Chapter 088: Bigger Trouble Is Coming
Although Zhu Gongyuan is the patriarch of the Zhu family, he has no son. According to the family's arrangement, after Zhu Gongyuan retired in old age, he chose a successor patriarch from Zhu Gongzu's two sons. But now out of thin air, a Zhu Qilang came, if he was really Zhu Gongyuan's son, then he would definitely inherit the position of patriarch in the future, and Zhu Gongzu's dream was in vain. So he killed and didn't want to admit that the young man who came was Zhu Gongyuan's own son.
The young man was brought to the ancestral hall of the Zhu family, and he had to tell his origin in front of the elders of the family and prove his identity.
The young man, who called himself Zhu Shichiro, was dressed in a hunter's attire, not tall but sturdy, and his eyes were piercing. The ancestral hall was filled with dozens of people, all looking at him with fierce eyes, as if as long as he said something wrong, everyone would come up and tear him apart. The young man looked calm and told the story of the incident without hurrying.
The young man's name is Ding Wenjie, who lives in Siming Mountain, and has lived with his father Ding Lao Dad since he was a child. A month ago, my father died of illness, and before he died, he told him about his life experience. It turned out that Ding Wenjie was rescued by Ding's father in the tiger's mouth fifteen years ago. At that time, Ding's father was hunting in the mountains and forests, and suddenly found a tiger holding a child. He immediately opened his bow and shot arrows, and after shooting only one arrow, the tiger did not move. When I looked closer, I realized that the tiger was a fake, but a man in a tiger's skin. The man was shot in the chest with an arrow and was already dying.
Father Ding buried this person and then took the child home. Because of poverty, Ding's father never married a daughter-in-law, so he raised the child as his own son, and he didn't tell the truth until he died. Only then did Ding Wenjie know that his name was Zhu Qilang, and he was the son of Zhu Gongyuan, the owner of Shangyu Zhujiazhuang. After he buried Ding's father, he came to Zhujiazhuang to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.
Zhu Qilang looks very much like Zhu Gongyuan, and there is a jade pendant as proof, Zhu Gongyuan and the family elders have already identified this young man as Zhu Qilang. When he was taken away by wild beasts, everyone thought that he would definitely die, who would have thought that he would come back without dying.
Happiness came too suddenly, and Zhu Gongyuan was completely stunned by this big pie. He was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth every day, and every few minutes he had to ask Shichiro what he was doing, and he would visit Shichiro whenever he had free time, and he would be with Shichiro when he slept at night.
In addition to being happy, he also personally took people to the place where Zhu Qilang lived, and personally went to the grave of Father Ding to worship and thank him for saving his son's life. Then, he led people to dig up the grave of the man who pretended to be a tiger. Twenty years have passed, that person has long become a pile of dry bones, but the clothes on his body have not been rotten, looking at the style of a certain family's dress, there is also a bronze medal hidden in his arms, engraved on the front of "Qiantang", on the reverse engraved with the word "horse".
It was the Qiantang Ma family who robbed Qilang back then. Zhu Gongyuan was immediately stunned by this conclusion. But the facts are in front of me, and I can't help but believe it. In order to further find out the truth of the matter, he sent someone to go to Qiantang secretly with a wooden sign, and quietly found an old housekeeper of the Ma family to ask. The old steward recognized this wooden plaque and said that the owner of the wooden plaque was named Ma Honglin, who had gone out on errands many years ago on the orders of the old master Ma Duo, and had disappeared since then.
At this point, the fact that the Ma family kidnapped Qilang has been confirmed. Zhu Gongyuan, who learned the truth, was furious, who would have thought that the Qiantang Ma family, who had been close to the Zhu family for decades, would be the murderer of his son. Since the Ma family can attack Qilang, the deaths of the first six sons are likely to be inseparable from the Ma family.
Zhu Gongyuan now hates the Ma family so much that the roots of his teeth itch.
But there is an even more terrible thing in front of him, that is, the marriage of his daughter Zhu Yingtai and Ma Wencai. Although the Ma family stated that they would keep filial piety for their ancestor Ma Duo for three years, the imperial court did not approve it at all. Ma Yunhai will soon go to Guangzhou to serve as the assassin, and Ma Wencai will soon become the commander of Qiantang County. I'm afraid that by then, the Ma family will ask to marry Zhu Yingtai again.
Ma Zhu's marriage was originally promoted by Zhu Gongyuan. But now he can't wait to go to Ma's house to get out of the marriage immediately. The revenge of killing a son is not shared, how can his daughter marry his biggest enemy?
Although he was in a very anxious mood, Zhu Gongyuan, who had been in business all his life, knew that this matter was not in a hurry. Twenty years have passed since the killing of Shichiro, who can tell what happened back then, the parties Ma Duo are dead, who can you talk to to confront them. Even if there are family clothes and waist cards as evidence, the Ma family can completely deceive and deny it, saying that this is Ma Honglin's personal behavior and has nothing to do with the Ma family.
Moreover, the marriage between the scholars is not a child's play, if there is no clear reason, how can they withdraw from the marriage, it will lead to the disrepute of the family and be laughed at by the scholars of the world.
When Zhu Gongyuan was sad and had nothing to do, his younger brother Zhu Gongzu came to him and offered him a clever plan.
Three days later, Zhu Gongyuan announced to the major scholars that he had resigned as the head of the Zhu family because of serious illness, and his younger brother Zhu Gongzu would succeed him as the patriarch. A month later, the Zhu family proposed to the Ma family to dissolve the marriage.
The Ma family soon learned about a series of changes that happened in the Zhu family. Regarding Zhu Gongyuan's resignation as patriarch, Ma Yunhai was very angry. At the beginning, the marriage with the Zhu family was for the wealth of the Zhu family, and now the in-laws have resigned as the patriarch, so the meaning of this marriage is gone. Zhu Yingtai is no longer the daughter of the Zhu family, so the marriage between Zhu Yingtai and Ma Wencai is not the right one.
When Ma Yunhai was trying all kinds of ways to withdraw from the marriage, the Zhu family first proposed to dissolve the marriage. It's really like to sleep, someone sends a pillow. Without any hesitation, Ma Yunhai immediately agreed to the Zhu family's request. As for the huge bride price sent by the Zhu family at the beginning, it is impossible for him to return it.
This marriage, which forced Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai to death in the original version of Liang Zhu, was unexpectedly dissolved.
Liang Shanbo, who learned the news, was excited for a long time. For nearly two years, I thought every day about how to cancel the marriage between the Ma family and the Zhu family, but I didn't expect happiness to come so suddenly. Now that Zhu Yingtai is to be married, he can go to Zhu's house again to propose marriage.
Who knew that two days later, the bad news kept coming. The new Shangyu county order has come to office, and the new county order is none other than Huan Wen's second son, Huan Ji. It is said that Huan Ji took the initiative to propose it to his father, saying that he wanted to cultivate his ability to be a politician. In this regard, Huan Wen gave full affirmation and strong support, and allowed Huan Ji to bring 10,000 soldiers and horses. It was claimed that it was training in Shangyu.
But Huan Ji came and went to Zhujiazhuang three times within a month. At this point, even a fool can see that Huan Ji is a drunkard who does not mean to drink.
At this moment, Liang Shanbo couldn't be happy anymore.
Who is Huan Ji, according to the introduction of his cousin Xi Chao, this person is not only insidious and cunning, but also has a bad character and a perverse temperament. Such a character is not comparable to the former county commander Wei Song. Moreover, Huan Ji was standing behind Huan Wen. Who is Huan Wen, that is the contemporary hero who controls the imperial court and has 400,000 troops. Today, no one dares to touch his tiger whiskers, not only the emperor is trembling when he hears his name, but even the Hu people in the north are afraid of him.
Thinking about this father and son, Liang Shanbo felt that he couldn't afford to provoke anyone. But Zhu Yingtai still wants to marry, and no one can stop him.