For Jianchang City, the most lively time of the year is not the Spring Festival, but the Dragon Boat Festival, because this day is the day when the Lu family worships their ancestors, swims in the dragon and lion dance, and distributes snacks and fruits all over the city.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the Lu family lasts for three days, and the first day is solemn. On the second day, the celebration was lively, there were dozens of lion and dragon dance teams from nearby prefectures and counties performing along the street, competing for beauty, there were Lu family's flowing water seats, there were shoes and hats for the elderly and children, and there were countless jugglers; On the third day, the city was almost drunk, and the Lu family put huge wine barrels at various street corners, and everyone who passed by served a glass of wine, thanking everyone for their hard work in the past year.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the eighteenth year of Jiayou, the liveliness of the second day is the same as in previous years, around noon, the streets and alleys outside are so lively that they are unbearable, in the very large Lu family ancestral hall, a table of family banquets has just been placed, the head of the Lu family, Mrs. Lu, is a little tired to sit in the wing room used to rest, and is talking about the idle affairs of the capital with the eldest grandson Lu Ji who has returned from a long distance.

“…… The Queen Mother's body is not very good, Daddy said, it has been about two years, Daddy said, the Queen Mother is very worried about Jin Niangniang. Lu Ji's voice was very low.

"Jin Niangniang's illness is cured?" Old Lady Lu frowned.

"It's still like that, Daddy is also very worried, Daddy said, Jin Niangniang is getting quieter and quieter, and when she looks at people, her eyes are getting clearer and clearer."

"It's figured out." Old lady Lu sat up straight.

"Yes, Daddy said the same......"

Before Lu Ji finished speaking, he was interrupted by a slightly trembling communication outside, "Old lady, there are people outside asking to see you." ”

"Come in and say." Old lady Lu heard the voice of the old servant An Shun, and also heard the slight tremor in this voice, and raised her voice and called in.

"Old lady, a young woman came to the door of the ancestral hall, brought a little boy of three or four years old, and said that she asked to see you, old lady, that child...... The kid ...... "Anshun gestured with both hands."

"What's wrong with the kid? You speak well. Old Lady Lu asked with a twisted eyebrow.

"Yes, kid...... Alas, the old lady will know if you look at it, the old slave does not dare to say. An Shun stomped his foot anxiously.

"You come with me to see." Old Lady Lu stood up.

Anshun has been waiting by his side for decades, he knows that Anshun's temperament can make him shocked like this, anxious to be like this, this matter must be trivial, he said let him go and see, it must be people and things that he must see with his own eyes.

"Yes." Lu Ji agreed, hurriedly stepped forward to help Mrs. Lu, and followed Mrs. Lu, who was walking like a fly, to the door of the ancestral hall.

Although there is a hustle and bustle dozens of steps away, the entrance of the Lu family ancestral hall is very quiet.

At the door of the quiet ancestral hall, a slightly thin young woman in a thorn hairpin cloth skirt was squatting and talking to a little boy of three or four years old.

The little boy heard the movement first and turned his head to look at the gate of the ancestral hall.

Old lady Lu met the little boy's gaze and looked at the little boy dumbfounded, Lu Ji was also dumbfounded, and sighed at the stunned old lady Lu who was looking at it.

The young woman also saw Old Lady Lu, looked at the stunned Old Lady Lu, obviously relieved, and gently pushed the child, "Brother Feng, kneel down." ”

The little boy immediately knelt on the ground with a thud, but did not kowtow, only looked up at the old lady Lu.

The young woman also knelt down, "You're the old lady, aren't you?" The people's daughter's surname is Shen, and she didn't dare to disturb the old lady, but this child is really ......"

The young woman's eyes were full of tears, and she looked at the little boy with great pity, "Rare intelligence, if you have been following the folk girl and burying him, the folk girl is really ...... The heart is like a knife. ”

Shen's tears fell in strings, and the little boy hung his head, stiffening.

"Whose child is this?" Old lady Lu stepped forward, pulled up the little boy, and bent down to look at him carefully.

"Third Master." The young woman looked at the little boy intently, and the sourness in her heart was indescribable, and from this day on, she would never see him again, nor would she see her son, whom she regarded as her life.

"Call the third child over, immediately!" Old lady Lu didn't look back and ordered.

Anshun agreed, and he didn't call anyone, and he trotted all the way to call the third master Li Minghua.

"The third master doesn't know that there is Brother Feng." The young woman forcefully removed her gaze from her son and looked at the old lady Lu who turned her head to look at her, "The girl was originally the girl of the Xingchang County Commander Yao Yancunfu's family, four years ago, the third master passed through Xingchang County and stayed in the county government for two nights.

In the second month after the third master left, the folk girl found out that she was pregnant, so she took out 30 taels of 100 taels of silver that the third master had rewarded when he left, tried to redeem herself, moved to Xing'an City, and gave birth to Feng Ge'er.

Brother Feng can speak at seven months, and before he was two years old, he knew a lot of words, and now he has read a thousand words of literature, poetry and rhyme, and all the books that the folk girls can find and borrow.

He was only four years old, and the folk girl was no longer able to teach him and raise him.

The folk girl was really reluctant to delay him. ”

Shen's voice choked, looking at her son, who was turning his head to look at her, he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.

"The third master is here." Although Anshun is old, his legs and feet are very neat, and the third master, Lu Minghua, followed him, falling four or five steps behind.

"Look at it, do you recognize it?" Without waiting for Lu Minghua to get closer, Old Lady Lu pointed at Shen and asked.

Lu Minghua was almost out of breath when he ran, and when he heard his father's question, he hurriedly took a few steps forward and looked at Shen.

Shen also looked up at him.

"You are?" Lu Minghua's voice was a little hesitant, "That girl from Yao Xize's family? Jean Se? ”

Xi Ze is the word of Xingchang County Ling Yao Cunfu, and Yao Xize is Xingchang County Ling Yao Cunfu.

Old Lady Yao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, her face sank, she raised her crutches and knocked on her son's back, motioning him to look at the little boy, "Look at this!" ”

"It's ...... Belch! Lu Minghua hadn't noticed that the three- or four-year-old little Douding was seen by his father, and he was stunned, "This is!" Lu Ming stared at the old lady Lu and pointed at the little boy, but he couldn't speak.

"This is your son!" Old lady Lu knocked on Lu Minghua's back with another crutch.

"Huh?!" Lu Minghua was even more dumbfounded.

"You come in with me and talk." Old lady Lu ignored her son Lu Ming's painting, and looked at Shen with a kind expression.

Shen hesitated a little and stood still.

"Don't worry, this kid is the heir of my Lu family at first glance, if you are willing to send him, you must have heard of it, the most important heir of my Lu family, not to mention, it is such an outstanding child, don't worry, come in and talk." Old Lady Lu explained kindly and patiently.

"Old lady, forgive me." Shen did not deny it, only bent his knees to apologize, followed behind the old lady Lu who was holding the little boy, crossed the painting of Lu Ming, who was still stunned, and entered the ancestral hall.

Entering the room where Mrs. Lu was resting just now, Mrs. Lu let the Shen family go back, saw that she thanked her but did not sit down, did not let much, and asked with a smile: "You took this child, and you came to the door recklessly, how do you know that the Lu family can recognize this child?" ”

"Those who have seen the third master say that Brother Feng looks like the third master." Shen replied with lowered eyebrows and lowered eyes.

"Well, this kid doesn't look much like the third child." Old lady Lu leaned back in the chair and looked at the eldest grandson Lu Ji, "You bring the little statue in the back room to show her." ”

Lu Ji agreed, entered the chamber, and after a while, took out a scroll about four inches wide, opened it and sent it to Shen.

Shen Shi looked at it, his eyes widened, and he hurriedly approached to take a look, and this glance was dumbfounded.

The person in this portrait and Brother Feng'er, except for the difference in age, looks like they came out of a mold.

"This is the ancestor." Old Lady Lu looked at the Shen family, who was stunned until his mouth was half open, his heart relaxed, and he looked at Brother Feng'er, who wanted to stretch out his head to look at the portrait, but he didn't dare to move, and smiled: "It's called Brother Feng, Brother Feng'er come, come to Weng Weng, do you want to see that?" Ah Ji, show it to your brother. His name is Lu Ji, and he is the eldest brother of your generation, and he will give you a gift to your eldest brother. ”

Brother Feng immediately arched his hand, with a little milky voice, "Big brother is good." ”

"Brother Feng'er is good." Lu Ji hurriedly handed the scroll to Anshun, bowed his hand, and solemnly returned the salute.

"I'll let someone take you to find a place to rest first, Brother Feng will stay with me, I have to discuss with a few clan elders, as well as Brother Feng and his father, don't worry." Old Lady Lu pulled Brother Feng to sit beside him and said warmly to Shen.

"Yes, it's all up to the old lady to arrange." Shen looked at the portrait of the ancestor of the Lu family, and his heart rose completely, and he readily agreed.