Chapter 131: Reminiscences
Wang Mingzhe's father Wang Gewu died at the age of fifteen, Wang Mingzhe's third uncle Wang Gezhi was an idle man who had to write poetry and chanted the wind and the moon, and was not good at taking care of the family business, so the burden of the Wang family fell on Wang Mingzhe's shoulders.
Wang Mingzhe was smart and studious since childhood, quite talented in business, after the death of his father, he took over the Wang family's trading shop with the assistance of Wang Chengde and others, and after some efforts, it was also prosperous, the Wang family's business was higher than when Wang Gewu was alive, surpassing the Han family and the Zhang family, becoming the second largest merchant in Meixian County, Wang Mingzhe became famous as a young man, and the scenery was unparalleled for a while.
The young man is ambitious, and he is naturally high-spirited.
Wang Mingzhe likes to travel around with his classmates and friends Lan Junchen and Zhang Pingyu, checking out the buying and selling shops everywhere, and by the way, making the Wang family's business bigger and better.
When Wang Mingzhe was seventeen years old, the three of them traveled to Jingzhou in the southern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty and rescued a woman in a blue shirt with a disheveled hair in the river.
The woman was already dying when she was rescued, but fortunately, the boatman at that time was very experienced, and after letting her lie on her side and pat her back and spit out a lot of sewage, her breathing gradually stabilized.
"Young master, the mountains and forests here are dense and few people come, this woman is strange." Lan Junchen's personal servant Lan Wu leaned into the master's ear and said.
Lan Wu is not only Lan Junchen's personal servant, but also his personal guard, his kung fu is not weak, although he is young, he is not as active and lively as Wang Mingzhe's little servant Wang Chunrong and Zhang Pingyu's little servant Zhang Sheng, who are squatting next to the boatman to help him rescue the blue-shirted woman.
Lan Junchen didn't speak, he looked at the clothes on the woman's body and looked a little familiar, very much like those worn by people who had been convicted and exiled, but he didn't dare to be very sure.
Wang Mingzhe said: "Boat family, you are a local, let's see if this girl is the daughter of a nearby family who has fallen into the water, if so, let's send her back; If not, we will also find a family to take her in, we are all men, and it is inconvenient to take care of her. β
After Zhang Sheng heard this, he reached out and pulled away the long hair covering the woman's forehead. The three of them were stunned, staring blankly at the woman's face and unable to speak.
Seeing that the boatman didn't talk, Wang Mingzhe asked again: "The boatman, this girl is a local?" β
The boatman turned back in a daze, and said affirmatively: "Childe, this girl is definitely not from our place. β
Wang Chunrong and Zhang Sheng also said dumbfoundedly: "That's it, this girl must have fallen from the sky......"
Seeing their expressions like this, Lan Junchen, who was protected by Lan Wu, frowned, Zhang Pingyu still stared at Qingshan Xingyun and did not react, Wang Mingzhe took a step forward, and when he saw the appearance of the woman surrounded by three people, he was also stunned.
The blue-shirted woman's clothes were soaked and her long hair was scattered, and it was difficult to hide her peerless appearance with such a wolf appearance.
"The fiber is sincere, and the fit is shortened. If the shoulders are cut, the waist is as plain. Stretch the neck and show the neck, and the quality is exposed. Fangze has no addition, lead Huafu Yu. The clouds are ethereal, and the eyebrows are trimmed and the ......" Wang Mingzhe muttered, "Is this the case when King Chen met the goddess of Luoshui on the shore of Luoshui in the past? β
Yes, she is definitely not a mortal woman, she must be an immortal who does not fall very much in the Nine Heavens. How can such a woman be so wolf?
"Boat family, please also ask your lady to find two clean clothes to come and change for her." After Wang Mingzhe finished speaking, he reached out and took off his robe, stepped forward to cover the woman and picked her up, turned around and walked back to the cabin room.
Zhang Pingyu and Lan Junchen were very surprised to see that Wang Mingzhe picked up a girl and went back to the room without suspicion. They have been classmates for many years, and naturally know Wang Mingzhe's temperament, although he seems to be out-of-this, he is actually very cautious and meticulous, and he never touches flowers and grass with self-love, this blue-shirted woman can make him so abnormal, there must be something unusual.
Zhang Sheng and Wang Chunrong compared the blue-shirted woman to a fairy, and then looked at Wang Mingzhe's actions, Lan Junchen and Zhang Pingyu both laughed at him for being fascinated by sex, and it was difficult to escape the catastrophe after all.
Half a day later, the passenger ship arrived at a small town, the woman woke up quietly, she pushed the door out, saw Wang Mingzhe guarding the door, and saluted and thanked: "Thank you for the rescue." β
Everyone in Jingzhou, Lingnan, speaks Nanyue, but this woman has an accent from the Jingshi area. Wang Mingzhe felt that her voice was gentle and solemn, and Wang Mingzhe was very nervous in front of her, for fear that he would make some inappropriate moves to surprise the beauty.
This woman said that her surname was Yao, and she encountered bandits on the way to this with her family, and her family was killed, and she also jumped into the water to die, not wanting to die, and was rescued by Wang Mingzhe.
Wang Mingzhe asked her what she planned to do in the future, and she only said that she wanted to find the souls of her parents who had died in a nunnery. Wang Mingzhe persuaded her to Jingzhou to be damp and miasma, and invited her to go back to Dongping with them, but this woman politely refused Wang Mingzhe's invitation and only asked to go with them to Suzhou to find a nunnery to settle down.
Although Yao Yirou traveled with Wang Mingzhe and a few others, she was polite and was in the room on weekdays. Wang Mingzhe greeted her politely every morning and evening, and Yirou only replied politely, distancing and polite.
Ten days later, the passenger boat sailed to Suzhou, and Yao Yirou asked Wang Mingzhe to help her find a remote small nunnery to live in. At this time, Wang Mingzhe was deeply in love, and he also found a place to settle down at the foot of the mountain and refused to leave.
The passenger ship traveled to Suzhou, and Yirou disembarked and left. Wearing the coarse cloth clothes of the boat lady, her hair was only loosely pulled up with silk threads, and Yirou, who stood with her eyes down, appeared in front of Lan Junchen and Zhang Pingyu and others for the first time, even if she was dressed like this, it was difficult to hide her immortal posture, Lan Junchen felt that she was short of words for the first time, and only the sentence "Bright like the sun rising to the morning glow, burning like a hibiscus out of the waves".
According to Yirou's request, Wang Mingzhe's nunnery is very remote, and there are only a few nuns in the nunnery. Wang Mingzhe donated a lot of silver taels to the owner of the nunnery and asked her to take care of Yirou, and Wang Mingzhe asked Wang Chunrong to find an honest mother-in-law in the Wang family shop in Suzhou and send it to the nunnery to take care of Yirou's daily life.
This mother-in-law also lived in the name of copying scriptures, although it was only a short ten days together, but Wang Mingzhe also knew Yirou's temperament, if he directly said that this mother-in-law was sent by him, Yirou would definitely not agree.
Since then, Wang Mingzhe has lived in the Wang's shop in Suzhou, and has not returned to Meixian with Lan Junchen and Zhang Pingyu. However, he wrote a letter for Wang Chunrong to send back to his home in Meixian, asking his mother to help him withdraw from his family, only saying that he did not want to get married.
When Wang Mingzhe was twelve years old, he married his cousin, the niece of Mrs. Zhou, and originally planned to marry him when he was sixteen. But after Wang Gewu's death, Wang Mingzhe had to keep filial piety for three years, and the marriage had been delayed.
After receiving a letter from her son that he wanted to withdraw from his family, Mrs. Zhou called Wang Chunrong over for careful interrogation, and learned the real reason why Wang Mingzhe did not want to get married, and couldn't help but be furious.
She sent Wang Chengde and Wang Tiangui to Suzhou, and she must bring Wang Mingzhe back to Meixian no matter what. Wang Mingzhe refused to go back, and he didn't go home until Mrs. Zhou said she was sick.
Mrs. Zhou was both soft and hard, and he was not allowed to withdraw from his family.
"You've been married to your cousin for five years, and now you're quitting your marriage to force her to die?!" This family affair was personally selected for him by Mrs. Zhou, her niece and nephew are outstanding, gentle, and very much loved by Mrs. Zhou, and now her son wants to withdraw from his relatives to marry a woman of unknown origin, she naturally refuses to agree.
Wang Mingzhe met his cousin a few times when he was young, and he was not impressed by her, and when his mother said that he wanted to marry his cousin, he did not feel that there was anything wrong. After his father's death, he was busy with the family business, and only went to his uncle's house to visit his cousin once or twice a year during festivals, and both of them kept their duty. Wang Mingzhe felt that husband and wife should be like their parents, with respect for each other, so he also respected his cousin, but now his whole mind is on Yirou, where is he willing to marry her.
"Mother, my son already has a heart, and he must never marry his cousin again. If her son marries her but can't treat her sincerely, he will miss her for the rest of her life. β
Mrs. Zhou hated Yao Yirou at this time, but no matter how she scolded and cried, she couldn't change her son's mind, and in the end Mrs. Zhou had to retreat and agreed that her son would marry her cousin and then marry Yirou as a flat wife.
Wang Mingzhe naturally disagreed: "Mother, my son has only identified her in this life." β
Mrs. Zhou was so angry that she locked her son at home and forbade him to go out, so that Wang Mingli could start taking care of the family's business. Mrs. Cui was also very opposed to Wang Mingzhe's absurd behavior after knowing it, but there was no other good way, so she had to agree to lock him up first, and let him marry as soon as he was out of filial piety.
After pretending to stop for a few days, Wang Mingzhe went out on the pretext of business, and went to Ying Tianfu's uncle's house to ask for guilt to explain that he could not marry his cousin, Wang Mingzhe's uncle and aunt were also very angry, and Wang Mingzhe's cousin cried in the house all day. Wang Mingzhe didn't fight back no matter how he beat and scolded, and even caused some small mess in Yingtianfu, so that his uncle took the initiative to withdraw from his family, which saved his cousin's face. Fortunately, my cousin was only fourteen years old at the time, and soon found another good family.
After retiring from her family, Mrs. Zhou came to apologize, her brother and sister-in-law were faint, and the two families gradually separated, and then slowly broke off contact.
After retiring from her family, Mrs. Zhou refused to agree to her son's marriage to Yao Yirou, and she couldn't find out where Yao Yirou was, let alone see her. Yirou spent her days peacefully in the nunnery with the ancient Buddha of the green lantern, copying scriptures for her parents and praying for her brother, and she didn't know anything about what Wang Mingzhe did.
Although there was a mother-in-law in the nunnery who could send him a message and let him know that Yirou was okay, Wang Mingzhe still went to Suzhou in the name of inspecting the shop pΓΉ, just to stop outside the nunnery for a while and get closer to the beauty.
Mrs. Cui and Mrs. Zhou felt that Wang Mingzhe was in charge of the family business and traveled around, so they restrained him more and let him cultivate himself in the mansion, and the family business was still handed over to Wang Mingli and Wang Chengde to take care of. Wang Mingli is very attentive, and asks his grandmother and aunt for advice in case of trouble, in contrast, Wang Mingli is more favored by the two elders. R1152