Although it was already Shen Shi, the city gate had not yet closed, and under Chen Xu's urging, the carriage went out of the city at a gallop and went straight to the Qinghe Courtyard.

At the end of August, someone was arranged to go back to Xiaohe Village to bring Daddy and Mom, Han Xin's mother, and Millet to Xianyang for the Winter Clothes Festival, but I didn't expect that Daddy and Mom were reluctant to leave the land on the river beach and wanted to complete the winter sowing.

Chen Xu couldn't help his father's and mother's arrangement, so he could only write back and tell the servants to take good care of it, and then set off to Xianyang after the family made arrangements, but he didn't expect this delay to be more than a month.

Ten days ago, he received a letter saying that he had already set off and was on the Eastern Road, Chen Xu speculated that it should take at least two more days, but he didn't expect it to arrive so soon.

When Chen Xu arrived home, sure enough, the yard was already lively.

"Sister Xing'er, this cucumber is so delicious!"

Xing'er Yu Ji Xiaomi, Chen Xi and another eleven or twelve-year-old boy were getting together to eat cucumbers.

The little boy has a simple face and Niu Dashi, it is Niu Dashi's younger brother Niu Xiaochun, seven years have passed in a blink of an eye, a bare-ass snot baby has now grown into a half-grown teenager, wearing clean new clothes, hair is also neatly combed, and the original malnourished hunger and cold image can no longer be seen on the body, but the habit of eating has not changed too much, a cucumber gnaws full of juice, dripping placket everywhere, while eating will wipe his mouth with his sleeve, it looks like the style is still familiar.

The housekeeper is directing a group of servants to move down many items stacked on the carriage and transport them to the warehouse, busy and full of people, because there are more than ten four-wheeled carriages that accompany him, in addition to mahjong, porcelain, white paper, ink strips, Qinghe wine and other items produced by the town's workshop for Chen Xu's use, there are also many chestnuts, yams, candies, persimmons, dried bamboo shoots, bacon and other local specialties, all of which are the hearts of the villagers of Xiaohe Village and Qinghe Town, and there are five or six carts in total, and the number is not less than two thousand catties.

The water is gentle, Fan Caiying and Meng Wan with a big belly, Ying Shiyan surrounded Chen Jiang's in the middle like a group of stars holding the moon, Chen Jiang's arms held Fan Caiying's daughter, his eyes were full of love, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law A group of people gathered together to chat and tease the baby, Han Tian stood next to him and chatted with Han Xin, Chen Hu stood next to him with a young man of the same age as Chen Xu, watching everything in Qinghe Courtyard everywhere.

When Chen Xu's carriage drove into the courtyard, all the servants stopped to salute and greet him, while the rest of the people gathered around.

"Dad, mother, aunt~" Before the carriage stopped, Chen Xu pushed the door and jumped out of the car to greet his parents and Han Tian.

"Xu'er ......" Chen Jiang excitedly handed over her daughter to Fan Caiying, walked up to Chen Xu and looked up and down, her eyes began to redden, she hadn't seen her for two years, and her son became more and more tall and strange in her eyes, which made her dare not recognize her.

"Cry and cry when you meet, what kind of system!" Chen Hu strode up and grabbed Chen Xu's hand and looked up and down, left and right a few times, and nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, yes, it looks much more majestic when you are the left minister, fortunately, your grandfather brought someone to help me snatch your mother back, otherwise how could my old Chen family have the scenery it has today!" ”

"Puff~" Chen Jiang wiped the corners of his eyes and couldn't help laughing, "You are proud at home every day, Xu'er is the left minister, but he has been taught by the gods, what does it have to do with you!" ”

"Why doesn't it have anything to do with me, if I hadn't been drunk and peeing that night, how would I have met you pee......"

Before Chen Hu finished speaking, Chen Jiang smacked and retreated, Chen Xu stepped forward and hugged Niu Dashi with a few punches and said, "How is it, can the road go smoothly?" ”

"It's very smooth, the pedestrians on the road will take the initiative to give way when they see the flag of the Qinghe Hou Mansion on the convoy, and there are passers-by enthusiastically helping to push uphill and downhill, and there are people who send free food and drink to the service station......

I haven't seen him for two years, Niu Dashi also looks a lot more mature and stable, wearing a gorgeous robe with exquisite workmanship, a jade belt tied around his waist, a jade pendant hanging, his hair is neatly combed and clean, with a jade crown, and his speech has become steady and clear.

A few years have passed, and the young man from the black and thin mountain village who couldn't cover the important position with his two clothes at the beginning can no longer see the slightest trace of the past, and has become a graceful young man.

"Dad, Mother, Dashi, Aunt Han, it's windy outside, go to the inner hall to rest, and have a good dinner later, tomorrow I will take you to the city and Keju Field to have a look, and then I will visit the emperor and Doctor Meng......"

Chen Xu took Chen Hu and Chen Jiang, Han Tian, Niu Dashi and others into the guest hall together, and arranged for the maids to serve to wash and make tea.

Since becoming the left minister, Chen Xu has not been back to Qinghe Town for two consecutive years, one is that his identity is different from the past, this time it will inevitably be a guard of honor to open the road and the hustle and bustle, along the way large and small county officials have to arrange to greet them early, not to mention the loss of labor and money, Chen Xu does not want to be so high-profile, because every time he goes back, the entire Nanyang County will almost make trouble for a long time to settle down, and it is indeed beautiful to return to his hometown, but it also makes Chen Xu very nerve-wracking.

There is also the fact that after becoming the left minister, although many things in Zhongshu Province have already been arranged in an orderly manner, from the Xiang rebellion to the conquest of Lingnan, the court has been very busy in the past two years, and it is not in his position to seek his own government, but now that he has become the left minister, he not only has to implement various new laws and regulations to reform Daqin, but also to handle the national government affairs for the emperor, so there is no excuse to ask for leave.

According to the "Law of Officials", any official can not leave his post without permission without a special reason, and it is naturally okay to ask for leave, but there must be a valid reason, such as parents and other direct blood relatives are seriously ill or deceased, but Chen Xu's parents are alive and well, the Chen family is now their family incense, and other uncles and so on do not have any, so there is no reason to ask for leave, although Chen Xu forcibly asked for leave to go back to play The emperor will still agree, but it will inevitably be very depressed, Chen Xu became the left minister in the first year and went home to play for two months, The emperor successively sent several groups of messengers and messengers to greet him, but it was obvious that he was quite incompetent, which made the emperor feel very unhappy.

In the past two years, Chen Hu, Chen Jiang, and Han Tian seem to be more energetic, worry-free and comfortable, so the whole person looks much younger, but they are still about forty years old, just young and strong, according to normal, Niu Dashi has not changed much, but Niu Xiaochun and Xiaomi have changed quite a lot, Xiaochun is eleven years old, and Xiaomi is eight years old.

After some commotion, the meal was ready, the family got together for a sumptuous dinner, Han Tian and Chen Jiang were taken to the backyard by a group of women such as Shui Qingrou, and Xiaochun and Xiaomi went to play chess in another room with Xing'er Yuji.

Chen Xu and Han Xin accompanied Chen Hu Niu Dashi to play mahjong and chat, Niu Dashi said some of the great changes in Qinghe Town, Pheasant County and Wancheng in the past two years, Chen Hu also talked about the training of some young musket teams, Han Xin said a lot of things in the process of conquering Lingnan, and the changes in Xianyang are the topics that Niu Dashi and Chen Hu are most interested in.

Because the matter of Xianyang Keju Commercial Plaza has already spread in the country almost a household name, the grand occasion of the game and the excitement of the commercial building with the business travel and newspaper propaganda of the sky, if you come to Xianyang not to see a Keju game or go to the commercial plaza to take a stroll, it is absolutely the same as not coming, when passing by Keju Square today, although there is no close to see, but the peculiar shape of the appearance and the majestic atmosphere of the pattern, it is enough to make everyone fascinated.

In the next few days, Chen Xu didn't go to the court much, mainly accompanied his family and Niu Dashi Niu Xiaochun to visit the Keju Commercial Plaza, the waterwheel mill, the experimental factory of the Academy of Sciences, the library under construction, and several special attractions in Xianyang that the people of the whole country are more interested in.

And Meng Yun and a group of other gentlemen knew that Chen Xu's father and mother had arrived in Xianyang, so they all got together to feast Chen Xu's family and Niu Dashi's brothers, and also specially performed the most prestigious glider show on the river beach, which provoked hundreds of thousands of people near Xianyang to cheer enthusiastically, and this huge bird that can soar dozens of feet high also opened Chen Hu and Niu Dashi's eyes, and they opened their mouths and were stunned one by one.

After the Keju competition, Chen Xu took Chen Hu and Chen Jiang's and Meng Wan to visit Meng Yi and his wife in Mengfu, and sent a lot of local products from Qinghe Town, Meng Yi and Chen Hu met for the first time, but there was not much strangeness in the in-laws meeting, although Chen Hu was slightly nervous and restrained, but under Chen Xu's encouragement, he still put Meng Yi on the table with wine to the ground, and when he left, Meng Yi was disheveled and held Chen Hu's hand, and drunkenly said that he must drink another three or five hundred cups to count, In the end, Meng Yi was forcibly dragged back by Meng Yun and a group of wives and concubines, otherwise Meng Daren, who supervised the military officials in the sky, would strip and sprinkle on the street and go crazy.

"My father-in-law's alcohol consumption is not good!" On the way home, Chen Hu still came to a conclusion.

Chen Xu pursed his lips and hugged Meng Wan in his arms and said, "It's not just that the amount of wine is not good, but also the wine......

"It's okay for my husband to bury my father, it's just that my father-in-law drinks too much, and my father doesn't drink like this on weekdays!" Meng Wan covered her mouth and glanced at Chen Xu with disgust.

"Hehe, I'm telling the truth, your father likes to talk nonsense when he drinks, he was drunk at the Qinghe Hotel in the first place, and he yelled everywhere for me to take off your clothes......"

"Don't say it, husband~" At this time, the father-in-law and mother-in-law were in the carriage, thinking back on this past, Meng Wan still felt shy even if she was now married to a woman and wanted to be a mother, and her cheeks instantly flushed and arched in Chen Xu's arms, humming like a mosquito.

"Okay, just don't say it!" Chen Xu smiled and comforted Meng Wan for a few words, then turned his head to look at Chen Hu and said, "Dad, how should the marriage of Dashi and Xing'er be arranged?" ”

Chen Hu immediately sat upright, stroked his beard and was silent for a long time and said: "The marriage between Dashi and Xing'er was personally promised by me and Dashi's father and mother, so it naturally has to be counted, and everyone in the village knows about it, this time you invited Dashi together must also be for this matter, now Dashi is twenty-one years old, Xing'er Kaichun is also fifteen years old, and he has already reached the age of marriage, if you haven't been dragging it, this marriage should have been done two years ago, although our family is no longer an ordinary family now, but this matter cannot be changed, When you go back, let's make this matter clear to Apricot Oishi! ”

"Xu'er, your father is right, your father didn't come back a few years ago, if it weren't for the help of the Dashi family, I don't know if I could support you and Xing'er, although our family is good now, you have also helped Dashi a lot, but love is love, you still have to listen to your father's marriage, otherwise your father and mother will leave a notoriety in Xiaohe Village and Qinghe Town in the future!" Chen Jiang, who had been sitting next to him and had not spoken, also nodded and wiped away his tears, obviously remembering the miserable years of loneliness and helplessness.

"Since my father and mother think so, it's best, Dashi and I grew up together since childhood, like brothers, and in order to wait for Xing'er to now have not married and never urged, a few years ago I was worried that Xing'er was too young to marry and suffer, but Xing'er is also fifteen years old, and it is indeed the age of marriage, and this marriage is not good for Xing'er, so I called Dashi together this time, just to negotiate the marriage, and then choose a good day to finish the wedding, but Xing'er is getting older now, and the more independent her heart is, In addition, after living in Xianyang for many years, the things and ideas she has been exposed to are different from those in the past, so I am worried that she will disagree......"

"Hmph, the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, since ancient times, marriage has been like this, which round she disagrees, your mother and I are still there, you don't have to worry about this matter, I will handle it, I have to marry if I agree or not!" Chen Hu snorted coldly, and his face instantly became stiff.

"Dad, my sister has suffered since she was a child, and she is also very obedient and well-behaved, she has followed me in Xianyang for many years, and the people and things she has been in contact with are completely different from those in Xiaohe Village and even Qinghe Town, the princes and princes of Xianyang don't know a little, and there are countless noble children who are interested in her, even the emperor has mentioned it, but I refused, one is that this matter is a family affair between my father and Dashi's father, I am not good at trespassing, and the other is that I also hope that my sister can marry a gentle and gentle woman like me, let her marry a man she really likes......"

"Fart, how can you regret the family affair that has been set, if she doesn't agree, I'll break her leg, you don't have to make a fuss about this matter!" Chen Hu glared at Chen Xu very dissatisfied.

"Dad, although marriage is indeed a big deal, I think it's better to let Xing'er decide for herself!" Chen Xu couldn't cry or laugh.

"Nonsense, if it's all arranged like you, and the world is not chaotic, then what's the use of my father?"

"Dad, you and your mother didn't make a private decision for life at the beginning, and Xiaohe Village and Yingzui Cliff Village fought hard, and they haven't been in contact with each other for more than ten years......"

"You...... It was different at that time, your grandfather was going to marry your mother to a stupid and lame guy, your mother was so beautiful and weak a woman, how could I watch her jump into the fire pit, your father is chivalrous and righteous, do you understand it......?"

Chen Xu: ......

Well, Daddy, you won!

Chen Xu sat down with a twitch of his face, deciding that he would wait until he went home to listen to Xing'er and Dashi's opinions before making a decision.

But what Dad said is also right, the current situation is different from the beginning, Niu Dashi is not only a brother who has played with his bare ass since he was a child, but also has a baby kiss with Xing'er since childhood, the two have also grown up together since childhood, they know each other better, and they also have the emotional foundation of childhood sweethearts, but in recent years, Xing'er has grown up in Xianyang, and Niu Dashi is far away, but every time the two meet, they are still relatively harmonious.

Maybe I'm worrying too much!

"Husband, you still listen to your father-in-law and mother-in-law, I think Apricot and Dashi are also quite compatible!" Meng Wan is not easy to get involved in her sister-in-law's marriage, but she still persuades her husband.