Chapter 674 Half-brother
"Brother Wuya, please tell me carefully about my father's return!" Chen Xu hesitated for a long time and decided to figure out the whole story first.
"Two months ago, I asked Li Si about the situation from Shangcai and returned to Qinghe Town. I met many merchants along the way who recruited civilians to Dongfang Road as workers. Many of them were poor people who were family members. I didn't care at first, but suddenly I heard someone calling Chen Hu's name. I suddenly remembered that my benefactor's father was named Chen Hu, so I got off the horse and asked, and found that this man named Chen Hu actually looked a little similar to his benefactor, so I asked him if he was from Qinghe Town, Zhi County. Chen Hu was evasive and unwilling to answer, so he told him on the same road as him. Chen Hu was indeed from Zhi County near Nanyang, so I took him to Zhi County..."
Yu Wuya explained the story carefully. In fact, it was very simple. It was a very coincidental in the novel plot. If Yu Wuya hadn't just heard someone calling Chen Hu's name, anyone might not have discovered Chen Hu in his life. Moreover, it seemed that Chen Hu had not planned to go back to Xiaohe Village to see Chen Jiangshi and his children.
"Brother Yu, don't let this matter be rumored after you go back. In a few days, I will take my mother and Princess Qingrou Wan'er back to Xiaohe Village to worship my ancestors. Let's talk about my father after returning to Xiaohe Village. I will go and see him first..."
"I'm more appropriate to make such arrangements, otherwise my sister-in-law would be unacceptable!" Yu Wuya nodded.
"Let's go, let's go back first!" Chen Xu waved to ask the guards and the groom to drive their carriage over, and then asked while climbing into the carriage: "Did Brother Wuya ask who that woman is? Could that young man be born to that woman and her ex-husband?"
"The woman called herself Han Tian, and the boy was indeed born to him and his ex-husband, and her name was Han Xin..."
"Bang~~" Chen Xu slipped and fell directly from the carriage, and a dog chewed his shit under the carriage.
"Marty, Marquis~~" A group of guards was so scared that they were invisible. They rushed up and pulled Chen Xu out of the carriage.
"My benefactor, you have drunk too much today..." Yu Wuya looked at Chen Xu with a dirt face and quickly stepped forward to wipe his face with his dirty sleeves.
Chen Xu grabbed Yu Wuya's arm with tears in his eyes: "You are not wrong, is that boy really Han Xin?"
Yu Wuya nodded strangely and said, "My benefactor, that boy is indeed Han Xin, and he is very sensible. I am planning to send him to the wild..."
"Don't say too much, go back!" Chen Xu raised his hand to interrupt Yu Wuya's words, wiped the soil on his face, and climbed onto the carriage under the careful protection of several guards, and then ordered to go home.
"Han Xin...Han Xin..." On the way back, Chen Xu was muttering all the way in the carriage.
This is the name of the third second-level villain he officially heard after traveling to the Qin Dynasty. Now Chen Ping Yingbu has all followed him and developed his own development. Jiang Beiting has also found out about Liu Bang's news. In September, Jiang Heng has sent a letter to find out about the whereabouts and detailed followers of the two. They are indeed from the Xiang clan and are very famous in Wuxian. Although Xiang Yu is only fourteen or five years old, he is already more than seven feet tall. He gathers a group of young disciples like an old and dandy. The locals are afraid of seeing it as if they are hiding from the plague god, and call him the little overlord in Wu.
Originally, Chen Xu was both interested and guarded by these villains who would become big and small who overthrew the Qin Dynasty according to the historical records of later generations, and was not very willing to have anything to do with them.
Especially people like Xiang Yu are born with a rebellious boy and are very difficult to control. Staying around is not only unsafe, but may also bring disaster to themselves.
Therefore, he did not plan to find it one by one and then win over it to serve him.
After all, after I traveled through time, many things that should have happened according to historical records have undergone tremendous distortions and changes. For example, Zhao Gao was the biggest change and had completely lost any opportunity to control Hu Hai.
Moreover, Li Si's book burning plan was also stopped by himself. The current Daqin is completely different from the Daqin in history.
Therefore, as long as the Qin Dynasty is stable and inherited, it will be meaningless whether these people appear or not. With the continued implementation of reform, the livelihood situation of the Qin Dynasty will be greatly improved in a few years, and the factors of the people's rebellion will be gradually resolved and erased. Once no one rebelled, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang could only follow the crowd and there would be no chance to stand up and dominate the king.
At present, Han Xin is not sure if he is the later god of war Han Xin who was praised by Liu Bang as an unparalleled national warrior, but since his name is exactly the same, Chen Xu is naturally very interested in meeting him.
Fourteen-year-old Han Xin is three years younger than him and is now just an ordinary poor boy.
What Chen Xu was most unacceptable was that his father married Han Xin's mother, so he and Han Xin could be considered half-brother.
Half-half...Damn, this relationship is so complicated!
When Yu Wuya returned, the Hou Mansion was naturally lively again.
Ying Shiman, Meng Wan and Fan Caiying are all familiar with Yu Wuya, and they have long known that although Chen Xu and Yu Wuya are masters and servants, they are actually as close as brothers, and they are Shui Qingrou's senior brothers, so they all changed their names to Yu Wuya as the eldest brother.
By the time of Shen Shi, the family gathered together for a warm dinner. At this time, the banquet in Qinghe Garden had ended, and all the guests who gave the gifts were dispersed. Chen Xu took the whole family to Qinghe Theater to watch the show.
The third act of the Legend of White Snake floods the Jinshan Mountain. This scene was rehearsed for more than a month under the command of Bo Daocheng. With the experience of the first two acts and the current theater musicians and actors are already familiar with scripts and various props and costumes. Therefore, this drama with a large scale and huge sound, light and electric fog special effects is still very exciting. The interlude was replaced with the extremely lingering song "When will the Moon Come" which is very nice. Regardless of whether it is suitable or not, it is very popular in the scribes and aristocratic class, which is far beyond the popularity of Du Qing and Millennium.
In the next long time, this song will once again lead the trend of the Qin pop music. It will no longer be popular songs singing on the streets and alleys, but will become an indispensable song and dance for family banquets of the aristocratic class. After all, the fairy spirit of this song is too strong, so that people want to integrate into the artistic conception and go to the Yaotai Fairy Palace above the bright moon to experience the traces of the immortals.
Back at the Hou Mansion, the family gathered in the inner hall to keep warm. Xing'er and Yu Ji sang and danced next to the new Legend of White Snake. Shui Qingrou sat next to the stove to teach Ying Shiman and Meng Wan to knit sweaters. Chen Jiang asked Yu Wuya in detail about some things about Qinghe Town and Xiaohe Village. He learned that the house and crops at home had always been taken care of, and wiped his tears a little sadly, and he obviously missed home very much.
"Mom, we will go back to worship our ancestors in a few days, and then go back to Xianyang after the New Year in Xiaohe Village!" Chen Xu couldn't help but comfort him.
"The relationship is good. There are more people in Xianyang, so it's better to be quieter in Xiaohe Village!" Chen Jiang nodded with tears.
"Mother-in-law, I have always heard you say that Xiaohe Village is good. We have not been there yet. When we go back this time, we will definitely stay with you until the beginning of spring and wait until it is warm before coming back!" Ying Shilan also comforted her.
"Princess, Xiaohe Village is so fun. Our family also has two dogs, one named Dabai and the other named Xiaohua. I wonder if Brother Dashi has raised it for us!" Xing'er stopped dancing and said with some concern.
"Hmph, if Brother Dashi raises my little flower to death, Sister Xing'er won't marry him!" Yu Ji also remembered her puppy in an instant, so she said in a slight voice with concern.
Chen Xu also looked at Yu Wuya with some concern.
Yu Wuya laughed dryly.
"Oh, Uncle Yu must have eaten our Dabai and Xiaohua hotpot!" Xing'er pointed at Yu Wuya and shouted.
"Wow~~ Daddy gave me a little flower, and I'm a dog!" Yu Ji rushed up and grabbed Yu Wuya's arm and started crying.
"Brother Yu, did you really eat two dogs?" Chen Xu asked with a black head.
"Hehe, where can I live well?" Yu Wuya shook his head awkwardly, and then repeatedly promised that Dabai and Erhua were not eaten. The two little girls burst into tears and smiled.
The two dogs must have grown into big dogs now, and Niu Dashi would definitely not eat them, because the two little girls hugged the dog and cried for half the time when they were leaving, so they insisted on bringing them to Xianyang, but it was not easy to take care of on the road, so Chen Xu asked Niu Dashi to help feed them. Therefore, the two girls were still crying for a few miles before leaving, and Niu Dashi would definitely help feed them, and at the same time, they could still keep a lookout for the house on weekdays.
But Yu Wuya, a foodie, couldn't guarantee that they had eaten a lot of dog meat hotpot in Xianyang last winter. They would arrange for the chef to buy a big dog every now and then. The fragrant smell made me drool when I think of it. After winter this year, because Yu Wuya is not in Xianyang, Chen Xu was busy every day and has never eaten a meal of dog meat.
"I'll eat too much dog meat and get angry and can't sleep in the middle of the night. When I go back to Xiaohe Village, my mother makes beef bone soup for you!" Chen Jiang said with a smile while wiping the tears of Yu Ji.
The water, who had been concentrating on knitting the sweater, trembled slightly, and a long bamboo needle poked on his hand.
Chen Xu saw it but couldn't comfort me, so he had to change the topic and said: "Mom, my father went to war, and there should be many people who went with Qinghe Town. Have you ever asked about my father's whereabouts?"
When Chen Xu suddenly asked this question, everyone in the room stopped their own actions and looked at Chen Jiangshi.
For this family, Chen Xu is the backbone, but Chen Jiang is the only elder. In fact, this is an imperfect family. Moreover, as a son and daughter-in-law, it is not easy to ask about such topics on weekdays, and it is even harder for outsiders to speak.
Although the seven countries fought for years in the past, basically every household had males who died on the battlefield, either brothers, fathers and sons, grandfathers and grandchildren. Incomplete families are common in the current Daqin. On the contrary, families with fathers and sons and brothers are rare. A large number of orphans and widows like Chen Jiang's family are the mainstream. The main force that feeds millions of soldiers and tens of thousands of officials in the Daqin, and the main force who support surrendered and criminals are these poor women and children.
Chen Xu only asked about Chen Hu twice before.
But this is a false proposition.
Chen Jiang grew up in a mountain village that was almost isolated from the world. He lived for more than 30 years and had been to Qinghe Town at the farthest time. He had never been to the county town. Therefore, the ending of Chen Hu's departure without returning was as sad and helpless as the sky collapsed.
As the Qin army occupied Chu State and the people who went to participate in the war gradually returned, she had asked someone to go to Qinghe Town to ask many people who participated in the war, but most families in Qinghe Town lost father and son or brothers in that war. This was the case in the entire Qinghe Town and even the entire Qin and Chu land. The males who never returned were invisible for no news. Even the county magistrates could not find out more news, because there were too many people who died, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Once the battle began, they would use the lives of both sides to fill it in.
Wang Jian led an army of 600,000 to attack Chu for the second time. Although he used various strategies to delay and deceive the Chu generals, more than 100,000 casualties were still injured and seriously injured after more than a year of battle. In that chaos, most people could only let the civilians dig a pit and buried them, and they did not even have their names left.
Even the people from fellow villagers went there, as the war continued, they slowly separated and lost contact. When the war ended, those who were alive came back, the rest were basically considered dead. Then the county officials followed the statistics and spread to the township, and the pavilion chief came to inform him. At this point, a family was broken from then on.
The dead have no military achievements.
Unless it is a land property that has been obtained through military merits before, it can be inherited by the family and children.
Chapter completed!