"I am on the mission of the high envoy, entering the township to rectify the garden industry, the outfit has not yet landed, and the villagers have gathered to attack! I have never met each other, why do the villagers complain about me? So far, there are still villagers who are wounded in the garden, and I am injured and I am self-supporting. They can all prove that the villagers hate me, just because of Shi's demagogy! ”

Li Tai sat down in the hall, and then took the case and made an accusation: "The Shi brothers made things difficult and did more than one evil to me. I don't know what Zaiton Shiro and his brother have to do with each other, but the hatred between them is as deep as an abyss, and if you don't go with my cousin, I will never allow you to come to this hall! ”

Seeing that Li Tai was so vigorous, Shi Jing was also a little nervous for a while, but he just stubbornly said: "But, but I forced to buy flax before, may I ask if Lang Jun is true?" Although my family and the township branch live in two places, but the ancestors ruled the family and trained them, and they have never allowed their descendants to abandon farming, if it is not for external persecution, it will not be ......."

"Shiro doesn't have to boast of his simple family, I also come from a white family! There is no industry to do, so he went to the countryside to buy materials and weave, and indeed visited the historian. The historian filled the number with Chen Ma, and it still remains in the village! ”

Li Tai clapped his hands and ordered the tribe to take the Chen Ma hemp bags that he bought from the Shi family and throw them in the hall, as for the Shi family who had already returned the hemp money when he wanted to buy the ointment before, that was another topic, in short, the use of Chen Ma to fill the new hemp is conclusive evidence.

Shi Jing's eyes fell on the few Chen Ma bags and hurriedly took them back, as if he was afraid of being stung in the eyes.

"I bought flax in advance, but the Shi brothers deceived me into not knowing about farming, and bought flax after autumn at the current price of the season. Afterwards, though I received guidance, I never wanted to return, even though I had made a covenant of faith. At that time, if I had the slightest compulsion, people would not criticize and the heavens would condemn it! ”

The more Li Tai spoke, the more angry he became, as if he had really become a good and innocent person who was bullied in every way: "Shi Gong lost the official and was rewarded, and he held a powerful position, so he sent his younger brother to the door to break the contract." I have a good garden industry, blue bricks and colored tiles, and I was instructed by him to destroy them, the door is broken, and the grass eaves are bent. Shirou has a good appearance, his eyes are clear, and he has no eyes to enter here? I am detained in the garden today, only for a justice and good luck, if the law cannot be controlled, I will kill it! ”

"I see, I see!"

After listening to Li Tai's complaint, Lu Rou got up angrily from the table, pointed at Shi Jing and said angrily: "Since Wang Ye hunted in the west, I know that the righteousness in the world is declining, and it is inevitable that right and wrong will be confused. But since Juyi adheres to this legal system, there should be a fair balance in people's hearts! My cousin left home, lonely and difficult to stand, and he was already pitiful.

Shi Lang, if you don't judge Qu Yin in the matter, you will go to his own court, slander the famous family teacher for being immoral, not only framing the Li family's voice, but also laughing at his relatives and friends for being careless and blind! If I hadn't come to hear about it today, I wouldn't have known how long I would have been deceived by you and misunderstood my feelings! ”

"I'm not! I don't know ......."

Shi Jing saw that Lu Rou not only defected, but also scolded him for reversing black and white, and was even more speechless for a while, and at the same time full of remorse.

Although the Shang Yuan historians originated from their own families, they had been living in their own homes several generations earlier. Before Shi Gong went to Jingzhao to ask for help, he only said that he was bullied by a new guest in Dongzhou.

Jingzhao's family didn't want to pay attention to it, but the misery of Shi Gong's request also made their Jingzhao family feel that Li Tai, a newcomer to Dongzhou, was too arrogant and didn't take the Shi family seriously, so they sent Shi Jing, the descendant, to come forward.

The historian knew that Li Tai's backstage was Taishi He Basheng, so he asked for help from Jingzhao Yin Cui Ji's house. Because Cui Ji was an old subordinate of He Batsheng, he followed He Batsheng to Nanliang and returned to Guanzhong together in his early years, and he only felt that there was such a friendship, which should be able to move He Batsheng.

But Shi Jing didn't expect that in addition to being the old subordinates of He Batsheng, the Cui Lu family in Chang'an City had a close relationship with the Li family in Longxi, especially Li Tai, and the friendship was even more solid than that with He Batsheng!

He invited Lu Rou to come over, originally intending to be a lobbyist, but now Lu Rou's eyes were round, and he looked like he was going to tear him apart, but instead he became a teammate for the other party.

"I, I came to the door this time, on the orders of my relatives, hoping that this matter can be resolved in a good way, but I don't want the township branch to hide the dirt so deeply. I heard heresies before, misunderstood Li Lang, misled Lu Gong, and even if I regretted it, I was ashamed and didn't dare to defend myself. I beg Lu Gong's forgiveness, and I implore Li Lang's forgiveness! ”

Shi Jing got up from the table, shook the two of them to the ground, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said astringently: "This time I asked to see, I offended the gains and losses." Please let the two of you see me, a shallow and dull descendant, let me go home and tell the whole story, and then invite the elders of the clan to go to the village to ask for sin! ”

"Go, go! Although I don't have the power to support my blind date, I have a righteous heart, a pen and a mouth! I didn't know that my orphaned relatives and children rarely entered here, so that he was besieged and bullied by the villagers, but now that I know, I will never allow the regeneration of demonic feelings! ”

Lu Rou waved her sleeves and said with a look of disgust.

Li Tai was also very happy to see that his cheap cousin could cover it so much, and when Shi Jing said goodbye in embarrassment, he hurriedly instructed his family to prepare a family banquet to entertain this unexpected relative.

"Apan, it's really hard for you! In previous years, we waited for the entry of the customs, although we were also embarrassed, but there were always companions who took care of each other. You have entered the customs today, but you have no guardianship from your relatives......"

Lu Rou looked fine, but she stuttered a little, and after drinking a few glasses of wine and being excited, the stuttering became more serious. Although he is nearly forty years old, he has a lot of feelings, and when he heard Li Tai and Li Zhusheng talk about the experience of entering the customs, he patted the back of Li Tai's hand with red eyes and sighed again and again.

Li Tai didn't feel pitiful, he first received some Hui appreciation, and then he was protected by He Batsheng, and Gao Zhongmi's family business was entrusted, and he was much happier than the vast majority of people in this world.

"Although I was separated from Aya, I was taken care of by my elders, and I was not alone in Kansai. When I saw my cousin today, I realized that there are still many relatives based on this situation. I was trapped in my livelihood before, and I didn't know how to visit frequently, so please don't blame my cousin for doing more! ”

Li Tai poured brewed water for Lu Rou again, and asked tentatively: "We still have a cousin in Chang'an?" ”

Hearing Lu Rou say that Cui Yuanjun and his cousin Yunyun were curious before, Li Tai was curious, it seems that this cousin's power in Chang'an is not small, and the local tyrant historian has to come to ask for help.

"That's my cousin, but not your ......"

Lu Rou was already stuttering, and it was inevitable that she would pant when she spoke.

Li Tai couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, your big cousin is quite stingy, isn't your cousin my cousin, one table is three thousand miles, at most I am six thousand miles, why don't you let you climb relatives?

Li Zhusheng saw that Lu Rou was having difficulty speaking, so he pulled Li Tai next to him and whispered: "If Lu Da said that if Cui Liulang, Ah Lang really shouldn't be called cousin, he is also a cousin!" ”

Lu Rou, who was stuttering, patted the table, nodded to Li Zhusheng to show that he was right, and then said: "Dang, back then, I was the same as my cousin and their ......."

He said it hard, and Li Tai also had some difficulty listening to it, but he finally figured it out.

In addition to Lu Rou, the in-laws of their Li family in Chang'an, there are also the brothers Cui Qian and Cui Ji of the Cui clan of Boling, all of whom were in Jingzhou with He Batsheng back then, and later fled to Nanliang and returned to Guanzhong together.

The Cui brothers are Lu Rou's cousins, but their mother is the daughter of Li Tai's grandfather Li Shao, that is, Li Tai's cousin, and the Cui brothers are also Li Tai's cousins, and the relationship is the same as Li Tai and Lu Rou.

In addition, the wife of the Cui brothers is also from the Li family in Longxi, and in addition to his cousin, Li Tai also has to call his cousin-in-law.

finally sorted out this complicated relationship in his mind, and Li Tai couldn't help but feel that your circle was really messy. It is no wonder that the big families want to repair the family tree, and when the genealogical relationship is messed up, the kinship between each other is also messed up.

The reason why Tang Gaozong issued a ban on marriage to these families in later generations was indeed not to issue it, and the marriage between them from generation to generation was really a dense thread.

After Lu Rou and the others returned to Guanzhong with He Batsheng in the early years, they were arranged by Yuwentai to serve as an official in the Chang'an Imperial Court.

Among them, the best one is Cui Zhi, who is only in his early thirties, and has already served as Jing Zhaoyin, and not long ago he was added to the post of commander and governor, and he can be regarded as a military and political chief in Chang'an.

Lu Rou served as a scholar in the middle school because of her excellent rhetoric, and wrote edicts and condolences. However, the hegemonic government of the Western Wei Dynasty, the emperor could not issue several edicts a year, so the ministry was also very leisurely, so he had time to meet Li Tai in Shangyuan.

"After entering the customs, the Taishi was strict with himself, and he did not allow me and other old subordinates to visit at will, and I may not see him for a long time. It's rare that he still remembers Uncle A's old friendship, and is willing to give Ah Pan your considerate care, has the Taishi been safe recently? ”

Lu Rou asked intermittently, and she also missed He Batsheng a lot, after all, they have been following each other for many years, and they must have feelings for each other.

Li Tai sighed again after hearing this, he was very happy to meet relatives in a foreign land, but when he thought of the intricate personnel undercurrents of the Western Wei court, he couldn't be happy.

Lu Rou and the others, as He Batsheng's former subordinates, were already a little embarrassed, and now they are all serving in Chang'an, so it is really possible to get involved in political disputes every minute.

Yuwentai has never been a good person, he is merciful to the general of the township party on the one hand, and to the emperor of the Yuan family, he will be killed. Later, his son died so miserably, and it has to be said that Yuwen Hu, a nephew, was taught by words and deeds, and he was deeply inherited.

Li Tai saw that Lu Rou's robe was a little old, so he said: "It was my fault for neglecting the visit before. Cousin, if you are in the capital in the future, you must not accept clothes from the living, especially forbidden things, and you can resign. The younger brother lives in the township, the family is good at weaving, and the spring and autumn clothes must be enough! ”

"What nonsense? Who will give it to me...... At the beginning of the year, Daxingtai was undressed and given, but he didn't wear it often. ”

Lu Rou was already a little drunk, and she couldn't hear what Li Tai said, so she said with a smile after hearing it.

Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he didn't dare to go to Chang'an for fear of such an evil thing, but don't turn around and be affected by these relatives.

But when he heard that Yuwentai actually gave clothes to Lu Rou, he couldn't help but have a little gossip in his heart: "Daxingtai gave clothes, has the robe and belt been carefully washed?" ”