This is the best upper room in Kaifeng Posthouse, but there is an old woman sitting there.
She is over sixty years old,
He has gray hair, a brown tunic and a purple double-breasted satin jacket with a stand-up collar, and is unsmiling.
There was only a mother and two little girls serving the soup here, and the elderly people ate very simply. The steamed lamb on the table was not touched at all with chopsticks.
Mother Dong advised: "The master is very filial. Not only did he bring steamed lambs, but also Yellow River carp. I heard that the Yellow River carp is sweet, delicious and fat. The old lady should try it."
"No need, now that the master has found the position of Tongzhi of Xingzhou, I know his intentions, but -" The old woman didn't say much more here.
Dong's mother looked ashamed: "Old lady, it's all my fault for you."
The old woman waved her hands: "Is there anything I'm sorry about? Madam's biological sister married into the Zheng family in Xingyang and is now a clan wife. It would be great if the Master and Madam were harmonious. I just hope that the Madam will know more about it. You know, Master After that, she can only be as valuable as her husband!"
The people who should not be offended when serving as local officials are the local gentry, especially those from aristocratic families like the Zheng family in Xingyang. Only in this way can they achieve political achievements as officials here.
"Old lady, you are from the Liu family in Jinghu. The postmaster who came here just now knew about it and treated us with great courtesy. As for Madam, we still have to rely on you to arrange a good marriage for her. Our aunt at that time, It is also because of your status that you are able to marry Marquis Wuyang." Dong's mother was very proud when she said this.
Speaking of her daughter, the old woman smiled a little: "Now that we have won the war, and Marquis Wuyang is Empress Chi's nephew, I feel relieved at last."
The master and the servant were talking when they saw a servant woman coming in with a greeting card from outside, "Old lady, just now Yi Cheng welcomed the family into the house. It turned out that he was a member of the Zheng family, the governor of the three sides, who was returning to his hometown. It is said that her mistress was also from Jingzhou. Born in the Hu Liu family. I don’t know if there is a misunderstanding. The lady claimed that most of the direct descendants of the Liu family are in Beijing now. I wonder which Liu family you are. She wants to meet you. "
Mother Dong was stunned and looked at the old woman.
Soon, I saw a young woman coming in. As the saying goes, if you want to be pretty and filial, it is true. She was dressed in a white shirt with a small white flower in her hair. Her skin was like gelatin, her eyes were like paint, and she had bright eyes and white teeth. Her cheeks are as pink as flowers, and she looks so beautiful that she doesn't look like a real person. She is bright and graceful, and has a graceful appearance.
Mother Dong thought to herself that this Grandma Zheng was not only noble in status and elegant in manners, but also had an appearance that was rare in the world.
Lishu was looking at the old Mrs. Zhu. She first said a long blessing, and then said to herself that she had followed Mrs. Fu and Mrs. Liu to welcome relatives from her hometown, but she really didn't recognize this old Mrs. Zhu.
Dong's mother hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The flood has really washed away the Dragon King Temple. My family no longer recognizes my family."
"I don't know which house the old lady belongs to. My grandfather is an only son, and my father only has two brothers. I don't understand, so why should I ask for instructions?" Li Shu said with a smile.
Mrs. Zhu couldn't help but feel that Li Shu was rude. She didn't introduce herself when she came here. Instead, she doubted her identity and was too sharp in her behavior. Today's Liu family is really worse than the previous generation.
But she would not argue with her juniors, she just smiled and said: "My father was a Jinshi during the first year of the Emperor's reign. He successively served as the chief of the Chariot and Driving Department of the Nanjing Ministry of War, the inspector of Sichuan, the government envoy to the right, and the government envoy to the left in Guangxi. He reached Shuntian Prefecture. Yin Zhishi.”
Li Shu figured it out during the first year of the Emperor’s reign
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But most of their relatives never mentioned it when they interacted with each other.
"I'm young, so I'm afraid of offending my elders. Is Madam Zhu's father from the Tianzi generation?"
Mrs. Zhu was displeased: "Exactly, my father Liu Tianxun."
It turned out to be true. Lishu quickly stood up and apologized, "It's true that I don't know my own people anymore. It's just that my relatives haven't moved around for so long, so I've become unfamiliar with them."
Mother Dong thought to herself that it was no wonder that the younger generations didn't know that Mrs. Zhu had a bad relationship with her cousin Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Zeng, when she was at her parents' home. Mrs. Liu was a person who only listened to the gossip from her pillow, and they had stopped walking together for a long time.
Mrs. Zhu's parents have long since passed away, and Liu Tianxun's descendants are very mediocre, and are no longer as good as Liu Tianshi's.
Seeing that Lishu quickly admitted her mistake, Mrs. Zhu smiled and said, "It's possible that you are still young and don't know. I wonder what position your father holds now?"
"My father inherited the name Chengxu. Now he is serving as the governor of Jiangxi. He used to be the governor of Hedao Yamen." Li Shu said.
Mrs. Zhu couldn't help but widen her eyes when she heard that she was Liu Chengxu's daughter, and that she was now married to Zheng Hao, the son of the governor of the Three Kingdoms, Zheng Botang, and a scholar at the Hanlin Academy.
This girl is so old that she is already a bachelor's wife. You must know that the bachelor who joins the cabinet is only the fifth grade.
Could it be that Zheng Hao is already very old?
When he was thinking this way, Zhu Tongzhi had already started chatting with Zheng Hao. He was a Hanlin bachelor and would be the future choice of prime minister.
When Lishu returned to her room, Zhu Tongzhi had just left.
Zheng Hao saw that Li Shu had no expression on her face and asked, "Is this person really your relative today?"
Li Shu nodded: "Yes, she is my grandfather's cousin, but my grandmother doesn't like her very much. I heard Mother Wei mention it a few times, 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 bring up an old story.
It is said that there was a serious dispute between one woman and one daughter in the Liu family. It was Mrs. Zhu's biological sister who robbed her husband. The family generally sympathized with Mrs. Zhu and even wanted to withhold the dowry originally given to her sister. Give her the second half. Mrs. Liu also introduced her biological brother, the second son of the Jishui Zeng family.
Mrs. Zhu did not like the Zeng family, saying that there was a maid in the house, so it seemed that Zhu Lian, a student of the Liu family, although his family background was not as good as the officials of the Liu family for generations, his father was considered to have an official reputation. When Liu Tianxun saw that his daughter and the student were in love, he no longer found fault with his family background.
This person got married, but she didn't expect that the husband she found was just pretending to be a good man, a wolf in sheep's clothing. On the surface, they did not share the same house, but in fact they kept an outhouse, often visited flower houses, and had a bad relationship with Mrs. Zhu, especially after his father passed away and the family could not afford the funeral, so Mrs. Zhu paid for the funeral. father-in-law.
As a woman from a family with imperial examinations, she naturally hopes that her husband will have a successful career, but the more she talks, the more Zhu Lian annoys her. While one person was quarreling, people around Mrs. Zhu heard that the young master whom the Zeng family had almost proposed to marry had won the Five Classics exam, and they felt even more unworthy of Mrs. Zhu. Naturally, Zhu Lian also learned about this matter, and he also hired many down-and-out scholars to write a book of stories about the second son of the Zeng family, who even had the same name.
() In the book, the second son of the Zeng family has become an ugly person, despicable in words and deeds, and ungrateful. At first, everyone didn't take it seriously, but this book was originally just Zhu Lian's way of venting his anger. Little did they know that this book became famous all over the country because of its absurd words and deeds.
The second son of the Zeng family, who originally won the title of Five Classics Master, was attacked by others because of this book. When he went to Beijing to prepare for the imperial examination, he was gossiped and criticized in the guild hall. He even arranged a marriage, but the woman immediately broke off the engagement because of his reputation. Zeng The second son of the family failed the scientific examination again, and at such a young age he drowned without thinking.
When he died, the Zeng family was naturally very angry at the loss of a candidate who had won the top five classics in the provincial examination. Three years later, Zhu Lian came to Beijing and relied on the Liu family to understand the examiner's habits in advance and recruit him. He is also somewhat smart, but he was a Jinshi in high school.
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, making it difficult for him to become a Jinshi and become an official. A young Jinshi could not enter the Hanlin Academy. Not a good person. After his official career was not going well, he gradually turned his attention to the women at home and returned to his previous sensuality. He passed away within two years.
Mrs. Zhu had a son and a daughter, and the widow was unemployed. Even though the Liu family hated Zhu Lian as a person, they did not have much ill feelings towards Mrs. Zhu. They wanted to take her over so that she would not have to be a widow and get married again. They even said If Mrs. Zhu is worried, she will send her children to the Liu family to raise them.
Mrs. Zhu is willing to send her son to the Liu family for upbringing, but is unwilling to remarry. However, Mrs. Liu deeply hates the Zhu family. On the one hand, she just hates Madam Zhu for not marrying her younger brother. She goes around saying that her brother has a mate, and there is no maidservant among the children of the aristocratic family. On the other hand, she hates Zhu Lian for slandering her brother, causing her brother to die young. Of course, He would not show a good face to the Zhu family boy.
Even at that time, Grandpa Liu regretted the death of his brother-in-law and ignored the son of the Zhu family at all. After Mrs. Zhu's parents passed away, Mrs. Zhu's brother arranged a marriage for her. Although she was a concubine, But he was also from a wealthy family, which was more than ten times better than a poor family like the Zhu family.
Mrs. Zhu was reluctant to let go of her children and refused to remarry, but she lived in her natal family. If she said she didn't want to marry, her brother and sister-in-law wouldn't listen, so she had to explain that her family was complicated and she was a concubine, so she was very picky.
Her brother and sister-in-law were also very angry. When she got married, her dowry emptied the family. When her parents passed away, she didn't take out the dowry for the funeral. She was also worried that the Liu family would ask for her dowry, so she kept a close eye on her. Now it's even more... The chosen people were arranged like this, and the two sides broke up.
Of course, some people said that Mrs. Liu asked Mrs. Liu to say something in the middle, so that Mrs. Zhu and her two children were driven away.
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After listening to this long list, Zheng Haocai said: "I didn't expect that your grandfather and your grandmother had such a good relationship. When I went to your house before, I heard that they lived separately."
"That's because my grandmother can't stand the heat and the bitter summer, but my grandfather personally accompanies her every year when she goes to stay in the village. And living separately is also because they have different habits."
Li Shu found it funny. After hearing such a long list, this person only paid attention to these.
Zheng Hao saw her smiling and smiled himself, but he said: "That being said, this Zhu Tongzhi will soon be appointed as a parent official in our hometown. I heard that his biological sister is the wife of Wuyang Marquis, and he also has an aunt. She actually married into our Zheng family. Before my mother went to Beijing, she asked our third uncle to take care of the clan affairs for us. The third uncle has passed away, and now it is Uncle Ju who is in charge of the clan affairs for our clan. What a coincidence, Zhu Tongzhi My aunt is actually the wife of Uncle Ju Yi, from the Hongnong Yang family."
"Really? I've heard about Wuyang Marquis. The current Zhu family married after driving away three daughters-in-law. I didn't expect that she was actually Mrs. Zhu's daughter." Li Shu thought to herself that she was now the daughter-in-law of the Zheng family. The next time I went back, I planned to take the power of the clan wife into my hands. I don't know what the Yang family is like?
Since ancient times, it is easy to swallow power and wealth, but difficult to spit it out.
Similarly, when Zhu Tongzhi returned to his room, he also talked about this matter and said: "This really spares a large circle of people who are all our own. Back then, Mrs. Wuyang Hou fell in love with my sister because my mother revealed her identity. She was the governor of the left." Liu Dongye's biological sister has now met Liu Chengxu's daughter. Speaking of which, Chengxu and I are still cousins, but we haven't been in contact with each other for many years. I heard that his official reputation is excellent and he is known as Qingtian."
Mrs. Zhu only smiled reluctantly, but she was thinking that her sister was now the acting wife of the Zheng family. If the real wife was as selfless and tough as her biological father, would her sister's matter be able to escape disaster? !
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