Chapter Twenty-Nine: Homecoming
Sun Ce has rarely been idle these days.
The stinky boy in the courtyard next door was accepted up the mountain as a disciple of the immortal master, and he would never twitter in front of him again. Since Zhao Zhi came back yesterday, he didn't go out of the gate, and he didn't step out of the second door, and began to refine the Penglai jade branch to repair the Qi Mansion.
"This cultivator is an immortal, you should enjoy it like this!" Lying on the recliner in the courtyard, Sun Ce lazily basked in the sun, contented.
Outside the courtyard, today's Jinyin Village is particularly lively.
Listening to the Yamen official Su Lao said, the place where Jinyin Village is located is full of dragon veins, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it is completely a piece of Feng Shui treasure land. Especially Aunt Dai, Fang Cheng, Master Hou and Master Su have their own homes, the house position is accurate, the former family has a Shuo dynasty eight-grade official, who works in Jinyin Village belongs to Qingyun County, and the latter three families are dragons and phoenixes among the people, and they are favored by the immortal master, and go up the mountain to practice the law of the fairy road.
Moreover, this Bapin County official Chen Liujia Chen wants to return to his hometown today to visit his nepotism at home.
In the two alleys, the lights are displayed in front of the houses, and the streets are full of people. Especially at Aunt Dai's house in West Alley, early in the morning, Master Su arranged for several officials to help clean Aunt Dai's house, so as to be spotless. Even the old wooden door was not exempt from vulgarity, and was painted with a thick layer of vermilion burnt paint.
Master Su, together with several incumbent officials in the village, stood and waited under the peach blossom tree. Looking at the long plank road at the entrance of the village, Master Su looked at his eyes and nose and was not impatient.
At sunrise and noon, a convoy appeared on the plank road.
Six guards with knives dressed in turquoise armor looked solemn and walked vigorously, guarding the sedan chair.
The sedan chair wrapped in maple red brocade pulled two slippery wooden canes on both sides, and under the wooden staff, four strong men lifted it resolutely.
The curtain of the car was not opened, but there was already a person sitting inside.
A group of eleven people walked towards the entrance of Jinyin Village.
Seeing this scene, Master Su's face changed to joy, and he immediately stepped out quickly and walked to the entrance of the village to greet him. The little officials behind him wanted to follow, but they didn't see Master Su greet each other, so they didn't dare to take the liberty of following, so they simply continued to wait under the tree.
Master Su stood still, waited until the sedan chair reached the entrance of the village, his hands were respectful, and he bowed his head and said.
"Su Feng, the official of Jinyin Village, pay homage to Lord Chen!" After saying that, Su Feng bowed in front of him and saluted to the sedan chair.
Inside the sedan car, the wooden tree sounded slightly.
"Fall, sedan chair!" the guard next to the sedan shouted.
Four sedan chair front side, two sedan chair drivers on one knee to the ground, the sedan chair leaned forward and fell. In the gap between the car curtains, the five-fingered slender jade hand stretched out and opened the car curtain.
The guards on both sides were afraid to give way to their figures, dressed in Huating soapy green official uniforms, and the men in the sedan chair stepped on the ground.
"Uncle Su's words are serious" The man stepped forward and mixed Su Feng.
Su Feng got up, held the hands of the man Chen Liujia, and cried with joy.
"Lord Chen, the villagers are looking forward to your return!"
"It's also hard work, everyone" Chen Liujia patted Su Feng's hand, smiled lightly, and raised his eyes to look at the familiar and unfamiliar Jinyin Village in front of him.
After Chen Liujia's father died, he was conscripted to Qingyun County as an official.
At first, Chen Liujia was alone in Qingyun County, with nothing to rely on, because he was young and could not be trusted by the officialdom, and his career was worrying. At that time, Chen Liujia himself didn't think much about it, after all, this was also a bereavement errand arranged by the imperial court, what could he do.
This person's whole life is to eat a bowl of rice, walk a trip, and just get by.
In this way, the young Chen Liujia in this huge Qingyun County is in peace, day after day.
A few years ago, by chance, Chen Liujia met the officials of Nanlai Prefecture to inspect this place, and was fortunate to be favored by the governor of Sipin, Master Chu, and promoted to the third level as a county lieutenant. Last year, the county magistrate accused him of private corruption with the immortal master, and after the county magistrate learned about it, he chose the road to flee that night. After coming and going, the Nanlai Prefecture Government unusually promoted Chen Liujia, who was originally a county lieutenant, to take charge of Qingyun County as a temporary county commander to see the after-effects.
Since Chen Liujia came to power, he has tried his best to suppress any affair with the immortal master in Qingyun County. When his subordinate officials saw this, they dissuaded one after another, wouldn't this kind of act be an ant shaking a tree, and in vain, it might be that this life will be lost.
After hearing this, Chen Liujia felt otherwise, and still went his own way.
Over time, the officials had never seen Master Chen have an accident, but they were also strange. Could it be that this immortal master of Qingyun County doesn't eat the fireworks of the world?
In fact, if there is no supporting tree behind it, who will come to the boiling water of Qingyun County.
......
"Lord Chen..."Su Feng gently shook his hand and reminded.
"Looking at home, I was out of my mind for a while" Chen Liujia came back to his senses and snorted.
"Lord Chen is virtuous, villains should not take the liberty of disturbing Lord Chen's meditation," said Su Feng and made a gesture to kneel.
Chen Liujia immediately stopped Su Feng's actions and pretended to be angry and looked at Su Feng.
"If Uncle Su wants to do this again, I will go home, why do you and my neighbors need to see each other. ”
"It's me who is abrupt, it's me who is abrupt..."Su Feng was a little embarrassed, ready to say something again.
"Uncle Su, when can I enter Jinyin Village?" Chen Liujia said first.
When Su Feng heard this, he immediately dodged to the side, and hurriedly said: "Lord Chen, please! The villain has taken the liberty of stopping Lord Chen for so long..."
Nodding his forehead slightly, Chen Liujia did not stop, took the lead in stepping into Jinyin Village, and walked straight to the West Lane.
On the way, he met the little official who had been waiting under the peach blossom tree for a long time, and Chen Liujia couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Walking into the alley and standing in front of the vermilion lacquered wooden door, Chen Liujia stopped.
Smelling the pungent smell on the door, Master Chen shook his head slightly.
How could my mother get this vermilion lacquer, how could this supposed quiet West Alley become impassable.
This man, as an official, troublesome.
"Wait here. ”
Chen Liujia, who finished explaining the matter, pushed the door in.
Su Feng, who was following Chen Liujia, wanted to enter the wooden door together, but as soon as he stepped forward, he was stopped by the guards.
"I'm here, go in and help the lining" Su Feng made a funny sound.
"Didn't you hear Lord Chen!?" a burly guard chirped in warning.
They have seen too many people in Qingyun County, and the people in this West Alley are a drop in the bucket.
Su Feng turned around, retreated outside the door, and began to look at his heart again.
...
Inside the door.
Chen Liujia thought that her mother would be waiting for her in the house, but when she opened the door, she saw her mother sitting in the courtyard with a bench reserved next to her.
"Mother, the son is back. ”
Chen Liujia first bowed officially, and when he saw that there was no answer, he stepped forward with a smile on his face and sat on the bench.
When Chen Liujia sat down, Aunt Dai did not turn around to look at her son, but looked at Zhu Se, who was incompatible with the courtyard.
"This stool, Master Su has also sat on it," Aunt Dai opened.
When Chen Liujia heard this, he deliberately set up an official tone: "Then today, I am also sitting in the county order, what should I do?"
"The emperor is far away, can you still take it away?" Aunt Dai still didn't look back.
"Then, I dismantled this stool?" asked Chen Liujia cautiously, as if a child was learning to speak.
"The stool is not broken, what are you doing when you dismantle it. It's just that there was no good wood in the mountains and forests at the beginning, and the woodwood I chose was not strong," Aunt Dai replied.
After listening to her mother's words, Chen Liujia couldn't help but be happy.
"Mother, what kind of wood am I?" Chen Liujiale said with a smile.
Aunt Dai turned her head and looked at her son, who she hadn't seen for many years, her eyes slightly moistened.
Reaching out and rubbing her son's tough cheeks, Aunt Dai said kindly: "You, stupid wood, what you don't do well, you have to be an official." ”
Chen Liujia didn't answer, closing his eyes and feeling the spring breeze in the yard.
"Just to show off this time?" Aunt Dai had some questions, she suddenly came back early, and she couldn't think of a reason.
"It's not that I miss you, mother, my mother is worried, I can't make you depressed every day..."
In the courtyard, there are only mothers and sons, and there are no officials and citizens.
"I'm getting better every day, where do I worry about you, who will be idle and have nothing to do to block myself" Aunt Dai smiled.
"Why, Fang Cheng, that kid is so powerful, he can still make you happy" Chen Liujia stretched his waist and began to chat with his mother.
At the mention of Fang Cheng, the smile on Aunt Dai's face deepened.
"Fang Cheng is much better than you, and he knows how to come to eat at home, how can he compare with you, Lord Chen, you are busy!"
Chen Liujia saw the smile on his mother's face, and was a little jealous, so he immediately changed his words and said, "Okay, see that I will go to the other door to find Fang Cheng in a while, and reward him well." ”
Aunt Dai moved her hand to Chen Liujia's somewhat skewed hair crown, straightened it slightly, and said in a low voice: "Fang Cheng is no longer in the village..."
With that, Aunt Dai withdrew her hand, turned around and raised her head to look at the smoke clouds in the sky.
"No, why did that kid go?" Chen Liujia had a sense of foreboding.
"What do you want?"
Chen Liujia received a light hammer on the head.
"Haha..."He helped the crown of his hair that was skewed, and Chen Liujiale laughed.
Mothers are more defeated, so it's right to be beaten.
"Fang Cheng has gone to cultivate immortals," Aunt Dai said the answer.
"Cultivating immortals, this kid has some ability, he can send a fish to become an immortal master, and I'll go back" Chen Liujia continued to be serious.
After listening to this, Aunt Dai looked disgusted.
"Be your official well, less of a hippie smiley face here. ”
Chen Liujia, who was sitting on the small bench, heard this, brushed his sideburns lightly with both hands, and coughed twice.
"I don't know, this party is presented, where does the teacher worship?"
Aunt Dai thought for a while and replied, "I remember that it is on Qingyun Mountain, it is quite close to you, you can go and see Fang Cheng for me when you have time." ”
"Oh......" Chen Liujia replied meaningfully.
"What, there's a problem?" Aunt Dai heard the meaning in her son's words.
Chen Liujia immediately snorted, slapped his hands on the soapy green official uniform, and the dust flew up in vain under the sunlight.
"No, I didn't expect it to be so close to me. ”
"Well, it's best if you can go, and it doesn't matter if you can't go" Aunt Dai was afraid that Chen Liujia would be big, she had heard that these immortal cultivators all regarded themselves as high and had a difficult temperament.
"Mother can rest assured, she will go!" Chen Liujiale smiled, he knew it in his own heart.
"Oh, yes..."
Aunt Dai turned her head to look at the only son in front of her.
"What kind of Miss Xie is, it's the Miss Xie you used to talk about every time you came back, and now there is a trace?"
When Chen Liujia heard this, he was immediately silent, not knowing how to answer.
"She's a good girl..."Aunt Dai couldn't help sighing.
Chen Liujia looked up at the sky, full of thoughts.
It is said that this person has three major ups and downs in his life.
A false alarm, lost and regained, and reunited after a long absence.
The first two, have been experienced.
But this last one...
Do you want to wait until the day I grow old?