When it comes to the Mei family, I have to talk about the origin of the name of Mujia Village. The "wood" in Mujia Village is not the "wood" with the surname Mu, but the "wood" with the surnames Gui, Mei, Yang, and Li.

It was not the Ming Dynasty, it was the Northern Yuan Dynasty, there was a great drought in Shanxi, and several Datong villagers went south to beg for a living, came to Tongzhou, and settled in an abandoned small village under Xiji Town. Later, the four surnames contacted and multiplied, and there was Mujia Village, and when it came to the Ming Dynasty, the Lin family and the Du family moved one after another. Although there are other miscellaneous surnames in the village, these six surnames are still the mainstay, so the name Mujia Village is worthy of its name.

In addition to the five males of the Gui family, there is also the brother-in-law of the village chief of Gui who is also the father of the Yang family and his third son Yang Tiezhu, the nephew of the village chief of Gui, who is also Mei's brother Mei Qingzhu and Mei Qingzhu's cousin Mei Qingsong, and Li Jinbao, the daughter-in-law of Gui Village's daughter-in-law Li Jinbao.

The four surnames of Mujia Village all broke males, and the Gui family broke up because of the culprit, "West Gui" and "East Gui"; The Yang family lost two strong men, and their family background was not as good as before; The Mei and Li families are in a different situation from the Gui and Yang families.

Mei's second grandfather died, but Mei Tongsheng was cheaper. Mei Tongsheng has a son and a grandson is the only two and two talents in the village, his second son originally married his wife Aunt Gui, who is the daughter of Gui's second grandfather, and later there was a "difficulty of nine dings", Mei Gui broke up with the two families, Mei Tongsheng made the decision to let his son divorce his wife, and then married his son to the daughter of the village chief Du, and married the family of the village chief Du, and was also the same character as the village elder.

The Li family died of a person, and also completely turned against "Xigui", and immediately picked up the newly widowed daughter after the funeral letter arrived, and immediately remarried the widower Du village chief, before that, they also bought the green brick house of the Gui village chief at a low price when the Gui village chief lost his silver. Now the east neighbor of the Gui family is the house of the head of the Gui village, and now the Li family lives.

Although the Du family is an outsider, but the family has money, and there are also connections in the yamen, they will do their tricks when the head of the village of Gui sells the land to raise money, so that others dare not buy the land of the head of the village of Gui, so that the head of the village of Gui has to sell the sixty acres of land in the family of the three brothers to the Du family at a low price, and later quickly married the old family of Mujia Village, Mei and Li, which also made the Du family members smoothly take over the post of village head.

The Lin family, who is also a foreigner, although they did not marry with the old surnames and became a family of their own, but because they bought a lot of real estate, and some of their clansmen were Beijing officials, they became a family of their own, and no one dared to bully.

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Gui Chongyang inquired about the families in the village from the Mei family and Gui Chun, and came to a conclusion.

The Mei and Li families are in cahoots with the Du family, and the three families are afraid that they don't want to see "Xigui" rise again. The Yang family did not break with the Gui family, but life also declined, and there was no shortage of suppression from the other three; "Donggui" is stupid, thinking about being alone, but forgetting the truth that "a single tree does not make a forest" and annihilating everyone; The Lin family only watched from the wall, but they did not get close to the Du family, nor did they fall into the well for "Xigui", so there was room for fighting.

Until the night got darker, Gui Chun had already left, and Mei's aunt and nephew also cleaned up the east house, let Gui Chongyang settle down, and went back to the west house, Gui Chongyang was still in a state of excitement.

The Gui family accepted him, and Gui Chongyang took the first step. Next, to improve the life of the Gui family and prevent the Mei family from getting into trouble, he has a plan. He freshened up, sat down under the lamp, and pulled out a book from his package, a look of nostalgia on his face.

This book is not a printed version, but a manuscript, the outer skin looks very ordinary, but the inside is parchment, on which are written very small strokes, different from ordinary brush characters, the thin strokes of the needle and thread, written not Chinese characters, but one by one symbols.

This is the "father" handwriting, the text in it is called "pinyin", this is a mysterious text, the world is currently known only their father and son know this kind of writing.

In Gui Chongyang's eyes, "Dad" must have a mysterious teacher like Guiguzi to learn all his skills, but when he was young, he was too frustrated, which scared the courage of "Dad", making him unwilling to publicize and hiding all his talents.

However, for Gui Chongyang's son, the teaching of "Dad" is unreserved, and he also left him this mysterious manuscript, which contains the things recorded, and can set up a family business by taking out one of them, as well as some unfathomable prophecies, which are the greatest wealth left to him by "Dad". Gui Chongyang had already memorized the contents of the manuscript in his mind, but because he missed his "father", he often looked at this manuscript.

It's just that Gui Chongyang is still young now, he has no fame, he is just a white-bodied teenager, and how to "open source" must be carefully selected. Otherwise, whether it is the Gui family or Gui Chongyang, they are all a piece of fat, and they are powerless to resist the greed and prying eyes of the outside world.

Gui Chongyang reluctantly gave up one method after another to accumulate money, and chose the one with the least profit, so he closed the manuscript and went to the kang.

The cover in the cabinet on the kang in the east house was still used by Grandma Gui before her death, and it was not suitable for Gui Chongyang, so Mei took her own mattress mosquito net from the west house, which was half-new and not old, but with the fragrance of soaphorn.

Gui Chongyang turned over and over, holding the manuscript in his arms, only feeling sour in his heart. He was twelve years old and came back with his parents' tablets; After a few years, he will support the Gui family, and he must be trying to welcome the remains of his parents back to his hometown.

The leaves fall back to the roots, which is the root of "Dad", and it is also the root of oneself.

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In the west room, Mei's aunt and nephew also lay down.

Before Gui Chongyang mentioned that the Mei family would calculate the time, Mei Duo was in the curtain and was listening. Caring is chaotic, she can't care about complaining that her aunt shouldn't promise Gui Chongyang to study, and she is full of worries about herself.

"Auntie, I'm afraid!" Meadow Road.

Among the daughters of the same age in the village, there are parents who love to say that they are good relatives, and there are also those who are sold to their families for a high dowry for their sons, and even those who are sold into slavery.

Mei Duo lost her mother in infancy, and Mei's flower season was forced to guard the widow, which shows the ruthlessness and ruthlessness of the Mei family.

Mei's heart is also bottomless, Gui Chongyang is sure of what he said, but after all, he is a half-grown child, but in front of his niece, she can only comfort: "Chongyang has an idea, then listen to him." He came back from Nanjing, and he is knowledgeable, and what he said will not be wrong. ”

Although Mei Duo still felt that her aunt was too rash to trust the half-grown child so much, she remembered the words that Gui Chongyang reminded and scolded Gui Chun before, and she couldn't help but fly her cheeks and her heart beat faster. She really didn't expect that it would be Gui Chongyang, who had just come back, to provoke this layer of window paper. Those sets of adult words, which are reasonable and convincing, make her feel a little less picky, and the rest is only gratitude.

At Gui's second grandfather's house, Gui Chun closed his eyes steadily, and made a decision in his heart.