Chapter 61: Return to Xuzhuang

Huaxia is polite, and there are many teachers and students in the officialdom, and they are ushered in, not only is it not bribery, but it can also be said to be filial piety, and it is a good behavior for students to respect their teachers. Of course, if you give too much, you will also be criticized by people, and if there are many people who criticize it, you will be impeached for greed and immorality.

There is nothing bad about ushering in and sending it, you love me, but the gift is getting bigger and bigger, and the subordinates can't afford it, so they naturally have to reach out to the people's bags to grab it, layer by layer, and all the "filial piety" has to be spread on the shoulders of the people. In addition, some "teachers" have the power to select and promote talents, and if they see the gift and cast the law, then they will be suspected of buying officials, and the entire court will be ruined.

Gifts can not be given, but caused by human favors, gifts can not be given more, but are bound by wind comments, gifts can not be given in vain, but are made by benefits.

In the end, there is the "number of servings" of the ceremony. For example, if you give a gift for the New Year, prepare a gift of ten taels of silver, give one in the same year, and get ten copies for the teacher. The silver is ten times more, but the list is still written ten taels of silver, the teacher takes the list to show everyone, this money is not much, the gift is not thick, and he has to return to him another day, you come and go, picture auspicious, the old man is not greedy. Another day, the teacher will give a piece of silver to the student, ten taels of silver, and one copy, and so on. In later generations, there was a five-grain liquid with Nongfu Spring, which is almost a copy of this.

The number of lists and gifts that Dong Xin gave to Xu Qing is like this. Xu Qing asked the gift-giving family, and the family only said mysteriously, as it had been in previous years. Hearing this, Xu Qing also turned a blind eye.

All the way back on the road, thanks to Dong Xin's gifts, the size of the team is comparable to before Xu Qing's detachment.

Not long after leaving, another small general led the troops here, saying that he was ordered by the assassin to escort Xu Qing across the river.

The identity of the young general is a little intriguing, it turns out to be the grandson of Zhao Yuliang, named Zhao Jianbo. is also powerful, heroic and extraordinary, similar to his grandfather. His age is similar to Xu Qing, so he can talk about it.

The third daughter and Xu Qing also bridged the gap, and Xiuxiu integrated into the wife group, and there was constant laughter and laughter along the way. Xu Qi has been sullen, she has always been ranked fourth in the reserve, and now she has retreated to the fifth, she is still prepared, how can she be happy.

walked without hurry, and went to Dongting by detour. After playing by Dongting Lake for a day, I crossed the Yangtze River the next day, and it was the land of Jiangbei.

There are three towns in Jiangbei, Xiangyang, Jiangxia, Wuchang, and a city of Jiangcheng. There are three famous places in Jiangcheng, such as the Yellow Crane Tower, the Qingchuan Pavilion and the Guqin Terrace, but now there is only one Yellow Crane Tower, and the others have not yet come out. After admiring the first floor of the world, Xu Qing's desire to enjoy the beautiful scenery was finally full.

Xu Qing went all the way north from Jiangcheng in a low-key manner, and in a few days, his light car had entered the boundary of Henan. From Xinyang, the horse whipped to Nanyang, which was the meeting place agreed between Xu Qing and the army.

After seeing the brigade, Xu Qing ordered him to go north as soon as possible and rush back before the year.

Out of Nanyang, it only takes about seven days to go to Luonan. Xu Qing no longer paid attention to the roadside scenery, and only took the cows to graze, Wang Shan, Yang Cheng, and a few guards, as well as the three daughters, oh no, it was the five daughters who galloped all the way back to Luonan.

Looking at the familiar county seat, he appeared in front of him in a silver suit, Xu Qing remembered a couplet of poems, but "I am more timid about my hometown, and I dare not ask anyone." He wanted to go to the county office to ask about Luo Nan's recent situation, but when he walked to the door, he was a little nervous. Xu Qingzhi is timid in two ways, one is afraid of hearing something bad about his family, and the other is afraid that the local squire will know, and then he will be noisy for a long time.

Xu Qing turned the horse's head and waved his hand:

"Xue'er, shall we go back to Hongshan Town directly?"

"Xu Lang," Xun Xue'er asked softly in the carriage, "Actually, I want to go to Xuzhuang to see ......"

Xu Qing groaned and said, "It's okay, I'm afraid that the people in Xu Zhuang have all moved to Hongshan Town!" ”

The land in Xuzhuang is relatively poor, and even after development, it is still not as good as other places. Uncle Zheng is a person from Xu Zhuang, and he holds the power of Xu Qing's family, so he must think about the villagers, right?

Someone in the car asked, what is Xuzhuang?

Xun Xue'er and Xiaoyue laughed, Xuzhuang is the place where they and Xu Qing met, they accompanied Xu Qing from a small casual official, to today's county uncle, starting from Xuzhuang. Therefore, Xu Zhuang's status in Xun Xue'er and Xiaoyue's hearts is naturally different from other places.

Xun Xue'er and Xiaoyue explained to Huang Shimei and Luo Xiuxiu, and said a lot of Xu Qing's troubles, as well as rock sugar gourds or something, Huang Shimei and the others shouted to go.

Xu Qing was helpless, and with a whip, it was Xu Zhuang.

It seems that Xuzhuang really hasn't developed much. Looking at the periphery of Xuzhuang, it is still like the first time, and there is no one at all. I remember that in the east of Xuzhuang, there is a mountain called West Mountain.

Turning a hill, bypassing a slope, Huang Shimei, who had been opening the curtains and looking, said impatiently: "Brother Xu, it turns out that your family lives in such a poor place?" ”

"Uh......" Xu Qing was speechless for a while, thinking that judging from Huang Shimei's identity, Xuzhuang is indeed a "poor mountainous area".

But Xu Qing didn't expect that Xun Xue'er and Xiaoyue would not stand with Huang Shimei this time, and stretched out their hands to tickle Huang Shimei, and scolded with a smile: "Miss Huang, you are amazing, you still look down on my Xu Lang (young master), are you married low?" ”

Huang Shimei couldn't withstand the attack from both sides, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Okay, okay, two sisters, tell your sisters to do it, I was wrong......"

Xun Xue'er and Xiaoyue snorted lightly: "That's not good, it's better like this, you can accompany Xu Qing for some days?" ”

Hearing this, Huang Shimei felt as if she had been stepped on the bottom line, and said with a look of disobedience: "Absolutely not, it depends on the fact that there are more and more villain women like Xu Qing, and we have less and less time, and we will never let it go to you!" ”

Xun Xue'er and Xiaoyue also said gloomily when they heard this, and glanced at Luo Xiuxiu: "Fortunately, Xiuxiu didn't let Xu Qing eat it all, otherwise this month's grain would not be collected......"

In the carriage, several women looked at Luo Xiuxiu with resentment. Luo Xiuxiu was sitting in a regular manner, but who knew that the topic led to her, she looked out of the car and saw a small road, a virtual door, and the two big words "Xu Zhuang" were written on it. took the opportunity to say: "Look, are you home?" ”

The girls were really attracted to the past, Xiao Yue and Xun Xue'er both sat by the window and pointed out and introduced: "Look, there is a pond dug by the young master." Hey, isn't that the tree Xu Lang planted? I still remember that Xu Lang buried an iron pot in it! ”

The other women asked, "What do you do with the tin can?" ”

Xun Xue'er said seriously: "Xu Lang said that if you put a rock sugar gourd in an iron can, you can grow a rock sugar gourd in the second year!" ”

The girls' eyes lit up suddenly, and they didn't argue whether it was true or false, and hurriedly asked Xu Qingdao: "Has the rock sugar gourd grown?" ”

Xu Qing's brain twitched, and he replied: "Are you stupid?" ”

The result is naturally tragic.

Xuzhuang has changed quite a lot, and the path into the village that Xu Qing has not had time to repair has been paved with stone slabs. The thatched huts of the past have also become brick and stone houses. However, it can be seen from here that the people of Xuzhuang have not left yet.

The house was neatly organized, with thick firewood piled up at the door and steaming from the roof.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, a feeling - "tranquility". The tranquility of Xuzhuang can be smelled, it is not silence, no sound, but a kind of spiritual clarity.

The horse under the crotch snorted, Xu Qing woke up, lightly clamped the horse's belly, and went directly to his house.

The strange thing is that Xu Qing's own house has not changed, it is the same, and except for the withering of flowers and trees, the others have hardly changed before leaving.

And when he saw smoke rising from the roof, the cows were grazing and came up and knocked on the door.

"Bang ......"

There was a sound of footsteps inside the door, and with a creak, the door opened. Revealing a handsome offspring, he looked at the cow grazing and the others: "Guest, my master is not here, and he doesn't pick up guests......"

The cow grazing smiled when he heard this: "What master is not there, isn't this coming back?" The cow grazing said and pointed at Xu Qing.

"Who is this?" The handsome posterior looked confused, looked at Xu Qing, Xu Qing smiled, and tried to be a gentle old man. After looking at Xu Qing, the handsome descendant still didn't let go of the gate, and said to the cow grazing: "No, I don't know this person,"

"Well, you fool," Niu Eater shook his head: "The person in front of you is the Uncle of Luonan County, Lord Xu Qingxu, and the owner of Hongshan Town, Xuzhuang." ”

When the handsome posterior heard this, not only did he not come out to greet him, but slammed the door tightly. Xu Qing only heard behind the gate, and the latter felt: "Daddy Liu, Daddy Liu, there are several crazy people outside, come out and take a look!" ”

The cow was grazing and wanted to kick open the gate, Xu Qing jumped down the horse, stopped him, and stood at the door, he wanted to see who this Daddy Liu was. Could it be Liu San?

"Who's making a noise outside? Don't you know that this place is your uncle's place? A slightly feminine voice came out, Xu Qing listened to it and guessed well, isn't this Liu San!

The door creaked here, and an older man came out, followed by two handsome young people, both of whom were very beautiful, and the eyebrows and nose of the two young people should be exactly the same.

One of the descendants pointed at Xu Qing and said, "Daddy Liu, this is the madman who calls himself uncle!" ”

Who knew that Liu San's head was blank at this time, and after a while, the old man burst into tears, knelt down and said: "Old slave Liu San, welcome your uncle back home!" ”

When the two juniors heard this, they also hurriedly knelt down and buried their heads on the ground.

Xu Qing took a step forward, helped Liu San up, and said, "Liu San, how are you doing these days?" ”

"Woo, ah......" Liu San wiped his old tears and said, "Good life, good life." ”

Then he kicked the two juniors behind him and scolded: "Don't go and boil hot water to wash your uncle's face!" You'll settle your account later! ”

Xu Qing asked casually, "What is the origin of those two offspring?" ”

Liu San respectfully returned: "Young Master, I don't know if you still remember, someone sent you a pair of twin prostitutes before?" ”

Xu Qing suddenly heard this, there was indeed such a thing, I remember that he had just been named a man from Luonan County, and someone sent a few singers and prostitutes. The singer Xu Qing smiled, of course, it was confiscated by Xun Xue'er, prostitution, Xu Qing was angry and sent them to guard Xu Zhuang's house.

Liu San explained: "The old slave was lazy to start another house and lived in the concierge all the time, so he took them in. In the past, the old slave failed to be a good man, and he really couldn't bear these two dolls......"

Xu Qing nodded, indicating that I understood.