Chapter 1: The Old Man III

Keenly feeling the increasing force from his hand, Cheng Mingzhen turned his head sideways in surprise, looked at his wife's face, and asked with concern, "What's wrong, your face is so white!" ”

"No, nothing?" Holding back the panic in his heart, the cuckoo responded with a smile. "The concubine is a little tired, she has run such a long way, and she has not been looking for a place to rest!"

"Silly girl, and me!" Cheng Mingzhen knew that his wife was lying, so he smiled and patted the other party's head. "Grandpa's man has never been idle, maybe one day he will be depressed in the mountains, and he will sneak back again. When the time comes, none of us should have seen it, so that his old man can't wipe his face! ”

"I'm afraid it won't be this time!" The cuckoo smiled tiredly and turned his head to the road ahead. She really wanted her husband's words of comfort to come true. But deep down, a voice clearly told her that her father would not be coming back. The father who has responded to her needs since she was a child, who did not hesitate to kill people and set fires outside, turned his head but was full of love, will not come back. His life was ruined by troubled times, but he couldn't adapt to the end of troubled times. Escaping into the empty door may be the best ending for my father. At least he would feel at peace.

"Then let's go see him a few more times a year. If you really can't rest assured, when Liu Wuzhou is finished, I will ask Master Pei Lin for personal favor and transfer to Changping County to be a civil official! Cheng Mingzhen smiled again, trying to comfort his wife.

"Hmm!" The cuckoo nodded lightly and remained silent. After being silent for a long time, he suddenly sighed and said in a ghostly voice, "Let's have a baby as soon as possible." ”

"What?" Cheng Ming shook his head for a moment, and a smile surged from the corner of his mouth to the tip of his eyebrows, "Then, it takes a lot of hard work." Okay, when you go home, you can't shout for mercy at every turn! ”

"What?" Suddenly realizing what he was talking about just now, a red cloud rose on the cuckoo's face, looked around, lowered his head, and spoke in a voice as light as a gnat, "You can do whatever you say." Maybe, maybe, when we have a child, his grandfather will come back often! ”

"You can rest assured. Someone gave me a secret recipe a few days ago, but I haven't had time to try it! Seeing his wife's shy and angry appearance, Cheng Mingzhen was so happy in his heart that he shook the reins and rushed forward first. Go, throw them away. This blind guy doesn't know how annoying he is! ”

Looking around, the cuckoo pursed his lips and smiled. His legs smacked the horse's belly slightly, chasing her husband's figure away. Leaving behind a group of unprepared guards, not chasing, not chasing, standing in the sunset with wide eyes and staring.

When I came out, I only felt that the road was far away, and when I went home, I only felt that the road was not long enough. A few days later, the couple quietly returned to the city for an unnoticed evening. When I approached the side door of my house, I saw Sister-in-law Lian and Caixia looking out. When the owner of the current mansion returned, one panicked and greeted him, while the other immediately retracted his head behind the door.

"What are you doing, sneaky one! Come out, can you still hide from the sky? The cuckoo jumped off his mount and shouted with a smile.

"No, no!" Caixia saw that she couldn't hide, so she had to squat forward and salute, "Master Hou and Mrs. are back." What is the servant looking forward to you two? ”

"What do you want from us?" The cuckoo pulled Caixia's ears in front of him, "When did you learn this set of vain things?" Still pretending to be with me. Say, what happened to my family that brought you in? ”

Although they are both married, the relationship between the two sisters is still as close as it was back then. Caixia covered her ears and begged for mercy again and again, "Don't pull, don't pull, sister let go." My brother-in-law was watching from the sidelines. You haven't been at home for the past few days, I'm afraid that the old lady has been calculated by a liar. That's why I came over to take a look. Brother-in-law, brother-in-law hurry up and let my sister let go! “

"Okay, okay, it's really red if you pull your ears again. Let his man look distressed! A series of brothers-in-law called down, and Cheng Mingzhen had to speak. Hurry up and tell me, which liar is so bold that he dares to come to my house to cheat? ”

"Uh-huh......" escaped from the clutches of the cuckoo, and Caixia held her ears and pushed a few steps away. When the words came to his lips, he began to look around again.

"Sister-in-law Lian, has the family been peaceful these days? Is my mother okay with dinner and sleep? Cheng Mingzhen sensed that something was wrong, smiled, and turned his gaze to Sister-in-law Lian.

Since beating Juluze, Cheng Mingzhen's mother has been taken care of by Sister-in-law Lian. The old man has a weak appetite and sleeps lightly, and he can't stand the startled madness of the young maid. The careful and steady sister-in-law Lian just avoided all kinds of shortcomings of young girls. Thanks to Sister-in-law Lian's dedication to her mother, Cheng Mingzhen and his wife will also ask for Sister-in-law's advice when dealing with the affairs of the inner house. Therefore, in today's Cheng Xiaohou Mansion, Sister-in-law Lian's status is very clear, only slightly lower than several family heads, and her words have more weight than housekeepers.

Hearing Cheng Mingzhen ask herself, Sister-in-law Lian hurriedly took half a step forward and replied in a low voice: "Master Hou, madam, let's talk about it when we enter the house." The outside is not a place to discuss things. There are distant relatives here, I don't know why I came, so I invited Miss Caixia to the mansion! ”

"Distant relatives?" Cheng Mingzhen heard the resentment in Sister-in-law Lian's words, shook his head, and raised his feet to cross the threshold. "Hehe, it's really rare, I still have distant relatives alive. When I was younger, I never heard of it! ”

"It's my relative. Give some money and just call it away. When Grandpa and I were so poor that we couldn't open the pot, no one recognized our father and daughter! For the so-called "relatives" who came to the door, Du Juan was also very disgusted, frowned, and said with a sneer.

It's no wonder that the little couple is mean. Since Cheng Mingzhen was sealed Hou, there have been endless relatives who have traveled over the mountains and mountains to defect. Some people can barely climb some blood ties. Some people simply don't even know what Cheng Mingzhen's father's name is, so they run for a surname, and they have to cling to the same clan.

As for Lao Du's side, the situation is even more ridiculous. Back then, Du Scarred took his daughter to a cornered place, and he had no choice but to enter Juluze. When the elders of the clan heard this, they were angry that it was insulting. In the ancestral hall, Du Scar's grandfather, father, uncle, and Du Scar's own three generations were all opened. Now that Du Scar has been disbanded by the five grades of the imperial court, the patriarch who advocated the opening of his three generations sent someone to find the door, crying that he had to pass on a descendant to Du Scar as a son. also moved out of the family tree that I don't know which life has been handed down, pointing to the ancestor Du Lin of the Han Wu Emperor and swearing, since then Du Scar's family is the elder of Du Men, and the status is second only to the patriarch. Even if he wanted the position of patriarch, it was not non-negotiable. The premise is that a man surnamed Du will inherit his family business and pass on the fame and wealth that he has finally achieved from generation to generation.

It can be said that Du Scar's son has come up with something wrong in recent years, which is inseparable from the ugly behavior of the clansmen. Therefore, whenever I hear that a distant relative has come to the door, the faces of Cheng Mingzhen and his wife will not look very good. Over time, Sister-in-law Lian and the housekeeper also noticed one or two of them, and pushed them out as much as they could. If you really can't stop it, give a few pieces of money, and call Hanako to beat. Let the head of the house end up out of sight.

But today's "distant relatives" are obviously no longer within the scope of Sister-in-law Lian and the housekeeper to dispose of themselves. The husband and wife entered the house, handed their mounts to the servant who ushered them, and were about to ask what was going on. Suddenly, I heard a burst of chickens and dogs jumping in the back garden. Immediately after, two little men wearing sandalwood and jade carvings jumped and ran over. Note 1

"Young master, slow down. Don't go to the corner gate, watch out for the rocks underneath! Following the two pink-carved boys, a group of maids and servants chased after them, screaming nervously.

"If you don't chase me, you won't run!" One of the boys in front of the run turned around and grimaced with a smile.

"If you fall, let my grandma beat you!" The boy who ran in the second position looked like an evil boy, and the more anxious the servants were, the more they ran towards the stone-paved path.

"Whose children. I don't know if my mother is afraid of noise? When Cheng Mingzhen heard the boy's words, he immediately stopped fighting, walked quickly to greet him, and shouted at the maids and maids.

Seeing the appearance of the master of the house, the maidservants and servants were so frightened that they did not dare to chase after them. Qi Qi squatted down to salute and whispered, "It's the child brought by Miss Biao." The old lady was afraid that they would be bored, so she asked the servants to take them to the back garden to play. ”

Before Cheng Mingzhen could remember where Miss Cousin appeared in his house, two men had already appeared in the yard with unfamiliar faces. turned his head and ran back, waving his fist at Cheng Mingzhen, "Who are you, why don't you let them chase us?" Tell my mother, hit you out with a big stick! ”

"You two really deserve to be beaten out with a big stick!" Cheng Mingzhen hated the evil young man who bullied people the most, so he immediately turned cold and scolded in a low voice. "Where's Miss Cousin? Hurry up and take them away. I can't even speak, and the adults in the family don't care! ”

Before the words fell, the cuckoo was already squatting down beside him. Look at two little boys carved out of almost the same mold, pinch this, pinch that, can't put it down. "Don't scare them. It's a twin. It's so beautiful. Look, this nose really looks like you! ”

"Auntie hug! Auntie help me fight the bad guys! Instinctively, the child sensed the danger, and immediately stretched out four little dirty hands and waged his tail at the cuckoo to beg for mercy.

Seeing this, the cuckoo, who was overflowing with love, still cared about what was going on with Miss Cousin, and hugged the two scoundrel urchins one by one. That is, she practiced martial arts every day and practiced a good pair of arm strength. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to hold such a large portion. The two little guys didn't care whether they were sinking or not, they were protected by the cuckoo, and immediately showed off their might to Cheng Ming, "Ignore you, I'll tell my mother." Let my mother find someone to beat you out! ”

"Humph!" In front of a group of servants, Cheng Mingzhen was reluctant to fall on his wife's face, frowned, and snorted coldly in a low voice. I was about to ask Sister-in-law Lian about the origin of the two naughty boys, when I suddenly heard a familiar exclamation from outside the Moon Gate, "Ah! Immediately after, a thin, sleek body timidly appeared in sight.

Frightened, familiar and unfamiliar.

Note 1: In ancient times, children carried binding utensils that could clamp most of their heads and tie them to the top of their heads. is specific to the type of Yue Yun in the opera.