Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 142 Poor Mother
Fatty Jiang led Wang Daoqiu's family to the home of Wang Daoqiu in the inner palace hutong.After the introduction, the concierge Fan Er didn't give up this time. In other words, when he heard that the people were Wang Daoqiu's parents and in-laws, he didn't dare to give up at all!
So Fan Er called out Mrs. Qiu and confirmed Fatty Jiang's identity, then he let Wang Daoqiu's family and Shen Yishi's family into the house.

At this time, Wang Daoqiu was still running errands in Xiyuan and was not at home.Fatty Jiang helped the Wang and Shen families move their luggage in, and then he said goodbye and left.

When Wang Daoqiu came back from duty in the evening, he was very happy to see his family. His mother, Mrs. Xu, kept holding Wang Daoqiu's arm.After a heart-to-heart talk, when Zhang Juzheng, Yin Zhengmao, Gao Yi, and Yuan Hong came back from duty, Wang Daoqiu helped introduce them to each other.

To Wang Daoqiu's surprise, Gao Yi also knew his father Wang Zhaowen.According to the two of them, they lived next door to each other in the same inn during the provincial examination and studied together.But later Gao Yi passed the exam, while Wang Zhaowen failed.

After a while of excitement, it was inconvenient to eat at home because there were so many people.In the end, it was decided that the men would go out to a restaurant to drink, while the women and children would stay at home to eat.

After three rounds of wine and five tastes of food, Wang Zhaowen finally couldn't help it and questioned Wang Daoqiu in public, asking him whether he had taken advantage of the Beijing inspection to accept bribes.But as soon as Wang Zhaowen finished speaking, and before Wang Daoqiu could defend himself, Gao Yi, Wang Zhaowen's old friend, stood up to refute those nonsense for Wang Zhaowen, and patted his chest and used his own character to guarantee that Wang Zhaowen was not involved in this. thing.

Gaoyi and Wang Zhaowen participated in the joint examination together. Although the two were only neighbors for more than a month, they went their separate ways and forgot each other in the world.But in that dusty memory that was opened again, Gao Yi was in Wang Zhaowen's heart, that was the existence that Gao Shan looked up to, and was his former idol.Now Gao Yi vouched for Wang Daoqiu with his own character, and Wang Zhaowen still believed it.

The unhappiness ended like this, the banquet became harmonious again, and Wang Zhaowen's family law was not mentioned anymore.

After eating and drinking outside, Wang Daoqiu's mother, Mrs. Xu, quickly took Wang Daoqiu away when she returned home.When she came to the room, her mother first cared about Wang Daoqiu's life in the capital in the past few months.

Then before Wang Daoqiu left, his mother said coquettishly: "Shitou, Mom wants to ask you a favor. I wonder if it's embarrassing for you?"

When my mother said this, she lowered her head and looked away.It was so difficult for his mother to talk to her son. Wang Daoqiu knew that her mother was in trouble.So he rubbed his mother's hands, which were rough from years of farm work, and said, "Mom, if you have anything to say, just say it. We, mother and son, are not so different."

"Hey, Shitou, Mom is not related to you, so if you have anything to say, Mom will just say it. But Shitou, if you are embarrassed by what Mom said today, you don't have to do it. Everything must be based on your future. Heavy."

"Okay, mother, you're annoying me to death with your nagging. If you have anything to say, just say it. We are mother and son!"

"Hey, okay, mom, just tell me. This matter is between your brother and your two uncles and two cousins. Needless to say, your brother has been a dissatisfied person since he was a child. He was beaten up by your father. But your brother is not a bad person, he is just a bit playful, likes to be lively, eat and have fun. If he doesn’t spend the money he has, he will feel uncomfortable. But he is not lazy, and he can work if he is given a job. Great effort. You have become such a big official this time, so your brother wants you to help him find a job in the city, as a small official or something. Shitou, your brother is 21 this year, and your sister-in-law helped him give birth last year. You have a son, you have such a family, and your brother is so out of tune and doesn’t like farming in the village, what will they do as a family in the future?"

"And your second uncle. When he was a teenager, he gambled with others. He couldn't afford to pay back when he lost. One of his legs was broken. Now he is over 40 and he is single. He can't do heavy work and can only work at home. In the workshop, he helps people cook and make a living. Now that you are such a big official, can you help arrange the arrangements so that he can live a worry-free life in the future, and then marry a wife and keep a wife? And you Brother-in-law, he is more greedy and playful than your brother, and he is also lazy and can't bear any hardship. Your aunt and your two cousins ​​have to suffer because they have to eat and eat with him. And your uncle Those two cousins ​​of yours, they also just want to have fun and enjoy themselves every day, and they can’t bear the hardship. Shitou, can you help them? They are not bad people, they just can’t bear the hardship of farming."

After her mother said these words, she still lowered her head and did not dare to look at Wang Daoqiu.

Wang Daoqiu's mother was a poor person. Wang Daoqiu's grandfather had incurred a large gambling debt due to gambling while running a boat, so he chose to die and pay the creditor with his own life.

That year, Wang Daoqiu's mother was eight years old, Wang Daoqiu's uncle was 12 years old, Wang Daoqiu's second uncle was six years old, his aunt was three years old, and his uncle had just turned one.In such a family that has lost its backbone, Grandma Wang Daoqiu leads her five children, the oldest of whom is only 12 years old, to live a difficult life together.

A woman in her 30s, with five children whose oldest is only 12 years old, has to rely on farming to support herself. Every child in the countryside knows how unlikely this is.So since the death of Wang Daoqiu's grandfather, Wang Daoqiu's mother's family had to sell off some of the family's savings every month so that the family would not go hungry.

In this way, all the household items that could be sold at home were slowly sold into firewood, rice, oil and salt, and when the items were sold out, they were sold to people.Wang Daoqiu's aunt was the first to be sold to the town as a child bride because she was too young and a girl could not live a normal life.Wang Daoqiu's mother, Xu, is said to be Wang Daoqiu's father, Wang Zhaowen. He saw that she was a little girl, doing such heavy work without eating or drinking every day, and was bullied by a group of naughty young people, so he came out to stand up for her.At that time, when those young people saw Wang Zhaowen standing up for the Xu family, they asked Wang Zhaowen, saying that it has nothing to do with you that we betray her?I want you dog to mind your own business with rats.At that time, Wang Zhaowen was so irritated by the young men that he frowned and said, "She is my wife."

It was just a quick message, but Wang Zhaowen's words quickly spread in the village.Moreover, before Wang Daoqiu's grandfather committed suicide, Wang Daoqiu's uncle also studied in the village school and was a classmate and good friend of Wang Daoqiu's father, Wang Zhaowen.So after this incident, Wang Daoqiu's uncle came to Wang Zhaowen and said that since you have ruined my sister's reputation, you should marry her and let her live with you.

In this way, Wang Daoqiu's mother married into the Wang family.But because the Wang family were respectable people at the time, they had more than [-] acres of paddy fields, seven or eight acres of mulberry gardens, and a large ship that ran cargo between Changxing and Hangzhou.Therefore, in order to save face, the Wang family gave Wang Daoqiu's mother's family a relatively large amount of betrothal gifts. However, in the end, Wang Daoqiu's mother only wore a new dress and did not receive any other dowry.

This caused dissatisfaction among the members of the Wang family, especially the younger wives in the family.From then on, they all said in the village that Wang Daoqiu's mother was sold to the Wang family by the Xu family and should be regarded as a concubine of the Wang family, not a real wife.

So after that, Wang Daoqiu's mother was looked down upon in the family. For all the family affairs and family sacrifices, Wang Daoqiu's mother was assigned to wash rice and wash vegetables, wash pots and wash dishes, and was not invited even once. The table has eaten.

Although Wang Daoqiu's father went to the head of the Wang family several times for this purpose, the head of the Wang family refused every time on the grounds that the women's errands were arranged by several female elders in the family and it was not convenient for men to intervene. Wang Daoqiu's father complained.

Being looked down upon and bullied by her husband's family was already miserable enough for Wang Daoqiu's mother.But what's even worse is that among Wang Daoqiu's three uncles, except for the eldest uncle, he works hard and works hard at home to support his wife and children.His other two uncles had gone sailing with others since they were young, and they had contracted various diseases outside, especially gambling.

So Wang Daoqiu's two uncles got into trouble outside, and their lives couldn't go on. As Wang Daoqiu's mother, as a sister, she couldn't see her brother suffering, so she could only take money from her own family to supplement them.

Wang Daoqiu's family and his mother's family were from the same village. Wang Daoqiu's two uncles were so out of tune that Wang Daoqiu's mother always used the Wang family's money to subsidize her natal family.This made Wang Daoqiu's mother even more looked down upon in the family.

It can be said that before Wang Daoqiu won the election, Wang Daoqiu's mother was treated as a human being in the Wang family, including her husband Wang Zhaowen and her children.None of the other Wang family members regarded her as a human being.

Thinking about the past of his cheap mother, Wang Daoqiu was also heartbroken. He was so heartbroken that he couldn't speak, and refused his mother's wrong request.

Caressing his mother's hands that were as dry as tree bark, Wang Daoqiu thought for a long time before he said with determination: "Mom, you know who my brother, my two uncles, and my two cousins ​​are. Tell me. Tell the truth, mother, I can make them eat royal food with just one word, but this won’t work! Just a few of them, as ordinary people, have a bad reputation at most. But if you let them wear official clothes, they will not only know how to It has harmed many ordinary people, and even caused great trouble in the end, even losing their own heads. Mother, do you think this is true?"

"This, this..., Shitou, you are right. Mother also thinks that your brother and your uncle are out of tune, so you can't let them be officials. But you can't just watch them suffer like this! After all, we are all close relatives."

"Okay, mother, I've made a note of this. I'll discuss this with my father later. I'll get back to you after our father and son have discussed it. Anyway, I will definitely give them some money."

"Hey, eh, okay, it's too late today, Xiangning is still waiting for you to speak! You can discuss this matter with your father tomorrow!"

"it is good"

(End of this chapter)