Chapter 157: Uncle
Li Xia pushed the letter to Guo Sheng, stood up and walked out, "I'll go to the back garden for a walk, it's okay." ”
Guo Sheng looked at Li Xia, who was a little out of shape, and there were countless puzzles in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask a word.
Li Xia turned into the back garden, sat down on the sunny swing, and slowly swayed, squinting at the withered wisteria and wisteria trellis in front of him.
That time, Tang Jiarui picked the children of the Zheng family, the Zheng family fell into a very deep position in that tragic battle, Tang Jiarui's branch copied the door, Tang Jiming begged in front of herself, she asked the fifth brother to redeem Tang Jiarui and send it back to Tang Jiming.
When Tang Jiming took office, he scattered all his family wealth that month, dismissed all the domestic servants, and the housework was handled by his wife and daughter.
She gave a lot of rewards, but all the rewards, no matter what they were, Tang Jiming never used a single cent......
After Tang Jiming threw himself into the Qinhuai River, the next month, Mrs. Huang died of illness, and both of them left their last words, went to the south of the Tujiang River without face, begged for cremation, and scattered the ashes into the Qiantang River.
Tang Jiarui cremated his parents, sprinkled ashes, lost his hair, and practiced by the Qiantang River......
Li Xia tilted his head slightly, unable to tell whether he was sad or happy. In the past, if it was a previous life, this time, she hoped that this was to compensate the Tang family......
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Needless to say, the Li family in Gaoyou County has had a very festive and lively year.
Out of the fifteenth, Li County Ling was busy checking the four cities. Mrs. Xu was in the inner house, watching people pack up the New Year's things, discussing with Mama Hong whether she should start making spring clothes, and she was busy, and reported from outside: There is a person named Xu Huan, who said that he came from his wife's mother's home in Mingzhou, please see Mrs.
Mrs. Xu was stunned, stayed for a long time, and didn't remember that there was a woman named Xu Huan in her mother's family, so she hurriedly sent Mama Hong out to have a look, and after a while, Mama Xu ran away and brought a man in his early twenties with beautiful eyebrows.
"Madam, it's Brother Huan! It's Brother Huan in our second room! Mrs.'s brother! I went to Beijing to catch the exam, passed by Gaoyou County, and came to see my wife, it was Brother Huan'er......" Mama Hong spoke incoherently excitedly, and Mrs. Xu was at a loss when she heard it.
After leaving the capital, she broke off contact with her mother's family, this Brother Huan, she didn't know who it was, at least when she got married, there was no such Brother Huan at home.
Li Xia was reading a book in the back garden, and got the report of the little girl Qingguo, and rushed over, just in time to catch up with the excitement of Mama Hong's introduction, and Mrs. Xu was at a loss.
Li Xia stood in front of Xu Huan and looked up at him, Xu Huan also looked at her, smiled brightly, and winked at her.
It was the first time she had seen this uncle.
This uncle is in Chunfu High School this year, because of the in-law with the Li family, but he is a person who has no foundation and no one cares about it, he was involved in the Ming Zhenbang Chunfu fraud case, and he has changed his reputation, and he will never be allowed to take the exam again, as if he died of difficulty in his thirties, and he did not start a family until he died.
In the years when their family was ruined, the Xu family was silent from beginning to end, and after she gained power, she ignored the Xu family, since they were silent, then they were silent.
Alas, when the fraud case broke out, she thought that the Li family in Yongning Bo was making matters worse, but now that she looks at it, the Li family escaped death at that time.
Mrs. Xu was at a loss, since Mama Hong was so excited, it must be her mother's relatives who came, let Xu Huan enter the main hall, and hurriedly sent someone to ask the master to come back.
Li Xiawei leaned beside Ah Niang, looked at Xu Huan, who was not very restrained, with flashing eyes, and listened to Mrs. Xu, Mama Hong and Xu Huan speak one by one.
"You also know that over the years, we have been in Taiyuan Mansion, the mountains are high and the road ......is far away," Mrs. Xu said awkwardly and vaguely, she always had to ask this Xu Huan, who is the person and what is the origin, but this is not easy to ask.
"This is a letter from my wife." Xu Huan leaned over, took out a letter from his arms, and held it with both hands.
Mama Hong hurriedly took it, looked at the line of words on the envelope, and tears fell, "Madam, it's the old lady's handwriting, this word...... It was written by the old lady herself. ”
Mrs. Xu hurriedly took the letter and opened it, Xu Huan saw that she read the letter at a glance and ten lines, owed slightly, and said with a smile: "When I was one and a half years old, my parents were gone. In the wax moon, my wife went back to her hometown to worship, and when she saw that I had no one to take care of me in the ancestral hall, she was very pitiful, so she took me back.
Later, my wife said that I have a temper and character, especially in school, Ji Xiao's father, after discussing with the clan, I passed me to my father's room, my wife wrote a letter to my sister, and I also wrote two letters, one to the capital Yongning Bofu, and one to Taiyuan Mansion, my sister probably did not receive it, Mingzhou is too far away from Taiyuan Mansion. ”
Xu Huan introduced himself simply and clearly.
Mrs. Xu finally understood now, this Xu Huan was an orphan in the clan adopted by her grandmother Huo after she got married, and it was probably because of this Xu Huan's intelligence that it was rare, so she passed it to her father's name.
Her father is the only one in the Xu clan with the Jinshi, after the death of her father, because of the succession, there was no less trouble in the clan, the uncle and the step-grandmother Huo did not let each other, this succession, until she got married, did not settle down......
"Your uncle, and your aunt, are you okay?" Mrs. Xu asked hesitantly, how could the uncle be willing to nod her head when she succeeded the child adopted by the Huo family in this house? How many years older is Uncle Huo's, isn't it......
"In the third year after my sister and brother-in-law went to Taiyuan Mansion, my uncle offended people and was beaten with ten sticks in the court, but I didn't survive. After the uncle's death, the wife took the family to help the coffin back to her hometown in Mingzhou, bought a house in Mingzhou City, and did not return to the capital. Xu Huan replied, "The eldest aunt left ten years ago, and she is sick and old. ”
Mrs. Xu listened in a daze.
After her father's death, she grew up with her uncle and aunt, who were extremely indifferent people, and treated her badly, but she was cold as a stranger.
"Is the old lady in good health? With whom do you live? Are they separated or are they still together? The old man and the big lady are gone, and those masters ...... But okay? Mama Hong couldn't help but ask.
"My wife is in good health, she is very healthy, she loves to listen to operas, and she will listen to operas wherever she sings in Mingzhou City." Hearing Mama Hong ask about the Huo family, Xu Huan showed a bright smile, and looked at Mama Hong's eyes, full of closeness and warmth.
"After the death of the eldest uncle, the grandmother asked the clan to preside over the division of the family, the eldest brother has been doing business in Shanxi, and after the separation, the family moved to Datong, Shanxi, and has not been home for many years. The third brother's family is in Fujian, and the business is very big, and it is very good."