After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 576 Lies Will Come True
Jin Jiashu looked up at Ma Shangyi in surprise: "Mammy, how... did you think of contacting the Jin family?!"

He had hardly seen anyone from the Jin family since he was a child, but he had heard Jin Juren talk about them a few times. However, his stepmother Xiao Liu hated the Jin family very much, and she had been whispering to Jin Juren since she came into the family. Therefore, Jin Juren had not returned to his family to worship his ancestors for many years, but they occasionally exchanged letters in private.

Most of these correspondences were for information related to the imperial examination. Although the Jin family had no juren, the son of the patriarch had a great Confucian as his teacher and was much more informed about the imperial examination than the Jin juren who had lived in the town for a long time. Even though the second branch of the Jin family and Xiao Liu were trying to stop him from contacting the family, he would still communicate with the patriarch privately.

But Jin Jiashu thought back on it later and felt that his late father, Jin Juren, might have given up on the imperial examination over the years, and was just using this excuse to gather information and find out about the changing situation in the capital.

Jin Juren had always thought that if he sent his original concubine to be a wet nurse for Empress Wu's son, the Sun family would regard him as a remnant of the Wu family. As long as the Sun family still had power, he could not go to Beijing to take the exam, and he could not let outsiders know that he had this handle. Whether he repeatedly gave in in front of the people in the second house who knew about it, or privately wrote letters to the main house to inquire about the news, he did it for this purpose.

Jin Jiashu had no impression of his family. He never thought of them when he suffered, when he left his hometown, or when he was in danger or lost his family. He used to worry that he was injured and unable to move, and it would be inconvenient for him to handle the funeral for his family. If he let the people from the second branch intervene, he was afraid that even the last bit of family assets would be taken away. At that time, he never thought that his family was not just him and the people from the second branch, but also the family from the first branch!
How did Ma Shangyi think of this thing that he didn't even remember?

Ma Shangyi smiled at him: "This is what Madam Xu reminded us of."

Xu Qiuniang and Jin Juren were engaged when they were young. She married into the Jin family for more than a year before she followed her husband to Beijing. She was the wife of the eldest branch of the Jin family, so she knew everything about her family. It would have been fine if she hadn't thought about it before, but when she found out that her ex-husband and his second wife's young son had died, and the second wife's family was unreliable, she also considered whether her eldest son, who was living alone in Chang'an, was too young to support the family, and whether he needed to ask for help from the clan? But in the end, she changed her mind and let the Jin family play a role elsewhere. Jin Jiashu was completely entrusted to the Zhou family of the Zhenguo Mansion in Chang'an.

The Jin family's main members will not come to Chang'an to take care of Jin Jiashu, but they can be used for other purposes.

The first point is that since the Jin family has been in contact with their branch since Jin Juren's father was alive, they must have seen Jin Juren's original wife Xu Qiuniang. Xu Qiuniang is the daughter of a scholar, and meets the Jin family's standard for choosing a spouse. When she returned to her family to worship her ancestors, her words and deeds were recognized by the female elders in the family. In contrast, Xiao Liu came from an ordinary wealthy family, was married for the second time, and was divorced by her ex-husband, so she was not in the eyes of the Jin family. After the sons sent by the patriarch were driven away by the second house, the main house was furious and refused to allow Xiao Liu and her son to be included in the family tree. To this day, the only wife of Jin Juren Jinsen listed in the family tree is Xu, and he has only one son, "Jin Tong".

Of course, the Xu family member in the family tree had died of illness more than ten years ago. This matter was reported by Jin Juren himself to the Xinzongfang, so the Jin family naturally would not be suspicious.

Now Concubine Xu informed the Queen Mother of the relevant situation. The Queen Mother arranged for people to stay in Zunhua Prefecture. One of them was Nanny Tian. Because Concubine Xu's mother's maiden name was Tian, ​​she pretended to be a relative of the Xu family and took the initiative to "accidentally" meet and get to know the women of the Jin family. After various "coincidences" and "inadvertent" conversations, Nanny Tian made the women of the Jin family surprisingly discover that the two sides were actually relatives!
It is said that when Nanny Tian was young, she was selected to be a maid in the palace. When she was older and was released from the palace, she met her cousin's daughter who was abducted in the capital. Not only did she rescue the person, she also found a good job for the child and let her enter the palace to be a maid for the Empress Dowager. Now this girl has become the emperor's concubine and gave birth to a prince. What a blessing!

Even though Nanny Tian is now just a retired palace maid with a low status, she can be regarded as a second-born for her niece who has become a queen in the palace. How is she different from the royal family? !

Besides, although the niece had parents and sisters, they were all dead. Nanny Tian was the only living relative of the empress! How could the Jin family not cling to such a powerful figure? ! Although the patriarch of the Jin family's main branch was just an old scholar who focused on cultivating his children and grandchildren, he always had the ambition to revitalize the family and become successful. When he found out that Nanny Tian had a concubine and a prince behind him, and that the concubine was a distant relative of the Jin family, he was determined to get married. Even if he clearly remembered that Xu Qiuniang, who had come to the family to worship the ancestors, should have introduced herself as an only child and had no sisters, he would convince everyone that everyone remembered it wrong. Xu Lao Xiucai had two daughters, but one was lost when she was young, and Xu Lao Xiucai and his wife were too sad to treat this daughter as if they had no daughter.

Now even Xu Laoxiucai's wife's sister, Aunt Tian, ​​has recognized her niece. Could it be fake? If it was fake, there would be no need for a royal concubine to come and deceive little people like them!

Scholar Jin not only believed everything that Nanny Tian said, but also talked about the old days with some relatives, acquaintances, and old friends, lamenting that he was also very familiar with Scholar Xu. Although the old scholar did not do well in the imperial examination, he opened a school in the village to teach children and had the merit of educating the people. What a noble character! It was a pity that God had no eyes and only gave him a pair of daughters, not a son, and made him suffer the pain of losing his daughters. How unfair it was, and so on.

Later, his wife took the initiative to fabricate a story that Mr. Xu's wife was so sad after her youngest daughter was lost that she forgot about her youngest daughter after she fell seriously ill. For the sake of Mr. Xu's health, his eldest daughter, and their relatives and friends had to cooperate and pretend that the Xu family had only one daughter.

If you tell some lies too many times, people will gradually believe them.

That was many years ago. In the area around the Jin family, few people had actually seen the Xu family. Even the impression of Xu Qiuniang, the original wife of Jin Juren, had long been blurred. But with the constant talk of the head of the Jin family, more and more people really believed that there was indeed an old scholar named Xu who taught in the town and had a pair of beautiful daughters. One of them was lost when she was a few years old, and she was lost at the lantern festival in the state capital.

With the support of the documents and records of the prefectural government, as well as the testimony of some bribed old clerks and runners, the life story of Concubine Xu, "Xu Qiuling, the youngest daughter of Mr. Xu, who was abducted when she was young," has basically been confirmed in Zunhua Prefecture. No one could find any flaws in the official documents or folk rumors.

Even if the clerks in the government office might let the cat out of the bag in the future, those people in the public, led by the Jin family, who knew about the "Xu family's youngest daughter", were not bribed to lie. They believed from the bottom of their hearts that there was indeed such a person, and they discovered the other's life experience by accident, and rushed to marry Tian Mama, and the two sides got along very well!

After Concubine Xu's identity issue was resolved, she thought of her eldest son Jin Jiashu who was far away in Chang'an, and felt that the Jin family could still be of use again.

After Jin Juren died, Jin Jiashu became the patriarch of the Jin family's small clan in their branch, in charge of all affairs.

Including the identity of the second room owner.

(End of this chapter)