However, the food in front of him was obviously not enough for the Xu family's elder brother.
But he did not cross the table full of dishes to grab the ones on the opposite side. Instead, he endured it and drank the soup silently with the comfort of his young mother.
When Mrs. Xu saw this scene, she thought of her little grandson, who said that a half-grown man can only eat a poor man, but a son of his age can indeed eat it.
Unable to bear that Xu Dalang didn't have enough to eat, Mrs. Xu specially ordered the maid who was waiting nearby to have the kitchen cook a few more hard dishes and bring them up, specially placing them in front of Xu Dalang's brother and sister, and letting them eat slowly on the small table. You're welcome.
Unexpectedly, the three siblings seemed to understand her thoughts. They all turned to her and smiled brightly, then turned around and picked up their chopsticks to start eating.
Seeing all these things, Mrs. Xu became more and more confused. What had happened to her cousin's family in the past ten years without any connection?
During the meal, Xu Da's cousin who had never met before, Gongsun An, the precious lifeblood of Gongsun Yu and his wife, and the next generation landowner heir, brought wine to Xu Da specially, and inquired about their family and the main family.
what is the relationship.
Xu Da acted modestly like we were just lucky, "It just happened that Boss Gongsun was suffering from an emergency, and I happened to meet a mysterious traveling doctor before who taught me some secret prescriptions, and then I happened to use this prescription."
I cured his illness, and in order to thank me, he happened to be traveling with us and just sent us here."
Gongsun An looked at Xu Da suspiciously. Is there such a coincidence?
Xu Da nodded seriously, it really happened.
"Then what is the name of this noble person who is a direct descendant of my family?" Gongsun An asked curiously.
Xu Da said bluntly: "Gongsun Hao, cousin, you have read books, right? It's Hao from Broad Sky. He is a slave trader. Oh, he also sells salt. He has a caravan of nearly a thousand people. It looks very impressive.
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Speaking of this, Xu Da looked ashamed, "I'm sorry to say it, although it's not easy to know this person's identity, but if you don't tell me, I'm embarrassed to ask, cousin, do you know who this person is?"
Gongsun Hao, Gongsun Hao... Gongsun An read both sides of this name repeatedly silently, feeling that it sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Until Gongsun Yu, who was sitting in the main seat, stood up and exclaimed: "Gongsun Hao, he is General Gongsun!"
"Ah, I remembered it!" Gongsun An slapped his head, followed by his father's exclamation:
"It's General Black Tiger. When Wuhuan invaded, he broke into King Wuhuan's tent with one man, one horse and one spear, took away the head of Wuhuan Shanyu, and killed more than ten thousand of Wuhuan's elite soldiers. He was very powerful!"
Of course, I don’t know whether he really killed more than ten thousand elite soldiers, but just breaking into the king’s tent and taking the head of Wuhuan Shanyu single-handedly is something that no one can do.
"You actually met General Black Tiger?" Gongsun An looked at Xu Da excitedly, his eyes filled with envy and admiration for this general.
Xu Da was stunned when he heard this, "He is a general?"
Not a slave trader?
Gongsun Yu sighed lightly, waved his hand and motioned for his excited son and Xu Da to sit down cross-legged. The old man said vaguely:
"Back then, General Black Tiger was forced to retire due to the party's imprisonment. Not only General Black Tiger, but the entire Gongsun family was almost caught in that disaster..."
Speaking of the Youzhou Gongsun clan, what people think of is the elite soldiers and generals of the Gongsun clan.
The Gongsun family didn't have many educated people, but they were famous for their strong military and generals. It's a pity that the family didn't have many educated people, so they couldn't cope with the intrigues in the court, so now they can only dominate Youzhou.
Once we leave Youzhou, there will be nothing wrong with the Gongsun family.
Oh, you can't say that. The northern border still has to be defended by the Gongsun family, and the imperial court dare not touch them.
Thinking of the glory of the past, even Gongsun Yu, a marginalized member of the family, looked yearning for it.
Xu Da nodded. He understood that the Gongsun family was a group of people with well-developed limbs and simple minds.
However, Xu Da reviewed Gongsun Hao's rules of conduct along the way, and felt that this guy had a genetic mutation, and he was shrewd in his calculations.
It's no wonder that the Gongsun family can entrust the family business to him. If it were another person, he would have to pay someone else if he was cheated.
For example, the cousin Gongsun An in front of him looked at Yazi who was not very smart. Without a few words of conversation, he let him out of his old ways, including the newly purchased mature concubine he liked and a pair of beautiful feet.
Everything was told to him.
When Wang was still in Hejian County, Jizhou, she heard from people there that the folk customs in Youzhou were open, and today she experienced it firsthand.
When my cousin entertained these relatives, she did not divide the men and women into two tables, but one table for adults and one table for children.
My cousin-in-law, my cousin-in-law, and she, and several other women came to the table to eat with my cousin-in-law, Xu Da, and the others.
And her cousin-in-law and cousin-in-law were different from the wives on the other side of the river. They came directly to talk to her with wine, and their words were generous, without any fear of the women she had met before.
Along the way, Wang gradually discovered that women of this era were different from those women with bound feet mentioned in history textbooks.
Etiquette is indeed stricter for women, and their thoughts are indeed imprisoned by these etiquette dogmas, but women in the family will still receive due respect.
It may be that today's society is extremely hungry for labor, and women will engage in family management or indirectly participate in politics.
In this era, there was no dogma of the three obediences and the four virtues. If the husband died, he could remarry, and if a woman did not get along with her husband's family, she could also divorce her husband's family.
The higher a woman's economic status, the more choices she has.
But Ms. Wang has never forgotten the women who knelt down to beg with their children on their backs, or even tied grass rings to sell themselves.
Women and girls belong to the same era, but there is such a huge difference between heaven and earth.
To be precise, people belong to the same era, but due to differences in status, they have two completely different destinies.
The cousin-in-law in front of her, Ms. Liu, was talking to her with a smile, but Ms. Wang's heart was so heavy that she couldn't laugh.
She picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp, which was a response to the other party's kindness.
Little did he know that such a refreshing gesture also made Mr. Liu feel good about him.
"Cousin, the world is in chaos right now. Did you encounter any danger along the way?" Ms. Liu asked curiously.
Wang thought of what she had seen and heard along the way, and felt that it was not a good topic for conversation. She smiled and replied perfunctorily: "I met a noble person on the way. It went smoothly."
Ms. Liu nodded and poured wine for Ms. Wang. While pouring the wine, she asked tentatively:
"I heard from my cousin that my uncle and the others are gone, and now only your relatives are left in my mother's family. Do you have any plans next?"
Mrs. Wang heard what she said, and she was worried that her family would fall for her.
