Chapter 108 Ingenious inheritance(1/2)
On February 15th, the fourth year of Chongning in the Song Dynasty, the first hour of noon, and at 12:50 pm.
When Yue Fei heard the secret of the old man who claimed to be Ou Yezi, he quickly listened with all his attention and did not miss a word.
Ou Yezi said: "Am I Ou Yezi? I will tell you the answer: Yes, not!"
Yue Fei, who was listening to the lecture seriously, was caught off guard, and his floating body sank with a thud.
The little mouth that was opened wide for the comfort of breathing just now was too late to close, and with a "gurgle", a large mouthful of water poured in.
The key is that the things in the water are quite abundant, like delicacies of mountains and seas, including scorpions, geckos, centipedes, etc.
Yue Fei quickly calmed down and held his breath, jumped up and jumped out of the water.
His posture was wonderful and he was tall enough, but unfortunately the space was too small. With a bang, he hit the stone wall on the top and turned back.
Yue Fei learned his mistakes and learned his lesson this time. Even though his head was so bumped that it seemed to be cracked into eight petals, he gritted his teeth and grinned, but he held it back without saying a word.
After a while, all of them stabilized, and he slowly exposed his mouth and nose to the water as usual.
After being able to breathe, he shouted angrily without saying a word: "I said to you, Mr.! You are disrespectful to me, I protest!"
While saying that, he also spitted on the things in his mouth. Although those things could not hurt him, they could bite him and stung him, and their tongues hurt.
Seeing Yue Fei bent down to the ground with a slutty smile, Mo Ye, the little girl who was almost unable to stand firm, also joined in the fun: "Miss, I protested too, and I almost died of laughter. It's all my fault for grandpa!"
Ou Yezi spread his hands innocently: "How can I blame me? I'm just telling the truth."
Yue Fei was still angry and immediately responded: "A simple question, is it Ou Yezi? Yes, no, no, the old man just answered truthfully. How can he be both yes and no? Tell me what you are saying? It's obviously unreasonable."
Mo Ye said: "That's it! Xiao Fei is right, but grandpa is wrong."
It is definitely inappropriate to leave a mark of lies on the two children. Some things have come to the point of being revealed. This suitable time is to find Yue Fei and implement a plan they have planned for a long time. Before that, they have not prepared all the conditions.
"Although you two are young, they are both sensible and good kids. I will tell you a huge secret. After listening to it, you will know that the answer I just told you is the facts, not grandpa, nor is it grandpa, I am a confused person."
As soon as Yue Fei came over, he won Ou Yezi's love, thinking that it would be great if I had such a good grandson?
An urge to recognize his grandson arose in his heart, but he was not thick-skinned enough and was embarrassed.
However, the longer he had contact with this child, the stronger his desire to recognize his grandson. He just happened to call himself grandpa while answering the questions for the two of them.
It’s so wonderful to be a grandfather for a grandson who can be heard and witnessed!
Moreover, he was not afraid that Yue Fei would turn against him. After all, Mo Chou was his granddaughter and he could call himself grandpa to her.
Now it is different from before. It is already the grandfather who speaks to his grandson, and they are all family members. It is natural that he has no worries about revealing the secrets of the family.
When he explained, he added a little more details, for fear that his grandson would not understand, and his attitude was more kind and he could not scare the children.
"But, you can't blame you, because the secrets involving the older generation, no one can know if I don't reveal them.
"Say it again, I am Ou Yezi, not Ou Yezi, or I can also say that I am Ou Yezi who is not Ou Yezi.
"I tell you with the experience of an old man that only when I said this just now can you be impressed and happier after you understand.
"I am Ou Yezi, for two reasons, I will tell you too.
"The first reason is that I am the contemporary head of the Ou Yezi family.
"This is our family tradition, and the person who was introduced was called Ou Yezi.
"What is the reason? Because this is the rule for naming family members at that time, and doing this was the most formal way at that time.
"By the way, you younger generations, probably don't know the naming conventions of our era. They are very particular, and they are related to professions, official positions, place names, etc.
"There are all kinds of situations, so I won't tell you more about the naming method that has nothing to do with my family.
"What is related to my name is that Ou Yezi is divided into two parts, one is Ou, one is surname, and one is Yezi, one is name.
"Ou is a surname passed down from his ancestors. When he was the first generation of Ou Yezi, he didn't know how many years have passed.
"And the era of the first generation of Ou Yezi was the Spring and Autumn Period, which should be the early or mid-term of the Spring and Autumn Period.
"How do you know it? That is related to King Goujian of Yue, because Goujian was one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the last hegemon.
"The hundreds of princes at that time were absolutely lively. The title of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period passed down by later generations may have different meanings from those at that time.
"That bully was the 'Bo' at that time, and it means the eldest among brothers, which is extended to be the eldest among social relations and interpersonal interactions.
"What is the boss? Even if everyone else is convinced by him, he dare not show off his anger in front of him.
"At that time, if people are convinced, there is one trick that is to be able to fight, and those little brothers are all beaten to death.
"You can't accept it if you don't accept it. If you don't accept it, you will beat it until you are beaten.
"I'm not convinced? It's better to do it, be beaten to death! I'm worried that I'll kill the chicken to warn the monkey without that chicken.
"Grandpa tells you, the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period are different from the Seven Hegemons of the Warring States Period later.
"What's different? During the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, those younger brothers could not even be younger brothers, and could only be subordinates of one of the seven kingdoms.
"So during the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, there were countless princes who ruled by themselves, and when the Seven Hegemons did not rule by themselves, there were only seven states left.
"That is to say, all other vassal states that still existed in the Spring and Autumn Period were annexed, and this annexation did not stop. In the end, the seven kingdoms returned to Qin and were unified by Qin Shihuang.
"In fact, this type of five hegemons and seven kingdoms is not all related to our Ou Yezi family. My family is only closely related to Goujian, the King of Yue, one of the five hegemons.
"Why? Because whether Goujian slept with firewood and tasted gall to take revenge and overthrew the Wu Kingdom, or later dominated the various princes of the Central Plains and became a temporary hegemony, it was the result of the strong support of our Ou Yezi family.
"In other words, without the help of the Ou Yezi family's high-quality weapons, Goujian could not succeed alone, let alone revenge or save his life.
"It was not accidental that the rise of the Ou Yezi family and the rise of King Goujian of Yue took place at the same period.
"Ou Yezi of that era specially cast a sword for King Goujian of Yue, with the unique bird seal engraved with the inscription "Jiuqian, the sword of King Goujian". Among them, Jiuqian is the two phony borrowed characters of Goujian's name.
"This sword was loved by Goujian. He never left his body since then. He used it to kill the enemy many times to protect Goujian's life.
"At the same time, Goujian also realized its quality, which was significantly higher than the smelting level of other princes at that time.
"In an era of war, the superiority of weapons is an unparalleled advantage.
"So, Goujian raised Ou Yezi's smelting technology to the status of a national treasure, and strictly protected it to prevent leakage.
"Goujian's slept with firewood and tasted gallbladder and the support of the Ou Yezi family's smelting technology made the Yue State's army more powerful. All the princes retreated in front of the Yue State's military, including the powerful Qin people at that time.
"As a result, Ou Yezi's family was highly valued and respected. Ou Yezi's name was originally Ou Yezi, and like Confucius' name, Confucius was Teacher Kong, and Ou Yezi became the smelting master. This was very rare in a society where the concept of esteemed and inferiority was already present.
"The original meaning of the ancestor Ou is Ou, from the original meaning of this word, it is a verb, which means "beating", which means hitting the smelted thing. So in short, the name Ou Yezi is "creating the smelting master".
"Since the founding of this profession, every generation of successors was called Ou Yezi, which means they were called 'Building Smelting Master' to lead the descendants to inherit the skills of their predecessors in order to popularize and pass on this ancestral technology.
"What grandpa told you, in fact, this method is not only for my Ou family, but for many families with a long history, such as Chen Tuan, you know Xiaofei, and the flat hair.
"On the contrary, many of the skills that do not have such family traditions have been lost because their descendants do not retain the ability to retain these skills, and they have no descendants anymore. After all, the skills of a family are inseparable from survival, so skills are the foundation for defending the family. Without skills, they can only be beaten.
"Also, any skill can be continuously improved on the original basis to meet the application needs of future generations. For example, the four-edged sword that I Ou Yezi showed you before is a new weapon that integrates offense and defense. It is my creation. It not only integrates all the skills inherited by the Ou family, but also has my innovations added. This thing is not a bragging for my grandfather. It is the achievement of my Ou Yezi!
"Well, I'll tell you in detail after you finish the soaking.
"From this perspective, I have surpassed Ou Yezi, my predecessor, and even better than the first ancestor. He is a descendant of my Ou family's smelting tradition. Therefore, I am a new generation Ou Yezi who is higher than Ou Yezi.
"So, it is a fact that it is higher than Ou Yezi, and it is irrefutable. I said I am not Ou Yezi, is that right?
"Because those older generation Ou Yezi are not as good as me.
"But, the name Grandpa is passed down from his ancestors.
"I am proficient in all the things from my ancestors, so it's okay for me to say I am Ou Yezi, right?
"So, at the beginning, I said it wasn't Ou Yezi, isn't that exactly?"
After the old man's words, Mochou kept nodding like a chicken pecking at rice.
In fact, she doesn't care much about this kind of thing. Just convince Yue Fei, it's easy to do it.
Yue Fei listened very carefully. On the one hand, he was satisfied with the baby's curiosity, and on the other hand, there was a huge amount of information inside.
He has thought a lot about his future. What kind of political system will he become in the future, including what kind of scientific and technological system, have many things that have not been determined so far, and needs to concentrate all the outstanding achievements accumulated since ancient times, including talents and skills.
One of the essential ones is advanced smelting technology, which is what Mr. Ou Yezi did. Is there anything he has been thinking about in this thing that he has not spread and is unknown to future generations?
One unsolved problem he never forgets is the multi-functional spear. It is probably not a big deal for Ou Yezi to combine the pickaxe and the iron shovel together.
Inviting him to go out of the cave and go down the mountain to preside over this research should be a great thing for people to make the best use of it, right?
After turning around countless circles in my heart, I asked Ou Yezi: "Grandpa, the story you told is really nice! However, Xiaofei has something unknown, that is the inheritance, and I think you are vague. Since the family smelting tradition began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there are many secrets, so how did the inheritance between the two generations proceed? How did the descendants know that they had already received all the inheritances?"
Ou Yezi pondered for a moment: she blurted out her praise: "Xiao Fei is smart!"
Because he felt that Yue Fei’s question was on the point, Mo Xie could not ask such a question.
However, he did not immediately report this issue. He was thinking about whether to tell Yue Fei another top secret.
However, considering that Yue Fei passed the test before and other procedures that he had to go through later, this secret seemed to have to be known to Yue Fei.
Ou Yezi made a quick decision and told Yue Fei about this core family secret.
"Xiaofei, you asked well. This matter is related to the top secret of my family. No one can know except the family heirs. Even the family members are like this, let alone outsiders."
When Yue Fei heard this, he knew that he had touched the taboos of the Ou Yezi family and said embarrassedly: "Thank you, the old man, for telling me that since it is a family secret, don't tell me, right?"
Ou Yezi really hesitated for a moment, but still felt that he could only do this: "There is another big thing later. You need to know this family secret, so I will tell you.
"As for Mo Yezi, she is the only direct descendant of the Ou Yezi family, so you should listen, even if it is a little earlier.
To be continued...