During the Tang and Song dynasties, it was still common for women to remarry, but in the Ming Dynasty, as Cheng Zhu Lixue was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, there were more and more women who kept festivals, and when they opened the genealogy, there were more and more examples of praising which festival women raised their children and did not marry for decades, and there were more and more virgin martyrs and martyrs praised by the imperial court. For example, Huizhou Mansion is the hometown of Zhu Xi, although the study of mind is now vigorously developed, and the posture of Zhu Lixue is greatly covered, but under the influence of deep-rooted etiquette, it is still a very difficult thing for a woman to re-indulge.

And Wang Shangning's mother took her three sons to remarry and let them change their surnames, you can imagine how big a deal this is! After all, whether it is the Wang family of Zhuchuan or the Cheng family of Zhukou, they are not unknown people.

Since the beginning of the migration of the ancestors, the relationship between the Zhuchuan Wang family and the Cheng's family has been very delicate. One of the sons of the ancestor Wang Sen is the Cheng family, and then multiplied from generation to generation, many people are married and have children in the Cheng family of Zhukou, and there are several husbands who keep festivals and raise orphans Cheng Shi. Therefore, in the generation of Wang Shangning's father Wang Hao, Wang's family has not even had a show for several generations, Wang Hao said that it is a seclusion in Fushi, and he has taught many talents, and it is not good to say that he can't even pass the show and can only rely on teaching people to survive. After his death, his wife Huang remarried Cheng Sixun with three sons, and at that time the Wang family and the Cheng family were in an uproar, until Cheng Sixun raised Wang Shangning, and the situation improved.

Now Wang Shangning is called Mrs. Wang, and Cheng Sixun, who is nearly eighty years old, can actually be called Mrs. Cheng, but because he has no adult children and grandchildren in his family, most of the Cheng family in Zhukou is still called the old lady.

He married a widow. That's a lot of pressure. Not only the Wang family is clamoring for this. The Cheng clan also almost broke off relations with him. You must know that compared with the Wang family, which is not as good as the generation in Xishan, the Cheng family is the largest family in Zhukou, and there are countless roads and bridges. If a widow in the clan does not observe the festival, it will attract endless discussions, not to mention that Cheng Sixun directly married the widow Huang of the Zhuchuan Wang family?

However, he really likes the Huang family, so he doesn't care about accepting three stepsons at all, and does his best to pay for their education. However, when Wang Shangning was not weak, he became a showman, and then he was a Jinshi all the way to victory, and at the age of 20, he became an official from Jinshi, but later Huang died. He was worried about life and death and asked Huang to be buried with his biological father, and waited until the official was big. But he changed his surname back to Wang with his two younger brothers, and donated the prison officer for his younger brothers, even if he also asked for a grace from the deputy director of the Seven Virtues Pedestrian Division for his stepfather, but the three brothers of the Wang family later built another Wang house, how can he say that he is lonely these days?

When Huang married him, he was five years older than him, his eldest son Wang Shangning was seven years old, and the other two sons were five years old and two years old, because his family was not wealthy, and it was already very difficult for these three sons to study, so he was not obsessed with having biological heirs at first, and it was not until several years later that Huang gave birth to a daughter. When his daughter got married, his three stepsons returned to his family, and his wife died again, although he was extremely lonely, he did not marry another. Although the stepsons of the three returning Wang clans also came to visit during the New Year's holidays, they once discussed choosing one of the sons of the three brothers to be his heir and grandson, but because his family background was not very good, the matter was shelved.

So much so that in the end, it was the patriarch of the Cheng clan who came forward and picked a grandson among his cousins and set up an heir for him. Although the successor is not as good as his own life after all, the sorrow is greater than the death of the heart, and he is too lonely to put all his thoughts on this young grandson.

What he likes to do most now is to open the "Xin'an Famous Clan Chronicles" sent when he was compiled when he has time, and open the volume of Cheng's fascination. Because the Cheng family was the first volume, it was compiled earlier than the Wang family's volume, in addition to him, the deputy secretary of the pedestrian department, Shang Ning, the stepson of the Shaanxi Buzheng Division, who participated in politics left, was also placed at the forefront of the Cheng family's contemporaries. At that time, Wang Shangning had not changed his surname, and was still called Cheng Shangning. But when it came time to compile Wang's volume, his stepson had already become an official envoy to Yunnan, and the three brothers all changed their surnames back to Wang, appearing in the volume of Zhuchuan Wang's family, but they didn't mention the fact that he had the surname Cheng.

"It's better to be kind than to be kind...... Hehe, what about decades of affection, in the end, you can't even close the acupuncture points after death...... When I was doing something in the book, I knew how to carry me with me......"

Cheng Sixun, who was a handful of years old, pinched the book in his hand that was almost rotten, and while muttering to himself, there was also water in his cloudy eyes. It's not that he didn't think that he would die like this, but after all, it was difficult to settle, and when he first picked his grandson, he hoped that the child would be younger, so that he could be close, so Cheng Xiangyuan, the heir of a poor family and a young child, is still only twelve years old, and he is still young.

Just when he was in a daze as always, he suddenly only felt that someone next to him was pushing him, and when he looked sideways, he realized that it was his grandson Cheng Xiangyuan, who was supposed to be studying in the study, and he didn't know when he came. Cheng Xiangyuan saw that he was pushed awake, and hurriedly said: "Grandpa, someone outside came to visit you, saying that it was Wang Fulin, Songming Mountain, She County. ”

"Wang Fulin, Songming Mountain, Shexian County?"

Even Cheng Sixun, who has not been out much in recent years, is no stranger to this name. You must know that Wang Fulin and Zhuchuan Wang can be described as deep hatred. Wang Shangning is just that, he will not talk about such a humiliating thing in front of him, but Wang Shangxuan is different, once when he talked about Wang Fulin in front of several important people in the Cheng family, he almost didn't scold. And because someone from the Cheng family in Zhukou opened his mouth to defend Wang Fulin for a few words, Wang Shangxuan was so angry that he said that he was sick and did not come to him all year round. If Wang Shangxuan knew that Wang Fulin actually came to visit him at this time, what kind of expression would it be?

Thinking so in his heart, Cheng Sixun, who was already old, had no intention of turning people away. He narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Cheng Xiangyuan beside him kindly, and said with a smile: "Grandpa can't walk, you go outside to greet them on behalf of grandpa." Remember, you can't be sloppy in etiquette. That Wang Gongzi is a jinshi. ”

"Grandpa rest assured. I know. It's the same Jinshi as my uncle.。 Cheng Xiangyuan smiled and showed his dimples, didn't notice the gloom on Cheng Sixun's face when he heard the title of eldest uncle, turned around and ran out.

When twelve-year-old Cheng Xiangyuan came back again, Cheng Sixun found that he was not followed by Wang Fulin alone, but several people. If Wang Fulin came to visit him alone, it would be reasonable, but such a large number of young and old came together. He was a little surprised. After the two sides met, he saw that Wang Fu Lin was full of etiquette, and he was old but clear-minded, so he said with a smile: "I usually have few guests in this house, but I didn't expect so many guests to come at once today." Let me lean on the old man and ask, Wang Gongzi is bringing the whole family to Zhukou together? ”

"Yes, I originally brought the whole family to recognize my relatives, but things changed a little, so I couldn't help but run this trip in vain, so I passed by outside the Cheng family ancestral hall before, and learned that it was rebuilt by the Yuanye County Ya in the Tang Dynasty. I just wanted to visit the respected elders of the Cheng clan in Zhukou, so I took the liberty to come. There was no prior notice. Please don't blame me for coming abruptly, old lady. When Wang Fulin said this, he introduced the other people who came with him today, first of all, naturally his uncle Wu Tianbao, then Xiaobei, and then Ye Xiaopang and Jinbao Qiufeng.

Cheng Sixun didn't expect that Wang Fulin really came with the whole family, and he was suddenly even more puzzled, especially when he saw Xiaobei, he looked at the men's dress, and couldn't help but think of the tortuous experience of asking to marry the Huang family when he was young, but he didn't care that the young couple went out so unscrupulously. Of course, he was more interested in the rumored three little guys who were taught to read, especially Wang Fulin's Jinbao, who was about the same age as his heir Cheng Xiangyuan. After looking at it for a while, he sighed with emotion: "The twelve-year-old head of the case is really a peerless jade, and Wang Gongzi is really a good eye. ”

"I can't talk about good eyesight, in fact, at that time, it was just a bad person's personality." Wang Fulin said while glancing sideways at Qiu Feng standing on the other side of the chair, and said with a smile, "There is also Qiu Feng." The old lady has also heard about Qiu Feng, right? Otherwise, it has become a common practice to study in our Huizhou Mansion, and he actually learned a lot of things by doing chores in Shexian School Palace and auditing in Ziyang Academy. When I accepted Jinbao and him successively, thanks to my father-in-law who was still the county commander at the time, I kept them to study with my brother-in-law, otherwise I would be in debt, and I really don't know where to find a famous teacher to teach them. ”

"Yes, it's not easy to have a scholar at home. After all, it's not an overnight thing to test a fame, you have to study hard day and night, you can't pick your shoulders and can't lift it, and the chores at home can't help, I think that Shuangmu's mother went to the field to take care of his sick father, Shuangmu was taken care of by his two sisters, and then two more people were added, even after I heard about it, I didn't say anything in person, but secretly I still worried about him. This time it was Wu Tianbao who answered the call, although it was not like Xiaobei and Wang Fulin who were used to playing together, but they were all discussed on the road, and he naturally knew what to say, "In the end, Shuangmu is really a cherishing talent." ”

"Your two children are indeed lucky." Cheng Sixun had mixed feelings, but he remembered more and more about the three stepsons who used to study, and he was a little distracted for a while.

But at this moment, he only heard Xiaobei speak: "What's the use of him, he can't stand someone making trouble behind his back again and again!" Jinbao is already pitiful enough, not to mention being sold by his own brother, he has to use him to frame Fu Lin. Qiu Feng recruited who to provoke whom, first he was used as a cash cow by his family, and it was easy for Fu Lin to use the money to send away those insatiable guys, and now he has won the show, for fear of being involved by his family, he wants to find him a successor with good conduct in the same clan, and he chose the Cheng aunt of the Cheng family in Zhukou, but even this kind of good thing that accomplished him was still made bad behind his back! ”

Cheng Sixun listened a little absentmindedly, but his ears caught the word "bad", and he woke up with a thrill. However, he missed a few words in front of him, he could only glance at Cheng Xiangyuan on the side, and Cheng Xiangyuan, who was used to doing this kind of thing, hurriedly put his mouth next to his ear and repeated Xiaobei's words as they were. At this moment, Cheng Sixun's eyes widened, where was the tiredness and loss of consciousness just now!

"The person who makes the bad is not from the Zhuchuan Wang clan, right?" Seeing that Wang Fulin was sneering and silent, he stared at the person for a long time, and then said with a smile: "It turns out that Wang Gongzi came today to ask the teacher for sin?" ”

"The matter has come to this point, I can't force it, where do I dare to come to Xingshi to ask for guilt? What's more, if you want to ask the teacher for sin, then you also go to the Wang family, come to the Cheng family to find the old lady, isn't it the wrong person? ”

Wang Fulin looked at Cheng Sixun without dodging, and said with a debt: "Don't do to others what you don't want, I just think that the old lady raised three stepsons with hard work, but now Cheng Huan's knees are others, plus Qiu Feng's matter, I just feel a little emotional." Zhukou Cheng and Zhuchuan Wang married each other, so far there have been several generations, the old lady married a wife to raise his stepson, I don't know how much pressure he suffered, in the end the stepson returned to the sect, this can also be said to be a ritual, but whether it is a joint burial or support, it is all human affection. Since some people don't think about the source when they drink water, it's no wonder that even the trivial matter of Qiu Feng has to be hindered. ”

Cheng Sixun didn't expect Wang Fulin to reveal this old scar, and his color changed for a while, but when he was about to speak, he didn't expect Wang Fulin to say something that he didn't expect at all.

"As far as I know, the old lady married his wife at the age of twenty-four, and then when you were less than forty, Mrs. Huang died. According to the rules of the imperial court, although there is a difference in age, he is very qualified to be a righteous husband. You must know that the pedestrian deputy who was sealed on the old lady's body before was begged by his stepson, and Yu Lingsun was of no help to him, and he was not qualified to let him get grace. But if you add a memorial arch that shows the righteous husband, if nothing else, it is relatively easy for him to order Sun to fight for an Engong prisoner every day! ”

The so-called righteous husband, as opposed to the festival woman, refers to the extremely rare situation in which a man does not remarry or take concubines after losing his wife in the prime of life, and keeps righteousness for life. Although the mention of Yifu existed in the Yuan Dynasty, and was even written into the play, it has never been seen in the official expression of Yifu in the imperial court, Wang Fulin once had an impression when he read the Huizhou Mansion Chronicles, which was the killer feature for him to see Cheng Sixun at this time.

He didn't just come to Xingshi to ask for guilt, or he came here to scold Huai, disgusting those people of the Zhuchuan Wang family, although Cheng Sixun was not young when he was righteous, but it has been forty years now, even if in the end, there is a controversy about this righteous husband's appearance, and it may not be able to come down, but so what? As long as there is corresponding public opinion, he doesn't believe that Cheng Sixun doesn't want to vent his anger. As for Cheng Sixun's grandson, of course he will not cross the river and tear down the bridge.

Seeing Cheng Sixun's struggling expression on his face, Wang Fulin said word by word: "More than ten years of hard parenting, forty years of righteousness and the virtue of not marrying, compared with blood, which is more important?" I just want the world to think about whether it is better to be kind than to be gracious, or is it better to be gracious than to be gracious? ”

Cheng Xiangyuan still seemed to understand, but everyone else in the room was dumbfounded. After all, Wang Fulin didn't show any tone just now, is this really because of a momentary whim?

Cheng Xiangyuan was still young, and he couldn't understand what everyone was talking about, at this time, he suddenly saw a little guy outside with his head poking his head, he glanced at Cheng Sixun, and immediately rushed out quickly, and when he ran back, he didn't care about the other people in the hall, and said breathlessly: "Grandpa, I heard that the old patriarch took a few people and went straight to the eldest uncle's house!" ”

PS: Today is one change, tomorrow is two...... (To be continued.) )