"The branch of the Wang family is the branch of the family, and even a noble concubine can have such filial piety." A junior in the side room took the opportunity to compliment.

"In my opinion, this matter must be recited well, maybe it can be used as a model for teaching future generations in the future, and such an example should be noted when the genealogy is repaired in the future." Another older lady of the same generation as the Lian and Sun clans took the opportunity to say.

When the Lian family heard this, they looked at the old lady and saw that it was the Zhou family, who was from the Wang family's side house and ranked eighteenth in the clan. Zhou's husband and Lian's husband are also cousins, but Zhou's husband is a partial concubine, who only relies on the help of the clan on weekdays, and there are no descendants in the family.

Zhou is only submissive on weekdays and rarely expresses his opinions.

Seeing Lian's pair of sharp eyes looking over, Zhou subconsciously shrunk his neck, pulled out a smile with some embarrassment, and said, "I mean, someone in the clan has done this kind of good deed, so naturally they have to publicize it." In this way, our whole people will have a light on their faces. ”

Hearing this, Sun nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, a junior in the clan smiled and said: "This nephew and daughter-in-law also agree, the year before last there was a girl in the Li family of Qidong County, who died of a martyrdom because of her fiancé's illness. My mother's third sister-in-law is from the Li family in Qidong, and since then, all the sisters-in-law in the family have to look up to her. ”

"My nephew and daughter-in-law are right, the Li family in Qidong and the Wang family in Qingcheng have always been called the two major families in the three provinces of Shandong, but since their Li family has produced several virgin women who have been commended by the Queen Mother in recent years, their reputation is better than that of our Wang family. I heard that the daughter of the Li family is now 'a family with a woman and a hundred families', and everyone thinks that they can marry the daughter of the Li family. Sun sighed with a smile: "I have to discuss this matter with the eldest and second eldest of my family, maybe it is another good story of the Wang family." ”

Lian Shi frowned when he heard this, and was about to speak. But I saw a grandmother who was waiting beside the Sun family and gave Sun a salute and said with a smile: "Slave and maid, congratulations to the old lady, this is all the old lady's teaching on weekdays, and the Wang family can produce filial children and grandchildren like Mrs. Liu." The slave maid first said hello to the old lady, and if the family can get a royal reward for this matter in the future, the old lady should not forget that the old slave was the first to come to say goodbye. ”

Sun glanced at the grandmother with disgust. pretended to reproach: "You old thing, you are old and you still seem to be an ignorant little girl who has to beg for rewards indiscriminately." People say that the people around me don't have rules. ”

Originally, when the masters spoke, the slaves and maids could not interject. But this grandmother is old, and she looks like a very trusted old man around Sun, she must be very dignified in the Wang family, and because she is jokingly said auspicious words, so no one present thinks she is rude, and knows that Sun is not really blamed.

So these old ladies in the royal family. The lady laughed and joked that she wanted to be a witness, and she couldn't let the Sun family shorten this reward of her grandmother in the future. made Sun laugh again and again.

"Old ladies, madam, please rest assured, the queen mother and the emperor are the most filial piety, and the reward of the old slave will not be short at that time, and my old lady will not deny it. At that time, the emperor gave the Wang family a pair of 'pearl tree treasures, the ode of ancient and modern luxury saints and virtuous ministers; Huaitang is a world-class minister, recording the name of the filial son of the loyal minister. 'Couplet'? I heard that there is also an ancestor who was praised by Emperor Taizong as 'the world's most filial son', and this holy decree of commendation is still enshrined. The mama went on to quip.

"Mama is talking about the ancestor of the Lie who once worshipped the scholar of the Middle Pole Palace?" A lady of the Wang family said.

"When I was in the boudoir, I heard my father mention this martyr grandfather, saying that he was an important minister of the Three Dynasties. In the end, he was also allowed by Emperor Gaozong to enjoy the Taimiao. Another young daughter-in-law who had just entered Wang's house whispered to the concubine beside her.

"I've also heard of this Liezu Gong'......"

"Is the decree of commendation still there?"

"I heard that during the war, some royal gifts were desperately saved by the clansmen......"

"Yikes! This decree was enshrined in the ancestral hall? But last night the ancestral hall ......," the young new daughter-in-law suddenly covered her mouth and exclaimed.

For a moment, the room was silent. Everyone looked at Sun.

Sun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "These ancient holy decrees are afraid of being damaged by the smoke and fire of the ancestral hall. There is a special place for collection, but it is not placed in the ancestral hall. ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.

Lian frowned and said, "The ancestral hall caught fire last night and only rescued the ancestor's tablet?" ”

Sun sighed: "Not really! If it weren't for the Liu family, I'm afraid even these tablets would have been burned. ”

"What about the gifts enshrined in the ancestral hall?" Lian's brows furrowed more and more.

In addition to a pair of couplets hung on the lintel given by the former emperor, there is also a holy decree issued by the former emperor and the current saint, a crutch given to Wang Xian and Wang Hong's grandmother Dai's old lady, and a pair of ruyi walls.

Sun's face stiffened, thinking that Lian's really couldn't open any pot, and these could be rescued anywhere, so he reluctantly smiled: "These have not been rescued, this is also a matter of no way, presumably the saint will not condemn the crime." ”

Hearing this, Lian glanced at Sun lightly: "The Holy Lord is merciful, naturally he will not offend our Wang family for these 'things that have no way'. Therefore, the Wang family only cared about desperately protecting the ancestral tablet, but allowed the holy and the emperor's imperial gifts to be burned in the fire. The saint will only commend the 'filial piety' of the Wang family. ”

Everyone hears that you look at me, and I look at you.

Sun was said by Lian's family, and he also came back to his senses. The Wang family only protected the tablet of their ancestors in the fire, but they abandoned the things rewarded by the king, and filial piety was taken into account, but the charge of "disloyalty" could not escape.

"You all remember the Liezu Gong who is worthy of enjoying the Taimiao, but do you know why the Liezu Gong was respected by the three generations of emperors? Is it just because of the title of 'the world's number one filial son'? ”

Lian's sharp eyes looked around at the old ladies of the Wang family present, and the ladies circled around, these old ladies who usually speak the same in their own mansions, and the wives of the family were forced to bow their heads.

Lian snorted coldly and said: "When Beidi invaded, the imperial court was forced to move south, and Liezu Gong also led his clansmen to follow the imperial court south. I didn't want to meet His Royal Highness King An, the youngest son of Taizong, who was chased and killed by Beidi soldiers when crossing the Huaishui, when the prince had just died, and Gaozong only had King An, the prince. In order to cover His Royal Highness King An, the ancestor exchanged his seven-year-old grandson with His Royal Highness King An, and let his grandson continue to flee south instead of King An's entourage, but left His Royal Highness King An as a small servant by his side. Later, General Beidi caught up with His Royal Highness King An, who was pretending to be the grandson of Liezu, and shot his arrows to death on the south bank of Huaishui. Who knew that the general of Beidi received a secret report that His Royal Highness King An who was shot was a fake, and the real His Royal Highness King An was hiding in the house of a group of merchants dressed as merchants behind. The Beidi soldiers then turned around and intercepted this group of merchants heading south, that is, the Liezu Gong and the Wang clan. ”

When Lian said this, she paused, but her voice was a little choked, and she remembered the past that made the entire Wang clan painful. More than 100 years have passed, and many clansmen have forgotten that period of blood feud. But there are things that should not be forgotten with the passage of time.

"Beidi Bing circled all the men under the age of fifteen of the Wang clan together, and asked Liezu to take a bus out of His Royal Highness King An. However, Liezu Gong would rather die than admit that His Royal Highness King An was hiding among these children. None of the hundreds of people in the tribe spoke. So......"

Lian closed his eyes and continued: "So Beidi Bing cut off the heads of these children of the Wang family who were under the age of fifteen one by one, and thirty-six lives were ...... Among them, there are the descendants of the Wang family, there are also children in the side house, there are only ten years old who have been praised as prodigies since childhood, and there are those who have been promoted at the age of twelve...... Many of them are outstanding children who have high hopes from the clansmen, and they are the future pillars of the Wang family...... They were all beheaded one by one by the Beidi soldiers. Lian was a little excited.

However, the blood of the descendants of the Liezu Gong Ren was splashed all over his head and face, and even if he was provoked by the scene at that time to cough up blood, he did not tell the whereabouts of King An. And none of the thirty-six children in the clan, even with despair and fear in their eyes, bowed their heads to the big knife that had been swung over. ”

For a long time, there was silence in Sun's room, but after that, some young daughters-in-law sobbed softly. The crying seemed to be contagious, and gradually everyone present had red eyes, and even Sun took out a handkerchief and symbolically wiped the corners of his eyes.

Lian looked at these people who were really or crying, and sighed: "I said this to tell you that the scenery of the Wang family is not obtained out of thin air. The emperor's favor is not without reason. His Royal Highness King An, who later became Emperor Gaozong, was very merciful to Liezu Gong because of this matter, and even after the death of Liezu Gong, he also shadowed the children of the Wang family. However, our Wang family also paid a heavy price, and since then, there have been no outstanding young descendants of the Wang family in the court. ”

"Now are you still complacent for a concubine of the Wang family who has protected a few ancestral tablets of the Wang family? If you publicize the royal family's filial piety and disloyalty, then where do you place the royal family? Where is the king? Your actions have brought glory to the royal family, but a catastrophe! At the end, Lian's voice was cold and hard, as if it had a metallic sound, and it hit the hearts of those present.

"The lesson of the fourth sister-in-law is that I was negligent in this matter, and I didn't think of it. So according to the meaning of the fourth sister-in-law, the Liu family protected the ancestral archway, not only could not publicize it, but also concealed the news from letting people know? ”()