When I first heard that my parents were returning to the west, it was like thunder on a sunny day

The courtyard is deep and full of branches, and the houses are facing back

The sunrise tomb is weed, and the yellow leaves fly in the west mountain

Lonely, lonely, desolate, haggard, and sad

A year has passed in the blink of an eye. Yu Jia's sixteenth birthday, just a few days later, Jiang Yuanwai, came back from going out, suddenly had some pain in his heart and was bedridden. I asked a doctor to heal him, but I didn't see any illness. From now on, it was a heart attack, and it didn't take long for him to die.

The whole family, a cry of sorrow, are immersed in great grief. The old man was a good person before his death, and his popularity was very good, and his neighbors came to mourn and help out. Stop the spirit for three days, bury three days later, choose a piece of feng shui treasure land in the suburbs, go out early in the morning, and bury the old man.

In the past, filial piety was paid attention to in front of the grave, and what parents were not traveling far away. Everyone set up a simple shed next to the grave, and Yujia guarded her filial piety in front of her father's grave. Eating and living are here, during the filial piety period, no combing hair, no clean face, no drinking, no sex, anyway, there are a lot of words.

Fortunately, Yu Jia is young, doesn't drink, is not old enough to have sex, and is still a child at the age of 16. There is nothing to do in front of the grave, fill the old man's grave with soil, pull weeds, make offerings, and burn paper money. Then it is to sit down and practice, absorbing the sunlight during the day and the stars and moon at night. Break through the period of pure qi condensation.

During this period, Wushuang was often responsible for delivering meals to accompany the young master, and sometimes Ping'er came to see the young master. In this way, a year passed in an extremely low mood.

Who knows that the house leak coincides with overnight rain, and the disaster is not a one-way street. Due to his excessive grief, Sifu was heartbroken and soon fell ill. On this day, seeing that the old woman's momentum was not good, Wushuang quickly ran to the cemetery, and when she came to the cemetery, she was already sweating profusely, panting and said: "Young master, old lady, critically ill"

Yu Jia listened, first stunned, then got up, and then ran home, chanting as she ran: "Mother, you must hold on, meet the child for the last time!"

Musou ran behind. The cemetery is far from home, after all, some distance. It happened suddenly, Yu Jia was really anxious, and she was born based on what she learned, which was called a word "fast", and she almost didn't fly.

It took half an hour, and the man with a big head ran into the courtyard, pushed the door to the main room and rushed to his mother's bed, and knelt at the head of his mother's bed with a puff: "Mother!"

I haven't seen each other for a year, and now my mother is full of silver threads and skinny. The old mother was waiting for her son with her last breath. This is something to explain, otherwise how can you leave with confidence, after all, the child is too young to support such a big family business.

"Jia'er, my mother is leaving, your father is too lonely over there, my mother is going to accompany him", "Mother!" Yu Jia wiped her tears, who knew that these tears, like a flood that burst the embankment, could not be wiped dry. "Son, after my mother leaves, the house will be taken care of by the housekeeper Jiang An, your Uncle Jiang and your father have been for half a lifetime, they know everything outside, and people don't have to use it so much, send a few, your sister Ping'er has been with her mother for so many years, and now she has become an old girl."

The old lady took a breath and continued: "After my mother leaves, after the period of filial piety, I will find a good family for your sister Ping'er, and we will treat our family as her mother's family, and marry Ping's girl in a beautiful way." The dowry of the dowry cannot be less, remember?" Yu Jia nodded incessantly, choked up and replied: "The child has written it down." "My mother can't catch up with your crown ceremony, and I can't see you as a bride. Promise my mother, when my son's filial piety period expires, I will go to the Wang family to marry Qi'er, so that I can continue the incense for my Jiang family as soon as possible."

At this time, the old lady was already a little difficult to speak, "Well, the child wrote it down" Yu Jia cried with tears in her eyes, "You-come-come" The old lady said with difficulty, and took something out of her arms, and Yu Jia hurriedly reached out to take it. "This is the key to the secret room of the West Wing, the things that your father prepared for you to welcome your relatives before his death are all there, and you must be diligent and thrifty in the future, so that my Jiang family will be --- ---"

Before the rest of the words were finished, the old man didn't take his last breath, and he didn't close his eyes until he died. There are too many words to say, and I don't feel at ease with my children! I still have too much attachment to this family. Ping'er cried like a tearful person beside her, remembering that the old lady was alive, and treated her like a daughter, and she couldn't cry silently. Yu Jia was also in tears at this time.

Two relatives have died in the family one after another, and this filial piety has not been taken off. The old lady's funeral was simple, and three days after the mortuary, the funeral ceremony was carried out. A new grave was erected next to my father's grave.

Someone asked, why didn't the two old men be buried together? The interval between the two old men in the family who died one after another was too short, maybe they were particular about it, but they were not buried together anyway.

In this way, Yujia continued to keep filial piety in front of her parents' graves, continued to cultivate, and lived a sad, boring, and miserable life. At this time, Yu Jia's kung fu has made great progress. The divine consciousness is released, within a radius of ten miles, every grass and tree can feel very clearly, and even can sense all things in heaven and earth, and the great achievement of concentrating is that the three souls and seven spirits are out of the body, condensed into an entity, thousands of miles away like an instant. That is to say, a thought, a distant place, another Yujia appeared, think about how terrible.

At the moment, Yu Jia can't do it, she can only have a strong sense of consciousness. As the saying goes, one look can kill, and that must be the truth. Now that Yujia is killing people, it is also achievable. In this way, Yujia is growing day by day.

The weeds grew stubble after stubble, yellow stubble after stubble, and in an instant, the fourth year of filial piety passed. At this time, it was late autumn, the wind was gusting in the wild, and a man with long hair and a shawl, a face full of stubble, and tattered filial clothes knelt in front of the grave, and the whole appearance of a wild man looked a little weird.

Ping'er, Wushuang, the old housekeeper, and several family members were also in front of the grave at this time. Today is the last day of the filial piety period, early in the morning Ping'er and they came, Ping'er moved the golden lotus, carried the basket to the grave of the two old people, squatted down, put the basket in front of him, cried softly, put the tributes in the basket one by one in front of the second old grave, and waited for the incense case to be picked up, got up, turned his head and signaled the young master to enter the incense. Yu Jia stepped forward, after the incense, everyone knelt down one after another, muttering something in their mouths, nothing more than some words missing, burning some paper money, and the procedure ended.

Wushuang picked up the young master and said, "Young master, let's go home", Yu Jia didn't respond, got up, bowed her head and walked in the direction of home without saying a word, Ping'er followed behind. At this time, the people began to dismantle the simple tents, and the old butler instructed the men to load some wood on the donkey cart. Since she had not yet completely come out of her grief, Yu Jia's expression was still in a trance at this time, and Mu Mu walked home.

When she arrived at the house, Ping'er immediately asked her subordinates to boil water and arranged for the young master to bathe. What is the concept of not taking a bath for four years? This water is changed bucket by bucket, four large pots of water are set up in the yard to boil water, and the four guys take turns to carry water, I don't know how many times this bath has been soaked, and it is finally washed under the supervision of Ping'er. After getting dressed, Ping'er began to cut Yujia's hair and clean her beard. It took two hours, and the little master was finally cleaned up and properly cleaned.

At this time, the kitchen was served, and Yu Jia hadn't eaten a good meal in the past four years. I've been a vegetarian, I haven't seen meat, and I've lost a lot of weight, but I'm more heroic, more mature, and less childish. Eat a beautiful meal, it is really a storm, gobble!

After the meal, Yu Jia was in a slightly better spirit, and the housekeeper and the servants also returned, and after a while, Yu Jia summoned them all over to prepare for a family meeting. "Call you over today, there are a few things to discuss with you" Yu Jia paused for a while and continued: "My mother's last words ordered me to do a few things after the expiration of my filial piety. The first thing to do is to dismiss the family. Let's discuss it and see who is willing to stay and who is willing to leave?" all the family members knelt down one after another: "Young master, we are willing to stay", the subordinates of the Jiang Mansion are used to it, and when the lord and the lady were alive, they were very good to the subordinates, never deducted, beaten and scolded, and the subordinates were naturally reluctant to go.

Yu Jia looked around at everyone, turned her head and said to the housekeeper: "Uncle Jiang, you can deal with this, the men leave ten young and strong, and the rest will be dismissed, and the female dependents will leave a few young ones, and the rest of the older ones will also be sent away." Give them the wages, and each person will be given an extra 500 yuan, and go to the account room to get it" The old family responded: "Yes, young master", and went out with the family members after speaking. It's safer to let the housekeeper handle these things.

At this time, the room was left with Wushuang and Ping'er. Yu Jia turned her head to Ping'er and said, "Sister Ping'er, my mother's dying instructions let me marry my sister Fengguang" Yu Jia said to Ping'er first. "The young master hasn't married yet, my sister won't marry, when the young master marries the young lady into the door, it's not too late for my sister to marry again" Ping'er said a thousand blessings, bowed her head and said.

Yu Jia listened, did not reply, and was silent. After a while, the housekeeper Jiang An came back, entered the house and said, "Young master, most of the people have been sent away." According to the young master's instructions, leave some young ones with good hands and feet. Yu Jia replied: "Okay, Uncle An, this matter is over." You will go out in a while, find a few matchmakers to come back, tell them about Ping'er's sister's situation in detail, and you must choose a good family for your sister, of a similar age, to be a main house, not to be small. Whoever has done the work of this will be rewarded with a hundred taels. The housekeeper hurriedly replied: "Okay young master, I'll do it", and after answering, the housekeeper went out.

Calm returned to the room. Ping'er lowered her head and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, sighed softly, and did not speak.

The housekeeper Jiang An's work efficiency is quite high, and after a while, he found five or six matchmakers, Jiang An explained Ping'er's situation in detail to the matchmakers, and the matchmakers took action after hearing it. said that it is a couple of newcomers, then both parties have to be rewarded, can they not work hard?

In ancient times, if you were born like Ping'er and met a bad owner, you had to serve people for the rest of your life, and you couldn't even think about getting married. Now Ping'er is 25 years old, and she belonged to an old girl in that era, in today's words, she is a leftover girl, and it is really difficult to find someone who is of the same age, has a good family background, and wants to do a main house. It can be seen that the Jiang family really has nothing to say to this maid.

As the saying goes, no book is made without coincidence. No, a few days later, after thousands of choices, I really found a master with good conditions. Otherwise, marriage is destined by heaven. Thirty miles east of the village, Jiajia Village, there is a family, surnamed Gao, is also a rich man, Gao Laoyuan's eldest son is 30 years old this year, named Gao Qinghou, widowed three years ago, has no heirs, has not yet renewed.

Gao Gongzi is also a scholar and has not yet gained fame. Since ancient times, people who have read books have been from relatively good families, and ordinary families cannot afford to read. Scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants were squeezed into the ranks of scholars, and their status was very high. Ten years of hard work and a day of jumping into the dragon gate, that is a very beautiful thing. Of course, the road to career is also full of thorns. Scholars have not done anything for more than ten years, and they have to be served, and they have to open their mouths for food, stretch out their hands for clothes, and spend a lot of money on pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, and the expenses of inviting a gentleman. Cold window hard reading, mostly in novels, in reality, but very few.

Comprehensive evaluation, Gao Gongzi is not bad. So the housekeeper hurriedly reported to Young Master Yu Jia, and after Jiang Dashao understood the situation, he immediately made a decision. Immediately let the housekeeper take the eight characters of the two, go to the fortune teller, and approve the eight characters. The housekeeper received the order and hurriedly went to the fortune teller, this calculation, it was a coincidence, the eight characters matched, and it was a good match.

So choose a date, the principals of both parties sit down, discuss the marriage, and choose a day to marry. Because Yu Jia wanted to quickly solve the family affairs, she decided that the wedding date was set for the eighth day of the next month.

As a mother's family, if you want to marry Ping'er in the scenery, you also have to prepare a lot of things and deal with a lot of things. The first thing is that Yu Jia arranged for a housekeeper to buy back the four maids, the younger ones. In ancient times, slaves and maidservants were children. In the era when men were inferior to women, women had no status. At that time, China was a large agricultural country, and most of the workers were male laborers, and women were homemakers and husbands and children. At that time, due to the war, the Han population plummeted, and there were very few men serving in the military. In ancient times, there was no control over childbirth, and nutrition could not keep up, so the infant mortality rate was very high at that time, and there were many premature deaths. The girls who have survived are raised at home until they are 3 or 4 years old, and they can't afford to feed them, so they pull them out and sell them, which is no different from selling livestock. If you can get a good owner, it will be a blessing. Some were just born and sold before the full moon.

Within a few days, the old housekeeper Jiang An bought 4 girls, two 6 or 7 years old, and two 4 or 5 years old. All of them are yellow and thin, and they are obviously malnourished. led to the young master's room, and after the young master saw it, he asked Ping'er to lead them down, and first groomed, dressed up, and changed into clean clothes.

After a while, the four little ones freshened up and dressed up, and came out in new clothes, their little faces were flushed, and they all looked a little nervous. When people come to an unfamiliar environment, let alone children, even adults, they will seem a little restrained, and they have to look around. Frightened, vigilant, and first of all, consider whether there is danger, right?

Seeing the expressions of several of them, the young master shook his head and sighed, and then said softly, "You little guys, don't be afraid. In the future, this will be your home, where you will have good food, good clothes, and good accommodation, and everyone here will treat you like family, understand?"

Without waiting for a few children to reply, they continued, "Do you all have names?" and the little ones shook their heads to indicate that they had no names. "Then let the big brother, give each of you a name, okay?" Yu Jia smiled and said, "Well, let me think about it, what kind of name should I give you?", after thinking for a long time, Yu Jia said: "Yes, you two big sisters, your name is Feng'er, you are called Yun'er, your two little sisters, you are called Yu'er, you are called Xue'er, how about it?" Yu Jia named each of the little girls.

"Okay, okay, I finally have a name!" the little ones replied in unison, clapping their hands. These four little guys are not simple. When he grew up, he followed Yu Jia to establish Taoism, but he made a lot of achievements, which will not be shown later.

"Sister Ping'er, these two younger Yu'er and Xue'er will marry with you and have your Gao family name. But don't use it as a maid, when you get married, ask them a gentleman, let them learn words" and then took out two books from his arms, in fact, from the small world: "These are two sets of sword books, when they know some words, let them practice, must be strictly supervised, and after they are refined, I will come to them."

"Yes, young master," Ping'er said respectfully. "Uncle An, Feng'er and Yun'er will stay by your side, let my teacher teach them to practice Chinese, don't use them as people, follow my surname Jiang" After speaking, he also took out two books from his arms: "These are two sets of marksmanship, when they know some words, let them learn marksmanship."

"Yes, young master," said the old butler. "Okay, there's nothing else to do, the next big thing is to prepare for Sister Ping'er's marriage, which is the top priority of our Jiang family. In the past few days, I have to trouble Sister Ping, teach these little guys, and some etiquette for dealing with people," Yu Jia said happily.

Ping'er sighed in a low voice there, not a taste in her heart, but what else can she say now? After all, she still has to get married! Hearing Yu Jia speak, she hurriedly retracted her thoughts and nodded her head. Then he took the four little ones and went back to the inner room.

This is exactly what it is:

The love between sister and brother is really like the depth of the sea, and the younger brother helps my sister find her husband's home

The wind blows in the deep boudoir of the courtyard, and the leaves fall to watch the sunset

The tears were blurred and reluctant, and the heart was helpless and sad

The marriage is destined for three lives, and the branches on the phoenix fold the flowers