Chapter 4: Cheekiness
Zhao Mo is a child of the clan, although he has lived in Liaodong for many years, he is not completely ignorant of the affairs of the capital. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info He had heard that the third master of the Qin family had been missing since he was exiled to the northwest, and there has been no news in the past thirty years, and many people thought that he had died in the northwest with Yongjiahou.
If Qin Bai had ever returned to the capital, then why did he leave again? Even if he turned against his brother, he still had family and sister? Could it be that Empress Qin had already passed away at that time and could not take care of him? But there was no Empress Qin, and there was also the Holy Lord and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. It is rumored that before the saint fell into trouble, he loved this brother-in-law very much. Qin Bai and his father and brother were exiled to the border city for the sake of the saint, suffered for several years, and finally returned to the capital, and even Qin Song, who was not on good terms with the Empress of Qin, was rewarded, there is no reason why Qin Bai will be forgotten instead, and he has been allowed to live in the northwest for thirty years, ignoring him.
Is there any reason in this that outsiders don't know?
Zhao Mo asked Qin Hanzhen: "When did the third uncle and grandfather return to the capital? Why did no one mention it in Beijing? My cousin just said that he also went to worship the queen mother at that time, could it be after the death of the queen mother?"
Qin Hanzhen replied: "I heard my grandfather and grandmother say that when they arrived in the capital, the queen mother was still alive. My grandfather and grandmother originally wanted to send my great-grandfather's coffin back to their hometown, and when they passed through the capital, they went back to their home, and by the way, they asked my grandmother to kowtow to my great-grandmother's spirit. ”
Mrs. Niu is a TJ person. After his death, Qin Bai accompanied the Niu clan to send the spirit back to his hometown. At that time, they were not married, and Niu took Mama Hu, who had not yet left the cabinet - her name was Vanilla at the time - and several domestic servants, and invited the dart master of Suide Prefecture to escort her, and sent Mrs. Niu's coffin back to TJ's hometown for burial. When passing through the capital, Qin Bai must be going home. He was also very stunned when he was suddenly left behind by his brother, but his father-in-law was seriously ill, and he couldn't leave, and he couldn't think about it. Now that I'm back at home, I must ask my brother to understand.
Niu had a heavy filial piety at that time, and considering that he had not yet passed the door, he did not accompany him. Qin Bai couldn't tell what happened when she went home, but she just remembered that she was going to scold her eldest uncle Qin Song for being ungrateful, ruthless and unrighteous...... And so on.
Qin Hanzhen heard some clues from Mama Hu, and knew that Qin Bai went home that time, Qin Song said something very unkind and kicked him out of the house. At that time, the two little servants of Jin Xiang and Mohu, who had just returned to the Hou Mansion after returning from exile, faced the cold face of the head of the family, Qin Song, and the down-and-out old master Qin Bai, chose a different future: Jin Xiang stayed in the Hou Mansion as a slave, and was regarded as a betrayer by Mo Hu from then on; Mo Hu abandoned the Hou Mansion and followed Qin Bai to the northwest, Qin Bai and Niu felt his loyalty, regarded him as a confidant for the rest of his life, and promised him vanilla as his wife.
Qin Hanzhen said to Zhao Mo: "I once wanted to ask my grandfather what happened back then, but he just refused to say. My grandmother told me privately that he was also very angry at the time, but thinking that there was still a funeral for his great-grandfather, the weather was getting hotter and hotter...... He thought that he would accompany my grandmother to TJ to finish the funeral of his great-grandfather, and then go back to the capital to find Cheng Enhou to understand. He also wants to ask to see his sister and brother-in-law, and wants to see his little nephew who has never met......"
But...... Qin Bai was very unlucky, when he returned to the capital for the first time, he didn't hear from anyone that Empress Qin was seriously ill. Qin Song only said that everything was fine in the palace, and the mother and son would only have wealth and honor in the future. And Mo Hu has only returned to the Hou Mansion not long ago, and he is also unclear about the news in the palace. Although it was rumored that the queen and the crown prince were not in good health, Qin Song said that they were fine, so Qin Bai didn't think much about it. By the time he returned from TJ, Empress Qin had already died, and there was a lot of silence in Beijing.
Qin Bai seems to have been sad and sad about his negligence back then. If he had stayed in the capital for two more days and asked relatives and friends to inquire about Empress Qin, he might have known that she was seriously ill. He also thought about going to Qin Song to ask what was going on, and then enter the palace to mourn his sister, but for some reason, after going out for a long time, he suddenly came back and said to the Niu family that he would no longer contact relatives and friends, just as if they had never returned to the capital. Niu asked him why, but he was silent, and only after a while did he say that because of his negligence, he could not send his sister on the last journey, which made her disappointed and sad before she died. He felt that he had no face to see the saint and the crown prince, and would rather they die in the northwest.
Qin Bai and the Niu family rented a house in the capital and lived until the funeral of Empress Qin. During this period, Qin Bai took the Niu clan to worship the graves of his parents. On the day of Empress Qin's funeral, they followed to the vicinity of the imperial mausoleum and bowed to Empress Qin's coffin palace from afar.
When this matter was over, Qin Bai returned to Mizhi with Niu's family, and never mentioned returning to the capital again. Now, if it weren't for the resurrection of his eldest son from the dead, the Marquis of Cheng En's order to invite the Golden Elephant himself, and the rumors that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was in poor health, which made him worried, Qin Bai probably wouldn't have decided to embark on the road back to his hometown.
After listening to this, Zhao Mo sighed. If Qin Bai exiled himself because of guilt and refused to return to Beijing for thirty years, this punishment would be too heavy. Speaking of which, it was completely Qin Song's disobedience, driving away his brother, and concealing the queen's illness first, Qin Bai missed the queen's last journey. If Qin Bai is at fault, most of this fault has to be attributed to Qin Song's head, but he has taken all the responsibility off, which is too much. Could it be that just because he didn't see the queen for the last time, he left the rest of his family behind? Zhao Mo could only say that this third uncle and grandfather were really too gentlemanly, even to the point of being a little pedantic.
There was just one point, Zhao Mo was puzzled: "Why did Cheng Enhou want to drive away his brother? At the time when the queen was seriously ill, the third uncle and grandfather were able to return to Beijing and see her for the last time. What the hell is all this for?!"
Regarding this, Qin Hanzhen felt a little embarrassed: "Actually...... My grandfather didn't mention it, but my grandmother did. She discussed it privately with Mama Hu, suspecting that it might be that Cheng Enhou was afraid that my grandfather's return would ruin his marriage to Mrs. Xu......"
Zhao Mo was stunned.
Qin Hanzhen smiled dryly: "Coincidentally, when my grandfather returned to Beijing, he was just in time for Cheng Enhou to marry Xu, and the days were just a few days away. In addition, my grandfather had not married my grandmother at that time, so Cheng Enhou may have thought too much...... It is not easy for him to get married. Because there is the filial piety of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother in the front, and the queen mother in the back is very sick. In case he hasn't gotten married, the queen will ...... What's the matter, you must not be able to do happy events during the national mourning period, and the filial piety of other countries is in the body, and it will take at least a year to marry the Xu family. Maybe he was not young at the time, so he was a little anxious...... Later, his wedding went on as usual, and the queen died the day after Mrs. Xu returned to the house. It can be said that if there is something in the middle of it, and it is delayed for two or three days, Cheng Enhou's wedding will not be completed. That's probably why he drove my grandfather out when he saw him, right?"
Mrs. Ye also died before the Qin family was rehabilitated, and it was a coincidence that it was exactly a month after Yongjiahou's death. It's just that the husband and wife died in two places, and their families and friends didn't know about it. Qin Bai also learned of his mother's death from the mouth of the eunuch who delivered the decree when he learned of the will of rehabilitation.
After Mrs. Ye and her daughters returned to their hometown of Jiangning, life was quite hard. Originally, she had placed a sacrificial field for the family in her early years, and the Qin clan had a large population, so she returned to live in the ancestral house, although she was a female dependent, with the help of the clansmen, and the land subsidy, life would not be sad. However, at that time, almost everyone believed that the crown prince and the crown princess had no hope of turning over, so they regarded the Qin family as a beast of prey, and avoided it. Even the people of the Qin clan deliberately alienated the female dependents of the Yongjia Marquis' Mansion. Among them, there are even people from the Xiao clan, under the pretext that in their room, except for Mrs. Ye, who is the daughter-in-law of the serious Qin family, the others are all concubines, and they cannot be genealogized, not the Qin family, and deduct the money and food they deserve in this room. Mrs. Ye had to take her daughters and rely on selling needles and threads to survive, and finally died of illness.
At that time, the people who returned to their hometowns, except for Mrs. Ye, the Xue family was picked up by the Xue family, so they completely broke off contact with the Qin family, and ignored the plight of the Qin family's daughters. Aunt Fu is honest and dependent on Mrs. Ye's life. There is also Qin Huai, a concubine surnamed Zhang, who was pregnant, and actually kept the child, without any accidents in the upheaval, and finally gave birth to a daughter in Jiangning's ancestral house, named Youzhen. Except for these three women and one child, the rest of the concubines finally couldn't stand the hard life of the Qin family and begged to go. Mrs. Ye did not stop them, let them go, and took Aunt Fu, Aunt Zhang and Qin Youzhen to live. After her death, Aunt Fu and Aunt Zhang relied on Qin Youzhen's status as the daughter of the Qin family and continued to stay in the Qin clan.
Just when some clansmen were planning to take away their ancestral property on the pretext that there were no more men in their house and that the orphan girl Qin Youzhen should be adopted by other clansmen, the crown prince ascended the throne, and the Qin family's rehabilitation documents also came down. The three of them turned over, and the clansmen all greeted each other with smiles, and they no longer saw the indifference of the past.
At this time, there was another news from the Xue family, saying that when the Xue family returned to their parents' house, they already had Qin Huai's flesh and blood in their abdomen, and later gave birth to a son, who was Qin Huai's widow and the eldest grandson of the third generation of the Qin family. The Xue family was willing to be infamous in order to protect Zhongliang, and put on a posture of breaking off with the Qin family. Now that the Qin family has been rehabilitated, they can also rest assured that the Qin family's daughter-in-law and grandson can be sent back to the Qin family. After all, this child is a few months older than Qin Youzhen.
Zhao Mo was shocked by the guesses of the Niu family and Mama Hu about Qin Song just now, and now he was disgusted by the actions of the Xue family. He was speechless for a long time, and after a while, he said, "The Xue family is really like this...... Shameless!" After saying this, he felt again: "Cheng Enhou is even more shameless!"
Since Qin Bai had already rejected the Xu family's marriage proposal and insisted on the marriage contract with the Niu family, he would not break the contract. Why did Qin Song act like a villain, but he forgot the righteousness of his brother? He also forgot the Empress Qin in the palace, and was looking forward to seeing his younger brother again. Qin Song's move, I'm afraid there is still a suspicion of bullying the king, right?
Zhao Mo suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked Qin Hanzhen: "Does the Holy Lord know what Cheng Enhou has done?" (To be continued.) )