The return of the son-in-law

As Guo Zhan'an said, on New Year's Eve, Liu Pianpian complained that she was sick, and she also excused that Guo Feng'an fell into the water before and didn't fully heal her body, so she stayed in the house together.

This has been her usual excuse for more than ten years. Originally, Guo Xiantong didn't care about her, but this year he was uncharacteristically, with an attitude of "If you don't go, you are not from the Guo family".

Guo Zhan'an was not uncommon, and even felt that Liu Pianpian's departure would disturb his mother's purity.He watched with cold eyes, watching Liu Pianpian had to put on a weak appearance, supported by his two daughters, and followed behind Guo Xiantong.

As for Guo Feng'an, since this kid almost peed his pants under Guo Zhan'an's pressure last time, seeing his elder brother is like seeing the King of Hades, and now he is following Liu Pianpian closely, and he dare not be with Guo Zhan'an at all.

As a result, the Guo family became Guo Xiantong walking in front alone, Liu Pianpian followed closely behind supported by two daughters, followed by a frightened Guo Feng'an, only Guo Zhan'an was left behind, and the others Keep a distance of about ten steps.

Just when Liu Pianpian was reluctant to perform the concubine ceremony in front of Di Wanyan, Huo Yu was kneeling far away in the direction of Tonghua County.

Huo Yu grew up in the Tiger Village since he was a child, and he has been influenced by his ears and eyes. Although Guo Zhan'an has taught him for two years, he still can't change some habits.Tiger Village has the rules of Tiger Village. For example, if a bandit dies in Tiger Village, what the bandit does is to make a living by licking blood with the tip of a knife. There are many enemies. I am afraid that one day the enemy will come to the door, and when they come, they will be frustrated.

Before Sun Lao came, there were not many literate people in Tiger Village, so naturally they would not make any rankings.Therefore, the bandits in Tiger Village like to keep the swords that their brothers used to use during their lifetime. They can be used as souvenirs on weekdays.

After Huo Dashan's death, Elder Sun specially chose a hidden place and erected an illegible stele for Huo Dashan, but for the ranking, you can't remove a leg from the stool in the cottage to serve as it?

Huo Yu bowed again and again, thinking of the scene of dancing on Huo Dashan's neck when he was a child, and remembering the scene of Elder Sun teaching himself how to read with a drawn out voice, he was momentarily infatuated.

When Guo Zhanan came back, he saw Huo Yu kneeling on an open space in front of the house. The afterglow of the setting sun hit him with a faint layer of light.

"What are you doing kneeling?" Guo Zhanan frowned, stepped forward to help Huo Yu up, and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Huo Yu didn't come back to his senses for a while, his eyes looked at Guo Zhan'an, but his eyes fell behind Guo Zhan'an.

Guo Zhanan pinched Huo Yu's chin, patted Huo Yu's cheek lightly with the other hand, and said, "Yu'er, it's time to get back to your senses."

Huo Yu just woke up, and the tears that had been stored in his eyes for a long time couldn't be held back for a while, and two drops appeared from the corners of his eyes.He subconsciously raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corner of his eyes, and asked, "Why did brother come back so soon?"

"I mean, I came back after eating two mouthfuls of reunion dinner. They are the ones who are reunited. What am I doing over there?" Guo Zhanan said, stretching out his hand to scratch Huo Yu's nose, "You are such a big person, and you still cry ?”

Huo Yu smiled embarrassedly, but said nothing.

Guo Zhanan saw that he was not willing to talk, and based on the scene he saw before, he guessed most of it: "Yu'er, your grandfather has been looking forward to you all his life. Can he be happy to see you like this?"

Huo Yu was hit by the words, his ears were a little red, and he said: "I once read a sentence in a book, 'A tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop, and a child wants to raise it but not to be loved'. At that time, although I understood this sentence in the What are you talking about, but only after my grandfather passed away did I really understand this truth. My father was killed by a bandit leader on another mountain, and I should avenge him, but I don’t even know the name of the bandit leader , not to mention which mountain his bandit house is on. Grandpa told me to study, but I was always lazy, and no matter how hard I work now, grandpa doesn’t know.”

Huo Yutonghua County came back from the funeral before, although he was also depressed, but he had never said these words to Guo Zhan'an so heartbreakingly.It was as if the original Huo Yu stayed in Tonghua County, and it was another more mature and restrained Huo Yu who returned to Xuzhou, keeping these words in his heart all the time.But today, Huo Yu from Tonghua County came back, and he babbled to clean up all the feelings he hadn't expressed in the past few months, which made Guo Zhanan's heart twitch.

"Yu'er, the dead cannot be brought back to life. In the two years after my mother passed away, every time I dreamed, I dreamed that my mother came back. She was still the same as before. She hit my palm when I was lazy, but just after the beating ended again. Afraid that I would hurt, she breathed carefully into my palm. How could it actually hurt? Her strength was so weak, and she was afraid of hurting me, so she didn't use any strength at all. At that time, I took advantage of her feeling sorry for me and asked for a lot of candies. It's just that no matter how I begged for mercy, my mother refused to ask me to do less homework. But when I woke up, I searched the entire Guo Mansion, but I couldn't see my mother's skirt, nor could I hear my mother's laughter, only her The ranking is looking at me."

An inexplicable resonance surged in Huo Yu's heart, and he wanted to open his mouth to say something, but he couldn't say anything.

Guo Zhan'an smiled wryly, and said: "The life expectancy of a person is only a hundred years old. If you are too attached to the dead, what should you do when you are born again? Of course we must cherish the memory of the dead, but we can't sink because of this, blindly thinking about the past, and forgetting the way to the future. Think about what your father and grandfather expected of you, if you want to be filial, don't let them down."

Huo Yu seemed to have realized something, and said in a muffled voice, "Brother, let me think about it."

Guo Zhan'an didn't force him, but just said: "If you want to go home, don't miss the reunion dinner later. Only with you is the reunion for me."

Huo Yu just sat in the room by himself, staring straight ahead, not knowing what he was looking at.

With Guo Zhanan's explanation, no one approached the house at all, so as not to disturb Huo Yu.

The few words Guo Zhanan left echoed in Huo Yu's mind all the time, changing into the appearance of Sun Lao and Guo Zhanan again.

Huo Yu remembered that when he was studying the first day, Elder Sun trembled with anger at his behavior of biting the pages of the book. When he was young, Huo Dashan disregarded his image as a bandit leader, and made several grimaces at himself when he was crying, making him laugh out loud. He completely forgot why he was crying before; Auntie picked up a few rotten vegetable leaves in her basket and put them on her head. As soon as Aunt An picked up the basket, she realized that the weight was wrong, and she grabbed herself out of the basket. He died halfway like this; he also remembered that Boss Liu wanted to teach himself kung fu, a reckless man who couldn't even write his own name and always talked with his fists. The two looked at each other, finally Boss Liu got annoyed, so he simply stuffed Huo Yu with a small wooden knife, and made a move himself, and Huo Yu followed suit with the gourd painting ladle.He even saw his biological parents, a man and a woman who couldn't see their faces, hung a jade pendant around his neck, stuffed a kit into his swaddle, and finally threw himself out.

The past is like smoke, these scenes turn and turn in Huo Yu's mind like a lantern on a horse, and finally converge into the appearance of Guo Zhan'an.

"Only with you is reunion to me."

Huo Yu seemed to have had a long dream, and he let out a long breath, only then did he realize that his face was already covered with tears, and his back was also wet a lot.

He subconsciously touched the safety buckle hanging on his chest. Through layers of clothes, he could barely feel a round shape.

But this is enough, he is Huo Yu, the grandson of Mr. Sun's accountant, the son of the head of Tiger Village, and Guo Zhan'an's foster brother.What hangs on his chest is the safety buckle that Guo Zhan'an specially found for him to bless him for the rest of his life, not the jade pendant with the dragon carved on it.

Ever since Elder Sun passed away, Huo Yu's state of mind has never been so clear as it is at this moment. He feels that he has just pulled off an invisible net, and feels that his seven orifices are much clearer than before.

Huo Yu fetched water to wash his face, changed another set of clothes, and then hurried to the front hall.

Guo Zhan'an had been waiting there for a long time, and when he saw Huo Yu coming, a big stone landed in his heart, but he asked with a light smile on his face, "Are you hungry?"

On New Year's Eve, every family gathers around the table to have a reunion dinner, even the most noble family in the world is not immune.

Because it was a family banquet, there were not so many details. Li Chonghao sat on the dragon chair, and the queen mother was sitting beside him.Except for these two, the men in the royal family are all seated on the right hand side, while the concubine princess is seated on the left hand side.

On the table on the right hand side closest to the emperor are Li Chonghao's few sons.Except for Li Shaojun and Li Shaojin, the oldest of the others is less than ten years old, and the eighth prince is the youngest. It is rare to be able to hold back crying without his mother and concubine sitting with a few new brothers.

On such occasions, the advantages of the big round table came out - Li Shaojun and Li Shaojin sat together, and no one could tell which of the two brothers had the better position.

Li Chonghao is very satisfied with this. Although he praised Li Shaojin, it doesn't mean he can tolerate Li Shaojin's comparison with Li Shaojun, especially on such an important occasion-if Li Shaojun is no longer Li Shaojin's opponent, then the next opponent, Isn't it him?

Today, the royal relatives and relatives gathered together, and Li Chonghao couldn't count how many scrutinizing eyes were looking at him and his sons.

No, it wasn't long before the family banquet started, and my third elder brother, who had been living peacefully for 20 years, held up a glass of wine and approached Li Shaojun and Li Shaojin to make friends.What will this third elder brother who has been useless all his life say to his two sons?Did he say that he had hugged these two children back then, or did he complain about the poverty of his fiefdom?Oh, I almost forgot, his third brother is not good at anything else, but he is quite good at training soldiers. He should send Fan Ji to lead the army to compete some other day.

Li Chonghao looked at Wang An and Li Shaojun and Li Shaojin talking happily, and drank the remaining wine in the glass.

At this moment, a red shadow fell into his field of vision.

Li Chonghao put down his wine glass and watched as the eldest princess Huayang, who married to the southwest when the late emperor was alive, took her grandson who was less than three years old to the first table on the right hand side. Talking to his grandson seems to be coaxing the child to call him someone.

Men are restless, and women are not much better.

Li Chonghao narrowed his eyes, and looked at the first table on the left. Concubine Yu was depressed after giving birth, and she looked like a rose that had lost its dew, very pitiful.Compared to Concubine Liu, who was on both sides of the table, Concubine Yu seemed even more lonely.

Concubine Liu, Li Shaojin, I can give you more honor than the empress's sons, and I can also beat you to the abyss where you are not even as good as dust.It depends on how cruel your heart is, how hot your hands are, and how big your vision is.

At this moment, a burst of laughter from the first table on the right attracted Li Chonghao's attention again.

That's good, you fight hard, fight lively, it's best to fight so that the whole court is involved, so that I can be the emperor who can sit back and relax for a few more years.

Li Chonghao couldn't help laughing when he looked at these two sons whom he had placed "high hopes" on.

However, Li Chonghao didn't notice that someone on the second table on the right was also quietly observing the surroundings, observing him, the emperor!