Chapter 2 The Chess Officer and the Cicada

In the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River Basin, here is the last foothold of the Hakka people to move south, and it is also the transit hub for the Hakka people to go to the sea to the South Seas, and there are more than 7 million local overseas Chinese in later generations, distributed in more than 80 countries and regions, more than 2.5 million compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 1.8 million of the 5 million Hakka people in Taiwan have their ancestral home in Meizhou.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the society has been stable, and the population here has become increasingly prosperous, although industry and commerce have also developed rapidly, but the limited land cannot support such a large population, and the number of people traveling at the various docks is increasing. Many people who could not find a way out followed the sea ships to Luzon to survive in the South Seas, and there were also many smuggled goods, who went to the sea to become thieves and went up the mountains and fell into the grass.

Li Jing is the only son of the generation of the family's Changfang, the word Zhengyi, and the words are Huaiyi. - "Poetry, Lu Song, Pan Shui". Li Jing's grandfather and father are both Jinshi of the Wanli Dynasty, his grandfather did Hanlin, and he was an earlier, as the patriarch, he handled the miscellaneous affairs of the Sixiang clan with pampering. In addition, he presided over the sacrificial ceremony at home and the private school of the clan.

Father is the eldest son, has been an official for more than 20 years, is quite high, some cliffs are self-exalted, in fact, not suitable for officialdom, in the early years has always wandered in the county order, and later did Beijing Shuntianfu to push the official, the Wanli Dynasty emperor and Wenchen struggled fiercely, the court was smoky, the official corpse vegetarian meal, plus the birth of four daughters in a row after the wife Zhang gave birth to Li Jing, but also discouraged about the officialdom, woke up to the fact that everything is the only great, simply resigned and returned to his hometown to raise and teach his son.

My father and ancestors guarded 2,600 acres of paddy fields and dozens of workshops by the river, although they were not called rich, but they were also large families within a radius of 100 miles. The Chai Mountain behind the paddy fields is a small hundred miles, but apart from bamboo, trees, herbs, and mushrooms, the mountains do not produce anything of value.

Li Jing has seven uncles and six aunts, none of the uncles have achieved fame, they are all in charge of the family's workshops, trades, and fields, the aunts are married in various places, and the husbands are also well-known eunuchs.

Li Jing was still sitting on the big stone to let go, when he heard a milky voice behind him: "Brother, brother, A-Niang called you home for dinner." ”

Li Jing turned around and saw a pretty girl holding a little girl with pink makeup, the little girl was about six years old, with a pair of big eyes on her pink face. Blinking like stars, naughty and cute, two thin curved eyebrows, like two small crescents, under the crescent moon are thick long eyelashes, and the little pink face is red like a Fuji apple.

Well, this is his own goblin, Li Dashao's heart, Li Jing's sister-in-law Li Chan'er, although Li Jing didn't have a sister in his previous life, he really hurt this girl to the bones.

Seeing Li Jing turn around, the pretty maid was blessed with a blessing, and said in a coquettish voice: "The maid Qiguan has seen the young master." This pretty maid is the little sister's personal maid, about fourteen or fifteen years old, dressed in a pink gauze dress, bowing her head for a moment, revealing a beautiful neck and a clearly visible delicate collarbone, although her appearance has not yet opened, but she can no longer hide the spring color of the begonia, and she wants to let go.

Li Jing glanced at Qi Guan, jumped off the stone, inserted the folding fan into the neckline, a tiger jumped in front of the little sister and reached out to tickle her, the little man giggled with laughter, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, Li Jing picked up the girl and took a hard bite on the red apple, the villain pushed his mouth away in disgust, frowned and said: "Stinky brother, the saliva stinks to death, don't kiss me." ”

Li Jing laughed and rode the villain around his neck, and said flatteringly: "Is it okay for my brother to be a horse for you, Brother Xiang, is it okay for my brother to carry you home." The villain's happy wave kissed Li Jing's cheeks and shouted: "Stinky brother, run, rack, rack." ”

"Okay" Li Jing posed as a horse riding in Peking Opera and sang: "The master's speech is too bad, and Huang Zhong can't help but be angry." At the age of thirteen, he learned to bow and horse, and his prestige was guarded in Changsha. Since I surrendered to the emperor's uncle's drive, I have taken Wuxia with a single sword. Wow, yes, yes," he sang and ran to the town.

Qi Guan was dumbfounded, watching the young master who ran away with a smoke carrying the young lady away, and hurriedly chased after him with his skirt, so frightened that his liver was pounding, if he fell, the old lady would not reward him with a good fight. shouted in his mouth: "Young master, young master, wait for me, pay attention to your feet, don't fall." "I muttered in my heart, this young master has been burned in the brain since he was seriously ill, and he is always crazy, but how can he be born.

I saw the villain on Li Jing's shoulder in front of him shouting at the back: "Qi Guan, hurry, hurry, run." I saw that Li Jing was extremely dexterous, ignoring the large and small stones under his feet, jumping high and stepping low a few times and running away.

Li Jing was carrying his sister happily running, only to see a snow-white dog suddenly burst out of the grass in front of him, as tall as a calf, with thick limbs and snow-white hair. The head is as big as a bucket, staring at a pair of big eyes like copper bells, and the mane like a lion on the neck, which is majestic, but the dog's face is a sad face.

A good majestic Chow Chow, with a bloody mouth open, dripping with saliva, directly blocked the way.