Chapter 1: Children of the Xie Family

In October of the second year of Taining of the Jin Dynasty, Huiji County. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning of October is the Winter Clothes Festival, which is a festival to worship ancestors, and small county towns are no exception.

As soon as the festival arrived, the people took out the old clothes of their ancestors and burned them outside the city, for fear that the cold would become worse and worse, and the ancestors of Hades would be frozen.

However, outside this big small city, there are also two groups of people, occupying the left and right sides of the city gate, burning clothes while glancing at the people opposite from time to time.

His eyes were like knives, and the knives stabbed people, making the people standing in the middle of the city gate feel uncomfortable.

Standing in the center of the city gate are naturally the people of the county government, mainly to maintain order and guard against fighting.

Since Luoyang, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, was occupied by the Hu people, and the emperors of the Jin Dynasty were plundered and killed by the Hu people, the Han people in the north fled thousands of miles, and then built the capital in Jiankang, known as the Eastern Jin Dynasty in history.

This is the era of chaos in history.

With the Yangtze River as a barrier, the northern scholars and displaced people poured into the comfortable Jiangdong county.

In the seventh year of the founding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, as early as before, the northern scholars successively crossed to the south, and the scholars occupied the fields and built houses, which caused the local residents to be quite dissatisfied.

There are many frictions between northerners and southerners, first, the living habits are different, and second, the northern nobles have always been proud, feeling that the southern tyrants are just vulgar, unable to keep up with the trend, and the soil is scum.

The southerners made a sound in their nostrils, these ghosts are really incompetent, not only Luoyang has become a wasteland, but they can't even keep their own home, and now they are under the fence.

Linggui is a contemptuous name for the southerners to the northerners, and correspondingly, the northerners also insult the southerners as the southern barbarians.

The scene at the gate of this small county town is the epitome of the relationship between fire and water between the northerners and the southerners.

It is said that it is a county town with a big fart, and there are very few yachas, and every time I encounter a festival where people from the north and south get together, I can't help but be scared.

A little boy who was wrapped in cotton clothes like a bear was surrounded by the officials, but he couldn't stop so many flying eye knives, which made people uncomfortable, but he still had a calm look on his face, which made the officials admire.

is worthy of being a child of the scholar clan, and he has an extraordinary bearing at a young age, no wonder the county magistrate can hand over this matter to Xiaolang.

The child's eldest brother is the county magistrate of Yan County, but the eldest brother is addicted to alcohol, and last night he was teaching him to read "Mao's Poems", on a whim, wearing a thin cotton robe and running to the courtyard, saying that he was going to chant poems to the moon, and he also broke plum branches and danced with a sword.

Probably this is the demeanor of Wei Jinshi that children can't understand.

Early this morning, I had to supervise the security of the Winter Clothes Festival, and the eldest brother was a drunken mess, how could he get up, and the child had to bite the bullet.

The year is four years old.

This is the era of the chaos of the five Hu and the Han people, the rebellion of the eight kings of the Sima family stabbed the Western Jin Dynasty from the inside, and the Yongjia rebellion made Liu Yuan, Shi Le and other Hu people completely cut off the power in the north of the Jin Dynasty, how many northern Han people were slaves, how many well-dressed people and displaced people traveled thousands of miles to the south.

The court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was unstable, and Jiankang began to mutiny again the year before last, which made people panic.

Of course, the above does not affect the peace of the small county order, and the most people in the north and south get together is a large mouth cannon and a small fight.

The fighting power of the northern warriors is five scum, and the locals in the south are also half a catty, and the most important thing is that when fighting, the smell of incense powder on everyone's body spreads, and the yacha who persuades the fight to sneeze.

Yes, scholars and men in this era were popular for shaving, powdering, and incense, and were popular in metaphysics, popular with five stones, and preferred chic and elegant clothing...... More than a thousand years later, this will be called a pseudo-sissy or a sissy.

Seeing that the eye knives in the north and south turned into mouth cannons, and all kinds of fragrances began to fly around, the child covered his nose, and the more he felt in his heart, but he could only put it in his heart.

His current body is a child, and Satoko is a young man who grew up in the 21st century, an orphan who has just entered college and earns money for tuition by drawing fandom.

In the year of graduation, his only relative, his grandfather, died, and he accidentally slipped down the hill while sweeping the tomb during the Qingming Festival, and woke up with this child named Xie An.

Now that he has been this child for several months, he knows not only the dynasty he is in, but also the family he is in.

Eastern Jin Dynasty, Chenjun Xie, Xie An.

Even if he doesn't know much about the history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, he knows what the name Xie An means - a generation of powerful ministers in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and a representative of the highest noble family.

Of course, this is all when he grows up.

The reputation of Chenjun Xie is evidenced by poems in later generations, "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people."

This "Wang Xie", Wang refers to Wang Xizhi's Langya Wang, and Xie of course refers to Xie An's Chenjun Xie family.

However, now it is the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Langya Wang clan is popular, and the Chenjun Xie clan is still struggling at the bottom of the scholar ranking.

It took him a few days to accept the fact that he was dressed as a celebrity, and after knowing that he was a neighbor with the book saint Wang Xizhi, the first thing he wanted to do was to meet this celebrity, after all, he could see the living!

He had also learned calligraphy from his grandfather for a few years before, and copied Wang Xizhi's grass, which was considered to have a certain foundation, and he had long regarded this calligraphy saint who influenced Chinese calligraphy for thousands of years as an idol.

It's a pity that he is not in Jiankang now, but lives in Yan County with his eldest brother Xie Yi.

This gorgeous family called Zhilan Yushu by later generations, Chen Jun Xie, he only saw Xie Yi.

The eldest brother Xie Yi, who has no words, is twenty-two years old, is a county commander of Qipin County, and is fond of drinking and singing, which gave Xie An the first glimpse of the demeanor of scholars in this era.

At this time, the strength of the Chen Jun Xie clan was meager, so the eldest brother Xie Yi could only be a county commander.

The seven-rank officials are meager and meager, and they are officials on the territory of the local tyrants in Jiangdong, chic and leisurely...... is so idle that the twenty-two-year-old brother doesn't even have a friend who drinks, and he has to be angry from time to time.

Xie An's little head was full of emotion, and he didn't pay attention for a while, and the people from the north and south on the left and right suddenly began to shift the topic to themselves.

"Xie Xianling's younger brother has a very white complexion, and I don't know if he has applied any powder."

"It's definitely powdered, don't all Beiling men like to apply grease and powder, how can I Jiangdong people have naturally white and smooth skin."

It's the locals biting their ears.

After all, Luoyang was the metropolis at that time, even if Luoyang fell, the northern scholars did not stop leading the trend after going south, although the southerners were dissatisfied with them, but there was no geographical barrier in the heart of beauty.

Xie An's back was cold, these ear-biting are two young talents, don't you fall for granted! What kind of skin whitening powder are big men discussing, and don't come near me, okay, I can smell the sweet rosin on you from afar!

Fortunately, his eldest brother has no special hobbies except for drinking and occasionally convulsions and howling sword dances, and he is still a normal sunny youth.

"San Lang is naturally beautiful, that is, he is better looking than you southern roe deer, and he will look better when he grows up, just like the Xie family."

"Why didn't the Xie family see you today?"

"The county official is busy with official business, let San Lang come out to exercise, and after our San Lang grows up and performs the crown ceremony, we will also be officials."

Xie An is the third in the family, so he is called San Lang, and the eldest brother is called Da Lang.

The person who called him San Lang affectionately was a scholar from the north and south with the Xie family. Kong, a descendant of Confucius.

However, the family was in the war in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the family had been operating in Jiangdong for a hundred years, and had long called itself the Huiji Kong family.

There are now several senior officials in the Kong family, who live in Wuyi Lane with the Xie family, so the Kong family in Yan County is naturally friendly with the Xie family.

There is a clear distinction between the Jin Dynasty scholars and the Han family, and the scholars and the scholars can only intermarry, and if the scholars make friends with the Han family, they will be laughed at.

Fortunately, there is a person in the Xie family of Chenjun who is ranked as a famous person in Jiangzuo, which is a figure that even the local gate valve family in Jiangdong has to admire.

This person is Xie An's uncle Xie Kun, who is now serving as Yuzhang Taishou in Jiangxi, but as a celebrity, he naturally disdains officialdom, so this Taishou's position is rewarded because of his uncle's reputation.

Jiang Zuo Bada is a romantic figure who inherited the ambition of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and although their behavior is absurd in the eyes of later generations, they are the representative and trend benchmark of the scholar culture of this era.

"Ouch, it's snowing?" Someone in the crowd shouted.

Ruixue Zhaofeng year, snow is a good thing, but it is bitter that the thinly dressed merry people, all of them are strong to burn the winter clothes, the southerners see that the northerners have not left, and they can't be willing to lag behind, while brushing off the flying flotsam on their faces, while muttering, the ghost is rough skin and thick meat!

Xie An was in the south in his previous life, and it was rare to see snow several times a year, but at this time, he finally felt bored, his little face raised, and he watched the snow floc change from small to large, falling in the air, flying disorderly.

"It's not good to freeze, come, wipe your face." A cardamom sister in the Kong family ran to him, raised a handkerchief to help him wipe the snow on his face, and after wiping it, he said loudly: "See, no powder, natural!" ”

"It's really a fan of He Lang!"

This is naturally said to the Nanren who questioned Xie An's skin color just now, and Fu Fan He Lang is an allusion to the Wei State in the previous dynasty.

He Lang refers to He Yan of the Wei Dynasty, who was suspected by Emperor Wei Ming of being a thick powder because of his delicate and white face, but after a try, he found that He Yan was born fair-skinned, so this allusion has been passed down.

"How dare An compare with He Lang, the snow is falling and the sky is cold, please disperse early."

Xie An's immature childish voice carried a precocious calmness, which attracted everyone's admiration.

It's not easy to pretend to be a child, but fortunately, this Xie An is a precocious child trained by the court, and he doesn't need to behave like other ordinary children, which has greatly relieved him.

Alas, being a child is a hard time.

When he returned home, he really didn't dare to compare with He Yan, after all, He Yan's buddy caused the trend of scholars eating cold food.

Cold food powder is also called Wushi powder, after taking it makes people hot and dry, the heart is confused, delay the voice, and you will die if you take it for a long time. The trend brought about by He Yan in the Wei and Jin dynasties made the scholars weak, and also made the scholars disdain to practice martial arts.

But now that he is a little kid, he thinks a lot, no wonder the eldest brother Xie Yi has been strange recently, why the children's brows are always wrinkled.

It seems that pretending to be a child takes a bit more effort.

He pinched his round face, and the smell of fragrant powder on the handkerchief of the Kong family's sister still remained between his nose, yawned, spread his hands and feet, and fell asleep in the ox cart that was slowly returning home.

Ever since he became a child, his soul has succumbed to his physiology, and he has become very sleepy, but when he gets home anyway, his eldest brother will carry him out of the car.

Sure enough, when he woke up, he was already in his warm mattress.

The sound of snow outside the window, this is the first snow of this winter, the courtyard full of shrubs is covered with a thin layer of snow, dark green and snow white are embellished with each other, the plum quietly blooms a flower bone, the red is bright, it is eye-catching, the cinnamon fragrance of the four seasons floats quietly, mixed with the breath of snow, it is intoxicating.

Xie An sniffed slightly, the child was very weak, and he would get sick at every turn, and the scholars regarded martial arts training as inferior, and the eldest brother also said that he would not teach him sword dancing until the winter passed.

But for four-year-old children, practicing swords or something, the most they can do is to learn a trick, and wait until the family party to let the adults have fun, and it is a blessing not to hurt themselves.

This childhood life is really sad and difficult.

It is said that Zu Ti, who passed away three years ago, became famous because of the smell of chickens dancing, Xie An was a little snooze, and the matter of getting up in the morning to exercise was delayed again and again, and now, he caught a cold with only a little wind and snow.

The eldest brother Xie Yi should be in the study at this time, and he must not leave the wine, Xie An passed by the kitchen to eat his fill, and took a bowl of bad fish for the eldest brother to serve as a drink. On weekdays, this is the case, the eldest brother is reading books and drinking on the side, and accompanies him to practice calligraphy.

But as soon as he entered the study, in such a good snowy weather today, the eldest brother was sitting on the mat like a wood, holding a few pages of paper in his hand, and throwing an envelope on several cases.

"Brother, what's the matter?" Xie Anxin was faintly uneasy.

The eldest brother Xie Yi smiled bitterly, "Daddy sent a letter, the uncle passed away suddenly in Yuzhang, Daddy ordered me to take you back to Beijing, and I can leave this county." ”

The letter has several pages, and what is said must not be so simple, Xie An took the letter and read it carefully.

There are three things, one of which is the death of the eldest Bo Xie Kun.

The second is that the Jiankang military rebellion has subsided, the imperial court has rectified the rule of officials, and a transfer document for Xie Yi has been issued, which will be delivered soon, and the future position will be in the Ministry of Officials.

The third is to ask Xie Yi to take Xie An back to Jiankang to live.

These three things are all big things, and being able to return to Beijing is a good thing for the eldest brother who likes to call friends, but the death of the uncle is a heavy haze over the head of the Xie family.

This is really a heavy blow to the Xie family, who has just gained a foothold in the Jiangdong Shi clan, and the loss of Xie Kun, the eldest uncle who ranks in the left half of the Jiangzuo, is afraid that the Xie family's reputation among the Shi clan will plummet.