"Footstool!" The county magistrate shouted, but the little guy next to him trembled: "My lord, we, we don't have a footstool."

The county commander glared fiercely at the little guy who spoke, and he shouted at one of the little guys: "Then you will lie there by yourself and ask General Fang to step on your back."

As soon as the county magistrate finished speaking, a short little guy walked to the wheel of the carriage, and he humbly lay on the ground, exposing his back in front of Fang Tianji.

"General, be careful to get out of the carriage, so that you can step on my little guy's back and get off." The county magistrate's face was full of flattering smiles.

Fang Tianji frowned dissatisfiedly: "Master Hu, what are you doing here?" I don't have to step on someone else's back to get out of the carriage. I'm not like you. After speaking, Fang Tianji glanced at this Lord Hu meaningfully.

This Lord Hu's whole face turned red after listening to Fang Tianji's words, and he opened his mouth to say something, but finally closed in Fang Tianji's gaze.

Fang Tianji didn't care what was going on in the mind of this Lord Hu, oh, what were you thinking, he jumped down from the carriage at once, and then stretched out his hand and hugged Jin Ran from the carriage: "Ran'er, come and see this Lord Hu, the county magistrate of Jincheng, when my parents died, this Lord Hu didn't help me and the concubine."

What Fang Tianji said was meaningful, and he glanced at Master Hu threateningly: "Hmph, this Lord Hu was really discerning, and he fell in love with my sister at a glance."

Jin Ran glanced at this Lord Hu meaningfully, she could see that Fang Tianji must have a lot of grievances with this Lord Hu, and it was the first time that Fang Tianji showed such hatred for a person.

Jin Ran was also happy to help her husband vent his anger.

Jin Ran deliberately pretended to be extremely disdainful of these people, of course, she also had this capital: "What? Prefectural order?" While speaking, Jin Ran deliberately looked up and down at this greasy county order.

Lord Hu was stiffened by Jin Ran's contemptuous gaze, but Jin Ran was a county lord, and the county lord was much stronger than such a small county commander as him.

Therefore, even if this Lord Hu had already scolded Jin Ran in his heart, he still smiled and nodded on the surface: "Yes, yes, Lord Jinrui." The small one is the county order of this Jincheng. ”

Jin Ran didn't even look at this Lord Hu, she deliberately grabbed Fang Tianji's hand, as if Master Hu didn't exist: "Tianji, I heard it just now in the carriage, is it possible that you have to step on someone else's back when you get off the carriage here?" After speaking, Jin Ran glanced meaningfully at General Hu.

Fang Tianji also smiled and said, "Yes, Jinran." I was very familiar with the human stool. I've been someone else's stool myself. ”

Master Hu's face was already frightened and pale, and he knelt down with a plop: "General Fang, please, please be merciful!"

Fang Tianji looked at the people on the ground with an indifferent face, as if he had returned to the battlefield.

Fang Tianji didn't speak at first, but after a long time, he opened his lips lightly, and his voice trembled with points: "Kai'en? Why should I be gracious to you? Is it because you want to marry my sister after my father's death, or because you trampled me under my feet for a whole year?"

Fang Tianji's severity was a little wet, his family was originally extremely beautiful, with a gentle mother, a serious father, and a pair of lovely children.

But the bad news came quickly, after Fang Tianji's father died, Fang's mansion plummeted, and Fang Tianji's mother soon died with his father, leaving only Fang Tianji and Fang Tianji's sister and a butt of debts left in order to treat his mother.

Before Fang Tianji's father died, he entrusted his wife and children to this Lord Hu.

However, this Lord Hu robbed the Fang family's little remaining property, and forced Fang Guifei to marry him as a concubine. Fang Tianji still remembers what Master Hu did. After Fang Tianji and Fang Guifei moved to Kyoto, their lives were better.

Fang Tianji looked at Lord Hu with a cold look in his eyes and said, "You didn't expect that you would have today, right?"

Jin Ran also frowned and looked at Lord Hu who was kneeling at their knees.

She touched Fang Tianji's hand comfortingly, with these worries and comforts in her voice: "Tianji, are you okay?"

Fang Tianji closed his eyes, his father's dead life was a lingering nightmare for Fang Tianji, he couldn't eat enough, he couldn't dress warmly, and he wouldn't beat and scold this Lord Hu at every turn, but Fang Tianji didn't dare to fight back or run away, because he still had to protect his sister.

Fang Tianji first pinched Jin Ran's fingers to show that he was much better, and then, Fang Tianji slowly squatted down and said to Hu Daren, who was so frightened that he had already peed his pants: "You are now going to atone for the sins you have committed."

Fang Tianji originally planned to come back in a low-key manner when he returned to his hometown, but as soon as he was interrupted by that Master Hu, he couldn't keep a low profile anymore.

After Fang Tianji became a general in Kyoto, he also bought a courtyard in Jincheng. This courtyard is a five-entry mansion, because of the special location of Jincheng, the price of this courtyard is not very high.

Jin Ran was very excited, she reached out and opened an embroidered curtain blocking the main courtyard: "Look outside, how beautiful"

There are a lot of ladies who come to visit these days, but they can choke Jinran tired.

Fang Tianji and Jin Ran had lunch, and the two of them packed up and went to worship Fang Tianji's parents.

Fang Tianji was somehow a little depressed, he grabbed Jin Ran's hand tightly, and pulled out a few red handprints from Jin Ran's hand,

"What's going on?" When Jin Ran and Fang Tianji arrived at the grave of Fang Tianji's parents, they were shocked to find that the cemetery of Fang Tianji's parents had not been properly cared for at all! The tombstones, which were originally made of marble, were covered with moss that had grown after the rain, and the soil on the grave bags had been washed away. There are potholes, and there are a lot of weeds growing next to the graves, some of which even grow to the waist of people, and it takes a long time to see it.

The only thing that was more decent was the two red bean trees in front of the grave of Fang Tianji's parents, but these two red bean trees were also planted when Fang Tianji left at the beginning, and they had nothing to do with the clan relatives that Fang Tianji had asked for.

Fang Tianji's eyes were red with anger, and he said to the guards beside him: "A few of you, go and invite my good clan relatives over, I want to ask clearly, how did they take care of my parents' cemetery for me?" ”

Jin Ran took Fang Tianji's hand worriedly, and she said softly: "Tianji, don't worry about it first, don't be angry with yourself." Let's take care of my father's grave first. After speaking, Jin Ran directly picked up the handkerchief and began to wipe the moss on the tombstone.

Fang Tianji was reluctant to let Jin Ran do it, he hurriedly snatched the handkerchief in Jin Ran's hand: "The people are here, what are you doing by yourself?" You are pregnant now, and if my mother sees me doing this and that with my pregnant wife, she may be so angry that she will come to me tonight to ask for a dream. ”

Fortunately, Jin Ran and Fang Tianji brought a lot of people today, so they quickly cleaned up the two cemeteries, and Jin Ran now has a grandmother and maid sent by the Sheng Mansion by his side, Li Ying didn't come because he wanted to take care of Jinran's shop and industry in Beijing for a while.

The old grandmother Bai Mama beside Jinran was extremely nimble, she first instructed the girls around her to wipe the moss off the tombstone, and ordered someone to pull out the wild flowers and weeds that grew on the grave, she respectfully said to Fang Tianji and Jinran: "General, madam, this tombstone is a little damaged, do you want someone to fight a new one?" And is it necessary to wrap a layer of marble on the grave bag? If this tomb bag is just a dirt bag, it will not look very good when the wind blows and the rain blows. ”

Fang Tianji and Jin Ran naturally agreed. With the master's consent, Mama Bai hurried to invite craftsmen.

Fang Tianji gives up so much silver to his clan relatives every year, but his parents' graves have become like this, they will not take it like this if they are a little sad, those weeds have grown to the height of a human waist, which means that no one has come to see the graves of his parents, 1 But if he comes to take a look, he will always pull out the weeds, right? It looks like the dust on the tombstone has not even been wiped, let alone brought an offering to worship.

Fang Tianji was as disgusting as swallowing a fly, he knew that his clan was not very good, and they also ignored him when he and his sister lost their father and mother, so Fang Tianji would give up so much silver and ask them to help take care of it, he also thought, with so much silver, they would also help for the sake of silver, right?

But Fang Tianji didn't expect that these people were really so disgusting, they didn't say anything after taking the money, and they didn't do anything.

When the clan members of the Fang family were brought by Fang Tianji's guards, some of them were still lying on the woman's belly and bragging, after all, Fang Tianji gave a lot of silver, he not only gave the clan to help take care of his parents, but also gave some silver for the clan to cultivate some clan studies and buy some fields to support those orphans who lost their parents in the early years, Fang Tianji himself was an orphan, so he naturally knew the pain and difficulty of losing his parents, so he wanted to help more.

But all this silver fell into the hands of these clan relatives, they relied on themselves to be Fang Tianji's clan relatives, rampant and domineering in Jincheng, and they had the silver sent by Fang Tianji every year, and their lives were very good.

An old clan member yawned sleepily: "Hey, brothers, when will we take the time to repair the graves of Fang Tianji's parents?" Don't come back, Fang Tianji came back to see his father's grave, and if it didn't look like it, let's kill us alive. ”

One of the clan relatives said impatiently: "Didn't the Heavenly Halberd of the Chuan Fang still be on the frontier a few days ago?" He had just beaten down Xixia, and now he was naturally in a hurry to return to Kyoto to discuss meritorious deeds, where would he have time to come to Jincheng? Now that he is from Kyoto, it is the time to marry the county lord, and if it were me, I would have left Lao Tzu Niang behind. ”

A white-faced bearded man nodded: "Third Uncle is right, besides, didn't Fang Tianji ask you to give you a share of the silver he sent back this year?" Where is the surplus silver to remediate what cemetery? There is also ethnography, all of which will be talked about when he sends the silver over next year! Let's hire a cheap craftsman to find some stones in the field and repair them for his father and mother. After speaking, he took a sip of wine: "As for the study of clans, wouldn't it be simpler?" Find a sour Confucian, and then find two boys and girls casually, find a big room and put them in it, take care of the white-flour steamed buns for a few days, and then send them away when Fang Tianji is gone? ”

This person had a very thorough plan, but he didn't know that when he said these words, Fang Tianji's guards had already arrived at this place, ready to take them all away.

And his words happened to be heard by the guards who went upstairs.

"I heard, patriarch, you have come up with a whole set of methods to fool me." Fang Tianji glanced indifferently at the team leader who was tied up. He smiled coldly and said, "Find a big house and take care of white flour steamed buns for a few days?" How do I remember that I will give you five hundred taels of silver a year for these? How much silver is a white-flour steamed bun? Five hundred taels is enough for those children to eat meat at once! “

After Fang Tianji finished speaking, an angry slap slapped the face of the white-faced bearded man, who was the patriarch of the Fang family.

The patriarch of the Fang family was beaten and rolled to the ground, he was so frightened that he trembled, and he didn't stand up on the ground several times, as if his legs were scared and weak.