Chapter 226: The Returning Traveler (3) The Rest of His Life
Ma Weiji was lying on the bed dying, thinking about his magnificent life in the company of his beloved son, compared to his ancestors, his life was indeed extraordinary.
Ma Weiji's full name is Ma Weiji Ge Stimp Kilimanjaro, born in 1470 and 348 years after the founding of the country.
Ma Weiji remembers that when he was a child, Siting was just an inconspicuous city in the huge territory of Goshangge, although it was one of the twenty or thirty main cities in Goshang, but there were no local specialties, no long history, and no famous people, so after leaving the surrounding area of Siting, not many people remembered this main city.
His life before the age of 11 was no different from his ancestors except for his identity as a listener.
Before the age of 10, he received an initial education in the family, and after the age of 10, he went to the academy for ten years of education. After that, I probably went to various places to be an official on behalf of the family, boiled up my qualifications, and returned to Siting for ten or twenty years to serve as an official in Siting. When the older generation of the family retired, he became the new elder of the family and Si Ting by virtue of his age, and began a new round of reincarnation.
This is no different from the past 1,000 years - of course this is a thousand years for the Surassians, and for the Gosurs, this cycle has only begun more than 300 years after the founding of the Gosho Ge, but the Gosurs are confident that they will maintain the family cycle for thousands of years, just like the Surasi of the past.
However, when he was 11 years old, he made a bold decision to follow those two strange characters of unknown origin on an unknown and distant journey, and his life changed.
Following the two immortal monsters, Ma Weiji set out from Sting, first passing west through the territories of Heffey and Roman Hefei to the northwest end of Middle-earth, the Middle-earth colony of Aifunch, and then changed his route to the south, passing through Yayoctor, Ami, Medas, and Bam, to the southwest end of Middle-earth.
In this process, Ma Weiji followed the two for ten years, during which they went through many hardships, and once Ma Weiji almost died of a serious illness.
In Izzira, Ma Weiji said goodbye to the two ageless monsters, and the two monsters wanted to continue south, across the endless ocean, to the unfamiliar southern continent to find Audi, and Ma Weiji, who did not follow, chose to embark on the road home.
Only then did Ma Weiji know how lucky he was to be taken away by the two of them. Ma Weiji had already traveled the road back to Sulasi once, but it took Ma Weiji three times as long, that is, thirty years of hard work, to return to Siting.
And the twists and turns experienced in the middle are far more than the experience of the past, like the incident of being seriously ill and dying at the beginning, not only happened three times when he returned, but now Ma Weiji thinks about himself, he can actually return to Siting completely, it is really the star god who is sheltered on it [Leng Yi smiled]
There were several times in the middle, Ma Weiji wanted to stop and not leave, but in foreign countries, his aristocratic status was not recognized, and it didn't matter, and it was difficult to survive at all, which was the most important reason that forced Ma Weiji to return to the north.
In 1520 of the Great Calendar, Ma Weiji finally returned to his hometown of Siting, and at this time, 39 years have passed since he set off, and everything has been wrong.
With Ma Weiji's disappearance, the family has undergone a lot of changes. His mother couldn't take the blow and died of depression thirteen years ago, and his father died four years ago, and he didn't get to see them for the last time. And what about the other brothers and sisters? The relationship with Ma Weiji is extremely weak, which is equivalent to nothing.
And the position that has been booked in the past, such as being the heir of the family head of the next generation, this is naturally a waste, and the friends who were pressed to death by themselves in the past have become the rulers of the family in the past forty years, with the retirement and departure of the older generation.
After the joy of returning home cooled, endless sadness followed. Ma Weiji was stunned to find that even if he returned to his hometown, he had become a superfluous person, except for the environment where he did not have to worry about food and clothing, he was not even as courteous as he received in a foreign country.
At this time, it was 1520, Ma Weiji was 50 years old, and he was no longer the "little listener" who was praised by everyone back then, the hope of the family, but a lonely old man who lied all day long.
The biggest stimulation for Ma Weiji was that on the New Year, a member of Ma Weiji's son's clan actually laughed at Ma Weiji in front of him for lying when Ma Weiji told his grandchildren about his travels, and the travelogues were all fake and made up.
The elder of this child came over, not only did not reprimand him for being respectful and inferior, but also helped him to squeeze Ma Weiji, even if the family patriarch came to persuade him later, Ma Weiji listened to all kinds of things wrong.
"It can't go on like this, I've been running around outside for forty years, it shouldn't end like this!" That night, Ma Weiji chased the maid away and lost his temper alone in the empty bedroom, and then the thought popped into his mind, which gave Ma Weiji a few minutes of ambition, and then dissipated again.
"But I'm fifty years old, and my relationship with my family is so stiff, I haven't been back to my hometown for too long, and I don't speak Surasi half-baked, can I still have time?"
On New Year's night, Ma Weiji looked at the brilliant starry sky and remembered this night forty years ago, the night he was on the Hamadan River, celebrating the New Year with the friendly Aiphonqi people, and the two immortal monsters. As the memories of youth came flooding into his heart, Ma Weiji instantly returned to the state of youth, and suddenly had the motivation to fight again.
Why did this sentence suddenly appear in my heart? Forget this sentence, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that I, Ma Weiji, have walked for 40 years, and the end of my life should not be such a sad ending! What's wrong with being fifty years old, it doesn't matter! I can draw a circle on the west coast of Middle-earth, can't I break the game!"
The next day, Ma Weiji went into action, compiling drafts of his trip into words and distributing them to lobbyists at taverns for free. So in the blink of an eye, Ma Weiji's Journey to the Journey swept the whole Siting - after all, whether it was fake or not, the Journey of the Journey was extremely shocking to the Siting at that time, full of whimsy.
A month later, all the inhabitants of the Sting, even the most uninformed of the slums, may not know the name of the ruler of the Sting, but they must know the name of Ma Weiji.
In the face of other people's doubts about the authenticity of the Far Journey, Ma Weiji always replied confidently: "Hefei is only more than ten days away from Siting, as long as Siting is willing to arrange me as an envoy to liaison, I will naturally take you to see Hefei and see whether what I said is true or false." ”
As for the authenticity of the Far Journey, most of the civilians believe it.
"If you want me to say, if that Ma Weiji is just a vulgar farmer or a cunning businessman, then maybe he has deceived me, but Ma Weiji is a member of the Stimpep family, a well-known nobleman, how can he deceive us commoners!"
Three months later, even the High Priest of the Courtyard could not sit still, and personally invited Ma Weiji to discuss, and after some detailed discussions, the High Priest appointed Ma Weiji as the representative of the Courtyard, and took the officials of the Courtyard to Hefei to find out.
So Ma Weiji went, taking the mark of the High Priest of Sting and the envoys, to the main border city of Hefei, Harikasu, to meet the two cultural circles.
At that meeting, the sky thundered and the earth fired.
It was the year 1522 of the Great Calendar, and the Sulasi cultural circle, which had been lonely for 1522, was the first time to come into contact with a different culture, the Hefei cultural circle, at the official level.
At this point, without any high-level allies, without the help of his family (in fact, there are many obstacles), Ma Weiji rose to prominence in an irreproducible way.
For Ma Weiji, Siting specially set up a new official position, that is, Hefei Liaison Envoy, and Ma Weiji was also specially promoted to the elder of the family (normally, only in the case of the annual meeting and the sudden death of the patriarch, the family elder can be changed). )
After that, Ma Weiji married a side of the family, and finally had a wife, and gave birth to a child a few years later, but fortunately he did not let himself die.
So far, everything has been happy, but Ma Weiji feels that there is still a little missing.
Although the official interaction between the Hefi and Sulasi cultures began in 1522 A.D., the gods would not have confirmed it in this way. Because according to the history of the relationship between Ai Fengqi and Roman Hefei, the two countries were officially exchanged by the gods, and the supreme rulers of the two sides exchanged peace documents with each other before they were officially counted.
Today's exchanges are just Si Ting's unilateral interactions with Hefei, and they are not universal.
In order to accept this honor on his head, Ma Weiji traveled for this matter for the next two years, and it was finally finalized in 1524 of the Great Calendar.
And among them, there is another unexpected joy, that is, because of the high-level political struggle factors that Ma Weiji did not understand, the Star King of Ge Xiuge announced that he would hand over the "road of Ge Xiuge to contact Hefei" to Ma Weiji, so Ma Weiji became the first ambassador of Ge Xiuge to Hefei, and later the chief ambassador of Ge Xiuge to Hefei Cultural Circle.
In addition, Ma Weiji also broke away from the Stimpep family and established a branch of the Stimpep family, the Ma Weiji family. Now Ma Wei Ji's full name is Ma Wei Ji Ge Ma Wei Ji Stin Depu Kilimanjaro.
Because the above sentence "the road between Goshuge and Hefei" can be interpreted as a connecting passage, but at the same time, it can also be interpreted as the land that passes through the road from Sting to Harikasu is the fief of Ma Weiji.
Ma Weiji automatically understood the meaning of this sentence to mean the latter, and used it as a basis to cut off the non-Star King faction's snooping on trade with Hefei. (Trade with Hephi later became a windfall profit.)
Driven by Ma Weiji, the thigh of the Star King, the Stine Depp family and the Kilimanjaro family, which had long been half-dead, began to walk out of the Sting and gradually became a large family with a number of numbers, of course, now these families are headed by the Ma Weiji family.
It is now the year 1545 of the Great Calendar, and the 75-year-old Ma Weiji is about to die, lying on the bed and dying at this time, surrounded by his wife and daughter-in-law, as well as his only son and the eldest grandson who was born not long ago.
"Son," Ma Weiji, who was still sick before, suddenly spoke neatly again. When Ma Weiji's son saw this scene, he didn't know that this was a return to the light, and his heart was naturally more sad.
"Although there are only 3 people in the Ma Weiji family and me, I believe that this family will definitely become a great family, like the family of Cilicianoma (the family of Suriver)......"
"I heard that we are fighting again in Goshoge, Sushi and Sulasi colluded together 2 years ago, ahem...... I believe that Goshoge will be able to overcome those two rebellious nations...... But when there is a war......"
"You are also twenty years old, and as the envoy of Goshuge to Hefei, you must be a little responsible......"
Seeing that Ma Weiji had already said nothing, Ma Weiji's son knew that the time of his father's death was getting closer and closer, and tears couldn't help but remain.
"Having a good relationship with Hefei and managing business is the reason for the rise of our Ma Weiji family...... Hold on to Hephi here, lest Goshoge be attacked on his belly and back......"
At this time, Ma Weiji's eyes began to fall, and saliva was left uncontrollably from the corners of his mouth.
"The times are different, one Suxi is the whole era, it's about to pass, but I can't see it, it's too late...... Unwilling, so unwilling, so unwilling to leave like this...... Where are you now, those two undead monsters? Can you see the future......
On the Hamadan River, boats are heading south. Ma Weiji, who is full of vitality, is listening to the chatter of the Ai Fengqi merchants, Mei Yi looks at the river and misses his dead daughter and apprentices, and Dante is drinking wine to mourn Sulassie, who is getting farther and farther away.
In the distance, fireworks burst into flames, illuminating the eternal starry sky.