Chapter 250: Embarrassment
Mrs. Xie's falling out with her mother's family can be traced back to her girlhood, when her father Lu Shaoqing died in prison.
Lu Shaoqing was convicted of corruption and dereliction of duty, but in fact, the real reason was that he was on the wrong side. Although he was a small person, he hugged the thigh of his boss, and his boss happened to support one of the princes of Emperor Chengde to compete for the throne. However, in the battle for succession in the last years of Chengde, all the princes were losers, and in the end, they all ended up, cheapening their cousin Yan Wang Shizi for nothing. Each of the prince's supporters was either attacked by the opponent in the process of seizing the heir and became a victim, or after the battle for the succession was over, Emperor Chengde regarded him as the original culprit who killed his son, and almost no good results came of.
Lu Shaoqing is even more unlucky, although he is just a small person, he is not innocent, he did have corruption and dereliction of duty, but the crime was too light, and it would not have been fatal. Therefore, even though several later emperors have rehabilitated the courtiers who died unjustly during this period to show the king's leniency and kindness, basically no one will rehabilitate Lu Shaoqing.
But to say that he was unlucky, in fact, he was lucky, because he died of illness in prison before he could go to the execution ground, avoiding the end of being in a different place. And his wife and daughter who were exiled to the frontier were pardoned and released on the way to exile because the new monarch ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, and their status changed from a criminal to a commoner.
However, Lu Shaoqing died of sin, which affected the family. When Mrs. Xie, who was still young, accompanied her mother back to the clan, she was quite coldly treated. After she married Xie Zehu, she basically never went back to her hometown of Changxing. After she lost her husband, she sold her property and ran away from Songjiang with her son and daughter-in-law who had not passed through the door, and she never even thought about going back to Huzhou to live.
But Mrs. Xie has always been thinking about her father's death, and always wants to rehabilitate her father, so that she can confirm her background as the daughter of an official family. Otherwise, she could only show off this in her husband's family, and when she met the Song family, who knew her roots, and outsiders who might know her father's deeds, she didn't dare to mention a word.
She would be so active in promoting the marriage of her son Xie Pu and the Cao family back then, in fact, she also had the intention of using the power of the Cao family to rehabilitate her father. However, in the more than ten years when the Xie Cao family had a good relationship, the Cao family's appeal to her was also very perfunctory, at most they helped deliver a few words, which contributed to the rehabilitation of her father Lu Shaoqing's old boss. As for a little person like Lu Shaoqing? Who remembers?
But Mrs. Xie has always felt that her father was suffering with her old boss. The old boss was rehabilitated, and rounding up was no different from her father's rehabilitation. Before she noticed the difference, she was really proud of her work for a year or two. In those years or two, she once returned to her hometown in Changxing to worship her father and ancestors, and she also showed off in front of her clansmen how powerful her good in-laws were the Cao family, and that kind of nouveau riche face, as well as her arrogant and rude attitude, almost offended the whole Lu family.
In the Lu clan, because of the strength of the Cao family, he swallowed his anger and did not dare to quarrel with Mrs. Xie, but chose an honest heir for Lu Shaoqing in the clan, and held a succession ceremony, and he inherited the incense of Lu Shaoqing. But Mrs. Xie never took this heir brother to heart, and the heir brother did not associate with her, and lived his own small life in the ancestral house of his hometown and gave birth to children.
According to Pearl, Mrs. Xie's heir is now full of children and grandchildren, and the ancestral house, which was not too big, is full. After Mrs. Xie went back, no one in the clan wanted to see her. However, considering that although she turned her face with her powerful in-laws, her son is still a high-ranking official from the third grade, and he has not lost his position, but no one deliberately embarrasses her, but no one can bear her idleness anymore. Her heir is willing to take her in to live in the ancestral house, but she can only allocate half of the side courtyard, how can Mrs. Xie be so angry?
Pearl choked up and said to Wen's mother and son: "The old lady scolds and scolds all day long, and the children and grandchildren of that heir are not easy to follow. Mother He and I could only think of ideas, pay for the old lady's food and cooking, and ask the doctor to take medicine, but the old lady ...... She couldn't help it! So he was so angry that he vomited blood again.
The Wen family had grievances in their hearts against Mrs. Xie and the Lu family, but in fact, they didn't have much to say when they heard the words, so they just said: "If you don't live well, just move out." The old lady's illness is important, as long as she is cured, where can she go to the old man's house? Changxing is not used to living, just go to Huzhou City. Our family used to have shops in Huzhou, although now they have fallen into the hands of the Cao family, but there are still a few familiar businesses, and it is not difficult to borrow other people's other businesses. If you don't know which family can be trusted, just ask the guy in the shop to ask. ”
Pearl wiped away her tears and said, "How can we know these things?" At that time, I only thought about asking the elders of the Lu clan to make decisions for the old lady, but no one was willing to speak for us. Later, we listened to others, only to know that the old lady not only offended the people of the He clan when she worshiped her ancestors, but also when the descendants of the clan went to Beijing to catch the exam, there was nowhere to stay, or there was a shyness in the pocket, and some people begged to come to the house and ask the old lady to stretch out a hand, but the old lady ignored it and gave one or two pieces of money, and sent people away. That's all a serious man! Every house in the clan was very angry about this, and no one had come to the door for more than ten years. But the old lady didn't take it to heart, and only regarded it as a trivial matter......"
Therefore, when she was in trouble, Mrs. Xie thought of defecting to her mother's family, and forgot what she had done.
When Pearl and Mrs. He learned these truths, they were about to collapse. The Lu clan was cold to Mrs. Xie, and they didn't have the confidence to talk to anyone. Seeing that Mrs. Xie's condition had improved slightly, they immediately persuaded the owner to change places.
This time, they strongly advised Mrs. Xie that if she refused to return to her home in Jinling to recuperate, she would go back to her hometown in Huyin County. If they really don't want to meet with the Xie family, they don't object, after all, they have been to the Lu clan once, and they are also afraid, worried that in the Xie family, they will be treated the same.
They felt that Huyin County was so big, and the Xie family lived in one place, not all over the county, so they could live far away from the Xie family and not meet the Xie family. But there are Wen and Xie Xianzhi, Xie Jinzhi and others in Huyin County, and Mrs. Xie has younger relatives to rely on, which is better than being alone outside.
This time, Mrs. Xie finally moved.
She ordered Mrs. He to be part of the luggage again, in exchange for coiling, hired two cars, and the master and servant left Changxing County and took the car to Huyin. However, she did not enter Huyin County, but went to Xiejiawan, where the Xie family used to live.
In the eighth year of Jingle, there was a flood around Taihu Lake, Xie Jiawan was flooded, and the Xie family's house was seriously damaged. Later, Huyin County ordered the allocation of land on the edge of the county seat, allowing the Xie family to move in, and the Xie family was abandoned. Xie Pu once mentioned this matter to his mother, but Mrs. Xie was unhappy, and he didn't dare to mention it again. But the matter has already been remembered in Mrs. Xie's mind. When she arrived in Huyin County, she asked Mrs. He to go out to inquire again, and after making sure that there was still a house in Xie Jiawan, but there was no Xie family, she immediately decided to live here.
Pearl was full of tiredness, and said to Wen and the others: "The old lady lives in the old mansion now, send me to Pingwang Town to wait for you." Now, I have finally waited for my wife and young masters. If it drags on for another two days, I'm afraid that the old lady won't have the money to take medicine......"
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