After the meeting, the missions returned to their respective halls.

It is not clear how many guilds there are, a few hundred are at least. As far as the Central Plains is concerned, in addition to the "Central Plains Hall", there are also Luoyang Hall, Kaifeng Hall, Anyang Hall, Xinyang Hall, Lanling Hall and so on. I looked at it, and there was no Luobei Guild Hall - yes, Luobei is just a small county, so I don't have this qualification.

I went to the Central Plains Hall with Lu Chengzhi and Lu Chengjing to sit down - then I suddenly remembered that I am nominally from Shandong! But it doesn't matter so much.

While laughing, Lu Chengjing said to Lu Chengzhi: "I didn't expect that you kid is the boss of the Central Plains." ”

Listening to his brother's flattery, Lu Chengzhi showed a sad face. He said: "The secret department and the intelligence department have been crowding out Jinyiwei, and the prime minister's criminal department is also crowding out, and life is not easy. Hey, Jinyiwei was established by Li Guozhong in the past, and he has been dead for many years! ”

Lu Chengjing: "It's really not good, let's go back to Luoyang, Luoyang is very good now." ”

Lu Chengzhi: "Yes, 'now' is good. He emphasized the word "now."

Lu Chengjing: "What's wrong?" ”

Lu Chengzhi sighed: "It's 'coming from the storm'." ”

Lu Chengjing put down his chopsticks: "What's wrong?" ”

Lu Chengzhi's expression became resolute: "It's nothing, it's my own business." ”

Lu Chengjing stopped talking, and Lu Chengzhi lowered his head and thought about things.

Lu Chengzhi suddenly raised his head and asked me, "Chen Ju, Zhang Qiangsheng and you are not together, right?" ”

Me: "He is not even with Zhao Yuyang, how can he be with me?" ”

Lu Chengzhi: "He's so ruthless. ”

I said, "yes." First, he's the best champion of the decade. Second, he believed too much in the books of the Senate. Third, he is too young. Young people are always stunned, just like when I was younger. ”

Lu Chengzhi: "Zhao Yuyang, Zhang Qiangsheng, you, what is the relationship between the three giants of your inner court?" Why can't I read it? ”

I said, "I don't understand either, but I don't care." I'm thinking about leaving the court. ”

Lu Chengzhi: "What do you mean?" ”

Me: "I want to wander around, I don't want to mess around in Chang'an." Chang'an is too boring, fighting back and forth. ”

Lu Chengzhi: "I heard that the rivers and lakes have been assassinating you. The head of 'Chen Ju' has already reached millions of gold dollars. ”

Me: "yes, I'd like to change my name." They always say that if you don't kill Chen Ju, you won't mix in the rivers and lakes. Actually, my name is Chen Ju at all! The name has an egg! What's my name? Actually, my surname is Zhang, and my father said ......"

Lu Chengzhi nodded thoughtfully and continued to think about things.

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There was a commotion outside, and I saw it—the dog leftovers. Well, it's Zhao Qiankun. He is almost thirty years old, and his children are in elementary school. Children are like black date trees, you don't know if you have changed, but children are like trees that grow up year by year.

Zhao Qiankun is still with his wife, his children, in addition to Zhao Xingyue, Zhao Dakuo, and the children of the two of them, as well as the wives, husbands, and children of his younger brothers and sisters. I finally understand why, after nine years of civil strife, the number of people in the world has grown from 3.9 billion to 4.6 billion.

Everybody's greetings – yes, just pleasantries. There's really nothing to say. We looked at the children together, as if the role of the children was to let the adults see it, to relieve the embarrassment.

Zhao Qiankun said that they visited Chang'an, and said that the imperial capital was too great, much better than Luoyang.

I say, that's because you don't know it's worse than it used to be - damn it, the palace is all destroyed, and it's because of me.

Zhao Qiankun said, you are too powerful, you see the emperor every day.

I said, what is this, nine years ago I would have been able to see the emperor every day.

Zhao Qiankun seemed to be smiling and said, "Da Niu, I am also a scholar now." The whole family is here, a blessing to Lord Toro. ”

I looked at them—they seemed to be dressed like that. I smiled and asked, "Scholars?" Wow, how did you be, you're also a scholar? Ha ha! ”

Lu Chengjing: "No. A few days ago, the imperial court recounted the population, and I reported their family as a scholar, so they are the scholars. ”

Me: "Be careful, the court can find out." They also have previous original records. ”

Lu Chengjing: "You can find out if you check it, but what does the court do when you check it?" Billions of people just check them? The change of dynasty is to turn the world upside down, can it be checked? ”

I think so.

Lu Chengjing: "Haha, by the way, I also repaired my family tree and found hundreds of ancestors for myself. ”

I laughed: "Haha, don't I also recognize Shandong Qicheng as my ancestor." ”

Everyone laughed—but I think if someone looked at this room full of smiling people from heaven, his heart would be filled with contempt.

These days, Lu Chengjing is quite happy. He called himself "the first scholar clan in the Central Plains, Luoyang Lu Clan", and came and went with the major scholar clans, climbing with each other. He went around with the imperial officials and asked them to take care of his third daughter.

I also said, "Although I am not at the palace, I will definitely let my friends take care of her." ”

Lu Chengjing said: "She's useless, just one of dozens of imperial concubines." I don't expect me to be able to rely on her, as long as she doesn't get me into trouble. Speaking of which, there is a royal concubine at home, and she has a lot of face! ”

Hey, another poor woman.

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I asked Zhao Qiankun: "How is your hometown now?" ”

Him: "I've been back a few times, and I almost don't recognize it." The village is still the same village, the tree is still the same tree, the house is still the same house, but the name of the village has changed, and the villagers have changed. Zhaojiazhuang was changed to Lijiazhuang, and a group of people surnamed Li who didn't know where they came from occupied our village. ”

I was furious: "Damn, get rid of them!" ”

Zhao Qiankun glanced at me and said, "Where can you drive people away?" drove them away, and there was still no one in the village to return. The people in our village, except for about 100 people who followed Zhao Arong in Yanjing, others have long since disappeared. I didn't want to go back to the village, and the whole family stayed in Luoyang. ”

I sighed.

Zhao Qiankun said: "Also, I heard my father say that neither he nor your father are from Zhaojiazhuang." ”

I looked at him, "I think I've heard of it too." My dad said that his surname was Zhang before, and he came from the south......"

Zhao Qiankun thought about something.

I remembered a joke.

Two village women met at the entrance of the village. A village woman said, "Sister, I saw you yesterday when I was drinking spicy paste soup at the Luoyang Hotel!" Another village woman said, "Sister, no, you dug up dung with me yesterday." Ah Mei said, "Oh, it must be another woman drinking spicy paste soup with another woman at the Luoyang Hotel." ”

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In the end, when the banquet was about to be withdrawn, Zhao Qiankun pulled out a five or six-year-old boy and said, "I wanted to talk about this for a long time, but I never said it." This is the second child in my family, let him be your son, right? ”

How did I feel at the time? Nothing. I had 10,000 ideas in my mind, but I rejected them one by one.

I smiled and said, "No." ”

There was a hint of weirdness in Zhao Qiankun's eyes.

Me: "Nothing, that's the kind of person I am." ”

Zhao Xingyue also looked at me, her mouth opened, and she didn't speak.

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I was expressionless and emotionless.

Why am I never happy? A person is happy because he thinks things should be happy; He felt that things should be happy because he had not thought of them before; He hadn't thought of this before, proving that he was either mentally retarded or ill-informed. When a person knows all the jokes, believe me, he will not be happy at all. I would even venture to assert that the best joke teller in the world should be the most depressed and saddest person in the world.

Why am I never sad? A person is sad because he feels that things should be sad; He felt that things should be sad because he had not thought of them before; He hadn't thought of this before, proving that he was either mentally retarded or ill-informed. When a person knows all the tragedies, believe me, there is no sadness in his heart. I would even venture to say that those who write tragedies are the ones who can see the most.

The reason why I say so much nonsense is not to explain why I am so unsmiling, but mainly to say that Lao Tzu doesn't care about any children's affairs at all.

Because I never understood what a "bloodline" was.

Children have one-half of their parents' bloodline, while grandchildren have one-quarter and one-eighth of their offspring. This is an exponential decline, and after hundreds of years, the ancestors and descendants have no relationship at all. If you want future generations to keep your bloodline alive forever, incriminity is the only option – however, it's not an option at all.

There is no such thing as blood—or bloodline, blood—in the world. Bloodline is a concept, the concept of something. Things have concepts, they have names, but they don't necessarily exist, and bloodlines don't exist. It's like a "ghost". If you look through the books in the library, you can find a million kinds of books, and they all write about the meaning of ghosts, the witnesses of ghosts, the evidence of ghosts, the traditions of ghosts, the pictures of ghosts, the classification of ghosts, the development of ghosts, the disciplines of ghosts, the rituals of ghosts, and the dispersion of ghosts...... However, there is no such thing as a "ghost" in the world, as if there is no such thing as a "bloodline".

As far as I think, "bloodline" is a kind of order. You live in the village, you have a house, you have land. What will happen to these houses and land after you die? You can't give to outsiders, because there are countless outsiders. You can give yourself a certain child. There are very few children – at least fewer than "outsiders" – so this approach is feasible. Of all the ways that work, the best way is to give it to the first child, because there is only one way to do it, and you don't have to think about it. Probably men are better at fighting than women - we'll talk about why men fight better than women - so the patriarchal system was established. In order to save trouble, people established the order of "bloodline". In the mainland, the sister-in-law system is still the mainstream, but in Shandong, the current holy land of Confucianism, the young-son system has surpassed the sister-in-law system. The so-called young son system means that the young son keeps the house, and other children go out to stand on their own.

I can even responsibly say that if you are smart enough, if you are strong enough, you can do without blood, but only order. The rivers and lakes do not care about blood, cults do not care about blood, the inner court does not care about blood, the senators do not care about bloodline, and the forbidden army does not care about bloodline...... In these organizations, if the leader is dizzy and has to stuff his son into it, all that awaits him is to cut off his children and grandchildren—ironically, he did it for his own bloodline, only to lose his own bloodline.

So what is order? Order is tradition. Tradition is an order that has been passed down through so many years. The existence of this order proves the correctness of this order.

Is that tradition right? What if the environment changes? What if people falsify traditions? Is a forged tradition a tradition? Will it last? Is our world traditional or a fake tradition? Is it reasonable? Will it last forever?

I fell into a groggy sleep.

I know I don't know anything.

Therefore, the above words are all farts.