Daming: My grandfather is Emperor Hongwu!

Chapter 233

He was old, too old to move, sitting helplessly on the side with a cane.

Empress Ma next to him raised eyebrows at him and knocked on his forehead, "Let you drink? Tell you to find so many seductive girls? You are old and can't move, right?"

"Open your mouth and eat!"

"Stretch out your hand, look at your dirty!"

The old man couldn't help shivering, his wife, Empress Ma, could really do this.

But immediately, there was a bit of warmth in my heart.

Only married couples can do this.

It's not about getting a wife, it's not about being in love with each other and walking hand in hand for a lifetime.When you are old and unable to move, people will be far away from you long ago, who will serve you?

"Your grandmother can do this!" The old man smiled, "So we have to be tough, and we must never let your old lady bully us in the future!"

"Hitting is kissing and scolding is love!" Zhu Xiongying helped the old man rub the old skin on his feet.

The old man's feet were ugly, with thick white calluses on the soles of his heels, which softened after soaking in water.This kind of calluses has been with his old man all his life, and it is a testimony of his hardship and hunger.Although the world is rich now, the old calluses still remain on the feet and refuse to disappear.

Seeing the calluses slowly floating up in the water, the old man said slowly, "Your grandfather, we have never worn shoes since we were young!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his feet and allowed Zhu Xiongying to rub them with a foot-rubbing stone, and continued, "When I was a child, I used to run barefoot all over the mountains and plains, but in winter I made shoes out of sackcloth and bark!"

"When it's winter, my feet are covered with frostbite and yellow water. This frostbite has been with us all my life, and now as long as it's a little cold, it will come out!"

Zhu Xiongying didn't stop holding his hands, and said, "Grandpa Huang, do you think the past days were bitter?"

"Bitter!" the old man said lightly, "I haven't eaten enough, how can I not be bitter? I get up before dawn to feed the landlord's livestock, and we are so hungry that we secretly ate all the fine grains of the landlord's cattle!"

"Later, someone found out and gave me a pump. When I got home, I gave you another pump!"

"Is her old man whipping you?" Zhu Xiongying asked, "Wonderful?"

"The beating is so powerful!" The old man fell into deep thought, "Your grandma said, heavy eight, we are poor, but we must have ambition, and we cannot steal. Stealing is a loss of conscience, and it is a loss of face to the ancestors of the Zhu family!" As he said, The old man sighed, "While pumping us, we didn't suffer, but you cried when you were too big! Later, you said you were sorry for us, you shouldn't have given us birth, and let us suffer like this!"

"Grandfather!" Zhu Xiongying looked at the old man and said softly, "Heaven will send a great task to the people, and you must first work hard on your heart and will, and exhaust your body."

"That's right, that's the truth, but how many poor people are there who can really achieve success, who can stand out and become masters?" The old man smiled, "Most of them either died of starvation or died of poverty!"

What the old man said is right. There are countless people who have suffered all kinds of hardships throughout the ages, but heroes are just a drop in the ocean after all.

"When I get back to my hometown, my grandson will be on the grave of my grandpa and grandma, and I will mutter about it!" Zhu Xiongying thought about it and continued.

"What are you talking about?" The old man closed his eyes and asked with a smile.

"Thank the two elders for giving birth to you!" Zhu Xiongying said seriously.

Suddenly, the old man opened his eyes and looked at Zhu Xiongying in confusion.

"The grandson told the elders, don't worry, the Zhu family will no longer have to suffer from those hardships from the generation of the emperor and you. The children and grandchildren of the Zhu family will all be masters in the future, they will be gentlemen who are well-educated and reasonable, and they will be warriors on horseback. Capable of writing and martial arts."

"The Zhu family, which has suffered so much, has flourished and multiplied!"

"It is the sufferings of the ancestors of the Zhu family, and the blessings are repaid to the descendants. We wait for the descendants to enjoy the blessings of the ancestors, and we will never forget the sufferings of the ancestors. Remember the teachings of our ancestors, be a down-to-earth person, and do things diligently!"

The old man looked at Zhu Xiongying, a little moved.

Touching the top of Zhu Xiongying's head with his big hand, "What a great grandson, we didn't support you for nothing!"

Zhu Xiongying smiled, "Grandpa, you prenatal education, grandson wipe it for you!"

The old man raised his feet with a smile, looked at Pu Guochang next to him, and said, "Look, this is the benefit of having children, some people are filial and others serve us!" Then he smiled again, "Let me tell you What are you doing, you eunuch who doesn't have any eggs!"

Park Guochang didn't speak, just nodded silly.

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After a night's rest, continue on the road.

The private visit between the grandpa and grandson was very peaceful, not to mention that they didn't encounter any injustice like in those renditions, and they didn't even see a single rogue blocking the way, it was so peaceful that it was very boring.

But this kind of boredom also gave Zhu Xiongying another understanding of Daming and the world.

Outside the window of the carriage, there are still farmers busy in the winter fields.In the passing villages, there are no thousands of lights, but there are bursts of smoke.

Under the quiet to boring environment, it is a piece of peace and tranquility.

Think about it, our country seems to be the same as the sea.

It has the extraordinary purification ability like the sea, and it also has the divine power to create new life like the sea.

No matter how much suffering this country has suffered, no matter how many natural and man-made disasters it has encountered.

But as long as the country is unified, the government is sound and the people are harmonious, the people will be given a chance to recuperate.

Then the whole country, the whole world will immediately become full of vigor and prosperity.

Tranquility is also a kind of greatness, and peace is a kind of glory.

A few more days later, the frame of the two fathers entered Huaixi territory.The old man's words began to increase a lot. Along the way, the old man kept talking about the old things in Huaixi.

What is the function of a certain city, which city is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and which road can be cut short, all of which are familiar.

This is not only the hometown of the Zhu family, but also the place where the old man made his fortune.

At this time, the frame was driving slowly on the official road leading to Chuzhou.

The old man waved to Li Jinglong outside from the car window, "Come here!"

"What is the old man's order?" Li Jinglong hurried over and asked in a low voice.

"This!!" The old man pointed at the city wall of Chuzhou, "That's where your father came to find us back then!"

Li Jinglong looked up, his eyes were red in an instant, and his voice was choked up, "Father often told Shen about the past, he said that he was still young at that time, and he would not let go of crying when he saw you!"

I have to say that Li Jinglong's skill in changing his face is really admirable.

Zhu Xiongying watched from the side, and Li Jinglong's face changed from a smile to a choked sob, from joy to sadness, without a trace of nature.

"Yes!" The old man sighed, "Your grandfather took your father, relying on three pancakes along the way, and followed the victims to find us. Seeing my uncle is like seeing my mother. When he saw us, he pulled our sleeves and cried Call her uncle, say she looks like a mother!"

"We were a hard-working man at the time, and we couldn't help crying!"

The old man said again, "Hey, so many years have passed in a flash, it seems like it is right in front of my eyes!"

Li Jinglong didn't speak, and burst into tears, as if he was the one who suffered back then.

"When you arrive at the Fengyang Ancestral Mausoleum, you also kowtow!" The old man said to Li Jinglong again, "After all, you also have the blood of our Zhu family on your body!"

(End of this chapter)