Volume III-14 Old Stories in Jiangnan (I)
Wan Ning shook her head lightly: "Yes, Yumen, although the Queen Mother has no direct connection with Yumen, but Xinjie has, Ning Er has." If someone wants to intervene in the Jade Gate, and is afraid that the Queen Mother will intervene, this kind of thing may only be related to Ning Er. ”
"In addition to being related to Xinjie, how could Yumen implicate you, and make such a big move, first restrain Biyan."
"With the experience of grandma and Xinqiang, maybe only acquaintances can trap her old man."
"Acquaintances?"
"Yes, acquaintances, and people she trusts very well. It is related to Yumen and familiar to grandma, most of them are in Jiangnan. Queen Mother, can Ning'er take the liberty of asking you to recall the old things in Jiangnan back then? ”
Chen Bihua raised his eyebrows: "Do you think it's an acquaintance from Jiangnan back then?" It's just that Biyan and I are both half-cut people, who else will be thinking about making a move at this time? ”
When the founding ancestor of today's dynasty was originally a native of the rivers and lakes, he met many masters at the beginning of his early years of traveling in the rivers and lakes, including the head of the Chen family in Jiangnan and Zhou Shiyuan, a stranger in Jiangnan, as well as the ancestor of the Tang Sect. Although the Jiangnan Chen family has had many masters in the past dynasties, its status in the rivers and lakes is not because of martial arts, but because of the superb medical skills of the Jiangnan doctors. Fights can be fought, exercises can be practiced, but not everyone can see illness, and everyone can get sick. Therefore, no one dares to provoke the Chen family in the south of the Yangtze River in the rivers and lakes. When Taizu was young, he met the son of the head of the Chen family by chance, and the two were like-minded and became friends. After Taizu raised the army, the son of the Chen family took the apprentices in the Chen family medical hall to join the army, and these apprentices had a set of martial arts, and the key was to help treat the wounded. And Chen Dagongzi also became Taizu's personal Langzhong bodyguard.
This Zhou Shi was originally a son of a family in Jiangnan, a scholarly family, and a wise man. In the previous dynasty, he was also promoted, but he felt the chaos of the officialdom of the previous dynasty, so he abandoned his fame and devoted himself to the study of feng shui, geography, easy phase gossip and medical science. often learns medical science and medical skills with Chen Dagongzi. After Taizu raised his army, he followed the advice of Chen Dagongzi and asked Zhou Shiyuan to go out of the mountain and be his military advisor.
After the world was settled, Chen Dagongzi had no intention of being in the government and high position, so he agreed to return to Jiangnan to open a medical department, recruit good talents to teach and confuse, and he also devoted himself to the study of medical skills. Taizu was impressed by the kindness and love of the eldest prince of Chen, and specially named him the Marquis of Wen Zhao, and assigned him to the caiyi for his apprentices to study medical skills, and the title was hereditary. Passed to the third generation of Chen Qichang, the medical hall and martial arts have been further developed. Chen Qichang has a son and two daughters, Bi Liang, Bi Hua and Bi Yan, both of whom studied in their own hospital since childhood.
After Zhou Shiyuan was an official in the court for several years, he also longed for the life in Jiangnan back then, so he resigned and returned to Jiangnan, and became neighbors with Chen Dagongzi to study classic historical medical skills together. They have cherished each other for decades, and both families are good friends. But the Zhou family has not been prosperous, three generations of single transmission, passed to Zhou Ping, Zhou Ping from birth he had a weak disease, less than 30 years old on a sick whimper, leaving the young son Zhou Munan no one to take care of, so entrusted to the Chen family. Chen Qichang treated him like a parent, and asked him to follow Biliang and them to eat and live together, and enter the museum to study literature and medicine together. The Chen family's medical hall is not only because you can learn brilliant medical skills, but also because Chen Qichang teaches his disciples well, and his disciples are quite accomplished, and because of the status of the Chen family and the praise of the Chen family from the royal generation, the wealthy families in Jiangnan are vying to be proud of having children enrolled in the Chen family medical hall. This made the Chen family's medical skills gather many famous sons in the south of the Yangtze River. Among them, in addition to the children of the Chen family and Zhou Munan, there are also the twin brothers Qi Xian and Qi Feng of Baiyu Villa, the two sons of Yumen, Yu Zhenxiang and Yu Zhenting, Yan Shihao of the Yan family in Zhenjiang, Mo Yufang of the Mo family in Suzhou, and He Yingchang, the young owner of Hangzhou Yixian Village. Among them, Zhou Munan is the best in this group of people regardless of medical skills, poetry and songs, music and lyrics, and feng shui geography. And the most fettered is He Yingchang, the young owner of Yixian Village, he is also wise, but he is more or less withdrawn and arrogant. The knife technique of the He family is unique in the world, and the dart line under its command is transported all over the north and south of the river. This He Shaozhuang owner is a little arrogant and arrogant, and often provokes others, especially Zhou Munan, who is highly educated, but does not know martial arts.
At that time, there were also two daughters in the medical hall with Biyan and Bihua as companions, Chang Jingchun, the daughter of the Liangjiang weaving superintendent, and Gao Peixin, the eldest daughter of the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River. Because Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Gao are handkerchiefs, Jing Chun admires Xin and Biyan Bihua since childhood.
Jing Chun is the smartest of all the sisters, but also the most gentle and beautiful, she has known Zhou Munan since she was a child in and out of the Chen family, the two have no guesses, very harmonious, at the age of eighteen, Chen Qichang came out to Chang Du Fu to propose marriage, and married him to Zhou Munan.
Originally, the old master of Yumen wanted his son to go all out to make a name for himself, so that he could get married after winning the champion of martial arts, but Yu Zhenxiang, the eldest son of the Yu family, thought about the two young and unsuspecting Qingmei Gao Pei, and was anxious to admire the door, the old master of Yumen couldn't survive his son's request, and courted the Gao family, and Peixin married Yu Zhenxiang, who was also in the medical department half a year after Jingchun got married.
At the age of thirteen, Bihua was chosen as the eldest son of the first emperor who traveled to Jiangnan for the first time, so he was careful at home, not daring to take a step beyond the thunder pool, so as not to invite disaster for the whole family. Biyan and Bihua have been strictly disciplined by their families since they were young, and they are not allowed to have personal affairs with these children. But Bi Yan still couldn't escape the confusion of youth and ignorance, and got very close to Qi Xian. But in his years of observation, Chen Qichang felt that Qi Xian was not down-to-earth, too jumpy, and not worthy of promising his beloved little girl. Moreover, the Qi family has always been secretive and secretive, and does not want to have more dealings with outsiders. Although the people of Jiangnan know that the ancestors of the Qi family came to Jiangnan from Shandong to do business, because they fell in love with the prosperity of Jiangnan, they settled here, opened a jewelry and leather business, although there are also people in the family who are the first officials in the imperial examination, but the family rules are strict, and the Qi family is more introverted, and it is difficult to make friends with the Jiangnan family, and there is no person around the Chen family who has a deep relationship with the Qi family. Although Qi Xian was attracted to the medical hall to study medicine, but there was no acquaintance to recommend him, Chen Qichang was just not good at saving face for other young people. Although Qi Xian is a smart person and is not suitable for his daughter to entrust for life, he must be said to be a smart student. In the later life of the Chen family, he took a fancy to Tang Wen, the eldest son of the Tang Sect who had a relationship with the Chen family and followed the first emperor. When the first emperor traveled to Jiangnan for the third time, Chen Qichang asked the first emperor for permission to marry Tang Wen and Biyan.
Qi Xian was sad, but also placed his affection elsewhere, concentrated on taking care of the family business, renovated the original family business of Baiyu Villa, and innovated the ancestral jewelry and leather business, and dominated the northwest and capital of the Yangtze River, with shops all over the country, caravans were well organized, and many capable people were recruited under his command. After decades of operation, Baiyu Villa has been chasing the Yumen in the south of the Yangtze River in terms of its status in the rivers and lakes and its business in the shops. And although Qi Xian has never forgotten Biyan's love for Biyan all his life, he has collected countless beauties at home. All those of his generation who have been persuaded by him, he covers them up with the excuse of missing his face. Even now, he would carry a young woman through the door every two or three months. The older he gets, the more he wants to prove himself in this way. That's an afterword.
Since Peixin got married, several young daughters of the Chen Medical Art Hall have gone whereabouts, and this series of marriages has attracted unhappiness in the hearts of several people in the same family, and various fights, emotional injuries and changes in the secret have brought about great changes in several disciples, especially He Yingchang and Qi Feng. After He Yingchang broke out in an extreme outbreak, he ran away from home and disappeared, until the old demon of Mobei appeared in northern Xinjiang, disrupted the caravan, and the court sent people to collect it.
Another person who changed after this incident was Qi Feng, unlike his brother Qi Xian's escape, Qi Feng has always been low-key, and no one has ever known which woman he really likes. Qi Feng, who was originally a little casual, suddenly reined in the fatigue of the past, and since then has put all his energy on learning and medical skills, At the age of twenty-five, the capital palace test was successful, and the state and county were released, and the inspection of the Ministry of Rites over the years was the best, After nearly twenty years of ups and downs in the sea of eunuchs, he became the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, and the protégés were all over the court. After the current emperor succeeded to the throne, he attached great importance to it, and was promoted to the right minister of the head of Zaifu, and then reopened the Wenyuan Pavilion, worshiped him as the chief scholar of the Wenyuan Pavilion, and then promoted to the first auxiliary minister of the cabinet.
After 50 years of ups and downs, these classmates have long gone their separate ways, and good and evil have long been revealed. Some have withered, but the suitability of the classmates of the past, blood and old love, loss and hatred, are still involved in these people who are already in their twilight years and their children and grandchildren.
In the White Feather Villa in the south of the Yangtze River, Chen Biyan slowly arranged her little gray hair. Because of proper maintenance and continuous improvement of internal strength, at first glance, she seems to be a woman in her thirties, mature and noble. For so many years, she knew that although Qi Xian had been by her side every year during the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, it was not so much that he was guarding their relationship back then, but that he was satisfying his own curiosity and paranoia. And Daddy was right back then, it was common for this person to do whatever it took for his ambitions and desires.
Chen Biyan had imagined thousands of ways to fight, but she never thought that she would become Qi Xian's hostage in exchange for Shi Ye's peace when she was over seventy years old, which was something she had never expected in all her plans, and it also caused the collapse of her entire plan. In order to keep the minimum loss, she had to give in and followed Qi Xian to Jiangnan Baiyu Villa.