Chapter 90: Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots
Such a bumpy encounter is really embarrassing.
Jiang Wenyuan asked him what his plans were for the future.
Hu Yangming shook his head, smiled embarrassedly and said that he wanted to hunt more prey and save some money. Moved the bones of his mother and his master back to his hometown in Qingzhou.
His master is not a local, he was exiled from Suzhou when he fled the famine a few years ago, and he is also homeless.
If he wants to go back to Qingzhou, he naturally can't leave his master's grave unattended. The best way is to move back to Qingzhou together, and there is also a person to worship during the New Year's holidays.
Jiang Wenyuan patted him with satisfaction, "He is filial and responsible." I am also your elder, and even if I meet you, I will naturally not ignore you.
Because I'm going to Suzhou on business, it's not good to send you back to Qingzhou in person. You wait for two days, wait for me to find a safe dart team, buy two good coffins to re-bury the bones of your mother and your master, and send you back to Qingzhou.
When you arrive in Qingzhou, someone will pick you up, so don't worry. In the future, let's live with our family, and you will always have a bite to eat. ”
Hu Yangming immediately knelt on the ground and bowed, choking up: "Thank you, uncle!" Uncle Da En Dade Yang Ming is toothless and unforgettable. ”
"Hurry up! Your aunt is so happy to know the news.
She has always regretted that your mother took you to remarry, and we have also looked for you, but unfortunately there is no news. Now, you are the only member of her old family. ”
"The only mother's family? Are you saying my grandfather is gone? The boy's eyes turned red.
"Hmm. The year after you and your mother left, he died. ”
Jiang Wenyuan patted him on the shoulder again and comforted him: "When he left, he didn't suffer any crimes. It was the three of us who took turns waiting for us. ”
The young man thanked with tears: "Thank you, Uncle Cousin!" ”
"What's polite to the family!"
Early the next morning, Jiang Wenyuan went to Qingzhou to write a letter and told him about Hu Yangming. Let the family send someone to find a proper place for Hu Yangming's mother and his master to be buried.
His master is an outsider, and his mother has also remarried, so according to custom, he cannot be buried in the ancestral grave of the Hu family. I had to look for a place outside.
On the other hand, I borrowed the yellow calendar from the village chief and flipped through it, and it happened that tomorrow was an auspicious day for the zodiac.
He immediately sent someone to the city to find a reliable dart game, and went to buy two pairs of fine coffins on the way. He also asked the village chief to go to the nearby Taoist temple, find a yellow crown, and preside over the coffin relocation ceremony.
He didn't have to spend too much time on the road, so he had to fight quickly!
The people in the village were very surprised when they heard that this nobleman who happened to come to the village to spend the night was the cousin of the wild boy at the foot of the mountain.
Looking at the grandeur of his cousin, and with so many retinues, he is not an ordinary person at first glance. Blessed is this boy in the future.
Especially when he heard that his cousin would send someone to move his mother's and master's coffins back to Qingzhou for burial, everyone was happy for him.
The ancients paid attention to the return of fallen leaves to their roots.
Hu Yangming was able to bring his mother and master back to Qingzhou, and he was a filial person.
The coffin was bought, it was a good solid wood coffin, with black lacquer, and it was very heavy. Huang Guan also came, indicating that the first moment of Tianchen is a good time.
The next day, Hu Yangming wore plain clothes and tied a white cloth on his head. Under the auspices of Huang Guan, two tombs were erected in turn and coffins were replaced.
Before the coffin was buried again, it couldn't land, so it was parked directly on the two carriages, just waiting for Ming'er to leave for Qingzhou early in the morning.
After the coffin, Jiang Wenyuan took the initiative to invite the fathers and elders who came to help to eat a sumptuous feast, and thanked them for taking care of the child over the years.
In the evening, Hu Yangming went back to the hut at the foot of the mountain and simply packed up his things, gave the key and the money to the village chief, and asked him to help take care of one or two.
The village chief has nothing to do.
Jiang Wenyuan and his wife gave the child a silver ticket of fifty taels and a few silver ingots, and asked him to take them with him for emergency. He also told him about some things that might happen on the road.
Lu Shi Wen said, "In our hometown, you still have seven cousins, and you will be the eldest brother when you go back."
They are all great to get along with, and you don't have to worry about being bullied. In Qingzhou, no one dares to bully our family.
While you are young, you also have to go to the school to learn some words, and our family can't be blind. ”
Hu Yangming took it with tears in his eyes and kept the words of the two in his heart. It wasn't until he returned to Qingzhou that he really understood the true meaning of his cousin's sentence "In Qingzhou, no one dares to bully our family".
Early the next morning, the people from the dart bureau came, picked up Hu Yangming and two coffins, and set off back to Qingzhou. When parting, Hu Yangming gave a deep look at the couple, wiped his head and turned his head south.
Seeing off Hu Yangming, the Jiang family's convoy also set off again. After more than 20 days of bumpy driving, the convoy finally arrived in Suzhou.
The further you go, the more broken the road becomes. The dwellings along the way are also getting more and more dilapidated, and the towns that occasionally pass through are not large, and it is indeed worthy of being the poorest state capital in Great Xia.
A Yu Linwei who had been to Suzhou said that this is the eastern part of Suzhou, which is quite good. If you go any further, it's really hard.
When you reach the real border, there are not many plants and trees, all of them are Gobi, barren and blank, and you can't see the edge at a glance. When the sandstorm came, the sky was full of yellow sand, and even the mouth and ears were covered with sand.
After Jiang Wenyuan heard this, he was silent and frowned. Jiang Yuqing saw his father's worry, and gently pulled his big hand with his small hand, and comforted: "Daddy is not afraid, there is still me." ”
Jiang Wenyuan turned his head to look at his daughter, wrapped her tender little hand with his big hand, and shook it: "Well, I'm not afraid."
At the same time, in one of the largest and best restaurants in Suzhou.
A brocade-robed guest who was eating said to his friend at the same table: "Have you heard, we are coming to the new prefect in Suzhou." ”
His friend in Tsing Yi said: "Whoever comes is the same, love doesn't come." We have been poor in Suzhou for many years, and I haven't seen any chief official who has the ability to change it. ”
The brocade-robed guest said, "Hey, you're wrong this time." I heard that the new prefect sent by the imperial court is not ordinary, it is the famous Marquis of Qingzhou. ”
"Who? Who are you talking about? Tsing Yi thought he hadn't heard clearly.
Jin Pao said: "Qingzhou Hou, the original Qingzhou County Commander Jiang Wenyuan Jiang Lord." He is the one who grows two kinds of high-yielding grains. ”
Tsing Yi said: "It's him, this is a good official." I've also heard about him, who has made Qingzhou the richest county in Zero Prefecture in just three years in office, producing more grain in one county than in a state capital.
When he left office, the people of Qingzhou knelt on the ground to stay. If it is really him, then we are blessed with the people of Suzhou. ”
Another gray-robed said, "Not necessarily. The yield of these two kinds of grain in other places is indeed high, and we can't grow them in Suzhou. It's not that no one has planted it. ”
Jinpao said: "What is this, if Qingzhou Hou can grow two kinds of high-yield, it may not be impossible to grow high-yield grain suitable for our Suzhou." ”
"It's also ......."
At the same time, the dart team escorted Hu Yangming and the two coffins to Qingzhou. Old Hu and Old Man Jiang took the whole family to pick up the people at the city gate in person.
As soon as they met, Lao Hu hugged Hu Yangming and cried. "Yangming, my aunt thought that she would never see you again in this life. Luckily, your cousin got you back! ”
Hu Yangming also cried, crying all these years of ups and downs and sadness, but also the peace of mind that finally returned to his hometown.
The coffins of Hu Yangming's mother and master were temporarily stored in Yizhuang outside the city. The cemetery has also been chosen, just waiting to choose an auspicious day for burial.
It wasn't until Hu Yangming walked into the door of the Jiang family that he knew that the third cousin he had met in Jinzhou earlier turned out to be the famous Qingzhou Hou.
Now, he has been promoted to the prefect and went to Suzhou to take office.
It's late August. Suzhou is not like other places in Great Xia, where the temperature difference between morning and evening is large. It's hot at noon, and it's already a little cool in the morning and evening.
The carriage went on for two more days, and there was a torrential rain, and it was two days at once. The pathfinder came back and said that the heavy rain had washed away a section of the official road, and it would take a lot of time to fill it up.
There were not many travelers coming and going on this official road, and when they heard that the road was washed away, everyone in the inn was in a hurry.
Jiang Wenyuan asked and knew that this place was under the jurisdiction of Zengping County, so he sent someone to report to the official of Zengping County and asked the county order to send it over for repair as soon as possible.
The county order did send people to repair, but only a small team of recruited people only had about a dozen people. For such a long stretch of road, it depends on those hoes and dustpans to be repaired.
As soon as Jiang Wenyuan stepped forward to ask, one of the old men in ragged clothes sneered: "Our county has already been conscripted for three times this year, and all of them have been pulled to Zhuangzi's side. To be able to come to these people is already a blessing from the great master.