1031:Every man's abacus (7)
The wife put down the bowl at a loss and muttered with a blank expression.
"Let's go?"
Meng Heng let out a long sigh, and his wide palm wrapped his wife's hands in it.
His hands were warm and dry, but it made his wife's heart settle down a lot.
"Cangzhou is not a place to stay for a long time, I have dissuaded my father several times, let him take the initiative to admit defeat, so that he can protect the people of Cangzhou from the suffering of war - it's just-" The corners of Meng Heng's mouth flashed with a faint bitterness, "There are no more people in my father's eyes, and Cangzhou will inevitably be affected by the war." Only Huang Song can say that Cangzhou may not be afraid of him, but with Cousin Xi, Cangzhou has no chance of winning-"
The wife pursed her lips tightly, her eyes a little blank about the future.
"Cousin Xi, I often hear you mention her, since you are related, why can't you speak calmly?"
Meng Heng smiled bitterly, he stroked his wife's hair with one hand, and sighed faintly.
"How can it be so simple, Zhao Di - don't say it's just cousins, even if they are blood relatives, this relationship is vulnerable in front of the world. Meng Heng said, "Father's insistence on going his own way will inevitably bring disaster to the people of Cangzhou, and the lives of people will be ruined." ”
If the Cangzhou Meng clan still has the ancestral legacy, how could Meng Heng persuade his father to give in to others?
Now the Meng clan has lost the hearts of the people and will not be able to go for long.
The wife turned around and brought her own dowry, and the bottom layer of the dowry hid the only savings in the family.
"But it's only thirty taels - where can we go when there are soldiers and horses outside?"
Meng Heng looked at the broken silver, and then looked at his wife's cautious posture, his chest couldn't help twitching, and he felt pain for a while.
He suppressed his emotions and said in a low voice, "Spend fifteen taels to replenish your body and protect the tire, and the remaining fifteen taels will be used to prepare carriages and horses, dry food and water bladders, and we will go to Hanchangguan." Out of Hanchang Pass, go straight to Hede County on the border of Haozhou and Cangzhou. We're going to settle there for the time being—"
His wife's eyes widened suddenly, and her hands holding the dowry trembled.
"Lang Jun, isn't there a war going on in that place?"
"It's because there's a war there, that's why we're going there. We don't have much savings at home, and we can't support Hejian County, let alone Maruzhou and Chongzhou. Meng Heng said, "Huang Song formed an alliance with Cousin Xi to help Cousin Xi delay the Meng family's soldiers and horses. At this time, the war in Northern Xinjiang is over, and Huang Song is afraid that he will not be able to sit still, so he will inevitably write to Cousin Xi for help. We don't have to go far, we just have to wait in Hattershire. ”
His wife was at a loss in her heart, but she had always been docile and obedient, and Meng Heng was what she said.
Looking at his wife's slightly convex lower abdomen, Meng Heng's expression was abrupt.
If it weren't for the fact that Cangzhou had no one to entrust, and he didn't want to take his wife through the war zone, the risk was too great.
Although Meng Heng is the only son under Meng Zhan's knees, his position in the Meng family is very embarrassing, and he is not even as good as the favored side branch concubine.
In the early years, Elder Meng took care of him.
As time went by, Meng Zhan's suppression of him became heavier and heavier, and when the Meng clan elders saw this, they also thought about changing their heirs.
Meng Heng's wife should theoretically be the wife of the Meng clan.
However, Meng Zhan was too lazy to do anything for him, so that Meng Heng didn't get married until he was twenty-three, but the Meng elder couldn't stand it and took the initiative to help him Zhang Luo. Marriage is marriage, but the wife's background is very delicate-the daughter of the side branch of the down-and-out clan-
This statement is not bad, to put it mildly, his wife is only the butcher's daughter.
The scholars are also divided into three, six, nine and so on.
The illustrious scholars can manipulate the situation, and the down-and-out scholars are not as good as the ordinary people, except for an ancestor who can handle it, there is almost nothing left. Meng Heng's wife was born in a side branch of the down-and-out clan, and his grandfather put down his reserve and became a butcher in order to make a living.
If it weren't for the genealogy, the wife's family would be no different from ordinary people.
Meng Heng did not look down on his wife's background, but it was undeniable that this family affair was indeed a humiliation by the Meng family.
Meng Heng endured all of this.
Looking back now, he feels guilty.
No matter what happened before, Zhao Di is already his wife, and she has the responsibility and obligation to let her live well, but what is the result?
Fortunately, it's not too late to wake up.
Meng Zhan is not a good father, but he can't be a husband and father without a sense of responsibility.
The couple lives in a remote area, and there is nothing at home, so it is not difficult to put it away.
Meng Heng personally drove his wife out of Meng County, Cangzhou, and the husband and wife had already arrived at the border of Meng County, and Meng Zhan knew the news.
The subordinates waited tremblingly, for fear of Meng Zhan's thunderous wrath.
"You say—he left Meng County with that lowly woman and headed towards Hanchang Pass?" Meng Zhan asked with a sneer.
The subordinate was sweating in his heart, and said worriedly, "Yes-do you need your subordinates to send someone to chase Da Langjun back?"
Meng Zhan glanced at his subordinates coldly, and his eyes were full of warnings.
"When, when will it be your turn to help me make a decision?" Meng Zhan snorted and said ruthlessly, "Since he doesn't recognize me as a father, I should also have no son of his, and send someone to talk to the elders - open the ancestral hall and remove him from the name-"
The subordinate's eyes widened in astonishment.
No matter what, Meng Heng is still the son of the sect, throughout the ages, how can there be a reason to remove the son of the sect from the genealogy?
Meng Zhan saw his thoughts, and said with a sneer, "Zongzi, look at his butcher husband and wife who can't be on the stage, the Meng clan's clan wife can let this kind of woman be the one? Since he abandoned the Meng clan, he will abandon it—by the way, send someone to chase him, and by the way, help me bring a word—don't come back if you leave the Meng clan, he is not the son of the Meng clan, and he is not qualified to have the surname Meng, and even the surname has been changed." ”
The subordinate said, "Oh!"
For the sake of safety, Meng Heng tried to pick a big road as much as possible, and in order to take care of his wife, the carriage was also slow.
There were only three days left before Hanchang Pass, and the pursuers sent by the Meng clan caught up with Meng Heng and brought Meng Zhan's message by the way.
Meng Heng listened with a pale face, and his lips were bloodless.
The left eyelid, which should have healed, faintly felt a tingling pain, and the scenery in front of him flickered and disappeared, and he almost couldn't stand steadily.
"Da Lang-kun - you might as well go back and give in to the patriarch - where is the overnight feud between father and son. ”
The subordinates looked at Meng Heng's bloodless face, and they felt a little unbearable.
Meng Heng's talent rests among his peers, and it is second to none.
If any family had such a good descendant, they would have been so happy that they would have lost their eyes, but they would have been strange since the head of the family.
Meng Zhan not only did not feel proud and honored, but was ashamed of Meng Heng, scolded him every three or five times, and suppressed him everywhere.
Where is this father and son, it is clearly an enemy!
"There is no overnight feud between father and son—but what if it's not father and son?" Meng Heng smiled bitterly, holding back the tears welling up in his eyes, and said dismally, "Let me kowtow to him again...... More than 20 years of nurturing grace, if there is an opportunity, I will definitely repay it one by one!"
Meng Heng knelt down in the direction of Meng County in Cangzhou, and knocked his head three times, his forehead was blue.
The subordinate looked at Meng Heng who staggered to his feet and sighed in his heart.
"Da Langjun, there is more than war ahead, for the sake of safety, you should change your route. ”
Meng Heng said, "No—life and death are fate—"