Volume 1 - Who Have Seen Again Chapter 12 Filial Son Before the Spirit (5)
There was a commotion outside, but Shen Rui didn't know that a good dream was in full swing, and the originally vague situation of his past life gradually became clear.
I don't know if it's Zhuangzi dreaming of butterflies, or butterflies dreaming of Zhuangzi. Shen Rui felt that he was dreaming these days, but he knew that he was not dreaming, but really going back to five hundred years ago, from a twenty-six-year-old Shen Rui to a nine-year-old Shen Rui.
The Songjiang Shen family is not famous through the ages, and the world may not know it, but it is not a stranger to Shen Rui five hundred years later, because he himself is a descendant of the Songjiang Shen family.
Seeing the antique ancestral hall and looking at the clansmen from all over the world with a lot of beards, Shen Rui did not feel any closeness such as blood connection, but felt very magical. The thick genealogy, which has been passed on, has not dissipated with the changes of dynasties. It looks like the history of others, but it is the story of one's own ancestors.
Songjiang Shen family, from Wuxing Shen family, when Gaozong crossed to the south, the ancestor moved south with the imperial court and settled in Songjiang.
In the steel city, there are very few traces of history. He held his mobile phone and kept filming, more like a spectator.
Around the ancestral hall of the Shen family, there is only a county bridge left, and there is a foundation of Jishan Hall. Next to the county government bridge, there is a stone monument, and the bridge is introduced on it. This bridge was not called this name earlier, but was called "Virtuous Woman Bridge", and later the Songjiang County Yamen moved to this vicinity, and this bridge was called "County Bridge". The stele did not say who the "virtuous woman" was named, but the descendants of the Shen family remembered it clearly. Because, on the genealogy of the Shen family, this pen is clearly written.
The one who donated silver to build roads and bridges was a virtuous woman of the Shen clan in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
In ancient times, women's low positions were not high, and the Ming Dynasty was an era of strict etiquette, and there were women who became famous for their good deeds.
Shen Rui was curious at the time, and when he heard about this, he specially begged his grandfather, took him to look through the family tree, and took a picture of the page of the record. Regarding the virtuous woman in the "Virtuous Woman Bridge", only two or three lines are recorded on the genealogy: "Sun's family, the daughter of Sun Meng, a giant in southern Zhejiang, was born in the sixth year of Jingtai, and the Shen family was suitable for the eighth year of Chenghua, and was the grandson of Shen Yuan of Zhiqingtang, and died of illness in ten years. Born with good deeds, poured into the legacy of the road bridge good hall, benefited the clansmen in the township, the emperor's decree rewarded, gave four products to the people, gave the archway, the world called 'Shenmen virtuous woman'. β
Benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, and trust, are the number of several branches of the Shen family, and the one in the capital where Shen Rui is located, comes from the Yiqing Hall of the second row.
Grandfather told him the origin of Yiqingtang, the ancestors of the four halls of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette and wisdom, are all the sons of Shen Du, the ancestor of the Shen family in the early Ming Dynasty, the eldest son, the second son, the fourth son is the grandson, the third son is the concubine, the family rules are clearly written, the small sect can be extinguished, and the big sect cannot be broken. The heirs of the Renqing Hall of the Emperor are broken, and the heirs of the Yiqing Hall and the Zhiqing Hall are selected to inherit the bloodline of the clan, and the two halls have no heirs, so they can choose the Liqing Hall; If all the men of the four halls are cut off, the heirs will be selected from the Xinqing Hall; Xinqingtang also has no heirs, and then selects suitable sons and grandsons from the other four halls to become heirs.
Judging from the selection of heirs, it can be seen that the ancient scholars identified blood relatives. The first is the son-in-law, then the concubine, then the younger brother, and then the uncle. Although the genealogy records the inheritance of 800 years, it is true that the Songjiang Shen family is completely re-established by the two Shen Du brothers in the early Ming Dynasty, and the family inheritance is mainly based on the descendants of the two, which is also reasonable.
Shen Rui's branch, the ancestors moved to the capital during the Tianshun period, and the children and grandchildren studied and became scholars, and the three dynasties of the Ming, Qing and Republic of China were endless, and they were eunuchs for generations.
Not to mention, Shen Rui's ancestor once served as a minister in the Beiyang government, and his great-ancestor joined the G Party, but he died during the Liberation War and became a martyr, so that the Shen family did not rank as the center of power after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that the Shen family escaped, not only was it not affected in that turmoil. On the contrary, because of the shadow of his father's generation, he was mentioned by many princes. My grandfather started as a clerk, although he had experienced several ups and downs, he still retired at the vice-national level, and some of his uncles and uncles also achieved high positions at the provincial and ministerial levels.
Shen Rui's father is a young son, and he lost his mother when he landed, so he was loved by his father and brother, and his personality was naΓ―ve and romantic, and he did not embark on a career like his father and brother. As one of the first batch of students to study in Hong Kong City after the reform and opening up, he was fortunate to worship under Zong Lao, who was then a professor and head of the Department of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, and not only became a closed disciple of Zong Lao, but later married Zong Lao's granddaughter and became Zong Lao's grandson-in-law.
Zong Lao and Xian Lao, known as "Southern Sect and North Xian" by the world, have dabbled in history, archaeology, literature, scriptures, education, calligraphy and painting, and are one of the best masters of Chinese culture in the world.
Although Shen Rui lives in Xiaogang City and Beijing, because his parents are scholars, he is more influenced by the atmosphere of the clan family, Shen Ruirui and his sister are both enlightened by reciting the "Three Character Classic", and it cannot be said that they are proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they are also a little hot. When they grew up, the two siblings chose to study in the Department of Chinese, which has a family history.
Sister Shen studied all the way to the Doctor of Literature, and Shen Rui had a loose personality, and stayed in school as a teaching assistant after graduating from graduate school.
An ancient woman poured her dowry to do good deeds, and even the emperor issued a decree to praise her, no wonder the Sun family was able to record this on the family tree.
Shen Rui only listened to it as an anecdote, and after returning to Beijing, he mentioned this ancestral elder to Sister Shen.
Sister Shen was doing a doctoral dissertation at the time, initially titled "Ancient Women's Property Rights Domination Examination", listened to Sun's story, seemed to be touched, checked in the national map for half a month, read the information of similar deeds, and finally came to the conclusion that Sun must have no biological son, or his biological son died young, and Shen Yuan had a concubine. Otherwise, who can not have the slightest selfishness, leave nothing to their children and grandchildren, and donate all the dowry. Even if you don't have a biological child and choose an heir, you won't even have the slightest mother-son relationship. When Sun died, he was already in his forties, and at that time he was already full of children and grandchildren.
A woman who grew up by feudal etiquette can only choose to donate all of her dowry if she has no biological children and heirs, and her husband has concubines, and she is reluctant to let her concubines take advantage of her dowry.
Although Shen Rui has looked through the Shen family tree, he can only pay attention to the anecdotes of those celebrities in the clan that are annotated, where will he pay attention to the detailed genealogy of each hall. As for whether the Sun family has biological sons and heirs, he really doesn't know the truth.
It's just that listening to his sister's words so eloquently, attributing Sun's good deeds of donating dowry funds to "no children" and "wives and concubines fighting for the wind", it seems to be a big family drama, and he doesn't think so. Maybe Sun is Bill Gates 500 years ago, and he is really open-minded, so he didn't leave any assets for his children and grandchildren. If it is based on inferences alone, it is unfair to the ancients to attribute Sun's good deeds to selfishness.
Since Sister Shen is a scholar, she has the momentum to find out the bottom of it, and booked two weekend train tickets, and wanted to take Shen Rui south to look through the family tree and confirm the matter.
When it was coming, Sister Shen missed the train due to the summons of the teacher, and Shen Rui got on the train by herself.
It's just that he took a nap in the car, and when he opened his eyes again, Shen Rui had already become Shen Rui, the fourth-room son of the Shen family in Songjiang, his father's name Yuan, and his biological mother Sun, who was in the midst of his mother's funeral and lived in the hospital to "recuperate".
When he opened his eyes again, Shen Rui's intestines were about to repent. If he could turn back time, he would never say more about the "Shenmen Virtuous Woman" and call it true with his sister. It doesn't matter if she has a biological son, whether she donates a dowry or not, and what does it have to do with him?
Where in this world is there regret medicine?
The bed curtain has been changed, although it is plain white, but it is new, the thickness is not thin, the temperature in the room is no longer as cold as a few days ago, the quilt on the body is soft and thick to the touch, and the mattress under the body is also soft and thick.
Although Shen Rui was weak, he still sat up. He looked down at his body, he had changed into a muslin shirt, and looked at the wrinkles pressed on it, and it was not a short time for him to lie down after falling asleep. His stomach was empty before he fell unconscious, and now that he woke up, he was even more hungry.
Songjiang Shen, five hundred years ago, his ancestors, when they remembered the connection between the past life and the present life, he inexplicably felt a little more belonging in his heart.
Shen Rui looked up, the room was not the same room as before, it was much more spacious and bright, and on the Luohan couch in the south window, there was a middle-aged woman sitting with her head bowed and needlework. There were two little maids standing at the door, one wearing filial piety clothes and the other wearing plain clothes.
Hearing the movement on the side of the bed, the woman hurriedly put down the needle and thread in her hand, got up and walked over, her face full of concern: "Thank God, Rui Ge'er finally woke up." β
This woman is in her forties, looking a little haggard, wearing plain clothes, with a silver hairpin on her head, dressed differently from the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law she has seen, according to the memory of the owner, it is the fifth room eldest daughter-in-law Guo Shi, Shen Rui whispered: "Aunt ......"
I didn't want my throat to be hoarse, and my throat hurt, Shen Rui's face was in a ball.
That woman is Guo Shi, and she will take care of Shen Rui for the past two days. Aiwu and Wu, seeing that Shen Rui was uncomfortable, of course she couldn't stand it, so she sat on the edge of the bed, stroked Shen Rui's back and said: "Since your throat is uncomfortable, don't talk about it first, and wait until your throat is moistened and you are more comfortable." β
Shen Rui nodded lightly, showing a little gratitude on his face.
Although he doesn't know how long he fell asleep this time, he still remembers the "treatment" a few days ago, and his situation is really worrying. If Shen Rui really had someone in this family, he wouldn't be gone.
In "Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Baoyu calls the slave maid, and she is the concubine of the Shen family in name, but she is not as good as an ordinary concubine.
Because the memories of his past life and present life were a little confusing when he first woke up, he also guessed whether his life experience was bloody, and he was not a descendant of the Shen family, so he was treated so harshly; Now I think of the genealogy of later generations that the Sun family poured money to do good deeds, and the reason why Lao An people treat their grandchildren so much is mostly because of this. Although I don't know why the Sun family has such a determination, Shen Rui can also see that with Lao An Ren and Shen Juren's ruthlessness towards his grandson, even if Sun's dowry is still there, it may not be able to reach his own hands.
But the Sun family's dowry is not there, and the one who is angry must be Sun's biological son.
It would be fine if this little body was bigger, but he was only nine years old, even if the rich young master didn't want to do it, would he still have to go out and be a beggar? To put it mildly, even if you want to be a beggar, you may not be satisfied. After all, there is still the profession of human traffickers in this world, and there is also the business of human trafficking for profit.
As for what was said in the novels of the last and later generations, it was just speculation to roll up the belongings around you, walk away, and buy a house and land in a different place to live again. The household registration policy of the Ming Dynasty has been very detailed and detailed, and without the road guide issued by the yamen, it is impossible to go out of the land of a hundred miles at all.
"Grunt", the stomach was like a drum, dispelling Shen Rui's worries......