On the way, Shen Rui and Shen Jue were both silent. This speculation was really surprising. If this were true, Shen Rui's identity would be embarrassing.
Shen Jue looked at Shen Rui and hesitated to speak. After squeaking for a long time, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother Rui, what if this really happens?"
what to do?
Although when Shen Rui woke up, the Sun family had passed away and they had no contact with each other and could not talk about the love between mother and son. However, he could not deny that he had lived peacefully in the Ming Dynasty for the past three years, being a man who could wear clothes and put food in his hands and open his mouth. The young master relied on Sun's Yu Yin.
Even the position of heir who fell from the sky is also due to the relationship between the Sun family and the second wife.
But for the sake of so-called "dignity", it is also a joke to give up the office of Shangshu Mansion and continue to argue with Shen Juren and Zhang Laoan.
If you ignore it and pretend to be deaf and dumb, you are not a son of man in vain.
For a moment, Shen Rui was really in a dilemma.
According to his opinion, regardless of whether his second wife is happy or not, she is an aunt, not an old mother. In later generations, the kinship is weak. The so-called family members are just direct blood relatives, and uncles are all relatives; but now it is the Ming Dynasty, and people living with the same ancestor’s family are They are considered a family, not to mention the eldest father and the second father are brothers.
Mrs. Xu did not want the second wife to know about the relationship between Shen Rui and Mr. Sun, because she knew that the second wife would definitely not accept this relationship.
Then, as long as Shen Rui enters the second room, the relationship will inevitably be revealed.
Is that because they hold the idea of "cooking rice from raw to cooked rice"?
Shen Rui felt cold for a moment, glanced at Shen Jue and said, "I'm confused too... I always feel that this matter sounds a bit ridiculous, but it's not impossible. For a moment, I don't know what to do??"
Shen Jue frowned and thought for a while and said: "You can't ask the elders, right? This is unfounded and involves Aunt Yuan, which is not something we should consider. If this matter really happens, what will happen to Uncle Cang and Uncle Cang?" Auntie will never hide it from you forever. She will make it clear to you one day..."
Shen Rui thought about it, but still felt that it was inappropriate, and shook his head and said: "We can't continue to be confused. I'll see if I can ask my uncle in a few days..."
Grandpa Sun’s blessed land is in Changping, next to the blessed land of the second wife of the Shen family. There is also a sacrificial village with dozens of hectares of land here.
A few dozen hectares of Zhuangzi in the south of the Yangtze River is nothing, but in the land of Gyeongsang Province, where dignitaries gather, such a whole Zhuangzi can be regarded as a big village. That is to say, because it is registered as a sacrificial field, and there are blessed lands of the Shen and Sun families, there is no such thing. Otherwise, after the third master passed away, given the age and rank of the first master and the second master at that time, they might not be able to save the village.
Today, the head of the memorial village is Zhou’s mother’s second son, Tuesday. He is in his early thirties, has a garlic nose, and looks honest and honest. Although this memorial village is not a prosperous place, the family cemetery is located, so this Tuesday can become the village here. There must be something thoughtful and careful about it.
Yesterday Mrs. Xu had sent someone over to convey the news that the courtyard where the couple would accommodate Shen Rui and others on Tuesday had already been cleaned up.
Unlike Beijing, which is getting hotter and hotter, March in the suburbs of Beijing is quite cool.
Others were okay. Shen Qin got off the carriage and was overjoyed: "Finally, I can see green..."
They came to Beijing in March, and besides staying at Shen's house, they also went out several times. Compared with Songjiang, the capital had more houses and more people, but the dry climate in winter also made it difficult for them, young people born and raised in Jiangnan, to adapt.
Now that winter has passed and spring has come to an end, the capital seems to have begun to contain moisture, making people no longer feel so dry.
Because Zhuangzi is a resting place during the festival, it is not very big, with only three entrances. It is at the foot of the mountain. Except for the two two-entry courtyards where the village head stewards and others live, the rest are village tenants. 's house.
Naturally, Shen Rui and others would move to the main house and settle in the front yard.
I left the city in the morning and sat on the carriage for an hour and a half. It was almost noon by this time.
By the time Shen Rui and others finished washing up, lunch was ready.
At this time, in addition to river delicacies, various wild vegetables in the mountains were also available, many of which were never seen or rarely seen in the south. However, several of the clan brothers were full of belly after eating them.
Although it was stated that tomorrow was the day of the memorial ceremony for Mr. Sun’s life, Shen Rui still called Tuesday and proposed to go to Mr. Sun’s tomb first.
Although it was the first time that he met Shen Rui on Tuesday, he knew that this was the heir to the eldest master's house. The future head of the Shangshu Mansion would not dare to show any slightest care, so he naturally responded without hesitation.
Shen Jue and Shen Qin had nothing to do, so they followed suit.
Knowing that the tomb of the second wife's grandfather was adjacent to that of Mr. Sun, Shen Rui asked someone to put the prepared sacrifices into a basket and have them carry them up the mountain together.
The cemeteries of Sun and Chen's family are located at the southern foot of the mountain, only a few feet apart. There is only one grave on one side, and six or seven graves scattered on the other.
These two cemeteries are very neat and tidy, with not even a single weed on the graves.
Even Shen Qin, who loved to talk the most, shut her mouth at this moment.
Shen Rui first went to stand in front of Taiye Sun's tomb, and saw on the tombstone it was written "The tomb of deceased brother Sun Gongba Mengsheng", and the inscription below was "Unworthy brother Shen Jun was born in tears".
Compared with ordinary tombstones, this one is simpler, with no birth and death dates.
Young Master Shen Rui was not allowed to lift his clothes and kowtow three times in front of the tomb.
Looking at the Shen family cemetery again, the topmost graves are those of the old man from the second house and his first wife. The couple were not buried together. The old man from the second house left that year and never came back. Needless to say, the graves that were erected there were cenotaphs.
Below, on the left side are the tombs of the eldest son and the second son-in-law. The two brothers were sixteen and fourteen years old when the accident occurred. One was a Shang Shang and the other was a Zhong Shang.
On the right side are the tombs of the old man from the third house and the old man from the third house. The couple also have their own tombs. This is strange. It was a coincidence that the old man from the second house and the old woman from the second house were not buried together. After all, the old man kept his hand on the Shaw family. And after hearing that the Shaw family had a son, they had second thoughts, which hurt the relationship between husband and wife. The third prince and the third old lady were not buried together. I don’t know what the reason was.
There is also a small grave on the grave of the Third Master. Buried inside is the eldest daughter of the Third Master. She died of illness when she was eight years old, which is considered a mourning. I heard that the other second daughter was between the age of the Second Master and the Third Master and was less than eight years old. He died at a young age, and he was not even mourning, so his tomb was not cared for.
A few empty places further down, there is another tomb, needless to say, it is Shen Luo's tomb.
Although Shen Luo died at the age of eighteen and was less than nineteen years old, due to folk custom, the man was already engaged and the woman was promised to marry without any regrets. Therefore, the regulations on this grave are different from those of her two uncles.
Standing in Erfang Cemetery, Shen Rui couldn't help but feel horrified.
As for the reproduction of offspring, one generation usually has more offspring than the next, but it is exactly the opposite here in the second house.
If the Matsue family were not here, the second wife would not even have an heir, and there would be no heir.
Shen Qin, Shen Bao and others looked at the graves, and their hearts became heavy as they remembered the secrets of the second wife's past that had been discussed in the past.
Shen Bao paid it back and thought about his own family. If his father hadn't been able to give birth, there would have been a lot of legitimate sons and concubines, and the situation of the legitimate children of the eighth family would not be much better than that of the second family. Regardless of whether his father could successfully pass the Jinshi examination, as long as his blood lineage is reproduced here, it would be considered I'm sorry to my ancestors.
Shen Qin's face was a little feverish, and she felt a little ashamed for no reason.
If nothing had happened to the eldest grandfather and the second grandfather back then, and they would have already married and had children, how could the second wife's bloodline be so weak?
In the final analysis, it was Shaw who was too evil-hearted and harmed the eldest prince, the second prince, and the third prince.
Due to the status of mother and son, the Third Master did not take any other revenge besides exposing Shaw's harm to others, which was not easy.
It’s ridiculous that after hearing this story, I still feel that the past is over and I need to take care of the people in front of me. I also feel that Shen Yan, the Shen brothers are also descendants of the second family, and there is nothing wrong with returning to the Shen family. They want to ask for the ashes of their father and ancestors to be placed in the Shen family’s ancestral grave. It's not too much, after all, the dead are the most important.
Just looking at the two-room cemetery in front of me and the large and small graves of the mourners, who can say that the dead are the most important?
If one day Shen Yan and Brother Shen's father and ancestor really want to enter the Shen family's ancestral grave, will the Third Master crawl out of the grave in anger?
The atmosphere became a little heavy. It was not a serious day ceremony, so Shen Rui and others simply bowed in front of the Third Master's tomb and went down the mountain.
On the way down the mountain, Shen Qin couldn't help but said: "If the eldest grandpa and the second grandpa were still alive, the people in the second house would definitely be as good as the clan house..."
There are four brothers, the patriarch of the clan, and dozens of nephews. As for Shen Jue's generation of cousins, there are dozens of cousins in total.
In the second room, if the Shao family had not harmed the two stepsons back then, the old man in the second room had the previous three sons, plus Shen Yan and Shen Zhizu, a total of four small rooms. They have multiplied to this day and are not weak to the clan. How could there be more people? Withered to this point.
If no one in the second house is dying, even if something happens to Shen Luo, heirs from other houses will not happen.
"It's like harming others and harming yourself," Shen Jue snorted coldly.
Although many people in the clan sympathize with Shen Yan and Shen, they feel that the second wife should not care about them and should let them return to the clan, but Shen Jue does not see it that way. Everything has a cause and effect, just like the Sun family has accumulated virtues and done good deeds, the blessings will go to Shen Rui It's the same on the body; Shen Yan, brother Shen has no family and cannot return, like duckweed without roots, it is also the result of the evil deeds of the ancestors.
Could it be that Shaw killed two people in vain? Just shed two tears before death, and all the previous sins can be erased?
Thinking of this, and thinking that Shen Rui had praised Shen Yan in private, Shen Jue looked at him and said, "Brother Rui, if Shen Yan wants to return to the clan after starting his career, will you speak for him?"
Shen Rui shook his head and said: "I have no qualifications or position to speak for him. Even my uncle, I will never nod like this in my lifetime."
"Marrying a virtuous wife is the reason why a wife who is not virtuous will harm generations of people," Shen Jue said angrily.
Shen Qin and Shen Bao both echoed, while Shen Rui thought of Zhang Lao'an, the second roommate.
Even though Shen Jin is better at studying than his peers, with such a grandmother and a hypocritical and immoral father like Shen Juren, it is really difficult to support the four families.
The appearance of Mrs. Xu and her second wife was a relief for me. But if I should ask, I still had to ask...
Songjiang, Shen Juren's residence.
Shen Juren accompanied He Wuniang "back home". Only Zhang Laoan and Shen Jin were at home.
Shen Jin came over and mentioned to Zhang Laoan that he wanted to leave for Nanjing at the end of the month.
Zhang Laoan said in surprise: "The provincial examination is in August, so it's not too late to start in June. Is it too early to go at this time?"
Shen Jin shook his head and said: "It's not early, I took the exam a few days ago, and some of my classmates have already started their journey... Nanjing has many academies and many famous scholars, so my grandson can just go and find a teacher for advice..."
Zhang Laoan was still worried: "It will take more than half a year to go..." At this point, he frowned and said: "But the He family or the He family's companion neglected you? You want to go to Nanjing early?"
Shen Jin hurriedly waved her hands and said: "No... my grandson has long wanted to talk to his grandmother, but the family was busy with weddings in the past few days, so he delayed talking until today..."