Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

The Li family's ancestral house is on Xinglin Street. It should be said that the entire street is populated by members of the Li clan. Due to the large number of descendants and the rapid population growth, this street can no longer accommodate so many people. Migration outside the city.

The nearest village to Shunde is Lijiazhuang, which has always been the medicine field of the Li family, but now there are rows of houses built there, and they cannot afford houses in the city, and they have not been able to get a house after the separation. Most people choose to build a house in Lijia Village.

But their family has few descendants, and the ancestral house has never been partitioned and separated, and it is still a big house with four entrances.

Quaint and elegant.

This house on Xinglin Street, where housing is so tight, is so eye-catching, so when the Li family was ransacked, many people were tempted to buy it from the Yamen.

As we all know, the prices of items that are copied are very low. There are various reasons, the most important of which are that the yamen are not very caring and the items that are copied are unlucky.

But for the members of the Li clan, they don't need to mind the latter, and the former is a good thing, so many people wanted to buy it, but they wanted to lower the price. At this time, the third grandfather paid for this The house was bought.

Li Sheng is the eldest son of the eldest brother's direct branch. Although he is the third eldest, he has good medical skills and has a good relationship with his elder brother and patriarch, so no one in the Li family dares to compete with him.

He got the house easily.

At that time, Li Sheng didn't want to occupy this house, but because he felt sorry for Li Bo, he wanted to buy his ancestral house, so that he or his descendants would have a place to live when they came back.

But twenty years have passed, times have changed, and even people's hearts have changed.

Now that Li Hong's father and son are back, Li Sheng made up for them, also to make his heart feel better, and happily transferred the house to Li Hong's name.

They also asked someone to repair the house and clean the house in advance, so that Li Hong and the others could move in as soon as they arrived.

Li Jun declined the servants sent by Li Sheng, and insisted on doing it himself regardless of his father's face, so only five members of his family lived in the huge house.

Now there are only eight people including Gu Jingyun, Li Baolu and Nanfeng, and the house looks empty.

However, Li Jun still declined the kindness of the steward, and did not accept the cook and maid he sent again.

When only his own people were left in the house, Li Junfang let out a long breath and said, "Second Sister, it's right that we don't live in Shunde."

"Before I knew that the Li clan was very powerful in Shunde, but only a few days ago I realized that what I had glimpsed before was just the tip of the iceberg." Li Jun sighed: "These days, I have been following the uncle and the third grandfather. After meeting several elders in the family, and then followed Uncle Wen to visit Li's in-laws, it was only then that we discovered that the Li family was related by marriage to families above the middle level in Shunde City, and there were quite a few people from families below the middle level."

"Shunde is a major transshipment station for medicinal materials, and it is also a place where medicinal materials are grown. The villages I have visited in the past few years have grown medicinal materials, and those medicinal materials are only sold to Li's Tongxintang. I asked the local people, I don’t know the rest of the places, but in Guoxia County, Shunde, there are 68 villages in the ten towns below who grow medicinal herbs or go to the mountains to collect herbs, and they all sell to Tongxintang without exception.”

"Pharmaceutical merchants from other places come here to buy processed and sun-dried medicinal materials from Tongxintang and sell them elsewhere, but no matter where we go here, as long as Li Shi is willing, let alone our whereabouts, it is what we have done , They will know exactly what was said.”

Therefore, if they really accepted Li Xie's proposal and went back to Shunde to wait, let alone returning to the clan and the one hundred thousand taels he promised, they might not even have the freedom to walk out of the city gate.

The more he learned, the more timid Li Jun became, and he also understood that these few days, Li Shi took him to look at things like a horse on a horse, not only to appease him, but also to intimidate him.

"What are you afraid of if you don't live in Shunde?" Li Baolu said indifferently, "You just come back every year to visit the tombs and pay respects to the ancestors. As long as your heart is upright, you will naturally not be afraid."

Li Jun smiled wryly, "I know, it's just that my heart is trembling."

"Then just go shopping more, just be afraid and get used to it." Li Baolu got up and said, "Let's go down to wash and rest first."

Li Jun immediately said: "The room is ready for you, my mother and elder sister have also boiled hot water, by the way, I am afraid that the eldest grandpa and the third grandpa will come..."

"No," Li Baolu said, "If they send someone over, you can say that we will visit at night."

She just wants to shower and sleep now.

The same goes for Gu Jingyun.

Li Xie and Li Sheng were indeed very knowledgeable, so they sent their servants to bring some food boxes, and inquired about the meeting time by the way.

The next day was an auspicious day, so Li Baolu and Gu Jingyun would meet with the heads of each branch of the Li family at night, have dinner, and get to know each other.

Li Baolu wanted to get to know these grandfathers and uncles, after all they were also her natal family.

The people from the Li family wanted to meet this legendary aunt who saved the emperor, the emperor and the prince, but forced them to suffer such a big loss.

They are all married daughters, or child brides-in-law who were sent away since they were young. They definitely don't have much affection for the family. They are not dissatisfied with such a forceful intervention in their family's affairs.

However, looking at the well-dressed Li Baolu, and Gu Jingyun with a calm face, a smile on his mouth, as gentle as jade, no matter how much dissatisfaction there is, he has to hold back. Didn't the patriarch raise his glass to respect Gu Jingyun's wine with a smile?

Having been in Shunde for five days, Li Hong, who was ignored every day, curled his lips secretly when he saw this, and picked up the wine glass to pour himself.

He still has to rely on Li Baolu now, and when he gets the money and beats him to death, he won't return to the capital, nor will he stay in Shunde, where people look down on others.

Where can he go if he has money?

When the time comes, find a good place to buy a house and settle down, then buy some fields and shops, and buy a few servants and maids, and live a life of luxury like when I was a child.

One hundred and fifty thousand taels was enough for him to live a lifetime in style.

There was a glint in Li Hong's eyes, and ambition was burning in his chest.

Late at night, the banquet is over.

Except for a few people, everyone slept peacefully until dawn.

Early the next morning, Li Baolu was dressed in sackcloth, and Gu Jingyun was also in filial piety, and they went to the front hall hand in hand.

The Li family who were also dressed in sackcloth and filial piety were shocked when they saw this, and looked at Gu Jingyun in surprise.

Mei murmured: "Here, the second son-in-law just needs to wear plain clothes."

Gu Jingyun said with a slight smile: "Father-in-law and mother-in-law only have Baolu's bloodline. Since I married their precious daughter, it's only right for me to dress them in mourning."

It is a good thing for their branch to return to the family today, but Li Bo, who is the protagonist, has died, and this time his coffin will be moved into the ancestral hall. As filial sons and grandsons, they all have to wear filial piety.

Along with Li Bo's memorial tablet, his wife Wan Shi, eldest son Li Kang and eldest daughter-in-law Fu Shi returned to the Lai Clan Ancestral Hall.

Li Hong held his father's tablet, Li Jun held his grandmother's tablet, Gu Jingyun held his father-in-law's tablet and followed Li Hong, Li Baolu held his mother's tablet and stood behind Li Jun.

A group of seven people went to Li Shi's main house, and the ancestral hall was there.

The gate opened slowly, outside the gate there was already a line of clan members who chanted and led the way. Someone lit firecrackers and sang loudly, "The soul is back—the south can't stop—"

Every fifty steps on both sides of the road, a group of people, old or young, sang along with sullen faces, "The Soul Comes Back".

They were all buried in Qiongzhou, and even three of them had no bones left, so they had no choice but to summon their souls.

Everyone sang all the way, and led the four people holding the tablet to the front of the ancestral hall. Li Xie was dressed in full costume, except for a white cloth tied around his waist. It was the costume he used as the head of the clan to sacrifice, and he only wore it during the grand ceremony. , which shows that he is cautious about this matter.

Li Xie looked down at Li Baolu and Gu Jingyun who were gradually walking in, and was glad that he chose this one out of the two sacrificial costumes.

Since you have to do it, do it well, even if you can't sell the other party's face, you don't have to cause the other party's dissatisfaction.

After Li Hong held the tablet and stood up first, and the rest of the tribes also stood up in order, Li Xie started the sacrificial ceremony.

But this is not just an article in honor of Li Bo, but more importantly, it explains the matter of returning to the clan.

It starts with the origin of the Li clan, then counts the ancestors, traces the relationship between the Li Bo branch and the ancestors, and then explains the reasons why Li Bo was a branch of the clan back then, and why he is now allowed to belong to the clan.

To put it simply, it proves that Li Bo's branch came out of their Li family, and the blood relationship with the Li family is recorded in the genealogy. branch, so this is not difficult.

And Li Bo has been rehabilitated, and it was the first emperor himself who rehabilitated him, so there is no doubt about the second point.

This project was progressing smoothly, but when Li Xie read about Li Bo's industry situation, there was a brief commotion below, fortunately, it was only for a moment.

Even though everyone had already been mentally prepared, looking at Li Hong and others in front of them at this time, many people still felt dissatisfied.

They actually have so many shares, they are all side branches, why is there such a big gap?

Li Xie ignored them, finished reading in a calm voice, and finally said loudly: "Open the ancestral hall, and welcome Li Bo, the sixteenth generation owner of the fifth house in the side branch, into the ancestral hall—"

"Welcome the eldest son of the sixteenth generation owner of the fifth house in the side branch to enter the temple—"

Li Hong raised his eyes and took a deep look at the ancestral hall, then slowly stepped up the steps and sent the tablet into the ancestral hall.

Li Jun followed closely behind...

In the ancestral hall, Li Sheng brought three fellow clansmen to wait, took the tablets from their hands and placed them in the fifth room. Li Hong led everyone to kneel down, and followed Li Sheng's instructions to prostrate three times and nine times...

After a set of big gifts was finished, Li Hongzao was drenched in cold sweat, almost out of breath from exhaustion.

However, he still insisted on kneeling to the side and waited for the Li clan to come forward to worship and thank them before getting up.

Everyone slowly exited the ancestral hall, Li Baolu glanced at the pale Li Hong, and said to Mei who was waiting outside: "Second aunt and cousins ​​help second uncle go back first, let's do the rest .”

Li Hong hesitated, although he was not filial, but he persisted so much, there is no need to be anticlimactic.

Li Baolu said calmly: "There is nothing important about the rest. Cousin Jun and I are just seeing off the elders. Second Uncle will go back first if he is not feeling well. No one will blame you."

Only then did Li Hong ask Mei Shi and Li He to help him go back.