Chapter 1408: A Terrible Network of Relationships
"I've been waiting for a long time, and I've talked to the clan elder about something." Chen Xi beckoned to the waiting people.
"Old Chen has something to discuss with Chen Hou, and I should wait for one or two." Chen Liang said with a smile, as for the Xun family and the Fan family, they are all equals, what can they say when they encounter this kind of thing.
Chen Xi smiled bitterly twice, saying that he was rude, and it was not easy for others to say anything when they saw this scene, so they followed Chen Xi to Yangzhai Mansion.
Halfway through, Steward Chen sent Chen Xi and his family back to the original Chen family, looking at the original small family, whether it was complicated and simple, or Chen Lan, or Zhen Mi who came for the first time, they were quite emotional, Chen Xi had lived here for more than ten years.
"It looks like people are cleaning all the time, but the layout hasn't changed at all." Chen Lan looked at the clean ground and the imperceptible smell in the air, and knew that this place was not urgently cleaned before they came.
"I always feel so small." Zhen Mi looked left and right for a long time and said helplessly.
"Yes, I didn't think it at first, but now I really feel so small." Fan Jian stroked his hair and nodded in agreement, but Chen Lan was silent.
"It was here that my husband taught me to read." Chen Lan slowly pushed open the study, there were only a few cases and a couch, and the books on the bookshelf were still curled up there.
"But I didn't have many books at the beginning, and my husband didn't bring them with me when I left." Chen Lan picked up a scroll and opened it slowly, when Chen Xi was holding her to read, the scene of the rain lying to her was clearly reflected in front of her eyes, vaguely like yesterday.
"That's nice." Zhen Mi said with a slight envy.
I can only think of Chen Xi's image when he was twelve or thirteen years old, but then Chen Xi really took advantage of the weather, the original youth was swept away, and the image of his youth has been covered by that kind of self-confidence that looks down on the world.
"But my husband is very interesting, he always tells me stories when he teaches me, but unfortunately I forget a lot of them." Chen Lan said with a little embarrassment, "Later, my husband was a lot busy. ”
It's really good, Zhen Mi looked at Chen Lan, and suddenly found that whether it was her or complicated and simple, compared with Chen Lan, the common memories were much worse.
"Sister Jian'er, what about you?" Zhen Mi smoothed her hair and asked.
Fan Jian was a little silent, and suddenly found that he had few opportunities to meet Chen Xi in those three years, and couldn't help but look at the bracelet on Chen Lan's wrist, and Chen Xi's name was faintly displayed in the red jade.
"At the beginning, my husband kept filial piety for three years, and I didn't have many opportunities to get in touch with my husband." He said calmly, without concealing it.
"Was the family miserable at the beginning?" Zhen Mi asked puzzledly, the worst time in the Zhen family's life was only when Chen Xi entered Jizhou and suppressed one side.
"Hmm." Chen Lan nodded lightly and didn't say anything, at the beginning, she and Uncle Chen were left with the head of the family in the huge Chen family's old mansion, but the maids and servants who left the Chen family at that time probably regretted it.
This is probably the reason why Chen Xi doesn't pay much attention to the maids in the family now, as for Chen Yun and Chen Ying, one does what Chen Lan used to do, and the other is in charge of Chen Xi's eating and drinking, as for the other maids in the family, Chen Xi may know a name.
On the other side, Chen Xi and Hua Xiong did not shirk the banquet prepared by Yang Zhaitai, and after twilight, one after another, major families also came to attend.
It was also at this time that Chen Xi met the spokespersons of the various families in Yingchuan, although these people are not the heads of the family, they also have a considerable right to speak in their own family.
If this is considered a relative, Chen Xi has a relationship with more than half, needless to say about the Xun family, the Chen family and the Xun family are not too small when they marry, the Zhong family, Chen Yu's wife is Zhong Hao's sister, and Zhong Hao's great-grandson is Zhong Xuan......
By the way, according to this ranking, Zhong Yu should actually call Chen Xi his uncle when he sees him, but Chen Yu and Zhong Hao themselves are inferior in generation, not to mention marrying a sister to each other, Zhuge Jin is enough to marry a daughter to renew the strings for a friend.
In fact, at the beginning of the group, Chen Xi was quite curious about marrying his daughter to a friend as a wife, what to call it when the time comes, but after seeing it once, he had nothing to say.
Generally in private, it is called its own, and when it comes to the major occasion of the court meeting or sacrifice, it is the wife of a certain marquis, or a certain official inviting a certain official, and that kind of formal occasion is not called a daughter, but called a certain lady.
So at the last glance, Chen Xi found that it seemed that about half of them were related within the five generations, of course, the reason why they were counted as five generations was that they were also exquisite, just like Chen Xi was a side branch of the Yingchuan side branch, that is to say, Chen Xi's grandfather was the head of the family.
However, the virtue of a gentleman, five generations and beheaded, separated by five generations, is actually quite far away, although Chen Xi and Chen Qun were still the same ancestor five generations ago, but in fact, basically do not know.
Then there is another sentence called, rich has distant relatives in the deep mountains, Chen Xi got up, and those relatives who didn't know him were gradually able to get in touch, whether it was the other party taking the initiative or Chen Xi taking the initiative, anyway, at a glance now, Chen Xi found that they were basically relatives.
This is the family's speechless network, and Chen Xi is now a node in the network.
[More than half of them are relatives, I didn't think I didn't sit together before, but now I sit together, counting the Sima family who didn't appear, more than half of Cao Wei's famous ministers are related to me, but looking back, doesn't this mean that they are also related to Xun Yu? After Chen Xi toasted with a wine glass, he thought silently.
[As a responsible monarch, after the situation in the world gradually becomes clear, it is impossible not to eliminate the potential hidden dangers under his command, Xun Yu's unlucky child, it is estimated that many of them are lying down for this reason. Chen Xi thought with a wry smile while drinking with a wine glass.
After all, even Chen Xi himself was a little surprised when he saw this scene, half of the power of a dynasty is inextricably linked to the most powerful person under your command, even an emperor with amazing courage is inevitably jealous.
Maybe when the situation in the world is not yet clear and strength is still needed, the other party will tolerate it, but after the situation in the world is clear, I am afraid that no emperor will be able to tolerate it.
[Fortunately, I have already pointed out the world one step ahead, and I am also guiding the family to another path, and Xuande Gong's ambition is so great that he can't afford it. A smile suddenly appeared on Chen Xi's face, Liu Bei was really stupid sometimes.
In this troubled world, I have never been able to do it, but I have been trying, and I have not broken through the bottom line for my own purposes. (To be continued.) )