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Chapter 94 Family Banquet

The tombs of grandfather, father and brother, all three generations were cleaned by Liu Jing and Liu He, and it was inevitable that they were stretched a little. After Liu Liang and his son cleaned up their ancestral tombs, they rushed over to help immediately.

The addition of the two really helped Liu Jing a lot. The four of them worked together to remove weeds, wipe the tombstones, and keep the cemetery neat and tidy.After that, there was another worship.

After coming down from the mountain, people surnamed Liu from all over Pingxiang drove away one after another.

Liu Jing took Liu Liang to the face of the serious, and introduced him: "Bomu, this is my brother Liu Liang, who will go to the city building tomorrow to serve as an official." Then he said to Liu Liang, "Ayu, this is the history of the city Zuo Shi. Serious Yan Bomu is a virtuous person with both ability and political integrity, you must respect him as you respect me."

Liu Liang responded, and then bowed deeply to the serious: "Under Liu Liang, I have seen Yan Jun."

Then Liu Jing turned his head to look at Liu Zhu and said, "Wenxiu, I have a lot of things to do recently. I'm afraid it will be difficult to return to the market for a while. When I'm not here, Liu Liang will leave it to you."

Liu Liang bowed respectfully again.

"Liu Jun, just don't worry." After Liu Zhu finished speaking, he smiled kindly at Liu Liang: "I am also the King Ding of Changsha. We are from the same ancestor, so you don't have to be polite."

Liu Jingjing nodded, and said to Cai Sheng and Ma Zhou: "Hongchao, Zijin, this kid is 15 years old this year and wants to learn swordsmanship. What do you think of him?"

Liu Liang has been following his father to sell fish in the city for more than half a year. As soon as Liu Jing mentioned "Hongchao" and "Zijin", he immediately knew that the two in front of him were Cai Sheng, Cai Hongchao and Ma Zhou and Ma Zijin, who were well-known in the city. , I still don't know Liu Jing's intentions, and I can't help but get excited.

Cai Sheng looked at Liu Liang up and down and said, "This boy has extremely long arms and his wrists exceed his crotch. This is what people often call the 'arms', which is very suitable for practicing swords. Moreover, this boy has eyes that make him difficult to meet people. Avoid, you can see that he is a daring person, practicing swordsmanship is very courageous, if you have no courage, no matter how good your talent is, it is useless."

Ma Zhou learned swordsmanship at the age of ten, and he has already started to play swordsmanship at the age of 15. He said: "It's a bit late to learn swordsmanship at the age of 15, but if you work harder, you may not be able to develop your skills."

Cai Sheng nodded lightly and asked, "Liu Jun, what is the purpose of making the younger brother practice swords? If you just want to practice casually, I can teach him a few hands. If you want to make a difference, in my opinion, It is better to worship your son as a teacher.”

Liu Jingjing nodded, he heard the meaning of Cai Sheng's words.

Liu Liang looked directly at Cai Sheng, who was handsome and suave in bamboo crown and fur clothing, without fear in his eyes, and asked, "Of course I want to practice swordsmanship like Cai Jun. Why does Cai Jun not want to accept me as a disciple?" Cai Sheng swordsmanship The champion of Changsha is stronger than Ma Zhou, and Liu Liang wants to worship him as his teacher.

Cai Sheng did not laugh at Liu Liang's self-control, but admired his ambition and said with a smile, "It's not that I don't want to accept you as a disciple. At your age, you must work harder to achieve something, and you are about to enter the university. As an official in the market, you work hard during the day and return to the official house at night. How can you accept my guidance except for the rest of the day? And if you worship Ma Zijin as your teacher, you can learn swordsmanship with him at all times. If you have time, I will also I can give you some pointers."

After listening to Liu Liang, he felt that what he said was very reasonable, and he no longer hesitated in his heart, and said to Liu Jing, "Brother, I would like to take Ma Jun as my teacher."

Liu Jing smiled and asked Ma Zhou, "Zijin, would you like to take Liu Liang into your family?"

Ma Zhou readily agreed: "This is a trivial matter. Wenxiu also often comes to my house to teach swordsmanship. Teaching one is also teaching, and teaching two is also teaching."

As soon as the matter was over, several people said their goodbyes one after another, because there was a clan banquet in the back, and there was no time to greet them, so Liu Jing did not do much to retain them.

When returning to Liu Shiwu by car, Liu Jing thought of something and said to Liu Liang, "Ayu, although you are not yet full of weak crowns, but you are about to become an official, you can't communicate with people without words."

Both Liu Liang and his son were overjoyed, and Liu Liang said: "Please also give me a letter from my brother."

Liu Jing pondered: "The bright one is bright, so let's call him Ziming."

Liu Liang thought to himself: "This is a good word, it's catchy, and you know what it means as soon as you hear it." He couldn't help smiling: "Ziming, Ziming... I will be called Liu Liang Liu Ziming from now on."

When the ox cart arrived at the house, Liu Liang and his son got out of the cart and left not long after. Liu He, who had been silent all this time, suddenly begged Liu Jing, "Brother, please help me too."

Liu Jing smiled and said: "You are only 12 years old, so there is no need to choose characters."

Hearing this, Liu He couldn't help pouting, secretly sulking.

Liu Jing smiled and shook his head.

After returning home and resting for a while, at the end of the morning, the whole family was dispatched together to rush to the clan banquet, and even the sister-in-law Lai Ci temporarily handed over her son to Song's wife Zhou's care and went with him.

There were six to seven hundred people surnamed Liu in Liu Shiwu, including their family members, gathered in Liu Pan's house one after another.Due to the large number of people, they were divided into three courts in front, middle and back according to closeness, respect and inferiority.Liu Jing's family was divided into the back court without accident.

This has nothing to do with Liu Jing. His family was originally the prominent branch of the Liu clan. Even after his father Liu Shang died, his family still had a place in the back court when he was at its worst.

Liu Jing's family was brought into a seat by a waiter, and the food table was prepared with wine and food. The meat was mainly pigs, deer, ducks, etc. There was no chicken, because in the Han Dynasty, there was a tradition of prohibiting the killing of chickens and sparrows on Zhengdan.

It is said that the great ancestor Liu Bang was chased by Xiang Yu and escaped in the Xingyang well. Two turtledoves happened to fall at the mouth of the well. Xiang Yu chased after him, thinking that "there are people in the well, but the doves are not gathered", so that the great ancestor escaped, so the Han Dynasty It is forbidden to kill chickens and sparrows on Zhengdan.Of course, this legend is good to listen to, and its credibility is almost zero.

When the clan feast was about to start, Liu Pan carefully helped Liu Yong out of the back room and sat down. As the patriarch of the Liu clan in Longqiu, he accepted the offerings of wine and birthday greetings from the descendants of the Liu clan.

First of all, his descendants, their descendants, their daughters and granddaughters, each served pepper wine, knelt down on the ground, and celebrated their birthday. The ceremony was roughly similar to that when the county officials met Zhang Xian.Pepper is a kind of herb. In the Han Dynasty, it was warm, fragrant, and multi-child. It was used to smear the surrounding of the house with mud, and then it was used for Chinese New Year congratulations.

In it, Liu Jing saw the figure of Liu Pan's nephew Kou Feng. He followed his mother to congratulate Liu Yong on his birthday. With a total horn on his head, he was over eight years old. He was born with beautiful eyebrows, red lips and white teeth.Who would have thought that he would become a brave and good general in the future, and he was once so angry that Cao Cao yelled at him.

After the sons finished worshiping, it was their turn to each family. When Liu Jing presented the wine, Liu Pan deliberately whispered to his father. Liu Yong was over sixty years old this year. His body was already decayed due to perennial illness. He squeezed out a smile. Said: "This son is from the Xingwu clan!"

Back then, he once said that Liu Zong was the one who could prosper the Liu family in Longqiu, but it was a pity that Liu Zong let him down, and he hoped that Liu Jing would not let him down again.

(End of this chapter)