The New Year is approaching day by day. After three or four years of troubled times, everyone has become accustomed to it. No matter how difficult the life is, the New Year has to be passed.
There is a way to live in poverty, and there is a way to live in wealth.
If you think about it this way, it will still be the same in troubled times and prosperous times.
The crackling of firecrackers in Shangwu City continued day by day. The Wu family's mansion was too big, and the garden was even bigger than King Zhao's. Even after I walked along the wall with my little bundle for a long time, I could still hear it.
There was the sound of firecrackers, children playing outside, women chattering, horses hooves clattering, cattle and sheep buzzing...
How can we avoid people?
"Ayu, what are you going to do?" a voice asked curiously.
In the end, he looked up at the high wall: "I want to climb out..."
After saying this, he trembled, stepped back and leaned against the wall, looking at the person speaking in front of him with an expression of horror and embarrassment.
"Wu, Master Wu Qi..."
Master Wu Qi sighed: "But Shi Kun didn't treat him well?"
After being together for such a long time, the two of them had already told each other their family background, name, and birth date. Mr. Wu Qi's given name was Bai, and his courtesy name was Shikun. People without roots were not worthy of talking about their surnames, so they could only be called by their nickname A Yuquan.
Wei waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, the seventh master treats each other with delicious food and beautiful maids in the house, and allows Ayu to walk around in the inner courtyard of the house. This is how we treat him as brothers."
Master Wu Qi was puzzled: "Then why do you want to leave?"
Wei Wei's eyes evaded and he said: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I suddenly feel homesick, so I thought I'd better go home."
Master Wu Qi frowned: "You don't even know who is at home, and you still miss home?"
Wei Wei stood up straight and said: "Look, look, I knew you would say this, Master Qi. You were worried about me and refused to let me go, so I left secretly."
Master Wu Qi looked at him and said, "What? You are obviously scared." He leaned closer and stared at Wei Wei, "What are you afraid of me for?"
Wei Wei's whole body was pressed against the wall, not looking at his face: "I'm not afraid of you!"
Master Wu Qi laughed: "Then you look at me and speak."
He turned around and said, "You don't have to look at me to speak."
Master Wu Qi stopped fighting with him and said directly: "Are you afraid of my face? In fact, you seemed to be afraid since you arrived at the house that day. I forgot to ask you, and I thought it might be an illusion, but now I see
Come......"
He grabbed it with his hand and looked at himself.
"Why are you afraid of my face?"
This sudden move made Wei Wei tremble and say: "Wu, Mr. Wu, I didn't say anything bad about Wu Ya'er. I just heard what others said. I won't say it anymore..."
Finally, these words were frightened out. Mr. Wu Qi let out a long breath in his heart, with a look of surprise on his face: "Ayu, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand?"
Finally able to say this, he threw the baggage on the ground and said: "Sir Qi, please stop lying to me. I can see that this is the home of Governor Wu. It turns out that he is not an orphan. It turns out that he is not an orphan."
With such a strong family background, no wonder..."
As he spoke, he knelt down and hugged Mr. Wu Qi's legs and cried loudly.
"I was wrong. I shouldn't have spoken ill of Governor Wu. I will never speak ill of him again. Please let me go."
Master Wu Qi didn't pull him away. He looked down at him and sighed: "How did you know that?"
Weiwei raised his head and pointed at his face: "You, the outline of your face is exactly the same as that of Governor Wu. I have met Governor Wu. I didn't pay attention at first, and I didn't think about it. When I got to Shang Wu, I
The more I think about it...and your sons, oh, daughters, daughters are more like..."
He said and started crying again.
"I asked you why you were so nice to me. It turned out to be because I spoke ill of Governor Wu outside the capital, and you targeted me."
Although the eunuch's reaction was a bit slow, he was not stupid. Master Wu Qi smiled. Looking at the eunuch crying while hugging his own legs, he felt relieved that everything was under control.
"Okay, Ayu, you are right, but you are not right either." He said, "Get up and listen to what I have to say to you."
After that, he immediately became obedient: "I won't say anything anymore. I'm going back to the capital right away. I'll work for Governor Wu and Mrs. Chu's oxen and horses."
Master Wu Qi said: "Don't talk about this first. Let me tell you the truth. I don't know if Wu Ya'er has anything to do with our family."
I glanced at him, as if he didn't understand.
Master Wu Qi wanted to say something but didn't seem to know what to say. He simply waved his hand: "Follow me."
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...
"Where is this?"
Weiwei looked at the house in front of him. It was hard to hide its splendor under the dense old trees, but the splendor that had been abandoned for a long time also gave off a ghostly aura.
The sound of firecrackers that originally sounded dense has become sporadic, faint and far away...
This place is not like the human world.
Don't dare to go forward until it's over.
Master Wu Qi said: "This is the ancestral hall of our Wu family, you come with me."
We followed him forward and came to the gorgeous ancestral hall that looked like a grand palace. When they saw Mr. Wu Qi, the guard of the ancestral hall immediately opened the door and left without saying a word.
Afterwards, I stood at the door and poked my head around, and saw that there were many memorial tablets inside, with portraits hanging all around. Because the door was opened, the wind was swirling inside, making a gentle crashing sound, which was quite scary.
"Come in." Mr. Wu Qi waved from inside, "Come and see this."
Wei Luo walked in and stood behind Mr. Wu Qi. He looked at what he pointed at and saw that it was a portrait. When he saw the portrait, he took two steps back with a groan.
Master Wu Qi looked back at him: "Does he look more like Wu Ya'er?"
Weiwei nodded and stared at the portrait through his fingers: "It looks exactly the same as the sitting figure of Governor Wu, except that he is older. Who is this person?"
"This man is the uncle I told you about, the patriarch of our Wu clan." Master Wu Qi said, "It seems that my guess is right."
That clan leader, I finally remembered, had only one daughter. After her death, her daughter inherited the family business and became the clan leader, and then her daughter also disappeared.
Also, Wei Wei heard it at this time and asked in confusion: "Guess?"
Master Wu Qi said: "I really don't know if Wu Ya'er is from our family, and I won't lie to you. I just heard you mention Wu Ya'er outside the capital and knew that you had dealt with him.
I want to get closer and want to understand."
Wei Wei seemed even more confused: "Master Qi, what do you mean? Is it because you are a member of your family and you don't know?"
Master Wu Qi sighed softly: "Do you remember what I told you, my uncle's daughter was killed by bandits and lost her mind more than ten years ago and disappeared without knowing whether she was alive or dead?"
He nodded.
"Actually, there's one thing I didn't say." Mr. Wu Qi couldn't see it and hesitated. It seemed extremely difficult to speak. He gritted his teeth and said, "After the eldest girl was rescued, she became pregnant."
I was still stunned and didn't say anything.
Mr. Wu Qi raised his hands to cover his face: "Miss, she gave birth to this child without telling us, and she also wants this scoundrel to be the grandson of the eldest son and inherit the Wu family."
This eldest lady must be crazy. She dared to do such a crazy thing. She was speechless.
"This is the shame of the Wu family." Master Wu Qi choked with sobs, and knelt on the futon, lying on the ground shamelessly facing his ancestors, "Of course we will not let this happen, we will kill this scoundrel from the moment he is born.
He didn't expect the eldest girl to run away with him. We have been tracing for a long time, but there is still no news."
That's why I said that I ran away from home more than ten years ago and I still don't know whether I'm alive or not, and there's no news at all.
Wei Wei was born in the palace, and he thought he was used to seeing rare things in the world, but today he realized that the outside world is bigger. He swallowed and stammered: "So, so, what you mean is.
....."
"You have met Wu Ya'er, that's why I asked you to come to my house to see if he looks like me and if he is similar to the people in our family." Mr. Wu Qi lowered his head on the futon and said.
, "Look at his grandfather, my great uncle, is he more like him?"
Before he finished kicking, he took a few steps back and bumped into a table, causing a bunch of pictures on the wall to rattle.
"So what I mean is Wu Ya'er, who is now famous all over the world." Mr. Wu Qi looked back on the futon and said quietly, "That's the adulterous son."