Late Tang

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The son returned home in fine clothes, and the fourth sister Wanjing, who was still worried about it, finally made a good marriage.Han said excitedly: "You sit down, and I will cook for everyone with the others in the house. Today, I will cook for you your favorite cold pottery."

Seeing Han's happy appearance, Li Jing also felt bursts of joy in her heart. "Mom, don't be tired."

Cui Decheng, a man who is nearly 40 years old, also said to Han: "Auntie doesn't have to work so hard. My nephew sent two soldiers back to Chishan Town and called the best cooks in the town to have a banquet. Double happiness today, Just going to have a good time celebrating.”

He was about to ask the soldiers outside the courtyard to come in to pass the message to Chishan, but he saw Li Huier and Yu Youniang had changed into gorgeous women's clothes, and they were talking and laughing with Wang Yueying, the daughter of Mr. Wang's village chief. "You don't need to be so troublesome, I have already invited the best master of Zuixianlou from Wendeng County, and the preparations for this meeting have already begun."

Seeing Wang Yueying coming in, Mrs. Han hurriedly got up to greet her.After Li Jing left home, Wang Yueying took great care of the Li family.Not only did they borrow grain, but they also took out [-] mu of land and gave it to the Li family for farming free of rent.Later, Li Jing sent money and food home twice, both through Wang Yueying's cloth shop.Even the courtyard of the Li family was repaired by Wang Yueying.Although Li Jing felt that Wang Yueying did these things, some reasons were because he joined the army for the Wang family, and some more reasons might be because of his current status.But no matter what, Li Jing still has admiration and understanding for this strong widowed woman from the same village.

Wang Yueying was 25 and six years old, her husband's family died early, and then divided half of the family property with her husband's family.In recent years, he has been running Lifeng Cloth Village by himself, and has helped manage the family business of his father's Wang family.Over the past few years, not only has Wang's family been well-managed, but Lifeng Cloth has also opened more than ten branches in Deng, Lai, Qing, Qi, Zi, Mi, Hai, Xu and other eight states.Although Wang Yueying doesn't have any natural beauty, even if she only wears a white skirt and shows her plain face, it gives people a unique feeling.Li Jing is very familiar with this kind of temperament, which is the capable and confident temperament of professional women that is common in later generations.

"In the past, I often troubled you to take care of it. Even this house was repaired by you, so why would you have the nerve to ask you to pay for it now?" Han Shi smiled and stepped forward, and she could see that she and Wang Yueying were very close.

"Auntie is still so polite to me. Sanlang is now a general. I usually have no chance if I want to curry favor." Huang Yueying said with a smile, "By the way, I just heard from Miss Yu that Sanlang brought back dozens of hungry people on the road. Are they all kept? I have sent people to the store to make a batch of clothing rewards. Since they will be the servants of the Li family in the future, how can they not dress neatly? In addition, I also sent people to find some Craftsman, set up some houses to arrange for them, and let them live in the old house of our house temporarily for the next two days." Wang Yueying said casually, but Li Jing looked at her in surprise.He also brought those people back on a temporary basis, and there is no formal arrangement yet.Unexpectedly, Wang Yueying had already arranged everything for him.

Only Mrs. Han was surprised and complained to Li Jing: "Even if you become a general now, how much salary can you have a year? It would be good to save some money to buy back all the land that your ancestors sold. Why do you still accept so many hungry people?" Woolen cloth?"

Li Jing smiled: "Mom, you don't have to worry about money. You don't have to worry about buying real estate, I have a plan." After thinking about it, he said: "I remember that in a few days, the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month will be My mother’s [-]th birthday is coming. It’s not easy at home these years, and my mother has worked hard. My son thinks, this year I’ll hold my mother’s [-]th birthday. At that time, I will invite the whole village, and some jugglers and opera singers to come and celebrate A lively and lively scene."

"Happy birthday?"

Han was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes became moist again. She was only 36 years old when her husband died, and she has worked hard to raise eight children by herself for so many years.In the blink of an eye, 14 years have passed, and she is 50 years old.Think about the days back then, and look at the present, the son has already become a general of the seventh rank, and the daughter is about to marry a general of the seventh rank.Covering her face, Han ran back to the spirit tablet of Li Jing's father in the house, weeping loudly: "Hey, did you see the spirit in the sky? I worked hard for [-] years and finally brought up the children. You Did you hear that? Jing'er is already a general of the seventh rank, and my son is finally promising..."

Holding Li Gang's tablet, Han burst into tears and snot, crying out all the bitterness and grievances behind these years of strength.Han's weeping brought the fourth sister, fifth sister, elder sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, Guiniang and Wan'er, and several female relatives supported Han.But as soon as Mrs. Han helped her up, the eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law over there were also touched by this, and cried bitterly holding the spirit cards of the eldest brother and second brother.

Everyone stood behind Li Jing and watched silently, they all understood what the cry meant.This is Han's consolation to Li Jing's father, telling him that his son is finally promising, and reassuring him.

"Jing'er, come forward and kowtow to your father!"

Li Jing stepped forward with a heavy heart, and kowtowed to the father he had never met before.Every time he kowtowed, he silently recited a sentence in his heart, with him around, he would take good care of everyone in the Li family.

After the female relatives had cried enough, Li Jing, his wife and Wan'er helped them out of the hall.

Near noon, the whole Wangli Village was filled with a strong smell of meat. The cooks Wang Yueying invited were very skilled, and Wang Yueying spared no expense to prepare a large amount of mutton and pork. Vegetables, those cooks put a lot of skill into cooking and stewing each dish, making mouth watering.

The first meal back to the village was entirely contracted by Wang Yueying. When trying to win over her relationship with Li Jing, Wang Yingyue didn't forget the villagers.This meal was simply made into a long banquet, and the whole village, men, women and children were invited to have a feast together.Even the more than 50 hungry people who had just followed Li Jing into the village were arranged on several big tables, and big buckets of fatty meat slices were enough.If this meal was not discovered later, and there happened to be a doctor there, and the rescue was timely, it is estimated that more than half of the hungry people would have died of eating too much meat that day.

At this feast of flowing water for the whole village, more than 150 households in the whole village received New Year gifts from Li Jing to each household in the village with two bolts of cloth, five buckets of rice, ten catties of pork and ten catties of mutton.In addition, Li Jing gave each of the children under [-] in the village a hundred dollars.Li Jing's generosity made the whole village praise Li Jing, how kind Li Jing's father and Li Jing's grandmother are, and how good the Li family's family style is.

After Xiao Shitou and the others returned home, they talked about their current situation, which also made the whole family happy.Then at the banquet, the family members of the eight people brought their families to kowtow to Li Jing to thank him.Especially Xiao Shitou's father, Blacksmith Wang, he also knew about Wang Liang's frame of Li Jing.In order to thank him for his help to the Li family, Li Jing returned the 200 mu of land that Zhang Kuguan returned to him. Give him a hundred guan.The blacksmith refused to accept it no matter what. For him, the relationship between the two families cannot be measured by a few acres of land and tens of dollars.What's more, Xiao Shitou followed Li Jing, and not only took back more than [-] pieces of silk several times, but now he also got a gang leader, and he heard from his son that after following Li Jing to take up the post, he might be promoted again. Two levels, then you will be the real official family members with high grade.

The old blacksmith was not very good at talking, but he was the most upright. At the banquet, he pulled the little stone and knelt in front of Li Jing, and asked the little stone to swear to Li Jing that he would be loyal to Li Jing for the rest of his life, no matter what Li Jing asked him to do. There will never be another word.Listening to Xiao Shitou's oath and seeing the old blacksmith uncle's face, Li Jing was very moved.Seeing the old blacksmith make Xiaoshi swear, the other families made their children swear as well.The other families looked enviously at Xiao Shitou and his eight youngsters who could follow Li Jing.

Wang Liang's mother did not come to the banquet, and Wang Guiniang couldn't help but tell her the truth about Wang Liang.This simple mother was very ashamed, took all this on herself, felt that she was incapable of raising her son, she even thought of dying to wash away the shame Wang Liang brought to the Wang family.Fortunately, Li Jing arrived and persuaded her with Wang Guiniang for a long time, and finally she relieved her desire to seek death.

In the next few days, Li Jing's home was very lively, and even Wang Li Village was also very lively.Qingning Township has long been rumored everywhere that Li Jiasanlang from Wangli Village went out to enlist as a united army, but when he returned, he had become a general of the seventh rank, and became a disciple of the Jiedu Envoy and the Prime Minister. His daughters all returned to Qingning Township with him.And it is said that Li Jing, who became a general, wanted to celebrate his mother's fiftieth birthday. On the day of the birthday banquet, all those who came to pay their respects could have a banquet, regardless of their status, even the hungry.

When the news spread throughout Qingning Township, even Wendeng County in just a few days, and spread farther and farther, the whole Qingning Township became lively.First of all, officials, officials, squires, wealthy households, and even small landlords in Wendeng County and the townships below all began to prepare gifts to participate in this birthday party.In addition, in Qingning Township, Li Jing's Zuo Yidu brothers who returned home from more than [-] numbers are also preparing gifts, and they are going to pay homage to Li's mother on her birthday.

Then, even the hungry people in Wendeng County all heard the news, and rushed to Wangli Village to pray for birthday just like the wind.

These days, Li Jing was busier than training united soldiers in Dengzhou. After another busy day, Li Jing returned to a quiet room alone.In the first two days after returning, Mrs. Han arranged Guiniang and Wan'er to stay in Li Jing's room in turn.As a result, a few days later, Mrs. Han found that her son's eyes were dark and his lips were a little white, so he imposed a ban on his son's two women, and they were not allowed to share a bed with Li Jing for half a month, and they were not even allowed to share a room.

Li Jing walked into the room, but suddenly found a piece of paper on the table in the room, with a line of familiar characters on it.

"The river and the sea meet many guests, and the autumn wind leaves the Dongting waves. Farewell to Huaiyin City at night when the wine is drunk, and the moon shines on the high-rise buildings with a song." This is a gift from Wen Tingyun, a famous poet of the Huajian School in the late Tang Dynasty.The poet who writes roughly about wandering the rivers and lakes meets a young man in the bleak autumn season.They had similar feelings for each other, but they only met for a moment, and then they broke up.There is a feeling of "unmet" that the author travels in the world and expresses the writer's "unmet".

But at this time, Zhang Yingying, who left this poem, is obviously not expressing the feeling of encounter.With the help of poems, she wrote about the love, lovesickness and parting with Li Jing.Looking at the thin paper, Li Jing felt a little dazed for a moment.Who is Zhang Yingying?He only knew her name, but not her identity.And he never told her his identity, why did she leave without saying goodbye that day, but now she suddenly appeared, found here, and left this poem behind?Does she want to see herself, or does she want to express that the two will 'never meet again'?

The beautiful night of the Fahua Academy that day came to mind again, and Li Jing was a little surprised to find that that short night had actually been engraved in his heart, which was indelible.Li Jing felt that he was not an overly infatuated person. Although he was still a student in later generations, he had the experience of breaking up at dawn several times.When he was with Zhang Yingying in Fahuayuan that day, he admitted that he was moved by this woman's beauty and temperament, and because of various reasons, the spring breeze finally came a few times.He didn't ask her identity at that time, maybe it was because of the idea of ​​breaking up at dawn.It's just that he didn't expect that she would be the first to leave before dawn.

Is it because of this that he never forgets her?What about her, who obviously left without saying goodbye, and now suddenly put this poem here, what does it mean?Continue the frontier, or never meet again?For a moment, Li Jing felt that he was a little distraught and infatuated.

"It seems that this matter is actually true? Oh my God, Zhang Yingying, the 'Queen of the Sea' who dominates the three seas, has such an unforgettable relationship with a farm boy. I don't know how much it will cause in the three seas if this news spreads. What about the wind and waves?"

Just when Li Jing's thoughts were in confusion, a thick voice with a mocking tone sounded in the dimly lit room.Li Jing was startled, he turned around quickly, hid behind the desk, and quickly pulled out the three-inch dagger tied to his leg with his right hand.

"Who is it?" Li Jing maintained a defensive posture, carefully searching the room with his eyes.

"Hey!" A few flint knocks sounded, and then a flame lit up.Behind the flames, a middle-aged man with a yellow beard grinned, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth. "Why, I haven't seen you for a month, and I don't know old friends anymore?"

Li Jing finally remembered who this person was, and his face suddenly changed, and he said in surprise: "Yellow beard, it's you, why are you here!" Li Jing's heart was cold when he saw the yellow beard who suddenly appeared in the room.If there were any people he didn't want to meet, Yellow Beard must be on the list.There was no other reason, it was because when Li Jing killed Feng Yanqing, the misfortune was diverted, and in the end he put the blame on 'Zhen Donghai'.Now that the Lord is coming to the door, how can Li Jing not be surprised.