Jiang's mother died, and everyone in the Jiang family was sad, and white silk was hung in the house that day, and Yan Niang and Jiang Yucheng endured their grief to take care of Jiang's mother's funeral.

Jiang Yucheng played Ding Wei to the imperial court, and Emperor Xianqing quickly approved the matter. At the beginning of March of the twenty-seventh year of Xianqing, after the first seven days of Jiang's mother, Jiang Yucheng returned to his hometown with his wife and children.

After being officials abroad for more than ten years, Jiang Yucheng and Yan Niang have not been back for a long time. Among the children, in addition to having an impression of Yucheng County, Wenbo Wenyan and Wen Yu have only heard of this place.

When they returned to their homeland, it was already the end of March. He Wencai brought his two sons to the dock to greet them, and their relatives reunited after a long absence, and both parties had mixed feelings.

Jiang's mother's funeral was held in the capital, and after she came back, she found someone to calculate the date, and she could be buried in three days.

Jiang Yucheng buried Jiang's mother next to Jiang's father's tomb, looking at the two graves side by side, one new and one old, Jiang Yucheng, who never cried easily, couldn't help but burst into tears.

Yan Niang knelt beside him, and comforted softly while burning paper: "My mother has been thinking about her father all her life, and now she and her father are reunited." Those of us who are alive must live our lives as she expects, and she will be at ease under the Nine Springs. ”

Jiang Yucheng wiped his tears, "Since I started studying, I haven't spent much time with my mother at home, and after becoming an official, I have made her frightened three times and twice, I didn't do my duty as a son." ”

Yan Niang shook her head, "Niang has never thought so." She said: "My mother told me that she has always been proud of having a filial and capable son like you, she said that you have been sensible since childhood, which saved her a lot of heart, and later became a jinshi and became an official, she does not know how much face she has in front of her neighbors." Mother has followed us in the capital for many years, there are maids and mothers-in-law to serve, and children to accompany her, except that I didn't see my three grandsons marrying wives and having children, there should be no other regrets. ”

Hearing these words, Jiang Yucheng felt a lot better. At this time, Wen Yan answered on the side: "Father, don't worry, I will definitely marry a beautiful and virtuous daughter-in-law in the future, and when the time comes, I will lead her to kowtow in front of my grandmother's grave and end my grandmother's last regret." ”

Jiang Yucheng and Yan Niang couldn't help but burst into tears, and Jiang's mother seemed to hear his words, and the paper money flame in front of the grave burned even brighter.

With Wen Yan's interjection, the sad atmosphere faded a lot. Jiang Yucheng said to his three sons: "If you marry a wife in the future, you will come to your grandmother to kowtow and let her meet your granddaughter-in-law." ”

Three children, you look at me, I look at you, it was still Wen Yan who was the first to respond, and Wen Bo and Wen Yu also nodded in response.

After Jiang's mother was buried, Jiang Yucheng and Yan Niang closed the door to guard filial piety. Wenbo Wenyan should be referred to three years later, and the schoolwork cannot be wasted during the period of filial piety, so Jiang Yucheng personally taught his two sons, and also brought a Wen Yu by the way.

After teaching for a period of time, Jiang Yucheng found that among the three sons, the foundation of literature and museums was the most solid, and he was more than steady when answering the questions, and he also added some new answers; Wen Yan learned a mess, he could answer the simple ones, and the slightly more complicated ones couldn't be answered for a long time, but Wen Yu, who was several years younger than him, answered them word for word.

Jiang Yucheng's anger was drawn out by Wen Yan, and he pointed at Wen Yan and said, "This is how you study on weekdays?" It's just useless. ”

Wen Yan lowered his head, "Dad, I'm not reading material at all, just let me go." ”

"Nonsense, the ancients Yunqin can make up for his clumsiness, I think you are too lazy on weekdays."

"Dad, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I get a headache when I see a book." Wen Yan raised his head and said, "Dad, it's better to let my son give up literature and martial arts, and then come back for you to take the martial arts exam." ”

Jiang Yucheng's face sank, "Don't even think about learning martial arts, study to me well, if you can't even pass the exam, don't recognize me as a father." ”

Jiang Yucheng said this more heavily, in fact, he wanted to force Wen Yan to calm down and study, the Great Banquet Dynasty has always emphasized literature over military force, and the future of civil officials is always better than that of military generals.

Wen Yan is like an eggplant beaten by frost, and he has no energy at all. Taking advantage of Jiang Yucheng's absence, Wen Yu gave him an idea, "Second brother, you can go and ask your mother to persuade your father, if your mother agrees and convinces your father, you can write to your brother-in-law and ask him to find you a Mr. Wu, so you don't have to read and write when the time comes." ”

Hearing this, Wen Yan came to his senses again and hurriedly went to find Yan Niang.

Wenbo looked at his younger brother's back running away and asked, "Yu'er, do you think my mother will agree?" ”

Wen Yu looked confident, "My mother will definitely agree, and my mother will persuade my father." It won't be long before the second brother will be able to fulfill his wish. ”

Wenbo thought about what Yan Niang taught them on weekdays, and felt that what the third brother Wen Yu said was very reasonable.

After Wen Yan looked for Yan Niang, Yan Niang only hesitated for a while before agreeing to her second son.

On this day, Jiang Yucheng was in the study, and Yan Niang went in with hot tea.

"Husband, what are you writing?" Yan Niang put down the tray and asked.

Jiang Yucheng replied: "I'm making a reading plan for Wen Yan, and I have to pull up his progress." ”

Yan Niang stepped forward to take a look, and saw that the white paper in front of him was already dense, not to mention Wen Yan, even she felt a headache when she saw it.

"Reading depends on talent, Wen Yan has no talent in reading, so don't force him."

Jiang Yucheng frowned, "It's not that he has a bad talent, but he doesn't put his mind on reading." Wen Bo won't talk about it, how old Wen Yu is, he has already surpassed him a lot. ”

Yan Niang poured him a cup of hot tea and said softly: "There are children who are like fathers, and there are also children who are like mothers." Wen Bo and Wen Yu are like you in terms of reading, and Wen Yan may have followed me. She sighed, "Wen Yan can't read, it's quite decent to play boxing, it's better to let him take the road of martial arts." ”

"No, my Jiang family is all scholars, where can I go to martial arts." Jiang Yucheng refused without thinking about it.

Yan Niang took a deep breath and asked, "Do you remember the second son of Lord Huang's family?" ”

Jiang Yucheng hesitated for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "Lord Jiuhuang, the priest of the country?" ”

Yan Niang nodded, "Huang Ergongzi doesn't like to study, but Lord Huang forced him to be accompanied by pen, ink, paper and inkstone every day, and then Huang Ergongzi couldn't stand such days, and eloped with the maid who had served him since childhood, and was found by the Huang family three months later, but he had become two cold corpses. ”

Jiang Yucheng also heard about this, after the death of Huang Ergongzi, Lord Huang aged by more than ten years overnight, and he was sick for several days before coming to the court.

"My Jiang family's bloodline will not do anything insulting." Jiang Yucheng said with great certainty.

Yan Niang said: "I'm not saying that Wen Yantai will follow in the footsteps of Huang Ergongzi, I just hope that you can let him do what he wants to do, instead of forcing him to do things that he is not good at." What if the more you push him, the more he doesn't like to read, and he won't be able to do anything in the future? He likes to learn martial arts, if he hires a better Mr. Wu, he can also be a military attache if he succeeds in martial arts in the future. ”

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