at this time, frowning tightly, and her round face showed a helpless and bitter look.

The eldest brother took someone to the Mid-Levels Courtyard to advise his father to give up his newborn nephew, and he knew. But the old father didn't even think about it, so he wore official court clothes and drove to the Great Zhou Mansion to correct his nephew's name, which made Zhou Yang a little unexpected.

"Why...... Why, such a strange child, just a few days after he was born, the old man was given a name, and he was about to go to the genealogy in a hurry. But what about my Qi Ge'er? Grandmother's fluttering words separated our mother and son alive. In this way, there is no Qi Ge'er's name in the genealogy at all! ”

Lin raised a pair of red and swollen teary eyes. Gritting his teeth fiercely, he said, "Master Wednesday!" I am also the daughter of a good family. Even if the family background is not as good as that of sister-in-law and sister-in-law, but after getting married. My grandmother was my servant until I was old, and I had no merit and hard work. But what did you do to me! ”

"Lady! Grandmother's decision is also for the sake of Qi Ge'er and for the good of our Zhou family! Zhou Yang leaned over at his wife, his voice trembling.

"That weishenme doesn't change to the children of other rooms!" Lin got up, rushed to the door, and said loudly: "I'll go to the Great Zhou Mansion to find the master, and he wants to support the five rooms." I'm going to get my baby back! ”

Zhou Yangchong stepped forward and covered Lin's mouth, and begged in a low voice: "Don't say it!" Don't say it, lady! Qi Ge'er's matter, Daddy doesn't know the truth yet! ”。

"Husband!" , Lin's tears flowed down again, and she knelt in front of Zhou Yang with a plop, "The concubine body just feels that it is not worth it, for the sake of the Zhou family, my mother-in-law gave up her wife and wife." For the Zhou family. I gave up my only son-in-law. For the Zhou family, you have worked hard in Huocheng for more than ten years......

But when my father came back, the first thing he did was to take back the woodland and fields on several hills of Huoshan. It was under the name of the sixth girl, Manyun. And now, for the sake of a five-room child, he is moving to open an ancestral hall. Aren't they just relying on their wives! ”

Zhou Yang hugged his crying wife and comforted him softly.

Lin's sobs were a little quieter. Zhou Yang suppressed his voice and said in Lin's ear: "Wait first, wait!" The two brothers born to Mrs. De made trouble...... Wait another two years. It's good to wait for the family to be divided! ”

Now there is a lack of the fifth brother Zhou Zhe, and in addition to Zhou Tan, who is also a concubine but is not taken seriously. The Zhou family looked at the two sisters-in-law born to Mrs. Zhou first, but the small actions they made after returning to Huocheng couldn't escape Zhou Yang's eyes.

Zhou Yang, who has been staying in his hometown, is a good location.

The eldest brother Zhou Song went up the mountain to beg his father to dispose of the little nephew, and the second brother Zhou Bai privately found the old man in Fengjin to turn over the bottom, and at the same time took the money and silver to the street to find someone to follow the eldest brother to make trouble, Zhou Yang knew. When the acquaintances asked him if it was feasible, he nodded and gave him another benefit. Otherwise, with the two of them who have lived outside for many years, where can it be so easy to get things done.

"It is rumored that my father is kind and kind, but in fact, his old man's mind is extremely determined, and his heart is also ruthless, and he must do what he recognizes. If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have married another Xie family back then, and he wouldn't have left my mother and son in Huocheng and ignored them. ”

Zhou Yang picked up his wife, pulled the handkerchief in Lin's hand, wiped her tears, and said: "According to the current situation, Daddy is protecting the child in the fifth room." At that time, we will only need to take apart what our two older brothers have done, and we will be done. ”

Lin said indignantly: "But if the family is separated, and there is a lady to protect them, our three rooms will still suffer!" ”

"Now that my father and wife are at odds and live in the mountains, you have handed over the housework to the Xie family, and the majority of the foreign affairs are still in my hands. During these days, I think that my father didn't bother to settle the accounts, and we could also take back some of the things that should have been ours...... Take 10,000 steps back, and if you don't have it, there are still things left by your grandmother! That red lacquer peony box, don't you still collect haode. When the time comes, we'll take our kids and head south......"

Listening to the bright prospects described by Zhou Yang, Lin couldn't help but burst into tears.

The sky gradually darkened, and the large and small courtyards of the Zhou Mansion in Xibei had gradually been lit up, but Zhou Xian, who had been staying in the study of the patriarch Zhou Huai and talking to him, had not yet come out.

My grandfather's words of going early and returning early seem to be untrue. Zhou Manyun, who was sitting in the boudoir of a cousin who was about the same age in the backyard, shook her hand at the two girls who invited her to play with the flower rope, and continued to sit upright thinking about her thoughts.

The old patriarch of the Zhou family, Zhou Huai Zhou Zeren, is a generation older than Zhou Xian, nearly eighty, and in his forties, he did the four-grade squire and retired. In his previous life, the young Zhou Manyun's impression of Ze Rengong was his condolences when he died.

At this moment, Man Yun is very unfamiliar with the patriarch's "stalks". Generally speaking, the elderly who can use these two words should be very opinionated. Regarding Brother Kai'er's affairs, he will have been involved with Grandpa for so long, and he must not be optimistic.

Thinking about it again, since entering the Zhou Mansion, when Zhou Huai's third daughter-in-law took her to recognize the relatives in the backyard, the eyes that fell on her body "It turns out that this child is still normal" have mixed feelings in Zhou Manyun's heart.

Grandpa let the Liv sisters be looked at on the street, and let themselves be looked at by the people of the Great Zhou Mansion, for the same purpose, but they all explained through them that Brother Kai, who is still on the mountain, is just a little different normal child. She also followed Grandpa's instructions and warmly invited the female elders of the inner house to go to the other courtyard to see the newborn Zhou Kai.

"Go back to the roots, the original system. The Taizu of this dynasty was born in a family, and after ascending the throne, he strictly regulated the family genealogy. Chen Dynasty five-grade officials and above, can set up a family ancestral hall, non-waiting is not allowed to enjoy the family temple. Born as a concubine, you can only sacrifice to your ancestors. Brother Kai'er's future cannot be predicted. But Grandpa must do his best to let Zhe'er have a son under his name, so that Zhou Kai can be traced, and when he grows up, he will not even have nowhere to be found, not recognized by the family, and despised by the world. As long as Grandpa has done this well, you can take Brother Kai away, and it doesn't matter where he grew up......"

Thinking of Zhou Xian's resolute tears, Man Yun sighed. In the face of the wishes that the old man attaches great importance to, she can't say lightly that the troubled times are coming, just let her brother live, and other false names don't matter.

According to the kind attitude of the elders in the Great Zhou Mansion towards him, it is obvious that the patriarch Zhou Huai does not need to target the children of the juniors, so what is the entanglement between Ze Rengong and his grandfather?

In the end, if you want to let Brother Kai fall down, Grandpa will still have to pay the price!

Zhou Manyun didn't believe that the two old men who had been in the political arena for many years were tearful and playing with emotion! (To be continued......)