Carrying Best, Lingping returned to the village safely.
At the entrance of the village, he met the old village chief who was rushing back with a load of grapes.
"Uncle Zhang..." He immediately stepped forward with a smile.
"Young Master..." When the old village chief saw Lingpingan, he immediately became happy: "You are back..."
Lingpingan said: "Uncle Zhang, I told you... there is no need to bother..."
"I can just pick the grapes myself when I come back..."
The old village chief smiled honestly and said, "Young master, how dare I let you do such rough work in the mountains?"
"Besides...you are not familiar with this mountain..."
This made Lingpingan stunned when he heard this.
That’s right too…
He rarely comes back, and if there are no road signs, he might not even know how to get back to the village.
So, he said: "Uncle Zhang... let me choose..."
He said he would take over the other person's burden.
The other party immediately shook his head: "Young Master, just let me pick him at home..."
Lingpingan looked helpless.
Although, it is already the information age.
However, there are still a lot of feudal remnants left over from the Federal Empire.
Fortunately...
The new generation of young people have all grown up.
The knowledge and vision of young people living in the mobile Internet era are not comparable to those in the past.
With these thoughts in mind, Lingpingan heard the old village chief say: "Young Master, it just so happened that the two boys from my family came back today..."
"Wait a minute, I'll tell them to come see you..."
Lingpingan's face changed drastically, and he immediately waved his hands and said: "It's no need to meet..."
"Uncle Zhang..." He said earnestly: "Now, it is already the 1940s of the twenty-eighth century of the Republic Era..."
"Those old tricks, let them go..."
Lingpingan still remembers the scene when he was a child, when he went home with his parents, and several elderly people came to the door with their whole family.
When meeting someone, he bows, pays homage with a big salute, and calls him "little master".
He didn't understand it as a child, so he just accepted it.
Now that he has grown up, it is really difficult for him to accept that there are still such feudal remnants in the new era.
Moreover…
Even in the feudal era, weren't there the old kings who flew into the homes of ordinary people
The Lao Ling family no longer lived in the village decades ago.
It no longer provides any protection to the old subordinates and subordinates in the village as it did in the past.
Since they have not taken responsibility, then, even according to the rules of the feudal era, these old people have every reason to refuse allegiance!
This is a tradition that started two thousand years ago.
Han Xin repaid his kindness with a thousand gold coins.
This is because, in ancient times, eating the emperor's salary was a matter of loyalty to the emperor.
To eat your food, I have to sacrifice my life for you. Han Xin didn't want to sacrifice his life, and he didn't want to be whipped by public opinion, so he had no choice but to compensate him with thousands of gold!
Therefore, neither emotion nor reason, nor Lingpingan, can accept it.
After all, if he accepts this model.
According to tradition, obligations and responsibilities are also assumed.
What duties and responsibilities
Protect, shelter and provide privileges to your subjects.
In this modern era, this basically means that he has to take on the responsibility of finding jobs for these families, arranging marriage partners, and educating their children.
Does he have such ability
No!
Even if there were, would he be willing to do it
Refuses.
If you have the time and effort, it’s better to play more games and write a few chapters of novels.
However, the old village chief said with a smile: "Young Master, what you said is wrong..."
"The Zhang family salutes the Ling family..."
"This is a two-hundred-year-old tradition..."
"You can't destroy this tradition!"
Just as Lingpingan was about to say more, the old village chief was already carrying grapes and walking towards the Ling family's ancestral home.
As he walked, he said to Lingpingan: "You don't need to persuade me about this matter!"
"By the way..." He seemed to have remembered something: "Young Master, I just told Luyuan Company..."
"The contract for your more than two hundred acres of land will not be renewed next year..."
"This matter should be completed in the next two days..."
"That's it..." he asked: "What are your plans after these lands are no longer leased to Luyuan?"
"You have to do as I say..."
"You might as well plant these lands yourself..."
"My boys will take care of it here for you..."
"The money you make every year is guaranteed to be several times more than renting it out!"
Listening to this, Lingpingan felt dizzy.
This going around and around, isn’t it just going back to the past pattern
The Ling family is the landlord and the master.
Then a shoulder raised the hopes of several families.
But the problem is that this past production relationship and production model went bankrupt more than a hundred years ago.
Rapid industrialization destroyed all old production relations and social models.
Landlord
How many steam engines does the landlord have
So, he smiled and replied: "Uncle Zhang... I don't want to be in so much trouble..."
Only about two hundred acres of land...
The annual output benefit is worth millions.
After deducting labor, water, electricity and input, how much is left
"You can find a company for me and rent it out..."
"Actually... if you want..." Lingpingan said, "Then I'll rent it to you..."
"Just the original price..."
Anyway, the profits from those lands are donated.
Donate to the fixed 'Federal Empire Nature Conservation Foundation' for ecological environment protection and management.
When the old village chief listened, he knew that he could not persuade the young master.
He sighed inwardly.
But there was still an honest smile on his face: "Young Master, in this case, I won't advise you..."
"It's just that you must meet my boys..."
The establishment and reaffirmation of relationships between each generation is important.
Its importance is even higher than life!
Especially for his family, this is even more true!
Lingshi is more than just a lord!
It’s also where faith lies!
However, this little master has always resisted such a thing.
If it weren't for his ancestor's instructions, he would have taken his children and ran to the city to pay homage.
Thinking of this, in order to increase his persuasiveness, the old village chief said seriously: "This is not just my request..."
"That's what Lord Baoguo meant..."
"Please don't refuse!"
Lingpingan listened, pursed his lips, shook his head and sighed: "Uncle Zhang..."
"I'm not as great as my ancestors!"
According to what Lingpingan's parents told him.
The old village chief's house was the nursing home of the Ling family a long time ago.
It's the kind of person in the movie who stands guard with a knife handle on the high wall of the landlord's house.
When the ancestor of Lingpingan joined the army and went to the liberation battlefield of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, the children of the Zhang family, Hu family and other families also went with him.
Except for Lingbao, everyone else will rest forever on the top of the mountain in the New Qinling Mountains.
But the problem is that the ancestor of Lingpingan is a hero!
Heroes have their own integrity, so they can be followed by everyone.
Who is he
He's just an otaku who just wants to hang out and wait for death, and win as an equal.
If you don't succeed in writing or martial arts, you can even mess up a bookstore business.
What qualifications do you have to compare with your heroic ancestors
but…
After all, he still failed to defeat the old village chief.
He could only agree with a wry smile.
There was no other way, the other party had already brought out their ancestors, and the ancestors of his family all died fighting for the ancestor of the Ling family.
Without their sacrifices, where would there be spiritual peace now
You must know that the Lao Ling family is a single generation of nine generations!
"I can only hope that the children in Uncle Zhang's family will all be young people of the new era..."
Lingpingan thought.
He is very confident about this.
Not to mention the era of mobile Internet, even in the past era of electrified television, traditional relationships were completely destroyed by modernization.
To be honest, the Ling family has been able to maintain an extremely close superior-subordinate, master-servant relationship with the Zhang family, Wang family, and Hu family for more than two hundred years.
Truly a miracle!
You know, even the palace ministers and palace guards of the royal family have been replaced countless times.
While talking, the two of them arrived in front of the ancestral house.
Lingpingan opened the courtyard door and walked in.
In the courtyard, someone was already waiting there.
"Young Master..." Uncle Wang stepped forward and bowed in greeting.
"Young Master..." The tall and trembling old woman, leaning on a cane, also bowed.
"Grandma Hu..." Lingpingan looked at the old woman and quickly walked over to help the old woman.
This old lady from the Hu family must be invited when Lingpingan comes back to worship her ancestors every year.
The reason is simple - he doesn't know how to worship ancestors.
Those hexagrams, rituals, blessings...
He didn't understand anything.
The old woman looked at Lingpingan, and the wrinkles on her face immediately became kind.
She smiled and said: "The little master has grown up!"
Lingpingan didn't quite understand: "Grandma, I have grown up a long time ago..."
"Have you forgotten?"
"You presided over my crowning ceremony!"
The tradition of the Federal Empire is for eighteen-year-old men to receive a crown.
This was an important ritual in the past!
Almost all adult men must hold a crowning ceremony and then ask their elders or teachers to give them the inscription, which indicates that they have reached adulthood and can survive independently and shoulder the important responsibilities of the country and the world.
With modernization, this tradition declined.
But with the development of the times, this tradition was revived a few decades ago.
The young people of the federal empire, whether in the city or in the countryside, whether at home or overseas.
The importance of the adult crowning ceremony is highlighted again.
This is a product of the republican 'retro cultural movement' and is also a sign that the emerging urban middle class is beginning to miss the past.
The flag is also very bright.
Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan were carried out.
Lingpingan was no exception. He caught up with the fashion and went home specially to ask Grandma Hu, who knew the tradition, to give him a crowning ceremony.
Since then, Lingpingan has never wanted to touch those traditional etiquette and rituals again!
Too much trouble!
A crowning ceremony that lasted a whole day...
A group of people gathered around, just like watching monkeys.
That is to say, that matter was something he requested on his own initiative.
He had to finish what he decided on his knees, otherwise he would have run away long ago.
The old woman listened and smiled: "Young Master, my memory is bad, so I have forgotten this matter!"
But her eyes lit up extremely brightly.
Kitten Best poked her head out of Lingpingan's arms.
His eyes reflected the appearance of the old woman in front of him.
One…
Two…
Three…
…
The nine furry tails were reflected in the shadow of the old woman on the ground.
Qingqiu nine-tailed fox!
Best instantly became nervous.
because…
This is the King of Foxes!
The ancient legend flashed in the mind of the Cat Goddess: "If the king cultivates his knowledge and the three talents are obtained, then the nine-tailed fox will arrive!"
In ancient times, the nine-tailed fox was one of the holy beasts that stood at the top!
But the problem is, isn’t the nine-tailed fox already extinct