The city of Chuzhou is in the same city as the county seat and government seat of Longquan County, so it is naturally more prosperous than Hongzhu Town, where the three rivers converge.
A well-dressed woman, after returning to her hometown, after these years of being pampered and graceful, if you only look at her face and ignore the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, she looks like she is in her thirties, and you say "senior lady" as a compliment.
, has no conscience at all. If you are not familiar with her, you will mistakenly think that she is a wealthy woman from Fulu Street.
The house is paved with earth dragons. If you need a brazier at your feet, you can even save the charcoal cage on your hands.
When she returned to her hometown from Qingxia Island in Shujian Lake in her early years, she bought many houses directly in Zhoucheng. Facts have proved that the huge amount of money she gritted her teeth and spent back then not only did not go to waste, but actually made a lot of profits. Just the sales of those shops every year
Rent is a large amount of money coming into her account. Of course, she has long since despised gold and silver. Fairy money is money.
In recent years, the woman often went to the house in Huaihuang County to pay homage to her ancestors during the Qingming Festival, and then returned to Mu Ping Alley to sit for a while.
All her thoughts are still on her new home, such as establishing a proper order in everything in the house, and having to distinguish between superior and inferior, in order to manage the family well.
There is the Xianjia Inn on the mountain next to the city. She will ask the housekeeper to go there regularly to buy landscape newspapers.
This was a big expense, after all, it was all fairy money, but the woman didn't feel bad at all. Firstly, she wanted to find out about the Middle-earth Divine Continent, especially Baidi City, and secondly, it could show her high status.
door identity.
In the house, the woman took several maids to chat about household matters, sat around the fire at night, warmed a pot of glutinous rice wine, and each had a drink. The flower table was filled with all kinds of snacks.
A plump maid lowered her head to take a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Madam, with the young master's cultivation qualifications and the young man's status as the direct descendant of Baidi City, it will not be difficult to establish a sect when he returns to his hometown in the future.
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At that time, the wife brought a few personal maids from Hengbo Mansion on Qingxia Island. They were considered as doing as the local customs here. Today, they followed the wife, posting Spring Festival couplets, burning incense to invite the door god, the kitchen god, etc. The wife's hometown is very particular.
, but practice makes perfect, and they get used to it year after year. Just like tomorrow is the first day of the first lunar month, and I have to follow my wife to the mountain temple on the other side of Fengliang Mountain to burn incense. I just moved to Zhoucheng, and my wife will still think about it.
He set out on New Year's Eve and got up early so that he could burn the first incense for the new year. He even wanted to stay in a temple overnight. However, since the last time Gu Can returned to his hometown and had a chat with his wife, she no longer bothered to compete for the first incense.
, my Gu Can said that according to Buddhist teachings, the so-called first incense can be said in two ways. One is sincerity and the incense from the heart. Whether it is in a temple or at home, the incense is the same wherever it is burned.
Another option is to worship the Buddha devoutly. Then every time you offer incense, you are burning the first incense yourself, and you don’t have to compete with others.
The woman smiled and said: "Xiao Can is just one of the direct disciples of City Lord Zheng. Even if a sect is established in Baidi City, according to what is written in the newspaper, it will probably be in Fuyao Continent and will not come to our Aquarius Continent."
Over the years, the woman has learned a lot about world affairs through the newspaper on the mountain in the Xianjia Inn, and it is said that the newspaper in that inn has a wider background than the Chenghuang Temple in the state.
The woman suddenly looked regretful and said: "It's just a shame for you. Who would have expected that a Zhenjing Sect would pop up over Shujian Lake? If you hadn't followed me here back then, you might have become a member of the sect today.
The genealogy is like a fairy, and you are called a fairy when you go out. How can it be like now, when you can only stay in such a palm-sized house and work as a maid for a woman?"
The woman knew that they, who were cultivators, would write their names on the golden and jade genealogy in the immortal mansion with the prefix Zong there, which could be regarded as a smoke coming from the ancestral grave.
Originally, there were two taboos in the house, one was Shujian Lake, and the other was the accountant named Chen.
No one in the same place can talk.
I never thought that Madam would take the initiative to chat about Shujian Lake tonight.
The two personal maids in the room looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes. The maid who was relatively thin immediately laughed and said: "Madam, what you said is not right."
The woman smiled and asked, "Tell me, what's wrong?"
The maid said sternly: "Looking closely back then, it was Madam who personally brought us out of the pit of fire. Now, in the long run, what's the future for us compared to being an outer disciple of the Zhenjing Sect dawdling around? But with Madam
Around me, the young master is the most filial person in the world. How will he be in trouble with us in the future? The young master Hongfu Qitian is one of the most favored sons of heaven. We don’t even talk about the young master’s master, City Lord Zheng, but only that master.
Guhan Qiaose is an immortal, as well as my junior uncle Liu Daochun, who is the master of Liuli Pavilion, and my senior brother Fu Xi, who is also a great swordsman. Which one of them is not a towering figure on the mountain? Any one of them comes here
Aquarius Island, not to mention the Zhenjing Sect, even if you go to the Shengao Sect and meet Qi Tianjun, you still have to call each other Taoist friend and then treat yourself as a guest."
Regarding the fact that Gu Can went to Baidi City to practice cultivation, the only ones in the family who knew the truth besides the women were a few of their personal maids.
This is a sincere statement.
But she didn't tell the whole story.
The level of Gu Can's achievements in the Dao is only one aspect. Among them, who is not afraid of Gu Can? They are afraid of the demon king of Shu Jian Lake, they are simply afraid to the core.
Strange to say, when Gu Can grew up, he seemed to have become a Confucian scholar. When he returned to his hometown last time and saw Gu Can again, even though Gu Can looked gentle, they became even more frightened and frightened.
If we say that Gu Can, the disciple of Liu Zhimao, the True Lord of Qingxia Island, is a little lunatic who is likely to commit murder anytime and anywhere. He is a natural wild cultivator.
Then the young man Gu Can seemed to have become a man with deep thoughts and ulterior motives. Even if he stood face to face, it seemed that he would never know what Gu Can was thinking.
Gu Can, who walked out of Shujian Lake, was seriously inconsistent with his age in terms of realm, temperament, and methods.
Before leaving home, Gu Can had called a few of them together in private. Instead of being arrogant and domineering like he had when he was young, he was friendly, spoke politely to them, and made a three-part agreement with them, with clear rewards and punishments.
They are even allowed to make mistakes once or twice. However, they are required to send a letter to Baidi City every year with a flying sword. As for the content of the letter, it is up to them. Even if they just ask for advice on some difficult problems in the practice pass, there is no problem. And this amount
He would pay for the letters on the mountain, but he just told them not to tell his mother about this matter.
In the end, Gu Can smiled at them and said, "I've had some heart-to-heart talk with you, so don't take it seriously."
The two parties made a three-part agreement, one of which was that they were not allowed to stir up trouble with their mother and turn what was originally a trivial matter into a troublesome matter that required alerting the county magistrate's office or the Dali court. They were not allowed to take the initiative to cause trouble outside, but if someone else provoked them
No matter who the other party is or what their background is, as long as they are in charge, there is no need to be afraid of trouble. Gu Can will know the truth, because they are now half of his family.
In the end, Gu Can stood up, clasped fists with them and thanked them, saying that they would have to worry about her mother's food, clothing, housing and transportation in the future.
The woman was overjoyed after hearing the maid's sincere words. She smiled, picked up a piece of pastry from the plate, and handed it over gently, "My Xiao Can has endured hardship since she was a child. Now she is just getting through the hard days. You can't tell me."
It’s so exaggerated.”
Yes, the hard days that seemed to have no end were actually managed by the two of them day by day.
Thinking of this, the woman's eyes turned red, she took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
The two maids quickly said a few words of comfort.
The woman smiled and waved her hands, "I'm just remembering the bitterness and remembering the sweetness. Anyway, the past is over."
Over the years, there have been many people who came to seek her out as relatives.
In fact, they are all untouchables. Most of them get some money from the government and get paid. In short, those scammers will not be rejected.
In order to prevent it from being unpleasantly spread, gossiping behind her back, saying that she has forgotten her roots and turned her back on others when she got rich.
Before Gu Can left home last time, she and her mother, who depended on each other for life, had some personal conversations.
The woman was relieved, distressed, and a little strange.
I am gratified that my son has really grown up and can take on the role of a family leader. At the same time, I feel sad that my son is so sensible at such a young age.
The strange thing is that this son seems to be different from the son in Mubo Alley in the early years and later in Qingxia Island. To be precise, he is too different.
During that chat, Gu Can and her mother talked about some truths that were not in books. The young man wearing a Confucian shirt at that time also joked that these were words he picked up from the ground in the alley in front of his house.
"Only when you have been poor can you realize that almost all the people around you are ghosts."
"But as long as people become richer, even if you are walking at night, let alone the people you see, even if you meet on the road
Ghosts, they are all good ghosts.”
"But people can turn into ghosts, but ghosts will never turn into people."
"Mom, now that our family is rich, we will never be short of money in the future, so don't be too frugal. For the servants in the house, the rules must be clear and strict. There must be no ambiguity, and we must not be happy.
He is very kind to all outsiders. If he is in a bad mood, he will get angry at the people around him. Over time, the servants who understand the situation will look down on my mother, so my mother must not handle the housework 'by herself'.
Let the 'rules' come."
"But outside of family rules, mother can be more polite to them. There are two kinds of favors here, one is money, which is the most real, and there are those positions, identities, and titles derived from money. The other is imaginary.
Yes, it’s mom, as the head of the family, the few words or even the look in your eyes that you interact with them every day. None of them can win people’s hearts, you can only have both, coupled with rules and family laws,
Only then can our family be long-lasting and stable."
"Of course, if mother is holding a breath in her heart and feels that she has spent too many years of hard life and finally got through hard work, why should she be nice to them, then that's okay. If mother thinks what I said
It makes sense. It would be best if you are willing to treat them sincerely and treat them as human beings instead of treating them as ordinary people. Taking a step back, if you have a son, even if you are not with your hometown and mother, they will
I definitely don’t dare to make mistakes, but I hope my mother can guarantee one thing. If anyone in the family makes a mistake in the future, I or someone else will deal with that person, and I will not speak against him."
"If we know everything and do whatever we want, then we can live a very free life. But if we do whatever we do despite knowing nothing, we will suffer in vain."
"In the final analysis, how to behave in the world and how to be a human being are two different things."
"I feel that if there is a person who can live his whole life without harming others, there are only two possibilities. One is a pure good person who never harms others. The other is a truly strong person because they do not need to harm anyone at all.
You can live a good life. I hope my mother can treat the former kindly and respect the latter."
The woman just listened quietly to her son's words.
To be continued...