Chapter 1: Nongmen Tianjiao【13】
Zheng Xiang went back to her mother's house again. Her husband was not good enough, so she could only go back to her mother's house to ask her father and brother for help. Even if Zheng's father had retired, it was not easy to connect.
But she went back to her mother's house many times, so Mother Zheng advised her: "You are already married. If you go back to her mother's house so often, your husband's family will have an opinion."
Zheng Xiang smiled wryly, her husband's family was afraid that she would like her to go back to her mother's house more often to find her father's help, otherwise, as a married daughter, how could she have time to go back to her mother's house often? But she didn't say that to Mother Zheng, "Mother, don't I miss you? Is it okay to come back to see you from time to time?"
Mother Zheng's expression was a little embarrassed, and she lowered her voice: "Xiang'er, you always come back, your sister-in-law has something to say." Today, when the daughter-in-law Luo Shi came to invite her, she taunted Zheng Xiang always back to her parents' house to fight the autumn wind and let Mother Zheng go I was very embarrassed.
But now that the stewardship of Zheng's house has fallen into the hands of Roche, even in the face of the two eldest grandchildren, Zheng's mother has to make concessions in the face of Roche. Therefore, the daughter-in-law was dissatisfied with her daughter, and she could not bear her daughter to be angry, so she had to persuade Zheng Xiangshao to come back.
Zheng Xiang felt more embarrassed than Zheng's mother. If she had followed her temperament when she was young, she could immediately find her sister-in-law Luo Shi to clarify the words, but now she can only grit her teeth and squeeze out a smile, saying: "Mother, I came here today to actually kiss my sister-in-law, and when I become my son-in-law, my sister-in-law will not have any objections."
Mother Zheng frowned: "Kiss and kiss? Do you want to marry Sister Yuan to Brother Cheng? But Brother Cheng has already decided on your sister-in-law's niece."
Sister Yuan is the second daughter of Zheng Xiang and her husband, and brother Cheng is Zheng Chi's second son, Zheng Cheng.
Zheng Xiang said, "Mother, isn't Brother Yao yet engaged?" Her daughter is the eldest daughter, so at first Zheng Xiang was looking at Zheng Yao, the eldest son of Zheng Chi, not the second son Zheng Cheng.
"No!" Mother Zheng refused without hesitation.
Zheng Xiang asked in shock: "Why? Mother, isn't Brother Yao still engaged?"
Mother Zheng looked at her daughter in embarrassment. If the second-grandson with mediocre qualifications was not engaged, she could still agree to this marriage for her daughter. But the eldest grandson is the heir to the Zheng family, and her granddaughter, Sister Yuan, is only the daughter of a minor official. Even if it is Zheng Xiang's direct daughter, she is absolutely not worthy of her direct grandson.
Zheng's mother was hesitant, and Zheng Xiang begged the entanglement to let Zheng's mother agree to the marriage, but Zheng's mother told her hesitantly: "Your brother and sister-in-law both plan to let Brother Yao marry Yang Yuanjia's daughter."
Zheng Xiang's face changed suddenly: "Let Brother Yao marry Zheng Lan's daughter? Zheng Lan is a concubine!"
Mother Zheng sighed: "But Yang Yuanjia is now the chief assistant of the cabinet, and she has enormous power. The world only sees Zheng Lan as the wife of the chief assistant now. Who would care that she used to be the concubine of the Zheng family?"
Even she herself, doesn't she want her eldest grandson to marry Zheng Lan's daughter?
Even though Zheng Lan used to be the concubine of the Zheng family who was in the dust, and Zheng Xiang was the daughter of the highest, but now, Zheng Yao, the eldest son of Zheng Chi, marrying Zheng Lan's daughter is Gao Pan, and if he marries Zheng Xiang's daughter, it is low. .
In this world, the status of a woman mainly depends on her father and brother.
Zheng Xiang felt pain in her heart, and she had to admit in her heart that she regretted it, and extremely regretted that she had given such a good marriage to Zheng Lan in vain. If she hadn't rejected the marriage with Yang Yuanjia that Father Zheng had set for her, then she would be the first wife now, and Zheng Lan's prostitute wouldn't have the fortune she is today!
But there is no regret medicine in the world, Zheng Xiang can only focus on the eyes, licking his face to seek a good future for his children.
Even though she got the answer from Zheng's mother, Zheng Xiang still found her brother Zheng Chi unwillingly.
Zheng Chi, who is over middle-aged, no longer has the arrogance and arrogance of his youth. He doesn't want to be in the camp, and he doesn't want to join forces. He thinks he is arrogant. Not only is he rejected in the official circles, but he also pushes Yang Yuanjia, a good friend and brother-in-law, farther and farther.
But Zheng Chi, who has come to his senses, is still difficult to climb to a high position in the officialdom. Now that he is old, he will inevitably consider paving the way for his son.
His younger sister Zheng Xiang approached him to discuss the marriage of his eldest son, but Zheng Chi also refused without hesitation: "I have a plan for Brother Yao's marriage, and I must marry him a helpful wife."
Zheng Xiang was rejected again, his mind collapsed, and he said indifferently: "Brother, don't you think that Zheng Lan would be willing to marry his daughter to your son? The eldest daughter of the first assistant family, you dare to expect too much? Zheng Lan has no friendship, and you took the initiative to distance yourself from Yang Yuanjia for your ridiculous self-esteem!"
Zheng Chi's face suddenly sank, and Zheng Xiang's words really hit his sore spot.
Because long before Zheng Xiang came, he had the cheek to visit Yang's house and mentioned the marriage to Yang Yuanjia. Of course, needless to say, Yang Yuanjia rejected him directly, and said, "I have already arranged a marriage for the little girl."
In Zheng Chi's opinion, this is just an excuse for Yang Yuanjia's unwillingness to marry a daughter. But what can he do? Not only can't show dissatisfaction, but also squeeze out a smile to congratulate Yang Yuanjia on his happy son-in-law.
Speaking of regret, Zheng Chi's regret is probably a little less than Zheng Xiang's.
"What do you mean by the eldest sister? We never said that we would kiss the second sister!" Zheng Chi's wife Luo Shi suddenly pushed open the door and walked in, looking at Zheng Xiang indifferently, "We still have self-knowledge. Yes, you know that we can’t climb the ranks of the first assistant daughter, unlike some people who have no self-knowledge, the daughter of a mere small official is also worthy of being the future mistress of the Zheng family?”
Luo Shi has sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, and will never admit that he wants to marry Yang Yuanjia's daughter for his son Zheng Yao. All kinds of sarcasm against Sang and scolding Huai Zheng Xiang, Zheng Xiang's 'eloquence' in this regard is not comparable to her sister-in-law Luo Shi, and she blushed with irony. He left in a hurry, and did not dare to come back for a long time after that.
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Jiangnan, Zhang family.
The head of the Zhang family has been absent for many years, and he has a daughter who is over forty years old.
The head of the Zhang family was very old and passed away a few years after the only daughter became a biological child.
The great wealth left by the head of the Zhang family to his daughter and grandson has aroused the covetousness of others. Miss Zhang family is doted on by her father. She is just an innocent and weak woman who has no ability to keep the family business. The child is still young and doesn't know anything at all .
And his son-in-law Yang Yuanqi is someone who only knows how to enjoy himself and has not received an elite education. Without the pressure of his father-in-law, he will only help outsiders to destroy the Zhang family's property together.
So within two years, the Zhang family's family owner left only a dilapidated house for his daughter and grandson.
Yang Erzhu, who thought that he had turned over, no longer regarded himself as a son-in-law. He thought that he was a family member, and his son had to change his surname from Zhang to Yang, which was not good for his wife Zhang.
On this day, Yang Erzhu was drunk and fell asleep, and suddenly woke up from his dream. Looking at the scene of the four walls of the family, the memory in his mind slowly recovered, "I'm... revived?"
Yang Yuanqi had many descendants before his death, but unfortunately he died earlier than his own father, and died of illness. The days when he was ill before his death was unbearable.
But even in such a painful and serious illness, he was reluctant to die, he wanted to survive. Perhaps it was because of the strong desire to survive that he came back to life.
Yang Yuanqi slowly accepted Yang Erzhu's memory. He thought he was reviving from a corpse and was shocked. He turned out to be revived to his past self?
But why is this Yang Erzhu so miserable?
Yang Yuanqi, who was adopted by his second uncle and second aunt at the age of seven and never had a hard time, found out that this Yang Erzhu was not adopted. Instead, his biological father died early. , but it was only a marriage. After many years of prosperity and wealth, the Zhang family's property was taken away...
Hell start!
Yang Yuanqi walked out of the door and saw his former wife, Mrs. Zhang, who had passed away prematurely. Now she is similar to what he remembered before her death, she was the same age and appearance.
It's just that the Zhang family in front of him is so haggard because the family property was taken away after Zhang's father's death and reduced to the point of poverty, while Yang Yuanqi's former wife, Zhang's wife, was negotiated by his concubine with his tacit consent after the death of Zhang's father. Grind like that.
Seeing Mrs. Zhang again, Yang Yuanqi didn't have much fluctuation in his heart, just a woman with no use value.
However, when he saw his young eldest son again, Yang Yuanqi was in a good mood. In his last life, his eldest son was his first child, and he still loved it very much, but later his step-wife couldn't tolerate this child, so he could only reluctantly gave up.
But when Yang Yuanqi walked over and wanted to get close to this child, he found that the child was hiding behind Mrs. Zhang and staring at him with hatred, which made Yang Yuanqi immediately dissatisfied: "Little bunny, I am your father, how dare you use this Look at me!"
Seeing that he was angry, Mrs. Zhang immediately picked up her son and ran away.
Yang Yuanqi was stunned and forgot to chase.
In a blink of an eye, Zhang's mother and son disappeared.
Yang Yuanqi didn't bother to look for it, anyway, the mother and son didn't have much weight in his heart. What he cares more about now is what happened to Yang Erzhu in this world, and how he can get out of this predicament.
Yang Yuanqi sifted through Yang Erzhu's memory and found that everything had changed since Yang Yuanjia's death.
Yang Yuanjia, who was supposed to be damned, didn't die, so his second uncle and aunt had sons, so of course he wouldn't want to adopt a nephew. If Yang Erzhu couldn't adopt, he would not be eligible to go to school, let alone become a juren.
Yang Erzhu, who didn't know a few big characters, was able to become the son-in-law of the Zhang family, and it was all his face and rhetoric that coaxed the inexperienced Mr. Zhang to insist on him not marrying him.
But now that Zhang's father is dead, Zhang's family business is gone, and Yang Yuanqi's rebirth is in a poor situation again.
Of course, Yang Yuanqi didn't want to be reborn again and live a hard life. His first reaction was to retake the imperial examination. When he was admitted to Juren again, he would be able to regain his status in his previous life.
So Yang Yuanqi took advantage of Zhang's absence and rummaged through the broken house for belongings.
Although the Zhang family was defeated, the broken boat also had three pounds of rotten nails, and the Zhang family had a lot of valuable jewelry.
But Yang Erzhu used to like to steal her jewelry and go out for drinks, so the Zhang family had already hid his belongings, and Yang Yuanqi searched the broken house and found only a little bit of silver.
There was too little money, so Yang Yuanqi took away some valuable furnishings from his son's house and planned to use it as an exchange.
After he had the money, Yang Yuanqi left the Zhang family alone, regardless of his mother and son.
Zhang's mother and son came back from the neighbor's house and found that the house looked like it had been burglarized. They were not surprised, but quietly cleaned up. Zhang Shi thought that Yang Yuanqi would come back drunk after drinking, but she didn't expect Yang Yuanqi to come back after waiting for several days this time, she wondered if Yang Yuanqi died outside, but she was faintly relieved, if there was no Yang Yuanqi She always stole money, and she could support her son with the gold and silver jewelry, and she could also support her son to study.
Yang Yuanqi, who left with his belongings, left Zhang's mother and son behind. If he wanted to take the imperial examination, he had to return to his hometown, that is, return to Ping'an County to participate in the imperial examination.
Yang Yuanqi thought that he should have family in his hometown. It happened that it was good for his family to study the imperial examination, and he could have his family support him to study.
It's just that he is a little old now, in his thirties, but he has the reading foundation of the previous life, so he doesn't need to start reading from scratch, just take the imperial examinations directly. He is not too old in his thirties, and he can still be an official.
Yang Yuanqi returned to his hometown full of confidence. However, when he returned to Yangjia Village, he was a little afraid to recognize that this village with open and flat concrete roads and rows of bright and spacious houses was the poor and broken Yang family in his memory. home village!
Today, Yangjia Village has developed with the help of Yang Yuanjia and Yang Sanzhu. The village has developed a planting industry, and many foreign merchants have come to receive the goods. Therefore, no one cares about Yang Yuanqi's new face.
Yang Yuanqi found the location of his home according to the road in his memory.
But there was not the mud embryo house and the blue brick house in his impression, but a beautiful three-storey building, spacious and bright, which made his eyes pop out of his sockets.
Until someone opened the courtyard door and saw the familiar face, Yang Yuanqi called out in disbelief, "Mother?"
When Mrs. Li heard someone calling her mother, she subconsciously heard the voice and looked around, but saw an unfamiliar face, Mrs. Li immediately turned cold: "Why? I'm here to find my wife again! I'm telling you, my second son is both It's been ten years since he died, don't try to lie to me!"
Yang Yuanqi knew that Yang Erzhu had been away from home for many years and hadn't reported back home for many years. It was not surprising that the Li family thought he was dead. He explained: "Mother, I am really Erzhu! You don't remember, my son still has..."
"You want to say that you have the exact same birthmark as my son, right?" Li interrupted him impatiently, "How many times have you used this trick! Go ahead!"
Li directly drove Yang Yuanqi away with a big broom, and the villagers passing by saw it, and they were all surprised: "There is another liar who came to recognize his relatives!"
Yang Yuanqi, the 'liar', was directly blasted out of the village by the villagers.
Without the identity of Yang Erzhu, he would not be able to participate in the imperial examination, let alone return to officialdom.
When Yang Sanzhu returned home, Mrs. Li just remembered that Yang Yuanqi had come back to recognize his relatives a few days ago, so he talked to Yang Sanzhu at the dinner table.
Yang Sanzhu kept it in his heart.
Because the people who had made trouble in the past were all Yang Sanzhu, in order to prevent the real Yang Erzhu from coming back and making trouble, he quietly sent someone to find some people who looked like Yang Erzhu and pretended to be similar.
Each of these pretenders acted more like Yang Erzhu than Yang Yuanqi. After Li recognized his son, Yang Sanzhu exposed their identities as liars.
Yang Yuanqi, the real Yang Erzhu, is not a liar but also a liar.
Yang Sanzhu nailed the fact that Yang Erzhu was dead, and it was impossible for the Li family to believe in other people's recognition of their relatives, so that no one would know that the Yang family had a son-in-law, which would affect the reputation of the Yang family.
This time, there was a relative who was not arranged by Yang Sanzhu. Yang Sanzhu suspected that the real Yang Erzhu had returned, so he sent someone to investigate.
He did not directly investigate the person who recognized the relatives, but sent someone to investigate Yang Yuanqi, the son-in-law of the Zhang family in Jiangnan. After finding out that the Zhang family had fallen and Yang Yuanqi was missing, Yang Sanzhu could basically confirm that the person who recognized the relatives a few days ago was really Yang Erzhu. .
Yang Sanzhu passed the news to Yuan Jia in the capital.
Yuan Jia only replied: "Don't worry about him, just make sure that there is no such person as Yang Erzhu in the world."
The original male protagonist lost the identity of Yang Yuanjia's cousin Yang Erzhu. Yuanjia didn't care what he did as Yang Yuanqi.
Yang Sanzhu, who received the reply, really didn't go looking for Yang Yuanqi.
And Yang Yuanqi wandered in Ping'an County for some time, and found out that Yang Yuanjia actually worshipped the first rank and became the first assistant of the cabinet.
In his last life, he was just to make a name for himself. Even with the help of the Yue family, he would stop at the seventh-rank position before he died, and there was no chance for him to rise. Yang Yuanjia is so much better than him, doesn't it mean that if Yang Yuanjia hadn't died in his previous life, he would have been like Yang Erzhu in this life, and he wouldn't even want to be a magistrate of the seventh grade?
Yang Yuanqi was very taboo about Yang Yuanjia's death. He thought that Yang Yuanjia, like himself, was reborn, otherwise, how could there be such a big deviation? He didn't dare to go back to Yangjia Village again, for fear that Yang Yuanjia would kill him.
So Yang Yuanqi ran away in fear, and there was no news at all.
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Uncle Yang in the original plot:
"Master, master, he has already gone!"
Uncle Yang heard the bad news, and his eyes suddenly darkened: "Retribution! It's really retribution!"
Just because he had a single thought back then, he stole the life he has today for his son, so God will punish him for the white-haired man and the black-haired man!
His wife, Mrs. Li, was also heartbroken with grief, but she felt a little strange when she heard her husband muttering to himself.
My husband has been an honest man all his life, why did he suddenly talk nonsense like this?
At this moment, Uncle Yang stumbled and suddenly fell down.
The servant girl next to him hurriedly supported Uncle Yang, helped him to lie down on the bed, and hurriedly asked the doctor again.
Uncle Yang was groggy, and he could vaguely hear some outside voices, but he couldn't hear them clearly.
Suddenly, a glimmer of light flashed in front of his eyes, and Uncle Yang found himself standing on a country road in his hometown, and a tender cry for help came from his ears: "Help! Help!"
Uncle Yang's heart was beating violently. He knew that it was the cry for help from his second brother's only son, Yang Yuanjia, and the voice came from the pond in front of him.
As long as he walked forward, he could see the child fluttering in the icy water, the water that was very deep for a child, but not too deep for an adult like him.
There were two voices in his heart.
"Take a few steps forward, go and rescue my nephew! It's so cold and the water in the pond is so deep for the child, Yuan Jia's child will drown! That's the second brother's only child!"
But another voice was bewitching him: "Yes! That is the second brother's only son. If this child dies, the second brother will have no children. I have three sons, and I can adopt one son to the second brother, so that My son can live a good life, my burden has been reduced, and my second brother will also have a son who will die in the future.
He recalled in his mind that his wife Li said that he had no second brother, he could not make money, and if his three sons married daughter-in-law and the house did not land, his feet seemed to have taken root on the ground, standing there for a while. Not moving, his eyes were red as he listened to the child's tender cries for help getting weaker and weaker.
"Hey, what are you doing standing here?"
Uncle Yang was awakened by this voice, turned his head to look, it turned out to be the third uncle in the next room, he said in a panic: "Third uncle, I, I'm fine, just being said a few words by the mother-in-law, I'm in a bad mood, Come out and be quiet!"
Uncle Yang did not expect at this time that he would have the talent to lie even in a hurry.
The third uncle didn't have any doubts, the sky was a little dark at this time, and he didn't see the abnormal face of Uncle Yang who lowered his head.
After chatting with Uncle Yang, he carried his **** and prepared to leave.
"Uncle Third!" Uncle Yang thought that Uncle San would definitely pass by the pond in the past, so he hurriedly stopped him, asked some random questions, and told Uncle San to stop and continue chatting with him.
The third uncle thought that Uncle Yang wanted to chat with him, but he didn't care, so he stopped to chat with him.
While chatting, the third uncle suddenly asked, "Did you hear anything?"
In fact, Uncle Yang had been listening to the faint cry for help from the pond, and when he heard the question from the third uncle, his heart almost jumped out of his throat, and hurriedly said: "No, no! This night is probably Worms or frogs! Third Uncle, you just said you were going to learn carpentry, can you tell me more about it?"
The third uncle was distracted, so he ignored the strange voice he heard just now, and continued chatting with Uncle Yang.
Uncle Yang delayed until there was no sound at the pond, then stopped chatting and left with the third uncle.
He deliberately walked on the side near the pond, blocking the third uncle's sight.
When he got home, when Uncle Yang heard his second brother and younger siblings ask him about the whereabouts of his three sons, Yang Yuanjia, he panicked and became nervous.
When the child hadn't come back, and the second brother and younger sister couldn't help but ran out to look for it, Uncle Yang couldn't help but ran out and went to the pond.
Holding the lantern, he saw the child's body floating on the water, but he didn't dare to fish it or make a sound, so he just watched it quietly.
Suddenly, the floating corpse of the child on the water turned his head, his swollen face faced him gloomily and asked, "Uncle, why didn't you save me?!"
Uncle Yang was so frightened that he wanted to run away, but when he turned around, he saw two people standing behind him, it was his second brother and younger sister.
But they were wearing brocade clothes, and there were huge cuts on their bodies that were bleeding with blood. His second brother's neck was almost cut off with a knife, but he still stared at him with a cold smile: "Brother, why didn't you save me? My son? Also stop the third uncle from saving my son?"
Uncle Yang looked at the scene in front of him in fear, and made a "ho ho" sound in his throat, then rolled his eyes and fell down.
Li Shi, who was asking the doctor about her husband's health, suddenly saw her husband kicking his legs, and his body became stiff, so he quickly pulled the doctor forward: "Doctor, let's take a look at my old man, he was fine just now, why suddenly That's all?"
When the doctor felt his pulse, he found that he couldn't feel it at all. He took another breath and sighed at Mrs. Li: "Old Madam, my condolences!"
Li Shi couldn't believe it, and after a while, she threw herself on her husband and burst into tears.
Seeing this scene, the doctor sighed and shook his head. Rao was used to seeing life and death, so he couldn't help but sigh.
It's just that before he left, he couldn't help but look at the death of the deceased, and he felt a little strange. Why did this person's death seem to be scared to death?
But the doctor didn't talk too much. He only said that the old man couldn't bear the pain of losing his son.
For a while, the Yang residence held one funeral after another.