This birthday banquet is quite grand.

After all, this is Old Man Ye's 80th birthday, to put it mildly but objectively, even if this old man survives this injury outbreak, it is unlikely that he will live to the next ten years old, this may be the last birthday of the old man.

Early in the morning on the day of the birthday banquet, the Ye family was busy, and the old Si Ye Lan was busy in the house, preparing for the guests who were about to come to the door, and the little grandfather Ye Mao was not idle, following Ye Lan to prepare things.

And Li Xin, Marquis of Jing'an, also took his family to Chen Guogong's mansion early in the morning to help, and after taking the eldest princess and her youngest son to meet Old Man Ye in the small courtyard, the eldest princess went to the backyard to talk to the female relatives of the Ye family, leaving only Li Xin to hold Li Ping and stay in this small courtyard to accompany Ye Sheng.

The little guy and Ye Sheng are very close to each other.

Li Xin's youngest son is a little afraid of life, on weekdays at home, except for Li Xin and his wife, Zhong Xiaoxiao, and his sister Ahan, as long as others hug him, he will cry, but at this time, he is held in the arms of the old man Ye, this little doll actually doesn't cry or make trouble, only opens his big eyes, looking at the old man in front of him with white hair and beard.

Ye Sheng is a Qiu Ba born, a typical reckless man, in his heart, he feels that children are annoying, and he will not take children, when his four sons were born, he did not hug much, only hugged his grandson Ye Mao, but at this time he was drooping, looking at the boy in his arms who had just been born for a few months, he actually gave birth to a rare peace of mind in his heart.

This is the peace that he has not found in the 40 years since he returned to Beijing and has been living in the mansion for more than 20 years.

Xiao Li Ping stretched out his hand curiously and grabbed the beard of the old man in front of him.

Old man Ye is eighty years old this year, the beard on his chin has become more and more thin, and he can't do anything about the only dozens of beards left on weekdays, but he was caught in his hand by Li Ping at this time, he was not annoyed, but just touched the little guy's face with a smile.

"Your father doesn't dare to grab the old man's beard, since you dare, it seems that your kid is even bolder than your father."

Li Xin, who was sitting next to him, said with a smile when he heard this: "Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, this doll doesn't know how powerful your old man is now, when he grows up and hears the story of Master Ye, he may be scared in front of you." ”

Ye Sheng patted Xiao Li Ping's back and slowly exhaled.

"At that time, the old man was no longer there."

The Marquis of Jing'an coughed.

"On a good day, Master Ye shouldn't say such bad things."

Old man Ye smiled dumbly.

"I don't know how many people have secretly cursed me to death for decades, if it is useful to speak, the old man will have no bones left at this time."

Speaking of this, he glanced at Li Xin and asked, "What about your Master Wang, didn't you say yesterday that I was going to come with you today, why didn't you see me?" ”

Li Xin frowned and said, "I was notified yesterday, I don't know why, I haven't come here yet." ”

Old man Ye nodded and didn't speak.

The master and apprentice were talking in the courtyard, the courtyard door was pushed open with a squeak, and the little grandfather Ye Mao walked in, knelt directly in front of Ye Sheng, kowtowed, and said, "Grandpa, a few cousins from Ningling are here, and they want to come in and kowtow to your old man." ”

Old man Ye's birthday, although it is very solemn, most of the people invited are relatives and friends, as well as some old ones.

The Ningling Ye family also sent someone over.

Ye Sheng didn't jump out of a stone, he was born in an ordinary farming family in Ningling, and the farmers of this era have a characteristic, that is, as long as they can eat enough, they will definitely die and have a baby.

Old man Ye only survived four brothers, and three sisters, and there were countless other brothers and sisters who died young and did not support them.

Originally, after Ye Sheng's career, these "relatives" could all become the foundation of the Ye family, so that the Ye family in the capital would quickly become a big family, and it would not be like now, with less than ten people in three generations combined.

But when Ye Sheng returned to Beijing from the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he was in an awkward situation, so he could keep a low profile, and it was impossible for him to pull a big family out with great fanfare.

Besides, the people of Ningling's hometown have never seen the world, even if Ye Sheng carries them to the family in the capital, they may not be able to bear this blessing, and they may even cause trouble.

It's better to be like now, although there are not many members of the Ye family, they are all characters, and there are no unseemly people coming out.

Even so, the Ye family is called an upstart by outsiders.

Because Ye Sheng has a great reputation in Dajin, his hometown Ningling is even more proud of him, and began to build a shrine for him decades ago.

With this prestige, the Ye family in Ningling can be regarded as getting rid of the hard life in the past, plus the imperial court has given them a lot of land, this Ye family can also be regarded as the landlord of Ningling, they are also quite sensible, and they don't dare to come to the capital to disturb Ye Sheng, only during the New Year's holiday, the nephews of the old man Ye will send a representative to come to the capital to send some hometown specialties to the old man Ye, and then kowtow to the old man.

Every year, Ye Sheng receives these local specialties.

Ye Sheng is the third in the family, he is eighty years old this year, his brothers have all died, and now there are not many nephews left, this time he came to the capital to pay tribute to the old man's birthday, it is no longer his nephew, but his nephew.

Hearing that it was someone from Ningling's hometown, Ye Sheng's expression moved slightly, and finally nodded: "Let them come in." ”

Ye Mao nodded, turned around and brought people in.

This old man is a person who misses his hometown very much.

He has not been able to return to Ningling once for more than 40 years, but he still remembers his homeland in his heart.

Last year, when he was just sick, he told his little grandfather Ye Mao that when he died in the future, he would return to his homeland and be buried in his hometown in Ningling.

Li Xin took his youngest son from Old Man Ye's hand, and said with a smile: "Disciple avoids avoidance? ”

"I don't need to."

Ye Sheng coughed and said, "It's all my own people." ”

After a while, Ye Mao led two people who looked to be in their thirties and walked in, these two people had darker skin than ordinary people, and they looked like farming households, but they didn't dress like ordinary farmers.

After the two of them came to the courtyard, they didn't dare to raise their heads, knelt directly in front of Ye Sheng, kowtowed, and said, "Ye Chong, Ye Yong, the big house of the Ye family, kowtow to the third grandfather." ”

They are all the grandsons of Ye Sheng's eldest brother, and as for Ye Sheng's eldest brother, he has been dead for more than forty years.

Ye Sheng coughed and bothered himself to sit up from the recliner, Li Xin sensed that he was a little struggling, and immediately stretched out a hand and helped Ye Sheng.

Old man Ye finally sat up, he looked at the two young people kneeling on the ground, and after being silent for a while, he spoke, "What about your father?" ”

Ye Chong, who was the leader, knelt down and kowtowed: "Back to the third grandfather, my father was sick last year, and he was sick in bed at this time, so he couldn't come to kowtow to the third grandfather, so he could only ask his nephew to wait for ......."

Their line is the main vein of the Ye family in Ningling, so they also came to the Ye family to kowtow to Ye Sheng before.

Old Man Ye was silent for a while, and finally sighed slowly.

"Get up."

"It's hard for you to come so far to see the old man,"