Chapter 25: Old Friends
Ximen Kai returned to Kaifeng with his family, and outside Kaifeng City, he looked up at the tall city gate, and he had some mixed feelings.
Outside the city gate, there is Ximen Qi, the old family of the Ximen family, and the old house of Ximen was handed over, but the Ximen family also has a century-old foundation in Beijing. Just handing over a mansion is more like handing over the honor of their family to them, but it does not affect the foundation of their Ximen family in Beijing. Of course, these foundations are only economic, and the network resources of the Ximen family in the Criminal Department and Dali Temple are the biggest foundation of the real Ximen family, but in ten years, it has long been gone.
"Uncle." Ximen Qi bowed to Ximen, he is the son of Ximen Zai's scholar, and later when Ximen left with Ximen Kai, he left Ximen Qi in charge, and the Ximen family tragedy, Ximen's family was greatly injured, so he only let Ximen Qi do nothing, as long as he kept the family business. Ximenqi has been hard to support in Beijing over the years.
"Brother Qi, hard work!" Ximen Kai is also very familiar with Ximen Qi, at that time, when he was in Beijing, Ximen Qi also helped Ximen manage some private property in Beijing, which is different from the old man's system.
"Fortunately, when the old man left Beijing, he instructed the villain to find Qiao's family if he had something. Over the years, it's not a big deal. "Ximenqi was a little embarrassed.
The Ximen family collapsed all of a sudden, and the Ximen family has been operating in Beijing for a hundred years, what are the benefits, when the major families share the profits, they will naturally draw out the best piece. Waiting for the Ximen family to fully withdraw from the court, it is not easy to keep this family business. Ximen is no longer the master who sacrificed his life and money, and all the partnerships were handed over to those big families in Beijing, and what was left behind was not something that would be coveted by first-class people. However, if the first-class people don't care, it doesn't mean that the second- and third-rate people don't care, these Ximen also know anymore, and finding the Qiao family's help is the last step for Ximen. He didn't know if the Qiao family would help, anyway, he would rather give it to the Qiao family than cheapen those carrion beasts.
Ximen Qi is also the son of the Ximen family, and he is also full of pride in the Ximen family. Let him bow to those people, and he will not be. Of course, what he didn't expect was that the master would ask him to ask the Qiao family for help, but soon, he was relieved again. After all, there is still a princess in the Qiao family, and with the blessing of the royal aura, Ximen Qi will go to the Qiao family for help. He was very touched that the princess was a good person, and she had finally spent all these years smoothly.
Ximen nodded, feeling that the second uncle was obviously more like an old lady than his father in judging the situation. Thinking of the old lady and his parents, Ximen Kai was in pain again, and sometimes, he didn't know how he should face this matter. What his grandfather did, he has actually found out over the years, even if he knows that Qingqing is not talking nonsense, but this is his grandfather, he must find out by himself.
And fortunately, Ximen Zhi is a person with a desire for power, even if he leaves the capital, the old housekeeper of Ximen's old mansion is still Ximenzhi's original henchman. Otherwise, Ximen Qi and his son would not have only taken care of Ximen Zai's private property. Waiting for the old lady to come to them, the old housekeeper's spirit also collapsed, some things, there is no evidence for a long time, but the old housekeeper is the best witness, because Ximen Zhi can't do everything by himself, and the old housekeeper is the party. Knowing the truth, what can Ximen Kai say? People are dead, what else is there to say. He couldn't even say that those clansmen of the Ximen family were innocent, because at that time, Qingqing had handed over the number of dead to him, and this was the revenge of the Sun family. Wasn't the Sun family and the Liu family innocent?
So in the first three years of Ximen's opening, he kept filial piety in his hometown, and what he did was to reshape Ximen Village, but he did not agree with what the second uncle said, so that Ximen Village was abandoned. After all, too many people have died, and the grievances of these people will turn the village into a ghost village. Ximen Kai found someone to do things, and all the Ximen Village was flattened, and everything was done all over again. Now it's called Yan Village. And on the hill facing the village, Ximen Kai also built a big temple and invited senior monks to sit in the array. And he himself was a local head catcher after the end of his filial piety, he didn't think that he could return to the capital, what he thought was that he wanted to make that place prosperous again.
Ten years, he seems to have really lived a lifetime. The new Yan Village is now the most prosperous and prosperous place there, and the forgetful people seem to have forgotten the tragedy of the past. The Simon family seems to have a new big family.
When I arrived at a big mansion of Ximen's family, a very regular mansion in Xicheng, Ximenqi had already cleaned up, Ximen Kai didn't rest immediately, and looked at his wife, "Don't be busy cleaning up yet, let's go to Qiao's house to visit first." ”
"Don't send a post?" Ximen's young lady Xiao is Ximen in his hometown to help Ximen marry, after the junior official, but her parents' tutors are good, and she has also shown her good tutor over the years, and more importantly, she was born in a particularly harmonious family, her parents are loving, the family is simple, and she has the warmth that Ximen Kai does not have. Over the years, Ximen Kai felt that the second uncle had chosen the right person for himself, and he really felt very happy. Even if he doesn't have a son, he doesn't think there's anything wrong with it, he has two beautiful and optimistic daughters.
"Qiao's family doesn't need it, their house is like our house, they never close the door." Simon laughed, he was like Qiao's family, he never closed the door, pushed open at will by those in need, and showed a smile to everyone who asked for help. He was deliberately studying at the time, and slowly, he almost forgot that these were the Qiao family's family style.
Xiao's eyes widened, but she didn't ask, called her daughter, took out the gifts she had prepared a long time ago, and got into the car driven by Ximen.
"Mother, Kaifeng is really big!" The eldest daughter, Simon Orange, lifted the curtain and stared at her beautiful big eyes.
"Of course, this is the capital." The second daughter, Ximen Ju, also squeezed over and pretended to be calm.
"Alright, sit down." Ximen Kai couldn't help but smile when he saw his daughter, he finally knew why Qiao Dayong was like that when he mentioned his daughter, after he had a daughter, he was like a fool. With a slight wave of the whip, the little donkey cart slowly walked up, and they entered Beijing as a carriage, but they had just deliberately changed to a small donkey cart.
This is also their habit in their hometown, every time he takes his wife and daughter, he also likes to drive the little donkey cart slowly on the street. At the earliest, he couldn't help but think that Qingqing was sitting in Xiao Yue's car like this, and the way she leaned on Xiao Yue's shoulder, she felt very happy when she thought about it. And this association disappeared after he had a second little baby, because the fellow, after becoming a two-legged beast, as soon as he got into the car, climbed on his back at once, stretched out her little head, and chirped, so that he could not think of anything.
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