Chapter 20 The Old Mansion of the Han Family
From the Yueshan Station forward, it is the boundary of Yuezhou, where the Han family has been operating for a hundred years and has a deep foundation.
Yuezhou has a radius of 500 miles, more than 400,000 people, and is nominally appointed by the empire to be in charge of the military and political power of a state, and is stationed in Jieping Liang City. However, in fact, all the major policies of Yuezhou came from the Han government of Yuezhuo City, and the officials, gentlemen and people of the whole state were only Han Xian. Because it is among the 36 states of the Xuanyuan Continent, Yuezhou is very peculiar, because it has a bright and dark two prefectures, the bright is Pingliang, and the dark is Yuezhuo.
The official road to Yue Zhuocheng is very wide, which can accommodate eight horses to drive together, and is funded and built by the Han family.
The Han family team set off from the Yueshan Station, and there were six open flags in front of the queue, and the pole head was decorated with ivory jade carvings, and there were colorful folding feathers under it, which looked luxurious and not lose its prestige. After opening the Dao Banner, there were a hundred knights brought by Han Yingji, all of whom were heavily armored and powerful, and Han Xiaoqing led a group of subordinates to drag back and guard.
There was a four-wheeled carriage drawn by six horses in the procession, which was said to welcome the distinguished guests, but in fact it was a prisoner carriage. There are four heavily armored knights in front of the car and behind the car, and the people in the car are strictly guarded.
Ji Yinghan fell comfortably and comfortably, lying on his back and lying on all sides in the car.
Regarding the purpose of Ji Yinghan's trip, Lao Xu thought that he was sacrificing himself to save others, Han Xiaoqing felt that he couldn't let go of the face of the former hero, and Han Yingji thought that he was greedy for money. In fact, they are all very wrong.
Ji Yinghan's heart was still solving the mystery of the illusion, and he carefully took out a yellowed thin piece of paper from a page of the parchment and took the trouble to look at it.
Mountains and rivers undulating, rivers and seas rushing, the Yellow Emperor's exquisite brush from left to right to draw the outline of the three kingdoms of Chongqing, Xing, Ning, Xuanyuan Continent 36 states are all presented. The northernmost part of the Daxing Empire was Kuangzhou, bordering Beihu, and Yuezhou was south of Kuangzhou.
There is a red circle painted in the place where the Yuezhou Mansion governs the Yue Zhuo City, and the whole map is inspected, which is unique.
Ji Yinghan boldly guessed that the Yellow Emperor Yuanshen might be here, maybe it was Han Xian, the head of the Han family. Now the trouble is, what is the function of this Ox Beast Bead, which has attracted the Han family and unknown forces to compete for it, and if Han Xian is really the Yellow Emperor's primordial god, he must be superb in martial arts, how can he be able to defeat it?
In order to protect the bull and beast beads, Han Yingji flew to the defenders from all over the country, selected elite patrols along the way, and the road was calm and calm, and the water waves were not prosperous.
It was already night when he arrived in Yuezhuo City, Ji Yinghan slept sweetly and entered the city by mistake, and he didn't wake up until the coachman urged. When the curtain was lifted and the probe looked out, the Han siblings and the team were nowhere to be seen, leaving only a lonely carriage parked at the gate of a small courtyard.
Get out of the car and take a closer look, the courtyard is idle with heavy curtains, dark shadows, dilapidated and depressing.
The coachman was in a hurry to return to the Han Mansion to receive the reward, called a few times to the old deaf man, and drove away without any reaction. Ji Yinghan chased after him and asked loudly: "Wait, don't go, aren't you afraid that I will run away?" The coachman's voice came from afar, with contempt and confidence: "You just wait for the old deaf man to open the door, enter our Yue Zhuo City, even a bird with wings is difficult to fly, let alone a person?" ”
The surrounding lights are dark, only the end of the road seems to have flickering and flickering wind lanterns, the road under the feet is made of bluestone masonry, occasionally moss, the city has just rained, the slightest attention will slip and fall to the ground.
Ji Yinghan returned to the outside of the small courtyard and shouted at the coachman's throat: "Old horse! Old horse! "He was not good at being deaf, so he had to buckle the big iron ring on the door for a while. Ma Lao deaf man didn't seem to be completely deaf, and after a while, he opened the door and came out scolding: "Why are you making such a loud noise, I'm not deaf." ”
This old man has a thin figure, half a head shorter than Ji Yinghan, his face is tanned, his eye sockets are deep, but his eyes are bright.
Lao Ma obviously knew that there was a guest coming, so he opened his mouth and reproached: "It's not that it will arrive in the evening, what is the matter, it makes my old man wait until now!" If my old man can't sleep, don't blame me for being noisy at night! ”
It makes sense why he was placed in this secluded place.
Without waiting for Ji Yinghan to explain, the old horse continued to scold: "It must be Han Xiaoqing's uncompetitive kid who is talking about pomp and circumstance on the road, Yueshan Post is galloping all the way here, and it will take half a day to arrive, so I have to get those vain and flamboyant things!" ”
Hidden in the city, this person is not simple, even the son of the Han family dares to scold, and when he talks about the ugly things of Han Xiaoqing's childhood, he scolds and scolds.
Ji Yinghan didn't dare to be careless when he first arrived, and when he saw that the old horse was so excited that his body was crooked, he hurriedly stepped forward to help him, and asked respectfully: "The predecessor is right, dare to ask what you call him?" Lao Ma was very satisfied with his humble attitude, and leaned on him, leaning on the old man and saying: "Old man Ma Chaoyi, there are six out of sixty this year, see that you are half younger than the old man, call me Uncle Ma in the future." ”
Ma Chaoyi stepped forward, Ji Yinghan was careful to serve on the side, and couldn't help laughing all the way, this Uncle Ma was really interesting.
Ma Chaoyi chattered endlessly, introducing the origin of this old mansion to Ji Yinghan: "Don't you underestimate this place is dilapidated and rotten, this is the old mansion of the Han family, more than a hundred years ago, the first grandfather of the Han family started from scratch here and achieved today's great cause." ”
Looking at the scale structure of the old house, the Han family was at most a solid home back then. After a hundred years of changes, the house has long been barren and lifeless.
Ji Yinghan was gloomy and bitter, and couldn't help asking: "The Han family is now rich and rivals the country, why don't you repair your old mansion?" ”
Ma Chaoyi stopped when he heard this, looked at Ji Yinghan meaningfully, bent down and picked up a piece of broken wood that could be seen everywhere from the ground, rubbed it with two fingers, and the sawdust flew one after another and scattered all over the ground.
"Look at this crumb, like the fate of the gate valve, unpredictable?"
This old ghost is neither deaf nor dumb, I don't know what his identity is.
Over the years, there have been many children in the family, and even the elders have proposed to repair the old house, but they have been rejected by the head of the family one by one. The head of the family also issued an order that the children of the Han family must live here for three days every year, even Han Xiaoqing is not exempt. ”
Han Xian's move is to let the children of the Han family remember the difficulties of their ancestors in starting a business.
Ji Yinghan asked curiously, "Is Miss Han coming too?" Ma Chaoyi shook his head and replied: "Naturally no, the Han family's ancestral business is passed on to men and not to women, so there is no need to let the eldest lady suffer this crime." Speaking of Han Yingji, Ma Chaoyi was full of praise, but he deeply regretted it, "If Miss is a man, the head of the family will be greatly relieved, Han Xiaoqing's kid will not be on the house for three days, and his qualifications are much worse than Miss." ”
It seems that Han Xian's family education is extremely strict, if he knew that Han Xiaoqing was messing around, he would definitely be severely punished. No wonder Han Xiaoqing was afraid of being like that when he was in the mountain post, what he was afraid of was that Han Yingji would denounce him in front of his father.
"Alright, I'm here, you can find a place to rest by yourself."
Ji Yinghan was stunned in place, he hadn't eaten this meal yet.
"Uncle Ma, is there anything to eat here?"
Ma Chaoyi will be deaf again, and he will not hear at all.