The dust settles

Chapter 32

Dolma didn't speak, I think she didn't know whether she should come back or not.She didn't know whether to be the silversmith's wife or the housekeeper's assistant.I don't want to dwell on this.I think this is the housekeeper's business. Since Zhuoma is sleeping with him now, it is of course his business and has nothing to do with me.

After being away from home for so long, I want to prepare a gift for everyone.Needless to say, father, mother, and elder brother, I also prepared a pair of gemstone earrings for that Yangzong, and of course, there was another maid named Tana.I didn't know how rich I was until the butler led me into one warehouse after another while preparing the presents.It took me two or three days to prepare the gifts and box the silver dollars and silver ingots.On the last day, I wanted to walk around, so I wandered into the street.In the past few days, I have almost forgotten the enemy of Maiqi Toast.Walking into his tavern, I threw an ocean on the table and said: "Wine." The owner brought the wine jar.

I drank two bowls of wine, but he didn't say a word.It wasn't until I was about to leave that he said, "I haven't heard from my brother yet."

I stood there for a while, not knowing what to say.In the end, I comforted him and said, "Maybe, he doesn't know whether to attack the current Maiqi Toast or the future Maiqi Toast."

The shopkeeper murmured, "Maybe it's true."

"It's a little bit harder, but there's no way around it. When you ran away, you made an oath. He must kill him, at least one of them."

The shopkeeper said: "But why does the mother use her son to swear the oath?"

This is a very simple question, but it is not simple to think about it carefully.I can't answer.But I'm glad I was able to act so calmly in front of my enemies.I said to him, "Tomorrow, I'm leaving for home."

"Will you see him?"

"Your brother?"

"It's him."

"Better not to let me see it."

34. Go home
When we got home, we were fast.It's not that I want to be fast, but that the servants want to be fast.

I'm not a harsh master and didn't ask them to slow down.

Originally, those who have succeeded in their careers outside should walk slowly on the way back, because they know that someone is waiting and looking forward to it.

On the fourth day, we boarded the last mountain pass and saw Maiqi Tusi's official village in the distance.

Looking down from the mountain pass, first there are some cypress trees standing here and there in the valley, making the river beach look empty and wide, and then there is a large wheat field blown by the wind, Guanzhai stands quietly like a huge island In the middle of the wheat waves.The horse team rushed down the valley, and the bronze bells on the necks of the horses carrying silver and treasures were resounding, making the empty valley appear full at once.Guanzhai is still quietly in the distance, with an air of indulging and dreaming.We passed through some stockades, and the common people, led by the head of the stockade, followed us and cheered loudly.

There were more and more people following me, and the cheers became louder and louder, which woke up the people in the Guanzhai who were sleeping at noon.

Chief Maiqi knew that his son was coming back, and when he saw so many horses rushing down the wide valley, he still became nervous.We saw servants running desperately towards the watchtower.

Tana smiled: "They're scared."

I laughed too.

I was a fool when I left here, and now I can scare them.We were already close enough for them to see that it was their own family, but the chieftain still didn't relax his vigilance.It seems that they are really worried about me, worried that I will launch an attack on Guanzhai.Tana asked, "How could your father do this?"

I said, "Not my father, but my brother."

Yes, from this haste and panic, I could smell my brother.The unexpected fiasco in the South was enough to make him a frightened bird.Tana said to me in a very sweet tone: "Even your father will be wary of you, they already regard you as a member of our Ronggong family."

As we got closer, there was still an ambiguous silence behind the thick stone walls of the official village.

It was Sangji Drolma who broke this embarrassing situation.She untied a big bag on the animal's back, and threw handfuls of candy from Han to the sky.She is already very good at playing the role of a benefactor, a spreader of the favor of the second young master of the Maiqi family.My two boys also threw candy into the air.

In the past, this kind of candy was rare, and the toast family could not often eat it.Sweets haven't been a rarity since I've been doing business on the northern border.

Candies fell from the sky like hailstones into the crowd. The people waved colorful candy wrappers in their hands, with honey-like sweetness in their mouths, and shared the taste of my great success in the northern border. In the square in front of Maiqiguanzhai Big cheers around me and the beautiful Tana.The dog on the chain at the gate of Guanzhai barked loudly.Tanuo said, "Is this how the Maiqi family welcomes their daughter-in-law?"

I said loudly: "This is the wise man welcoming the fool!"

She yelled something again, but the cheers of the people drowned out both her voice and the frantic barking of the dogs.From the cheers rolling like thunder, I heard the heavy gate of Guanzhai groaning open.The cheers of the people stopped immediately.The door opened, and the chieftain and his wife came out.Behind is a large group of women, including Yang Zong and the other Tana.Not my brother.He was still inside the watchtower, staying with his servants.

It seemed that their life was not going well, and their father's face was like a radish beaten by frost.Mother's lips were very dry.Only Yang Zong still has the look of a sleepwalker, still so beautiful.That maid, Tana, was careless, standing among a group of maids, staring blankly at my beautiful wife, biting her nails one after another.

Mrs. Toast broke the deadlock.She came up and touched my forehead with her lips, and I thought two dry leaves fell on my head.She sighed, left me, walked up to Tana, hugged her, and said, "I know you are my daughter, let me take a good look at you. They men do their thing, I want to take a good look." Look at my beautiful daughter-in-law." The chieftain laughed and shouted to the crowd: "You see, my son is back! He got the most wealth! He brought back the most beautiful woman!"

A group of people chanted long live.

I don't think it's our feet, but the sound of people shouting long live that pushed us into the official village.In the yard, I asked my father, "Where's brother?"

"In the bunker, he said that the enemy might be coming."

"No wonder, he was beaten in the south."

"Don't say he was scared of being beaten."

"It's father, you said you were afraid of being beaten."

The father said: "Son, I see that your illness has recovered."

At this time, the figure of my brother appeared, looking down at us from upstairs.I waved to him, saying that I saw him, and he couldn't hide anymore, so he had to come down from the stairs.The two brothers met on the stairs.

He watched me carefully.

In front of him was the well-known idiot who did things that even smart people couldn't do.To be honest, my brother is not very utilitarian, he must be a chieftain.I mean, if his brother hadn't been an idiot, he might have given up the chieftain position.The events on the southern border had taught him that he didn't want to think so much.But his brother is a fool.In this way, things can only be as they are now.As a loser, he still patted me on the shoulder condescendingly.Then, his eyes passed me and fell on Tana.He said, "Look, you don't even know if a woman is pretty, and yet you get such a pretty woman. I've had so many women, and none of them are so pretty."

I said, "Her maids are all beautiful."

That's how my brother and I met.It's not quite the same as I imagined.But finally we met.

I stood upstairs and waved, and Sangye Dolma directed the servants to pick up boxes of silver from the horses.I told them to open all the boxes, and there was a huge exclamation from the crowd.There is a lot of silver in Maiqi's official village, but most of the people—the headmen, the heads of the village, the common people, and the slaves have never seen so much silver gathered together at the same time.

As we made our way to the dining room, there was a heavy rumbling of the door to the underground warehouse behind us.After entering the dining room, Tana said into my ear, "Why is it exactly the same as Rong Gong's house?"

When the mother heard this, she said, "All the chieftains are alike."

"But nothing is the same at the border," Tana said.

Mrs. Toast said: "Because your husband is not a toast."

Tana said to Mrs. Toast, "He's going to be a toast."

Mother said: "I am very happy that you think so, but it makes me sad to think that he came to your house instead of my own."

The conversation between Tana and her mother ends here.

I gave the order again, and the two beautiful maids of Xiaochang and Tana came in, and placed a generous gift in front of everyone, and the treasures shone in front of everyone.

They don't seem to believe that I got these things from the barren frontier.I said: "In the future, wealth will continue to flow."

I only said the first half of the sentence, and didn't say the second half.The second half of the sentence is this: If you don't take me for a fool.

At this moment, the maids arrived, their feet rustling on the floor, and they knelt behind us.The groom's daughter Tana also knelt down behind me and Tana who was born as a chieftain.I feel her trembling.I don't understand why I slept with her before.Yes, at that time, I didn't know what makes a girl beautiful, so they just stuffed this woman on my bed.

Tana looked at the maid out of the corner of her eye and said to me, "Look, I don't see you as a hopeless fool, it's your family who sees you as a complete fool. Just look at the It will be clear what kind of woman you will be." Then, she handed a string of pearls to Tana, the handmaiden, and said in a voice that everyone could hear: "I heard that you have the same name as me, From now on, you can no longer share my name."

The maid Ta moved a mosquito-like voice and said, "Yes."

I also heard her say, "Master, please give me a name."

Tana smiled and said, "My husband is surrounded by sensible people, he is a blessed man."

The maid who no longer had a name was still saying in a mosquito-like voice, "Master, please give me a name."

Tana turned her bright smiling face to Toast Maggie: "Father," she spoke to my father for the first time and confirmed the relationship between them, "Father, please give our servant a name."

Father said, "McGuamie."

This unlikely name became the groom's daughter's new name.It means no name.Everyone laughed.

McGuire laughed too.

At this time, my elder brother said the first sentence to my wife. My elder brother smiled coldly and said, "When a beautiful woman appears, other people don't even have their names. It's really interesting."

Tana also smiled and said, "Beauty is visible, just like there are smart people in the world, and people who are regarded as fools by others will not see a future."

The elder brother couldn't laugh anymore: "This is the way of the world."

Tana said: "Everyone knows this, just like there are only victorious toasts in the world but no unsuccessful toasts."

"It was Ronggong toast that failed, not Maiqi toast."

Tana said: "Yes, brother is really smart. All the chieftains want you to be their opponent."

This round, my brother failed again.

When everyone dispersed, my brother grabbed my arm and said, "You will be destroyed by this woman."

Father said: "Shut up, people can only be destroyed in their own hands."

Brother walked away.When our father and son faced each other alone, my father couldn't find the right words to say.I asked, "What did you call me back for?"

Father said, "Your mother misses you."

I said, "The enemies of Maiqi's family appeared. The two brothers wanted to kill you and brother, but they refused to kill me. They only invited me to drink, but they refused to kill me."

My father said, "I don't think they know what to do with you. I really want to ask them if they don't know what to do with you because people say you're a fool."

"Don't father know what to do with me?"

"Are you a smart person or a fool?"

"I do not know."

This is what it looks like when I get home.This is how they treat the heroes who made the Maggie family stronger.

In the room my mother told Tana nonsense about women, endlessly.

I was lying on the railing alone, looking at the moon gradually rising in the evening sky, on this night when I just returned home.

The moon was fully up, moving through thin clouds.

Somewhere in the official village, there is a woman playing the strings of her mouth.The chords are sad and confused, and there is nothing to rely on.

(End of this chapter)