Xu Li has always been stubborn. Once he says he's leaving, he won't stop for a moment.

Changming, Bomu, and the two yamen runners left behind by Ying Wenlong immediately helped him harness the carriage and load the things onto it.

Xu Tiezhu was dumbfounded: "Brother, what do you mean by this? How do you want people outside to see me? Aren't you afraid that others will poke my spine?"

Xu Li looked at Xu Tiezhu and said sternly, "I'm not used to living here. I want to live in the county town. Is that not possible?"

Yesterday, Xu Tiezhu and Liu Ermei saw that Xu Li was not arrogant at all, and they wanted to control him like they did when they were children, but they actually forgot that Xu Li is now a general.

Now seeing Xu Li becoming more majestic, she was a little scared, but Liu Ermei would never let go of the opportunity to take advantage.

"What are you doing, little uncle? Even if you become an official, you can't despise your hometown. A dog doesn't despise a poor family, and a son doesn't despise an ugly mother. How can you despise your own brother?"

"What do you want?"

"It's okay if you don't stay here. Xu Tiezhu is your biological brother, and Dalang, Erlang, and Sanlang are your biological nephews. Your family is so poor that they can't even afford to eat. Now that you've become rich, you can't ignore your brothers.

I won’t hide it from you. All the furniture in this room, even the bed you sleep on, was put together by my second grandfather and the village head.”

"What if I don't care?"

"You are a high-ranking official anyway. We can't do anything if you look down on us. There is only one thing: we have always been the ones to pay respects to our parents and ancestors during festivals. If you want to come back to pay respects to your ancestors, you have to ask us!"

Xu Li laughed angrily: "You mean, if I move out, you won't ask me to worship my ancestors, and I can't even burn paper for my parents?"

"You look down on your brothers, how can you still have parents? Why are you offering sacrifices to your ancestors? Otherwise, you can try and see if Dalang and the others will break your legs!"

"Break my legs! Okay, okay..." Xu Li, who is always good-tempered, couldn't help but curse and said "Okay" three times in a row.

Looking at Liu Ermei's rogue face, and then at Dalang and Erlang's ferocious faces, I suddenly felt that yesterday's dream was not just a random dream.

This is a pack of vicious wolves!

He imagined that his brother and sister-in-law would repent and sincerely admit their mistakes, but it never happened.

Seeing Xu Li loading all the things into the car and ready to leave, Liu Ermei and Xu Tiezhu were both panicked. It wouldn't be okay for Xu Li to leave like this.

The two of them ran out crying and shouting, and the people in the village who were watching the fun dropped their shoes and ran away to watch the fun.

Xu Tiezhu knelt at Xu Li's feet and cried loudly: "Brother, you can't deny your parents and your brothers. Our family is poor, but you can't deny your ancestors!"

Liu Ermei simply lay across the carriage and cried, "It's all my fault. It has nothing to do with your elder brother. Don't blame him."

After they made such a fuss, the villagers became anxious when they saw that Xu Li’s things were loaded onto the carriage.

What, you want to leave?

How can I leave? There are still many things that have not been resolved.

"Xiaopang, what happened? Why did he leave when everything was fine?"

"Uncle San, Lord Ying has prepared a yard for me in the county. My brother's family is in financial difficulty, so I'd like to move in!" Xu Li was very angry when he saw that Xu Tiezhu and Liu Ermei were trying to use morality to blackmail him, but he was too disdainful to argue with them.

"Little Fatty, I'm not saying anything to you, but you've been away from home for more than ten years, and you're leaving after just one day back. That's not okay." The village head tried to smooth things over, "Come on, come on, come to my house and sit down. What's going on? Let's talk it over."

If he leaves like this, wouldn’t his meal be wasted?

His son wanted Xu Lidai to find a job, and his daughter wanted to be a princess...

Xu Li said, "Uncle San, where are my parents' graves? I'll go and burn some incense for them."

"I know where your parents' graves are. Come on, let me take you there."

Changming led the horse, and Bomu drove the carriage to the road outside. Two yamen runners followed Xu Li and the head of the village.

Mr. Xu also heard that Xu Li was leaving, so he came with a cane. When he heard that Xu Li was going to the cemetery, he immediately followed him to the fields.

Xu Li found his parents' grave and saw that the grass was not pulled out and the paper money was not burned. He felt angry again.

No matter how poor you are, you can at least pull out some weeds and add some soil for your parents, right?

Xu Li squatted down to pull out the weeds, pulled out the saplings and shrubs next to the grave, and added soil.

He asked Changming to bring the incense, candles and paper money he had bought and put out the offerings. Xu Li kowtowed and stood in silence for a long time.

The head of the village and Mr. Xu Erye looked at the snacks that Xu Li offered as offerings, and wondered if Xu Li would give them these snacks after the offerings were made.

After offering his confession, Xu Li said goodbye to the head of the village and Mr. Xu Erye and was about to leave.

Master Xu poked the ground with his cane and said sternly, "Oh, you're just leaving like that?"

"Can't you leave?"

"What did you come back for? To pay tribute to your parents, burn some paper and then leave? Do you know how your brother has lived these years? You have made a living, but you don't care about your family, and you don't want to repay your hometown. Is that what His Majesty taught you?"

Not to mention His Majesty, Xu Li didn't want to bother with these people, but this hypocrite actually played tricks on His Majesty?

"How dare you!" Xu Li shouted, "Do you think you can say anything about His Majesty?"

Master Xu said, "I am a scholar from the 260th year of the Daqian reign. I have a good reputation. Do you want to disregard the law and embarrass me?"

"Who gave you the courage, Your Majesty Yin Yang?" Xu Li could tolerate everything else but this.

The head of the village said to Mr. Xu: "Uncle, you are old, please say less!"

Master Xu had a gloomy face and was very dissatisfied as his dignity was challenged.

Xu Li asked him, "You are the backbone of our Xu family. Yesterday my eldest brother came back and said that he wanted to compile a family tree, repair the ancestral hall, build roads, and build a family school... You plan to let me pay for all these expenses, right?"

"You have made a name for yourself, shouldn't you repay your family and your hometown?"

"Then, Grandfather, can you tell me, is my name Xu Li on the family tree?"

Master Xu blurted out: "Of course, male offspring will be recorded in the family tree."

“Are you sure I’m on the family tree?”

"can……"

"Well, we are not a prominent family. We don't need a big show to open the ancestral hall and ask for the family tree. I have firecrackers and incense in my car. Let's open the ancestral hall and show me the family tree."

Mr. Xu was at a loss for a moment. The Xu family's genealogy was very simple, with only a few new members added each year, and he could memorize it all.

As far as he could remember, there was no name of Xu Pang in the family tree, because he entered the palace and became a eunuch, which Mr. Xu thought was unlucky.

Xu Li sneered and said, "I'm not even in the Xu family's genealogy. How dare you ask me to edit the family tree and repair the ancestral hall?"

Master Xu: "You, bastard..."

"Heh~ Second Grandfather, where are my second and third brothers?"

"They all went out to work."

"Where do you work? I'll send someone to look for you today. If we find you, everything will be easy. If we can't find you, will you take the responsibility?"

"..." Second Master Xu turned to Xu Tiezhu and shouted pretentiously, "Why don't you tell your brothers where Erlei and Sanduo are?"

How could Xu Tiezhu say that?

Liu Ermei yelled, "They have legs, they ran away, where can we find them?"

"Didn't you say yesterday that the second brother was working as a long-term servant in a wealthy family in the capital? And the third brother was transporting coal with them?"

"They said so when they left. How would we know?"

"Didn't you say you'd write a letter for the Mid-Autumn Festival? Where's the letter?"

"..."

Xu Tiezhu and Liu Ermei were both speechless.

Master Xu scolded Xu Tiezhu and angrily said to several young men in the clan: "Take the couple to kneel in the ancestral hall. When they remember where their brothers went, they will release them."

Liu Ermei burst into tears. Where could she go to find them?

It was sold at the time and no contact information was left.

Xu Erlang couldn't help but said, "Fourth Uncle, I can tell you the address, but you have to take out the money to find Second Uncle and Third Uncle. My parents don't have the money to go out and find someone!"

Xu Li said, "Just tell them where they went first, and don't ask them to spend money to find them."

Xu Dalang said, "Fourth uncle, my wife is pregnant, and the doctor said that she is not healthy enough. Can you lend me two hundred taels of silver first?"

"You..." Xu Li was really surprised. He wanted to exchange it for two hundred taels of silver?

He looked at his eldest nephew, who was one of the people who had killed him with a hoe in his dream.

Indeed, it’s cruel!

Xu Erlang had been watching from behind. When he saw Dalang asking for two hundred taels of silver, he walked up to Xu Li and said, "Fourth Uncle, I know where Second Uncle and Third Uncle went. I don't want the silver. Please take me away. I don't want to stay in Xujia Village anymore... Can I be your son and take care of you in your old age?"

Xu Li looked at the second executioner, his mind filled with the scene of his brothers wielding hoes.

It hurts so much! It’s so miserable!

You want to be my son? You want to monopolize my property? You are not worthy! !

"Okay then, tell me where your second uncle and third uncle went, and then follow me."

Xu Erlang was very happy and was about to stand on Xu Li's side, but Xu Dalang grabbed him and said, "Do you want to abandon your parents?"

Xu Erlang said righteously: "Fourth uncle misses second uncle and third uncle, I miss them too, if you don't go to look for them, Fourth uncle and I will go to look for them together."

Xu Dalang looked at him gloomily and warned him, "Don't think of eating alone!"

Xu Erlang had already run to Xu Li and said, "Fourth uncle, my second uncle was sold to the county pharmacy by my father, and my father took back the money. Later, my second uncle was sold to the landlord Wang's family, and the landlord Wang sold him again. He was bought by a master in the city, and then he disappeared."

Xu Li asked the pawnbroker, the landlord Wang, and the master for their addresses.

Xu Erlang said, "Fourth uncle, I'll take you there. After my second uncle was sold to Landlord Wang, my father always went to ask for money from him. Later, he even stole food from Landlord Wang's house. Landlord Wang beat my second uncle up, so he sold him again."

The reason Xu Tiezhu went to Xu Erlei to ask for money was that Xu Sanduo was seriously ill.

Xu Erlei had to give money to Xu Tiezhu again and again. Later, he helped the landlord Xu collect rent. On the way, he met Xu Tiezhu. Xu Tiezhu and Liu Ermei lured him away from home and stole two bags of rice. Erlei was then beaten and sold.

After hearing what Xu Erlang said, Xu Li didn't want to say another word to Xu Tiezhu, and directly said to Changming and Bo Mu: "Let's go!"

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