14 Maternal grandfather
In the wind and rain, the handsome swordsman in white with a long sword stood in the harbor, holding a scale umbrella, and his long black hair fluttered in the wind, fluttering like a fairy, not like a person in the world.
Lu Xiaoxuan jumped off the boat with light skills in her arms, and laughed: "Dad." β
Lu Fang had a low and pleasant male god voice, but his tone carried an accusation that could not be ignored: "Bastard, do you still know to come back?" β
Lu Xiaoxuan and Lu Ying showed their hearts at the same time, both mother and son had the problem of not being at home, and no one was wronged by this scolding.
Lu Fang said again: "I'm fifty-six, and I don't know how many years I can live, and you have been so unreotent, and you are out to be the official of Naraush, don't you have to wait until I die to know how to go home?" If the Lu family's business is defeated in our generation and goes underground, how should we face the ancestors and ancestors! β
This is Lu Xiaoxuan.
Lu Xiaoxuan retorted: "But grandpa and grandpa have lived to be in their nineties, and you are only in your fifties, and you can work for another thirty years if you are conservative." β
The Lu family definitely has longevity genes, although the generations are not rich, but the one who lives the shortest on the family tree is eighty-five years old before leaving, and the longest one lives one hundred and six years old, thinking about it, Lu Fang has at least thirty years to live, and the heir is not in a hurry at all.
Although Lu Fang didn't know the retirement age of future generations, he also knew that his daughter wanted him to delay his retirement, he silently hugged Lu Ying to the ground, drew his sword and let Lu Ying hold it, and he was about to beat the unfilial daughter with the scabbard, Lu Xiaoxuan ran away, and the two ran all the way away with light skills, and they soon couldn't see their figures through the thick rain curtain.
Lu Ying struggled to hold the heavy sword: "Jiang Ping, help me get the sword, housekeeper, my grandfather is going to test the martial arts of the school mother, let's go home first." β
The housekeeper held an umbrella and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, let's go back first, it's raining and it's cold, the old slave has prepared hot noodle soup for Young Master Sun, and eats a bowl to drive away the cold." β
The wind and rain in Qiongshan Port are very strong, and Lu Ying, who was born on the seaside, is very accustomed to this, and when they set foot on land, the sound of the waves poured into their ears one after another, and nearly a hundred ships on the sea rose and fell with the waves.
There are several boat-shaped houses and stone houses built by the seaside, scattered and scattered along the seaside.
Lu Ying was surrounded and got into the carriage, and the people in the boat-shaped house saw him and came out to worship him.
Lu Ying knew why they hated themselves, because the Lu family was "the children of God".
Qiongya Island has been a place of exile since ancient times, the officials who came here were all losers in the officialdom, when the Meng Dynasty still ruled the Central Plains, Qiongya Island was also a place they disdained, those cavalry from the grassland had no interest in the wasteland of the sea, but the Japanese liked it here.
The people on the island not only have to be managed by officials of poor quality and plundered by the Japanese, but also have to face a violent storm from the ocean, natural disasters cut the people, and man-made disasters peel off the people's skin, until Lu He was born, she was Lu Ying's great-grandmother.
LΓΌ He was the daughter of the leader of the Li people, because of her outstanding qualifications, she learned martial arts and Chinese from a swordsman from the Central Plains, and then witnessed the newly exiled officials colluding with the Japanese to invade the land of the Li people, so he took the sword and cut down the dog officials, and took advantage of the wind and waves to sink the Japanese invaders at sea, and erected the black Lu Zi flag on the island.
Since then, the true owner of Qiongya Island has become the Lu family, and those who seek a living by the sea will always need more faith in the face of the unpredictable sea, and the descendants of Lu He have a long life, excellent appearance, and a keen sense of weather, so they are considered to be the descendants of the rain god left in the world.
Lu Xiaoxuan was always regarded as the perfect heir to the Lu family until she was 17 years old, but now she is not, because she went outside the island to help those Han people, but abandoned her father and son, and the islanders.
LΓΌ Ying returned to the Lu family's mansion in Qiongshan Port, which is the main port for communication between Qiongya Island and the Central Plains, so it has become the most prosperous city on the island, and the Lu family's mansion here is also the most gorgeous.
Before he returned home, a servant stepped forward to make an umbrella for Lu Ying, and when he entered the house, a maidservant took off his wet coat for him, changed into a new coat that was dried and smoked with incense, and changed into a pair of shoes.
The old housekeeper asked people to bring noodle soup, the bowl was not big, and there was fine white noodles lying in the soup dripping sesame oil and sprinkling green onions, and pepper was sprinkled, which smelled very fragrant.
Lu Ying took a sip of noodle soup and picked up a wisp of silver-like thin noodles, which was a good thing that he couldn't eat outside, but it was something he was tired of eating at home.
After eating a bowl of noodles, the father and daughter also came back, under the heavy rain, both of them were drenched, and the clothes were close to the tall and toned body, Lu Xiaoxuan kept blinking, but there were still water droplets sliding into the eye sockets, she raised her right hand and wiped her face with her sleeve, the sleeves were also wet, the same as not wiping, only the eye sockets were red.
Lu Xiaoxuan saw Lu Ying sitting on the threshold, small and quiet, as if she had been looking at the door, her heart warmed, and she walked to a meter away from Lu Ying.
"Yingying, my mother is back, you wait, I changed my clothes and ate with you."
Lu Ying replied softly: "Okay." β
Lu Fang first changed his clothes and came to find Lu Ying, he asked his grandson to sit on his lap, held his veins and probed, the acupoint was still sealed, a little surprised.
"You really honestly stop practicing martial arts secretly?"
Lu Ying lowered her head and sorted out her cuffs: "Secretly practicing will also be discovered, just don't practice, save yourself from being abolished by you again, you didn't hurt your mother, right?" β
Lu Fang said coldly: "Your mother is very capable, this time I only twitched her left hand." β
Lu Ying: "Then are you injured?" β
It was rare for his grandson to care about himself, Lu Fang was a little relieved, and he pointed to his left abdomen: "I was punched by her." β
Lu Ying decisively poked at his injury, Lu Fang took a breath, pinched the child's face hatefully, and was reluctant to use force.
"You're a little bastard, too."
Lu Fang remembered that when he fought with his daughter, he asked his daughter why she wanted to be an official in the Central Plains, and she said that she was not used to seeing injustice, not being used to seeing right and wrong being reversed, and not being used to seeing the world crying because of grievances.
Later, Lu Fang asked her daughter when she would return home, and she said that when Yingying found what she wanted to do and left Qiongya Island to go to other places, she would resign and come back to guard this home for Yingying.
Sometimes Lu Fang feels that his daughter is too compassionate and his grandson is too cold, so it would be good to balance the two.
Lu Ying was very smart, but he couldn't understand his grandfather's complicated gaze, so he could only stretch out his soft fingers and press them on his grandfather's frowning brows.
That's it, that's it, children and grandchildren are debts.
Lu Fang thought for a long time and said to Lu Ying: "Haifeinu, if you want to walk outside the island in the future, tell your grandfather, and your grandfather will call your mother back to see the island, and then take you to visit the rivers and mountains." β
This child can't practice martial arts, but he loves to run out like his mother, and he will be bullied if he goes out alone, so it's better for Lu Fang to protect him personally.
Lu Ying held her grandfather's thumb and reluctantly responded, "Okay, if I want to go, I'll take you with me." β
After eating, it is easy to get sleepy, Lu Ying leaned on the warm arms of her grandfather, closed her eyes, and Lu Fang picked him up with a cloak and patted him on the back.
When Lu Xiaoxuan came over, he saw his father holding his son, who was holding his eyes and breathing evenly.
She sat next to her and said softly: "The last time I took him off the island, you also said that he was cold-hearted and cold-hearted, and let him practice martial arts for fear of disaster, but I feel that Yingying has a heart, and he didn't hate you because you abolished his martial arts." β
Lu Fang: "I know, he is very tolerant of me. β
Although people like Lu Fang didn't need to care if a child was tolerant of him, thinking so, he smiled again.
"It's his nature to have a heart or not, just teach it slowly."
Lu Xiaoxuan pursed her lips and smiled, and began to discuss with Lu Fang how to divide the land for the refugees.
There are a lot of wasteland on Qiongya Island, but there are not many good lands suitable for planting, even if the water conservancy has been built on the island since the generation of the ancestors of Luhe, there are still a lot of saline-alkali land and sandy land that cannot be controlled.
The climate of Qiongya Island is warm, if God gives face, if the wind and rain are smooth, it can be done three times a year, but when the typhoon blows, everything is in vain, and the rations for refugees when they are reclaimed are provided by the Lu family.
The inland parts of the island are more resilient to wind and rain, but those are people's territory, and it is not easy to grow in the mountains, and the towns near the sea rely on the sea for food.
Another point is that what should they plant, which is to plant Champa rice? Or do you grow sugar cane? The former is a ration, and the latter is a cash crop that can produce sugar, each with its own benefits.
At the end of the discussion, Lu Ying closed her eyes and suddenly said, "Let them be salt households." β
Lu Xiaoxuan: "What? β
Lu Fang: "You didn't sleep?" β
Lu Ying yawned, took out a piece of folded rice paper and handed it to Lu Xiaoxuan.
"This is given to me by Qiu Yu, he said that he knows that my birthday is approaching, and he wants to give this filial piety to my villain's family, exchange Qiu's coconut oil to enter the Qiongya Island market, and Qiongya Island's support for his father, well, that's what he said."
This tone is too Qiu Yu, Officer Lu opened the rice paper in embarrassment and found that it was actually a detailed sea salt preparation method!
Lv Xiaoxuan: Why do medical students still do this?
Although Officer Lu led the army to suppress the bandits in order to crack down on the Salt Gang and the illegal underworld forces behind it, if the Lu family could obtain the salt law, she would not be able to refuse.
Salt, sugar, and grain are all strategic materials, and the Lu family is the emperor of the soil, if there is no money and food, what will they do to support the people on the island? The output of this little arable land on the island alone is not enough.
Lu Fang looked at this secret recipe for making salt and asked, "Is this person named Qiu Yu credible?" β
Lu Xiaoxuan looked at Lu Ying's red face from sleep, and affirmed: "Credible." β
"Credible." Lu Ying said the same.
Lu Fang was really shocked at this time, he looked at Lu Ying: "There are not many people who can make you credible." β
The implication is that it is extremely difficult to make a suspicious person like Lu Ying trust.
Lu Ying blinked: "He feels a bit like his mother." β
Hearing this, Lu Xiaoxuan chuckled in her heart, and always felt that her son's words meant something.
Lu Ying asked softly: "Mother, have you told him about my birthday?" β
If Lu Xiaoxuan had never told Qiu Yu about Lu Ying's birthday, Qiu Yu could accurately say Lu Ying's birthday and give him such a big birthday gift, hiss-
Officer Lu remained silent and covered for his fellow countryman in front of his son: "I said it." β
Lu Ying: "Oh. β
Lu Xiaoxuan didn't know if he believed it or not, but when he looked at his son's eyes, Officer Lu wiped a sweat in his heart.
This smart kid just can't be fooled.
After discussing the resettlement of the refugees, Lu Ying asked Lu Xiaoxuan, "How long can you stay at home this time?" β
Lu Xiaoxuan's face was embarrassed, and Lu Ying knew that she was going to leave again soon.
"Let's go." Lu Ying leaned on her grandfather's arms, her white fur collar surrounded her jade carving-like face, and his expression was faint, becoming more and more like a little jade man, "I don't blame you." β
Lu Fang sneered, looking at Lu Xiaoxuan's expression, "Look, you have too much kindness to outsiders, and you don't even care about your own son."
Lu Xiaoxuan wanted to say something.
Indeed, no one in this world has the obligation to save another person, but human beings are empathetic creatures, and when they see their fellow people suffering, they can't help but be touched, and then driven by emotion, they will lend a helping hand to the same kind in suffering, but after crossing over, Lu Xiaoxuan found that the princes and nobles of the Yu Dynasty, literati and scholars have no empathy for the common people.
They don't work, their skin is fair, they are well nourished, and their bodies are naturally tall and full, while the common people are black and thin, with shriveled bodies, and they eat rough food all year round, so that their oral health is extremely bad, and when they open their mouths, they are full of rotten teeth, and when these two types of people stand together, they don't even look like a species, so the old men never regard the people under their heads as the same kind.
Lu Xiaoxuan is different, she knows that the people on this land are the same descendants of Yan and Huang as she is, and she is as sad as she is when she sees people in the 21st century suffering.
But she couldn't say these words, and she couldn't make a voice for anything that might reveal her coming from the future.
Lu Ying saw that her mother wanted to speak and stopped, and said, "You are going, can you help me bring a letter to Qiu Yu?" β
Lu Xiaoxuan agreed, and Lu Ying wrote a letter, and when Lu Ying gave her the letter the next day, she also specially advised: "Don't peek." β
Lu Xiaoxuan said solemnly: "Okay, I won't watch it." β
She left, taking Lu Ying's letter with her.
Lu Ying looked at her mother's back, showing a hint of reluctance on her face.
Lu Fang touched his grandson's head and wanted to comfort him, but he heard his grandson say, "She still owes me money and hasn't paid it back." β
Then Lu Fang saw his grandson take out an IOU.
Lv Fang: ......
The most handsome man in the South China Sea rushed up and stuffed his daughter with a handful of silver tickets, telling her not to wronged herself outside, and when she returned home, she and her grandson personally cleared her daughter's debts.
Lu Ying counted the silver tickets given by her grandfather, nodded, and burned the IOU.
In fact, his little family knew from the beginning that his mother's little food was shabby, and the money she owed was only paid by her grandfather.