Chapter 9: The Villagers with the Breath of the New World (4)
For this kind of situation, Hanzhang feels more familiar, and it is not as ethereal as the previous enthusiasm for her and the nameless old virtue.
The villagers of Yuanba finally didn't let her cognition go astray.
As the night drew closer, not only did they not mean to end, but also set off waves of lively climaxes.
Hanzhang walked down the whole way in the circle of people, and also found a general idea of this place from this information:
In Yutang Village, except for the Yu family where she stayed, every family in the village had the surname Yi. Not only Yutang Village, but also the families in the nearby Shili Eight Villages, most of them are surnamed Yi.
Many villages don't even have a single miscellaneous household.
Therefore, Yi is a well-deserved surname on this side.
And because most of the families in this party live in the world, the intermarriage and blood relationship between generations are almost all related to each other, and the generations are also complicated. There are many young people like her.
However, although the people here have a relationship with each other, there is no difference between people.
The place where she was at her feet at this time was where the most famous people in the area were located.
The Yi family of this branch has four brothers:
The eldest Yi Bo died of illness when he was young, and he did not have a family when he died, so he did not leave a descendant.
The second Yi Zhong is the middle-aged man who picked up the two or three-year-old girl just now.
He served as a scholar in the only spiritual college in Gaoyang Township, and was in charge of the teaching chores of the children on this side, and was very respected;
He married his wife Guo, although he had no attainments in spiritual arts, but he was virtuous and thoughtful, and he was a well-known virtuous person in this area, and gave birth to a pair of children, the eldest being Yi Jian, and the younger being Yi Fei.
Yi Jian is twelve years old and has been studying in the Spiritual Academy for several years, and his qualifications are in the upper middle; Yi Fei, who has just turned six years old, has only been sent to the Spiritual Academy for enlightenment at the beginning of the year, and his qualifications are unknown.
Uncle Yi is the most commented on.
It sounds like this man is hot-tempered and has no opinions. His attainments in spiritual arts are also at the bottom of the village. And the most unpopular thing is to marry a wife, Ho.
This He is selfish and narrow-minded, with eye holes like needles, and he has never been able to tolerate others. She is also on par with her husband in spiritual arts.
And such two people seem to be a natural pair, and they hit it off.
Achieved a couple that everyone in the village hated.
According to the words of these villagers, none of these two people can do anything on the table.
Usually not good at making a living, not to mention, even do things such as unclean hands and feet. This is rare in today's years when the surplus grain of the family is piled up.
And these two people are still high-spirited:
When you hear this person speak, you feel that your tone is not right, and you will have a quarrel, and when you hear that person speak, you feel that you have been insinuated, and you will have to fight with someone.
Make everyone in the village hide!
The two also gave birth to a pair of children, the son is younger, only a few months older than Sister Na Ling, who was taken by the two of them, and has not yet returned; the daughter is the dirty girl, who is six years old this year, only a few days older than Guo's daughter Yi Fei.
This girl's name is Yi Zhen, and her nickname is Sullen.
Such a nickname was given by her parents themselves, just because this child was often left in the village, and his meals depended on hundreds of families, no one taught him, and he was one step late in learning anything, so his words and deeds were a little dull.
In addition, these two people have a bad temper, and they scold the child when they are not happy at home, which makes the child cowardly, and is burdened by the virtue of his parents, and he is not less cold-eyed and cold-hearted by others.
So when you look at it, you look like you're a little mentally obstructed!
In this situation, the two of them also gave the child the nickname "Stuffy" very appropriately. made others hate and pity them.
The nickname of this stuffy child has been called for a long time, and few people in the village still remember her big name Yi Zhen.
I occasionally heard Guo call back, which also made Guo even more praised - I think she is thoughtful and doesn't matter, and she doesn't care about people.
But the girl's mother, He Shi, obviously didn't think so, she never thanked her sister-in-law Guo for her daughter's help, and when people talked about Guo's benefits to her, she often said:
"You think she's really good, she's just a gesture of making a name for herself with things she can't eat and use. When do you think she's better off hiding for Stuffy?"
I heard that people hated her and didn't know what to do, and admired Guo's tolerance.
Hanzhang compares the attitude of the villagers towards the old man and the attitude towards the couple, and there is a world of difference.
She can also be regarded as having received the merit of the old virtuous head "planting trees by predecessors"!
Let's talk about the fourth child of the Yi family, Yi Ji. He is the pillar of this noble family.
I heard that he has been extremely qualified and talented since he was a child, and now he works as a husband in Yongcheng, the capital of Qidi, to manage the tax and finance.
Although the official position is not high, the matters he has experienced are of great importance, and he is a great sweetheart. married a daughter-in-law born in a prestigious family in the city, gave birth to a child and raised her carefully, and her life and status have reached a higher level.
I really envy this neighbor.
When people were talking about him, there were still people of the older generation who hung up: Lao Detou's cultivation qualifications back then were not inferior to Yi Laosi.
With such a comparison, it is no wonder that the villagers hate iron and steel when they talk about the old man.
Although Yi Laosi has a house and land in this village, and the house is the one to the west of here, their family lives in the city on weekdays, and they come back once a year for the New Year.
Usually, the houses and property of the hometown are taken care of by the Guo family.
Because it is not easy for the people in the township to get ahead, there is very little information about spiritual arts and government decrees that they can access, so every year, as long as Yi Laosi's family comes back, the whole village will come here to ask for some information and opportunities!
Or maybe there's an unexpected surprise.
It was not the right time for Hanzhang to come, Yi Lao and his family went out because of something temporary, and only entrusted their daughter to Yi Zhong and his family to take care of them for a while, so they didn't see her demeanor with their own eyes.
In such a way, the Yi family, who "gave birth to nine sons", was so sad that the two old parents were overly sad because of the death of their eldest son, and they went to Yi Bo soon after he left! Originally, there were only four ancestral houses left behind with the mountain facing south.
Earlier, the three brothers had a few troubles for dividing the family property, and later the second and fourth brothers gave up the two big ones in the middle of the ancestral house to the third one, and the two only occupied one of the two small ones, which was regarded as inheriting Zude. Later, two new houses were built on each side.
This is what it is today.
Hanzhang sent the paper-cutting, and there was a big bag of things that made it difficult. If it was according to her previous temperament, she would have left her things a long time ago, but after experiencing a circle of human feelings at this time, such a move is obviously inappropriate.
Fortunately, someone soon noticed her plight and promised to let her go first, and he dropped by to deliver her things to her house when he got home later.
Hanzhang couldn't wait to walk empty-handed, her body was already a little tired after walking around at this time, so she smiled and thanked the man, and left the courtyard briskly.
She walked onto the path, and was thinking about "these people are not over at this time, probably waiting for Yi Laosi to come back", when she heard someone deliberately lower the voice from behind:
"This new daughter should finally be the heart of the old man, right?"
"No! This doesn't need to be cultivated, just to learn those miscellaneous things from him wholeheartedly. ”
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Listening to these voices, Han Zhang's understanding is complicated. She raised her hand to cover her chest, and for the behavior of the people behind her who deliberately lowered their voices for her, a kind of emotion called "covering her ears and stealing the bell" rose.
Although these villagers are also in the world of spiritual arts, their human contacts, words and deeds, there is less familiar coldness and more unfamiliar warmth, and everywhere exudes the breath of the new world she is exploring.