The Audi A8 led the convoy, which was composed of Rolls-Royce and Maybach. After entering the mountain road, they drove straight in. After driving for about ten minutes, the front suddenly opened up, and a piece of antique buildings came into view.
This is the old house of the Confucius family in Qufu. Even if it is said to be an old house, it is indeed quite old. The main house is a historic building with a long history. As for how far back it can be traced, no one can prove it. There are usually no buildings here.
Open, this is the former residence of Confucius. It will only be opened once a year when worshiping ancestors, for the descendants of Confucius from all over the world to come to worship. The rest of the time, the door is closed. The main house has been repaired many times over the years, and it is basically
Maintaining its original appearance, there is nothing unusual about this main house. It is purely a spiritual symbol and represents the saint Kong from thousands of years ago.
Surrounding the main house are antique-style buildings, scattered in an orderly manner around. Most of these houses are usually empty, because there are not many Kong family members in Qufu, and they are basically some upper class houses.
The elderly people who are taking care of themselves here have dispersed to various places a few decades ago. They have spread their branches at home and abroad, especially in Taiwan and the United States. This is where the Kong family members gather most.
, Qufu is a kind of memory and sustenance for the disciples of Confucius, mostly of symbolic significance.
Today, there are a lot more Kong family members in the Kong Mansion in Qufu as usual. There are almost dozens of people standing in front of the main house, with Mr. Kong Da in the lead, and two middle-aged men and women standing behind them. In the crowd behind the three of them
, Kong Dejing lowered her head and frowned slightly. There was no expression on her face, but if you look carefully, there was a little sadness in it.
At the bottom of the mountain, after Xiang Que got off the taxi, he bypassed the main entrance and drove up the hillside a hundred meters away. The barbed wire fence blocking the hillside was useless. A sword could split it in half and step into the Confucius Mansion.
Within the scope, Xiang Que suddenly felt a strong aura of wealth.
"After all, it is a thousand-year-old house. Its heritage is much worse than the Forbidden City, but it is better than the Chen family mansion in Tangshan. It has gathered thousands of years of popularity... As long as it is not the Kong family
This disciple is not too muddy to hold up the wall, but this foundation will not be wiped out even if it takes hundreds of years."
Xiang Que strolled leisurely on the mountainside. He came here just to see the thousand-year-old Confucius family. He had no other thoughts. Even if he had any thoughts, he couldn't get up. In fact, the old house of the Confucius has been laid out according to Feng Shui.
There is no big connection. Because of the existence of Confucius, the merits and virtues accumulated by the Han people who worship the Confucius every year are already majestic. If Xiang Que dares to touch the fundamental thoughts of the Confucius, he will definitely
He would be struck alive by a thunderbolt immediately.
What is a saint? Only those who have been certified by heaven since ancient times are called saints. They can almost be compared with the destined emperor.
When Xiang Que was walking on the mountainside, the luxury caravan in front of the main house of Kong Mansion had stopped, and a middle-aged man in his fifties and a young man in his thirties stepped out of the Maybach.
There are some similarities in the appearance of the two people, which can be seen from the eyebrows. The two must be direct relatives.
After the middle-aged man in his fifties got out of the car, he habitually put his hands behind his back and raised his head slightly. This was not a pretentious move on his part, but a habit that he had developed over many years.
, such arrogance has been deeply ingrained in his bones. The young man behind the middle-aged man stood very respectfully less than half a meter away from him, looking forward with a smile on his face, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth on both sides was exactly the same.
The young man's eyes passed through the crowd and finally fell on Kong Dejing.
He has a handsome appearance and a talented person. If Xiang Que were to describe this person, one word would probably pop out of his hesitant mind.
"Dragon and Phoenix among men"
The doors of the Rolls-Royce and Audi A8 opened at the same time. A dozen people in Tang suits opened the trunk of the car and took out a bunch of things that were not suitable for these luxury cars.
In the trunk, more than a dozen bamboo baskets were moved. Each bamboo basket was tied with red flowers tied with red cloth. There were exactly eighteen of them on the ground. There were eighteen hoofs in the first bamboo basket.
There are several bundles of silk and satin in the bamboo basket at the back, and then there are all valuable things, including fine jade, gold ingots, and bundles of banknotes.
This was the standard configuration used by wealthy families in the South when they proposed marriage. However, one thing has changed slightly. They used to use banknotes, but now these things must not be circulated, so they have all been replaced by cash.
This custom dates back hundreds of years. During the Ming Dynasty, wealthy families took the initiative to come to propose marriage for their children. They always made the scene bigger, the better. The bigger the scene, the more attention they paid to each other. Of course, the prerequisite was that they were well-matched.
Okay, if one party's status is inferior, the size of the betrothal gift will have to be relatively reduced.
In addition to hooves, silk and satin, these eighteen bamboo baskets also contained jades, gold ingots and cash, with a total value of exactly 8.88 million.
In other words, even if the status of this family who drove a fleet of luxury cars from Zhejiang to Qufu to propose marriage to the Confucius family was not as high as that of the Confucius family, it was not far behind.
That's right!
After the betrothal gifts were arranged in a row, the middle-aged man and the young man took a few steps forward and came to Mr. Kong Da. The middle-aged man raised his hands and said, "I have met Deacon Kong Da."
"Uncle Kong, hello," the young man said, bending ninety degrees to greet him.
Mr. Kong Da smiled and said in a very gentle manner: "Mr. Shen and my nephew are very polite. Come, please come inside."
Behind Mr. Kong Da, the smiles on the faces of the middle-aged man and woman were very obvious. It could be seen that the two people seemed quite satisfied with the person proposing marriage. The middle-aged woman among them looked back at Kong Dejing behind her and said softly: "Jing
Son, the Shen family is very sincere when they come here this time. You see, Shen Linfeng is also handsome and polite. How about it? Are you satisfied?"
Kong Dejing lowered her head, with a faint smile on her face, and whispered: "Satisfied? Unsatisfied? Does it have anything to do with me? This is not my request, but your request. Do I have a choice?"
The middle-aged woman continued to smile and said: "Although you can't choose your marriage, Mr. Kong Da and we deliberated for a long time before deciding on this marriage for you. Who is the Shen family? Although there is no such thing as our Kong in history.
The family has a long history, but the current scale is not much different. You are a well-matched family, Jing'er, you are much more blessed than the other children of the Confucius family."
"It's just a marriage. No matter how high-sounding the words are, in the end, my life-long event must be exchanged for it." There was something inexplicably desolate in Kong Dejing's words.
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