This gift was indeed very generous, so generous that it included three generations of his family... his mother, his wife, and his two children!
Looking at his family standing in the hall with their bags on their backs, Luo Guanlin was still in shock when his sixty-year-old mother, who was still strong and vigorous, slapped him in the face!
"Mother!"
"grandmother!"
Luo Guanlin's wife and daughter screamed and hurriedly pulled Luo's mother back.
"You evil creature!" Luo's mother cursed with red eyes, gritting her teeth: "...Everyone in the family really thought you were dead!"
The news that Luo Guanlin followed Xu Zhengye in a failed rebellion and burned himself to death in Jiangdu had already spread.
"Mother, what are you doing..." Luo Guanlin felt a burning pain on his face. He could not think of anything else for the moment. He said with a gloomy look in his eyes, "Chang Suining actually kidnapped you here... I'm going to find her!"
She said all kinds of nice things, but in the end she used his family to threaten him!
She was probably born in the Year of the Dog and had a dog's nose... He had already hidden all his family members, but she still found them! "Stop right there!" Luo's mother stopped him.
Luo Guanlin paused.
Luo's mother shook off her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, took two or three steps forward, grabbed her son's arm, pulled him back, pointed at his nose and scolded: "...Look at you, you don't want to live a good life, but you follow others to rebel! You only care about your own rebellion, but have you ever considered our Luo family!"
"Mother, I..."
"Don't talk to me about resettlement!" Luo's mother interrupted her son and said, "Do you really think that if you hide your people, they will be grateful to you? They were originally living in peace, but because of your thoughts, they were forced to bear the name of traitors!"
"Now, even five-year-old children in the clan know that the second uncle is an evildoer who harms others and himself!"
"Tell me, how did our clan wrong you? We worked so hard to support you to become an official, but you did such an evil thing of repaying kindness with enmity... What on earth has driven you crazy?"
"Do you know what kind of life we have been living for the past six months? Every day, every member of our tribe scolds you and pokes you in the back!"
"You are so lucky. You stay far away and follow that traitor named Xu to have fun outside... We, an orphan and a widow, have to bear all the cold eyes and difficulties from our clan for you!"
"..." Luo Guanlin looked at his mother, who was still as fierce and aggressive as ever but whose hair was almost completely white, and could not utter a word of rebuttal for a while.
Mother Luo said, pulling her grandson over: "Open your eyes and look, Ze'er just turned fifteen this year, and is at the age of studying hard, but because of your traitorous father, he is forced to hide and dare not show himself to others!"
The old lady pushed her grandson away and dragged her granddaughter to her: "Look at Xi'er again... She was already old enough to get married, but because of you, she was almost sent to an eighty-year-old old man as a concubine by the clan!"
The eighteen-year-old girl burst into tears. Although her grandmother was good at exaggeration and the man was only fifty, he was still an old man.
Luo Guanlin was furious: "How could they..."
"Why not!" Luo's mother scolded: "This is all your fault!"
"If my mother hadn't tried to stop me, and there were still a few soft-hearted people in the clan, Xi'er would have really been sent away to be a concubine..." Luo's wife Liu shed tears and said, "But within a few days, a group of bandits suddenly came and killed us. The clan was looted and almost everyone was killed by the swords..."
Luo Guanlin's eyes widened: "How could Qingzhou become so chaotic..."
"There is no place that is not in chaos nowadays..." Liu added with tears in her eyes, "After Xu Zhengye's incident, everyone is taking advantage of the chaos to respond."
She was a virtuous and gentle person, and had never complained so far, but this one sentence pierced Luo Guanlin's heart fiercely and firmly, like a circling arrow hitting his heart.
Liu added: "I thought that I could just pay them to get rid of the disaster, but those bandits were not satisfied with just looting everything, and they turned around and wanted to take away the young ladies in the clan!"
In troubled times, everyone has a hard time, and it is even harder for weak women.
Fifteen-year-old Luo Ze said with red eyes and a trembling voice: "The clan refused to comply, and my third uncle and several cousins died under their knives."
Luo Guanlin's feet trembled and his face turned pale.
Liu: "Xi'er and I were kidnapped by those bandits... If it weren't for the people of Governor Chang who arrived in time and rescued us, how would we have the chance to see the master again today?"
Luo Guanlin looked up in astonishment: "Madam, are you saying... that it was Governor Chang who saved you?"
"What else?" Luo's mother took advantage of this gap to regain some strength and continued to curse: "...If it weren't for Governor Chang, we would have met the King of Hell long ago!"
"Inspector Chang not only saved us and our clansmen, he also saved you!" Luo's mother was furious at her lack of resistance and said with tears in her eyes, "Who are you? You are the traitor who deserves to be killed! Inspector Chang risked his life to protect you!"
"You did such a wrong thing, how could you have a chance to turn back? It was Governor Chang who pulled you back from the wrong path. It was your good fortune to meet Governor Chang! Instead of thanking him profusely and working like a slave for him, you stuck your neck out to compete with him... How could I have given birth to such an ungrateful and ungrateful person like you!"
Luo Guanlin frowned: "What on earth did mother hear?"
What were those people talking about on the way to bring his mother here? "I've heard a lot!" Luo's mother put one hand on her waist and waved the other hand outside the hall: "People outside are saying that Governor Chang turned the tide, killed the rebels, and pacified Jiangnan! He is the great benefactor of the entire Huainan Province!"
"Ordinary people know how to be grateful, but what about you? Have you read so much that your books have gone into your donkey's stomach?!"
"Since you are not dead and still have a breath left, hold on and work hard for Governor Chang! Maybe you can find a way out for your clan and there is still a possibility of atonement!"
Luo Guanlin sighed: "Mother, I know what to do about this matter..."
"You know your limits?" Luo's mother seemed shocked: "You have followed Xu Zhengye in rebellion, and you tell me you know your limits?!"
Luo Guanlin: “…”
"You still think it's the past? In the past, you were the one who had the final say in the Luo family, but you have committed such a heinous mistake. It's time for someone with a clear mind to be the head of this family!"
Obviously, the person with a "dry brain" mentioned by Luo's mother was herself.
At this moment, she pulled up her son, whose head was damp and moldy, without saying anything: "Come on, follow me to see Governor Chang now, and apologize and thank him together!"
"Mother!" Luo Guanlin pulled his arm back helplessly, glanced outside the hall, and lowered his voice a bit: "This matter is not as simple as you think... This Chang Suining is really ambitious, just like Xu Zhengye!"
Luo's mother was stunned for a moment, then immediately said, "Isn't that just what you want? Just think that the old will go away and the new will not come!"
"..." Luo Guanlin's eyebrows jumped: "My son doesn't want to take the same wrong road again!"
"You make it sound like you have many options!" Luo's mother said, "If they say to kill Xu Zhengye, then kill him. That means you are much more capable than Xu Zhengye. You were willing to follow Xu Zhengye, so why do you choose someone more capable than him? What's the matter? Do you have a penchant for liking stupid people? You don't want anyone who doesn't look like a loser?"
"Mother..." Luo Guanlin felt a splitting headache after hearing this.
He admitted that he was able to become an imperial censor with his eloquence, thanks in part to the special influence of his mother.
"You dared to do whatever you want when you were wearing shoes, but now that you are barefoot, what are you afraid of!" Luo's mother's eyes became brighter and brighter as she spoke: "And how are Governor Chang and that thief Xu the same? The thief Xu has no reputation for kindness, he is a real rebel, a rat crossing the street! Even if Governor Chang really has some ideas... that is in accordance with the will of heaven and the people!"
These unprincipled words left Luo Guanlin helpless.
"Son, this is not only a way to repay your kindness, but also the last chance for our Luo family to turn things around!" Luo's mother grabbed her son's arm again: "Hurry up and kowtow to your mother and acknowledge her master!"
"Mother!" Luo Guanlin stood there and refused to move, and his voice was much louder this time.
Mother Luo looked at the stubborn donkey that couldn't be pulled aside, and her eyes darkened little by little.
Luo Guanlin, who was extremely confused, did not dare to look his mother in the eye and turned his head to one side.
There was a brief silence in the hall. The atmosphere was tense and no one spoke for a while.
The yard here is not big. Shepherd's Purse and two other female soldiers who were guarding outside the yard pricked up their ears and stared at each other in the night.
Guiqi, who was walking by, also pricked up his ears - why was there no sound? Guiqi, who was restless, was famous for his love of joining in the fun when he was in Xuan Ce's mansion. Now that there was no sound to hear, he raised his horse's hoof and headed towards the courtyard to urge the horse to spur him on.
Shepherd's Purse quickly pulled the horse back - it was impolite to go close to someone to listen to the fun! However, shepherd's purse could not stop the horse from running away in dissatisfaction, but it suddenly stopped, its ears stood up high, and its big eyes like copper bells stared at the direction of the hall.
More lively noises came from the hall one after another, far louder than before.
"Good, good, good..." Luo's mother said three good words in a row, each one heavier than the last. She looked at her son with extreme disappointment and said, "I heard that when Governor Chang found you, you were about to commit suicide... Anyway, if you don't want to repay this kindness, I would have no face to live in this world."
As she spoke, she let go of her son and pulled out a porcelain bottle from her sleeve. "You want to die, don't you? I have some arsenic here. Let's die here together today! If there are kind people who can collect our bodies, it's better than dying in the open without a complete body!"
"Mother!" Luo Guanlin was horrified and reached out to grab the opened porcelain bottle in her hand. As the two of them struggled, medicine powder scattered.
"Madam, please help me stop my mother!"
"My lord, I'll go first..." Liu took out a pair of scissors from her bag, closed her eyes with tears in her eyes, and was about to stab her heart.
Luo Guanlin's eyes were red with anger. At this moment, the porcelain vase in Luo's mother's hand was knocked down, rolled away and broke into pieces. He then ran to his wife, and while trying to stop them, they both stumbled and fell to the ground.
Before Luo Guanlin could breathe a sigh of relief, he turned around and saw his daughter pulling out a ball of white silk from somewhere, crying and stepping on a chair to hang the silk on the beam.
Luo Guanlin's eyes went dark.
Amidst the crying, the daughter tied the white silk carefully, the wife was still struggling, the mother failed to swallow the arsenic and fell to the ground crying, trying to reach out for the scissors that flew out of his wife's hand.
Luo Guanlin could only hug his mother again, but his mother was much stronger than his wife, and he could hardly control her. Seeing that his daughter had tied the white silk, he could only shout, "Zer! Quick, stop your sister!"
In the chaos, the handsome young man remained unmoved. He closed his eyes in despair and sadness, a tear fell, and words from his mouth slowly turned into poetry.
Luo Guanlin was going crazy:...Why write poetry at this time!
Seeing that the white silk was about to be put around his daughter's neck, Luo Guanlin had no choice but to rush forward and grab the scissors, saying urgently: "Zer, be obedient! Help me hold down your grandmother!"
The boy silently looked at his grandmother thrashing on the ground - press? Could he hold her down?
The flying fish, the blown-up donkey, the New Year pig, and the grandmother in front of you...these are the four most irresistible things in life.
Luo Guanlin, who had finally carried his daughter down, watched his mother crawl up and sit up. He looked around, wondering what new way she would come up with to die. His wife then stepped on the chair that his daughter had just stepped on...
Luo Guanlin, who had never felt so helpless before, could only shout weakly: "...Someone come! Someone come quickly!"
He was shouting for help, shouting for himself.
Soon, several women, led by Shepherd's Purse, ran in and quickly took control of the situation.
Luo Guanlin, exhausted, was leaning against the corner of the table. His head was buzzing and he thought he heard the sound of horse hooves. When he turned around, he was facing the face of an excited horse, which was wagging its tail and looking around.
Luo Guanlin: “…”
"... Madam Qinghua, please don't stop me. I am too ashamed to live with a son like this!" Luo's mother, who was sitting on the ground and being held by a woman, cried.
The Qinghua she mentioned was the woman who was holding her at the moment. She was also one of the female soldiers who came to pick her up this time and a capable subordinate of Shepherd's Purse.
Qinghua comforted him at this moment: "Children need to be taught slowly, don't be impatient..."
While Luo's mother was crying, she took the time to look at her son. Seeing that he was silent with his head down, she raised her voice: "I have no face to see Governor Chang!"
As he said this, he suddenly broke free from Qinghua, crawled towards the medicine powder scattered on the ground, grabbed it with his hands, and was about to put it into his mouth.
"Mother! I promise!" Luo Guanlin sighed heavily and said firmly, "I promise you!"
Forget it. Anyway, he has no other choice now.
Three years is three years... After three years, he took his family away!
The chaos died down, and only faint crying sounds remained in the hall. When Luo's mother was helped up, she winked at Shepherd's Purse and Qinghua.
Luo Zewei turned around, faced outside the hall, and breathed a sigh of relief.
The performance is finally over.
This scene was choreographed by his grandmother. His mother and elder sister both had important roles, but his grandmother thought he didn't have enough explosive power to handle the action scenes, so she arranged for him to recite poetry to set the mood.
My grandmother said that as long as the play was performed successfully, they could settle down in Jiangdu and be protected by the governor Chang.
What kind of person was that Governor Chang? It was said that she was only seventeen years old, but she had made many outstanding achievements. Some people also said that she was extraordinary and heroic, and it was difficult to tell whether she was a man or a woman. I guess she must be a very majestic girl?
The next morning, the young Luo Ze got the answer. What he saw was completely different from what he imagined.
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