Last time, I said that the grandmother of the Fan family cried bitterly in front of her sister-in-law Fan. Now let's talk about this grandmother: her maiden surname is Qiang, she is a bachelor of Hanlin in the Northern Song Dynasty, a descendant of Qiantang Qiang Yuanming, a family of poetry, calligraphy, literature and education; although her mother's identity is not obvious, she has a real aunt who married into the mansion of Qi Guo, because the eldest son of Qi Guogong died of a sudden illness at the age of 38, and the second son was a concubine, so her uncle of Xingsan took the title, so she often walked around in the home of the powerful in the capital when she was a child. Later, she married into the Fan family, although her husband Fan Chengyan did not have much talent, but he was a very honest and sincere person, and his uncles, brothers, sons and nephews were no longer disrespectful, and they were also deeply valued by her father-in-law Fan Taosheng. Qiang's self-married, offering filial piety, treating virtue to the next, more than 20 years of love and harmony between husband and wife, three sons and one daughter are all outstanding, in the eyes of others is the most enviable figure. Before Fan's departure from the cabinet, because of his father's foreign appointment, he lived with his grandparents and uncles for a few years, in fact, this sister-in-law really took care of and taught. Therefore, the sister-in-law is unusual, and she has always been close. This time, Fan Taosheng Zhishi, Fan heard that his brother and sister-in-law took care of the follow-up chores in Beijing, so he came to his parents to fulfill his filial piety, so he followed her husband Gu Chong and Gu Wenling to visit. I didn't want my aunt and sister-in-law to see each other, so I felt that Qiang's description was different, and he forced a smile, and his body size was much lower than when he saw him a few years ago. After the meal, everyone retreated, and the two had a quiet place to talk, and this Grandma Fan finally couldn't help it and cried in front of her. Fan panicked and asked why. Qiang whimpered, and finally said that he was sad about his daughter Fan Shuwen's marriage.

When Fan heard this, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and said: "Didn't the marriage of the niece and nephew be decided many years ago? Now that the three-year filial piety period has passed early, counting the time, it should be married within this year. My sister-in-law can't bear her daughter, and she doesn't have to be sad so much?"

Grandma Fan cried: "Why is it not what my aunt said? If it is a serious and good family, I will cherish my daughter no matter how much I love it, and it will not be like this." But who would have thought that the Plains Hou Mansion would be a tiger's den and a wolf's den! How could I watch your brother and I fall into the fire pit and even push her with one hand? But it was easy to drag her back, but the girl's reputation was ruined. She is only twenty years old this year, and she will be trapped in the boudoir for the rest of her life. Thinking about it, I was blushing with wealth and bent on marrying her to the Houmen of the Gongfu, but I didn't expect to ruin her life! How can I not cry?"

Fan was even more frightened, and hurriedly asked what happened to him. Qiang's family cried and cried, and it took a long time to say a rough idea: It turned out that the Fan and Jiang families really had an inside story. At the beginning, Fan Chengge was appointed to Fuzhou, as an official and a meticulous director, and it happened that the prefect committed a crime with bribes and gave it to the supervision envoy, so the court ordered Fan Chenggao to be promoted from Tongzhi to prefect. He knew that he was mediocre, and he was more and more attentive in his work, digging ditches and dams, opening mountains and opening up fields, and he had to personally inspect and supervise strictly; he also traveled all over the county and township, and visited the livelihood of the people. Unexpectedly, after another year's heavy rain on the Ganjiang River, Fan Chengge was worried about the water situation, and accidentally fell into the embankment during the search. Although some people rushed to rescue him, he had already injured his left leg, and then his party was trapped by the torrential rain, and in order to persuade the local villagers to leave the dangerous place quickly, he dragged his injured leg from house to house. When the flood peak passed and the people were safe, he went back to Fucheng to treat his injuries, but he had already become disabled and could no longer be better. In this way, Fan Chengyan had to ask the court to resign. The imperial court read his merits and allowed him to resign, but the emperor specially gave him the birth of the second son, who was still studying; his father, Fan Taosheng, was also promoted from the criminal department to be a waiter, and in March, he was transferred to the general political envoy. Therefore, Fan Chengqian returned to Beijing from Fuzhou, and there were many people who tended to worship him. It is just that his only daughter Fan Shuwen is about to come to Jilu again, and there are many families who ask to marry. Fan Taosheng originally intended that his grandson-in-law would still be born in a scholar's family, so he thought that he would wait for the next meeting to finish the big competition and then choose and decide. It's just that Fan Chengyan thinks that he is already disabled, his father has a spring and autumn season, and he doesn't know how many years there are still in the court, although the three sons are all adults, but their talents and virtues are still limited; I don't want this Qiang family to be virtuous, but after all, the mother is heartfelt, and she is not happy that her daughter will marry someone but have to endure hardships, so she hit it off at that time, and turned her head to visit her aunt Qiang Taijun in the Qi State Mansion.

It's just that Qiang Taijun has been too lazy to move since her husband died, and she doesn't like to go out, and she doesn't even see many juniors among relatives. Now that her niece begged, she didn't have an idea of her own, so she asked her sister-in-law Chen, who was married to the Duke of Xuguo, to help. However, although there are many children in the families of the princes and nobles in the capital, there is no one of the same age who has been married in the past two years. The old aunt and sister-in-law were worried, and suddenly heard that the young lady who the Pingyuan Hou family had said to the second grandson died of a sudden illness two months ago, and was about to find a new in-law, so they hurriedly went to the door to say. Pingyuan Hou heard that she was the granddaughter of Fan Taosheng, the general political envoy, with a good family background and a similar age, so he immediately thanked the sisters of Chen and Shi, the two old relatives, and turned his head and ordered someone to propose marriage to the Fan family. Although Fan Taosheng never liked to associate with these people known as the "Eight Princes", the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law had already made up their minds, so they had to go with Fan Chengyan and his wife.

When Grandma Fan said this, she cried to Fan: "Back then, it was the two of us who were blinded by lard, and our four eyeballs were all pasted, so I couldn't have imagined that my father would deal with people all his life, and he would be in the capital for decades, and he couldn't see things more clearly." My father didn't look down on the Jiang family, and we still thought that he disdained to be in-laws with a military general; I didn't expect that the Hou Mansion Jiangmen was different from our kind of scholar family - the children in the family didn't pay attention to studying, but the important thing was that there was no real rule to control it. The first two generations can still remember that their ancestors had a difficult time starting a business, the title of merit was not easy to come by, and the words and actions were still measured, and people knew how to be motivated; That Jiang Zi'an is the great-grandson of the first old Pingyuan Hou, the second son in the long house, raised in the Pingyuan Hou Lady's room since he was a child, and he is so pampered that he is lawless. When he grows up, he doesn't want to take charge of the housework, and he doesn't want to study to seek a career, everything is blocked by his grandfather and brother, and protected by his grandmother and mother. Your brother and I hurriedly settled on the family affairs, and I was also a little uneasy, and I always felt that it was too coincidental, so your brother paid attention to it and went out to see. When I saw that it was such a person, it was too late to say that I regretted it, and I was only relieved that I was still a teenager after all, and my blood was jumping; I waited another three or five years, and when I was old, it would be good to settle down my temperament. told the Jiang family that we were working outside before, and Wen'er followed her grandparents in Jingzhong, and now she is reluctant to be a parent, so she will stay for an extra year, and then go out after she is sixteen years old. ”

When Fan Shi heard this, he nodded and said, "Although it is only one year more, then Jiang Zi'an was seventeen or eight years old at that time? This man performed the crown ceremony, and he really became a new year, which is really different. The eldest brother and sister-in-law do this, which is reasonable, and it is also a parent's heart. ”

Qiang was comforted by her, although his face was gloomy, he smiled a little, but then his face turned sad again. He said, "Sister, this is comforting me." It is said that 'the country is easy to change, but the temperament is difficult to move', it is the sludge that cannot be carved on the wall, and the rotten wood that cannot be carved, so give him dozens or hundreds of years, and the bad things are still the same bad things. As you know, that year, Mrs. Pingyuan Hou died of a sudden illness, and within six months, Pingyuan Hou Jiang Hong himself died of illness. The Jiang family came over and said that although he was not the eldest grandson of the heir, he was the most loved by his grandparents among the younger generations, and he insisted on keeping it for three years. Since he said this, we naturally have no reason not to agree, and thinking that Wen'er's body is not very strong, we can take advantage of this time to carefully recuperate, and it will be good to pass through the door in the future. But who would have thought that brute would say something nice and beautiful, but what could be done, where did people do it!"

Seeing that she was getting angrier and angrier the more she talked, Fan blushed as if she could drip blood, so he hugged her in a panic and poured cold tea for her to eat. Qiang was comforted by her, and it was easy to stabilize his mind, and he gasped for a long time next to the pillow, and then slowly told the Fan family about Jiang Zi'an's behavior: Although Jiang Zi'an swore to keep filial piety for his grandmother and grandfather for three years, he was also sincere at that time, but he was originally a prodigal character, where could he endure the quiet? Just because when his grandparents were there, these people didn't care, no matter which one he looked at, he just opened his mouth to ask for it, and he still did so at this time, without the slightest scruples. I didn't want his sister-in-law to get tired of this brother for a long time, and there was a concubine of Jiang Zining, who was charming and charming, and she was used to provoking fire and making trouble, which made her very disliked, so she set up a random bureau and arrested him and this concubine. The concubine was naturally beaten to death with a stick, and Jiang Zi'an asked his brother to be sent to a remote courtyard in the city to live temporarily, only saying that he wanted to keep filial piety, participate in Buddhism and copy scriptures, and pray for his grandparents. Jiang Zi'an learned a lesson, but he also gave birth for three or four months. But in response to the old saying that "the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change", he was honest outside for a few months, and when he saw that his father and brother were angry at home, he didn't care much about him every day, and the money sent by his sister-in-law every month was the same as usual, so he became proud again. First of all, he quietly got one or two fans and little guys to eat and sing songs in the courtyard, and gradually began to invite his group of fox friends and dog friends to eat and drink together, and then it was a blatant gambling game, a group of people shouted five and six to drink, men and women regardless of day and night, making the original clean courtyard, and since then it has become a filthy pond and filthy nest, which is so filthy that it is unbearable to witness and hear. It wasn't until someone gambled and lost his eyes red, and there was a drunk provoking trouble and fighting, causing a life lawsuit, alarming the Jingsi Yamen, and a chain tied up the twenty or thirty people, and his brother Jiang Zining escorted him back to the house with a black face and strictly guarded him, which was considered a complete peace.

Fan Shi listened to his sister-in-law all the way, only his face turned pale with shock, and his hand was holding his chest, but he still felt that his heart was fluttering and seemed to jump out. After staying for a long time, he reluctantly smiled: "Sure enough, it's unscrupulous, so people can't imagine it." But his sister-in-law and niece have been waiting for him for many years, and the marriage between the Fan and Jiang families is also known to everyone. Although this thing is not good, the Jiang family can cover it up outside. And after all, he still has parents, brothers and sisters-in-law, and he has a lot of discipline for him—"

Before Fan said anything here, Qiang's eyes were already blood-red, and he laughed sharply: "Discipline? Where is there any discipline in his family? If there is really discipline, will there be such a grandfather and grandmother who protects his grandson without rules and evidence, and there is Lao Tzu Niang who does not ask how to connive at his son? If there is discipline, will there be an elder brother who lets his brother like this, and a sister-in-law who frames his uncle like this? And you don't know...... You don't know...... It's a shame that my aunt still recognizes me as a nephew's daughter, and it's even more a shame that her sister-in-law, Chen Taijun of the Duke of Xuguo, has not exhausted her conscience - she went to Xia to get sick, I went to visit, and after the room was full of people, she took my hand and said that she had hurt Miss Wen, and told me to go home immediately and make up my mind with your brother. It turned out that Jiang Zi'an had already suffered from such unspeakable dirty diseases! His family tried so hard to cover it up, and handled it so cleanly inside and out, in fact, he wanted to hide it from the Fan family, and he wanted to trick us into marrying Wen'er quickly so that he could cover up his family's shame!"