Chapter 982

"Hey..."

Meng Huo shoveled soil on the root of the tree and stepped on it with his feet.

"That's what you do on vacation?" Shen Jie is looking at him strangely. They are standing on a small hillside, surrounded by some newly planted trees. Who knows why Meng Huo wants trees here in winter? Can he ensure that these trees can survive?

Meng Huo held up his shovel and looked back at Shen Jie: "otherwise? What am I going to do? "

He didn't have a holiday for several years. It was only during this holiday that he found out how boring his life was. He was so bored that he didn't know what to do except comics and work. He was bored to death by sleeping and chatting a few days ago. He couldn't think of planting trees for a moment.

As for whether winter is suitable for planting trees, he doesn't care.

Shen Jie covered her head: "shopping, sports, watching movies... All of these are OK? Why plant trees? "

"There are too many people on the new year street. I want to be quiet. As for sports and movies..." Meng Huo took a breath of the slightly cold air. The smell of plants is clear and audible. He said, "I want to feel the pure taste of nature. This is the rest."

Shen Jie can understand this. People who are busy at work often have a special love for nature, and in this kind of suburb, people's mood will also relax and become spacious. Many cartoonists like to go out on outings to find inspiration. That's why.

However, if you want to relax, just go straight out and climb the mountain. No one will plant trees like Meng Huo. Shen Jie still can't understand the definition of rest in his heart. But it's not important, although I can't understand it, it's good for Shen Jie to be with him.

"Why are you following me today?" When planting trees, Meng Huo asked Shen Jie, "why don't you talk to Alice and the old lady?"

Shen Jie handed him a bottle of water, shook his head and said, "when they are together, I can't pick up the topic."

"No way." Meng Huo drank the water and said in surprise, "I think you have a good chat together."

"That's how you feel." "They try to take care of me when I'm there, but I think they can have a better chat when I'm not there - Alice and the old lady always talk more than me," she said with a smile

Some things can't be changed. After all, Shen Jie and Alice have different backgrounds and different views. Alice and the old lady have more common topics than her. Shen Jiemin is aware of this and will choose to avoid them when necessary.

Moreover, in terms of the time spent with the old lady, she has more advantages than Alice. Alice and the old lady have just known each other for a few days, and they need to get in touch and get to know each other. Shen Jie doesn't mind giving her the chance.

"Well, the old lady told us to go back early today, right?" Meng Huo asked.

"Well, if you plant a few more trees, we'll have to go back." Shen Jie said with a smile, Meng Huo drank a few water, stood up again, rolled up his sleeve and said, "let's work hard and finish the work. We won't come tomorrow."

In the twinkling of an eye, two thirds of the holiday has passed, and the rest of the day is only two days. They are going to visit Buddha with Li Qin, and they will not be free to plant trees in the next two days.

Meng Huo started to plant all the trees, washed his hands in the stream by the mountain, and went back to the foot of the mountain with Shen Jie, where the car he just bought was parked. This is the mountain area managed by the Meng family, but they didn't follow anyone else.

Alice and they didn't worry at all. Even if they met tigers, Meng Huo's skills would not be in crisis.

"Where are you going to put this car?" On the way, Meng Huo asks Shen Jie that he has told Shen Jie to give the car to her. Shen Jie didn't refuse. She would never accept it before, but now she and Meng Huo don't care about it any more. It's not strange for her boyfriend to give a gift to her girlfriend.

"I think it's better to drive it back to Ninghai!" Shen Jie thought about it, and then said, "sometimes I can use it when I go back to Ninghai. I dare not use Alice's red Porsche."

Alice doesn't mind giving her car to Shen Jie, but Ninghai's red Porsche is so well-known that the whole Phoenix company knows who it belongs to, so it's not convenient for Shen Jie or Meng Huo to use it.

However, Alice's silver Porsche in Suhua is rarely used. Few people know that Meng Huo and Shen Jie can also use it. Considering these two points, Shen Jie thinks it's better to drive this xiayage back to Ninghai, so that she can have her own means of transportation on both sides.

Meng Huo has no opinion about this. When they got back to Meng's home, it was very early. Alice was chatting with the old lady, while Li Qin was happily busy cooking in the kitchen - she had something to do all day, and Meng Huo envied her."I'll help aunt Qin." Shen Jie said to Meng Huo. Just as she was about to go to the kitchen, the old lady saw them come in. She turned her head and said, "Shen Jie, please call Li Qin. Don't be busy cooking. I'll take you to a place."

Shen Jie was stunned, but she nodded and went to the kitchen to call Li Qin.

"Where are you going?" Meng Huo asked strangely, looking at Alice - but the blonde also looked puzzled, and didn't seem to know the news from the old lady in advance.

"Don't worry, it's in this yard. Don't go out." The old lady looked at Meng Huo and said with a smile, "I just want you to see something."

Things, what do you need to see together?

Meng Huo soon got the answer. They followed the old lady to a room that looked very old. It was full of all kinds of ancient books and documents, and some Buddha statues. But they were very clean and spotless.

"Let me look for it... It seems to be here..." the old lady carefully took out a yellow book from the bookcase. It was very thick and looked very historical: "this is the family tree of the Meng family."

The old lady put the book on the table. Meng Huo and others were stunned. They didn't know what she suddenly took out the genealogy to do. However, when the old lady made a move, they were still curious.

"Are all the people of the Meng family recorded here?"

Meng Huo asked.

"Well, this genealogy records the changes of the Meng family from the Han Dynasty to the present, but strictly speaking, it's not a general genealogy, it's just a branch genealogy." The old lady opened the book in half, looked in it and said, "this is it, Mr. Zhaoming. This is our ancestor. It's more than 400 years ago."

Meng Huo's eyes looked in the past. As expected, from the ancestor of the word "Zhaoming", this genealogy recorded the descendants under his name, and Zhaoming's brothers and others should be included in other genealogies.

"Zhaominggong is a fortune teller." The old lady suddenly said, startled Meng Huo: "fortune teller?"

"Yes, it's amazing." The old lady said with a smile, and then sighed: "the Duke of Zhaoming never counted his life for his family, until he died, he left a sermon. He said that as long as we don't follow a scholar, our family will prosper. Once someone follows a scholar, it will bring glory to our family in a short time, but in a long time, it will reduce the number of people. "

Li Qin and others looked at each other: "and then someone from the scholar?"

"Yes." The old lady sighed: "about two hundred years ago, when the country began to modernize and everyone wanted to give their strength for the change, the men of the Meng family forgot the explanation of the old patriarch and were proud of being a scholar."

That's a dividing point of change. In the 200 years before that, the number of men in the Meng family who came from zhaominggong alone was as high as 100. In the 200 years after that, the blood of the Meng family began to decline sharply. Until today, only Meng Huo is left in the younger generation.

The Mencius also created brilliance, and many powerful figures appeared in their ancestors, which also brought great glory. With the rapid decrease of the number of men, their power and wealth are concentrated in the present Meng family.

The four men were as like as two peas.

"Our genealogy hasn't moved for decades." The old lady turned to the last page of the record and said, "the latest registration was a few years ago. At that time, I just found Meng Huo. I wrote it down by myself..."

She pointed to the last two names on it, on which the names of Li Qin and Meng Huo were resolutely written. Although Meng Huo didn't say that he would come back, the old lady had written him down.

"My name..." and Li Qin was also moved. She found that she had already written her down when she didn't know the old lady. This means that the old lady admitted her before she knew her.

But Meng Huo frowned slightly: "is that what you want us to see?" He doesn't think it's good-looking, but isn't it expected? Is it difficult for the old lady to name him and Li Qin from above?

"Of course not. I mainly want Alice and Shen Jie to see it today." The old lady began to laugh. Then she set the direction of the genealogy to Alice and Shen Jie and said, "look at the last 100 years. Have you found anything strange?"

The two women doubtfully follow the 100 year history of the Mencius. The genealogy is not only a record of people's names and kinship, but also records the important events of each ancestor's life, which is very detailed.

But Alice looked over it and didn't find anything unusual."What's so strange about this hundred years?" She asked strangely. The old lady laughed and looked at Shen Jie: "Shen Jie, do you remember the history of high school? We should have a deep understanding of modern history. When was the modern marriage law promulgated

"It's like 150 years ago..." Shen Jie said. Then she looked down at the genealogy and said in surprise, "no, why do some people have several wives in these 150 years?"

She understood why the old lady had come up with a genealogy. After the marriage law and monogamy were enacted in China, there were still more than one spouse recorded in the Meng family genealogy several times. The most recent one was Meng Huo's great grandfather.

"Old lady, you mean..."

Alice looked at the old lady in astonishment. Her hint was too obvious.

"State owned laws, family rules, my family does not value that card." The old lady nodded and said, "as long as you like, you can be my daughter-in-law if you come into my house - you don't need that certificate."

"This... But... This is illegal..." Shen Jie wavered a little.

"There's nothing illegal. The state doesn't stipulate that three people can't be together. It just stipulates that only two people can get a license." The old lady said with a smile: "the marriage certificate is just a form. It's not important to my family. My family holds weddings according to the old custom. In the past, the ancients didn't look at such things at all. As long as they came together and paid homage to their parents, they were husband and wife. "

Meng Huo suddenly shakes. He understands that the old lady is helping him to pacify Shen Jie! Li Qin was stunned and thought that sure enough, Jiang was still old and spicy. The old lady was serious and could not find any excuse to refute.

Alice and Shen Jie can't come back.

"Do you know a man named Jiang Tianshi?" At this time, the old lady revealed another story: "he has two mothers, who are known as the right-wing members of the Chiang Kai Shek clique. This is an open secret in the financial sector. And it's better than Mr. Jiang going out to have fun and having an illegitimate child. "

"No!" Meng Huo was startled: "I haven't heard of him."

"Of course he won't say it." The old lady glared at Meng Huo. The child didn't cooperate at all: "how can this kind of thing be spread? Maybe an unmarried woman you know is actually Jiang Tianshi's mother and one of Jiang's wives."

Meng Huo was silly. He immediately found it in his head. Did he really know Jiang Tianshi's mother?

Alice now fully understood the meaning of the old lady's "my family is big enough" - the Meng family can treat her and Shen Jie equally, regardless of their height, while the legal marriage certificate has no real significance in the Meng family.

The women recorded in the genealogy are obviously recognized as members of the Meng family. Since there were precedents in the past, it's no surprise that they will reappear now. If Alice and Shen Jie are recorded in the future, the future generations will regard them as the same.

"You can also see the records of great grandfather Meng Huo." The old lady said to Alice again, "I think his experience will reassure you."

The girls look at the genealogy again. This time, Li Qin is also very curious. She soon found out the reason why the old lady said this. Meng Huo's great grandfather had two wives. What's more, Meng Huo's one was handed down by his later wife.

The child born to the first wife died in the war, while the one who inherited the Meng family was the child of the second wife. He regarded the two mothers as his own mothers and was always filial.

If according to the provisions of the marriage law, the blood inheritance of the Meng family has long been interrupted. The old lady wanted to tell Alice and Shen Jie that there was no dispute between them and that the children they gave birth to would be treated equally.

Alice and Shen Jie look at each other. They are a little happy for some reason.

It's the best gift they get on holiday