Bai's forehead was wrapped with a veil, her face was pale, and she lay on the bed, her eyes were swollen like rotten peaches, and her tears and flowing water couldn't stop it.
Chen Yan sat on the stool in front of the bed, sighed secretly in his heart, handed over a veil, and said, "Mom, the marriage will not be completed..."
Bai Cryed out "woof" and pulled Chen Yan's arm: "My son is so disliked by them. He thought the Dong family was good, but who thought they were so snobbish. I was originally The wife of the Dong family showed goodwill first, and now they are the ones who regret it, and they are not good ones."
Other people's New Year will be lively, but for Chen Yan and Chen brothers' houses, it is in turmoil.
The clan sacrifices on New Year's Eve were not as good as their brothers. The same was true in previous years, but this year it was even more desperate. The words of the eldest wife of the second wife did not allow them to return to the clan to the clan. The old story of Shaw Brothers was revealed again, and there was no way for the clan to be reorganized. Let them live in such an unknown way in the name of their tribe members.
Chen Yan and brother Chen are not unacceptable to this result.
When Chen Haofeng admitted his identity as a wife and descendants, he was ready to be disliked by the second family legitimate branch. He thought that this would make him clear and he would save himself from the clan house that he wanted to give his heirs out. , Jiufang and others are afraid of it.
But I didn't expect that not only did I fail to return to the clan, but I couldn't even keep the title of Shen clan, and Chen Yan's marriage also changed.
Seeing that Chen Yan had no hope of returning to the emperor, Dong Shen was not even considered a branch of the Shen family. He could only be considered a person from two surnames. His reputation was damaged by his elders, he ignored Juren Dong and began to look at others.
Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year. When Dong Shen's family returned to their parents' home, Bai went to the third room early, but Dong Shen's only did not see her.
Bai was not giving up. He thought that Dong Shen came back from his parents' house and went to the Dong family again, but he didn't even enter the gate.
Bai fell down when he came back. Chen Yan knew that the marriage had changed. Although he was sad, he was reluctant to be in a relationship with Dong Juren. He had nothing to be reluctant to give up on the Dong family's slightly spoiled junior sister.
"It's not sweet to be forced. Since the master's wife doesn't want to, it's better not to mention this marriage... Mom, don't cry anymore. When your son is a juren, tell me a better wife to me." Chen Yan advised softly. .
Bai wiped his tears, his eyes full of hatred: "All the descendants of Yiqingtang, what kind of legitimate branch should be so unbearable to us? They are afraid, worried that my son would soar into the sky and go to find them, so they suppressed them. My son, I deliberately mixed up your marriage so that you can distract you and can't concentrate on preparing for the exam. They are all dark things. I deserve to be born without a son. Brother, don't fall into their tricks. Just concentrate on preparing for the provincial examination. OK... The girl from the Dong family is lazy and greedy. I want to see what kind of high branches can their family climb?"
Looking at his mother with resentment, Chen Yan smiled bitterly in his heart.
The second house legitimate branch is far away in the capital, and even the people of the house tribes don't bother to pay attention to it. How could they keep their abandoned son in their hearts? He even tried to suppress him and disturb his marriage? Chen Yan knew how much he was, but he wouldn't be able to do it. Believe Bai's random guesses.
He smiled bitterly because he was not sure about this year's provincial examination.
Although he was also enlightened at the age of four or five and had been studying for more than ten years, no one of the children of scholars came from this way, but they were not sure that they were all Juren and Jinshi.
He had thought that after he passed the imperial examination, he would go to the second house in the capital to ask his father and grandfather to return to his hometown. However, the death of the only son of the second house completely cut off this possibility.
The second family's legitimate descendants were cut off, and the root cause was also due to the evil deeds of Shaw Brothers back then. There were no descendants there, and as the great-grandson of Shaw Brothers here, how could they not be disgusted if they wanted to return to their hometown?
After persuading for a while, he ordered his maid to serve Bai and rest, and Chen Yan came out of the north room.
As soon as I arrived at the door of the house, I stood there like a pillar, with a very ugly face.
Seeing this, Chen Yan couldn't help but frown and whispered: "Where did you learn bad habits from me? I sneakily learn to listen to the corner?"
Chen glanced at the north room and pulled Chen Yan back to the east wing.
"Brother, did I do something wrong? Shouldn't I go to the school to spread the secrets of the second bedroom?" Chen was full of guilt: "It was me who was wrong... I was implicated in the big brother and was dismissed..."
Chen Yan shook his head and said, "It's not your business, even if you don't go to the school, the third room and the ninth room will spread the story of my great-grandmother... After all, our brothers are closer to the capital city. For safety, they naturally want to Then I will cut off the possibility of adoption for you and me first..."
"But how could Mr. Dong go back on his word? Didn't he look at Brother Jin and let his wife make trouble?" Chen said angrily.
Chen Yan sighed and said, "Not blamed the teacher... The teacher is the Shen family's in-laws. You can't offend the Shen family because of my reasons.
Chen Yan and Chen brothers refused to admit that they had spoken out. If Dong Juren insisted on being a bride, they would offend the second wife of the Shen family. Both of Dong Juren's sons entered the officialdom, so naturally they would have more concerns.
Chen gritted his teeth and said, "It turns out that the third house of the Shen family is a good person, but I didn't expect that they were the ones who were heartbroken. No wonder no one in the Shen family liked their great-grandmother's gossip came from the third house. I heard that I was urging the wife of the Dong family. They are also the ones who regretted marriage... Chen Zhu has not earned his heir yet, they have shaken backwards. God has eyes, let's see if they plan to be empty..."
Thinking of the Shen family's sons who followed Xu to Beijing, Chen had some hope: "It would be great if the last heir he chose had Brother Qin... Although Brother Qin was a little bit shady, he was kind-hearted..."
Chen Yan was a little stunned when he heard this.
Everyone has arrogance. If you are disliked, do you still have to worry about your descendants?
He didn't understand why his grandfather and father were obsessed with returning to the family when he was young. Now his situation has changed, but it made him know how reassuring it is to have a family to rely on. Even if he has the name of a family, he will not be bullied at will. Go.
But as Chen thought, since the eldest wife of the second wife could say that, then when the elders of the second wife were alive, their branch wanted to return to the clan, and maybe they really had to wait until the older generation passed away and the younger generation was in charge. Only then can it be possible.
Just as he was thinking, he heard the knocking sound of the door in the yard, so he got up and went out.
Chen said curiously: "Who will come here at this time?" As he said that, he also went out with his brother.
The one who came was Dong Juren.
"Teacher, why are you here?" Chen Yan was quite surprised and hurriedly handed Juren Dong to the small hall of the east wing.
The bone-damaged injury has almost healed. Although he was dissatisfied with Dong Juren because of the Dong family's destruction, he did not want his elder brother to make things difficult for him, so he kept going to pour tea honestly.
Juren Dong came here alone, and seeing Chen Yan still respecting himself as before was both guilty and shocked.
What was guilty was that he went back on his word and did not stop his wife from making trouble; what was frightened was that Chen Yan was young and encountered such a destruction of marriage, his widowed mother was humiliated, but she still showed no expression on her face.
"It's all my fault. I didn't stop your teacher's wife... After fifteen, the two families will get married..." Dong Juren said with shame.
Chen Fengcha came up, and after hearing this, he couldn't help but secretly look at his elder brother.
Although Dong Juren is good, the wife of the Dong family is doing things over and over again, and Chen really doesn't like his brother.
Chen Yan glared at him, and Chen Fang retreated honestly, but he still couldn't help but be curious and stood down at the door.
Chen Yan said: "The teacher has a fate, and the students should follow it... It is just because of the students that the teacher's family is in chaos, and the students are uneasy. Marriage has always been a good match between the two families, and the teacher's wife and the mother are not in a state of nature. And, the son-in-law whom I am also interested in, there is no need to mention this relative teacher. One day, one day, one is a teacher for life, and even if you don’t have the chance to be half a son with the teacher, students will not forget the teacher’s grace for years of teaching.”
Chen Yan's voice was not loud, but his tone was decisive.
Juren Chen sighed repeatedly, "This, your master's wife is rude, it's hard for me to go to Lingtang. Brother Yan apologizes for me and your mother...
Chen Juren still likes this student, thinking that the second wife of the Shen family is doing so without any room. No matter how wrong Chen Yan and Shen’s great-grandmother were wrong back then, it has been several generations, and now they are still calculating and What's the meaning?
"I have been rumored to say so much recently. After all, this is Shenjiafang. It was not one or two that were jealous of your brothers earlier... What are your plans?" said Shen Juren.
After all, they are still "customer-living", and this small house is also an industry under the name of the clan house, not their private property.
Chen Yan said: "When the exam is finished, the students want to go to Nanjing with their mother... to go there as soon as possible and be familiar with the water and soil, and can prepare for the exam with peace of mind as soon as possible."
This year is the year of the provincial examination. After the first month of the year, the academic administration will go to various governments to preside over the subject examination. The academic administration passed the annual examination last year and this year's examination, and divided the students into sixth grades, and obtained the qualification for the provincial examination in the first and second grades. Students are not allowed to take the provincial examination without taking the annual exam.
Hearing that Chen Yan was planning his family to go to Nanjing, Juren Dong nodded and said, "Go away as soon as possible, and be quiet and study." While speaking, he took out a purse from his sleeve and put it on a small table: "I'll give it to you." You just need to accept the prepared New Year’s money and don’t refuse it, otherwise you will blame me in your heart... A teacher and student fight, I just hope that you can start your career as soon as possible. Even if you cannot return to the tribe, you can still establish a world... , Without the help of the family, the poor family members have made their way through step by step, and it is not without…”
In what Juren said, Chen Yan had no room for rejection, so he had to bow and say, "Since it was given by the teacher, the student was ashamed of being.
Whether Chen Yan was so cunning at a young age or was in a kind mood and did not hold grudges, Juren Dong could only sigh.
If he had a choice, he would be willing to continue the marriage, but the matter has been going on. Even if he can persuade his wife to be humiliated for nothing, how can he be without grudges?
But that's all he can do.
The teacher and student said something that was not painful and itchy, and Juren Dong left.
Chen Yan personally sent it out of the door. Seeing Juren Dong walking away, he turned around and came back.
Shen stood in the small hall, staring at the purse on the small table, with bulging cheeks: "What does Juren Dong mean? Who lacks some money?
Chen Yan just smiled and picked up his purse, which was light and had no weight.
When I opened it, there were four bank tickets inside, no more than two hundred taels of silver.
Chen stepped forward and took a breath of air conditioning: "Two hundred taels of silver are used as New Year's money, Mr. Dong is such a big deal?"
Families like them also call slaves and maids, and only cost a few taels of silver per month. When their family moved back to Songjiang, they got only three or four hundred taels of silver to deal with the industry.
Fortunately, Chen Yan's subsidy in the clan school made the family of three unable to live in vain.
Although Dong Juren also bought land and bought property, he was born into a poor family. His ancestors had no savings and had to take care of the orphans and widows left by his younger brother. His life was not spacious. For Dong Juren, these 200 taels of silver Not a small number either.
Chen Yan sighed, "Sir, I am very kind."
Chen looked away from the silver notes and said uncomfortable: "Brother wants to accept it? Don't you return it?"
Chen Yan smiled and said, "What should I go back? After the exam is completed, we will move. Just when we need money..."
He frowned and said, "Although the honest one does not accept the food given by pity, this is not considered the food given by pity, but the Dong family regrets the marriage and takes out the silver, which is like blocking the elder brother's mouth? Shouldn't the elder brother insist on not accepting it?"
Chen Yan glanced at his younger brother: "The second brother just wants to be bad, why don't he think about it? The teacher may just know that we are in a difficult life. In order to prepare for the exam with peace of mind, he sent money here."
"Who believes it? Our family has always been like this. If Mr. Dong wants to supplement it, my elder brother would have supplemented it long ago. Why wait until this time? My elder brother always only thinks about the good things of others." Chen shrugged his lips and said.
"The teacher is willing to accept me as a disciple and teach me well. He has been very kind to me. The teacher does not owe me, so I naturally remember the teacher's goodness. The so-called engagement was just a few gossips at the beginning, but it was not put into practice. , If it weren't true, it wouldn't be considered a treason. If I hadn't really cared for me, the teacher wouldn't have been in a hurry. I would give a lot of money to solve my worries. Is it great if I didn't like the teacher, but I would feel resentful because of that bad point? What is that?” Chen Yan said seriously.
He looked at his brother calmly, and was a little unsure: "Don't you really blame the Dong family for remorse of the marriage?"
Chen Yan smiled and said, "Why are the good man without a wife or does his second brother think that his elder brother is useless, and he won't be able to tell you about his sister-in-law in the future?"
Sitting in the chair, tilted his chin, he said, "If everyone could be like a big brother, I would just think others are good..."
Even if Brothers and the second wife heard about the old story of the early years of the Chen Yan and the Chen brothers, they were not fully aware of it.
It was not until Xu returned to Songjiang and came out that the old affairs of the second wife were dug out, and the two brothers learned the details.
Originally, Chen was complaining about the legitimate branch because his father and grandfather could not return to his hometown. After knowing the past, he couldn't resent. He put his heart in his heart. If someone dared to harm Chen Yan, Chen would hold a grudge for the rest of his life and vowed to take revenge.
However, no matter how vicious Shaw said, it cannot erase her kindness to the third prince for more than ten years. This is also the reason why people in the clan thought that the second wife and third prince were too affectionate in their early years.
Chen Yan lowered his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly.
The world is cold and people's hearts are changing easily. If you don't remember good things, can you just hold grudges? Isn't that just like your mother, torture yourself every day and be uneasy, and you are not a woman, so you have to look for someone to rely on, so why can't you be as calm as if you are meditating? , to be promoted with fame and fortune, to establish a family...