Chapter 2 Adoptive Grandfather
Who knew that the person who heard it sneered: "If it weren't for her eating stone honey on a cold day, her man would not have braved the heavy snow to go to the county, and now she can't see anyone alive or dead......
"That's just Yin's words, that Yin has always been mean, how much can she believe her words?"
If not, why didn't she explain? I think she's just weak-hearted......" The man who just sneered had a little more disdain in his eyes.
The discussion gradually faded away, Yuan Lingchen heard it clearly, but he didn't care in his heart.
"Chan'er, aren't you curious about the reason for your father's disappearance?"
There are rumors in the clan that Yuan Minzhi braved the heavy snow to go out because she wanted to eat stone honey, stone honey is a precious thing, where are the farmers willing to eat?
She is not virtuous when she makes trouble like this, and because of this, she does not know the life and death of Yuan Min. It is even more despised by others.
These days, the Shen clan's life in the clan is not easy.
But she didn't explain anything, so she just carried it with all her might.
Her daughter's steadiness gave Shen an inexplicable sense of trust, and at this moment, she even wanted to tell the truth.
"Curious about what? You're not that kind of person. ”
Yuan Lingchen's voice was always faint, with some coldness, but Shen felt very heartwarming when he heard it.
She wouldn't tell Shen that she had a previous life, and this past life was six hundred years later.
The reason why she believed in the Shen family was not because of her ethereal intuition, but because of the many historical records she had read in her previous life.
There was a Xun Dynasty before the Jin Dynasty in her previous life, and before the Xun Dynasty was the Liang Dynasty in her present life.
It is now the last years of the Liang Dynasty, and it is the era of the rise of the heroes.
At this time, Emperor Mo Liang was still in power, but he had already existed in name only, and none of the warlords wanted to be the first bird, so they ignored the weak young lord and only cared about fighting for territory.
Therefore, no matter how life and death are fought outside, Shangyuan Village, which is close to Kyoto, has become a rare place to survive.
But this is only for a while, and six years later, war will completely break out in this land, the imperial capital will change hands several times, and the land of Gyeonggi will be scorched everywhere.
As for Yuan Minzhi in Shen's mouth, he was in the army of King Jing who defected in the winter of the twelfth year of Jingyuan, that is, in the winter of last year, less than three months ago.
As soon as he entered the army of King Jing, he was able to make meritorious contributions in the first battle, and he rose step by step since then.
The Xun Dynasty was founded and was subject to feudal Amber.
The history books say that Yuan Min's wife Fu Bo died early, and a pair of children also died when they were young.
However, there are groups of concubines and concubines, and none of them are good.
In the previous life, the sons and grandsons of Yuan Min fought for property, but it went down in history.
Now that she occupies the position of Shen's daughter, no matter how she says, she has to plan for the Shen family.
By the way, you also need to take advantage of the present to accumulate some family funds and prepare for the next troubled times.
As for her father, whether he is reliable or not, she hasn't thought about counting on him yet.
The mother and daughter returned to the village together, and saw a slender figure enter the courtyard next to them from a distance, just a back, but Shen and Yuan Lingchen both knew that it was that person who had returned.
That was Wang Xiuli, the daughter-in-law of Yuan Lingchen's adoptive grandfather Yuan Jinning.
This relationship is quite tortuous, and there are other reasons for this.
Her adoptive grandfather's family was poor when he was young, and because of his talents, he was favored by the Jin family, a wealthy family in the county, and recruited as a husband.
The Jin family has a rich marriage, with ten acres of fertile land and twenty acres of thin fields.
People are poor and short-minded, Yuan Jinning doesn't have much power at home, even if the Jin family has nothing to do, he doesn't dare to take a concubine.
I had to find a child from my brothers in the same clan to pass on, and this child was Yuan Lingchen's father, Yuan Minzhi.
When Jin was alive, Yuan Jinning was quite fond of Yuan Minzhi, but the good times did not last long, and within a few years, Jin died of illness, and Yuan Jinning married another step-room.
The Yin family entered the door and saw the joy, and won the man in one fell swoop.
Yuan Minzhi's status became embarrassing, the Yin family was born in a broken household, and he didn't know what etiquette, righteousness and shame were, and he was very pungent and selfish.
There was a lot of abuse of Yuan Min when he was a child, but Yuan Jinning was quite tolerant of her for the sake of the Yin family's child.
Won Minzhi's life is even more difficult.
The stepmother treated him harshly, his adoptive father ignored him, and Yuan Min did not talk about his family affairs when he was over 20 years old.
Later, it was the Shen family who picked up the fallen Shen on the road, and the two looked at each other before they became home.
According to the law of Liang, if there are more than two men in the people, they will be given double their endowment.
The law that a man is separated when he reaches adulthood has existed for generations, and in the Liang Dynasty, it developed into a family that separates the family.
By the end of the Liang dynasty, many of the other laws had already existed in name only, but this law was enforced more strictly because it involved taxation.
What is the world now? Those who have long been overwhelmed by the excesses and miscellaneous taxes will not be able to bear it, and no matter how thick the family foundation is, it will not be able to bear it.
Yuan Jinning couldn't, and sent Yuan Minzhi away with two acres of thin fields and a dilapidated house.
Only this Yin felt that he had suffered a big loss.
Every now and then they find trouble, and do everything possible to get back what they spit out.
The Wang Xiuli they saw was not only the Yin family's daughter-in-law, but also the Yin family's knife against them. When Yuan Lingchen fell ill, it was caused by her basin of cold water.
In the cold winter wax moon, pouring a basin of cold water on a child, his intentions can be described as very sinister.
But afterwards, she pushed the responsibility cleanly, only because she didn't mean to.
Wang Xiuli is a person who is used to pretending, no matter what she is doing at home, her reputation outside is much better than that of the Shen family of unknown origin.
After the incident, Wang Xiuli directly avoided her parents' home, and it has been nearly two months.
Now that they are back, I am afraid that their life will be more and more difficult.
Yuan Lingchen knew Shen's worries, and reached out and patted the back of her hand: "Mother, don't worry. ”
Shen Shi looked at her and saw that she was always calm, and he was inevitably relieved.
Yuan Lingchen helped Shen to his home.
A very small courtyard with no courtyard walls, only a simple fence made of bamboo.
There is only one thatched hut inside, divided into three or four rooms, the main room can only be placed with a table, and there are two inner rooms, both of which are very small, except for the bed, they can't fit next to it.
It also leaks rain from time to time......
But it's such a small yard, and it doesn't all belong to them.
This courtyard was the courtyard where Yuan Jinning lived with his parents before he got married, and later the Jin family entered the door, this courtyard was too small to have enough houses to live in, so he built another one next door, which was much larger than this one.
also picked up Yuan Jinning's parents to live with him, and this old house was vacant.
Later, Yuan Lingchen's father and mother became a family, and the Yin clan drove them to this abandoned house.
But they still do the dirty work on weekdays.
In the end, they were treated as cattle and horses, but they refused to live in even a slightly better house.
The Yin clan also often comes to the door to fight the autumn breeze in the name of elders, whether they are there or not, the Yin clan enters their house as if they are entering their own door.
Anything good can't be kept.
If you have it, it can only fall into the hands of the Yin family, and you will inevitably be beaten and scolded.