It is said that the setting sun is the end of the world, but when you look at the end of the world, you can’t see your home.
Zhu Pingan sitting on the top of the island, watching the sunset slowly sink into the boundless sea, the heart can not help but rise melancholy, the sea in addition to the waves and then nothing else, do not see a piece of sail, home is far away. Other are okay, is afraid of mother Chen’s know the news after worrying about hanging ……
However, the departure of the setting sun is only a short separation, tomorrow morning it will return.
Mother do not worry, son will definitely go back.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, the hustle and bustle of the lower river village returned to quiet, there is no bride and groom also eliminates the village people like to make a hole in the room link, the whole wedding also ended early, come to participate in the Zhu family feast people also returned to their respective homes one after another.
After the people had all dispersed, a group of five people appeared on the front street of Xihe Village, heading towards the direction of Zhu Ping’an’s house, namely, Master Zhu, Old Lady Zhu, Eldest Uncle Zhu Shouren, Eldest Auntie Zhu, and Daughter-in-Law Zhu Pingjun.
It was almost as if the people had just dispersed, when his eldest uncle Zhu Shouren led Elder Zhu and the others over.
“His eldest uncle, what are you doing?”One of the villagers who had helped Zhu Pingan’s family clean up the yard before returning, saw Master Zhu and his party of five, and asked casually with some curiosity.
“Zhang Er ah, we’re going to help Lao Er’s family tidy up.”
Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren was wearing a jade-coloured cloth and silk student’s uniform, lining the whole person with more elegance, glancing at the man obliquely with his head held high, speaking with the arrogance of a scholar, his words full of benevolence and brotherhood.
Oh
The village man let out a cry, swept Master Zhu and the others a glance, then staggered away. After walking away for some distance, the village man rolled his eyes heavily, he was disdainful of Zhu Shouren’s words. If it was to help Zhu Pingan’s family clean up, then when the banquet was over, why did you guys run home so fast, waiting for us to clean up and finish all the work, only then did you guys slowly pass by.
The other thing is that I think the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren is too much. He’s not even a scholar, but he’s so arrogant and doesn’t even look people in the eye when he talks. The other Pinganlang have passed the Scholarship examination, back to the village that time to see people are not active greetings. He is always greeted by his uncles and aunts, and no one in the village has ever seen Ping’an Lang put up a fight.
There are also people Shouyi family, people broad up, also did not see the people have set up, the village of the bridge are people Shouyi family repair. What a good family. Previously, the old Zhu family is not also relying on people Shouyi hunting in the mountains to work on the ground, out of the more vigorous ah, when I do not know how the old man Zhu thought, almost let the old two family net out of the house!
Now look at Shouyi’s family, the two big houses, and the livelihood of the oxcart, and a son of the scholar.
I don’t know, now Zhu old man intestines remorse green or not ……
Ping’anlang is a good boy ah, and again to learn the valley and reduce the rent, drag Ping’anlang’s blessing. This year, the county government has given the lower river village half of the corvée than last year.
The first thing I want to do is to make sure that I have a good understanding of what is going on in my life.
……
“Boss, I think this matter should be slowed down.”As Elder Zhu walked, he suddenly stopped and looked at his eldest uncle, Zhu Shouren, and said.
“Father, we all agreed on this at home.”Seeing this, the eldest aunt said with an anxious face.
“How to talk to father.”
Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren reprimanded his great-uncle and blocked Master Zhu and Old Madam Zhu as he turned around. Giving his great-uncle a look, he signalled for his great-uncle to be less peaceful.
“Father, I also want to slow down, but I can’t. There are only a few more days before my son goes to take the courtyard examination. If I miss it, it will be too late. This time, my son has secured it, and Lord Liu and the others have given my son a promise. It will be too late if my son wins the examination. Before he won the title of scholar, his son added land to his name, so the government won’t care. I don’t have to pay any tax even if I have the title of Candidate of the Cultivation; however, if I add so much land all of a sudden after I get the title of Candidate of the Cultivation, then the government will investigate, and if they do, they will have to impose a heavy fine according to the law.”After his eldest uncle, Zhu Shouren, finished lecturing his eldest aunt, he turned to explain to Elder Zhu.
“Then after Swine’s son was awarded the Lifted Person title, weren’t there also many people who contributed land? Why didn’t the officials investigate?”Elder Zhu hesitated.
“My father, the swine child is a scholar, of course the government does not check, the scholar is a government body, and the government is a family, who dares to check. But my son’s Xiu Cai can’t do it, when my son won the Lifu Ren, naturally I don’t have to worry about it, but my son is only a Xiu Cai.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren said with a bitter face.
“Ai, it’s all because of son’s incompetence, if son could have won the Cum Laude earlier it would have been good, so that even if the second family’s land doesn’t need to be renamed, son can also protect the second family from paying taxes.”Saying that, eldest uncle Zhu Shouren sighed heavily with guilt.
“Eldest is right, the second family has so much land, when the swine were around, they didn’t have to pay taxes, but now that the swine are gone, each family would have to pay hundreds of taels of silver just for the taxes alone, I’m afraid.”Old Mrs Zhu nodded, and then said, “Hundreds of taels of silver, what can’t be done, handing it over for nothing, what a loss.”
“Hundreds of taels of silver ……”Zhu old man also some meat pain.
“It’s not just this, father, you don’t know what’s going on in the court recently. Last time, my son went to Anqingfu with a few of my elder brothers to meet Lord Liu, but I heard about it. My son was afraid that your old man would be worried, so he never told your old man.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren shook his head, as if there were some words that were difficult to say.
“Heard what?”Elder Zhu’s heart skipped a beat and asked with some worry.
“Ai, the swine are confused.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren sighed heavily before he could say anything.
“What happened to swine’s son?”Elder Zhu asked after him.
“Swine’s son is confused, ah, father, to tell you the truth, swine’s son is in trouble.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren shook his head and said with a heavy face.
“Swine child can break into what trouble ah, swine child now people are ……”Elder Zhu’s face was a little white.
“Father, it is the swine child before the accident, hey, the swine child learning is good, but still too small ah, inexperienced, do things easy to be compelled.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren sighed again.
“What exactly is wrong?”Elder Zhu was anxious.
“Now the news is spreading, swine child before his accident, he submitted a zhangbiao, zhangbiao is impeachment of killing Liang and risking his honour, impeachment of a general who killed the common people to act as an enemy to report his honour.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren said with a heavy face.
“Swine child did the right thing ah, this kind of person should be impeached.”Elder Zhu was puzzled.
“Father ah, you don’t understand ah, swine child he is deceived ah, people generals in the front line of the bloodbath, do not avoid the sword, throw their heads and spill their blood to kill back the enemy, the head turned in even the hair is barbarian hairstyles it, how can it be to kill the good and take credit for it, that is a real barbarian. People’s generals are on the front line killing the enemy, swine’s son he listened to slander and impeached people’s generals, what do you think this is.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren shook his head and said.
Elder Zhu opened his mouth wide and couldn’t speak if he wanted to.
“When the other general heard about it, he was aggrieved ah, took off his armour to reveal his scars, and knelt to the door of the Ministry of Justice to redress his grievances. ……”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren sighed.
Zhu old man’s mouth opened even wider ……
“It’s not just this, dad ah, do you know what background this general has?”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren looked at Old Master Zhu and asked.
Elder Zhu shook his head with a miserable face.
“This general is a protégé of the family of the current Pavilion Master, or the current Chancellor as we say in common parlance, Lord Yan Song Yan!”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren spoke all the while clasping his fists to the north with a look of awe.
“Ah ……”Elder Zhu was stunned.
“This year there were two other bold impeachment of Lord Yan, both were jerked off their official positions by the court and put in jail, and last year there were a few more who were killed ……Swine child this is an indirect impeachment of Lord Yan ah.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren continued.
“Kill the head ……”Elder Zhu was completely stunned.
“Not true.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren nodded vigorously, then continued, “You say that swine’s son is confused or not. Just a day before the swine’s accident, the court even issued a decree to the swine’s son to go to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to present his case.”
“The Ministry of Criminal Affairs, but it’s all under the control of Pavilion Master Yan, my father. Swine child went to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs can still have a good ……”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren looked at Master Zhu’s face, then added, “Swine child this is gone, but the person is gone, the family is still there. How many officials have been copied out of their homes ……There is nothing left after the raid ……Even if the family is not copied, but the swine child is gone, who can still protect the old second family, the other officials that do not flatter Lord Yan, the officials have a lot of tactics, there is a clear eye, if you want to fix the old second family, it is no lighter than a copy of the family …….”
Zhu old master was almost scared all a little unsteady.
“But if the land is transferred to the son’s name, that’s different, the old second family and our family are separated, in the county court are registered, how can not even involve our family. The land will be preserved.”
“My son doesn’t want the land of the second family, this land is only in my son’s name, but in essence it’s still the second family’s, and I can still pay hundreds of taels of silver less in taxes every year. Hundreds of taels of silver for what not good, every year for you and mother to add some clothes, eat some good, and then buy some good tobacco, only ten taels of silver every year for son to buy some ink, paper and inkstone is enough, the rest of the money is the old two family, the son does not want a word. When something goes wrong, the oldest two families also have a way back.”
Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren pointed to the sky and swore with a sincere face.
Elder Zhu was moved by the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren, knocked the tobacco pot hard, inserted it into his waist, and said one word, go.
