Starry tonight.

Li Youniang sat in her yard, holding her chin, looking at the night sky stupidly.

was supposed to be an innocent little person, but at this time, the single figure revealed a bit of melancholy temperament.

Zhang Chu wanted to take a concubine, and the entire Zhang Mansion was very happy.

She wasn't happy.

Even the home that made her feel warm became out of place.

"Young lady, young lady, pour me a bowl of water, my head hurts. ”

Her heartless big brother was clamoring for water again.

She didn't move.

She's still angry!

It's okay if others follow suit, but you also follow suit.

Are you still my big brother?

"Young lady?"

"Young lady!"

In the sound of squirming, Li Gouzi rubbed his forehead and pushed the door out, and when he saw Li Youniang standing still in the courtyard, he feigned anger and said: "What are you doing? I called you, you didn't hear it!"

Li Youniang was silent.

Li Gouzi felt that something was wrong, and stepped forward to move her small body back, and saw a pair of sparkling eyes.

Not only did he not panic, but he also badly rubbed the little girl's carefully combed double flat bun, and teased: "What kind of nose are you crying for the New Year!"

Li Youniang, who was already very unhappy, was so troubled by him that she finally couldn't hold back.

She cried out with a "wow", turned around and hit her head into Li Gouzi's arms, grabbed his moon-white underwear and wiped her tears and nose.

Li Gouzi stretched out an index finger in disgust to open the little girl's smooth head, and said distressedly: "If you want to wipe your nose with your own clothes, my clothes have just been made by my aunt, and I haven't worn them for a few days!"

"Wow Wow Wow ......"

The aggrieved little girl completely broke out, and when she howled, she jumped up and used it, and her small fist hammered Li Gouzi's chest.

The fist was so light that the cat couldn't hurt it, but Li Gouzi yelled at the face-saving "oops", "oops": "Don't fight, don't call, fight me back again!"

The little girl played for a while, and finally threw herself into the arms of her eldest brother, hugged his waist and cried.

Li Gouzi slowly patted his sister's vest and comforted her silently.

As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, when their mother went, he was still a child, so he was a father and a mother and took Li Youniang to survive, in this world, no one loves his own sister more than him.

It's just that they have depended on each other since they were children, and they have their own way of getting along, and they don't seem to be as greasy as other brothers and sisters.

After a long time, Li Youniang raised her little head and said, "Brother, do you say that Chu Ye hates me?"

Li Gouzi suddenly realized, stroked the top of the little girl's head and smiled: "Why are you crying, it turns out that this is the case!"

This sentence was so angry that Li Youniang stomped on him again, and said in her heart the entire Zhang family, you don't know, right?

Li Gouzi didn't mind, and sneered evilly: "Yellow-haired girl, her body hasn't opened yet, what do you want to do with it?"

"Wow, ......"

Li Youniang was about to break out again, Li Gouzi grabbed her little hand and said with a smile: "What's the hurry, I haven't finished talking yet!"

"How old are you?"

"Ten...... Three!"

"Phew, twelve is twelve, where did you come from to be thirteen!"

"Obviously, in another eleven months, I will be thirteen!"

"Okay, even if you're thirteen years old, then do you know how old Chu Ye is this year?"

"I don't know ......"

"Twenty-one!"

"It's not big!"

"It's not big, but my aunt is in a hurry to hold her eldest grandson, can you give birth now?"

“......”

"Don't blame the aunt, her old man's health has never been very good, and she forced Chu Ye to marry a concubine because she was afraid that she would not see the day when her grandson was born. ”

"I don't blame my godmother......"

"But don't be afraid, Chu Ye just saw those two sisters-in-law for the first time today, what kind of feelings can you have, you are different, you enter Zhang's house as if you go back to your own home, how can the relationship with Chu Ye be deeper than those two sisters-in-law, right?"

"Besides, don't you still have an old brother to help you? What is the relationship between my brother and Chu Ye? My brothers are not as close as we are! When you grow up, I will propose to you, why can't Chu Ye take it?"

"Yes, too!"

The little girl's face finally smiled, and she felt that her eldest brother didn't seem to be so stupid!

"Of course, listen to my brother, that's right!"

Li Gouzi's face also had a smile like a wolf grandmother, "If you think about it, you will go and cook a bowl of noodles for my brother, add two eggs, and drink at night, my stomach is empty, and I don't have any food at all." ”

Li Youniang: "......"

......

Zhang Chu thought that after deciding on the matter of taking a concubine, the old lady went to a heart disease, and she could live more easily and comfortably.

didn't think about it, but the old lady became more and more worried.

In the next few days, Zhang Chu often found her old man with a feather duster, the soles of her shoes, and pots and pans.

When I asked her anything, she refused to say, just said that it was okay.

Until the early morning of the fourth day of the first lunar month, when Zhang Chu passed by outside her mother's bedroom, she overheard a whisper in the room.

After listening to it, I realized that the old lady was talking to the spiritual position of his father and his eldest brother.

He understood it all at once.

Every festive season, I miss my family.

Other people's families celebrate the New Year, and they are all family reunions, and relatives who are far away will rush back to reunite.

And in their family, only their mother and son are left to rely on each other.

He doesn't care, anyway, his father and his eldest brother are just a long memory left by his predecessor to him.

It's like watching a movie.

But for his mother.

One is half of her sky, and the other is a piece of flesh that fell from her body!

Can she not miss them?

Especially now that he is going to get married, they can't see it...... How uncomfortable she must have felt when she thought of this!

They don't even have a tomb until now.

Zhang Chu knew he had to do something.

......

Zhang's house has always been very lively.

Even if you don't count Li Gouzi, and the brothers of the Blood Knife Team who often come to eat under him, there are so many mouths for eating in Zhangfu's house that they are terrifying.

Zhang Chu adopted more than 50 children in the mansion.

Brother 30 of the Bloody Shirts.

The fifteenth or sixteenth subordinate of the house.

With such a large population, it stands to reason that they should pay attention to the respect and humility of the masters and servants of large families, and eat them in batches...... That is, after the master's family eats, the people will eat the leftovers from the master's house, filling their stomachs.

But Zhang Chu was reluctant to do so.

He has always believed that systems and rules can regulate people's duties and obligations, but too hierarchical systems and rules are bound to dilute the human touch.

The Bloody Clothes are his guards, and at the critical moment, they want to protect him with their lives, is it interesting to pay attention to the respect and humility of the master and servant in this relationship?

Those children, the future backbone of the training he cultivated, will still point to them in the future to serve him with the current kindness, and it is even more meaningless to pay attention to the dignity of the master and servant.

In the end, it was formed, and when the Zhang family ate, more than 100 people were eating together lively.

Serve yourself, and no one will serve anyone.

It's like a big cafeteria.

But Zhang Chu likes this lively scene very much.

Rice, you have to rush to eat to have an appetite.

Although except for Li Gouzi, no one dared to grab food from him.

More than 100 people, eleven square tables.

Zhang Chu sat on the main seat in the north.

On the left hand side sat his mother.

Zhiqiu and Xia Tao are concubines, so they are not qualified to sit on his right hand.

Sitting on his right hand is the Great Bear.

The two of them could only sit opposite Zhang Chu...... If the rules are strict, they can only eat in the backyard, not in the front yard.

Usually Li Gouzi, Mule and Yu Er also sit at this table when they eat in the mansion.

When eating, Zhang Chu held his big bowl of soup, pulled the food into his mouth, and pretended to be unintentional and said: "Mother, you clean up in the afternoon, and tomorrow we will go back to our hometown to worship our ancestors!"

The green vegetables on Zhang's chopsticks slipped down, and he looked at Zhang Chu with some stunned expression: "Chu'er, okay, why did you suddenly think of returning to your hometown to worship your ancestors?"

"Hey, who doesn't worship their ancestors during the New Year!"

Zhang Chu said with a smile: "In previous years, our family was poor, and it didn't matter if we didn't go back to our hometown to worship our ancestors, but this year, our family's life is getting better, and if we don't go back, the ancestors will blame us!"

"Besides, my father and eldest brother have been gone for so many years, and they should also build a well-dressed mound or something, well, by the way, they can also meet Zhiqiu and Xia Tao!"

He said this, not to persuade the Zhang family to agree to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, this is what she thinks about day and night, and she doesn't need him to convince her.

Zhang Chu didn't want his mother to think that he went to great lengths to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors for her.

The old man was afraid of causing him trouble.

Zhiqiu, who had already received his signal, sandwiched a green vegetable in Zhang's bowl, and took over the conversation with a smile: "Yes, mother, you have to take your concubine and sister back to your hometown to recognize the door!"

Xia Tao's face was bulging, and she couldn't speak, so she could only nod her head coquettishly.

A trace of mist suddenly appeared in Zhang's eyes, and he nodded chokedly: "Hey, my mother will take you back to recognize the door." ”

How could she not understand her son's intentions?

She felt that she must have accumulated the blessings of ten lifetimes to give birth to such a filial son.

Seeing her nodding, Zhang Chu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, raised his chopsticks and knocked on Da Xiong's bowl, "Inform the brothers of the Blood Clothes Team to go home tonight and explain to their wives and children, and inform Li Gouzi and the mules by the way, so that they can also arrange for them to go down, and tomorrow the Blood Clothes Team, the Blood Knife Team, and the Blood Shadow Guard will return to my hometown with me!"

Da Xiong lifted his big face from the sea bowl and nodded, "Yes, Master Chu!"

Zhang Chu thought for a while, and then said: "After eating, send a brother out, rent two carriages to come back, if you can rent horses, you can also rent more horses to come back, you can arrange the carriage later, we will go to the helm to report to the helper." ”

With his current status, returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors is not a trivial matter that can be walked away.

Nearly two hundred miles from Jintianfu to Jintian County, it is a sturdy man, fast horses, but also have to walk for most of the day, Zhang Chu and his mother are frail, dare not be too bumpy, it will be more time-consuming, according to Zhang Chu's calculations, I am afraid that there is no time for one or two days, I can't get to Jintian County, plus the time to repair clothes and mounds and worship ancestors, this time to come, let alone seven or eight days.

The Black Tiger Hall has been unmanned for such a long time, which is enough for the gangs in the west of the city to swallow up the territory and business of the Black Tiger Hall!

Therefore, we must arrange everything before we set off, so that there will be no big mess.