Chapter 2: Five Generations of Single Transmission
The Li family has been passed down for five generations.
The heirs are difficult for the Li family, but the people of the side branch are very prosperous, but the side branch and the branch have already come out of the five suits; Moreover, every generation has the ambition of the wolf of the side branch people, coveting the family property of the grandson, making waves, so the Li family is always difficult to develop and grow, and those real textile families can not be compared.
Anyone who can be called a textile family has a huge foundation, profound technical heritage and heritage, although the Li family is rich, it can only be regarded as second-rate.
Because of this, the heirs of the Li family in the past generations have taken the continuation of children as the top priority, and all of them are groups of wives and concubines, but they still can't change this phenomenon.
What's even more wonderful is that every generation of the Li family is born of a wife, and no concubine can give birth to even a son and a half daughter; It's not that you can't live if you give birth - in that case, you can still suspect that the wife is doing it, but you can't conceive at all.
Li Zhuohang's father did not believe in evil, and took turns to take the concubines out of the house, but still found nothing. In the end, he despaired and returned to Yuezhuang, preparing to inherit the family business by an heir from his clan. The clansmen are scrambling, hoping that their sons can succeed them, and there will be a lot of trouble! At this time, Mrs. Li became pregnant and gave birth to Li Zhuohang. At that time, she was forty years old, which was a miracle.
Li Zhuohang married Jiang Yuzhen at the age of seventeen.
Jiang Yuzhen is the daughter of the maritime merchant Jiang family. The Jiang family has two main businesses: one is shipping, operating the Maritime Silk Road; The other is shipbuilding.
After Jiang Yuzhen passed the door, Mrs. Li hinted to her: The Li family's heirs are difficult, and if she fails to give birth to a son within two years, she will give Li Zhuohang a concubine. Although it is useless for the ancestors of the Li family to take concubines, they can't be like this from generation to generation, right? It's all a dead horse and a live horse doctor. The heir is important, Jiang Yuzhen can only agree.
In the tenth year of Jingkang, Li Zhuohang's father died.
Li Zhuohang inherited the position of the head of the family and took over the Li family's property.
Mrs. Li ordered him to take Jiang Yuzhen out.
Originally, the daughter-in-law was going to stay in the ancestral home to serve the elders, but the old lady wanted to add grandchildren, so naturally the young husband and wife were inseparable to have a chance.
On the second day of June in the thirteenth year of Jingkang, Jiang Yuzhen gave birth to Li Hanyao. At that time, she was so frightened that she couldn't breathe - five generations of single transmission, but she gave birth to a daughter!
This daughter occupies the place of son!
Is the Li family really going to die?
She took the initiative to give Li Zhuohang Zhang Luona's concubine.
However, Li Zhuohang refused.
Li Zhuohang believes that if he is destined to have only one son, then he hopes that this son will be a son-in-law, not a concubine.
He is very important.
He is not discriminating against his concubine, he thinks: It is disrespectful to let his blood be born from the belly of any woman, not from the belly of the wife who is marrying Ming Media. The concubine has a low status, and this lowliness and humility is caused by being a father, and non-concubines can choose.
His children are very noble and must not come out of the belly of a concubine.
So, he restrains himself.
Jiang Yuzhen was moved and frightened.
Because she didn't give birth to a son!
This affection is a little difficult to bear.
Li Zhuohang knew that his wife failed to give birth to a son, and he was afraid to return to his hometown to see his mother-in-law. He was also afraid that his mother would not like her granddaughter when she saw her; Moreover, the daughter is young and should not travel bumpy, if there is a case on the way, he will lose even this bit of blood. Therefore, every year he goes back to his hometown to visit his mother, and he does not let his wife and daughter follow, and wants to bring his daughter back when she grows up. Unexpectedly, the old lady was sick. If I knew this, I should have brought Li Hanyao back to see my grandmother as soon as possible. The son wants to raise but the parent is not there, which is compared to the regret of their husband and wife.
The old lady's last words told Li Zhuohang not to take a concubine, which made Jiang Yu really can't believe her ears, why did her mother-in-law change her mind?
She couldn't figure out the old lady's intentions.
Either way, it's a good thing for her.
She couldn't help but think of the old lady's benefits.
The old lady was born in the Guo family in the archway of Wuyou Town, Huzhou. The Guo family is a well-known textile family. Originally, the old lady and the old lady both hoped that Li Zhuohang would marry the daughter of the Guo family, but Li Zhuohang fell in love with Jiang Yuzhen at a glance at the brocade conference.
After Jiang Yuzhen married into the Li family, the old lady did not make it difficult for her. She was able to sing with Li Zhuohang, her husband and her wife, thanks to her mother-in-law; After giving birth to a daughter, he didn't blame her and stuffed a woman next to Li Zhuohang; Leaving such a last word on her deathbed made her feel suddenly relaxed, how could she not be grateful?
She couldn't help but cry bitterly.
After his mother went, Li Zhuohang only felt that a thread in his heart was broken, and since then he has been running around, and there is no one who cares about him in this hometown, like duckweed without roots. Hearing his wife's cry, he suddenly woke up, opened his arms and took the mother and daughter in his arms, wanting to draw warmth from them and give them support.
They were his only remaining relatives!
The husband and wife hugged each other and cried bitterly.
The young Li Hanyao was ignorant of death, and when she saw her father crying like this, she was frightened - her father and mother were strong and omnipotent in her heart, how could she cry like a child? Especially Li Zhuohang, the mournful cry made Li Hanyao feel that the sky had fallen. Although scared, the little girl behaved strongly.
She took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, raised her little hand, wiped away Li Zhuohang's tears, and coaxed softly, "Daddy won't cry anymore"; With the other hand, he helped Jiang Yuzhen wipe his tears and persuaded "Mother don't cry", but her father's tears could not be wiped away, and they gushed repeatedly.
She wiped her handkerchief and wiped her hands with tears, but her father and mother did not stop crying, but cried even more because of her actions. She refused to give up, choked up and asked, "Daddy, why are you crying?" Don't cry, okay? ”
Li Zhuohang's heart is like a knife, but he can't comfort and accommodate his daughter as usual - his mother is dead, he can't help crying!
He cried, "Yao'er, your grandmother has gone to ......"
When Li Hanyao heard this, she looked back at the bed in surprise, didn't her grandmother lie there? Didn't go anywhere. The little face was full of puzzlement.
Li Zhuohang said to Li Hanyao like a child: "Daddy has no mother anymore...... Daddy has no father, and there is no mother...... "His mother was born at the age of forty, and he grew up in the palm of his mother's hand!" He is like a child, recalling the bits and pieces of his mother who gave birth to him, chasing the time and turning back, showing his vulnerability in front of his daughter, and venting his inner sadness.
Li Hanyao still didn't figure out why her father was crying, but she understood that her father wanted her mother. Daddy's mother is my grandmother. So she called her grandmother to coax her father. She shouted into the bed, "Grandmother, get up!" Daddy is back! Yao'er is back! ”
The old lady was silent and smiling serenely.
Li Hanyao complained a little about the old grandmother in her heart: Your son is crying like this, you don't get up to coax? She wanted to get up and push the old lady.
Li Zhuohang hugged her and didn't let go.
The old lady was afraid that she was already cold and stiff at this time, how could he let his daughter touch the corpse? If he was frightened, wouldn't he be distressed to death?
Jiang Yuzhen cried: "Your grandmother can't come back!"
Li Hanyao didn't know what it meant to "can't come back", but seeing that her grandmother was always silent, she felt bad in her heart and cried. It's not crying for my grandmother, but for crying my father, lest my father and mother have been so decadent. While crying, she insisted on helping her father and mother wipe her tears, telling them to stop crying, saying that Yao'er was so scared.
His daughter's crying made Li Zhuohang feel very distressed and sober.
He was grieved by the death of his mother, but now he had to devote some of his attention to his daughter.
He secretly vowed that after this time, he would not shed a tear easily, and would not let his daughter bear the fear of panic and helplessness. His father is gone, his mother is gone, and no one or anything can make him cry in the future!