45. Recognition of relatives
In ancient times, in order to pass on the lineage, there were a lot of patriarchal people, which caused the ratio of men and women to be widowed and uneven, and it was common for boys to fight and compete.
Under normal circumstances, adults do not pull or persuade, but watch the excitement on the side, see who is brave, see who will make the stumbling blocks flash, the weak fight and suffer a little loss is not a scandal, you can wait until you grow up and fight a little stronger.
But what people look down on the most is to bully the small, look down on the kind of guy who is full of rotten melons and mouths like an iron fork, and can't afford to lose, can't stand the pain, and lie on the ground to play tricks when he suffers a loss, crying and shouting and scolding the ancestors of eight lifetimes, and thinks that this child is a wreck, and he has no interest when he grows up.
Luo'an was touched by Luozhi, don't make trouble if you have nothing to do, don't be afraid of something, don't mess with people and don't beat people, Sister also specially explained that he must not open his mouth to scold people first, never hit people first, especially not to scold and fight with children and girls younger than himself, it is a very shameful thing.
He held Sister A's hand and glanced at Luozhi from time to time, for fear that Sister A's would be angry.
Luozhi squatted down and gently stroked his injured face, "Does it hurt?"
Luo An nodded and shook his head, seeing Luo Zhi sad.
"Go home and Sister will rub the medicine for you, it will be fine in two days."
"You did the right thing today, let's not look for trouble and don't be afraid of things, our Luo'an is a little man,"
"Of course, if you want to cry, cry, don't hold back"
Luo An really deflated her mouth, threw herself around her neck, and sobbed.
Luo Zhi stroked his back with his hand, this child is really pitiful, his parents died before he was three years old, Grandpa is busy with his livelihood every day, how much can he worry about? It's really God's eyes if you don't have autism.
When the two returned home, Grandpa took Ah Shu to work in the back field, Luo Zhi soaked a towel in cold water and gave him a cold compress, wiped a little medicinal wine, washed his hands and took snacks to settle him, and began to prepare lunch. Bailu soup needs the old hen to stew with three kinds of white, she can't kill the chicken, she has to wait for Grandpa to come back.
The old man came back from work and saw the injury on his little grandson's face, and in a hurry, he almost took a kitchen knife to find Mu Fatzi, Luo Zhi stopped him alive and dead, and said that he had beaten him up, and everyone condemned him a lot in public opinion, so the old man put down the kitchen knife and slowly asked the reason.
When he heard that it was his nephew and daughter-in-law Mu Lishi who helped, he immediately asked Luozhi to take out a ten-pound fat meat, a big pig's foot, two boxes of snacks that Qin Fen had sent before, and asked Luozhi to fill a jar of rose sauce, prepare four gifts, take the back basket and pack it, and let Ah Shu take care of the house at home, he took Luozhi and Ah Shu out to the patriarch's house.
The Mu family, the current patriarch, is the cousin of Old Man Mu, Mu Guishu.
When Mu Guishu, his father Mu Hong, his father Mu Hu, and other three brothers fled from their hometown to Mujia Village with a large family, because of the large number of people, they were elected as the patriarch of Mujia Village on the same road - at that time, all the people with the same surname in the village spontaneously formed a clan in the way of connecting clans, so as to compete with other clans. To put it simply, although there were many people in Mujia Village at that time, as long as they had the same surname, they were relatives who could not write two surnames – even if they were from all over the world before, and there was no blood relationship between them. After decades of changes, almost all the people in Mujia Village are surnamed Mu, and there are fewer and fewer foreign surnames.
After Mu Hong stepped down, his eldest son Mu Guishu took over as the patriarch. Mu Guishu is the cousin of the old man Mu, he is literate and hyphenated, and his family background is better than that of the old man Mu in all aspects, in order not to let people talk, the old man Mu, who is full of inferiority complex, rarely takes the initiative to move around with his cousin on weekdays, and slowly the brother's feelings are a lot weaker.
After listening to his cousin Mu Guihe, Mu Guishu frowned while smoking dry tobacco.
"Our clan's-stirring stick Song Jinhua is raising the next generation like this, he is going to harm our whole clan."
"Good women benefit three generations, and bad women also harm three generations. This Mu Chuanbao couldn't even control his mother-in-law, and married such a mourning star to the Huohuo tribe. ”
"According to my heart, it is only right to take a break and drive out of the clan."
Luo Zhi found out that the clan uncle who choked on himself last time for Ah Shu's matter was very angry with himself, and this is a leader who has a sense of distress among the clansmen.
"Uncle Guihe, Luozhi, Luo'an, when did you come over?" Mu Yexian carried a large basket of sweet potato vines on his back, and came in from outside and said in surprise.
In addition to the daily pigweed to feed the pigs, the people of Mujia Village also grow sweet potatoes with a lot of land at home, and the sweet potatoes that grow are used as food, and the sweet potato vines are fed to the pigs, which is not wasted at all.
"Uncle Ye Xian, we just arrived," the two little ones hurriedly greeted, Luo Zhi took the handle to help him unload his shoulder, and poured water to quench his thirst, this series of actions, fell in Li Guishu's eyes, slightly surprised.
"Uncle Guihe, I heard my daughter-in-law say what happened just now, these two children are doing well, especially Luozhi, Shibei will be even more impressive in three days!"
Mu Yexian is one of the few people who have read in Mujia Village, at the age of eighteen, he felt that he had no hope of raising his career, so he returned to the village to farm, so he spoke and made sentences differently from ordinary villagers, and his appearance was rare and handsome in the village.
Luo Zhi secretly said in his heart: It seems that he has become famous today.
The two of them hadn't spoken like this in recent years, and Luozhi wanted to leave room for them. She took Luo'an and the two great-grandsons of the second grandfather's family to play a game of eating at the gate.
As a result, in less than a cup of tea, a group of radish heads came to Hulala, all clamoring to play with them.
Luozhi burst into tears, my sister didn't want to be a kindergarten aunt......
"Guihe, seeing that the children are getting older day by day, Luozhi will reach the age of kissing in two years, the boy adopted by your family is older than Luozhi, you have to think carefully about this male and female defense, I am watching Luozhi today, this child is good, don't pick up the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon, because outsiders have delayed Luozhi's lifelong event."
The two brothers smoked dry smoke and swallowed the clouds and spitted out the fog, and the old man Mu looked at the ethereal smoke and thought for a while, and then said, "Guishu, can you look at this?" I recognize him as a godgrandson, and the clan gives him a genealogy, but regardless of the clan field and woodland, he has a name, can you take a look? ”
Mu Guishu listened to his cousin's words, and thought about it in his heart, this is good, and he does not share the interests of the clansmen, so that the clansmen will oppose less, and the eldest brother's name is right, and he has a young and middle-aged man, which is a good deal.
"I think it's okay, but I have to talk to Cousin Yan first, he is Lizheng, and he has to nod his head to enter the household registration, so we can handle it."
"Okay, I'll come over again in the next two days, and we'll go over together then."
When Luozhi saw Grandpa finally come out of the second grandfather's house, she wanted to shout "Long live" to Grandpa three times. It's not a human thing to do with children!
Back home, the more the old man Mu thought about it, the more he felt that the matter of recording A Shu's name could not be delayed, his family Luozhi was smart and capable, and he was still beautiful and atmospheric, maybe there would be a matchmaker in less than two years, in the eyes of the old man, his granddaughter was good, and this marriage was very likely in advance.
What's more, in his heart, he has long regarded Ah Shu as his own grandson, and it is even better if this is recorded in the family tree.
He called Ah Shu into the room, and closed the door, making it clear that he didn't want Luozhi and Luo'an to hear.
After two teas, the door opened, Ah Shu couldn't hide his excitement and came out, and the old man asked Luozhi to prepare a gift, a ten-pound fat meat, a big pork leg, two boxes of snacks, and a bottle of rose sauce. Old Man Mu went out again with the gift on his back.
When the two brothers arrived, Lizheng Mu Yantang was teaching his grandson Mu Zhiming to read and write, and when he saw the two cousins coming to the door, he immediately collected his things and asked his daughter-in-law Mu Qian to serve Bailu tea.
After listening to the meaning, Li Zheng thought for a while before saying:
"This child is surnamed Mu, and he has entered the Mu family tree, and there are not many paddy fields and dry fields in the clan now, isn't there this mountain and woodland? As soon as I thought about it, there was an acre of woodland next to the newly bought mountain woodland, and I directly divided it to him. ”
"Although the mountain and woodland are not very profitable, it is better than nothing"
"At the end of the genealogy, when the ancestral hall was opened to worship the ancestors, it was done by a water, but you can recognize the matter of relatives and you can do it as soon as possible, and the name is good early."
Old man Mu was grateful when he heard this, he originally planned to pay out of his own pocket to buy property for Ah Shu, with this acre of forest land, now he is not in a hurry, he can slowly find a good place and then buy, left and right in Mujia Village is not able to buy paddy fields and dry fields, which is particularly important to go outside to buy production to find out the details.
After talking about recognizing relatives and joining the clan, the patriarch said what happened in front of the ancestral hall today, and he had already heard the eldest grandson say it in this matter, and he was also angry in his heart, and a grain of mouse feces spoiled a pot of soup.
Li Zheng and the patriarch have always attached importance to the inheritance of "family style" and "family style", and regarded "family style" and "family style" as symbols of blood and pride. To a certain extent, people believe that the importance of the inheritance of good "family style" and "family style" is no less than the inheritance of blood lineage, and consciously transform it into a unique spiritual trait and lifestyle, and into an internal development momentum to ensure the prosperity of the family.
"There are more than a dozen villages near and far, our Mu clan has always been top-notch, whoever doesn't hear the surname Mu will look up at our clan, but we can't allow this person to corrupt the clan style and ruin the descendants of the clan."
"You can't cover this matter, I'm afraid that someone will do the same, so I have to take it out and knock it."
The patriarch heard what he was saying, and he agreed.
"It's better to make a warning and warn the clansmen." The patriarch proposed.
All three agreed.
Old Man Mu decided to recognize Ah Shu as his grandson, and this meal was indispensable, so he agreed that the two families would come to eat together tonight.
The deliberations were set, and it was already noon. Old Man Mu thanked Li Zheng for keeping the meal, tucked the smoke pot, and walked home.
Luozhi and Luo'an are very happy for Old Man Mu to recognize Ah Shu, Luozhi especially agrees, like the old man, Ah Shu has long been her relative and her eldest brother in her heart.
I heard that Grandpa invited Li Zheng and the patriarch to eat at night, this dish can not be simple, Luozhi calculates the existing ones at home, and plans to make eight big bowls: sauerkraut fish, braised pork feet, steamed pork, stir-fried pork belly, three kinds of stewed old hen, stir-fried fat sausage, braised pork ribs, fried water spinach with oil residue, so arrange two tables, it is very handy.