Text: Chapter 11: The Ancestral House
Ding Zhaoding and his son walked on the way home. To be honest, Ding Yi is a little afraid of his father, and he is a bit of a taciturn father, and he usually teaches Ding Yi a lesson. Ding Yi didn't expect his father to come to pick him up from work, and he didn't expect his father to buy his favorite snacks.
Ding Yi was a little moved, but he didn't expect his father to have such an emotional side.
"How do you know these things of management?" As a junior supervisor who is also a management officer, Ding Zhaoding is very strange. The son has no teacher, has the management talent to dominate, and the management of the workshop of thirty or forty people, the achievement has surpassed himself, which is simply incredible.
"It's nothing, it's just that when I first started working, when I moved those parts, I found that I couldn't keep up with my physical strength, so I wondered if I could make myself less strenuous to work, but I didn't expect that the miscellaneous books I read before really helped a lot this time. I didn't expect that I would be approved by Steward Xu later, and I didn't expect that Steward Xu would appoint me as an overseer, and by the way, Steward Xu also promised to give me ten silver dollars a month. Ding Yi proudly expressed his credit to his father.
"It's good that you have talent for it, but as a newcomer you still have a lot to learn and pay attention to. Although Ding Zhaoding failed to suffer from Ding Yi, he wasted his efforts to temper Ding Yi at the beginning. But seeing Ding Yi's miraculous performance, he is also a little proud, that parent will not feel honored for their children to get ahead? So he also told his son some of his experiences and experiences in the workplace one by one, and also pointed out some taboos committed by Ding Yi.
Although I don't know how much my son can listen to, as a veteran who has been in the workplace for more than 20 years, Ding Zhaoding is still very pleased to be able to discuss with his son in his own professional field.
Ding Yi was holding the snack bag, and Ding Zhaoding was holding the box that Duoduo gave to Ding Yi, and the two talked happily, and from time to time Ding Yi stuffed the passion chicken fillet into his father's mouth, which was a happy scene.
Turning Xianglan Street, Ding Zhaoding did not turn around with his son to go home to Laotong Street, but walked straight towards Guangyuan Street. Ding Yi secretly felt bad in his heart, although he had greeted Hu Lao in advance in the morning, but a lie is a lie after all, and there are some details that still can't stand scrutiny.
Although the medicinal powder bought at noon was not thrown away, and the Ding family's situation categorically did not throw the medicinal powder worth a silver dollar into the garbage heap, but it was not put on their bodies, but hidden in the brick and stone pile next to a roast restaurant at the front door. I thought it would be taken out after work, but I didn't expect my dad to come.
Unexpectedly, when the two were talking very harmoniously, Dad still didn't forget the silver dollar in the morning.
"Dad, we're on the wrong track," Ding Yi said deliberately.
"Buy some fruit today, don't you like to eat pineapples the most," Ding Zhaoding remained silent.
Ding Yi's cold sweat couldn't help but break out.
"Dad, let's go home quickly, I don't want to eat pineapple today, I have this" Pretending to be innocent, Ding Yi shook the passion chicken fillet in his hand.
"It's okay, I'm happy today, I also want to eat pineapples, our family hasn't bought fruit for a long time, and Ding Yun also loves pineapples." Ding Zhaoding said with a smile.
What to do, this is not a trivial matter, in case of goofs, the consequences can be serious. Just when Ding Yi was racking his brains to figure out a way, Hu Que walked out of the alley next to him with a firewood chicken and appeared in front of them.
Hu Que and Ding Li have been friends for many years, and the elders have known each other, Ding Zhaoding shouted "Hu Que", Hu Que stood still, turned around and saw Ding Zhaoding father and son, and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello. Ding Yi was in a hurry, like five thunderbolts.
"Hu Que, is your grandfather okay? I heard that he has been coughing very badly recently, does it matter?" asked Ding Zhaoding.
"No, grandpa has been in good health recently, I didn't hear him cough. You remember wrong. Where are you going, are you going to my house?" said Hu Que with a smile.
Ding Zhaoding squinted at Ding Yi, and Ding Yi only felt that his scalp was numb for a while.
Ding Zhaoding and Hu Que were talking, but the focus was on his son, Ding Yi was under a lot of pressure, and he only felt that he couldn't breathe.
Goofs, how good is this. Ding Yi's brain was spinning rapidly.
"Brother Hu Que, I suddenly remembered a very important matter, I want to go to a place with my father, and I won't go to your house today. Ding Yi decided to confess to his father.
"It's all here, it's a few steps home, Uncle Ding hasn't been here for a long time, why do you have to drink saliva. Ding Li came back from vacation, and I haven't had time to go yet. Hu Que greeted warmly.
"Xiaohu, Xiaoyi is right, there is really such a thing, next time, next time I go to your house, Ding Li is back from vacation, and you often come over to play, although you are not studying together now, the friendship between classmates is still there, don't be too angry." Ding Zhaoding said.
Hu Que nodded yes, and chatted a few more words before saying goodbye to Ding Zhaoding's father and son.
Walking back to the way home, Ding Zhaoding walked silently without saying a word, waiting for his son to tell him the truth of the matter. Ding Zhaoding still chooses to believe his son, although his son is naughty, he should not do illegal things like stealing property. Ding Zhaoding is still confident in his own education of his children.
After considering the language, Ding Yi decided to tell his father selectively. Of course, he couldn't tell his father about stealing books, but he just told his father that he went to buy medicine at the request of a certain cultivator, and as for which cultivator Ding Yi said that he couldn't tell his father, and he couldn't even tell him about the medicine powder he bought there and who bought it.
As for why the cultivator chose Ding Yi to do this errand, Ding Yi said that he didn't know.
After making a big circle, I returned to the front door, took out the medicinal powder from the pile of bricks and stones next to the roast hall, and handed it to my father.
Ding Zhaoding took the medicine powder expressionlessly, and walked east with his son without saying a word. Ding Yi didn't dare to ask why his father didn't blame him, and went east, which was not the direction of home.
Both of them walked silently, each thinking about their own thoughts. Ding Yi's words came to his lips several times, but he still didn't dare to speak.
Passing through the central square of the city, he stood for a moment in front of the municipal building next to the Crown Flower Park, and continued until he reached the noble residential area of the eastern city, where he stopped in front of an antique courtyard.
Ding Yi didn't know what it meant for his father to bring him here. Although I have a lot of strange ideas in my head. But when his father brought him to this noble residential area in the east of the city, Ding Yi still felt inexplicable.
There are two bright red characters on a huge yellow stone 'Mu Yuan', and on the low white fence are strange shapes of strange spirit beast statues, and the bright ochre red is imprinted into the eye through the fence. In the distance, the red bricks and green tiles in the sunset, the odd-shaped trees decorated into various shapes, the deserted swing frame, and the white jade path......
Ding Yi looked at the mansion curiously, not knowing why his father brought him here. The father still didn't say a word, and stood silently. Ding Yi looked at his father and didn't dare to speak. Another rhapsody in my head. Am I not my father's child, this is my home? No, I look very similar to my father. And my mother's kindness to herself is definitely not pretended. Could this be my father's outer room? Not to mention that my father's monthly salary of less than ten silver dollars a month could not buy such a mansion, let alone raise a woman. Could it be that his father is a little white face who has been pasted upside down? However, with his father's stinky farts character, Ding Yi seriously doubts his own judgment.
There was a sadness in his father's eyes, and Ding Yi quickly felt it. The huge crown trees next to the courtyard hang down in wisps, and the golden qionghua exudes a good fragrance. But in the evening of this beautiful scenery, Ding Yi felt his father's incomparably heavy sorrow.
"Remember this place, this was once the ancestral house of our Ding family, and our Ding family lived here before your grandfather's generation. "My father said earnestly, "Over the past eight hundred years, the Ding family, as a native of Jiyun City, has produced a prime minister, four scholars, and dozens of cabinet ministers. The genealogy of the Ding family can be traced back more than 1,300 years. ”
"Isn't it true that cultivators can be great officials?" Ding Yi asked.
"In the past, the cultivation realm and our secular realm did not interfere with each other, and the people of the cultivation realm begged for their immortality and ascended to the heavenly realm. We worldly mortals, live our worldly life. Irrelevant. The rise of the empire changed the day and changed the world. "My father was very sad to remember the past history.
"Cultivators are the masters of this land, who doesn't want to have the qualifications to cultivate the truth? But this land is secular land after all, and most of us are still ordinary mortals. Father's tone grew cold.
"That's a good thing to say, what is feeding mortals, is it really feeding mortals?Xiaoyi, do you know how many mortals there were in the empire at the beginning of the empire?" asked Ding Zhaoding.
"Eighty-seven thousand-nine million! Hundreds of millions of mortals were killed at the beginning of the empire, and the entire country of the Heavenly Wind Country and the Hanhai Country, regardless of gender, young and old, high or low, were all wiped out. Ding Zhaoding said hatefully.
"There are ants under the cultivators, and the cultivators have never really taken care of us ants. What are we? It's just pigs and sheep in captivity! Do you know the Yellow Wind Desert? It's the far west, the so-called birthplace of the empire, the sea of death of a hundred thousand miles of yellow sand. How long do you guess it will take for the empire to change the living environment there?"
"It's only been half a year, and it's now the famous granary of the Empire. If cultivators really want to be good for mortals, why don't they go about transforming so many poor mountains and bad waters? It's just a matter of effort for them, but no one will do that. On the contrary, they also created a lot of extremely harsh and harsh environments, and now no one remembers the Futong Plain, which was once famous in the entire ancient Chu country, where Futong apples, Futong bite plums (a local plum, extinct) once swept the mainland. And now it has become a colorful swamp, a land of poison. Tens of millions of people who once lived there are now the mouths of venomous snakes and crocodiles. ”
"Demon Abyss, what real demons are there? They all created it, it used to be the capital of Qi in history, Tiandu. The metropolis that used to be the most populous on the surface has now become a ghost, artificially cracked open the earth by those cultivators to create a Jedi Abyss, and ghosts are rampant.
Cultivators are extremely selfish people, they have no humanity, they don't talk about family affection, they are human, and they are humanoid demons with no moral bottom line. ”
"My son, you are still young, what you see and hear is limited after all, and many truths are covered up. Do you think that the history books you read describe the real history? You have been very smart since you were a child, smarter than your brothers and sisters, and as parents, of course we are proud and proud of you. However, gradually you became obsessed with Xiuzhen, and to be honest, your mother and I did not worry or be afraid for a day. ”
"It's very likely that you're just like me, you don't have any cultivation qualifications, and there has never been a so-called cultivation qualification in our family's nearly eight hundred history. But you have been obsessed with cultivating truth since you were a child, and I am really afraid that you will go astray, do you know why I brought you here today? I let you take a good look at this place and let you remember everything here. I'm also going to tell you some stories about your grandfather, and I hope you'll hear them. ”