Chapter 3 People's hearts are in danger
Although Du Yan had already seen from all kinds of signs that things were probably not good, he was still shocked when he heard the bad news from the mouth of the third uncle. The long-cherished wish of writing "Fun" www.biquge.info Pavilion for many years was shattered, and he didn't know how to react. For a long time, with a pale face, his lips squirmed and wanted to say something, but he listened to the third uncle's concerned instructions: "It's been more than ten years, don't be sad, listen to what the third uncle told you......"
Du Yan suffered a lot, his heart was tenacious, and he took a few long breaths and gradually calmed down.
The third uncle continued: "After you lost it back then......"
The Du family has been running a business in Xiaobil County for two generations, and after marrying the Zhao family in Huaizhou, the Zhao family Jinniang is taking care of the Du family's business day by day. Within a few years, several grain shops and silk Zhuangzi were added to the Du family, and a lot of family businesses were placed in the state capital.
The so-called "expensive and easy friends, rich and easy to wife", although Du Cheng did not dare to really change his wife for the sake of his wife's ability, it did not prevent him from giving birth to some fancy thoughts.
The Du family has a silk Zhuangzi in the south of the city, and a bookstore next door. The owner of the bookstore has a fifteen or sixteen-year-old daughter named Zhao Chun'er, who is a charming and enchanting beauty.
After Du Cheng met Zhao Chun'er a few times at the gate of the silk village, he gradually fell in love. came and went, and there was a beginning and end between the two, and it didn't take long for Zhao Chun'er to become pregnant. Du Cheng thought about discussing with Jin Niang and carried the person into the mansion.
But Zhao Chun'er bluntly said that she is also the daughter of a scholar, and she should not be chaste before marriage, and if she is a concubine again, it is better to die head-on. I am unhappy every day, and I regret that I can't help but think about doing something degrading to the court, looking for death and life.
Du Cheng was at a loss, although his wife was born thin and small, her appearance was not good, but he promised that all his business depended on his wife's hard work. If he divorces his wife because of his misconduct, he is afraid that he will attract tongue and damage his business. It will also cause harsh criticism from the elders in the clan, suppression by the in-laws, and many other unexpected troubles.
Seeing that Zhao Chun'er's stomach was about to be unable to cover it, he was about to be unable to appease Zhao Chun'er, but something suddenly happened that made him make up his mind. On that day, Jin Niang took her son Du Yan to the temple outside the city to offer incense, and on the way back, Du Yan went to the thatched toilet near the tea house to relieve himself, and was forcibly taken away by the abductor.
Jin Niang couldn't find her son, so she was angry and sad, and fell ill all of a sudden.
Zhao Chun'er was born much better than Jin Niang, and Du Cheng was so dazzled by her. In addition, his son was lost, and it happened that Zhao Chun'er was pregnant with his own child in the womb, Du Cheng simply didn't do anything, and ruthlessly put arsenic in Jinniang's medicine one after another.
Jin Niang was already sick, dizzy, and her mind did not belong, so she couldn't afford to be sick and died, but no one doubted it.
Du Cheng soon borrowed that no one in the house was involved, and he became close to Zhao Chun'er in Rexiao.
When Du Yan heard this, he was like five thunderbolts, and his heart was full of anger and hatred. His eyes cracked, and his fists clenched tightly. Although he was angry, he was still clear in his heart, and secretly thought that the timing when he was taken away by Hu Laosan was too coincidental, maybe someone else had mastered his mother's whereabouts and notified Hu Laosan to come. In this way, it can also be explained that the children abducted from the Deqing class are all from ordinary families, but he has a rich family. The Deqing class was afraid that the children of the rich family would always think about the good of the family, and refused to stay in the class, how could they abduct the children of the rich family?
The third uncle smoked a dry cigarette, and the fifth uncle looked at him worriedly, but he was stupid and didn't know how to comfort him. The third uncle sighed, stroked Du Yan's back a few times, smoothed him down, and continued to speak.
Zhao Chun'er caught up with Du Yan, which was originally a premeditated plan.
Although Jin Niang is shrewd and capable, she is a boudoir woman after all, she is smart and wise, and she does not know how to keep her head down. A small family of ordinary people earns a lot of business, but there is no one behind them, just like a piece of fragrant meat, which attracts salivation from all directions.
Chen Kangnian, the county magistrate of Xiapi County, has long been salivating over this piece of fat.
This person wanted to climb up for a long time, but he was shy in his pocket and had no money to spend, so he took a fancy to the Du family's wealth and wanted to keep it for himself. Chen Kangnian has always boasted of being good at planning, and he pays attention to planning before acting. plotted a plan, wanting to emulate LΓΌ Buwei and Li Dai Taozhuang.
So he found Zhao Chun'er, the restless master, and the two hit it off. Zhao Chun'er was responsible for luring Du Cheng, and Chen Kangnian was responsible for the aftermath. Chen Kangnian promised to accept Zhao Chun'er as a concubine after being transferred to the state capital.
Zhao Chun'er took Chen Kangnian's child to marry Du Cheng, and when Zhao Chun'er gave birth, Du Cheng was useless, and naturally there was no need to live.
As a result, he soon became ill, and he died violently within a few days.
Zhao Chun'er immediately took the child and the Du family's house and shop and left with Chen Kangnian. The Du clan negotiated again and again, wanting Zhao Chun'er to leave the children and family wealth, but to no avail. Behind this matter is Chen Kangnian's support, the so-called county order of the broken family, the mansion Yin who destroyed the door, the Du clan is just ordinary people, what can be done!
Chen Kangnian got the property of the Du family, and after a little bit of work, he soon let him seek the position of Cao Cao, a subordinate of the Gyeongju Taishou, and took the family to take office. sent a henchman to change the name of the Du family's property to Chen Ji, and the steward lived in the Du Mansion that was changed to Chen's Mansion to take care of the business nearby.
After a few years, Zhao Chun'er's children grew more and more like Chen Kangnian, which was carved out of a mold. A member of the Du clan happened to go to the state capital and heard about it, and was shocked. went back and sat down with the clansmen to discuss for a night, and then faintly deduced that Du Cheng was afraid that he was following the way of others. Some people even felt that Jin Niang's death was strange, and the clan sent a few young men to block Dr. Huang, who had treated Jin Niang at the beginning, and coerced and lured him, only to know that Jin Niang was actually poisoned by Du Cheng.
When Du Yan heard these words, his ears rumbled, and he couldn't think for a long time. The sorrow, disappointment, and anger in his chest tumbled and rolled over until he burst his chest.
"Your third uncle is not angry, so he went to Chen Kangnian's management theory and asked him to hand over the Chen family's property, but he pushed him down. Your fourth uncle was so angry that he slapped the steward, and he was lame and thrown into prison, and within a few days he said that he had contracted the plague and died......"
When Du Yan heard this, he suddenly remembered that the third uncle had an eldest son, who was the fourth in the clan.
Du Yan raised his head suddenly and looked at the third uncle, and all the emotions in his chest just now suddenly seemed to have been opened in his chest and let out, and he was poured in by ice water in an instant, almost freezing his internal organs into ice slag.
He looked at the two old men in front of him, stood up, took a few steps back and knelt down with a thud, ignoring the fifth uncle's hurried support, knocked his head a few times, and choked up: "For the sake of family affairs, let the second old white-haired person send the black-haired person, Yan'er really ...... in his heart."
The third uncle took the dry tobacco and knocked it on the upper of his shoe, knocked the slag clean inside, coughed, and motioned to the fifth uncle to help him up.
"The world is in turmoil, people are living hard, and those who are alive are happy before they die...... Don't think about it, it's a good fate for him not to live and suffer. Those of us who are suffering have to continue to survive. β
The third uncle spoke fairly and lightly, and the third uncle wiped away her tears, her lips trembled a few times, but she didn't say anything.
Du Yan listened to the helplessness and pathos contained in the old man's seemingly flat tone, and his heart was at a loss. After a long time, he stood up and solemnly said to the third uncle and third uncle: "Don't worry, the second elder, the fourth uncle's revenge, my mother's revenge, I will definitely avenge it, and the second elder can listen to the good news with peace of mind!"
When the three of them heard him say this, they were immediately shocked, and the third uncle hurriedly persuaded: "What do you kid say about revenge, don't talk nonsense, since ancient times, the people don't fight with officials, don't take revenge and put your own life into it." You go quickly, go back and forth from where, don't let the Chen family see you. β
Du Yan shook his head, "Third uncle, don't worry, I know how to measure, and I won't put myself in ......it," he said, took out a few small ingots of horseshoe gold from his arms, handed them to the third uncle and said, "You keep taking it, the peaceful days won't be long away, you take your clansmen to hide in the mountains, I'm afraid there will be a war soon." β
He said as he turned and walked out. The third uncle hurriedly asked the fifth uncle to pull him, and shouted from behind: "What are you going to do, don't think about revenge, they will die if they die, don't put yourself in it again, the state capital must not go to ......"
Before he finished speaking, Du Yan had gently and skillfully broken away from the fifth uncle's hand, and a stride was already a few meters away, his body rose vertically, falling on the wall like a feather, and disappeared in a flash.
The third uncle's family opened their mouths wide, and it took a long time to come back to their senses, and the third uncle hurriedly said: "Go and see, go out and have a look......"
When the fifth uncle opened the door to look, he saw the autumn breeze passing through the door, the alley was lonely, and there was half a figure.
I couldn't help muttering: "What a hell......
The third uncle and the third uncle were also shocked, and after a while, the third uncle said: "Yan'er has learned a great skill." "Go back and tell the two of them that they can't say anything about this to anyone today. οΌ
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Du Yan walked out of Xiapi County with full of indignation, ran all the way, and stayed overnight in a farmhouse not far away after dark.
This night, my heart felt like someone had poured a bowl of hot oil, and it was like being plucked and soaked in the ice and snow outside. I was full of anxiety for a while, and I just wanted to burn down my house. Suddenly, he felt the cold air penetrate his lungs, so cold that he just wanted to wrap himself in the quilt and stuff himself into the hearth.
Fang started the fourth watch, the moonlight outside the window reflected the night like day, Du Yan couldn't bear it anymore, sat up on the ground, put on his clothes and went out carefully. He walked around the courtyard and couldn't find anything he had in hand, so he went to look for the place where the firewood and grass were stacked, and found a shovel in the firewood and straw pile.
Du Yan picked up the shovel, turned out of the yard, and followed the road in his memory to find the ancestral tomb of the Du family. Why did he leave home for too long, his memory was a little vague, and the light of the day was not very clear, so he took a lot of unjust roads before he could be regarded as touching the place.
The wind in the autumn mountains was everywhere, and soon blew off the thin sweat that he had just come out of the road. Wisps of thin wind pierced through the thick clothes on his body and blew into the cracks of his bones, and he couldn't help but shiver.
He leaned over to find the tombstones one by one by the moonlight, and soon found the tomb of his mother. In fact, it is not very difficult to find, most of the poor people only make a mark in front of the grave of the deceased, some are piling up stones, some are planting small trees, and some are erecting wooden signs. There are very few people like her mother who have a serious stone tablet.
He stretched out his hand to touch the tombstone, knelt down and kowtowed a few more times, and muttered: "Mother, don't worry, my son will definitely make the life that harms you worse than death!" stood up and re-added soil to the grave with a shovel, and patted it solid.
Only then did I look to the left, and sure enough, it was Du Cheng's tomb. He hated it, picked up a shovel and dug above the grave, how could such a despicable villain who coveted women and was ungrateful be buried with his mother!
Only when he was so tired and panting like a cow that the coffin would be exposed. Du Cheng's coffin was made of only thin paulownia wood, which had long since decayed.
Du Yan couldn't help but sneer, and said to himself at the coffin: "In vain, you killed your wife, and the woman you married back is not even willing to give you a good coffin, which can be regarded as a manifestation of heavenly justice, and retribution is unpleasant." β
It didn't take him much effort to open the coffin, and all that was left was a blackened white bone. Du Yan used a shovel to pick out the white bones, far away. I thought to myself, my mother finally didn't have to be disgusted with him every day.
He turned around and filled in Du Cheng's grave again, made it look like he only added soil, and went down the mountain.
When I returned to my lodgings, it was already early days. And he put the shovel in its place, and went into the house, and folded himself and lay down.
After this toss, Du Yan couldn't help but feel a little tired, and the resentment in his chest also dissipated a little, and he quickly fell asleep in a daze while lying on the bed. In the haze, he heard the whispers of the old couple getting up, and he didn't know it, and he still slept soundly.
When I woke up, I felt dizzy, and I touched my forehead with my hand, and my forehead was hot, and I was infected with the wind cold. He barely stood up and pushed the door open. When the old couple saw him come out, they hurried up to greet him for dinner. Du Yan washed his face with cold water and used up a bowl of corn. took out a handful of copper coins for the old woman, and the old man helped rent a carriage and prepared to go to the state capital.
The old woman excused herself from Du Yan a few times, but she didn't want copper coins, and Du Yan put them directly on the table. The old woman didn't want to go, and took out two corn cakes and stuffed them to Du Yan in the bamboo basket hanging from the beams of the house, so that he could eat them on the way.