Chapter 388: The Scramble (38)
Thousands of acres of sky, thousands of poor roots.
The boat moves into the city, and the shore is wide and the water floats in the village.
The idle heron is frightened, and the wine bottle is hidden.
The moth came to call the little officials, and the fire returned to Xuan.
When Liu Ji heard his father chant this poem, it was already noon on the second day, and the scene in front of him made him think that he had arrived in the Jiangnan of the later generations, the waterways were vertical and horizontal, the strange and the mulberry smelled each other, the tributaries of Weishui were waterlogged and parallel to the wide official road, and the two sides of the coast were neatly cultivated gray fields, and the main street of the county town was the river that passed through the city. The raccoon clothes woman by the river pounds her clothes like a pestle, and the sound of laughter and scolding is endless, and she is alive and well with a water town style painting.
Ju County, his roots in this world, have arrived.
The Liu family is an outsider here, their ancestral home is located in Qishan in Qizhou next door, which is the location of the horse farm where Liu Ji has been, why did he move here, he guessed the answer, it was the third day of arriving home.
Like all the big clans in this world, the Liu family also lives in the countryside outside the county, the squire and the squire, holding the administrative power below the township, which is a tradition that has lasted for thousands of years in China.
For example, Liu Ji is seventeen years old, ranking fifth in the clan, thirty-five-year-old Cen Shen, ranking twenty-seven, and nearly forty-year-old Gao Shi, ranking thirty-five, which shows how rare men are in the Liu family.
Of course, in addition to quantity, the quality of male growth is also an important criterion, but in general, quantity can crush quality, which is why the ancients favored sons over women.
He is the fifth in the clan, the second in the family, and there is an elder brother above, Liu Dan's eldest son, surnamed Liu, okay this is nonsense, the name is also only known on the third day.
Famous Society.
It's outrageously simple and crude.
At that time, seeing the name recorded on the family tree, Liu Ji couldn't help but glance at the cheap father several times, and said in his heart, is your ambition a little more majestic, how difficult it is for a concubine to do it.
"I've seen Daddy!"
Outside the village of Antou Village, Qinling Township, outside the county seat of Juxian County, 22-year-old Liu She waited on the side of the road early with his family servants, and when he saw their arrival, he hurriedly stepped forward to lead the horse's head, respectfully helped Liu Dan off the saddle, took two steps back, and ignored the dust on the ground.
When he returned home, Liu Dan found the feeling of the head of the family, at this time he did not help him with his own hands, but looked at Liu Ji behind him, and someone who was curiously looking at the people underground was stared at several times, and then he came forward to help the brother up, and then, took a step back, and bowed.
"I've seen my brother."
"Aji!"
Liu She didn't wait for him to finish his salute, so he stepped forward and held on...... Hands, he really didn't adapt to such enthusiasm, and even the smile in response was a little embarrassed.
This embarrassment was even worse when it came to his own mansion, because next, it was the woman who gave birth to this physical body, his mother.
Liu Dan's lady Gao is as her surname, she was born really tall, as soon as she saw her, Liu Ji was relieved, she still has a long time, and the Gao family, who is less than forty years old, is not old at all, and when she saw him for the first time, tears rippled down.
"Gorou, you...... You're back. ”
Liu Ji felt the other party's love almost immediately, and his body completed the kneeling and bowing movements uncontrollably, and before he stood up, the person had already been embraced into a warm embrace.
There was no crying and grabbing the roar, only low sobbing, the woman in front of him touched his head and face, as if he wanted to find a trace of memory from it, it was gone for ten years, Liu Ji didn't know, how a mother spent this kind of days, Liu's house in Qiuzi City, there was a room inside, there were countless pairs of handmade cloth shoes, countless pieces of large and small clothes, stitches were dense, and now seeing the woman's rough fingers, he knew the origin of those things.
"Mother, unfilial piety made you remember."
This sincere call made Gao's emotions that he had finally suppressed burst out in an instant.
"Son."
The mother and son cried together in the courtyard, and Liu Dan and his son on the side waited silently for a while before persuading the two to leave, because the meeting was not over yet.
After entering the hall in the backyard, the biggest boss in the house finally appeared, which was Liu Dan's mother and his grandmother.
The old lady was not as reserved as Gao's, and without waiting for Liu Ji to salute, he called him forward and hugged him into his arms, "heart, liver and flesh" made him numb, but he also felt a different kind of family affection, and even more peculiar Yes, while hurting him, he was still scolding his son, he finally understood why Liu Shan sent himself outside the Saiwai and stayed in this family, he was only afraid that he would become a tyrant in Juxian County, a harm to Chang'an, and a disaster to Datang.
“...... You have suffered a thousand knives, and sent my Gorou far away, poor a six-year-old child, let him fend for himself, mother and son are separated, flesh and blood are separated, those sage books have been read into the dog's belly, you are an unfilial rebel, just look forward to the angry old lady, you are so happy and happy, right, bah, dreaming, get a child and a nasty embryo, you can't even give birth to an egg, there are only two men in the family, and you have to break up one of them, you disobedient and unfilial dog kills it......"
Poor Liu Dan didn't even dare to say a word of justification, he only knew that he kept kowtowing, he knelt, there was nothing in the room that could stand, Liu Ji pretended to be a good baby, and secretly gave the old lady a thumbs up, scolding too well, these feudal remnants should be scolded.
When the old lady finished venting, she still didn't let him get up, just knelt down on her knees, and pointed at a little girl next to her very casually.
"That's your twelfth sister, her name is Xijun, and she is eight years old."
The little girl blinked a pair of curious eyes and saluted him in a formal manner: "Brother." ”
Then there was no more, Liu Ji clearly saw a woman in her twenties standing behind her, it is estimated that it is the obscene embryo in the mouth of the old lady, so this little sister is most likely a concubine, no wonder, she has not been able to give birth to a son for ten years, and it is strange that the old lady is not angry.
On the third day, he was called from his comfortable bed, dressed under the service of a group of delicate and lovely maidservants, and was taken to the most important building in the village, the local Liu clan ancestral hall, when he saw the dense tablets enshrined in it, and the portraits hung on the wall, he knew why his father gave his brothers such a name.