After Qin'er took the baby to Zhili to reunite with Han Xiufeng, the huge new home could not be lived in by anyone, Duan Jiqing simply asked his wife and son to move over, which could not only help his daughter and son-in-law take care of the house, but also take care of the new house being built nearby. It's just that the little grandson is not there, and Xu feels that the family still seems a little lonely.

The little grandson said that he would follow his daughter, Duan Jiqing was not used to it, but he was not used to it in the first few days. He was busy collecting spring tea, and finally collected all the tea leaves, and the shopkeeper Pan came over with Pan Er's letter, not only wanting to help Pan Er buy a house in the city, but also planning to buy a few shops in the city to do some business.

In terms of being an official, Pan Er's official is not only promoted by Han Si, but also far less than Han Si; In terms of people, the people of the Pan family are not necessarily more prosperous than the Han family; But in terms of heritage, the Han family is really not as good as the Pan family.

Han Si's father, Han Yugui, has been farming all his life, and he doesn't know a lot of words, and he usually doesn't even go to Magang, let alone enter the city. I haven't seen anything in the world, and I can't deal with those things on the scene. On the other hand, the father and son of the Pan family not only know a few words, not only open a pawnshop, but also have a relative, so with Pan Er becoming an official, the shopkeeper Pan has become the head of the gentry in the area of Zoumagang.

Duan Jiqing also counted on the Pan family to help take care of the in-laws in the countryside, so he naturally had to help, but he didn't expect to help and start a deal with the shopkeeper Pan in a daze.

The newly opened pawnshop in the city by the shopkeeper Pan has shares of the Duan family and the Han family, and the newly opened tea shop has the shares of the Duan family and the Han family.

Soon after the business of the pawnshop and the tea shop opened, he received the news that Duan Dazhang, the political envoy of Gansu, wanted to send a letter to him, and began to welcome Duan Daren back to his hometown with the local gentry. One thing after another, Duan Jiqing was very busy, and the shopkeeper Pan, who had only been in the city for more than two months, also got acquainted with many gentry who couldn't get to the knots before, and gradually became a member of the local gentry.

At the Chaotianmen Wharf where Lord Duan arrived the day before yesterday, Daotai, Zhentai, Futai, the county magistrate and the local gentry with heads and faces all went to greet them, and the Sichuan Gang sent out one hundred and sixty sedan chair men as usual. Helping with the luggage and cages. Watching the lively people surround the wharf, Chaotianfang and Chaotianxiang can be called thousands of empty alleys.

Duan Jiqing and Shopkeeper Pan also went with their names, but there were too many people who didn't interject, and bowed down from a distance, and I don't know if Master Duan saw it.

Early this morning, the two of them took the name card and gift list, and took two pawnshop guys with gifts, and rushed to Jiangbei to meet Liu Shanyang, the person from the Jiangbei Hall, and rushed to the Duanjia house located on the mountain beam of Wangjiaqiao together.

It's not so much a house as a garden.

The whole garden covers an area of nearly 60 acres and is surrounded by high walls. The whole is divided into two parts, upper and lower, with the main courtyard at the top and a large garden at the bottom. There is a newly dug creek in the park, and boating is available in the river. There is a small bridge on the river, and there is an octagonal phoenix pavilion with red bricks and green tiles and carved railings and jade on the bridge. The two sides of the river are lined with green trees, warblers sing and butterflies dance, and delicate pavilions and stone tables and benches can be seen from time to time.

Climb the stairs and you will find the main courtyard.

Entering through the gate, five rows of houses are built in turn. The first three rows are where the people live. The last two rows are where the owner and his family live. In order to show the dignity of the owner, the houses in the main courtyard are covered with copper tiles, and it is said that the eaves are embedded with gold, and the pavilions and pavilions are exquisitely carved and extraordinary.

Shopkeeper Pan had never seen such a magnificent mansion, and was secretly shocked by its grand scale, Duan Jiqing and Liu Shanyang were not surprised, because they had been here more than once before.

The three of them walked into the flower hall accompanied by the housekeeper, and as soon as they sat down, Duan Xiaoshan, the young master of the Duan family, walked in with a smile on his face and said: "Three, I'm really sorry, my father is talking to the old man, and Lord Futai also sent his family to send a message just now, and I guess I will be there in ...... later."

"Virtuous nephew, do you mean that Lord Futai is also coming?" Duan Jiqing asked in surprise.

"Don't stop it." Duan Xiaoshan greeted the three of them with tea, and said proudly: "My father has been tired all the way on the saddle horse, and he finally came home, and he didn't want to be busy with socializing all day long, but he couldn't help but receive the hospitality of local officials such as Daotai and Futai, so he simply prepared a table of thin wine at home, and sent people to invite Daotai, Futai, Tongzhi Master and Baxian Zhengtang to drink and talk. ”

"I see, it seems that I didn't wait for a coincidence."

"Brother Liu, why did he say this," Duan Xiaoshan arched his hand, and then took a stack of invitations from his family, and said with a smile while distributing them: "My father is not one of those people who forget his roots, local officials want to invite, and my hometown father wants to invite him, but he can't arrange it for a while, so he can only arrange it tomorrow." ”

"Brother Duan, then I'll leave first, I'll be there tomorrow."

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Although he ran for nothing, Duan Jiqing was not unhappy because of this, after all, Lord Duan's status is so noble, even if he returns to his hometown after illness, Daotai Futai and Jiangbei Hall have to come to see him respectfully, not anyone who wants to see it.

Following the Duan family down the stairs, walking out of the garden, and seeing several lifting poles coming at the door, he couldn't help but look back at the high courtyard wall and sighed: "People live for a lifetime, grass and trees for an autumn, and being an official is only interesting if you do the job of Lord Duan!" ”

"Yes," Liu Shanyang went to Beijing to take the exam, knowing that it is not so easy to get the title of the gold list, even if he is lucky enough to be a Chinese official, but it is more difficult to be an official as Duan Dazhang than to ascend to the sky, and he couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that this is the case in my life, and I can only look at Zhixing in the future, and touch the light of Zhixing." ”

Speaking of Han Si, Shopkeeper Pan couldn't help but mutter: "It's a pity that Zhixing is not at home, if Zhixing is at home, if Zhixing comes with us, Master Duan will definitely see him." ”

"That's natural," Duan Jiqing sat on the pole with the support of the sedan chair man, and stroked the invitation that Duan Xiaoshan had just given and said with a smile: "If it weren't for Zhixing, Lord Duan wouldn't have invited us even if he invited his hometown fathers and elders to a banquet." ”

"Lord Duan, this is Aiwu and Wu, and we are honored." Liu Shanyang thought so.

The three of them were sighing, Guan Zhutou actually dared to come over with Han Da sweating profusely, and when he saw them, he shouted eagerly: "Duan Jingcheng, it's not good, Zhixing's father fell on the mountain the day before yesterday, and he fell unconscious!" ”

Duan Jiqing was taken aback, and hurriedly motioned to the sedan chair man to stop, leaned over and asked, "Big nephew, how is your father now?" ”

"What's going on with me now...... I don't know," Han Da wiped his sweat and said with a sad face: "After carrying home, we have no idea, I ...... I can only come to you quickly. ”

"Did you get a doctor?"

"Please, I'll go to Zoumagang to get a doctor first, and then I'll come to the city from Zoumagang."

It took a day for him to rush to the city from Zoumagang, and it was half a day to find this place from the city, Duan Jiqing realized that his father-in-law would be dead or alive, thinking that if his father-in-law really had three long and two short, Han Si would have to return to his hometown to worry, and he was suddenly anxious, and he actually pointed at Han Da and roared: "How did I explain to you before, let you honor your parents, your brother is good, your father is so old and let him go up the mountain, isn't it nothing to look for?" ”

"Master Duan, I didn't let him go up the mountain, he ...... He ran up the hill by himself. ”

"What is he going to do in the mountains?"

"It seems that he lost two chickens at home, and he wants to see if he has run up the mountain."

"Just because of two chickens, confused!" Duan Jiqing gritted his teeth in anger.

Liu Shanyang also realized that this was not a trivial matter, and hurriedly said: "Duan Jingcheng, why don't you hurry up and take a look, and I will help you confess here." ”

"That's the only way," Duan Jiqing handed the invitation to Liu Shanyang, and while motioning for the sedan chair driver to hurry up, he said eagerly: "Guan Bantou, you go fast, I bother you to go back and ask for a doctor, please the best doctor in the city!" Prepare some ginseng for those life-threatening medicines, don't be reluctant to spend money. ”

Guan Bantou didn't want Han Si to go back to his hometown like this, so he said without thinking: "Okay, I'll go back and prepare first." ”

"Han Da, you go with you."

"Oh."

Shopkeeper Pan also realized that if Han Yugui really died, Han Si would not be able to do it, and the second child of his family would have no backer, so he didn't care about sitting on the pole anymore, so he turned over and said: "Master Liu, Duan Jingcheng, I will go back to the city with Guan Bantou first, I know what preparations to make." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll be there later."

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Duan Jiqing had been working as an errand in the government before, and he had never suffered much.

Shopkeeper Pan is not as pampered as him, and when he was in the countryside, he walked the mountain road almost every day, and he could keep up with the footsteps of Guan Bantou and Han Da.

When Duan Jiqing rushed to the riverside by lifting the pole and changed to a boat to return to his son-in-law's house at the back of the Huguang Guild Hall, Guan Bantou and Pan Shopkeeper not only invited the two doctors with the highest medical skills in the city, but also prepared a bunch of large bags of medicine for bruises and hangings, and even hired five Sichuan horses.

Duan Jiqing didn't dare to delay for a moment, took the luggage from Xu's hands, climbed onto the horse with the support of everyone, and hurried to the horse with Guan Bantou, Pan Shopkeeper and Han Da.

In normal times, even if there is something important in the yamen, the head of the shift will not walk at night.

But now is not usual, what they encounter is a hundred thousand urgent, and when it gets dark, they have to carry torches and continue to hurry, and when they arrive at Han's house, it is already noon the next day, and when they walk at night, they are wet with dew and their clothes are almost dry, and they are sticky and uncomfortable.

Duan Jiqing didn't care about changing his clothes, nor did he care about rubbing his numb buttocks and legs from horseback riding, and as soon as he was helped off the horse by everyone, he asked eagerly: "My father-in-law, where is my father-in-law, how is my father-in-law?" ”

"I finally woke up, I woke up at noon yesterday, and I was lying in the back room." Mrs. Han said cautiously.

"Bodhisattva bless, just wake up." Duan Jiqing breathed a sigh of relief, and while leading the two doctors invited from the city to go inside with the support of everyone, he said with palpitations: "I'm scared to death, I can't have another accident, you guys listen to me, you can have today, you can live this good life, it's all your brother's light!" If something happens to the old man and the old lady, your brother will not be able to do it, and he will have to go back to his hometown to worry. So everyone in the family can have an accident, but the old man and the old lady can't have an accident! ”

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