Bandit Reborn

Then he showed up with Cheng An and his wife.

Yan Ying is pregnant with her second child, and her belly is as big as a ball stuffed, so she can't go back to Jin County with everyone, but now they have established their own family, Li Long is married, and as cousins, they also A gift was prepared, but the Yan family's carriage was small and needed to carry people, so they saw the gift in advance and sent it to Li Huaixi first.

In recent years, Yan Ying's own housekeeper has long been different from that of Qiong Yao's heroine. Cheng An's silk and satin shop has been running well in the past two years, and the couple's life is quite satisfactory. Yan Yingxing has spare power and is willing to help the family. relative.After sitting with Li Huaixi in the government office for a while, Yan Ying found that Li Huaixi was still the same as before after winning the first prize. One day, when she was about to go out on the road, Yan Ying packed up seven or eight old silks and satins that were not easy to sell in her shop and stuffed them into the carriage behind, and asked Cheng An, who had no knowledge before, to bring these things with her. Go back and distribute it to relatives.

In front of the governor who was seeing him off, Cheng An was a little embarrassed, but later found that Lin Yichen didn't look at them at all, so he quickly stuffed the old stuff into the carriage, and the Li family's carriage was full of Li Long. For the preparations for the wedding, half of the carriage was piled up with high-quality silk and satin, and a few horses of old silk and satin from the family were really eye-catching.

Li Hu was busy preparing to set off with his staff, and didn't pay attention to the movement here. Li Huaixi saw it, but felt that Cheng An's thin skin was unnecessary here. The emperor had three straw sandal relatives, not to mention their family ? !But he didn't say anything, and continued to deal with the reluctant Lin Yichen as if he didn't see it.

71. The way home

The official road from Yuchuan to Jin County is not very easy to travel. After the opening of the commercial road with Datan, the number of caravans traveling to and from this official road has increased day by day, and the rolling of heavy vehicles has overwhelmed the official road. , this situation became more serious after the mud turned in spring, especially after leaving the boundary of Yuchuan, the situation on the road became even worse.

It had just rained a few days ago, and the potholes on the road were full of water, and the depth could not be seen. Even the driver who drove the car turned the driver upside down with all his skills. Even Li Huaixi Sitting in the modified carriage with shock absorption has not been spared.

When passing through a big hole, Li Huaixi accidentally bumped his head on the carriage, rubbed his head with a grin, and climbed out of the carriage, complaining to his second brother Li Hu who was also unable to sit in the carriage, "If you shake it again, I will It’s about to become the Lantern Festival! It’s the top pick!”

Li Hu reached out and straightened Li Huaixi's crooked crown, and joked with a smile, "This Lantern Festival is valuable, but it's a pity that there is not such a big pot to cook you."

Still feeling sorry for his younger brother, Li Hu glanced at the back of the convoy and said, "I've already sent someone to lead the horse, please wait for a while."

Li Huaixi didn't want to ride a horse either, because it was more than 100 miles away from Jin County, and the saddle was hard and uncomfortable. In his opinion, the end of riding a horse might not be much better than shaking the Lantern Festival in a carriage.However, since Li Hu became the shopkeeper, he has become more powerful. Seeing Li Huaixi frowning and staring at those copper bell-like eyes, he blocked Li Huaixi's next words.

Li Hu grew up in the same bathtub as Li Huaixi, so he naturally knew that Li Huaixi didn't want to ride a horse because he was reluctant to part with his delicate skin and tender flesh. Seeing his younger brother choke back the words that came to his mouth, he grabbed Li Huaixi's nose with a smile and said, "I don't want to ride a horse." ? If you don’t ride a horse, then why are you riding a donkey?! You, a champion, ride a donkey back to ‘Guangzong Yaozu’, and you won’t be afraid that the world will laugh your ass off!”

Li Huaixi really wanted to ride a donkey. When his mother went back to her mother's house occasionally when he was a child, his father always took the donkey and asked his mother to sit on it together.The donkey has good stamina, and it walks smoothly. There is no need for a saddle on the donkey's back, and a thick blanket makes it stable. Leaving aside the question of whether it is majestic or not, Li Huaixi is very satisfied with the comfort of the donkey.

Knowing that Li Hu dotes on him, Li Huaixi whispered to Li Hu, "Then find a more majestic donkey?"

"No matter how majestic it is, it's a donkey!" Li Hu glared at his younger brother. At this time, the man had already brought over the pony prepared for Li Huaixi. Li Hu yelled, and the team rested on the spot, and continued on the road after Li Huaixi got used to the new mount.

Li Huaixi turned left and right around the pony, feeling Shun Shun here and there, very happy.Li Hu saw that he was a bit awkward when he saw that he was no longer clamoring for a donkey, so he couldn't help but sat on the ground next to him and complained, "I don't know where the brother found such a short thing, it's shorter than the original one for Si'er. This thing is also called a horse?! Don’t talk about repairing the road, but spend all my time looking for this thing for you..."

Since Li Huaixi had benefited from Lin Yichen, his conscience felt a little protective. He grabbed a handful of grass by the side of the road and coaxed his horse happily, while defending Lin Yichen, "Road building can be done overnight, he You can still serve for a few days, so don't leave some work for the successor. Besides, the cars of your caravans are too heavy now, and it is useless to repair them according to the old methods of road repair. I'm also thinking about a way these days...Second brother, where did you hide this little thing just now? Why didn't I see it when I set off? "

"Your eyes didn't have time to look at other places at that time! This thing has been in the horse team behind, but it is too short, not as high as the legs of a decent horse. I have been looking for someone to take care of it. Otherwise, he would have been kicked to death by other horses. Is this also called a horse?!" Li Hu was still furious.

The pony, whose identity was suspected, ignored Li Hu's provocation. After eating the grass in Li Huaixi's hand, he accepted the identity of Li Huaixi's master, and let Li Huaixi, who was very obedient when he set off, rode on it.

Li Huaixi patted the good saddle on the pony before he got on the horse, knowing that Li Hu still treats 'this thing' as a horse to serve, rare is the most expensive thing, the champion riding a donkey is not good, but riding a pony is actually ugly It's very good, but the good thing is that it's an 'odd'. Besides, this pony horse is more than 300 taels more expensive than the purebred Datan BMW on the market. The difference is enough for ordinary people to spend for several years. Therefore, Li Huaixi Riding it has aroused the envy of many passers-by.

Yan Li and Cheng An couldn't stand the bumps. They each rode a horse and walked beside the convoy. They were riding tall horses, and they were also handsome. The two of them walked side by side, so they whipped the pony under them twice in the name of testing their foot strength, and ran to the front early.

Cheng An chatted with Li Hu about business matters all the way. Although Yan Li was not very talkative earlier, he could mix in a few words, but now he obviously had something on his mind and didn't say a word , just sat on the horse blankly, and occasionally Cheng An would quote him a few words before responding with a "huh";

Seeing his distraught appearance, Cheng An teased him as if he was concerned about his marriage, but Li Hu didn't say anything. He knew what Yan Li was thinking, and he knew more about Yan Li's hopelessness.Subconsciously, Li Hu felt a little sorry for Yan Li. He felt that his younger brother was ignorant, and he dug a hole to attract bees and butterflies. As his own brother, Li Hu felt somewhat guilty when facing Yan Li, so he simply pretended to be dumb at this time. , followed by a smirk, with another naive look.

However, guilty conscience is a guilty conscience, and my family is still facing my family. In Li Hu's eyes, Yan Li's sluggish appearance actually means that he is self-inflicted and self-inflicted.

He really didn't quite understand what Yan Li was looking for in their family's third son. It stands to reason that Yan Li has been around Li Huaixi all these years, and he should know what kind of virtue Li Huaixi is.Although she looks pretty, she is not as pretty as a girl. She has long arms and long legs, and her temperament is not good. In Lijiazhuang and even Tongding Town, everyone knows that the third son of the Li family looks soft and is actually in his bones. He is full of hostility, ruthless, and narrow-minded, and can remember things as big as a needle nose for half a year... If you want to talk about Li Huaixi's talent, it's even more blind. No one in their family knows that is Li Huaixi's "craftsmanship" used to earn a living, under the examination room, Li Huaixi is full of vernacular, and he has never written a poem that touches the scene and hurts the scene. The paintings he draws are not as good-looking as Yan Li's paintings!

Li Hu really couldn't understand why Yan Li was so obsessed with their family's three sons. Even if his younger brother deliberately provoked him, he wouldn't be fooled by a sensible person. In the final analysis, Yan Li himself was stupid and couldn't see the truth.

Because of thinking like this, not only did Li Hu feel less guilty, but he also felt a little bit more supportive of his younger brother's relationship with Lin Yichen, thinking that if San'er really didn't like women, it would be really good to have a positive result with Lin Yichen ——A pot like San'er in their family must be matched with Gaier like Lin Yichen. Governor Lin and Li Zhuangyuan are like dogs, so as not to harm others.

In the evening of the next day, several people separated at a fork in the road outside Jinxian County. Cheng An decided to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law first, and then go back to see his mother-in-law and father-in-law after a night's rest.Yan Li didn't return to Yuchuan until Li Hu got married, and agreed to come to Li's house to help two days before the wedding.

After the Yan family's carriage left, the Li family's carriage also got off the official road.The sandy roads in the countryside seem to be much easier to walk than the official roads. Li Huaixi got into the carriage after walking for a while. The country people don't know the goods, so they stand on the side of the road and point to his pony. A horse is considered a dwarf, and riding on it is more shameful than riding a donkey.

When the sun was about to set, the carriage finally entered the village.

Lijiazhuang’s newly built Zhuangyuan Memorial Archway is half completed, and the bricks, stones and wood are piled up neatly. A sturdy young man is squatting on a big rock with a big bowl, guarding these things while eating, and seeing Li’s family When the motorcade entered the village, they put down their bowls with a smile and greeted them. Their appearance was three points similar to Li Hu's. It was Li Cai, the eldest son of Li Chengxiao's family.

"Second Uncle was called back to eat by Second Aunt just now, and you came back just by chance. Go back quickly, the family is waiting in a hurry these days."

Both Li Hu and Li Huaixi jumped out of the carriage, and now the Li family brothers don't see each other very often throughout the year, so they were very polite when they first met, but after a while, the politeness disappeared, and Li Cai clamored to greet the champion , Li Huaixi beat him twice on the body, Li Hu left two buddies to take over Li Cai's work, and the brothers took Li Cai home together.

Before the carriage reached the door of Li's house, the bells on the necks of more than a dozen mules and horses beckoned a little girl dressed in colorful colors to rush out of the door.

Li Sisian has been studying books for two years, he can read a lot, and he can write small articles and poems, but his temper and temperament have not changed at all. He has broken the foundation of Zhang Fei, but like Li Huaixi, he likes thick ink and colorful colors, so every time he appears It is so frightening that you have to take a few more breaths before you dare to parry.

However, there is only such a girl in the whole Li family, and she is still precious when she really looks like Zhang Fei. In recent years, Li Huaixi has also taken her sister seriously, so even if Li Sisi rushed over and smashed him half to death, she still got out of the carriage with her bones He took out a gadget and handed it to his sister, and after paying the road money, he was allowed to get out of the car and walk home together.

Before taking two steps, Liu Quan also ran out from the door. With his shoes on, this guy rushed to Li Huaixi almost scrambling. His big moist eyes didn't know they were opened. Which gate, big tears fell out like money, and it seemed that he was as excited as he himself won the number one prize.

Li Huaixi felt a little moved by Liu Quan's appearance, but within 2 minutes, this emotion was lost by Liu Quan's next actions—rather his eyes were tearful, this guy still didn't forget to look left and right. Spotting Lin Qing's shadow, she wiped away tears of excitement, and turned to ask Li Huaixi more excitedly as she walked, "You can take me with you when you go to Beijing again this time? I signed a contract of sale with you. We have been together for so many years." I have become friends with you, and I know everything, the position of housekeeper cannot be cheap to outsiders..."

Li Huaixi felt more and more that the contract of selling himself with Liu Quan was wronged at the beginning, and he didn't know who sold it to whom!Liu Quan, who was worried about his status as the chief steward, was still lying low, even dusting the threshold twice with his sleeve before letting Li Huaixi take a step forward. He kicked Butler Liu out, and he walked around the place where Liu Quan brushed and pulled Li Si into the door.

72. Guangzong Yaozu

The fruit saplings in the Li family's yard have now grown into big trees, bearing fruit lushly.Li Chengkui, the brothers of the Li family, planted these trees because they were always greedy for the fruit of the neighbor’s house, but now the trees have grown up, but the children have grown up and left home one by one. Every year when the fruit matures, only Li Si Leading a group of little monkeys from the village to jump up and down the tree every day, completely deviated from Li Chengkui's original intention of planting trees.

When Li Huaixi came in, the family had just eaten half of the meal, and they all stopped eating at this time.Li Long held two whips in his hand, and was about to go out to light them. Li Si shook off Li Huaixi's hand and went out to watch the fun, while Li Huaixi's mother and his grandmother were hurriedly preparing to enter the kitchen to add food. Their stomachs were also empty, and the butcher's wife stood at the door and shouted indistinctly, "Si'er, go and call your aunt and sister-in-law over to help cook! Cheng Kui, hurry up and chop some more firewood, it's not enough..."

There was a lot of hustle and bustle outside the house. At this time, the sound of firecrackers rang out, and the number one scholar who had been left on the sidelines babbled, pulling his mother and grandma out who had just rushed into the kitchen.

"Mother, grandma, don't be too busy, sit down first, dad, you sit down too. We all ate dry food on the way, so there is no rush to eat..." Li Huaixi pushed all the elders in the family to sit on the chairs, and then Kneeling down straight, "Father, mother, grandma, Huaixi kowtows to you first!"

Dong dong dong, Li Huaixi knocked his head hard, three times for his father, three times for his mother, and three times for his grandma, all of them knocked on the ground. The sound was not loud, but it stunned the whole family, and then his eyes became red. Even Li Cai, who came to eat with him, turned his back.

Li Chengkui was distressed and wanted to stop him, but his grandmother stopped him with a look. After Li Huaixi finished knocking, he quickly took two steps to set up his younger son. Seeing that his forehead was red from knocking, he felt even more distressed. It’s not like we don’t know your intentions, and there are no outsiders watching at home, so what are you doing with so much effort?!”

His mother stretched out her hand to tidy up Li Huaixi's collar, turned her head and sniffed, then turned around and said with a smile, "Stinky boy, you have a conscience! After going to the capital, I learned the rules of a rich family and came back. After knocking, mother is going to cook for you, my son has lost weight after a long trip, mother is going to steam eggs for you now, and kill chicken for you tomorrow, let's make up for it!"

The atmosphere that Li Zhuangyuan created with great difficulty was disturbed by his family members, and he was dazed by his father's big hands. He quickly broke free and twisted into his grandma's arms, hugging the old lady's waist and acting like a baby, "I Help you light the fire, I want to eat pork belly fried by grandma with peppers!"

Including the 'house servant' Liu Quan, no one in the Li family felt that it was wrong to ask the champion to light the fire. The firewood was not enough to burn. Li Chengkui took an ax and stood at the kitchen door, chopping firewood while listening to his youngest son talking about interesting things in the capital. Liu Quan listened for a while, but didn't hear Li Huaixi's intention to turn Lin Qing into a regular, so in a blink of an eye, the dog-leg effort passed, patted his butt, and followed Li Hu to the door to help the guys unload the goods as if nothing happened. up.

At this time the sun had set and the sky was getting dark. Li Long lit a few lanterns and hung them on the gatehouse and in the yard respectively. Then he went to the neighbor's house to borrow tables and chairs. After finishing things, they have to rest overnight before they can leave the next day. The issue of arranging food and sleep for these people has become the top priority at home tonight.

After a while, Li Sisi dragged his aunt and Li Cai's new daughter-in-law into the door. Li Chengxiao brought his other two sons, Li Bao and Li Li, to help. There were not many vacant rooms in their house to arrange for these people, so they discussed with Li Chengkui. After a few words, they split up and went to borrow a house.

It didn't take long for the neighbors around and around to know the news of Li Huaixi's return. Many children sneaked out of the house to see the number one scholar while the adults were cleaning up the empty house. The four of them went crazy and ran around the yard chattering with these children. In the end, thanks to Li Hu's memory, he distributed the candies he brought back from Yu Chuan to these children, and in exchange for a moment of peace.

After being so busy until midnight, the Lijiazhuang, which was flying like dogs and dogs, finally calmed down. The fat cat who disliked many people going out for a stroll also came back from outside, and sat on the head of Li Huaixi, who was lying on the bed and talking to his grandma. Squinting his eyes, he listened to Li Huaixi pestering people there.

"...You promised me that you would live with me when I became an official and lived in the big house of the official's family. You also said that you would let me take care of you for the elderly, and I would tidy up the yard for you. !"

"I won't go, I don't mean nothing, and I'm not that emperor! I'm over 70 years old, and an old bone has to fall apart on the way before I get to the capital. I don't want to suffer. That sin..."

"I'll hire you a soft sedan to take you there, you promise me!"

"You drive me a cloud, and I won't go! I'm an old lady in the country who doesn't understand anything, so I don't want to stay at the foot of the emperor in Beijing, because I'm so white that I attract people's attention."

"Who cares?! If you don't go, I won't go either, I'll resign! At the beginning, I was told to study hard, and I was fooled by good things. Now that I have finished reading, I have changed my mind! I don't care, you guys If I don’t come to Beijing with me, I won’t go either! I will sell meat at home with my father, do business with my second brother, teach with my eldest brother, and I won’t go anywhere!..." Li Huaixi started to lose his temper, but he kept talking I was really sad, shed a few tears, buried my head on the fat cat, and wet a large piece of fat cat's hair in a blink of an eye.

The old lady was dumbfounded by her grandson, she won the first prize and was still crying in bed, which shows that she is still a child.Without a handkerchief, the old lady wiped away Li Huaixi's tears with a piece of pillow towel, and asked with a smile, "I hear you mean that you want to take the whole family to the capital to live with you? Even your father and mother? "

"You all said this at the beginning!" Li Huaixi replied angrily, pointing at the fat cat.

"I thought I was the only one who made a blind wish..." The old lady breathed a sigh of relief, touched Li Huaixi's little head, and then fooled, "Grandma will discuss with your uncle tomorrow, let's go to bed first, leave You still have a long time to go to Beijing, there will still be a lot of people at home tomorrow morning, when they see you, a red-eyed bunny, they should laugh at you, go to bed first, grandma pats, grandson sleeps..."

Li Huaixi fell asleep to the old lady's out of tune humming, and was so dazed that he didn't understand how much deceit there was in his grandmother's words. Anyway, it's a good thing to discuss.Although his grandma is over 70 years old, he just checked the pulse of the old lady. She has no high blood pressure or heart disease. She has been drinking the pork bone soup from her daughter and son-in-law all year round, and she has no problem of osteoporosis. The old lady is in good health. Very, besides, he can lie down and sit so comfortably in his carriage, even if the old lady is not in good health, it will be fine with him, a half-hearted doctor, not to mention the official road of more than 1000 miles, even if the old lady walks five hundred miles more, it will be fine. There will be no problems... As long as grandma promises him, he will always be able to abduct the old lady safely.

Before dawn the next day, his aunt brought a few women and daughters-in-law from the village. On this day, they not only had to arrange breakfast for the guys in the Li family caravan, dry food on the road, but also supplies for the ancestor worship the next day. Things are ready, food, utensils, incense sticks, ingots, everything, even if you wake up early, you are so busy that you don't touch the ground.

Li Huaixi asked Liu Quan to get him two tea bags to put on his eyes in the morning, and the swelling subsided a little before he went out to meet people.An acquaintance aunt smiled and teased him while working, "San'er, this time you are going to be successful, should you take your father and mother into Beijing to live a good life? At that time, my aunt will also take advantage of it. Maybe sometime I will go to Beijing to see the world."

The other woman took it without waiting for Li Huaixi to speak, "You thick-handed, who can tell that you can still be a relative of the champion, and you won't even be able to enter the gate of San'er's house. The concierge must say, 'Where did this crazy woman come from?', and then throw you out, don't you think?"

The women in the courtyard laughed, and Li Huaixi also laughed and laughed. While dealing with the women, he carried the fat cat and followed his aunt to the kitchen for a look. It happened that the steamed white flour steamed buns were lifted, and the kitchen instantly became smoky. Lingering, Li Huaixi didn't see anything clearly, so he quickly retracted his head.

"Go, go, play while you're here, I'll burn you later," his aunt came out of the kitchen with the steamed buns she had just picked out, and pushed Li Huaixi to the side with her elbow, and said as she walked, " Your mother is cooking your favorite food for you, don’t look at it! Tell your second brother to call those people over for dinner, hurry up and go on the road after eating, the weather is getting hot, it’s cooler to walk in the morning..."

At this time, Li Hu had already called back all the guys who lived outside. Li Huaixi, a hero, was useless. He carried his fat cat and wandered back to his parents' room. He liked to stay here after getting up when he was a child. It's still the same when you're older.

After breakfast, the people in the caravan went back on the road. Li's north-south goods store monopolized Datan's wool business, and they had to go back and forth like this every half a month. This time, they transported the things that Li's family needed. return.

After sending off the caravan, the Li family was still in a hurry.Since the ancestors did not have any prominent figures, the descendants of the Li family were very perfunctory to the underground ancestors. In the past, the process of worshiping the ancestors in the Li family ancestral hall was also very simple. Well, it is often that each family goes to the ancestral hall for a cutscene after going to the grave, even the patriarch's family is like this.

The ancestral hall of the Li family was dilapidated, and the main shrine was covered with dust. Women could not do these tasks, and men from the village had to clean them.Although the Li family is full of big men with big arms and round waists, they are not ambiguous in doing fine work. It took half a day to clean up the ancestral hall, and Li Hu was busy hanging up some silk and colorful flags bought from Yuchuan. At the door, a child who was looking at the materials outside ran in with a face full of anger——

"Someone from the Meng family has come to prevent our people from building the No. [-] Scholar Archway in our village. They also said that they will let the third uncle go back and recognize his ancestors!"

73. Guangzong Yaozu

Those who clean the ancestral hall are all young and strong laborers of the Li family. Hearing Baoxiner's words, the crowd is excited, and they will leave their work and go out to fight. However, Li Long and Li Hu are all figures who can hold their ground In a few words, he stopped the brooms and shovels in everyone's hands, and then he brushed off the dust on his body and led the people to the entrance of the village.

From a long distance, Li Long and Li Hu saw a few children guarding the materials with red faces and thick necks blocking a few people from other villages from entering the village. After a closer look, they both knew the person who came, and he was the current patriarch of the Meng family. Meng Huaiyi and several other men from the Meng family who are considered respectable in the town.

When he reached the fork in the road, Li Long gave Li Hu a wink, and the latter immediately turned around and went back to the house to inform his family that Meng Huaiyi was usually very popular in the village, and he was also the head of the Meng family, so even if he came to see him today Those who are troublesome should be treated with courtesy, and they should not give other people's excuses at the door of the house.

Since the children in the village here have already sung the white face first, Li Long will naturally continue to sing the red face when he arrives.Fake and seemingly sincere, he taught a few little boys a lesson, and while politely letting Meng Huaiyi and others go to the village, he turned around and took out a small amount of money from his body to distribute to the children as a reward, leaving them to continue guarding the materials.The Meng family should be half-dead with anger, but they couldn't say anything. They could only enter the village angrily and angrily, presumably because they planned to finish the matter of Li Huaixi's recognition of his ancestors first, and then worry about the number one scholar's memorial archway.

In Li Chengkui's house, all the leading men of the Li family got the letter and gathered together. Including the butcher's wife, all the working women avoided going out, leaving only the men in the room to discuss countermeasures.

"Our Huaixi opened the ancestral hall on the third day after his mother remarried, and entered the genealogy of my Li family. It has nothing to do with their Meng family. If it is said that they are thinking of Meng Xiucai's flesh and blood, they have not seen them for so many years. Once, now that Huaixi won the first prize, he shyly posted it up. His skin is really thicker than the city wall! If you want me to say, you should beat and scold these shameless people, and see if they dare to come to the door again !"

"That's right! The branch of Meng Xiucai has long since died out, and now those surnamed Meng and our Huaixi have already made five uniforms. It's a joke to say that they recognize their ancestors and return to their clan. Could it be that the underground gang came out to preside over the genealogy and family affairs?" ?! Not afraid to scare them to death!"

"It's true to say that, but now that San'er is about to go to Beijing to become an official, he can't cause a lot of trouble at home. Didn't you listen to the storyteller? There are so many censors in the court , It was specially designed to catch officials' pigtails.

I heard that there are royal spies all over the world, and the emperor may know what the ministers said in bed. If the Meng family makes a fuss here today, there is no guarantee that they will not be stabbed to the capital.I thought that the people from the Meng family came to make trouble today, so it's not without reliance. Even if the fifth suit is released, the surname before San'er is Meng after all, isn't it?The imperial court values ​​filial piety, this biological father is also a father, and stepfather is also a father, this is not easy to deal with! "

"His own father has only raised him for a few years?! Filial piety should first be filial to Cheng Kui!"

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A room full of men talking is not much quieter than a room full of women talking. There are not many people in Li's family who can read and write, but there are quite a few people who have ideas. Unfortunately, they couldn't discuss any good countermeasures in a hurry. At this time, when they heard the door knocker in front of them, Li Chengkui took the lead Standing up, he said as he walked, "Let's deal with it first, I'm fine, everything else is false, only one thing, San'er is my son no matter what his surname is! The second uncle is right, you can't give San'er this time." My son is causing trouble, so let’s deal with it first. Where is San’er? Hurry up and find someone, don’t let the Meng family think that we are hiding the child from showing up, go and have a look in the backyard, he must be fighting there.”

After hearing Li Chengkui's words, a junior responded to find Li Huaixi, and the rest got up one after another. At this time, Li Long had already entered the door with the Meng family.

When Li Huaixi hurried over after changing his boxing clothes, the Meng family was surrounded by a room full of men surnamed Li. Although the men did not smoke at this time, the air in the room was not good, and everyone looked weird. Li Huaixi frowned at the door.

As soon as Meng Huaiyi saw Li Huaixi, he stood up. Just now he was disturbed by the Li family's nonsense and he couldn't even say a whole sentence.

Including Meng Huaiyi, the people who came to the Meng family this time were all with some ink in their stomachs and had read books for a few days. Although they didn't read anything well, they wanted to deal with the Li family's mud-legged people who didn't know a lot of characters before coming. The clothes should be more than enough, but I never thought that I would be led away as soon as I entered the door, and I fell into a disadvantage.

The Li family looks simple and honest, but they are all difficult to deal with!After meeting each other, the Meng family was surrounded by everyone's guards before they even opened their mouths. They were either held back by the black-faced man next to them and talked about farming time, or they were held by the red-faced man over there to chat about gossip. The whole room was noisy. It seemed that they had a happy conversation, but in fact it was all the Li family who were talking. Meng Huaiyi was interrupted by the loud voice next to him several times. This time, the master entered the door and had a chance to say the whole thing.

"The nineteenth brother won the first place in the gold list, and the entire Meng family is happy for you, and you feel honored!"

Li Huaixi was indifferent to the obvious "our Meng family" in his words. Now that he is an official and equal to Meng Huaiyi, he was not too polite. He made a gesture of giving up his seat, and went straight to Li Chengkui and sat down, smiling. He asked, "Second Brother Meng came to congratulate you today? It was a waste of money." -

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As soon as Li Huaixi said this, the whole room was silent, even the Li family who were doing Tai Chi as a group shut down, and the Meng family who came empty-handed were even more red-faced. The card, before the gift list was presented, I thanked you first.However, as the head of the patriarch, Meng Huaiyi still had some concentration at the critical moment. He bit the bullet and smiled and sat down on Li Huaixi's lower chair, took out a 20 tael silver note and said, "There are no decent ones in the backcountry." Li, these 20 taels should be given to my younger brother as congratulations. But we have discussed it before coming here. In a few days, we will contribute as a whole family, and we will hold a three-day banquet in your old courtyard to celebrate the nineteenth brother..."

"That's not necessary. My surname is Li now, so it's not easy to celebrate in Mengjiazhuang. If I accept gifts, people will say that I'm a greedy person, and I want to accept gifts from two families. And the yard was sold to someone a few years ago. Second brother, are you there? What about my old yard, is it possible that you want to send it back to me? That would be too polite. "

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After hearing the last two sentences, Meng Huaiyi felt that the No. 20 Scholar was more difficult to deal with than the mud legs in this room!Every sentence made his liver hurt!Not only has his [-] taels of banknotes been stolen, but now even the house that has been transferred in black and white is almost unclear!

It seems that this child has been assimilated by the Li family, and it is useless to talk to him in a roundabout way. Meng Huaiyi can only straighten his clothes and get straight to the point, "Huaixi, in fact, we are here today to let you go back and recognize your ancestors. .

Although your father, Meng Guangqing, passed away early, he was the only seedling of you before he was alive, and he loved you very much. I still remember that when you were full moon, your father carried you out, and the baby was like a golden bump.

Your cleverness has also followed your father's. I think your father was the most famous talent in our Tongding Town back then, but he didn't continue to study because of his poor health.When you were babbling at the age of three, it was your father who personally enlightened you and placed high hopes on you. Now that you are successful and famous, you should go back to reorganize your family business and make your family famous, so that your father will be happy in public is. "

"How does the second brother know whether my father is happy underground? Could it be that he gave you a dream? Then did he ask you why our five-acre paddy field was only sold for 30 taels? Did you ask about the place behind my house?" Who cut down the trees that have become useful? Heh..." Li Huaixi smiled maliciously, looked around at the Meng family who came to the house today, frowned, and stopped smiling, "Go back and recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors. To make my father happy? Don’t say these words so high-sounding! Although I often go to your Meng family’s ancestral hall for a cutscene these years, but in fact, you also know that there have been five suits between you and me. Whether you want to go back to be named Meng, or whether you want to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors has nothing to do with you, and you can't help coming to my house like this."

"I just heard about the purpose of your visit today, but don't even think about moving the champion archway outside the village to Mengjiazhuang. I earned this archway for my mother. Where is my mother, the archway is there. Where! When my biological father passed away, I was still young. My mother took me to starve to death and had no way to rely on her. She had no choice but to remarry with her name on her back. I owed her this memorial archway.

Back then, I wanted to set up the door by myself. Speaking of which, you should be glad that I didn’t do it... I remember when I was young, I had a temper tantrum with my mother. My father hugged me on the day my father and mother got married. The groom's official will bring it back to this family immediately.

Although my father is a butcher and does not know a single word, he is kind and kind, and has treated me as his own for so many years.Although my biological father enlightened me and left some books, you all know whether those words and books are enough for me to be admitted to the number one scholar.If my father prefers to take me with him, say that the family is difficult, just let me fight pigweed all day long, I believe no one will stand up for me at that time, then I will