Unparalleled Concubine

Every year, Ye Cheng accepts these souvenirs.

Ye Cheng is the third child in his family. He is 80 years old. His brothers have all passed away long ago, and now he has not many nephews left. His nephew, but his grandnephew.

Hearing that it was someone from Ningling's hometown, Ye Cheng's expression changed slightly, and he finally nodded: "Let them in."

Ye Mao nodded, turned around and brought someone in.

This old man is a person who misses his hometown very much.

He has not been able to return to Ningling once in more than 40 years, but he still remembers his homeland in his heart. When the fourth Ye Lin of the Ye family was entrusted with the title of Marquis of Ningling, the old man was jealous for a while.

Last year, when he was just sick, he told his little father-in-law Ye Mao that when he died in the future, he would return to his hometown and be buried in his hometown in Ningling.

Li Xin took his youngest son from Old Man Ye, and said with a smile, "Disciple avoids?"

"It's no use."

Ye Cheng coughed and said, "They're all our own."

After a while, Ye Mao led two people who looked to be in their 30s and walked in. The skin of these two people was darker than ordinary people, and they looked like farmers who were farming, but their clothes did not look like ordinary people. farmers.

After the two of them came to the courtyard, they didn't dare to raise their heads. They knelt down in front of Ye Cheng and kowtowed, "Ye Chong, Ye Yong, the elders of the Ye family, kowtowed to the third grandfather."

They are all the grandsons of Ye Cheng's elder brother. As for Ye Cheng's elder brother, he has been dead for more than 40 years.

Ye Cheng coughed, and propped himself up to sit up from the recliner. Li Xin noticed that he was struggling, so he immediately stretched out a hand to support Ye Cheng.

Old man Ye finally sat up. He looked at the two young men kneeling on the ground, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Where's your father?"

The leader Ye Chong knelt down and kowtowed: "Back to Third Grandpa, my father fell ill last year and is currently bedridden, unable to kowtow to Third Grandpa, so I can only let my nephew and grandson come over..."

Their lineage is the main branch of the Ye family in Ningling, so they were the ones who came to Ye Cheng to kowtow to Ye Cheng before.

Old Man Ye was silent for a while, and finally sighed slowly.

"Get up."

"It's hard for you to travel so far to see the old man,"

Chapter 693 Ye Shuai

This sigh contained too many things.

In this era, seventy is already rare, not to mention the 80-year-old Zhang Dynasty. Old man Ye has lived to this age. His former brothers, robes, relatives, friends, and old acquaintances are actually very few living in the world. Few, and he stood at such a high place that he was trapped in the capital for decades, and he didn't even have anyone who could talk.

That is to say, Li Xin can barely be regarded as half a person, and the master and apprentice can occasionally sit together and chat for a while, but Li Xin is only in his 20s this year.

No one has walked with him for more than 80 years.

Thinking of this, the old man let out a sigh of relief, pointed to Li Xin beside him, and said calmly, "This is Li Changan, the old man's closed disciple."

Ye Chong and Ye Yong looked at each other, and without any further hesitation, they knelt down again and kowtowed to Li Xin: "I've met Uncle Li."

It is refreshing to have a high seniority, but there are also embarrassments. Li Xin can now accept that Ye Mao calls him uncle, but these two big men who have never met kneel in front of him and call him uncle, which still makes him feel uncomfortable. .

So Master Jing'an gave a coy smile, and said in a vain manner: "You two don't have to be so polite, get up quickly."

The two were very sensible, but still bowed their heads and did not get up.

Because old man Ye didn't speak.

After a while, Ye Cheng coughed and said, "Get up."

Only then did the two men arrange their clothes, got up from the ground, and stood aside with their hands down. Old man Ye said in a muffled voice, "Your Uncle Li is also half of Ye's family. If you come to Beijing again in the future, remember to bring him a piece of paper too." gift."

This is not blackmailing people in their hometown, but helping them.

Old man Ye knew very well in his heart that he would not live for too long, and his elder son Ye Ming was not in good health. If it was the worst case and both father and son were gone, the Ye family would inevitably weaken for a long time. In time, it will even fail.

He missed the people in his hometown very much, so he wanted Li Xinshun to lead a group of them.

Lord Jing'an was stunned for a moment, then he smiled bitterly at the teacher and said, "Master Ye, this disciple's surname is not Ye, and he only occupies one generation, I'm afraid I won't be well received by the Ye family..."

Ye Cheng frowned slightly: "You don't want to?"

"It's not that I don't want to, it's just that it's not suitable..."

Li Xin took a deep breath, and just about to say something else, he heard Old Man Ye said indifferently: "Just think that you stole the compensation from that kid Zhao Jia, is it okay?"

Li Xinchang sighed and bowed deeply to Ye Cheng.

"That's not what this disciple meant, but since Master Ye said so, Li Xin has the audacity to accept this gift."

Old man Ye nodded in satisfaction, stood up reluctantly from the reclining chair, walked to the two Ye family brothers, and said lightly: "Raise your head, and recognize your Master Li clearly, and don't give gifts by mistake in the future."

Only then did the Ye family brothers raise their heads, looked at Li Xin carefully, and then lowered their heads again: "Third Grandpa, my nephews and grandchildren recognize Uncle Li."

Ye Cheng nodded, and said: "The people in my hometown, come to the capital to send things to the old man every year. The old man remembers this kind of friendship. After you go back, ask in Yejiazhuang, if anyone is willing to join the army , I can let them come to Beijing to find my grandson. The old man started from Qiu Ba, and he doesn’t know any other way. There is only this way for you. After joining the army, you will go to Jimen Gate to guard the border. At that time, whether you can get ahead or not depends entirely on personal nature."

In the past few decades, in order to avoid suspicion, Ye Cheng never allowed people from his hometown to join the army, at least he didn't let people from his hometown join the army through his own way. Now he suddenly let go of this opening because he was running out of time and wanted to We should try our best to make the foundation of this Ye family as deep as possible.

When the Ye family brothers heard this, everyone was overjoyed and kowtowed to Ye Cheng.

"Thank you Third Grandfather, after the nephews and grandchildren go back, let the family know immediately!"

Old man Ye was silent for a while, and said: "Don't have too many people come over, try to find some promising soldiers to join the army, otherwise you won't be able to get ahead, and you will suffer a lot and even lose your life."

"My nephews understand!"

Standing aside, Li Xin watched all this quietly, but he didn't look at the Ye family brothers who came from the countryside, but at the little father-in-law Ye Mao not far away.

To put it bluntly, the old man Ye did all this because he was afraid that his eldest grandson would lose control of his family property.

Well intentioned.

While Ye Cheng was talking to the Ye family brothers, Chen Shiliu, who had entered Chen Guogong's mansion with Li Xin, stepped in, walked up to Li Xin, and whispered something in Li Xin's ear. z

Lord Jing'an's face suddenly became serious.

He took a deep breath, straightened his clothes, walked to Old Man Ye, bowed and cupped his fists and said, "Master Ye, my Master Wang is here."

Ye Cheng was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Just let him in, do you want me to invite him at the door?"

As soon as he finished saying this, he suddenly remembered that Wang Zhong was an old man of the same era as him, so he smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's not impossible for me to invite him at the door."

Lord Jing'an looked serious.

"Master Ye, I, Master Wang, did not come alone. There were [-] people in total. They should be...they are all from the old department that followed you to the north. It was Master Wang who stayed up all night yesterday and ran all over the capital to contact us. I arrived, and said that I want to pay homage to Master Ye together."