Chapter 56: The Shen Family
Mrs. Shen worked hard to raise her only son to grow up, and she didn't want her son to go to Northern Xinjiang anymore because she thought that Lao Zhenguo Gong died on the battlefield at a young age. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, Shen Xian has loved martial arts since he was a child and is determined to avenge his father.
Old Madam Shen really couldn't resist him, so she asked him to promise herself three things before agreeing to let him go, otherwise she would die in front of him: "...... First, your family affairs must be decided by your mother; second, the family affairs of the future son should also be determined; Thirdly, there must be one of your future sons, lest all of you go to war, and your mother will be afraid at home all day long. ”
Shen Xian agreed one by one.
So when he reached the age of marriage, Shen Xian listened to Mrs. Shen's arrangement and went to Pan's house in Hanzhong to propose marriage. Who knew that in the generation of the Pan family, there was only one girl of the right age in the branch of the Pan family, who was not only born with an ordinary appearance, but also had a very withdrawn personality, and was frail and sickly since childhood.
Shen Xian was a little reluctant.
Old Madam Shen mentioned what she said back then and insisted that he marry Pan.
Shen Xian had no choice but to marry the sick Pan and enter the door.
Pan's health is not good, and his temperament is quirky, not only did he not get along well with Shen Xian after getting married, but he also had a constant relationship with his aunt Mrs. Shen, and when his temper came up, he didn't eat, didn't take medicine, and his body became more and more sick.
Later, not only Shen Xian gradually alienated her, but Old Madam Shen also became more and more dissatisfied with her. Within a year, Mrs. Shen accepted her niece Guo Shi for Shen to enter the door.
Although Aunt Guo is not outstanding in appearance, she is exquisite, her eyebrows and eyes are picked, and she flatters Mrs. Shen very much after entering the door, and she is even more gentle and considerate to Shen Xian.
came and went, not only was Shen Xian coaxed to be very partial to her, but even Mrs. Shen was coaxed by her to let go and stopped her from avoiding the soup. In just half a year, Aunt Guo became pregnant.
The Pan family already had a grudge against Shen Xian and the Guo family, so he had several quarrels with Shen Xian and Mrs. Shen, and treated Aunt Guo even more harshly. Now seeing that Aunt Guo was pregnant before her, after a world-shaking upheaval, she forcibly became pregnant despite the fact that her body was still recuperating.
When Aunt Guo's daughter Shen Jing was two months old, Pan was born prematurely and gave birth to her eldest son, Shen Chou.
Pan's health was not good, but now he was born prematurely, and he was depressed, so he died after a few months of lingering on the sickbed.
Shen Chip was not only congenitally deficient in the mother's body, but also born prematurely, and his body was very weak. It is also thanks to the fact that there is no shortage of famous doctors and good medicines in the Zhenguo Mansion, and under the soak of various high-quality medicinal materials, he stumbled and grew up like a sick cat.
A year after Pan's death, Mrs. Shen told Shen Xian about remarrying, and asked him to go to Pan's house to choose a girl to be his steproom: "...... There are no good ones in the descendants, and there are no good ones in the side branches, after all, they are all daughters of the Pan family, and their upbringing will not be wrong. ”
Upbringing...... Shen Xian thought of the deceased Pan family, only felt palpitations, and excused: "Mother, now that the child is still young, it is better to wait for him to grow up before discussing this matter." ”
Old Madam Shen said: "It is precisely because of the small amount of money that I want to marry the bride as soon as possible, after all, it is his aunt and will not treat him badly." ”
Shen Xian insisted: "My son wants to stay for the Pan family for a few more years." ”
The Great Zhou Dynasty paid attention to etiquette, men kept the system, and women kept festivals, and they have always been praised by the imperial court.
Mrs. Shen couldn't accuse Shen Xian of being wrong for the Pan family, so she had to mention the three things he promised her at the beginning: "You promised your mother that one of your sons must be from the text, and now you only have one under your knees......"
Shen Chip's body is extremely weak, and it is not easy to be able to live and take care of himself, so he can neither practice martial arts nor follow literature.
Shen Xian said: "That son will have another Congwen." ”
A year later, Aunt Guo gave birth to a concubine, Shen Jian, and Mrs. Shen had no reason to persecute Shen Xian.
Originally, Shen Xian thought that he would be like this in the second half of his life, he had sons and daughters, the old lady presided over the inner house, and Aunt Guo was in charge, and he himself stayed in Northern Xinjiang all the year round, and he had no extravagant hopes for remarrying.
When he was twenty-six years old, he was ordered to return to Beijing to report on his work, and when he went to the imperial garden to drink after a drunken banquet in the palace, he unintentionally broke into a pavilion, and he fell in love with the girl he met in it at first sight, and he never forgot it.
Later, he inquired that the girl he met in the pavilion was actually the little sister of Princess Qishan, Li San from the Marquis of Yasukuni's Mansion. On that day, Li San followed her sister Princess Qishan into the palace to greet the Queen Mother, Princess Qishan and the Queen Mother talked in Cining Palace, she went to the Imperial Garden to see the scenery, and did not want to meet Shen Xian in the pavilion.
Shen Xian knew that if he said that he wanted to remarry, Old Madam Shen would never agree to him marrying Miss Li San, and would only force him to marry the daughter of the Pan family.
After thinking about it, he relied on his great achievements over the years, and he had a bit of face in front of the first emperor, so he exchanged his military exploits for marriage, and begged the first emperor to marry Li San's girl to him.
The first emperor had a benevolent temperament, and he pitied him for being lonely for many years, so he was naturally willing to fulfill it.
The emperor gave the marriage, and the old lady Shen was unable to return to heaven, so she forced Shen to present a book before the Li family entered the door, and asked Shen to be the prince.
Shen Xian wanted her to treat Miss Li San well in the future, so he agreed.
After arriving at the Shen family, she was filial to Mrs. Shen, took care of her stepson and stepdaughter, and loved Shen Xian even more. Shen Xianru obtained the treasure, and less than a month after getting married, he wrote to ask for the Li family's fate.
But he only cared about pampering the new lady, but he didn't know that this move angered the old lady Shen.
Old Madam Shen was already dissatisfied with her family, and when she saw that he loved the Li family so much, it was a world of difference compared to her attitude towards the Pan family back then, so she disliked the Li family more and more.
Miss Li San is the youngest sister in her mother's family, she grew up under the love and pampering of her parents and sisters since she was a child, and her temperament is weak and pure, where is the opponent of Mrs. Shen, who was born in a big family. And Old Madam Shen has been in charge of the Zhenguo Mansion alone for many years, and her temperament has already been polished to be extremely shrewd and strong.
When Shen Xian was in front of her, Old Madam Shen seemed to be very kind and considerate to the Li family. When Shen Xian was away, the Li family was like a little white rabbit in the Shen family falling into the hands of the big bad wolf, and let the old lady Shen rub it. Because Mrs. Shen was very well disguised in front of Shen Xian, Mrs. Shen Li had bitter words in her heart, and she didn't know how to tell Shen Xian, and she was afraid that she would fall into the name of being unvirtuous and unfilial, so she could only endure it silently.
Men are careless. Although Shen Xian knew that his mother's temperament was not very good, he was also dissatisfied that he married the Li family behind her back, and seeing that the house was peaceful, he only got along well with his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, wife and concubine, and did not know that it was the result of the Li family's patience. After Shen Ce was born, there was a war in northern Xinjiang, and Shen Xian went to the border for several years.
When Shen Ce was one year old, Mrs. Shen asked Mrs. Shen to raise Shen Ce from Mrs. Shen.
Although Mrs. Shen was reluctant to have a son, she was powerless to resist Old Mrs. Shen, who had already been submissive, so she had to reluctantly agree.
With Shen Chip, the eldest son of Mrs. Shen's niece Pan Shisheng, in front of her, Mrs. Shen's Shen Ce naturally didn't please Mrs. Shen much. But the people in the Zhenguo Mansion are thin, Shen Xian is the only son, and now there are only two sons-in-law of Shen Ce and Shen Ce, and the old lady Shen does not dare to harm Shen Ce's life.
Only although Shen Chip occupies the name of the eldest son, because of his health, he can neither write nor martial arts, and he has the name of the son of the world, and he does not hold a real position in the court. Mrs. Shen was born in the Hou family of the Li family, the eldest sister is the current queen, and the second sister is Mrs. Weiyuan Hou, and the upbringing of the Li family is needless to say good. Old Madam Shen was afraid that the Li family would teach Shen Ce too well, and when he grew up, he would be too bright and threaten Shen Chou's position as the son, so she asked him to come.
After Shen Ce arrived at Old Madam Shen's Yuyin Hall, on the surface, it seemed that Old Madam Shen was first-class and good to him, extremely pampered, and pampered, but in fact, in her heart, she was determined to raise him and abolish him.
Shen Ce also lived up to Mrs. Shen's expectations, and after living in Yuyin Hall for a few years, he really grew into an arrogant and domineering child.
When Shen Ce was born, Shen Xian's joy far exceeded that of his eldest son Shen Chip when he was born, and he loved this son who looked like the Li family very much. Unexpectedly, he had only been away from Beijing for a few years, and when he came home again, Shen Ce had grown like this, and his love was deeply responsible, and it was inevitable that he would be strict with him.
When he was young, his father left him and his mother to go to northern Xinjiang for many years, and he was forcibly carried by his grandmother to Yuyintang, separated from his mother, and he didn't care about his father. Now that he has grown up, he has suddenly come back to point fingers at him. Shen Ce was naturally unconvinced, rebellious, and his actions became more and more arrogant.
After several battles, the relationship between father and son gradually deteriorated.