Chapter 16: Relatives
In this chaotic time, the officialdom career is not so easy to mix, and if you are not careful, you may not even lose your life.
It's like my grandparents and grandparents, my grandfather was originally a person in officialdom, but because his grandfather's temperament was too upright and didn't know how to be flexible, this kind of temperament was suitable for mixing in officialdom, so he finally resigned and returned to his hometown.
And his grandfather is a big local businessman, although he is very rich, but the status of a businessman at this time is very low, not only will he be looked down upon, but he will always be troubled by being an official, so he wants to train his next generation, so that he can gain fame and fame, and stop being a businessman.
But although the old lady has a lot of wives and concubines, except for the old lady who gave birth to a son, the other women are either killed when the child is still in the womb, or they are killed after being born, and only their father and a daughter who have not yet come and grown up are the ones who grow up safely.
In order to make his son a talent in the future, the old lady named him "Liu Wenhao", hoping that he can be like this name, with extensive knowledge and talent, and he can gain fame in the future.
It's a pity that my father doesn't like to read, and there is no hope for him to gain fame.
Later, when I saw that my grandfather had returned to his hometown with his family, I inquired and knew that he had resigned and came back by himself, and it was not a crime, so I thought about having a relationship with him.
And the best relationship is the children's in-laws, so the old lady went to his grandfather to propose marriage, and the grandfather also inquired about the family, and felt that although the family was a businessman, the old lady's reputation here was still good, so he agreed to the marriage.
Soon after the two got married, my grandfather used his connections to find a relationship, and through a series of dots, he finally made Liu Wenhao a county magistrate, although he was only the lowest-level official, but he was an official anyway, so with the identity of an official, it would be much easier to climb up in the future.
The old lady was satisfied with this marriage, but the old lady of the family was not so happy, the old lady originally wanted her niece to marry her son, but she couldn't refute the decision made by the old lady, so she had to admit it.
However, she did not give up this idea, and after her son became an official, she promised her niece to her son as a concubine.
After all, the old lady's maiden family is only a small business, and she has no ability, and now that her son is an official, she may continue to be promoted in the future, after all, her husband's family is not short of money, no matter where she is, she has money to do things, and marrying her own maiden girl into the door can be regarded as a closer connection between her own maiden family and her husband's family.
So the old couple married their sons one by one and took concubines, and they didn't care about their sons' thoughts at all.
As for my father, I don't know if it's really just because I don't like the person my parents choose, or because the rebellious period has arrived, since the marriage, I have led the concubines one after another into the door, completely ignoring that he has just gotten married, and he doesn't give his newlywed wife a little face.
Fortunately, his mother's personality is good, and he didn't run back to his parents' house to complain or anything, so that the family didn't make any waves because of his father's constant concubines.
The old lady was very disgusted with his son's behavior, and he was so angry that he chased him with a stick and beat him many times, but his father still went his own way and didn't take his words to heart.
The old lady also has no choice but to take his son, scolding and scolding, beating and beating, but people are just beating and scolding, just don't admit their mistakes, and when you finish fighting, scolding, continue to be the way before, the old lady is also angry with him.
This situation continued until Aunt Zhao was carried back, and since then, his scumbag father has not continued to carry the concubine back, and I don't know if it was because I had enough trouble or because I met true love, but in the days after that, Aunt Zhao is undoubtedly the most favored.
As soon as Shu Xuan heard this, the first thing that came to mind was that this Aunt Zhao must be the true love of her scumbag father, and the women who were brought back before were just a disguise, the purpose was to cover up Aunt Zhao for this, because there were those women in front of her, and when Aunt Zhao arrived, she would not be rejected by the old lady and the old lady.
If Aunt Zhao was only brought back, then she would definitely not be treated by the old lady and the old lady.
But thinking so, Shu Xuan didn't know what the specific situation was, but she still firmly believed in her own thoughts.
Things at home calmed down like this, but something happened to the people who went out.
When the old lady went out to discuss business, he met a mountain bandit and lost his life in the chaos.
And his grandparents' family, also because there is nothing to do now, it is very boring to stay at home all day, my grandfather wanted to take the whole family out for a walk, but walked to a small mountain village, when I got there, it happened to rain heavily, and I couldn't leave for a while, and then the rain became heavier and heavier, and finally the flash flood broke out, and the family lost their news, and it is estimated that they were also wiped out.
And as soon as my grandfather died, his connections were basically useless, so now the old lady doesn't treat Mrs. Liu who robbed her niece's position very well, and from time to time she makes excuses to embarrass her, but Mrs. Liu is a submissive character, and after several embarrassments, the old lady also feels bored, so she reduces the number of times she finds fault.
After Shuxuan learned about her grandfather's generation, she just sighed that they were really unlucky, and then put it aside, after all, although they are all relatives in their own lives, they have never gotten along, and they can't have any feelings, let alone be sad about their death.
The dead are gone, but the living have to continue to live.
No, after the bad news came, Mrs. Liu couldn't swallow all the time, and she felt disgusting when she saw everything, at first everyone thought that she was too sad because of the departure of her relatives, but seeing that people were losing weight day by day, the whole person was about to lose weight and deform, and the people in the house were in a hurry, and hurriedly went to invite a doctor.
When the doctor arrived, he took a pulse and found out that Mrs. Liu was pregnant, and she would have nausea reactions these days, which was completely caused by pregnancy.
As soon as the news spread, some people in the house were happy and some were worried, especially those women, who were anxious, and they used all kinds of means to get rid of the child.