Chapter 107: The Past (Part II)
Xie Zechuan's wife, Song, whose father is the secretary of the country, a scholarly family, a famous eunuch, and a daughter raised by her, is naturally knowledgeable and full of poetry and books. After she married Xie Zechuan, the husband and wife were in love, Qin Se and Ming, it can be said that they were a pair made in heaven.
However, when Xie Zechuan took his newlywed wife back to his hometown to worship his ancestors, there was a small contradiction between the Song family and the Lu family.
In fact, the Song family herself is a dignified and graceful lady, even if she knows the Lu family's life experience, she will not say anything. The two of them don't live together in the same place, they just meet occasionally during the New Year's Festival, even if they are a little unaccustomed to each other's places, she can bear it.
But that's not what Lu thinks.
Although she is the daughter of a criminal official, she has always regarded herself as the daughter of an official family, thinking that marrying into the Xie family is a subordinate marriage, and she is naturally detached. After giving birth to a son, she seemed to feel that her position in the Xie family was stable, so she put aside her previous caution, no longer maintained a gentle and docile image all the time, and occasionally acted domineeringly, and even didn't take her eldest sister-in-law Tu in her eyes.
Xie Zeshan's wife Tu is just the daughter of Xiucai, and she is kind, for the sake of the little uncle and nephew, she will not worry about the Lu family, but she didn't expect it to fuel the Lu family's arrogance. Xie Zehu often travels out to do business, and the affairs of the family are taken care of by his wife, and the rest of the Xie family is not easy to tell him, so he has never known the true face of his wife.
And after the Song family married in, the proud identity of the Lu family seemed to have lost its confidence. Even if Lu Shaoqing is not an official, the highest in his life is only a sixth-grade official, but the Guozijian Siye is an official position of the sixth-grade. Moreover, Song Yesi was still in power at that time, he was in the prime of life, and he was famous, and it was obvious that he was going to be promoted in the future. Regardless of the family background, appearance, talent, conversation, and etiquette, the Song family has ...... Everything is above the Lu family, and the temperament is also very good, as soon as he returned to Huyin, he got along very well with the eldest sister-in-law Tu family, as well as the daughters of the clan's relatives and friends, and completely compared the Lu family.
Everyone praised the Song family for being excellent and criticized the Lu family, and the Song family and Xie Zechuan were husband and wife, Xie Zehu even respected his brother and sister-in-law, and turned a deaf ear to some of the Lu family's complaints and complaints, and even accused her of not being a chicken belly and destroying the harmony between family members......
Since then, the Lu family has been resentful, and it is more and more impossible to get along with the Song family. But because Xie Zechuan and his wife have been living in Beijing, there are few opportunities for the two to meet, so they are just safe for the time being.
The following year, the Song family gave birth to Xie Zechuan's eldest daughter Mei Jun, who was unable to have children because of dystocia and injury. Xie Zechuan didn't care either, and rejected the suggestion of others to persuade him to take a concubine and have children, thinking that it would be good to keep his wife like this and raise his only daughter to grow up.
His two brothers, Xie Zeshan and Xie Zehu, both expressed their understanding for this, because they did not lack sons, and they would naturally not forget their brothers' incense in the future. But the Lu family thought that he finally had something that could beat the Song family, or the kind that the Song family couldn't turn over in his life, and he got carried away for a while, so he said something not very nice among relatives and friends, which caused Xie Zehu to be furious and slapped his wife for the first time. Lu tried his best to coax her husband back, and she was scared this time, and she didn't dare to make a big fuss, but the relationship between husband and wife has been estranged, and her husband is no longer obedient to her. The resentment towards the Song family in Lu's heart couldn't help but become deeper.
A few years later, the prince Zhu Yan, who is now the saint, was canonized as the king of Chu and officially left the palace to open the palace. Song Siye was unusually transferred from Guozijian to the right long history of the Chu Wangfu to serve as the fifth grade, and was responsible for teaching the King of Chu to read. The following year, Xie Zechuan was admitted to the Jinshi and passed the second class in high school.
Xie Zechuan regretted that he failed to enter the top three of the first class, and then he entered the Hanlin Academy, and it didn't take long for him to become famous in Beijing, and even the Tianchang Emperor at that time praised his articles, and his future was more optimistic than the three in the first class.
When Xie Zechuan stayed in the Hanlin Academy for three years and was about to disband to elect officials, a new round of royal competition for succession began again. The tragedy of the last years of Chengde is still fresh in the minds of many people, seeing that Emperor Tianchang is not in good health, the storage position is undecided, several princes in the palace are intrigued, and the eldest son of the princess of Yanwangfu is unwilling to be lonely and mixed in, the situation seems to be more complicated and dangerous than in the last years of Chengde, and many people of insight feel that it is better for foreign ministers not to be contaminated with the royal struggle.
Although Xie Zechuan's father-in-law, Song Changshi, was a subordinate official of the Chu Palace, he very decisively ordered his son-in-law to resign and return to his hometown to run a school, and wait for the situation in Beijing to stabilize before seeking the future. At that time, the king of Chu was not a long-term heir, and he was young, so he did not have any advantage in the battle for the throne, and he didn't seem to have any ambitions, and he would most likely become an idle king in the future. It is also reasonable for a subordinate officer to make such a decision. No one expected that it would be the King of Chu who would ascend to the throne later. And the king of Chu was able to overpower a group of brothers to ascend the throne, which was already after he married Cao Shi, the eldest daughter of the Nanbo of Pingnan in the southwest.
In the fourteenth year of Tianchang, Xie Zechuan and his wife returned to their hometown in Huyin County with their daughter and set up Zhushan Academy. His nephew Xie Pu also entered the academy to study, and was carefully taught by his second uncle Xie Zechuan. The young Xie Pu is smart and quick-witted, and he has a talent for reading. Xie Zechuan knew that he couldn't have a son, and he felt that the days of running and teaching were very good, and he didn't want to go back to the DPRK to serve as an official, so he simply concentrated on cultivating his nephew and let his nephew make up for his regret - being admitted to the top class.
After making up his mind, Xie Zechuan led Xie Pu into Beijing to meet his father-in-law Song Changshi, and after returning home, he discussed with Xie Zehu and set Wen Sumin, the only daughter of his classmate Wen Juren, as his wife. After Wen Juren died of illness, Wen Sumin moved into the Xie family with a dowry and was raised by the Xie family. That year, Xie Pu was twelve years old and Wen was ten years old.
It was also in this year that Xie Zechuan, Xie Zehu and the eldest brother Xie Zeshan agreed that Xie Pu would have two rooms and inherit the incense of the second and third rooms. But the Lu family didn't know about this until the New Year's sacrifice to the ancestors to change the family tree.
The Lu family regarded the Song family as the biggest competitor in his life for half of his life, and he actually wanted to give her half of his son, which was unacceptable no matter what. She made a fuss at the ancestor worship ceremony, was scolded back by Xie Zehu, and lost a big face in front of all the clansmen. But no matter how she made a fuss, the three brothers of the Xie family had already settled the matter, and they couldn't understand why she was making trouble. Xie Zehu also felt that he would have more sons in the future, even if he passed on his eldest son to his brother, it would be no problem, let alone just a concurrent, and naturally he would not listen to Lu's crying.
For this matter, Lu had an awkward quarrel with her husband Xie Zehu, and ran away in the wind and snow during the New Year. After all, Xie Zehu still cared about his wife in his heart, so he had to go out in the snow to look for her. Xie Zechuan also felt that his proposal had caused the discord between the brothers and the couple, and he was upset, so he went with Xie Zehu. Unexpectedly, the Lu family just hid in a nearby friend's house, but the Xie brothers went out because of the snow, suffered from the cold, and both fell ill afterwards.
Xie Zehu's illness recurred and he died a few months later. Xie Zechuan also fell ill, and his health has not been able to get better. The Lu family probably knew that he was in trouble and lost the protection of her husband, so she suddenly became much more honest and didn't dare to make trouble anymore, and often sent some soups to the Song family in the second room to show friendship.
The Song family naturally has a grudge against the Lu family in her heart, but her sick husband still needs her to take care of her, and she still has to worry about her daughter's marriage. Before Xie Zehu died, he repeatedly apologized to his brother and sister-in-law, begging them to take care of his wife and children. She also really cares for her heir Xie Pu, for the sake of the child, for the sake of Xie Zehu, she can't do anything to hurt the Lu family, so she can only be cold. Since then, the Xie family has regained calm.
No one expected that after Xie Zechuan died of a serious illness, the Lu family would take advantage of everyone's lack of attention to secretly take advantage of the weaving yards, dyeing workshops, cotton fields, and shops left by Xie Zehu...... waited for a large number of industries to be sold, and then carried a huge amount of money, deceived Xie Pu and Wen's into getting into the car, escaped from Huyin, and flew away.
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