Chapter 362 Peace of mind

  How can there be less firecrackers in the Chinese New Year? Although not as brilliant and dazzling as modern fireworks, in the atmosphere of the New Year, a sound can make people happy.

  What the little guy looks forward to most is setting off firecrackers. This year he is more courageous, covering his ears with one hand, holding a fire stick in the other, withdrawing his body to light firecrackers, then throwing the fire stick and running towards Yu Zhi. He looked up at her, jumping happily, "Mother, mother."

  In his eyes, his mother is his whole world, wherever his mother is, he is also there, and he can laugh and shout happily.

  Children, it is so easy to satisfy.

  Yu Zhi can't do it, she is an adult, and she has lived three lifetimes, she has her own worries. Amidst the sound of firecrackers, she couldn't help being a little dazed.

  Think about your loved ones every festive season.

   This statement is not false at all, this is Yu Zhi's seventh year in the Daqing Dynasty, the previous life and the previous life... I will not talk about the previous life in the realm of comprehension, there is no blood relative. In Qingyunzong, there are no friends who are particularly close, and they will not be classmates or colleagues.

  But in her previous life... Yu Zhi always didn't want to think about how sad her parents should be when she passed away suddenly and the white-haired one sent the black-haired one? Time can heal wounds, but can the pain of losing a daughter be healed easily?

   It's Chinese New Year, and the whole family is reunited, but her family is missing her forever. The moment when the family should be harmonious, but the wounds of parents are torn open again. Yu Zhi could even imagine the scene where her parents were crying while looking at her photo.

sad!

   There is also the father who stayed in the capital all his life. He treats her very well. She takes up the body of his daughter and is willing to be kind and filial. Perhaps it was due to her blood relationship, she did have a natural admiration for her father in this life.

  Father is only her daughter, who was supposed to take care of him, but now she is far away, leaving him alone in the capital, isn't it too unfilial?

   Still sad!

  Wen Jiuxiao, who was accompanying the little boy to set off firecrackers, turned his head and saw the expression on Yu Zhi's face, his whole heart twitched.

  She clearly had a smile on her face, but Wen Jiuxiao felt that she was full of sadness. Her eyes were out of focus, falling on the vast night sky, as if she was about to disappear in the next moment.

  Great panic seized him, Wen Jiuxiao's heart hurt so much that he could hardly breathe, he tore off a firecracker and lit it and threw it towards Yu Zhi's feet.

  The sudden sound startled Yu Zhi and pulled her out of her contemplation. As soon as she turned her head, she saw Wen Jiuxiao raising her eyebrows at her, holding a lit firecracker in her hand and was about to throw it over...

  Yu Zhi was suddenly furious, "Master Wen, you really don't want to get better!" He rushed forward aggressively.

   One chased, the other hid, and even dragged the cub into the battlefield. The two adults, whose combined age is over half a century old, are as immature as children at this moment.

  It wasn't until Yu Zhi was out of breath from exhaustion, until Wen Jiuxiao hugged Yu Zhi's slender waist, and saw her bright eyes, that his heart was at peace.

  The county government is celebrating the New Year lively, and the four families of Zhang Yan, Ma and Song have had a bad year this year, because they finally received the news that their own people who were planted in the quarry sent back.

  The news was received at noon on New Year's Eve... Well, Wen Jiuxiao admitted that he did it on purpose. He told the guards to take those stewards seriously and didn't relax until New Year's Eve.

  The hand stretched out so long, if you don't add some trouble to them, how can you be worthy of the money he paid for the quarry?

  Yes, Wen Jiuxiao is such a narrow-minded person.

  The Patriarch of the Song family frowned, "What is the county magistrate doing?" Why did he attack the quarry as soon as he came up?

  His most beloved son, Song Lixian, who passed the examination as a scholar at a young age, frowned like his father, "Father, do you think the county magistrate knows that our family has a hand in it?"

   "Can't you? He's a new official, so how do you know what's going on in our Shanyun County?"

   "Is this good?" Song Lixian breathed a sigh of relief. He admired the new county magistrate very much, and was very worried that the county magistrate would have a bad impression of the Song family, which in turn would have a bad impression of him.

So he couldn't help complaining, "Father, I have already said, don't get involved in such a thing, and don't get too close to those families. Our family is a scholarly family, and the poets and books are heirs. , It’s different from those of them who only have copper stink in their eyes.”

  Patriarch Song felt that what his son said made sense. The children of the Song family all studied, and one of them was a scholar. Isn't that the most noble family? But he couldn't bear to admit his mistake, so he just said vaguely: "Fortunately, my son is smart."

  Song Yian, who was sitting on the sidelines, flashed ridicule in his lowered eyes, what a noble scholar! The second younger brother looked down on the family's livelihood, and felt that the smell of copper had tarnished his innocence as a scholar. But he didn't even think about it, where did he get what he ate and drank, and the pen, ink, paper and inkstone he used for reading? And when he made friends and went on a study tour, which time did he not get a hundred and eighty taels of silver? Why doesn't he dislike the smell of copper?

   "Fortunately, the magistrate of the county doesn't know yet, father, this matter will stop here, and our family will stop here, as if there is no such thing." Song Lixian said.

   "But every year the quarry..." Patriarch Song hesitated, he was reluctant to part with the income from the quarry.

Song Lixian was not happy, "Dad, can you take a long-term view? The quarry only has three melons and two dates a year. If my son falls into the eyes of the county magistrate, I can find an official position in the county government, and I can get it near the water. With the guidance of the magistrate of the county, is it not only Zong Yaozu who is successful in his career?"

  As it concerns his son's future, Patriarch Song's heart shuddered, "You're right, it's my father's intentions." The son's future is more important than anything else.

Song Yi'an couldn't help reminding, "Father, second brother, don't forget that the county magistrate has sent guards to the quarry, so how can he not know about the situation in the quarry? I don't think it's better to take chances, Let's plead guilty to the county magistrate. As long as our family shows sincerity and attitude, I believe the county magistrate will give you a lighter punishment."

Song Lixian stood up and accused angrily, "Brother, what do you mean? Sincerely don't want to see me well, right? I know you are jealous of my father's respect for me, but can I be blamed for my ability to read? Brother, can you stop being so selfish and a bit of a family member?" Concept? We are all the sons of the Song family, I’m fine, don’t you follow suit? You, you disappoint me so much.”

  Song Yi'an flushed with anger, "I'm jealous of you? Ha, what are you kidding, where do you see that I'm jealous of you?" Isn't it because he is better at studying than himself? He really can't be jealous of him.

   "If you weren't jealous of me, why did you propose to plead guilty to the county magistrate? Isn't it just hoping for my bad luck?"

   "I proposed to plead guilty to the county magistrate just to hope for your bad luck?" Song Yi'an didn't even know what his second brother was thinking, he didn't mean it at all, okay? "You really think you can hide this matter? You can't!"

   "Why can't we hide it? The county magistrate is newly appointed, what can he know?"

   "He can know everything? He's a local official. It's not easy to figure out what's going on in the quarry? Just detain those stewards for interrogation." Song Yi'an sneered.

   "But you also saw that the steward was not injured."

  Song Yian looked at his second brother like an idiot. His second brother was stupid in reading, so he thought everyone was as stupid as him. Pian Dad still listens to him, just watch, the Song family will be ruined by the second brother sooner or later. Suddenly, he felt disheartened, "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say it, and forget it if you don't listen." Anyway, the Song family is not his own Song family.

  The two sons quarreled, and Patriarch Song was also very upset, but he still chose to favor the second son, and warned the eldest son: "Boss, don't hold your second brother back."

  Song Yi'an was even more heartbroken.

   The hard work of a scumbag, go for it!

  

  

  (end of this chapter)