The matter of the eldest grandson is nothing, and it has always been a heart disease for the eldest grandson, and now he is in a dilemma, and it is difficult to choose.

The fate of Yang Liang, the king of Han, is closely related to the fate of the eldest grandson Wunai and the fate of the eldest grandson's family.

Judging from the fact that Yang Jun, the king of Qin, died of depression, so the crown prince Yang Yong and the king of Shu Yang Xiu were demoted to concubines, the fate of Yang Liang, the king of Han, was not optimistic.

Either be degraded or rebel, this is the most likely path for Han King Yang Liang to take.

If Yang Liang, the king of Han, is demoted, it depends on what kind of crime the crown prince Yang Guang fabricates for him.

If the sin is great, many people will be implicated, and the eldest grandson will be among them.

If Yang Liang, the king of Han, rebelled, the eldest grandson Wunai would be executed immediately by Yang Liang if he did not comply; If you follow Yang Liang to rebel, then the eldest grandson is an accomplice, and the eldest grandson's family may be exterminated.

Changsun Sheng wants to transfer Changsun Wunai out of the state as soon as possible, but he needs to look for opportunities.

If the operation is not done properly, it will cause the dissatisfaction of Yang Liang, the king of Han, and now that he is in power, he may do something unfavorable to the eldest grandson Wunai and the eldest grandson family.

Fortunately, the emperor is still in good health, and he loves his youngest son Yang Liang very much.

Changsun Sheng believes that when the emperor is alive, King Han should be fine. Therefore, the matter of the eldest grandson is not in a hurry, it can be done within two or three years, and it can be postponed for a while.

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Sun Sheng, the chief of these affairs, didn't want to talk more to his wife, for fear of causing her to feel uneasy.

Gao Qiuniang was immersed in the happiness of her husband at home, and she had a smile on her face every day.

She is still concerned about the education of her sons and daughters, and hopes that they will be able to adapt to this world in terms of academic and personality development in the future.

No matter how safe the wings of their parents are, but when they grow old, they still have to rely on themselves if they want to survive in the family competition that is falling against each other and settling down.

As the saying goes: It is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles.

In order for children to realize the sinister nature of human nature and the difficulties of the world, it is necessary to put them in the real world and let them experience and understand them for themselves.

When the eldest grandson Sheng was not at home, Gao Qiuniang rarely went out, and the eldest grandson Wuji and Guanyin rarely went out of the house. Even if they go out of the house occasionally, they are mostly in the capital, and the two children are so big that the range of activities does not exceed a radius of ten miles.

In the minds of children, only the prosperity of the capital and the prosperity of the mansion are taken for granted.

They think that they are the darlings of the family, the pride of the sky, dressed in splendid clothes, calling slaves and maids, and crying and making noise at the slightest misservice to achieve their own goals.

Who knows, this glory and wealth are not easy to obtain.

Who knows, if you are not careful, your life destiny may be reduced to the point that you are not as good as these slaves and maids.

Gao Qiuniang suggested that the children should go out for a walk and let them see the outside world.

Changsun Sheng agreed with his wife's opinion very much, and took advantage of the fact that he had just returned to Beijing and there was no new errand to be assigned, so he discussed taking Changsun Wuji and Guanyin to live in Chengnan Manor at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain for a period of time.

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The time is scheduled for late November.

It was chosen at this time to let the two children experience how the poor tenant farmers lived in winter.

Changsun Sheng arranged for Xiao Changqing to clean up the manor in advance.

The slaves also set off in advance to the manor in the south of the city to prepare their daily living applications.

On the day of departure, only Gao Qiuniang, Changsun Wuji, Guanyin, Ding Niangzi, and Yuhan sat in the calf cart, and Changsun Sheng and two personal retinues followed on horseback.

The Chengnan Manor of the Changsun General's Mansion is thirty miles away from the city.

The group set off in the morning, stop-and-go, because the calf cart could not go fast, until the afternoon Shen Shi arrived in front of the village.

The manor is 200 zhang long and wide, and there is a moat 10 zhang wide dug around it, and the gate faces south, and it is equipped with a suspension bridge. There are stewards in the village, and Zhuang Ding usually guards them.

When Changsun Sheng and his entourage arrived, Liu Changxi, the steward of Chengnan Manor, had already opened the door of the village, put down the suspension bridge, and waited in front of the village. Seeing the arrival of Changsun Sheng and others, Liu Changxi led people to kowtow to greet him.

Facing the village gate, it is a loess road five zhang wide.

On both sides of the road there are two rows of black locust trees, each one a foot thick, that looks like they have grown for many years.

At the end of the loess road is a circular flower bed, and behind the flower bed is a blue brick shadow wall.

After entering Zhuangzi, I walked all the way, and on the left was a square with a length and width of 50 zhang, and on the right was a threshing floor.

In the middle of the northern part of the square is a five-foot-high rectangular earthen platform.

To the west of the square are horse sheds, cattle sheds, and places where livestock and poultry are raised.

To the north of the cowshed are rows of small courtyards. In the courtyard were adobe and thatched houses, which were used by tenant farmers and domestic slaves.

Bypassing the shadow wall, in the northernmost middle of Zhuangzi, is a mansion similar in size and architectural shape to the Changsun General's Mansion in Chang'an City, alias the Perak Hall Annex, which is usually managed by the house slave and lived in when the master of the Changsun Mansion came.

The courtyard has been cleaned up everywhere, the slaves and maids are also in place, and the living conditions here are basically the same as those in the house, except that there is less hustle and bustle and excitement in the capital.

The eldest grandson Sheng and his wife still live in the upper room of the inner courtyard, the eldest grandson Wuji lives in the east chamber, and Guanyin lives in the west chamber.

The family lived in Zhuangzi, and on the first day, they walked around the courtyard and outside the courtyard, familiarized themselves with the environment, and rested for a day.

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The next day, Changsun Sheng decided to take his two children on horseback to take a look outside the village.

Changsun Sheng and Gao Qiuniang are both Xianbei people, and for Xianbei women, horseback archery is commonplace.

It's just that in the capital, the women's horses are galloping on the streets, which is a bit appalling.

When she arrived in the countryside, Gao Qiuniang had a lot less scruples.

She also wanted to try, but she hadn't ridden a horse for a long time, and her riding skills were rusty.

In late November, it was already nine.

At this time, Chang'an is already frozen.

The eldest grandson Sheng and the eldest grandson Wuji wore mink robes and a sudden riding hat.

Gao Qiuniang and Guanyin wore cotton jackets, cotton skirts, and mink cloaks.

They wore deerskin gloves and covered their mouths and noses with their necks.

The eldest grandson Sheng hugged Guanyin, and the two rode together. Gao Qiuniang and the eldest grandson Wuji each rode alone.

Since the eldest grandson Wuji was not very skilled in riding, he was supported by two attendants on both sides.

Five horses followed each other out of the manor in the south of the city.

The two of them rode their horses and galloped, leaving the three of them out of the way in a moment.

Guanyin sat on a horse for the first time and galloped, feeling very novel, dancing excitedly in the arms of Changsun Sheng, her mouth kept screaming "ahhhhh

Gao Qiuniang felt a little rusty at first, but after a while, she regained her original feeling. Whipping the reins, the sound of hooves, and listening to the sound of the wind passing by her ears, she couldn't help but be proud in her heart, and her heart became extraordinarily open, and she hated to be a man and gallop on the field like her husband.

Seeing that the distance between them and the eldest grandson Wuji was getting farther and farther away, the two of them grabbed the reins of the horse and turned the horse's head, waiting for the three of them.

The eldest grandson Wuji rode on the horse, his body was a little stiff, the horse moved forward steadily, the two entourages were carefully protected on both sides, and it took a long time for the three of them to come to the eldest grandson and his wife.

Several people dismounted, in front of them was a fertile field, the wheat seedlings in the field had just grown an inch or two high, not yet covering the ground, the hoarfrost on the ground set off the light green, and the villages in the distance were hidden in the mist.

The eldest grandson Wuji asked, "Grandpa, what kind of place is this?" ”

Changsun Sheng said: "This radius is all my family's property. Those villages are where my tenants live. Do you want to take a look at the village? ”

The eldest grandson Wuji asked, "What is a tenant?" ”

The eldest grandson said: "The tenant is the domestic slave who cultivates the land for my family. Plant my family's land, pay rent to our family, and if we do a good job and harvest well, we can collect more food and live a better life. ”

"If you don't work hard, you will have less food and your life will be worse. Their household registration is attached to my family's land and cannot be moved. If you leave, the government will be captured as a fugitive slave. My Great Sui Law: No one is allowed to take in fugitive slaves. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji asked again: "Then the tenant can only be a slave for the rest of his life?" ”

Changsun Sheng said: "Basically, but there are two situations that can get rid of slavery: one is that the master is gracious and free; The second is that he has saved enough money to redeem himself. ”

Eldest Sun Wuji seemed to have understood and nodded.

Changsun Sheng said: "Let's go to the village and have a look." ”

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Several men got on their horses again and walked along the country road to the nearest village.

The road was not only narrow and narrow, but also potholed, and it was a little difficult for the horses to walk on it, and it took a lot of effort to walk for two or three miles.

There are more than 30 families in the village, all of which are low-slung adobe thatched houses, and the houses are surrounded by wooden sticks and fences.

Because of the cold, there was hardly anyone walking around outside the house.

In front of a fence courtyard, Changsun Sheng dismounted, and the others also dismounted.

The firewood door of the courtyard was closed, and Changsun Sheng asked his entourage to shout to see if there was anyone in the house.

The attendant shouted a few times.

After a while, out of the thatched hut came a man in his thirties, unkempt, dressed in a single short brown coat and covered with a torn sheepskin jacket.

Because he did not know the person who came, he stood in the middle of the courtyard and did not speak.

The entourage shouted: "Our master is here, and he still doesn't open the door?" ”

When the man heard that Lord Lang was coming, he didn't seem to understand, so he asked in a daze, "Which Lord Lang?" ”

The attendant reprimanded: "Which lord Lang? The lord of the Eldest Sun General's Mansion. Don't you want to live? ”

The man came to his senses, hurried to the door, untied the rope tied to the fence, opened the door, and then knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic.

Changsun Sheng said: "Get up." ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the precincts.

The man stood up, bowed his head and followed behind Changsun Sheng.

The courtyard is also full of potholes, and the southeast corner is piled with straw and firewood.

Three adobe blocks were placed on the ground to the west of the door, with a blackened clay pot on top and a pile of grass ash below. It seems that this is where they cook.

Changsun Sheng asked, "What's your name?" How many people are in the family? ”

The man shrank back and replied, "The slave's name is Huang Shiyan, and there are six people in the family. ”

Changsun Sheng then asked, "Where are the rest of the family?" ”

Huang Shiyan replied, "It's all in the house." ”

This time, the purpose of Changsun Sheng is to let Changsun Wuji and Guanyin know about the living conditions of serfs. led the eldest grandson Wuji to the house.

Gao Qiuniang had never been to the village where the tenants lived before, and she wanted to see what was going on, so she followed behind her with Guanyin.

The door was only six feet high, and Changsun Sheng had to bend down when he entered the door.

There were two grass houses, the one facing the door, and there was a pile of grass ash on the ground in the middle, and there was a little fire flashing, as if it had just been baked.

In the east room, there is a pile of wheat straw in the corner, and the windows are covered by grass fences, so the light in the house is not very good. In the wheat straw pile, five men, women, and children were half-reclining, huddled together, and together covered with a bulging and broken quilt, and in the hole above the quilt, the reeds that filled the quilt were exposed.

Several of the people in the haystack were in ragged clothes and shivering from the cold.

Among them were two children, the eldest girl was seven or eight years old, and the younger boy was four or five years old.

Guanyin seemed to be frightened by this scene, and turned her face to lie in Gao Qiuniang's arms.

Gao Qiuniang couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so she turned around and hugged Guanyin out of the hut.

Changsun Sheng asked Huang Shiyan: "Is there enough food at home?" ”

Huang Shiyan pointed to a grain hoard in the corner of the house and said: "The blessing of Lord Tuolang, the grain is still enough to eat, and when the vegetables come down in the next spring, they will be able to receive it." ”

Changsun Sheng didn't say anything more, got out of the hut, and said to Gao Qiuniang: "Let's go back." ”

On the way back, everyone lost the joy and excitement they had when they came, and they were silent and did not speak, only hearing the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground.