Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 240 Hei and Liu

After reporting the affairs, he witnessed the scandal of the "royal dispute" and left the palace and returned to his home.

His father, Heihu, was basking in the sun in the yard, covered with a soft blanket and holding a letter in his hand.

Hei Zhuang then asked his father, "Who wrote the letter?"

The old father told him, "He is a friend of the Hei family for generations!"

"Liu's descendant is coming to Xianyang on business. His father is worried that something might happen to him, so he wrote a letter hoping that we can take care of him."

After hearing this, Hei Zhuang clapped his hands and said, "I see, then we must prepare in advance to entertain this distinguished guest!"

Liu and Hei,
They all came from Ye County.

The ancestors of the two families formed a deep bond hundreds of years ago.

Later, the two families moved to Daliang together, and their friendship remained unchanged.

It was not until Heifu became a minister of Qin and changed his nationality due to his contribution in treating King Wu of Qin that the contact between the two families gradually decreased.

After all, one is in Wei State,

One in Qin State,

It's really inconvenient to contact.

However, the unregistered residents are still very aware of this.

When he was young, he followed his father's orders and went to the State of Wei to visit Liu Qing, who was named "Duke of Feng", and continued the friendship between his fathers and Liu Qing's son Liu Ren.

When Liu Ren was alive, he inherited his father's title of "Feng Gong" and served as a county magistrate. He had a wealthy family, so he was able to frequently communicate with the illegal residents in Qin State through letters.

But once Liu Ren died,
The Liu family declined.

His two sons divided the family property and made farming their occupation.

Thanks to the legacy of their ancestors, they had no problem with food and clothing, but the cost of delivering letters between the two countries was a bit unaffordable.

Taking this situation into consideration, Heihu sent people to express condolences when he heard of Liu Ren's death, and donated some assets to his descendants, indicating that he would not alienate this distant relative because of the decline of the other party's family, and hoped that they could continue to communicate via correspondence.

But it is the third generation after all.

No matter how deep the friendship is,

After being passed down for decades in two far-flung places, everything will eventually disappear.

Whether in terms of status or identity,
Or in terms of inner friendship,
The gap between the two families is getting wider and wider.

Liu accepted the gift from the black household and only wrote to express her gratitude once or twice, and then there was no news from her again.

Black households often feel regretful.
The century-long friendship between the two families ended here.

His son Heizhuang had only heard of Liu's stories but had never seen any of Liu's descendants.

Therefore,
When I receive a long-awaited letter,
The unregistered person was happy for a long time, thinking that the two families could take this opportunity to renew their old relationship.

As for the difference in status?
When Liu was a minister in the Qin State,
Hei's ancestors were still fishing along the banks of the Zhang River!

What's so self-righteous and contemptuous about others?

He said to his son, "According to the generational order, the person who came is the descendant of Liu Yan, so he should be my grandson, your nephew."

"That's very young!" Hei Zhuang stroked his beard and thought that the other person should be about the same age as his son.

"I'll go make a room for him so he can rest!"

The unregistered person nodded and told his son to go and handle it.

In Fengyi,

After sending the letter, Liu Yan squatted at home with his hands in his pockets, worried about Hei's reaction.

A distant relative who I haven't contacted for many years suddenly wrote to me.

A commoner who made his living by farming wanted to become a high-ranking official in Qin State.
Wouldn’t the other party feel embarrassed or annoyed?
But he had no other choice.

Who asked the third brother to deliver the statistical documents of Shitian in Pei County to Xianyang?
This guy has been out there for so many years,

I just ran around Wei Chu.

He brags about his knowledge every day, but have you ever really been to Xianyang, the center of the world?

And his personality,

Liu Yan was really worried that he would offend the nobles in Xianyang.

"What are you afraid of?"

"At worst, I won't bother with them!"

Liu Ji put his hands in his belt, walked over casually, and said to his old father squatting on the ground:
"The letter has already been sent. Can it be taken back?"

original,

When Liu Ji learned that his family was in Xianyang and that he had such a distant relative, he was very happy and blamed his father for not telling him earlier.

However, as a village head, he was aware of the trouble of correspondence and the cost of communication between the two places.
Not afraid to spend money lavishly,
When his pockets were empty, he would come back and ask for money from his father and brothers, and he didn't feel embarrassed or ashamed.

His father can't do that.
His father has to support the whole family, especially him, the eldest son!

So, he just talked about it.

Turning around, he saw Liu Yan worrying about whether the Hei family would dislike their poor relative, and he spoke to comfort them.

"Don't worry, I promise not to cause any trouble in Xianyang, okay?"

Liu Ji pulled his old father up from the ground, patted him on the back and said, "What you need to worry about is to prepare more money for me!"

"If the Hei family won't take me in, I'll have to spend money to find a place to live!"

Liu Yan said with a straight face, "I can give you the money, but you can't use it to drink!"

"Forehead……"

"You can't give it to women!"

"Well..."

"Not even for men!"

Liu Ji said "Hi" and responded: "Okay, okay, okay, I won't do any of this, okay?"

He was thinking:
When we arrived in Xianyang,
Can the old man still control Nai Gong?
You have to eat and drink when you need to!

How can you make friends without spending money?
In the backyard,

Liu Xin was killing fish with his mother.

While doing her work, his mother said disdainfully, "...your grandfather will definitely pay Liu Laosan again!"

"You've spent most of the money you've saved from selling fish over the years on him!"

"If I had known earlier, I would have told you not to be so diligent!"

Liu Xin has always had good luck catching fish and he also works very hard on the farm, so he can earn extra income, which helps him share a lot of pressure for his mother at home.

But they did not divide the family business, and part of the money they earned was handed over to the head of the family for management.

And Liu Yan was always emptied by his third son for various reasons.

This made Liu Xin's mother very dissatisfied.

When Liu Ji and Cao had a child but did not raise the child, her resentment towards Liu Lao San became even stronger.

She is also a widow and has a child. How could she not know the hardships involved?

The biological father of her child is dead.

But the biological father of Cao’s child is still alive and well!
Liu Xin just listened to his mother's words in silence without stopping her.

Because it is rude to talk about elders.

He was raised by his mother, so how could he not understand her thoughts?

His third uncle,
He is a very free and easy-going person.
They all have a certain reputation in Pei County.

Many people like him very much.

But being his family member is a bit stressful.

Liu Xin could only say, "After Third Uncle gets married, things should get better!"

Although the other party had already held the position of "Sishui Pavilion Chief", he never got married.

As a father, Liu Yan always felt that his children needed care before they started their own families.

Therefore, it is inevitable that I am somewhat biased towards Liu Ji.

"You're already forty, where can you find a woman?"

Liu Xin's mother hung the fish on a bamboo pole to dry, muttering, "Cao gave him a son, but he didn't even marry him!"

"In my opinion, this guy is probably planning to find some outside brothers to live with him in his old age!"

"You can't learn from him. I'm still waiting to have grandchildren!"

Liu Xin was amused by his mother's words. He nodded repeatedly and promised that he would never be single until he was forty.

the next day,
Liu Ji, with his abundant assets, patted his butt and set off from Pei County.

He was very fast on his feet.

Arrived in Xianyang one day in advance.

The first thing to do after reaching the destination is

Liu Ji planned to ask which direction the gate of "Dingyang Jun" faced and see if he could get in.

(End of this chapter)