A year after my grandfather and grandmother got married, my father fell to the ground.

The young grandfather was excited to hold the infant Yimen eldest grandson, so he gave his beloved son a very festive scientific name: Yi Fengnian.

Peace and abundance, every year has more than enough.

After marrying a wife and having children, and the inn became rich day by day, the grandfather, who was naturally active and uneasy with the status quo, began to get tired of the dull and uneventful inn life.

After discussing with his grandmother and his Taishan lord Murong Qiu, and obtaining their consent, grandpa once again picked up the old business of the family business.

His first transaction was to transport the jade products accumulated in Chang'anfang over the years to Middle-earth with Lu Yu's grandfather to find a market, and reopen the ancient and modern trade routes of jade and silk trade between the Western Regions and the Khotanese Kingdom and the Han Jin Dynasty.

Of course, grandpa has another wish, which is to find the family members who were scattered in Xichuan and Jiangnan after the fall of Jincheng County a few years ago.

After several preparations, the two grandfathers, Yi Linfeng and Lu Yu, took more than a dozen equally young and strong men, led dozens of camel teams full of jade, and set out on the road in high spirits.

The caravan slept all the way, crossed the Huanglong Shahai, crossed the four counties of Hexi, crossed the Yellow River from the hometown of Jincheng County, and then went south along the Han River to Xiakou.

After a short rest in Xiakou, Grandpa and the others bought a boat and went all the way east along the river.

Two months after leaving Khotan, my grandfather's caravan finally landed in Jiankang, the capital of the Great Jin Kingdom, which was known as the "Stone City".

This batch of jade treasures from the Western Regions is no less sought after in Jiankang City than the "Luoyang paper expensive" in the year.

Nowadays, the princes, ministers, wealthy merchants and nobles in the city, and the children of the families from Chang'an and Luoyang still account for a high proportion.

Therefore, they are still very impressed by the jade business run by the Longdi Murong family and the Yi family.

Many years later, in this distant new capital in the south of the Yangtze River, they could still encounter such old people and objects, which made these Han courtiers who went south with the monarch couldn't help but cry.

It is also naturally linked to the ups and downs of their own life experience and the rise and fall of their family and country, because they see things and think about people, they can't help but think of the prosperity of Chang'an City, the spring of Changle Palace, and the sunset of Weiyang Palace.

The batch of jade brought by my grandfather did not need to look for a merchant to sell on behalf of him, and after he went ashore, he was still on the hunchback of the inn, and it was snapped up by the people who came to hunt for treasure.

In the next few days, the threshold of the inn where Grandpa and the others stayed was almost broken by the servants of the wealthy merchants of the official family who held invitations and invited them to the banquet.

Jiangnan has been the silk center of the world since the Han Dynasty, and although it has withered through several wars, it still does not change its prosperity.

Without leaving home, a large silk weaver who had heard the news had come to negotiate business with samples of various colors of silk.

And the procurement officials of the imperial court office also took the next batch of scheduled lists, and did not hesitate to put down the official status to visit.

Therefore, during the one-month stay of Grandpa's caravan in Jiankang City, the jade materials in Chang'an Fang for the next few years have been booked.

The problem of jade sales, which Master Murong Qiu had been worried about for a long time, was finally completely opened up by his two capable sons-in-law.

Of course, the premise is that the world can continue to be peaceful, and the caravans of Khotan can come to Jiangnan every year as promised.

In the summer and autumn of this year, Grandpa and the others finally embarked on their way home.

Traveling north along the official road by land, you have to pass through many checkpoints and states in the Northern Dynasties on the way, and it is needless to say that there are hardships and dangers.

In the New Year of the following year, when the Buddha Festival of the Kingdom of Khotan was coming, the grandfather's caravan finally returned to the warm home of "Qingfengze".

The first time he was in business, my grandfather was a victorious start, and he made a lot of money.

The only regret is that I didn't meet a family surnamed Yi along the way, as if these 100 Jincheng County families had never existed in this world.

During their stay in Jiankang City, Grandpa and Lu Yu were fortunate to meet a fellow villager from Longdi.

He told his grandfather that when he fled south, he and his grandfather's eldest brother had traveled together for a while.

Later, on the edge of the river, he chose to come down to Jiankang along the east of the river to join his relatives.

And grandpa's eldest brother is leading the whole family to buy a boat to cross the river and drift in the direction of Yunmengze.

It is said that the ultimate goal of the grandfather is Changsha County, which is farther away from the disaster of war and the Hu people, but the final outcome is unknown.

Grandpa wanted to go to Changsha County to find relatives, but the mountains were far away, and the harsh winter in the north was approaching, so he had to give up in the end.

After the successful experience of this trip to Jiangnan, my grandfather completely abandoned the business of the "Qingfengze" inn and devoted himself to the business of thousands of miles of business.

Since then, grandma Murong Qionglin has become the real owner of the "Qingfengze" inn.

Maybe it's because there is less gathering between husband and wife, or because of the difficult birth of my father, my grandmother after my father never gave birth to a boy and a half girl for my grandfather.

And Grandpa Lu Yu and Grandma Murong Yaobi are like hanging up, starting from the first daughter, in just a few years, a total of six daughters have been born.

It is conceivable that as the only eldest grandson and young master, his father's status in the entire family is unparalleled, and everywhere he goes, it is like the stars holding the moon.

At that time, in addition to taking care of Chang'anfang's business, Grandpa Lu Yu spent the rest of his time accompanying his grandfather to travel to business.

So Grandma Murong Yaobi and her six daughters spent most of the year in the "Qingfengze" of my house.

This means that my father's childhood, childhood, and later adolescence were all living in the daughters of this group of cousins.

Such a growth environment has created a willful and amorous personality of my father, and he lacks the fierce and strong spirit of his grandfather.

By the time the grandparents realized this, everything was irretrievable, and the bones had grown into flesh.

I heard my grandmother say that when my father was ten years old, there was a Sassanid caravan that stayed at the inn and rested for a while.

There was a man in the caravan named Kak. Dani's little girl, the daughter of the caravan leader.

Perhaps because of the lack of adaptation after a long journey, the little Dani fell ill two days after staying in the inn, and the high fever persisted.

But the caravan came from afar, and this business trip was related to the livelihood of a hundred and ten families, and the whole team's itinerary could not be affected because of the illness of his daughter.

So the head man wept bitterly and entrusted his beloved daughter to his grandmother to take care of her, and came to pick her up when they returned from Handi.

The grandmother, who was also a businessman, was suddenly moved with compassion and agreed happily.

Under her careful care, half a month after the Sassanid caravan left, the poor little girl finally slowly got better.

Dani is blonde and blue-eyed, and her skin is as white as clotted cream.

Perhaps because she followed her father from a young age, Dani is lively and cheerful and knows how to please adults.

In this foreign inn where no relatives or acquaintances were around, she was not afraid of recognizing her life at all, and soon became like she was in her own home.

There was not a single man, woman, or child in the inn who didn't like Dany.

is still a little child's father, and he is even more fascinated by this little girl of the same age.

Since then, he has been like a demon, and he never leaves Dani half a step.

They ate and played together, and slept in the same room at night.

Even during the time when my father went to the academy every morning to study, he had to be accompanied by Dani.

Dani told her father that her hometown was on the banks of a great river called the Euphrates, far away.

There are countless date palm forests and large deserts, just like the poplar forests and Huanglong sand sea around "Qingfengze".

Not far from her house, there was a very high platform.

According to the adults, it was the hanging garden built by the king of Babylon for his concubine.

She had gone to play with her friends, but the platform was so high that they could only climb halfway up and return halfway.

Dani promised her father that when he grew up, if he could be a guest in Babylon, she would take him to the top of the Hanging Garden.

On the sand in the courtyard, Dani used the sand to make a model of a "hanging garden" for her father, like an upside-down wine leak on the side of the wine vat in the living room.

Sitting in a boat on the shore of Qingfengze, listening to Dani describe the customs of Sassanid to him in half-baked Tocharian language, my father was fascinated.

He made up his mind that when he grew up, he would definitely visit Dani's hometown, taste the dates sweeter than honey, and the royal garden, which was higher than climbing the Kunlun Mountain.

Half a year later, Dani's father's caravan returned safely from Middle-earth, which also meant that the time had come for her father and Dani to be separated.

Chasing the Sassanid caravan in the distance, he cried out in tears, and his young father had never experienced such a pain of separation.

For a long time after that, my father was like a serious illness, and he couldn't lift up his spirits.

Later, when the elderly grandmother talked to us grandchildren, she seemed to regret it.

"Hey, I shouldn't have taken in Dani, a little goblin! In that case, your father will not fall into the root of lovesickness, and he will not leave us wives and children in the prime of life, and never return! ”

Speaking of which, it may be because of the longing for her only beloved son, and the once peerless grandmother Murong Qionglin can't stand the old tears.