Chapter Forty-Six: The Three Brothers
Zhao Shuihe told me that he "Huainan Zhao" moved out of the Zhao family building very early, and because of this, the "historical imprint" of the Zhao family was passed on to her generation, and there was not much left. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
There are many past stories, and she also listened to her brother, father and grandfather, and she didn't dare to guarantee how much authenticity there was.
As I guessed, Zhao Shuihe's lineage was in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, led by Zhao Shuihe's grandfather, who fled from Zhao's house, and suffered a lot during the period.
Back then, in order to survive, they joined many gang organizations, and also did many despicable deeds, such as the Green Gang, the Salt Gang, the Cao Family Gang, the docks, the casino, and the maintenance club, all of which left the footprints of the Zhao family.
In that era, Zhao Shuihe's grandfather was very miserable, he took the clansmen to do everything, but he couldn't get out of the way, couldn't stand, until the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this group of people by chance, relying on the craft of cooking to join the two Huai "Su Zizuo", and with the technology of the family, gradually stabilized in the Yangzhou area.
People are this kind of thing, it is difficult to predict the blessings and misfortunes of the day, and the success or failure is only in the morning and night, although the Huainan Zhao family is miserable, but in the blink of an eye, it is bitter and sweet, and finally survives to the time of the beginning.
As soon as they stabilized, they actually ...... A blessing in disguise.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Huainan Zhao family had a good background, was a craftsman from "extreme poverty", and was considered a proletariat, so it was not affected by the catastrophe of ten years.
Moreover, they have Su Zizuo's "mutual help", the background of cooking in the Zhao family at home, this Zhao family quickly integrated into Yangzhou's catering circle, and after decades of hard work, they have become an authentic "family" chef in Huaiyang.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, as the saying goes, "Trees move nests to die, people move nests to live." Their experience and situation are in stark contrast to the incapacitated Lunan Zhao family, and they have also inherited a trace of blood for this "catering family" that has lasted for 600 years.
However, as Zhao Shuihe said, they and the Zhao family in Lunan are really just distant relatives, although they are still surnamed Zhao, but they are only theoretical relatives.
The branch of the Zhao family in Huainan and the Lunan family are not close, and they are estranged by blood.
Before moving out of the Zhao family's building, they had already had a "five-volt" with Lunan's own family, and it was passed to Zhao Shuihe's generation, and it was estimated that there were more than a dozen volts apart.
Except that she is the grandmother of Zhao Haikun and my master Zhao Haipeng on the family tree, there is really nothing that can connect them together.
Now, the Huainan Zhao family is not even the cooks of the Lu Cai Confucius Temple. All of them have followed the local customs, and they have already become the origin of the "Huaiyang Two Ancestral Temple".
But I don't understand...... is such a relative who can't beat with eight poles, why does he know so much about the local affairs of Zhaojialou? Why did you come all the way to attend the funeral of my old squad leader?
I couldn't help but be curious.
Therefore, I opened my mouth and asked, "You have all been gone for more than half a century, why do you still know about this Bright Lantern King, and the copper coins that can restrain the Bright Lantern King?" ”
Hearing this, Zhao Shuihe thought about it a little, and told me word by word: "The descendants of Zhao Jialou will never forget these, they are the debts owed by our ancestors!" ”
"Debt?!" I was stunned.
"Debt!" Zhao Shuihe told me: "Huowei Lian is a monster made by the ancestors of the Zhao family three hundred years ago! ”
Without waiting for me to ask, Zhao Shuihe quickly told me the origin of the cat demon Lantern King.
Zhao Shuihe said that everything has to start from the "Jiashen Change" ...... the last years of the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jiashen Change, the world changed hands, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty hanged himself, and all the palace maids and eunuchs and cooks in his court were captured and incorporated by Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang.
And among these people, there is the ancestor of the Zhao family who worked as an errand in the "Guanglu Temple" of the Ming Court.
Back then, the Lunan Zhao family had three brothers on errand in the imperial court, the eldest was called Zhao Dao, the second was called Zhao Huo, and the third was called Zhao Gong.
These three people have a lowly position, but they are barely officials, and they have the skills of a cook, so they were not treated harshly by Li Zicheng at the beginning, but were selected to cook for the righteous army, so that they did not have to worry about their lives.
But even so, these three benevolent brothers did not feel good.
Among the three brothers, the boss dared to think and dare to do, and as soon as he saw Li Chuang reusing himself, he fluttered and started the dream of "supporting", wanting to rely on his own skills to gain a place in the new dynasty.
As soon as Zhao Dao had an idea, he couldn't help but talk to his two younger brothers. However, his suggestion was resolutely opposed by the second and third children.
Compared with the boss, the second Zhao Huo and the third Zhao Gong are more cautious, and the third Zhao Gong is more conservative, he thinks that his ancestors have been blessed by the emperor and served the "Ming Court" for more than 100 years.
In his opinion, they should find an opportunity to escape and contact the Southern Ming court to "recover" the Northern Expedition, which is the royal way.
The second brother agrees with the third brother's idea of escaping, but his ideas are more practical than his third brother's.
He thinks that the Zhao family is just some cooks, and they have no other skills, let alone the overall situation of the world.
In this way, the three brothers had three very different ideas, and none of them could convince anyone.
After some discussion, the three brothers respected each other's opinions, and they went their separate ways on a rainy night, and from then on began three very different destinies.
The rest is not listed for the time being, only that Zhao Huo, the second eldest of the Zhao family, traveled south on a rainy night, and passed through Baoding Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, and Jinan Mansion overnight.
After returning to his home, Zhao Huo knew that this day was about to set off a more bloody war because of his ears and eyes in the capital. What he can do now is to lead the whole clan to avoid trouble.
But "avoiding trouble" is also a technical job!
At first, what he did was the same as the village near Shirengu, in order to avoid disaster, that is, to mobilize the whole clan to engage in the "self-protection" movement, the method is nothing more than to build a wall, engage in a group exercise, set up a signal tree, dig a tunnel and so on.
But soon after, he got a piece of news, one that shocked him.
Because of that news, Zhao Huo deeply felt that it was too difficult and unrealistic to rely only on his own strength to survive in the troubled times.
He had to take a risk!