Volume 1 Mandate of Heaven Chapter 2 The Four Clans (Origin)
"Silly Simon, I haven't seen you for ten years, but you haven't lost your fat! Old man Simon didn't worry about your flesh at the beginning!"
The elegant man sitting on the main seat said to the sturdy man with a smile.
The thin man sitting next to the sturdy man just smiled and didn't say a word, fiddling with the folding fan in his hand.
When the sturdy man heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand, as if he was ashamed to be brought up about the past.
The first man pointed at the sturdy man and laughed......
These three are the contemporary patriarchs of the four major families, and the tradition passed down by the four major families is that every ten years, they will go to one of the clans in the order of southeast, south, and northwest to discuss Taoism, martial arts, and state affairs.
This year, it is the turn of the Nangong family to be the host, and the one sitting in the main seat is Nangong Zhentian, the contemporary head of the Nangong family, and the fierce man sitting below is the head of the Ximen family, Ximen Kong, and the person sitting next to the head of the Ximen family is the head of the North Ming family, Bei Yingwu, and there are still people from the Dongfang family who have not arrived at this time.
At this time, a subordinate ran in, lowered his head and said to Nangong Zhentian:
"Patriarch, the Eastern Patriarch has arrived!"
After speaking, Nangong Zhentian motioned for him to go down.
Nangong Zhentian stood up and walked towards the door!
"Let's go, everyone, go pick up our old friends!"
The Patriarch of Simon dragged his fat body to follow, and the Patriarch of the Northern Underworld followed.
"Haha! You two old guys arrived so early!"
A burly man in Tsing Yi walked in quickly, and said loudly to a few people who were about to greet him, the person who came was the contemporary head of the Dongfang family, Dongfang Yu.
The four of them greeted each other for a while, and then walked into the main hall with Nangong Zhentian, and the subordinates of Nangong Mansion successively brought in the wine and food.
Late at night, most of the ordinary people entered their dreams, and in the main hall of the Nangong family, although the four family heads had already drunk three rounds in their hearts, they were still talking about something.
"Old Ximen, I heard that the Ximen family has not been in a good mood recently?" Nangong Zhentian raised his wine glass and poured it up.
"Alas!" Ximenkong touched his stomach and sighed deeply.
"The northwest is a barren land, in order to resist the western countries, His Majesty would have sent military salaries and materials every year, but who would have expected that in recent years, it has been given less than a year by year, and I can only endure the pain of reducing the army and reducing expenditure!"
"There are some things that shouldn't have been said, but if you don't vomit, you won't be happy!" Nangong Zhentian looked around at the three of them.
"Your Majesty is not only like this to the Northwest, but also to my Nangong family and the Dongfang Family, I see! Our Majesty is starting to worry about us princes!"
Bei Mingwu nodded in agreement and said: "Since ancient times, the ruthless emperor's family! Let him go, now that the country and the people are safe, we have to support the army and respect ourselves, and we are far away from the imperial court and the national capital, how can he not worry, it is inevitable that he will have other thoughts." β
After Bei Mingwu finished speaking, the four of them raised their wine bowls and drank a bowl.
"Okay, okay, in the future, I don't think we have to worry about useless hearts, when we have time, let's hand over the military power, and enjoy the blessings in the future." "Dongfang Domain poured the wine to the brim.
Just after pouring the wine, Dongfang Yu suddenly remembered something, he stood up suddenly, walked in front of Nangong Zhentian, and slapped the table!
"Have you drunk too much?" Nangong Zhentian looked at the Dongfang Domain in front of him in astonishment, and the two of them below were just as puzzled.
"Nangong, what about my 100,000 taels of silver, don't think about repaying the debt this time!" Dongfang Yu asked as he stared at Nangong Zhentian viciously.
Hearing Dongfang Yu's words, it evoked the memories of several people, Ximen and Beiming slapped the table and laughed, and the wine in the bowl on the table was shocked out by the two of them. Ten years ago, when the last family meeting was held, it was held at the northwest Ximen house, and the four of them were bored and went to the mountains and rivers to play, and on the way they met a young woman, who was surrounded by more than a dozen fierce and vicious guards, holding weapons in their hands.
Nangong made a bet with Dongfang Yu, if anyone could touch this girl's little face and get out of the way, the other party would give this person 100,000 taels of silver, at that time they had just confirmed the identity of the patriarch's heir, and 100,000 taels of silver was also a huge amount of money for them.
Dongfang Yu was young and vigorous at that time, and when he heard the 100,000 taels of silver in Nangong Zhentian's mouth, he puffed up his chest and pushed the three of them away and said, "I'll go!"
Dongfang Yu walked up very elegantly, walked up to the girl in the stunned eyes of the woman and the guards, and before the girl asked, he hugged the girl, pouted and kissed it......
The girl struggled to push Dongfang Yu away, and Dongfang Yu smirked and was just about to explain, when she heard the blushing woman in front of her face angrily say to her guards: "Beat me!
"I'm the young head of the Dongfang family!Ahh......h
At that time, the three onlookers thought that in this Huangfu Dynasty, the four major families could go sideways, so there would be no accident, who knew that the Dongfang region was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and then was forcibly taken away by the girl, and then the three of them hurriedly went back to Ximen's house, and ordered the soldiers to go everywhere to explore clues, but they did not find any news, and several people seemed to disappear out of thin air.
This is a big deal for the old man of the East, the old man is going to go to the imperial capital to face the saint, and ask the emperor to come forward and issue an edict calling on the people of the whole country to look for it together, just when the old man is about to leave, the East Domain came back, and the girl came back with her, the girl's name is Dugu Nian'er, that is, the wife of the East Domain.
Dugu Nian'er's martial arts are extremely high, and Dongfang Domain is also famous for his strict wife management since then......
"Give money!"
The few people who came back to their senses looked at Dongfang Yu and couldn't help laughing.
"Okay, good, give it!" Nangong Zhentian couldn't help laughing, and was about to order his subordinates to get the silver taels.
"Stop!"
Dongfang Domain stopped Nangong Zhentian who was about to shout!
"What?" Nangong Zhentian looked at Dongfang Domain suspiciously.
"Let's make another bet!" Dongfang Yu stared at Nangong Zhentian in front of him with wide eyes, thinking in his heart, my Dongfang Domain was not ten years ago, and now I, the head of the Dongfang family, would care about a mere 100,000 taels.
"Bet on what?" Nangong Zhentian asked Dongfang Yu.
"What to bet on, what to bet on......" Dongfang Yu hesitated for a while, and suddenly remembered that when he came, he had seen Nangong Zhentian's wife with a big belly, and he had heard rumors before he came that the Nangong family was about to have a little princess......
"There it is!" Dongfang Yu slapped the table.
"Didn't your daughter-in-law conceive you another girl? My son is about to be born. Dongfang Yu stared at Nangong Zhentian with bad intentions, Nangong Zhentian's scalp was numb, and Dongfang Domain's ghost head and ghost brain were famous.
"Let's bet, who of the two children will be born first, if my son is born first, then let the little princess of your Nangong family marry into my Dongfang family when she is eighteen, be the daughter-in-law of my Dongfang family, and serve my son obediently?" Dongfang Yu asked Nangong Zhentian with a smile.
"Then if my daughter is born first, what if you lose?" Nangong Zhentian asked Dongfang Yu with a sip of wine.
"If I lose, I will give you Nangong Zhentian as a slave for ten years!" Dongfang Domain swore as if he had already won the battle.
"This can't work, this can't work! How can the dignified head of the Dongfang family be a slave!" Ximenkong and Bei Mingwu hurriedly dissuaded.
"You are such a disobedient minion, I don't want it from my Nangong family!" Nangong Zhentian said disdainfully.
"However, if you lose, let your son, the future young master of the Dongfang family, give me the Nangong family a slave for ten years!
Dongfang Yu slapped the table again!
"Bet!
"Hahaha!haha!" Below, Ximenkong and Bei Mingwu laughed.
"Then let the two of me be witnesses!" Bei Ying Wu stopped smiling and said to Nangong Zhentian in the Eastern Domain.
"Good!" both responded.
"Come on, come on, drink ...... drink"
There was another noise in the hall of a few men opening their hearts.
In fact, after so many years, there is no war smoke in the territory of the Huangfu Dynasty, and the people rise and set at sunset, and the four clan conferences have lost their original meaning.
Dongfang Yu returned to Dongfang's house, and first came to his father's room Dongfang Shu, Dongfang Shu's old prince, like the other three old princes, when he was young, he spilled blood and tears for the country and the people on the battlefield, and they were all meritorious ministers of the Huangfu Dynasty.
Dongfang Yu came to meet Dongfang Shu, Dongfang Shu was practicing calligraphy on the table, and when he heard Dongfang Yu coming into the door, the old man did not stop the pen in his hand, and looked intently at the words he was writing on the paper.
"How is this trip going well? The rest of the old guys of the three clans are okay?" asked the old man without raising his head.
"The three uncles are all healthy, and all the clans are fine, it's just ......" Dongfang Yu walked to the old man's side and reported.
"What's that?" the old man stopped his pen and raised his head to ask Dongfang Yu.
Dongfang Yu put his head close to the old man's ear and whispered:
"The other three clans are in the same situation as my Dongfang family, the emperor gives less and less money year by year, the Nangong family is better in the rich land of the South China Sea, but the Ximen and Beiming families are in dire straits, and the year is not as good as a year......"
"Hmm. The old man nodded, and continued to bow his head and write.
"If you don't have anything else to do, you can go down, Nian'er is about to give birth, you take care of her more. The old man said to Dongfang Yu.
"Wait a minute!"
Dongfang Yu was about to walk out of the door, the old man stopped him, the old man raised his head and looked at Dongfang Yu suspiciously:
"I'll report it, I heard about your bet with Nangong Kid, is there really such a thing?"
Dongfang Yu lowered his head, clasped his fists with both hands, and stammered respectfully, "Eh...... The child was drunk too much by the three of them that day...... Seem... It seems..."
"You are the head of the family, you must pay attention to your words and deeds in the future! β
The old man waved his hand, and Dongfang retreated.
Dongfang Yu returned to his house, came to the door and listened to the sound inside, there was the sound of Dugu Nian'er talking to the maid, Dongfang Yu pushed the door and walked in.
"Ladyββ, husband is back!"
Dugu Nian'er was lying on the bed reading a book, and when she saw Dongfang Yu walking in with a hippie smile, she ignored him and continued to read the book in her hand.
Dongfang Yu saw that the situation was not good, and immediately motioned for the maid to go down, the maid bowed and retreated, Dongfang Yu walked to the side of Dugu Nian'er's bed and sat down and asked obediently:
"Nian'er, what are you going to look at? Let's watch it together as a husband and wife!"
"I heard that my son was not born yet, and he was about to be lost by his father to someone surnamed Nangong?" Dugu Nian'er did not answer Dongfang Yu, and asked Dongfang Yu without raising his head.
"Nian'er, listen to me, Mrs. Nangong Zhentian, that is the younger sister of the emperor today, she is talented and beautiful, and her daughter must be not much different in appearance in the future, this is also a good thing, what's wrong? As long as we win, then our children will be regarded as relatives of the emperor in the future, and they will also have a beautiful daughter-in-law for nothing, what a good thing!" Dongfang Yu comforted Dugu Nian'er with a smile.
As a result, the more Dugu Nian'er listened, the more angry she became, and the more she listened, the more angry she became, and kicked Dongfang Yu out of bed.
"My Dugu Nian'er's son, what kind of royal relatives are he rare? Dongfang Domain, I'm really blind, my son hasn't been born yet, you're just, you just take him to gamble......" Dugu Nian'er became more and more angry the more he spoke.
"Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, don't be angry, don't be angry...... this is not light.
"Come on, enforce the family law!" Dugu Nian'er shouted out the door.
After a while, Dugu Nian'er's maid walked in with a stack of books.
Dugu Nian'er looked at the book brought by the maid, shook her head and said slowly: "It's not enough, take it all!"
Hearing this, watching the maid go down, Dongfang Yu's heart was about to jump out of his throat, trembling all over, and the sweat on his forehead was falling drop by drop, this was the first time he had taken it all! In the past, I wanted to bribe and bribe this maid next to Nian'er, but this maid was brought by Dugu Nian'er from her mother's house, and her martial arts are high, so she doesn't eat at all, tonight is over, no, it's going to be over in this half month.
Dongfang watched the maid go in and out again and again, and brought in a hundred books, a wooden basin, four or five rags, a carpet, and a candle......
"Miss! "The maid was tired and sweaty.
"Okay, you go, you can rest for a few days, you've worked hard these days. Dugu Nian'er looked at the things on the ground and nodded.
"Yes!" the maid stepped back, and made a grimace at the Eastern Domain as she stepped back.
Dugu Nian'er continued to read, Dongfang Yu on the ground stood up and picked up the basin and went out, and after a while, he came back with a basin of water, took a rag and began to wipe the house...... At night, light candles and copy books, as for the carpet, Dongfang Yu is not allowed to go to bed, and sleep on the ground in the future, when will the family law end? It depends on Dugu Nian'er's mood......
Dongfang Yu, who had been busy for a day, knelt in the house with his head down, waiting for Dugu Nian'er to fall asleep, and when Dugu Nian'er fell asleep, he could sleep, the one-meter-eight man fell under his beloved wife's pomegranate skirt, and ten years ago, when Dongfang Yu ran to kiss Dugu Nian'er, he had already lost. When the meeting of the four clans is over this time, and the next time we see the old people, I don't know when it will be! Maybe next year, maybe it will be the next ten years......
At this time, the old man of Dongfang Shu, looking at the clean and bright room that was wiped by his son, sighed and shook his head, lay on the bed and remembered Dongfang Yu's report, and couldn't sleep from time to time, that real son of heaven, could he really not help but do it......