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Volume 4: Spreading Wings Chapter 1,284: A Prominent Family in the South of the Yangtze River

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    In an ordinary house near Gongyuan, the yard has been cleared out. Xu Qingtang is in the temporary study room, instructing the servants to sort out the books they brought, with Xu Xuan accompanying him.  £¤f, Xu Yu felt that sitting in silence was boring, so he walked out and stood at the door. He saw a young man carrying a burden and hawking along the street: "Three white and black skins with yellow sand flesh and red sand flesh! It can relieve the heat."  , it can quench thirst and relieve hangovers! Madam, would you like to try some? Five cents for a lotus petal, and one bite will be full of honey." The white-haired aunt had a pot in front of her, raised a wooden spoon and pointed it at him.  He sneered and said: "I sell sour plum soup, but do you care about your melons?" "Hehe." The young salesman smiled and walked away.  "Come here." Xu Yu waved to him, "Pick two sweet ones, cut them up and bring them in." "Okay!" The watermelon seller came over happily and put down his burden.  The flower farmer and others will take care of the trivial matters. Xu Yu smiled at him and walked towards the opposite side.  The aunt sitting in front of the door immediately greeted: "Guest, please try my sour plum soup. Who doesn't know that the Qiu family used to be the first in the capital on the Qinhuai River?" "Have a bowl." Xu Yu said with a smile.  "Wait a minute." The aunt opened the lid of the pot and said while ladling the soup: "The old lady brewed the sour plums by herself, boiled them with good rock sugar, mixed with roses, osmanthus and ice water. Eat a bowl and you will be 100 times more energetic.  " Xu Yu took the bowl and took a sip. It tasted really good. He praised it: "It's so cool that it shakes your teeth. It tastes good! But why is your business so bleak?" The aunt who had thought about it for half a century said with a bitter smile: "I'll tell you the truth.  In the early years, my family actually made a lot of money. Which of the sisters on the Qinhuai River wouldn¡¯t order my sour plum soup? Later, my late husband became obsessed with lard and insisted on going back to his hometown to open a hotel. As a result, he gave up and left within a few years. His son and his wife  He is not good at business and is very old, so he sold the shop at a low price and the family came back." "Oh." Xu Yu nodded and paid twice as much as the aunt thanked her.  , walked back and looked at the Qinhuai River in the distance.  There are clouds of pleasure boats on the river, and there are many beautiful women in the cabins, but you can't see clearly.  The rows of shops on the shore are busy with business. The small vendors are enthusiastically selling watermelons and peaches, as well as those selling side dishes, tofu, and even beef. They are crowded with tourists. There are also several word-testing stalls on the roadside.  .  Suddenly, the flower farmer brought a white-faced scholar over and said, "Master, this is the son of the owner of the house. He is studying in the county." "Wu Daiyun, a late student, has met Brother Xu." The scholar saluted respectfully.  "Xu Yu, I'd like to pay my respects to my dear friend." Xu Yu also bowed his hand politely.  Xu Yu didn't know that this scholar named Wu Daiyun, whose father was named Wu Biyan, was originally from Linjiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. He moved to Jinling in the twelfth year of Hongwu, and relied on his family's prominent status in his hometown to confer a title to the unofficial  Shangyuan County Book Office.  Later, he spent hundreds of taels of silver to become a county river official on a tributary of the Qinhuai River. With his backing to the Jiaoshifang, he was in charge of dozens of flower boats in the river and collected the so-called pollen tax.  However, it is too close to the Qinhuai River, which is the largest in the world. It has a magnet effect. The people he manages are all old and lustful local prostitutes. This poor man can't make much money at all.  Fortunately, he is considered a respectable person in the local area. He has several people as errands and can handle anything at a moment's notice. This is much better than being a clerk.  As the saying goes, one has to rely on the mountain and the water. Wu Biyan has been a good person all his life, so he summoned four women, and often changed them when he got tired of playing with them. In name, they were serving his wife, children, and children, but in fact they kept them for his own use.  Every day we eat the food and wine brought by the flower boat, hug our little girl, and fight every night.  Among them was a girl who had just turned sixteen, named Sister Qian. She was very good-looking and had learned many tricks of infatuation. Wu Biyan was most proud of her.  But as a person in his forties, his energy is limited, and Sister Qian is too young and demanding, so it is inevitable that Wu Biyan will not be able to cope with it.  Although his father is dying, his son is still full of energy. Wu Daiyun has been studying since he was a child, and he is most familiar with the phrase "If something happens, the disciple will do his duty". ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? It doesn¡¯t matter whether you are father and son or not, Wu Daiyun and Sister Qian soon got into a heated fight.  One day, the two of them were having a rough time, and they were caught by Wu Biyan who was halfway home. He was so angry that he beat the two of them.  After driving Sister Qian out, Wu Biyan thought that this was not going to work. It was not good for his son to be at home all day long, so he ordered Wu Daiyun to go to the city to look after the house and study at the house in the city.  Xu Yu and Wu Daiyun were chatting. Although they didn't know their bottom line, they gradually realized that the other party's words were frivolous and his eyes were wandering. Whenever he passed by a woman with a good figure and appearance, his eyes could not help but follow her.  At first glance, it seemed that he was not a serious person, so Xu Yu became impatient and reluctantly chatted for a while. He said that his grandfather was worried about him, said goodbye, turned around and went back.  Wu Daiyun watched him leave with a regretful expression, but he didn't realize anything about his identity. He was very lucky to be able to talk for a long time when they first met.  He turned around and walked into the house next door. His surname was Sun.?A native of Yuyao Town, Shaoxing Prefecture.  Speaking of which, the Yuyao Sun family was one of the first-class Jiangnan aristocratic families in the Ming Dynasty. It was known as "the Sun family in Henghe, with 800 gauze hats." In other words, there are records of more than 800 people in a large family with scholar or above.  However, the Yuyao Sun family fully emerged decades later, and now there is only one Jinshi in the family.  The Sun surname has always been one of the most popular surnames in China. The Sun family name in Yuyao alone has spread out a long time ago. Now the male population is about 4,000, with the furthest living in Yunnan and Guangxi, such as Suzhou, Wujiang, Jinling and other places.  All have clansmen.  The Sun family is a businessman. His wife Shi gave birth to a son, Sun Jiang, his concubine Li gave birth to his eldest daughter Sun Huixin, and his second concubine Ren gave birth to his youngest daughter Hui Ruo.  The Sun family in Yuyao is different from the traditional prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River. Their ancestor was a loyal minister of the Later Tang Dynasty and the famous general Sun Yue. There is the tomb of General Sun in his hometown in Yuyao, and his descendants stayed to guard the tomb.  After experiencing turmoil and adhering to their family tradition, most of the Sun family members have practiced martial arts since childhood and have made a living by farming for generations. The whole family is poor.  It is said that the sixth generation clan members became monks and became monks, so they had the opportunity to read and read. In addition to studying Buddhist scriptures, they also specialized in Confucian classics. Later, when their parents died, they returned to their hometown to bury their parents and stayed in a house to guard their tombs for three years.  During this period, he summoned his nephews and other family members to teach The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, The Book of Songs, and the Book of Rites. As a result, the Sun family gradually became a scholarly family.  During the Song Dynasty, after seven or eight generations of continuous accumulation and hard work for nearly 200 years, the Sun family finally transformed from a humble family into one of the famous families in Yuyao County at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.  However, during the Yuan Dynasty, everything went back to the original point. It was also because the Sun family was unwilling to serve the foreigners, and the court did not allow the people in Jiangnan to read and read, so the whole family became a group of illiterate farmers again.  But precisely because of this, Comrade Lao Zhu, who was angry that the people in Jiangnan were hostile to him, frequently issued orders to relocate the major families in Jiangnan. The wealthy gentry came to Beijing. Fortunately, the Sun family was not on the list.  Nowadays, the Sun family has restored the grand occasion of reciting in every household, and the children of the clan do not forget to cultivate the land and practice martial arts. The long-standing family reputation has given the clan members a strong cohesion, and the strong clan style of both literature and martial arts has made the Sun clan once again form a  The powerful local clan power has a high social prestige in Jiangnan and a considerable degree of reputation throughout the country. All these make the Sun family have the conditions to reach its peak.  Later generations commented: "The famous family of Yaojiang, Xian Chan Wang and Sun"; there is even praise that "for more than two hundred years of the country's dynasty, this is the only one in the country."  So in such a resurrected noble family, the children of the family can be officials, soldiers, farmers, and small businesses, but they are not allowed to become merchants.  It can be said that the Sun family of Jinling violated a taboo in the family and was therefore expelled from the family and the whole family was expelled from Yuyao.  Master Sun was so angry that he changed his name. However, out of consideration for his future, his son was still named Sun Jiang according to his family tree. The first member of the Sun family to pass the Jinshi examination was named Sun Hong, who was the current imperial censor. According to his seniority, he was  nephew.  Many wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty were influenced by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was popular to name them according to the radicals of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. It was not until the middle of the Ming Dynasty that there was a change.  (After talking so much nonsense, because the new book is probably closely related to the Sun family in Yuyao, Xiaochai has decided to give it a try after learning from the pain.) On the side of Prince Mu¡¯s Mansion, Aunt Shen went to Hongwen¡¯s room to apologize for Meinu first, right?  , and then persuaded Hongwen to apologize to his wife.  Hongwen knew that her aunt was invited by the master, but for the sake of her face, she hesitated and refused to give in.  After Aunt Shen's repeated persuasion, she agreed along the steps and came to the upper room together.  Du Qianqian didn't say anything. Hongwen took the initiative to kowtow and said, "It's all the slave's fault. Please forgive me, madam." Aunt Shen was helping her smooth things over. Du Qianqian's face gradually became better. After all, she was his girl for many years.  , almost sympathetic to mother and daughter, said: "You should think about how arrogant you are, shouldn't you? Now that you know how to regret yourself, there is nothing wrong with me. I just ask you to change your mind from now on, and don't commit the madness like that day again.  "That's it." "Oh! Madam is so generous." Aunt Shen smiled and complimented her. Seeing that Madam was no longer annoyed, she took the opportunity to forcefully open the door.  After telling some funny jokes, Hongwen also accompanied her carefully, waiting for his wife to comb her hair and change clothes.  Du Qianqian's anger was completely gone and she left them to have dinner together.  Half an hour later, Aunt Shen saw that her wife had returned to normal, so she and Hongwen left with relief and went back to their rooms.  After she finished handling everything today, she forced Meinu to go to the upper room and Hongwen's room to apologize one by one.  Let me talk about Du Qianqian first. She is not angry with Mei Nu at all. It doesn¡¯t matter whether she comes or not. It¡¯s just a formality.  As for Hongwen, because she kowtowed, she had to ask Mei Nu to come over and make Hongwen feel better.  "Anyway, Aunt Shen handled this matter so well. Who can't praise her? She completely outshines Hongwen.  Meinu came to apologize, which made Hongwen feel helpless. Even if she didn't want to, she had to go to Aunt Shen's room to express her gratitude. It was a courtesy, so the incident ended.    Is it really the end? Even a man with a generous nature may not remember it in his heart and forget it as time goes by, while a woman with a carefree nature will not forget it even to death, and she will never forget it no matter what.  Grievance.  Whether it¡¯s Hongwen hating Aunt Shen for pretending to be a good person, or Aunt Shen preventing her from taking revenge, even Du Qianqian treats Hongwen differently.  Whenever there is a disagreement, Du Qianqian is worried that if she is a little indulgent and relies on the favored Hongwen, she will relapse into her old ways. Once she loses her authority, it will be even harder to restrain her.  Among them, Mu Ang was probably the only one who really thought that everything was calm in the inner house. He was very happy and went to Aunt Shen's room to thank her for her kindness and praise her for her good mediation.  Aunt Shen smiled, and said with a pointed smile: "I can't deserve your thanks. I'm lucky if you don't blame me." "How could that be?" Mu Ang said with a smile.  "What about tonight?" Aunt Shen said softly, her eyes flashing with infinite amorous feelings for a moment.  Mu Ang laughed loudly and said: "Of course I have dedicated myself to my husband and died." Besides, Wu Daiyun entered the Sun family to find his friend Shen Tao. This Shen Tao is naturally a descendant of the famous Shen family in Jiangnan.  The Shen family also has a long history. Like the Sun family, their ancestors were all feudal lords of the Zhou Dynasty. The descendants of the Ji surname were also because the small country was destroyed by the big country during the Spring and Autumn Period, so the descendants took Guo as their surname.  During the Warring States Period, the State of Qin implemented Shang Yang's Reform, and the Shen family fled to the south of the Yangtze River.  Later, one of them moved to Wucheng, Shebu Township, Huzhou, Zhejiang, and was the first ancestor of the Wuxing branch of the Shen family.  The most famous one is Shen Kuo, the author of "Mengxi Bi Tan", who is said to be the 70th ancestor of the Shen family.  During the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng occupied the land of Sanwu and mobilized the people into soldiers.  Shen Ziwen, the 80th patriarch of the Shen clan, brought his clan members to live in seclusion in the nearby Wujiang County.  But in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, who hated the rich, ordered the army to conquer the Nandan Guard in Guangxi.  Of course, it may have nothing to do with it. Anyway, the Shen clan was divided into pieces.  The Shen family of Wujiang had served in the Nandan Guard for many years. During the Hongxi period, they were transferred to the Maoshan Guard of Zhending Prefecture.  Among them, Shen Tao's elder brother Shen Hao, who was tall, strong and good-looking, was elected as a general of the Han Dynasty and moved his family to Jinling.  The life of the Shen family began to get better, and they had enough money to support their younger brother Shen Tao, son Shen Jing and others to study.  A few years ago, Shen Hao, who was in his forties, accidentally stabbed a colleague during training, causing serious injuries. He was deprived of military honors and military status and was released to his hometown.  For a family like the Shen family, this punishment was not a disaster but a blessing, so the whole family happily packed up their luggage and took a boat to return to their hometown after many years of absence. ?? Shen Jing is the second son of Shen Hao. He is diligent, thrifty and good at managing his family. He built a house in the county and rented it out, and he kept buying properties outside the city. He lived a careful and careful life and became rich in a few years.  So he built a "Lan Sheng Tower" and read many books, hoping that his children and grandchildren could pass the imperial examinations and revitalize the Shen family.  And his brother probably thought that he could inherit his father's military position and hang out with friends in the capital. He got used to idleness and would not be able to make a living when he returned to his hometown. The family business gradually declined. Fortunately, his son could go to his younger brother's private school for free.  What¡¯s interesting is that, probably because one of the brothers was rich and the other was poor, in the next generation, Shen Jing¡¯s son finally lived up to expectations and became a year-old Gongsheng student in Chenghua, that is, a publicly funded university student recommended by the local government.  Although he failed to pass the Jinshi examination, the Shen family in Wuxing restored the style of courtesy in poetry and calligraphy.  Brother Shen Jing gave birth to four sons, especially the eldest son Shen Kui. Due to family difficulties, he studied hard since he was a child and was filial to his relatives. The four brothers lived together all their lives and supported each other. They were brothers, friends and brothers, and they were praised by the villagers.  Although he had no money to take the imperial examination route, in such a poor environment, it gave Shen Kui a lot of life insights. His writing was not out of place, and his poetry style was authentic and ancient, almost rivaling that of the Han and Wei dynasties. He became a great figure in folk literature and started to develop in Wujiang.  The Shen family is the first in the family.  After Shen Kui's death, Zhou Yong, the official minister, personally wrote his epitaph.  In the early years of Jiajing, the imperial court gave his son Shen Han to Shizhong as a member of the Ministry of Punishment, which led to the revitalization of the Shen family.  (To be continued)
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