Chapter 275: The Patriarch Makes Trouble
The head of the Yang family still looked down on the nouveau riche in these families in his heart, so he arrogantly said to Yang's mother: "The sixth family, it seems that your family is rich, but you can make such a big scene in front of your father and fellow villagers, you have face, but your reputation is also bad." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Our Yang family has always respected thrift and housekeeping, and you are such a loser now, isn't this corrupting the atmosphere of the Yang family? Why don't you do anything with all this money? To build an ancestral hall and build a school for the family, which is not better than engaging in these virtual pomp? ”
Mother Yang was originally high-spirited, and she was accused by the patriarch like this, and she also felt that she had gone too far in today's pomp, but her purpose was to ask the patriarch for more in the ancestral cemetery, so as to build her husband's new grave better, so she quietly listened to the patriarch's words and teachings, and then said:
"What the ancestor said is that our six rooms are willing to pay for the family to repair the ancestral hall, and we are also willing to pay for the construction of a new school, hoping that the patriarch can give us an extra acre of cemetery in the ancestral cemetery and rebuild the tomb of the official."
The patriarch nodded with satisfaction, "This is very good, as a descendant of the Yang family, it is within my duty to contribute money to the family."
It's just that the land in the ancestral tomb is distributed according to the rules, and the long house will naturally be divided more, and the partial house will naturally be less.
Your family is originally a partial grandson, and there is only one kid in the family, so these two points of land are enough for now. ”
Mother Yang's face was a little ugly when she heard this, what the patriarch said was the truth and rules, and she didn't dare to contradict it as the daughter-in-law of the partial house, but when she thought that her husband's grave was so big, she felt sorry for him in her heart.
Yang Huairen understood in his heart that his mother's thoughts were still imprisoned in feudal etiquette, she was originally from a peasant family, married to a grandson of the Yang family, and had low self-esteem in her bones.
Yang Huairen didn't have these constraints, in his consciousness, since they were relatives of the same clan, they should have helped each other and tolerated each other, but his mother just asked for more cemeteries for her late husband to rebuild the grave, but she was rejected by the patriarch, and the kind of condescension in the patriarch's tone made him feel disgusted.
Whether it's friends or relatives, in the relationship, they give face to each other, since you don't give my mother face, I don't have to save face for you.
Yang Huairen stepped forward, did not give a salute to the patriarch, and asked with his head held high with his hands behind his back: "Dare to ask the patriarch, is it unfair if the distribution of the cemetery in the Yang family is divided according to the long-term house?"
Everyone is a descendant of the Yang family, but there is a distinction between Mr. and the offspring, Mr. does not necessarily have the ability, not necessarily more than the posterity to contribute to the family, is it that the partial house is naturally more humble than the long house? ”
The patriarch and the old man hated Yang Huairen's arrogant appearance, and he didn't even call his grandfather when he opened his mouth, but called the patriarch directly, which made him even more angry, listened to his theory, and said with a smile: "The rules are set by the ancestors, not only our Yang family, but also other people's families."
However, our Yang family is also a well-known family of intellectuals, if any of the descendants of the family have gained fame, have an official position in the imperial court, or have military merits, or have made a great contribution to the family's reputation, of course, it can be an exception.
I don't know if Huairen's grandson won the champion, or became an official? Even if you have a few stinky money, you're just a lowly businessman. ”
The patriarch sneered like this, and several uncles and uncles behind him also laughed.
Yang Huairen doesn't care, what is he pretending to be high in front of his buddies? He smiled and clapped his hands, "According to what the patriarch said, my family wants a cemetery in the ancestral cemetery, but it needs more than one acre, at least ten acres." ”
"What are you kidding? It's up to you? Do you know that the ancestors once issued a seven-grade county order, and his family's tomb repair is only one acre of land, and you still want ten acres for a showman, are you crazy? ”
"Hehe, who's crazy, it's hard to say now! The seven-grade county order can divide one acre of cemetery land in the ancestral tomb, so let me ask you, if a family has two children and grandchildren of the third-grade rank, how should it be distributed? ”
The patriarch and the few people behind him were so shocked by these words that their eyes almost popped out, although the Yang family is also a big family in the local area, but in the entire Great Song Dynasty, it is just a rural family.
For more than 100 years in the Great Song Dynasty, there have been three or four descendants of the clan who have become officials after the examination, and the highest is only the Qipin county order that the patriarch mentioned earlier.
What is the concept of the rank of the three products? For the people of the entire family, there is no official of the third grade in the whole of Qizhou, and it is impossible for them to see the official of the third grade in their lives.
The patriarch's tongue was knotted in horror and he couldn't speak, and one of the stutterers behind him asked indistinctly, "Three, three, three pins?" Who? ”
Yang Huairen unhurriedly introduced his mother to them, pointed to a dress on her body and said, "Don't you all know each other?" My mother's body is the three-grade order uniform. ”
Mother Yang remembered that she was wearing the ceremonial dress of the three-grade lady of the fate, and she was asked by the patriarch just now, and she forgot her current identity, so she raised her head solemnly and arrogantly, and at the same time did not forget to pull He Zhiyun, who was also wearing the ceremonial dress behind her, and asked her to follow to the front to show the noble clothes.
Yang Huairen continued: "This is my new daughter-in-law, who is also Mrs. Fate, but her rank is a little lower, only five grades, and my buddy is too low, so I was embarrassed to show it just now." ”
The patriarch and a few people behind him just thought that they were wearing the clothes of the rich and noble families that were popular in the capital, but now when they heard Yang Huairen say this, they looked carefully again.
It doesn't matter if you take a closer look, even if you don't know this dress, but the embroidered pattern on the dark red dress can be seen clearly, it is indeed a five-tailed phoenix pattern.
This can embroider the phoenix on the clothes, there are also rules, the bride who is married by the people, you can wear a phoenix crown, and the wedding dress is embroidered with a phoenix pattern, but according to the system, it can only be a three-tailed phoenix, and usually, ordinary people can not wear it like this.
The number of phoenix tail feathers embroidered on the clothes also shows the level of status, the ceremonial dress worn by the princess's wife is embroidered with a five-tailed phoenix pattern, and the concubines in the palace are seven-tailed, and then the queen and the queen mother are nine-tailed.
Even if the Yang family patriarch and everyone have not seen it with their own eyes, at least they have read the relevant knowledge in the book, and the two ladies in front of them, an old man and a young lady, are wearing such ceremonial clothes, which proves their identity as Mrs. Fate.
But the most important thing is that they can be canonized as Mrs. Decree, and they are also valued by their mothers and sons or wives by their husbands, which proves that another person with a three-grade rank is Yang Huairen.
The patriarch's face and tone immediately softened as soon as he did this, and he asked cautiously, "Then ...... you?"