Chapter 5 Relatives in the North?
This place is called Wangjia Village.
The history of Wangjia Village has been some years, as early as the Hongwu period, the imperial court had a military tun here, and a group of military households settled here, and gradually formed the current Wangjia Village.
Most of the villagers in Wangjia Village still belong to military households, but the current Ming Dynasty is different from the previous Ming Dynasty. More than 200 years have passed, and the military household system is no longer what it used to be, and there are more restrictions on military households in thousands of households, and in remote places like Wangjia Village, military households are almost no different from ordinary civilian households.
The whole village is not small, Wangjia Village has a population of more than one mile, the so-called one mile is the top ten, according to the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty, one mile is about one hundred and ten households, such as three to four people per household, that is, nearly four hundred people.
There are more than 500 people in the whole village of Wangjia Village, of which the old and young account for the majority and the young and the young account for the small half, plus several artisan families living in the village.
Outsiders don't know much about Wangjia Village, firstly, because the villagers here have special household registrations, and most of them still belong to military households, but because of historical reasons, Qianhu is not much in charge. Moreover, the location of Wangjia Village is relatively remote, located in the ravine between Pingyang Mansion and Xiangling, which is far away from the official road, the road is not easy to walk, and there are not many people who know it.
Speaking of Wangjia Village, there is a deep relationship with Zhu Shencone here, because Zhu Shencone's mother is surnamed Wang.
Now Wang Rong, the village chief of Wangjia Village, is also one of the hundred households here, and when it comes to relatives, he is still Zhu Shencone's uncle.
From the outside, Wangjia Village is no different from ordinary villages, and villages like this abound in Shanxi. But what outsiders don't know is that Wangjiacun is far from being as simple as it seems.
When he entered the village, there were people familiar with Zhu Shencone who greeted him all the way, and Zhu Shencone responded enthusiastically.
After walking a little way to the village, there is an ordinary courtyard in front of it, which is the house of Wang Rong's family.
Wang Rong was busy in the courtyard, and in his forties, he looked like an ordinary peasant, with a strong figure and a swarthy face, bending over to collect the firewood piled up in the corner.
"Uncle!"
Hearing the sound and turning around, seeing that it was Zhu Shencone, Wang Rong suddenly smiled: "I don't think you should come in the next few days, is it easy to walk on the road?" ”
"Uncle Lao cares, and it's safe all the way."
"Let's go! If you're tired, go into the house to drink saliva, rest your feet, and have a drink with the two of us today. Wang Rong threw the firewood in his hand into the pile, clapped his hands and beckoned Zhu Shencone to enter the house.
At this time, Wang Rong's daughter-in-law came out of the house, and was very happy to see Zhu Shencone, Zhu Shencone called out to his aunt, and his aunt smiled and nodded again and again.
After entering the house, as soon as the two sat down, my aunt brought a basin of water, and Zhu Shencheng got up to thank him and wiped his face. My aunt helped clean up, and was about to say something to Zhu Shencone, when Wang Rong on the side gave her a look, and my aunt immediately understood that the uncle and nephew had something to talk about, so they immediately went out with a basin.
"What about Jin Wu? Why didn't you see others? After taking a sip of water, Zhu Shencone looked left and right and asked.
"You don't know him yet? This kid has always been an idle master, and he went into the mountains with a few boys in the village early in the morning. Wang Rong said with a smile, Zhu Shencone's cousin Wang Jinwu is Wang Rong's only son, two years younger than Zhu Shencone, and he will be seventeen this year.
Hearing this, Zhu Shencone also smiled, he is naturally very familiar with his cousin, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and he is tall and big, he is a restless master, it is almost early winter, this kid actually took his little friends to run into the mountains.
After chatting a few words of gossip, Wang Rong looked outside, and he deliberately lowered his voice with a loud voice, but he still asked in a big voice: "What you said last time has been arranged, are you planning to ...... this time?" ”
Zhu Shencone nodded, pointing to the heavens: "There was a first snow the day before yesterday, I calculated the time, and I felt that I would run again in the next few days, and when this trip was over, everyone would be able to rest well this year." ”
"Well, that's what I thought too." Wang Rong agreed: "If you don't come again, I have to ask someone to go to Pingyang Mansion to find you." In the past few years, God has a bad temper, and winter is coming earlier and earlier, if you wait for the heavy snow to fall later, this road will not be easy to walk. ”
"That's exactly what happened!" Zhu Shencone said: "Uncle, in addition to this matter, I still have some ideas to discuss with you......?" ”
"What thoughts?"
"I'm going to take a trip north in the spring next year."
"Northside?" Wang Rong was stunned for a moment, and his eyes widened instantly: "Are you going to go to the grassland?" ”
"Yes!"
"Why are you going to the prairie in a good way?"
"In the past two years, the border passes have been much more peaceful, and the relationship between the imperial court and Lin Dan Khan has also eased. I think this is an opportunity, we can't always stay in Shanxi, after all, the risk of what we are doing is too great. And once there is a channel with the north, it will be much easier to do many things, don't you think this is also an opportunity? In addition, I have some other ideas, but I haven't thought about them yet, so I'm going to go and see what to do before I know what to do. ”
Wang Rong frowned and said: "It sounds feasible, but you can think clearly, this Mongolian is not easy to get along with, don't look at the rules in the past two years, but these Mongolians are born to be dogs, and if you say that you will turn your face, you will turn your face." ”
"Hehe, what's this, it's not the first one to go to the north to do business now, there are a lot of people who have contact with the Mongols in this Shanxi territory. What's the matter, uncle, you can't be afraid of the Mongols, right? Zhu Shencone asked with a smile.
"Afraid? Lao Tzu is afraid of a bird! Wang Rong took a sip, with a look of arrogance on his face: "What are the Mongolians afraid of, it's not that I haven't seen the Mongolians, when your kid was not born, Lao Tzu followed my father, that is, your grandfather, and went to the border to cut off the heads of the Mongolians." ”
"To put it further, back then, the ancestor of my Wang family followed General Lan into the North Garden, and at that time, the heads of the Mongols were cut off even more. General Lan broke through the North Court and captured the queen of Dayuan, good guy, his old man directly pulled out his gun and went into battle, stabbing this Mongolian girl screaming in the golden account. The ancestor of my Wang family was not idle at that time, General Lan has always taken care of his brothers, he eats meat and everyone drinks soup together, this Mongolian prince and noble woman also tasted some taste, what is the Mongolian Mongol? ”
When Wang Rong said these words, he couldn't hide the smug color on his face, as if this was not done by his ancestor at all, but by himself.
You must know that this incident can be said to be the most glorious time of the Wang family, but it is a pity that later General Lan did something bad, and the Wang family was implicated and was lucky not to be beheaded, but it also collapsed.
Otherwise, with the military exploits of the ancestors of the Wang family, how could they be thrown to this place where birds don't and only be a small hundred households?
"Uncle, I've heard you say this several times, is it true or not?" Zhu Shencone asked with a smile.
Wang Rong glared: "Of course it's true, how can it be fake?" The ancestor of my Wang family is a ...... of the great general of the Lan family. ”
"So, our family still has relatives in Mongolia?"
"Relatives? What relatives? Wang Rong was stunned for a moment, not understanding what was going on with the relatives Zhu Shencone was referring to.
Zhu Shencone analyzed with a smile: "Do you think, isn't the ancestor of the Wang family in Mongolia with many Mongolian women?" Maybe there will be a kind left, although this has been a hundred years, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no descendants left, in addition, these women are noble, and the Mongolians have never paid attention to these, so it is not good that the descendants are still Mongolian nobles. By the way, this Lin Dan Khan heard that he is the descendant of the Erjinjin family, isn't the Northern Yuan the Erjinjin's family? Maybe if you really want to talk about it, this Mongol Khan is still your junior? ”
As he spoke, Zhu Shencone was still making a gesture in his hand, his left glove circle, and his right index finger twitched into the circle a few times, with a dirty smile on his face.
Wang Rong opened his mouth wide and froze, and didn't react to the meaning of Zhu Shencone's words for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he suddenly burst out laughing, patting his thigh hard while laughing, looking overjoyed.
"Yes, yes, yes! What you kid said is right, this Lin Dan Khan may be the seed left by our Wang family, and when the time comes, I will see him and tell the ancestral genealogy, if it is really described, won't this be developed? ”
"Hahaha!" Zhu Shencone laughed when he heard this.