This is the best upper room of Kaifeng Post House, but there is an old woman sitting.

She was over sixty years old,

Gray hair, brown mid-coat with a purple placket and satin jacket, unsmiling.

She only has a mother and two little girls serving the soup and vegetables, and the old man eats very simply, and the steamed lamb on the table does not move any chopsticks at all.

Dong's mother persuaded: "The master is filial, not only let people send steamed lambs, but also the Yellow River carp, I heard that this Yellow River carp is sweet and fat, and the old lady has a good taste." ”

"No need, now that the old man has found the position of Xingzhou Tongzhi, he has the heart to know, but-" The old woman's words will not be said much here.

Dong's mother was ashamed: "Old lady, I can't live with you." ”

The old woman waved her hand: "What is there to be sorry for, Madame's own sister married into the Zheng family in Xingyang, and now she is a clan woman, if the lord and Mrs. are harmonious, what a good situation." I hope that Mrs. will know the general situation, you know, the master is good for her to be a wife and a husband! ”

The most important thing to offend as a local official is the local gentry, especially a family like the Zheng family in Xingyang, so that you can be an official here and have political achievements.

"Old lady, you are from the Liu family in Jinghu, and after we came to know about it, you are very courteous. It's Mrs., I don't have to rely on you to do a good family thing for her, and our aunt's wife was able to marry Wuyang Hou because of your identity. Dong's mother is very proud when she talks about this.

Speaking of her daughter, the old woman smiled a little: "Now that the war has been won, and the Marquis of Wuyang is the nephew of Queen Chi, I am finally relieved." ”

The master and servant were talking, but they saw a servant woman outside with a prayer sticker coming in, "Old lady, Fang Cai Yicheng welcomed into the family, it turned out that it was the people of the Zheng family, the governor of the three sides, who helped Ling to return to his hometown, and it is said that her housewife is also from the Jinghu Liu family. I don't know if there is a misunderstanding, the lady claimed that their Liu family is now in Beijing, I don't know who you are in the Liu family, she wants to meet you. ”

Dong's mother was stunned for a moment and looked at the old woman.

Soon, I saw a young woman come in, as the saying goes, if you want to be pretty and filial, this is true, she is wearing a white shirt, with a small white flower on her head, her skin is like condensation, her eyes are like paint, her eyes are bright and bright, her cheeks are pink and tender like flowers, she looks beautiful and not like a real person, bright and beautiful, and her posture is beautiful.

Dong's mother said in her heart that this Grandma Zheng is not only noble, but also elegant, and even her appearance is a rare person in the world.

Lishu was looking at this old lady Zhu, she first said a thousand blessings, and then said in her heart, she can be regarded as a relative who followed Xiao Fu and Mrs. Liu to greet her hometown, but she really didn't recognize this old lady Zhu.

Dong's mother hurriedly stepped forward and said: "It's really a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, and my family doesn't know my family." ”

"I don't know which room the old lady is, my grandfather is an only son, and my father only has two brothers, because I don't understand, so please ask for instructions?" Lishu smiled.

Mrs. Zhu couldn't help but feel that Lishu was rude, she didn't report her family when she came here, but doubted her identity, and she was too sharp in her life. Today's Liu family is really not as good as the next generation.

But she didn't have any trouble with the juniors, she just smiled slightly: "My father was a jinshi in the first year of the emperor, and successively served as the director of the car driving department of the Nanjing Military Department, the Sichuan inspection envoy, the right political envoy, the Guangxi left cloth political envoy, and the official Yin Zhishi of Shuntian Mansion. ”

Lishu counted the first year of the emperor

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But most of their relatives never mentioned it when they came and went.

"I'm young, I'm afraid of offending my elders, may I ask if Mrs. Zhu's father is from the Tianzi generation?"

Mrs. Zhu was displeased: "Exactly, my father Liu Tianxun." ”

It turned out that it was true, Lishu hurriedly got up and apologized, "It's true that I don't know my own people, it's just that for so long, my relatives don't move around, and people are rusty." ”

Mother Dong thought to herself, no wonder the juniors didn't know, when Mrs. Zhu was in her mother's house, the relationship with her cousin-in-law Mrs. Liu was not good, and Mrs. Liu was a person who only listened to the wind on the pillow, and the two sides had long since stopped moving.

And Mrs. Zhu's father and mother have long gone, and Liu Tianxun's descendants are very mediocre, and they are no longer as good as Liu Tianshi's faction.

Seeing that Lishu admitted her mistake quickly, Mrs. Zhu smiled and said, "You are still young and don't know it." I wonder what your father's official position is now? ”

"My father inherited the character generation, and he is now serving as the governor of Jiangxi, and he was also the governor of the river yamen." Lishu said.

When Mrs. Zhu heard that she was Liu Chengxu's daughter, and knew that she was now married to Zheng Botang, the son of Zheng Botang, the governor of the three sides, Zheng Hao, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, she couldn't help but widen her eyes.

How old is this girl, she is already a bachelor's wife, you must know that the bachelor who has entered the cabinet is only the fifth grade.

Could it be that Zheng Hao is already very old?

When he thought so, Zhu Tongzhi had already talked with Zheng Hao, Master Hanlin, that is the choice of Zaifu in the future, although he was worried for a while, he would recover in the future, and the future was unlimited, so he quickly became warm.

When Lishu returned to the room, that Zhu Tongzhi had just left.

Zheng Hao saw that Lishu didn't have any expression on her face, so she asked, "Is this really your relative today?" ”

Lishu nodded: "Yes, it's my grandfather's cousin, but my grandmother doesn't like her very much, originally I heard Mother Wei mention a few words, but I didn't expect it to be her, because she has broken with the Liu family for a long time." ”

"What's going on?" Zheng Hao didn't expect to pull out old things.

It is said that there was a serious dispute between a woman and a husband in the Liu family, that is, Mrs. Zhu's own sister robbed her husband, and the family was generally very sympathetic to Mrs. Zhu at the beginning, and even wanted to withhold half of the dowry originally given to her sister. Mrs. Liu also introduced her younger brother, the second son of the Jishui Zeng family.

Mrs. Zhu didn't take a fancy to the Zeng family, saying that there was a maid in his room, so she looked at Zhu Lian, a student of the Liu family, although the family background is not as good as the Liu family's generations of eunuchs, but his father is also considered to have an official reputation, Liu Tianxun saw that his daughter and the student were in love, so he no longer found fault with other people's family backgrounds.

This person tied the knot, but she didn't expect the husband she was looking for was just pretending to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. On the surface, there is no room, but in fact, he has an outer room outside, often visits the flower building, and has a very bad relationship with Mrs. Zhu, especially after his father died, the family can't afford to hold a funeral, and Mrs. Zhu's father-in-law paid for the funeral.

As a woman from a family of imperial examinations, she naturally hopes that her husband will be proud of his career, but the more she talks, the more Zhu Lian annoys her. When the one quarreled, the people around Mrs. Zhu heard that the son of the Zeng family who had almost kissed was the leader of the Five Classics, and it was more and more unworthy for Mrs. Zhu. Naturally, Zhu Lian also learned about this matter, and he was not idle to hire a lot of down-and-out scholars to write a notebook of the second son of the Zeng family, and even had the same name and surname.

In the book, the second son of the Zeng family seems to have become an ugly-looking, despicable and ungrateful person. At the beginning, everyone didn't think about it, but this book was originally just Zhu Lian's anger move, who knew that this book was popular all over the country because of its absurd words and deeds.

The second son of the Zeng family, who originally got the Five Classics, was attacked by others because of this book, and when he entered Beijing to prepare for the examination, he was gossiped and pointed at in the guild hall, and even set a family affair, and the woman directly withdrew from the marriage because of his reputation.

When he died, the Zeng family was naturally very angry when he lost such a proper candidate who had won the Five Classics in the township examination, and three years later, Zhu Lian entered Beijing, relying on the Liu family to understand the examiner's habits in advance, and he was also a little smart, but he was a high school jinshi.

At this time, the Zeng family found out that Zhu Lian was the person behind the scenes, so the Zeng family used all their strength to deal with Zhu Lian, so that he Jinshi and the first official were not smooth, and the first-class young Jinshi could not enter the Hanlin Academy, and he could not be elected as a Jishi. He gradually put his heart on the woman in the house, and returned to his previous voice, and died in less than two years.

Mrs. Zhu has a son and a daughter under her knees, the widow is unemployed, even if the Liu family dislikes Zhu Lian as a person, they don't have much bad feelings for Mrs. Zhu, and they still have to take her over, so that she doesn't have to be widowed, and she will marry again, and even say that if Mrs. Zhu is not at ease, she will send her children to the Liu family to raise.

Mrs. Zhu was willing to send her son to the Liu family to be raised, but she was unwilling to remarry, but Mrs. Liu hated the people of the Zhu family deeply. One hates Mrs. Zhu for not marrying her younger brother, and says everywhere that her brother has a room, and that the children of the family do not have a room, and the other hates Zhu Lian for slandering her brother, so that her brother died young, of course, he will not show a good face to the young man of the Zhu family.

Even, at that time, Mrs. Liu's grandfather regretted the death of his brother-in-law, and he completely ignored the son of the Zhu family, and after Mrs. Zhu's father died, Mrs. Zhu's brother said a family affair for her.

Mrs. Zhu was reluctant to have children and refused to remarry, but she lived in her mother's house, and if she said that she was unwilling to marry, her brother and sister-in-law would not listen, so she had to infer that the family was complicated, and she was a concubine, and she was picky in her eggs.

Her brother and sister-in-law were also very angry, when she got married, the dowry was emptied of the family, and she didn't take the dowry out for a funeral when her father and mother died, and she was afraid that the Liu family would ask for her dowry.

Of course, some people also say that Mrs. Liu asked Mrs. Liu to say something in the middle, so that Mrs. Zhu and her children were driven away.

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After listening to this long list, Zheng Hao said: "I didn't expect that your grandfather and your grandmother had such a good relationship, and I heard that they lived separately when I went to your house before. ”

"That's because my grandmother is not tolerant of heat and has a bitter summer, but every year when I go to stay in the village, my grandfather personally accompanies her. And living separately is also because the two have different habits. ”

Lishu thought it was funny, this person had listened to such a long list, but he only paid attention to these.

Zheng Hao smiled when he saw her, but he said: "Having said that, this Zhu Tongzhi is about to serve as a parent official in our hometown, I heard that his own sister is the wife of the Marquis of Wuyang, and there is an aunt who actually married into our Zheng family." Before my mother went to Beijing, let the third uncle take care of the clan affairs for us, the third uncle has passed away, and now it is Uncle Gu who manages the clan affairs for our clan. ”

"Really? I have heard about the Marquis of Wuyang, and the current Zhu family, who was married only after driving away the three daughters-in-law, did not expect that it was actually the daughter of Mrs. Zhu. Lishu thought to herself that she was now the Zheng family's patriarch, and this time she was going back to take the power of the patriarch in her hands, and she didn't know what about the Yang family?

Since ancient times, it is easy for the powerful and rich to swallow, but it is difficult to spit it out.

Similarly, when Zhu Tongzhi returned to the room, he also talked about it, and said: "This is really a big circle of their own people, the old lady of Wuyang Hou took a fancy to my sister because my mother showed her identity, she is the sister of Liu Dongye, the governor of the left capital, and now I have met Liu Chengxu's daughter, speaking of which Chengxu and I are still cousins, but we haven't been in contact for many years, I heard that he has an excellent official reputation, and he is known as Qingtian." ”

Mrs. Zhu only smiled reluctantly, but she thought in her heart that her sister is now the ancestor of the Zheng family, if the real clan wife is also as selfless and tough as her own father, I don't know if my sister's affairs can escape? !

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