Xia Xun acted like he was shocked. In fact, he had no idea who the Xie family from Yangxia, Chen County was. It was just that Xiao Jingtang looked like he had been injected with chicken blood, and his face was glowing red. Anyone who was not blind could see it.
This family must have a good background, so he had to cooperate.
Xiao Jingtang said with reverence on his face: "Yes, the Xie family of Yangxia, Chen Jun! The first family in Wuyi Lane, Xie family, Xie An, Xie Shi, Xie Xuan, Xie Yan, Xie Lingyun, Xie Daoyun..., the Xie family of Yangxia, Chen Jun...
, although the Xie family has been in decline since the late Sui Dynasty, their identity is that of a famous family that has been passed down for thousands of years, and they are of noble birth, which money cannot buy.
"Has it been in decline since the late Sui Dynasty?"
Xia Xun really couldn't figure out what Guanshi Xiao had to brag about in this case, but he didn't know that people in the old days had little concept of time for the inheritance and continuation of history. Thousands of years of inheritance seemed like yesterday.
Just like in modern times, in the early 1980s, a foreign professor wrote a travelogue about China. He mentioned in it that when he arrived in a remote mountain village, the local people came to see him out of curiosity.
With a strange eye, he smiled and asked the people in the village: "Is this the first time you have seen someone like me?"
Unexpectedly, the old man in the village replied: "No, there have been people with blond hair and blue eyes who have visited our village before." The professor asked curiously, and the old man answered naturally: "In the Yuan Dynasty, there was
People like you come to us." The professor suddenly became speechless. The old man answered so naturally. What happened more than a thousand years ago seems to be just yesterday to this ancient country with a long history and this small village that has been passed down from generation to generation.
.
In addition to this reason, a more important reason is that people at that time had just restored the Han people after more than a hundred years of foreign rule. They had a very urgent psychological desire to reconnect with their ancestors. Even today's emperors are compiling family trees.
A group of ministers conducted careful research and came up with a conclusion for Zhu Yuanzhang that he was a descendant of Zhu Xi. In addition to putting gold on the emperor's face, it was probably due to this kind of psychological factor.
If Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't denied it, the genealogy of the old Zhu family would have been written starting from Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty. Those sycophant ministers underestimated Zhu Yuanzhang's courage and mind. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to recognize such an outstanding ancestor. He was Zhu Yuanzhang.
The poor cattle herder is a commoner from Huaiyou. He has neither noble blood nor the legend of killing the white snake. He never believes that winning the respect of others depends on his blood, but on his actions and achievements.
But how many people in the world have the confidence and courage of Zhu Yuanzhang? Although Xia Xun disagrees, when it comes to the Xie family of Yangxia in Chen County, most of the rich and powerful at that time still admired them, especially in the Yingtian Mansion area, the Xie family
The impact is even greater. If people go to Jinling today, how many people will not go to Wuyi Alley? As long as they go to Wuyi Alley, who will not recite the sentence "In the past, the king's pavilion was in front of the palace, but now it is flying to the homes of ordinary people" to pay homage to the past.
The first official family?
Manager Xiao said smugly: "Speaking of which, it was because I saved this girl's father when he was doing business. In order to repay the favor of saving his life, he agreed to marry us. Otherwise, with the appearance of our family at that time, we would not be able to reach high places.
I can’t afford it. As long as people reveal the name of the Xie family, I don’t know how many wealthy officials are willing to marry the Xie family.”
Xia Xun originally thought that his cheap wife was probably the daughter of a moderately wealthy family, because the Yang family more than ten years ago was not that great of a family. People in this era paid attention to being well-matched, so naturally the family background of the other party should be similar.
That's right. I didn't expect that she was from a famous family, so I couldn't help but feel a little curious.
Since he wants to replace Yang Wenxuan's identity and wants to use this as an excuse to return to Jiangnan, he must marry this girl Xie. Divorcing his wife is very troublesome. It is impossible to divorce her without a justifiable reason, unless she has committed seven crimes.
For example, maybe she didn't want to marry him, and the two of them negotiated a solution. He thought that if this wife wasn't hateful and had a surly temperament, he could still marry him, but he didn't expect that his unmarried wife would actually have a great background.
A little confused.
Xiao Jingtang only said that his young master was overjoyed, and happily told some things about the Xie family that he had heard from hearsay. Then he talked about the grudges between his master and the Yang family. When he talked about the Yang family, Manager Xiao
My mood immediately dropped.
It turns out that Yang Xu's hometown is in Moling Town, Yingtian Prefecture. Together with Jiangning Town and Jinling Town, they are collectively known as the Three Jinling Towns. The place is a hub for traffic and the market is prosperous. The Yang family is the largest family in Moling Town, and the family is engaged in farming. Yang
Xu's father, Yang Dingkun, is just a minor figure in the family. Because his father and grandfather are descendants of the older generations of the Yang family, his status in the family is not high. In addition, his ancestors did not allocate much land, so in the local area
I can only be considered a middle-class family.
However, Moling Town is located at a traffic hub, and travelers from south to north often pass by, so Yang Dingkun has been well-informed since he was a child. He has read books and has a sharp mind. He gradually becomes restless in those few acres of thin farmland. He found that guarding this
Although he could not starve to death with just a few acres, it was difficult to find wealth. Given the local conditions, if he could open a hotel or run a transportation and sales business along the river, he would definitely have a lot of money, so he wanted to give up farming and go into business.
His move immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction with Yang Rong, the patriarch of the Yang family. You must know that doing business is a lowly industry, and the Yang family is the largest family in Moling Town and a big local landowner. They have been farming and studying. If you are successful in studying, you will earn money.
Fame, but not education, can make you a decent squire. The patriarch Yang Rong controls the most land in the Yang family, and he is not short of money. If Yang Dingkun goes into business, it will undoubtedly discredit his face. He is even more worried about what will happen to the children of other families.
Following his example, he, the head of the family, would eventually lose control of his family.
Therefore, Yang Rong firmly opposed it and used the power of his family to put a lot of pressure on him. However, Yang Dingkun was a very determined person. He ignored the obstruction of his family and insisted on starting a business. As a result, he was already relatively popular among the family.
Being ostracized, his situation was even more embarrassing. How could the clan not bully someone who was disliked by the clan leader?
Those are all things that cannot be listed in detail. Not even Manager Xiao can explain clearly the various trivial things in life, but the accumulated bullying and harm are an endless torture to a family.
This kind of endless mental torture is very hurtful.
As the relationship between Yang Dingkun's room and the entire family became more and more tense, the children in the clan began to imitate the adults in bullying the young Yang Xu. Yang Xu was always beaten back crying by his cousins every time he went out.
His mother went to her sisters-in-law to reason with her, but she often came back with her face turned pale with anger.
Later, because Yang Dingkun was in the entrepreneurial stage and needed to go out often, the favorite and most vicious attack method used by rural people came out, and rumors about the Yang family's wife gradually spread in the town. This was the most damaging way to ruin the reputation. It was intolerable and indefensible. This weak woman single-handedly endured the humiliation and insults inflicted on her by the entire family, enduring their cynicism and filthy words. Finally one day, she couldn't bear it any more. Down, she threw herself into the well.
Yang Dingkun was devastated. In the past few years of his business career, in order to mend the rift with his family, his brothers excluded him, and he endured it. The family wanted to build an ancestral hall, and he donated the most money. There were several young scholars in the family, and he bore all the expenses. He had tried his best, but all his efforts could not win their goodwill. His wife was actually driven to death by their spit.
Yang Dingkun burst into tears, buried his wife, and left his hometown with his youngest son and his only loyal servant Xiao Jingtang and his family. He sold off his newly prosperous shop, leaving only the house passed down from his ancestors. He For the last time, I lit incense on the memorial tablets of my parents. For the first time, I lit incense on my wife. I locked the door with my own hands. I vowed that one day, I would be in a position of power that would surpass everyone in the entire family. Return to hometown...
Xiao Jingtang recounted the unbearable experience with tears in his eyes. Xia Xun was furious after hearing this. Although he was not Yang Wenxuan, he felt the same way. He could imagine how despicable those people were, and how they behaved The ugly face bullies a kind and weak family.
"I will shoulder Yang Xu's responsibility for him!"
Xia Xun's eyebrows gradually raised, and he said solemnly to Xiao Jingtang: "Uncle Xiao, don't be sad, we will go back, we will return home in rich clothes, we will rebuild the old house, and we will call out those who are narrow-minded and short-sighted. The villain can only look up to us from now on and is not even qualified to say weird things!"
Xiao Jingtang nodded happily: "Old Xiao believes that the young master will definitely make the master and his wife smile."
"And Yang Xu!" Xia Xun added quietly in his heart.
Outside the window, Xiao Di and Peng Ziqi were squatting quietly under the grape vines. They were curious about the future young lady of the Yang family, so they came to eavesdrop. Unexpectedly, they heard such a story. Xiao Huo held his chin in his hands. , a pair of bright eyes, blinking, not knowing what she was thinking. Peng Ziqi had a strange look on her face. After a long time, she gestured to Xiao Di, and the two of them walked away quietly. .
It's late at night, and tonight is a full moon night.
The moon is bright in the sky, the ground is covered with clear frost, and insects are chirping in the grass.
Xia Xun walked leisurely through the grape arbor and stood on the railing next to the pavilion. He looked down at the bright black water. There was his reflection in the water, but he couldn't see his appearance clearly.
A figure slowly emerged from the grape trellis, stood quietly not far away from him, stared at him quietly for a long time, and suddenly said: "The most unpredictable thing in the world is the human heart. Things are different, but people are good. Stupid, there are some people who cannot be moved by emotion and morality, so your father used the wrong method; for such a villain, you can only make him envious by using money and power, but more than envy, there is jealousy. To slander and slander them, if you want them to bow their heads obediently, you have to act like a bully. Those villains only fear their fists!"
Xia Xun didn't look back, just smiled, looked at his reflection gently swaying in the water, and said, "Is this okay? You are also from a huge family. You should know that no matter what a family does, the family's
It is difficult for a younger brother to resist, because once he wants to resist, he will no longer be fighting against the power of a family, but the entire secular force that regards loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and brotherhood as untouchable."
Xia Xun sighed faintly and said: "My father is the head, I respect the king as the head, and the king and father are one, so loyalty and filial piety are one, which has become the standard for evaluating a person in the whole world. When the clan is expanded, it becomes the country, so it offends the family
, Those who ignore the dignity of elders and younger ones are no different from the rebellious ministers of the country. They will be criticized by thousands of people and die without illness..."
Peng Ziqi sneered: "As long as you have enough power, what can't be done? If the country cannot be changed, then it is still the Great Xia Dynasty. Where can the Ming Dynasty come from? The country can be changed, but a family is great? I heard that reputation
The world is full of slander, and no one can make everyone praise you. If someone praises you, someone will slander you. Those who do not slander you must be mediocre to the extreme, and others are too lazy to evaluate you."
"Oh?"
Peng Ziqi said angrily: "Do you think I'm a rough guy? Who told you that people who practice martial arts don't practice writing? How can people who don't practice writing master martial arts? I just didn't study the Four Books and Five Classics, poems and songs
It’s just free time!”
Xia Xun smiled: "That's true. But as soon as I saw your sword that never leaves your body, I forgot that you are also a literate person. Haha, when something happens, your instinctive reaction is to draw the sword.
Ah. But... what you said seems to make sense. When it's time to draw the sword, you have to draw it. When it's time to be strong, you should never show weakness!"
"That's right!" Peng Ziqi smiled: "A child can be taught!"
She ground her feet subconsciously and her voice suddenly lowered: "I...um...the March period is coming soon."
Xia Xun was reminded by her, and then she remembered the three-month agreement between Feng Xihui and her. Suddenly, she felt a sense of reluctance in her heart. She said softly, "Yes!" but didn't know what to say.
He refused to say anything, so Peng Ziqi plucked up the courage to say: "The whereabouts of your murderer are still unknown."
Xia Xun hurriedly said: "Yes, this person is quite cunning. If he doesn't take action, it will be extremely difficult to find out his roots."
Peng Ziqi hesitated for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "In that case, why don't you pay a lot of money to discuss with my family and hire me to take you back home?"
Xia Xun said with some surprise: "You will return home with me?"
Peng Ziqi felt a little uncomfortable. She did not expect her husband to be a universal hero, but he could not be a person with serious moral flaws like Yang Wenxuan. She knew that there was no way she would have any consequences with the man in front of her, but she just
She couldn't help but feel unconvinced. She wanted to know what was so great about that girl from the Xie family.
Is her Xie family's pen really better than her Peng family's sword?
She had an impulse to see the woman who was destined to be Yang Wenxuan's wife from birth.
But when Xia Xun asked, she became flustered again. Under the cover of the night, there was a trace of embarrassment and embarrassment on her face. She struggled and pretended to be relaxed and said: "Yes, I have protected you for three months, but I can't."
I hope you will be killed in the end. Besides, I have never been to Jinling, the prosperous place of the Six Dynasties, and I really want to see it."
"She is a girl. In fact, she already knows that I know her identity. Why is she willing to..."
The moon was white and the wind was clear. Xia Xun stared at this jade-like person under the moonlight, and a hint of understanding and emotion gradually appeared in his eyes. Peng Ziqi was confused by what he saw. She had a knife in her hand. She was not afraid of anything at first, but now she is afraid of nothing.
Seeing the eldest son of the Yang family, a frail scholar like him, she felt like she couldn't resist. She suddenly let out a "ha" and pretended to be relaxed: "I'm joking, do you really take it seriously? It's getting late. Go to bed."
."
Peng Ziqi said, dodging left and right, and quickly disappeared from Xia Xun's sight. Xia Xun looked at the swaying flower branches where she disappeared, and murmured: "Women, what a strange creature...