Qingzhi took a packaged ginseng from the medicine shelf, went out, and headed south.

Grandfather Kong Shizhi's family lived in Huaxia Lane, just a few dozen steps west of Fusang Lane, where his home was located.

When I arrived at the gate of my grandfather's house, I saw Xiao Qizi standing at the door, and when I saw her coming, I hurriedly said to her: "Qingzhi, your grandfather is waiting for you, come in......"

The courtyard where my grandfather lived was two deep, and the front yard was where a small servant lived, and he and his grandmother went to the backyard, and Qingzhi walked all the way to the backyard.

Before arriving in the backyard, I saw that the backyard was full of people in the front yard.

It seems that there are not a few people who come to see the excitement.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, she heard the voice of her eldest uncle's second child: "You say, Qingzhi will be so frightened that his legs will be weak when he sees such a big battle today?" ”

Then I heard the voice of the fourth child of her uncle's family: "With his guts, I'm afraid he will be so scared that he won't even dare to enter the door." ”

The second child said again: "It's really possible, I still remember that when he came here during the Chinese New Year, I made a joke on him, and I scared him so much that he ran away." ”

The fourth child replied: "He has always been like that, as if we were afraid that we would eat him." However, now we don't know if he is her or him? ”

The two then burst out laughing at the same time. Before Aoeda walked over, their laughter was particularly shrill in the crowd.

These days, Qingzhi has learned a lot about Qingzhi's previous personality from the side, he doesn't like to talk to people, he has a weak temperament, he doesn't like to make a noise, and he thinks that he has been troubled by his identity for more than ten years, and he doesn't dare to talk to people too much. But these are regarded as her soft and timid.

In the past, Qingzhi could be ridiculed, but the current Qingzhi will definitely not.

She calmly walked into the crowd, and when someone saw her back, she whispered, "Qingzhi is here." ”

She thought that her grandfather was waiting for her in the hall, but she didn't expect that he was sitting at the chair to the right of a table in the courtyard due north, with his square face drooping.

It seems that the hall is too small to accommodate so many people, so the tables and chairs inside are also moved.

On the other chair next to the table where my grandfather was sitting, it was not my grandmother, but the current patriarch of the Kong family, Kong Shangqian.

Even the patriarch of the Kongmen has moved over, is this going to clean up the portal for her?

What would happen if they found out that they were a woman, and if they thought they had corrupted the door?

She didn't know the family rules of Confucius, and she didn't know the family rules that were popular at the moment.

After she walked to the front of the crowd, she saw her grandmother, sitting on a stool to the right of her grandfather, and next to her uncle, Kong Zhongxin, and aunt Qin.

The others, the cousins, the family, and the neighbors, all stood.

After she entered, the originally noisy crowd was instantly silent.

She walked up to her grandmother first, bowed down, and said, "Grandmother forgives her sins, and her grandson failed to come to celebrate her grandmother's birthday, which is a great dishonor, and she has not been able to return because she has been lost for many days." Now the ginseng that the grandson met on the way is dedicated to the grandmother, wishing the grandmother a long life than Nanshan. ”

In any case, in front of many people, this etiquette thing still has to be done.

I heard my grandmother snort coldly: "You get up first." ”

Qingzhi got up and bowed to his grandfather again: "Grandfather is fine, I haven't seen him for many days, and my grandson is very worried about whether my grandfather is healthy." ”

What I heard was a scolding: "Tell me, are you and your father too much, your grandmother's 80th birthday, everyone has arrived, far and near, you and your father neither of you come forward, do you think that your grandmother will die early, you are so less burdensome?" ”

Qingzhi feigned surprise and said, "Grandson, I don't know why my grandfather is so angry? When my grandson came, I thought that my grandfather had sent someone to let my grandson come here quickly, because he was worried that my father would have an accident outside, so he wanted to discuss with my grandson how to find my father. ”

She looked up at her grandfather, and saw that his face was very embarrassed, and for a moment she could not think of words to respond to her dignity, which made her feel very comfortable.

After a while, she heard her grandfather reply to her: "If he really has that filial piety, he should not go out when your grandmother is almost eighty years old!" When he went out at that time, he didn't want to come back! ”

Qingzhi said calmly: "How could grandfather measure his son like this? Is there ever a time when my father can't stand you and my grandmother? Every brick and tile in this house was made by him, and he planted it by him, and you and your grandmother just took some things from the old house and moved in. For a long time, the silver taels used by your second elder for food and clothing were also sent by my father every month, why didn't my father come back for a while, and my grandfather didn't think about what accidents his son might encounter, but first started to blame him? If my father could feel it from outside, his heart would be filled with grief! ”

As soon as these words came out, Qingzhi saw that her grandfather's face was very ugly.

He looked at her in shock, as if he couldn't believe that Aoyuki, who had said nothing he had said before, suddenly became so sharp that he couldn't answer.

At this time, Qingzhi heard his uncle Kong Zhongxin say on the side: "Even if your father didn't come back, there may be a situation, what about you, you said that you got lost outside, so you didn't come back, let me ask you, if you get lost, can you get lost for more than ten days?" ”

Qingzhi looked at his uncle with a blank face and said, "If your uncle doesn't believe it, you can send someone to ask Lu Sangongzi of the Lu Governor's family, Lu Gongzi and I got lost together." ”

When her uncle Kong Zhongxin saw her carrying out Lu Shikang, he was silent, who could really go to the son of a prefect to ask him about family matters?

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard her grandfather say again: "No matter what your reason, whether you want to or not, you don't come to celebrate your grandmother's birthday, this matter is over." The main reason for you to come here today is not for this matter, but for the issue of your identity. You must have heard some rumors about you, let me ask you, are the rumors true? ”

Qingzhi said in his heart, now it's finally time to get down to business.

"Rumors? What rumors? My grandson has just come back and I haven't heard any rumors......"

"Are you male or female?" Grandfather got straight to the point.

Hearing this, Qingzhi began to laugh: "Grandfather, are you confused? If others don't believe it, forget it, why don't you believe it? Don't you remember when I was a kid and you went to have me checked? ”

Aoeda remembers that her mother said that her grandfather had come to examine her when she was born.

In order to hide from his grandfather, the father borrowed a boy who was sick, and claimed to the boy's parents that he would observe the baby's illness in the pharmacy for an afternoon, and kept the baby boy at home for an afternoon.

She also likes to talk about the past when her mother Guo Shi eats on weekdays and in her spare time, so she can know about it.

I saw that my grandfather was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I didn't see it clearly at that time, and now I have to test it again!" ”

Qingzhi was surprised: "Grandfather, are you really confused? Are you a three-year-old? You don't feel embarrassed, I still feel embarrassed! ”