Chapter 60: Refusal
Therefore, Cai Dacheng's family was targeted by the people sent by Mrs. Chen as soon as they entered Beijing, and it is not surprising that she came to the door in person, because in another year, Miss Chen will be nineteen years old.
Cai Dacheng also knew that this Lord Chen had a good character, and he didn't want to embarrass this beautiful little old man, but now this little old man was embarrassing him, if he didn't stick to his principles, then his family would have to disperse.
"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, can you go? Didn't you just say that you were in a hurry to find the emperor? It just so happens that Weichen also has business to negotiate with Lord Chen! ”
For the prince who was sitting on one side and ready to watch the excitement, Cai Dacheng was not polite.
The prince was innocently arrested, but he could only admit it.
What the two sides are talking about will involve his daughter's reputation, and it is really not good for him to keep it.
After the two of them sent off the prince, they sat down in order of eldest and youngest, and only after Huangshan had tea and exited, the two started talking.
"Virtuous nephew, I didn't want to look for you today, but just now I told the old man that my stupid woman has come to your door again, and I have to come over to say hello to you and apologize to you!" After saying that, he got up and prepared to bend down and salute.
Cai Dacheng was so frightened that he immediately stopped him, and at the same time, he felt helpless about Mrs. Chen's entanglement.
Cai Dacheng pondered his sentence for a moment and spoke as a junior.
"My lord, it stands to reason that your husband and wife value the boy, and the boy should not refuse.
But my family's situation is really special! This is not just a rejection of you, it is the daughter of other people's families, even if the emperor forces my princess, the kid can't agree.
And my brother will be the same as me in this life, and he will never marry any woman again.
Don't be angry when you hear that, and don't ignore the kid in the future. ”
Lord Chen is curious now, why did he involve his younger brother as well?
Cai Dacheng actually didn't care at all that others said that they were brothers and wives, but he had to take into account the feelings of Zhao Jiao and others in dealing with the world, so he said:
"The boy's father-in-law is in danger and takes care of the orphan and gives his wife to me.
My father-in-law is a talented man, and if he wasn't born at the wrong time, he would definitely become a great Confucian in the world. It's a pity that I met a corrupt official, a weak scholar, who couldn't fight the county order first, and finally had to scatter all his family wealth in order to save the lives of the father and daughter.
But God didn't open his eyes, my father-in-law was about to die after a long time of typhoid fever, and at the same time he was more sad that the orphan girl had no one to take care of, and it happened that the boy brother met in their temple, and the father-in-law was a scoundrel and entrusted the orphan and married his daughter to me.
The boy and the mother knelt down in front of the father-in-law and got married, and the father-in-law closed his eyes and left.
At that time, the boy was only thirteen years old, the lady was ten years old, and the younger brother of the boy was only eight years old. The three of us lived without a father or mother, taking the deep mountains and caves as our home, feeding on plants and trees, and lived peacefully for five years.
Five years later, my wife and I became relatives under the witness of the elders in the clan, and I thought that life would gradually get better, but...
Three months after I got married, I was arrested when I went to the town to sell wild goods, and I didn't go back for four years.
He told his mother and younger brother that I was arrested three months later and went to the battlefield and was killed on the spot, and there was no body. ”
Lord Chen was also very sad when he heard this, these three people were too miserable.
In fact, what he said at that time was right, if it wasn't for General Chang at that time to send someone to treat him in time, the kid would definitely be dead.
When the younger brother was in the mother's womb, the boy's father was arrested and has not been seen since.
My mother was sad and broken, and the family was very poor, so my younger brother was very weak from birth.
And the lady was young and unashamed, and she was misestimated when she was a child, and she lived in the mountains with my brother and lacked recuperation all year round, and she was congenitally insufficient.
So, when the news of the boy's death was reached to them, they both fell ill, and it is estimated that they would not have survived without my son.
Because of the severity of the disease, each family in the clan donated money, and after asking someone to see them, they found out that the lady was pregnant with my child!
The arrival of this child can be said to have saved the lives of both of them, because life has finally taken a turn for the better.
When the lady gave birth to a child, she had a difficult birth, and she couldn't survive to say it, but the court at that time wanted to force her to remarry, which you know! ”
Of course, Master Chen knew that this policy was personally administered by his teacher, and the policy was implemented nationwide in just one month.
In order to replenish the population in a timely manner, the age of marriage was lowered from 15 to 13 for girls, while the age of first marriage for men could not be higher than 18. The requirements for widows are also explained in detail, unless there is a one-year mourning period for pregnancy and childbirth, and others must remarry within three months.
At that time, he felt that this policy was very problematic, the girl was thirteen years old and too young! I also have a daughter, if I marry and have children before I am an adult, won't it damage the fundamentals? And with the widow he approves.
"In the end, under the witness of the elders of the Zai clan and others, my mother-in-law, my younger brother's sister-in-law, married the younger brother-in-law and took my son with me!"
Lord Chen was taken aback, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was very reasonable, after all, they thought Cai Dacheng was dead at that time!
"When they got married at that time, they were witnessed by everyone and kept filial piety for their son for three years, and after three years they became a real husband and wife."
"In the fourth year, the boy got tired of killing every day, so he went back to his hometown.
When I went home, I found that my family was bullied by bullies, my brother's life was difficult to protect, and my mother almost had a miscarriage...
For the marriage of my brother and my mother, they are right, because I can't help myself, I don't blame them.
In the past four years, without the care of his younger brother, the boy's wife and children will definitely not be protected; Without a wife and children, the younger brother may not be able to survive.
My brother and I are our own siblings, and we cannot be regarded as enemies because of our mother's lifelong non-relationship, nor can we embarrass her because of the policies imposed on her by the imperial court.
So, we decided to live together, and we also got the approval of the elders of the clan.
How can a family like mine let other women in? ”
Lord Chen walked on the way back to the office with a heavy heart, for Cai Dacheng and for his daughter...