"I just want to buy some time for what he wants to do.?

After hearing this, Mr. Ma didn't say anything immediately. He just lowered his eyes silently, as if he was thinking deeply. I was also sitting there waiting for his response. When I looked down accidentally, I saw his legs, almost all of his ankles were mud. Although he had already paced a lot at the door, he still left two lines of mud footprints when he walked in.

I couldn't help but think of Liu Qinghan.

When he entered the court, he was always criticized for being a "mud legs", and he himself was deeply ashamed. But now, when I look at the old man's two mud legs, I don't think anything is wrong at all, but I am quite close.

At this time, Mr. Ma raised his head and looked at me.

I also hurriedly looked at him. He seemed to feel my gaze on his legs just now. He also looked down at him, and then smiled and said, "Miss should know that the old man is a civilian, and until now, he is just a mud leg."

I don't know why his conversation turned to this, and I don't know how to answer for a while.

Fortunately, he didn't want me to answer the conversation, so he continued: "Miss, and Hong Gu, including the Yan family in Chengdu, you do big things every day, but none of you know better what a farmer is than an old man."

“…”

"The farmers can only see two things in their eyes, the land they see when they bent down to farm, and the sky they see when they look up and straighten their waists."

“…”

"The earth has a kind and harvest, but the heaven has a moody mood."

I suddenly realized that the "heaven" he said might not be an ordinary heaven, but-

I immediately wanted to say something, but he had already felt it in advance. He raised his hand to stop me from speaking, and continued to say it himself: "And those who have always been officials have exploited and fought against farmers and have no heart!"

My heart beat: "Old man..."

Aunt Hong was so nervous that she couldn't let her breath out, but she was afraid that the next moment, Mr. Ma would refuse us mercilessly.

After the old man Ma said that, he was silent for a while. After gradually calming his breath, he raised his head and looked at me and said, "The old man has lived for so many years. All he sees are corrupt officials and oppressing the people..."

"Old man."

Just as I was about to defend him, I heard him say slowly: "But I have never seen any official who really treats the common people as heaven and kneel down."

“…”

"There are even less people who become emperors."

“…”

"This emperor is the first one."

“…!”

I was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered that Mr. Ma was talking about the beginning of the year. Pei Yuanhao met Jae Bixing and sued the emperor after the culprit. In the end, Taishi Chang was dismissed and Nangong Jinhong's ambition was exposed to the public. He knelt down to the people of the world and apologized.

I didn't expect that Mr. Ma would mention this matter at this time, and I didn't expect that he would know about it.

I couldn't help but say, "Do you know this?"

Mr. Ma laughed and said, "Bad things are spreading thousands of miles apart, but good things may not be gone. Besides, an emperor kneels down in front of the common people to apologize. This is something that has never happened in all dynasties. I am afraid that now, I have learned everything in the country."

“…”

"His new policy has not been implemented in Xichuan, so I don't know; but he is willing to kneel down to the world and all the people, which means that he at least knows that the people are heavier than him. For this reason, the old man knows what to do."

My heart suddenly jumped, and I saw him looking up at me, and smiled solemnly: "I am willing to help the eldest lady."

I suddenly laughed with joy.

"Thank you, old man!"

Seeing that I was about to stand up from the stool, Aunt Hong hurriedly reached out to support me. She also said to Mr. Ma with a smile on her face: "The old man is such a discerning person. The eldest lady and the head of the family plan so, that's right."

Her words made Mr. Ma shake his head, but he didn't bother with her.

He said to me, "Then, Miss, when will they arrive?"

I thought about it and said, "They already know that I'm here. I guess it's been these two days."

Mr. Ma thought about it and nodded, "I understand."

After saying that, he stood up and said, "Then, the young lady, have a good rest and take care of the injury before they come. I will go down and ask them to prepare for it. We are going to welcome guests from afar."

I nodded, and watched him walk out slowly, walk outside the door, bent down and pick up the hat he placed in the corner of the wall, cover it on his head, and then plunged into the fine rain curtain outside.

It was not until this time that I felt relieved.

Aunt Hong helped me sit back to the table, and said with a smile: "Miss is so relieved now. The old man is a sensible person."

I looked up and smiled at her, "Thanks to you, Aunt Hong, if it weren't for you, Mr. Ma might not be so easily moved by me."

"Miss, don't say that," said Aunt Hong, shook her head and said, "He may not really listen to my words. This old man, don't be confused at all, he has an idea in his heart."

I nodded. As Aunt Hong said, Mr. Ma might not accept all what she said, and even the words I just said might not have played any role. I think he had made up this idea long ago and came to ask me, it just depends on my attitude.

Of course, this is better.

I don’t need an ally like Yan Ruoyu, but I hope there are ally like Mr. Ma around me.

Having said so much, I felt a little thirsty in my throat. Aunt Hong had already poured me a cup of tea. I thanked her, held it in my hand and took a few sips. I remembered what I just heard, and asked her: "Aunt Hong, do you know why the old man gave up the errand of raising horses in Xichuan and ran here to guard the ancestral hall for the Yan family?"

An expression of doubt appeared in Aunt Hong's eyes, and she shook her head and said, "This is the business of their older generation. When I went to the Yan family to do things, he was already here. I really don't know much about their affairs."

"oh……"

I nodded and stopped asking.

After resting in the room for a while and explaining some things to the guards, I couldn't sit still anymore and couldn't rest forever, so I went out with a crutch that Aunt Hong found me.

Because it rained in the morning, it became colder outside, but the air was particularly good. The tip of the nose was filled with the freshness of the soil and the fragrance of the plants and trees in the back mountain. As soon as I went out, I felt that my spirit was refreshed.

Only then did I see clearly that there was a very spacious yard in front of me. In addition to the main house where I was, there were several small tiled houses on both sides, which were used for kitchens, bathing, and storage, and firewood was piled up in the corners of the wall.

Although it is far away in Xichuan, the feeling of the countryside courtyard is no different from the one in Jixiang Village at that time.

I walked down the corridor with a cane for a while. Aunt Hong kept holding me. Seeing that I was about to walk out of the yard, she asked, "Where are you going, Miss?"

I said, "Aunt Hong, I want to go to the ancestral hall to see it."

"The ancestral hall? Usually the old man doesn't allow people to get close to there."

"Not me?"

"This," she hesitated a little: "Miss, you are a daughter."

“…”

After hearing this reason, I immediately calmed down. Aunt Hong was worried that I would be angry and hurriedly said, "Miss, you know I didn't mean that--"

I looked up at her and smiled and said, "Aunt Hong, I understand."

“…”

"I don't go in, I just take a look from a distance. Is it OK?"

“…”

"I promise."

After hearing what I said, Aunt Hong loved me, so she agreed and asked her two little girls to go and see it, so she didn't let Mr. Ma know that we were there, and then took me to the depths of the village.

I have never been to this Gantang Village before, but the villages in the world seem to be roughly the same, with crowded houses, gravel paths, clean and smooth stone slabs washed by rain under the eaves, and children running around naked. Although the noodles are delicious, the children are just children, and their eyes are always shining, with innocence and childishness.

This group of children probably had never seen anyone born in the village. When they saw me, they all surrounded me and watched the fun. Aunt Hong rushed me several times but couldn't drive her away. Finally, she became popular and the children dispersed.

I smiled and watched them run away, and turned around and was helped by Aunt Hong walked through a narrow alley.

As soon as I left this alley, I immediately felt the clarity in front of me, and a large courtyard appeared in front of us.

The courtyard is empty, at least dozens of feet from north to south, with white stone slabs flat, which is very different from all the scenery in the village just now. Although there are many trees planted in the village, most of them are mulberry fruit trees, there are two tall sycamore trees planted here in pairs. After autumn, the ground is covered with fallen leaves, and an old woman is slowly cleaning under the tree.

Behind the sycamore tree stands a tall and majestic ancestral hall.

That is the Yan Family Ancestral Hall.

This is the first time I have seen the Yan family's ancestral hall with my own eyes. It is found on a high platform, which is a little taller than an ordinary child. There are three stone steps paved with white marble. The middle road is the widest and particularly clean. Perhaps on weekdays, few people come here.

The gate of the ancestral hall is tightly closed, and there is a wide plaque on the gate, with four big characters written on it - Yan's ancestral hall.

I was a little suffocated for a moment.

Aunt Hong held my arm and felt me ​​trembling a little, so she reached out to hug me. I said softly: "This is the ancestral hall of our Yan family."

"Yes."

"Father……"

"Yes, master, old master, their spiritual positions are all enshrined here."

I handed the crutch to Aunt Hong and respectfully bowed to the closed door of the ancestral hall.

When I stood up straight, I saw two smaller halls built on both sides of the site, which were quite similar to the ancestral hall, but I knew that it was not a formal ancestral hall.
Chapter completed!