Changshu, Luyuan Xipu, Qian House.

The deceased leader of the literary world, Qian Qianyi, once led the gang to surround the gate of the Qian Mansion, and from time to time shouted insults outside the door, and even threw the stones and bricks into the Qian Mansion.

These people, along with the servants they brought, were all members of the Qian clan.

At this time, it was only twenty-two days before Qian Qianyi's death.

Yesterday just passed the "Three Sevens".

Qian Zeng, who took the lead in besieging the Qian Mansion, was Qian Qianyi's most beloved student in his later years, and he was also the younger generation of the Qian clan.

On the occasion of his death, Qian Qianyi was concerned about his unfinished work on the life of Jiangnan anti-Qing fighters, and once said that he hoped that Qian Zeng, who was both a grandson and a student, would help him complete the final draft.

However, the purpose of Qian Qianyi's death was that when his bones were still cold, Qian Zeng and others in the Qian family extorted gold and silver, land property, real estate, incense burners, and antiques from his widow Liu Ru, and asked Liu Ru to move out of the Qian Mansion immediately.

From the "first seven" to the present, there is a tendency to not give up until the goal is reached.

Why are Qian Zeng and others so bold?

Why did the government ignore it during this period?

Because Qian Zeng and his gang were supported by Qian Chaoding, who was in Yanjing's official residence and was too Changqing.

Qian Chaoding is also a member of the Qian clan, this person Shunzhi Ding Hainian Jinshi, not only the official residence is too Changqing, but also married the king of Pingnan in Guangdong, Shang Ke, so he has a great influence on his hometown, and the magistrate does not dare to offend him.

Unlike Qian Qianyi, who was bent on regaining his sight, Qian Chaoding was loyal to the Qing court, and by virtue of his status as a Qing court official, he once forced Qian Qianyi to hand over the ancestral property of Poshan Temple.

In the past, when the Qian clan was fighting for property, because Qian Qianyi was still there, the magistrate gave Qian some face and tried to suppress the Qian clansmen.

Now that Qian Qianyi is dead, under the pressure of Qian Chaoding, the local government does not dare to ask about the Qian family's contention, and as a result, the Qian clan who seized the property has no fear, and the leading Qian Zeng is even more arrogant, and he is not afraid of criticism from outsiders at all.

Qian Chaoding instructed Qian Zeng to ask Liu Ru to return 3,000 taels of gold.

This gold is not fabricated by Qian Chaoding out of thin air, but it is true.

A few years ago, in order to provide funds for Zhang Huangyan, who was still insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty, Qian Qianyi, who had already sold his wealth, had no choice but to borrow 3,000 taels of gold from Qian Chaoding.

Later, when the ancestral property of the mountain temple was broken, Qian Chaoding openly sent people to drive Qian Qianyi away by force and forcibly occupy the Qian clan's property, and the angry Qian Qianyi was unwilling to return the money.

As a result, as soon as he died, Qian Chaoding asked Qian Zeng and others to force Liu Ru to hand over Qian Fu and another ancestral red bean village to pay off the debt.

Poor Liu Ru is a surviving person in the face of the aggressiveness of the Qian clan, she is really powerless to resist, and there is no one in the clan to uphold justice for her, and the official is even more like a stone in the sea, so she asked the servants in the family to send her daughter to the eldest brother Qian Sunai and his wife to take refuge temporarily, wanting to fight against the Qian villain with the strength of one person.

However, she is a weak woman after all, and the servants in the family have been bribed by Qian Zeng and others, and they have watched the accomplices coldly.

If there is a big Qian Mansion, she Liu is a dignified and upright hostess, but she is bullied like an outsider.

I was inexplicably sad and indignant in my heart.

Dressed in plain clothes, she had been sitting in her husband's study for more than an hour.

Thinking of the persecution of the Qian family, Liu Ru, who had a strong personality, couldn't help but hide her face and cry.

She was born in Jiaxing, and her family was so poor that she was sold to the Qinglou by her parents.

Although she grew up in the land of fireworks, God treated her well, giving her intelligence, proficient in literature and ink, and good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so that when she grew up, she was ranked among the "Qin Huai Bayan", and how many literati in Jiangnan begged her to be sideways.

But Liu Ru never cherished the drunken gold fan of Qinhuaihe, and was bent on marrying a man who was erudite and ancient, and said to his good sister Chen Yuanyuan: "There is a confidant in the world who dies without regrets." ”

This confidant started out as a celebrity Chen Zilong.

It's a pity that Chen Zilong, who is ten years older than her, has already started a family.

But Liu Ru didn't mind this, thinking that it was okay to become Chen Zilong's concubine.

is only an adult beauty, even if she takes the initiative to pursue it, she still fails to do so.

When she was confused and frustrated in life, she met Qian Qianyi, a literary leader who was idle at home.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, she married Qian Qianyi.

That year, she was twenty-three years old and Qian Qianyi was fifty-nine years old.

He was thirty-six years older.

Qian Qianyi, who loves Liu very much, completely disregards secular prejudices and etiquette and etiquette, and insists on marrying Liu Rushi with great gifts.

For a while, public opinion was in an uproar, and it was almost to the point of indignation of people and gods.

Liu remembers that on the day of the wedding, many people stood on the shore and picked up rocks and threw them at the ceremony boat where she and her husband were married.

However, Liu Ru doesn't care, she only seeks a confidant.

Qian Qianyi doesn't care about secular prejudices.

It's a pity that after the Qing soldiers went south, Qian Qianyi was not martyred immediately, but surrendered to the Qing court with the flow.

At that time, Liu Ru was resolutely opposed, and even committed suicide by jumping into the water desperately, wanting to die for the country.

Although they were rescued in the end, the relationship between the husband and wife was inevitably hurt.

Not long after, the Qing court issued an order to shave his hair, and after hearing that the people in his hometown rose up to fight and the Qing soldiers slaughtered countless people, Qian Qianyi was no longer willing to be an official for the Qing Dynasty, and immediately returned to his hometown after illness.

In the following 18 years, Qian Qianyi has been engaged in underground activities against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and Liu Ruyi has always been his virtuous internal assistant and good adviser.

The husband and wife contacted Zhang Huangyan, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Zheng Chenggong

In order to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, the husband and wife can be said to have scattered all their family wealth.

However, in the end, he still ended up with a "defeat is really a tragedy for the ages", "endure the end of the three times, and hate the lonely minister for dying late".

After more than 20 years of ups and downs, the couple who have been with each other is now the only wife left.

The confidant is gone.

Liu Ru was already sad in her heart, and the hardships of the wicked people of the Qian family made her even more discouraged.

Outside the door, the shouting and scolding of the Qian clan people were endless, and they even completely ignored the fact that the old Zongbo was only "Sanqi" yesterday, and insulted them with obscene words.

This made Liu Ru unbearable and unable to support it anymore.

After wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve, she picked up the pen and wrote a suicide note to her daughter: "I have been in your house for more than 20 years, and I have never been angry with others, but now I am humiliated in front of me. I had to die, but after I died, you will be like my brother and sister-in-law, like my parents. For my revenge, you should come forward with your brother and beg your father to know each other. I sue Yin Si, your father will never let anyone go lightly. ”

After that, she took out a white silk that had been placed under her husband's desk, slowly pulled it open and threw it to the beam.

She would rather die than let the wicked succeed!

Only when the strange woman wanted to put her neck in the trap, there was a shouting and scolding in her ears, and then there was a wailing and miserable cry at the gate, and the faint door seemed to be knocked open.

In a trance, there were hurried footsteps in the distance, and then a person broke into the door violently, and saw Liu Ruis standing on the brocade bench with Aya in both hands, and the person couldn't help but exclaim: "Hedongjun, there are still men in the world!" ”