Obligations of the elderly

Inexplicably, I was invited to a place to take a bath, and was respectfully invited to the previous hall, where I sat at the innermost main table. The people at the same table were all old men and women, and all of them kept looking at them intentionally or unintentionally. Looking here, the palace's habitual pair of kitchen knife eyes turned across, and those old men and women finally stopped looking.

Sitting next to him, Xiliu smiled and drank tea, with a straight back and an elegant posture.

There were also people in the audience who kept looking towards them, and the one with the most complicated eyesight was Peiyun Ji. Thinking that the child was overly frightened just now, Gong Si decided to let him go.

This is a very spacious hall, which is completely different from the antique Xinji Palace. It is a new design. It is impossible to tell where the design is here, but it is only gorgeous when you look around. The murals, carpets, lighting... can be seen by the naked eye. There are complicated decorations everywhere, and the carvings on the furniture and pillars are exquisite. The whole space feels grand and...romantic?After thinking for a long time, Gong Si finally could only think of this word, which can barely be used to describe this hall.

Soft music sounded in the hall, and people entered the hall from the corridor next to it from time to time. Between the dining tables, waiters and maids in uniform shuttled lightly, serving dishes and drinks for the guests on each table.

The atmosphere at the other tables was quite good. The teenagers who had worked with them to rebuild the Ji Palace before were all sitting next to their parents. They whispered excitedly about what happened before, probably because of their parents’ control in this regard since they were young. It's very strict. Even though there are so many people talking, the hall doesn't make people feel noisy at all. So many people are whispering at the same time, but their voices don't even suppress the sound of music.

In this way, it seemed that the table they were at was extremely quiet.

The faces of the old men and women were all stiff, and they were wearing gorgeous Jizhou traditional dresses. Although they were obviously not from the same source as the painting style in this hall, their imposing manner was enough and their manners were enough, so it didn't make people feel out of place. The expression is too stiff!It's okay not to talk to them, they don't talk to each other.

The atmosphere was really weird.

Finally, one of the old men spoke——

"Xi, Xiliu, okay... Long time no see, how are you?"

"Hehe, seeing that each of you is getting older than the other, but I am in full bloom, I am really happy. If I am in a good mood, everything is fine." Xiliu said with a smile.

Gong Si frowned, almost unable to maintain his original serious expression: He...has never seen such a vicious stream!

However, the old man said he hadn't seen him for a long time, and Xiliu said so again... Could he make a bold guess that Xiliu and these old men and ladies are of the same generation?

Gong Si thought about it, and turned his eyes to meet the wrinkled face of the old man opposite, oh my god!Can't continue thinking about it!

At this moment, the music played in the living room suddenly changed, from melodious exotic symphony to Jizhou's characteristic string music. Gong Si raised his head reflexively, and found that the door at the entrance was opened, and a gorgeously dressed And a woman in heavy Jizhou traditional dress appeared at the door.

Two maids helped her support the somewhat long skirt at the back. She covered her face with a round fan and walked in from the entrance with a smile.

The moment they saw her, the voices in the entire hall disappeared, leaving only the sound of music and the rustle of women's clothes rubbing against the ground. Everyone stood up from the table and saluted her.

"Fanghua, hello... Yande, how are you? Fuza, how are you..." She greeted the people along the way as she passed by. Not only did she say hello, but she also clearly said everyone's name. There are so many people here, it's rare for her to know everyone's names.

"Today is a family feast, for the children to catch up with the wind. Don't be too formal, you must eat well." She said with a smile.

The woman walked like this while talking to the people passing by the table, until she also talked to the people at the table near Peiyun Ji, and finally, she came to their table, standing in the stream Next to the only empty seat next to her, the waiter next to her helped her open the seat. After the woman took her seat, she looked around first, and finally her eyes fell on Gongsi and Xiliu:

"Why is our table so quiet? Is it because you are so far apart in age that you have no common language?"

In a word, Gong Si immediately confirmed: she is worthy of being Xiliu's younger sister, even the way of poking the knife is the same.

He thought so in his heart until the woman removed the round fan that covered half of her face. When her face was completely presented in front of Gong Si for the first time, Gong Si finally understood what Xiliu said about other people's love for Sheyun. Ji's adjective...

"Beautiful"—that was really the only word that came to his mind when he saw that face.

It was a very delicate face, at least seven points like a stream, but more feminine, feminine to the extreme, and she also put on makeup, but it wasn't the gaudy makeup of a younger sister before. Of course, the palace also did it. He doesn't know about makeup, but he thinks it's just right, whether it's the dark blue eyebrows, vermilion lips, or the slightly peachy rosiness on her cheeks, everything is just right.

This is a very beautiful woman, with outstanding appearance and even more outstanding posture. When she sits in front of you and smiles at you, surrounded by those watery black eyes, Gong Si only feels that the whole person is floating.

So, so scary!Gong Si quickly turned his face towards the stream, his sister's appearance was too foul, he had to look at the stream to wash his eyes.

Ah... But the more he looked at Xiliu, the more he felt that Xiliu resembled her, but how could he not feel this way when he looked at Xiliu?But it's no wonder that others say that the stream is beautiful. Could it be that the appearance of the stream is also the same in the eyes of other people?

Staring at Xiliu's face, Gong Si's mind was full of thoughts.

"It's the first time that someone doesn't look at me when I'm around." Sheyun Ji laughed from the side.

Gong Si blushed, and looked at her again. This time, he didn't know if watching the stream just now had an effect. Although he thought Sheyun Ji was very beautiful, he didn't have the same feeling just now.

The Sheyun Ji in front of them was completely different from the Chihu Ji they had seen before. Chihu Ji had gaudy hair, but Sheyun Ji had black hair curled up behind her head like a cloud; Chihu Ji Ji's face was gaudy and freckled, but Sheyun Ji's face was pure and flawless, it was a kind of white like white jade, with a slight light shining through it.

After a comprehensive comparison, Gong Si can only feel that the girls' make-up skills are really comparable to plastic surgery. If he doesn't know the answer, he can no longer believe that the two people are the same person.

What's more, Sheyun Ji didn't know what method she used, even her voice was disguised.

No wonder Peiyun Ji didn't recognize her grandma!

Sheyun Ji smiled and nodded towards Gongsi, then raised her wine glass.

People at other tables are actually paying attention to their table!Seeing Sheyun Ji raise their glasses, other people on the table quickly raised their cups. Others wanted to stand up, but Sheyun Ji stretched out a hand and pressed forward, motioning for everyone to sit down, and then she Stand up by yourself.

"Let's raise a glass to the children to celebrate. The children are free to drink. Let's toast." After she finished speaking, she held up her sleeve with one hand and raised the glass to the side as a gesture of etiquette. After a while, she brought the glass to her lips and drank it Finally, he pointed the mouth of the cup down to show the empty cup.

The patriarch was like this, and the others naturally drank up all the wine in their cups. Even the half-grown youths who were originally told by the patriarch to "please feel free" learned to look good and drank all the wine in their cups .

Anyway, the people who come to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony are all adults, and drinking alcohol is not considered a violation of the rules.

However, after all, he was just at the age when drinking was not illegal, he hadn't exercised before, and he was born with little alcoholism, so after drinking a glass of wine, many little faces suddenly turned red.

She Yunji smiled and looked at these little faces like red apples, watching them look at her, their eyes were full of curiosity, respect, and amazement... They were all at the same age as flowers, and they were all brought up by good students at home. Each has its own advantages.

"You are all fine, our children are really fine." Sheyun Ji laughed.

Putting the wine glass on the table, she didn't sit down, she just stood upright in front of her seat, and continued to talk: "I blew up Xinji Palace, I'm glad you didn't chatter like these old things next to you Crooked, but accepted the task and immediately started rebuilding."

After saying this, the "old guys" on the table were about to jump, but just seeing Sheyun Ji, they lost their temper completely.

Being so afraid of Sheyun Ji, it’s no wonder that Sheyun Ji was able to blow up the Xinji Palace directly—Gongsi, who was sitting next to him and witnessed this scene, poked in his heart.

However, this also shows that Sheyun Ji is the well-deserved patriarch of the Ji family, and the entire family is under her control.

Ignoring the small change that the table went out before it happened, Sheyun Ji continued to speak: "It has been more than 1000 years since the establishment of the New Ji Palace, and it has been more than 1000 years since our family moved from the old palace. "

"Over the past 1000 years, the number of people in our family has increased, and the houses have been built more and more. However, the size of the houses everyone wants has also become larger and larger. Batch after batch of Ji family members have moved out of their homes. Some people They can still go home once a year, and some people have never returned home in their entire lives."

"I don't know if you still remember, when I announced the task, I used the word 'home', and I said, I look forward to the 'new home' that everyone will build."

"Yes, this is actually what I ask of everyone."

"It's also the real 'task' I issued to everyone."

"The Xinji Palace that was blown up is just a palace to me, a gorgeous palace, but no family lives here, and many family members will never come back here. This kind of place is not home."

"So I blew up that palace and wanted everyone to come together and build a new home."

When She Yunji said this, the smile on her face disappeared. She looked ahead, and in her eyes were the new adults of the Ji family generation and their parents. People have seen farther places, farther time and space, and seen the time and space where their ancestors once lived——

"Everyone present is an ancestor with me, and should be the same as me. Since I was a child, I have heard the elders tell me what happened to my ancestors long, long ago."

"A long, long time ago, the Ji Palace was actually just the home of a family surnamed Ji. Finally, they found a place suitable for the whole family to live in. Everyone worked together. Some dug the foundation, and some felled the trees... Everyone worked together. They built a house together in that place, although it was not gorgeous, even though it was not very big, but it was the original Ji’s family. With a stable home, the family had children and raised daughters there, and the family had a promising future. Children, and then teach the next generation of grandchildren more attentively, and pass it down from generation to generation, and only then can the prosperous Ji family be born."

"The palace was built later, the precious beams were cut later, and the red paint on the wall was painted by outsiders. The former home finally became a place to return to occasionally. The relatives did not know each other, and the hearts of the people were scattered. This The family is about to leave."

Sheyun Ji said, her gaze slowly patrolled the hall, her gaze seemed to sweep over everyone's face, looking straight into their hearts, almost everyone was shocked when touched by her gaze:

"A long time ago, when we lived in a small family, at that time, regardless of ability, everyone made the greatest contribution he could make to the family, even if some people did not contribute because of their small ability. A little less, and absolutely no one said to him that he should be kicked out, in my opinion, the reason why human beings live together is to protect the weak."

"The strong are born fearless. For protection, they can even become stronger, and the weak can live better because of this. After several years or even generations, the weak, or their descendants, may not be able to protect the strong. descendants."

Sheyun Ji didn't look at some people, but after she said these words, the elders on the table lowered their heads, the parents of the new generation of adults were thoughtful, and their children were Listen attentively.

"The legendary Vulcan Zhurong thousands of years ago... the Vulcan in the legend belongs to our family. People in Jizhou don't know about this, and I think most people in our family don't know either." Sheyun Ji said suddenly.

As soon as this sentence came out, the hall that had been very quiet was startled. Fortunately, everyone was extremely restrained, and Sheyun Ji just stretched out his hand to suppress it, and the noise immediately ended.

"This is a typical story of a child who was exiled by his family because he was special and different from others."

"The world is big, and there are various things happening. There are more and more people in the family, and various things will happen. We should treat every child well, and family members can't always talk about it. Give up."

Speaking of this, Sheyun Ji smiled again, and her eyes fell on the face of the big boy wearing glasses on the table in front of her: "For example, Fengxian, although he is an ordinary person, he is good at the subjects he is interested in. It’s amazing, he knows Xinji Palace very well, and he also brought other brothers and sisters to rebuild a new home.”

Seeing that Fengxian blushed because he called out his name, Sheyun Ji smiled at him, and moved his eyes to Jian Ji next to him: "Another example is Jian Ji, his personality is really good, Although the shape of the utensil is a sword, and what he studies is also a sword manual, but he is not rigid. On the contrary, he is very flexible and will use his ability to do the most ordinary things for his brothers and sisters. Sorry, when I bombed the new princess palace I didn't expect it to be so cold at night at this time, but luckily Jian Ji prepared hot water for everyone, so the children didn't catch the cold."

Looking at Jian Ji with admiration, She Yun Ji successfully turned the face of a big boy red.

Then, she gave examples one by one, and people were surprised to find that she could name every child, saw the bright spots of each of them, and knew everything they did for everyone.

"Do you think it's strange that I recognize everyone's names?" Sheyun Ji continued to guess what they were thinking just by looking at their expressions, and then she slowly shook her head: "I should not be the only one present now, You can ask the children around you, ask them if they know other people's names."

After finishing speaking, she smiled and watched as some parents really asked this question, and their children seriously counted other people's names, personalities, and their interactions with her... When this "little test" came to an end, the photo was taken. Yun Ji then continued: "Because we built a house together."

"Faced with the almost impossible task proposed by the elders, they encouraged each other and resisted together. During this period, they got along day and night and met every day. Under such circumstances, how could they not know other people's names?"

"Together they went through what our ancestors went through, and together they built a new home for everyone."

Sheyun Ji said, looking at every teenager with a smile on his face: "This family is our common home now, and when we die, it will be their home, and then it will be passed on to everyone in Ji's family. s home."

"Nowadays, what the children build is just a palace without any furniture in it. However, this task is just right and it will never end. As long as we continue to build like this from generation to generation, everyone will contribute to this home and go out. When you see something suitable, you think about where you can put it in your home, everyone thinks so, do this... After a few years, who said that this place will not become the third-generation Hime Palace?"

"I think it will definitely be more spectacular than the previous two generations of Ji Gong!"

With a proud smile on her face, Sheyun Ji raised her wine glass and asked someone to fill it up for her. After she drank it all, she waved her hand forward: "I'm done talking. Now, let's eat!"

The patriarch's action was extremely heroic. Everyone was dumbfounded to see her take a seat. After a while, when they woke up, thunderous applause erupted from the crowd.

With the patriarch's "speech" just now, the Ji family members who were eating in front of them were a lot more excited, and their voices were also a lot louder. Everyone ate and drank, with smiles on their faces. Some people knew each other before, and some The people did not know each other at first, but their children got to know each other through this experience. For a while, everyone introduced each other, talked about the speech of the patriarch, and talked about the experiences of the children. The banquet in front of them finally changed from an "ordinary banquet" It became a "family feast".

The table of Gongsi and the others is still very quiet, but now the other tables are bustling. For the people at this table, the people at the other tables are all children, infected by the smiles of these children, and the faces of the old people on the table Finally, the road was no longer so stiff, and it was gradually filled with fireworks. Looking at the happily smiling children next to them, when they looked at the stream again, their faces were full of guilt.

In the end, it was the stream that broke the atmosphere at the table. He filled the wine glass in front of him, and he raised the glass forward:

"drink wine?"

His eyes were also looking forward, and he was looking at the old people opposite who said this.

He probably didn't expect him to take the initiative to speak up. Several old men and women were stunned at the time. In the end, Sheyun Ji pushed the jug in front of them: "I have already asked the waiters to go down. This is a family banquet. Pour yourself a drink, as much as you drink."

"Hey! Ah He, you have high blood pressure, just take a sip, don't pour yourself so much wine!"

"Ning Chuan, you too, didn't you just have an operation? Just a mouthful will do!"

……

Just like she knows about every child, Sheyun Ji also knows the situation of these old men and old ladies very well. As she spoke, she stopped them from drinking too much.

However, no matter what she said, these old men still poured themselves a full glass of wine, or looked at the stream with cloudy or clear eyes, and they drank the wine in front of them in one gulp.

They seemed to say something to the stream, but the voice next to it was too loud, and Gongsi couldn't hear it clearly.

But Gong Si thought the stream should have heard it.

Everyone drank too much tonight.

The author has something to say: She Yunji: Well, I usually don’t explain things, I explain occasionally, seeing how excited you are, since you are all satisfied, then I’ll sit down