Hou Men Splendid

Chapter 58

Master Shao Hou passed away, it is really not small who will guard the filial piety for three years.

Master Shao didn't decide who to pass on the title to before his death. After his death, the title was passed on to the eldest son, but now the eldest son and the eldest son are not the same person. According to what the first emperor said, the elder is not considered a concubine. , no one will refute the late emperor's words, which is embarrassing.

Therefore, to a certain extent, whoever kept Shao Hou Ye in mourning for three years would pass on the title to him.

The eldest son and the second son will have Ding You for three years, and the emperor is also very troubled by the mess left by the late emperor, and he doesn't have the time to take care of the Shao family's affairs.

Before Elder Shao entered the palace to say something, the emperor waved his hand and accepted the request of the second master of the Shao family, Ding You for three years, go and do your filial piety.

Thus, this absurd competition for the title started in Shao's family.

When Lord Shao was alive, even if he wanted to pass on the title, he had to report to the Emperor Ming. Now that Lord Shao has passed away, the person who inherits the title also needs to go to the palace to face the saint.

This time Master Shao Er came home to Ding You, who had kept his filial piety for three years and became two sons. There was a quarrel in the front hall of Shao's house.

Gu's health has not been very good these days, she has been brooding about it all her life, and she couldn't let it go before Master Shao died, she just felt stuffy, and after hearing about Shao Changrui's entry into the palace, she was even more angry Qing, looking at the second master of the Shao family standing in the hall, yelled, "Changrui, what are you messing around with, you and your eldest brother Ding You have been together for three years, waiting for the Shao family to be squeezed out in the court, right? "

"Mother, my fifth brother has passed away. I am the only legitimate son of my father. It is reasonable that I have to keep my father's filial piety for three years. Otherwise, this is unfilial. If you read a few books at Yushitai, this official position will not be stable." Shao Changrui looked at Gu's words were extremely sincere, the emperor agreed to him, so what else could he care about.

"Second brother, what do you mean by that? What does it mean that you are the only son of the father?" Elder Shao stood up directly with anger on his face.

Shao Changrui looked at him, "Brother, am I wrong, you are only the eldest son, but not the first son."

"Presumptuous!" Mrs. Gu slapped the table and glared at Shao Changrui angrily, "These five brothers of the Shao family are all descendants of your father, and you are talking nonsense here before your father's body is cold. What filial piety do you have?"

"Mother wants to use the words of the first emperor again. The first emperor only said that Ping's wife is also a wife, but he didn't say that the children born by Ping's wife are the sons of the legitimate son. There is nothing wrong with the elder brother being the eldest son, but he is not the eldest son of the legitimate son. Years, that’s my filial piety, my elder brother is the eldest son, so keep it as long as you want, not to mention that my father’s bones are not cold, whether what I said is true, mother and elder brother are also very clear!” Shaohou passed away, and he directly competed for the title. No match for the eldest brother's ability, he accepted his father's baton and joined the army, but he also had a way to prevent him from accepting the title.

The word "di" is the eternal pain of Gu's life. All three of her children were born before she set her right. The first emperor still took it for his father's sake to say that she is a wife and not a concubine, and that she will be a wife when she grows up. But my father really made the right calculation. Well, the first emperor held it in his hands and didn't give a few of his sons a title. What did the eldest son stand for? He didn't let go until his death.

At that time, the man whose father had the winning ticket held the title until his death. He wanted to watch the Shao family become chaotic, so that she could not live in peace.

Thinking about it, Gu's face became more and more gloomy, watching Shao Changrui leave the front hall, after all, he didn't speak again.

Shao Changfeng was very angry. His father liked him the most and taught him everything. This title should be inherited by him, so he looked at Mrs. Gu, "Mother, I must inherit this title!"

"Of course it's yours." Gu Shi regained her expression after a while, and said slowly, "You keep your filial piety, what should be yours is yours, and no one can take it away."

On the seventh day after Lord Shao's death, Ding You, the second master of the Shao family, kept his filial piety.

People in the court didn't know the Shao family's past, and they praised Master Shao for having such two filial sons. Quite, isn't it enough to make a joke after marrying Ping's wife so many years ago? Now the eldest son from this first wife's Ping's wife has to be filial to him. I don't know if he knows how to accept this filial piety.

People with good deeds will naturally make a fuss about this matter. In their eyes, there is no such thing as respect for the dead. Master Shao dug up all the things that could be dug up, including his marriage with Mrs. Shao, and his marriage with Mrs. Shao. Between Mrs. Shao Jiatai.

In Chenxiangyuan of the Shao family, Lin Qingran and Shao Ziyu were sitting by the window and playing chess. Lin Qingran was holding the white chess piece in her hand, and she was a little entangled. It’s fine if he can’t play Go, but why can’t he play backgammon? It's so unfair!

Shao Ziyu is very interested in her 'new' method of playing chess. As long as a line of five is made, the chess pieces can be taken back. He still has a lot of chess in this box, and Lin Qingran on the other side doesn't have much left. .

Adhering to the virtue of letting his wife, Shao Ziyu thought for a while, and he still had to make mistakes to give face to his confident wife just now, so he planned how to make mistakes so that it would not be obvious. Lin Qingran who was opposite suddenly said, "It is said that the Gu family once deliberately The marriage was rejected by the Shao family, what else is going on?"

Shao Ziyu was stunned, accepted her thought jump, thought for a while and said, "If such a situation really exists, it is very possible to be rejected. Master Shao married General Gu's mansion. At that time when there were so many wars, the late emperor would not promise."

Lin Qingran seemed to understand something, but she didn't understand, "So grandfather and grandmother got married, one article and one military, but that still couldn't stop General Gu's behavior, and finally changed his in-laws, and the late emperor spoke for Mrs. Tai .”

The husband and wife glanced at each other, and Lin Qingran had a feeling that the more he knew, the less he could understand, it was too elusive.

Seeing her tangled up, Shao Ziyu smiled, "The rumors outside may not be true."

"The flies are still staring at the seamless eggs." Lin Qingran put down the chess piece and found that there were already five white pieces connected, so she hurriedly picked it up and put it into the chess box.

Keeping mourning for a month is one of the things she uses to pass the time. Sometimes she reads and he writes, and sometimes she keeps accounts, and he just sits by and gives her the numbers.

The small garden of Chenxiangyuan is a must-go place for walking every day. Ever since she met fourth brother and his concubine in the small garden near Chenxiangyuan, Lin Qingran didn't like to go there.

Occasionally, the fourth sister-in-law would send someone to invite her over, and she would go to the fourth sister-in-law's room to talk with her.

The matter of who will inherit the title in this mansion seems to have never been brought up again as the uncle and the second uncle were at the same time Ding You was filial
Soon in mid-December, approaching the end of the new year, even though everyone in the Shao family is in the filial piety period, they can't save themselves from the busy things.

Lin Qingran in Chenxiang Courtyard was also busy with the New Year's gifts, sent by the Lin family, sent by her sisters, and Jin Xianghui who was far away in Yancheng also gave her New Year's gifts, counting her grandfather, Zhu's There are also those from the Shao family, and Lin Qingran has been busy for several days.

Lin Qingran is a junior, so there are naturally more things to send out. Apart from receiving and sending these things, the gate of the Shao Mansion is closed all day long, and the atmosphere in the mansion is not any better because of the arrival of the New Year.

Just a few days before the official's annual leave, in the early morning court, several highly respected veterans suddenly mentioned the issue of the succession of the Shao family's title.

Although in the period of filial piety, the Marquis of Lord Shao must be passed on to his son, and it cannot be left hanging forever. It is better to settle it early, and there will be no conflict.

The emperor had a good time looking at the few ministers who stood up. They were all the ministers who were valued by the late emperor when he was the emperor. Now they are all veterans, old and arrogant. When he first ascended the throne, all of them were Damn, the arrogance is not so strong now, but when he speaks, he still has a posture of relying on the old to sell the old.

"In this way, according to the opinions of the Aiqings, how should the Shao family inherit this title." The emperor is not in a hurry to go down to the court. Discuss how an unusual Shao family should be accepted as a noble.

No matter how you look at it, it is a particularly embarrassing thing. The old ministers brought it up because they wanted the emperor to be more decisive, or the emperor asked them for their opinions, and it was logical to name the ideal person. Many opinions.

So they looked at each other in blank dismay, and spoke first, saying something about the eldest son, Chengjue.

General Lu is not in a good mood recently. He is not happy to be recalled to Luodu City when he is getting old, and he is not happy to be silent when his old friend died. The great-granddaughter at home is six years old. happy.

So when he heard those old ministers stand up and say this, General Lu immediately answered, "That must be the eldest son Chengjue, who is the eldest son of the Shao family?"

"The first emperor said that Mrs. Shao Tai's flat wife is also a wife. Why is the son born by the wife not a legitimate son?" He can speak for whoever has a good relationship with him. The reason why the emperor can't make this decision is also because of the words of the first emperor. In the past, even if the first emperor had passed away, a son could not be disobedient.

"Wives can also be divided into direct wives and non-direct wives. Wang Guogong, I think you are old-fashioned. You can only marry one direct wife, and merchants can marry more than one ordinary wife. They are all descendants, so what is the share. "General Lu scolded Master Shao for leaving such a mess in his heart, and he didn't stop rebutting.

As a good son-in-law candidate, Lin Wenxi naturally had to help his father-in-law, and as a good son-in-law of Lin Wenxi, He Chengsheng and Jin Shaoyang, who were in the court, naturally had to help his father-in-law's father-in-law.

Seeing that his sons were standing beside his father-in-law, the second master of the He family and the eldest master of the Jin family also leaned towards their in-laws.

General Lu is very proud, don't offend him, he has no other skills, he knows how to fight, he also gave birth to a good daughter, a good son-in-law, and seven good granddaughters!

But the three old ministers over there also have sons and son-in-laws, so when this dispute comes up, you talk to each other, and a large number of people are involved.

It revolves around the issue of whether the wife is a wife, and whether the son is considered a direct son. If it does, then the eldest son of the Shao family is the eldest son. If it does not count, then the Marquis should be inherited by the second master of the Shao family, the eldest son from the direct wife.

All parties have their own opinions, and the ultimate goal is to persuade the emperor to decide how to give the Marquis.

The emperor looked at it like this, and Liu Jin on the side was already sweating for the people below. It was fine to argue about the government affairs of the court on weekdays, and this kind of thing was also disputed.

After a while, the emperor's face darkened, and he raised his hand, Liu Jin shouted, "Silence!"

Everyone knelt down.

The emperor's voice was not as friendly as when he was asking for opinions just now, but with a little anger, "What kind of decency is there in the court, and the title of the Shaohou Mansion can be disputed. Whose benefits did you take? Doing things for whom, one by one, you start worrying about the affairs of other people’s families. Why don’t you care about the drought in the Northwest, why don’t you talk about the waterlogging in Luonan, why don’t you use snacks when there is no food harvest and a famine? There are too many, one by one is not easy to handle.”

The emperor gave a quick criticism. The group of people who criticized were a little bit wronged. They didn't do their job well. Didn't the emperor himself let them say this?

"The issue of the Shaohou Mansion's title has attracted so many people. Did I say that the Shao Mansion would continue to inherit the title? If you keep your filial piety, you must guard it well. It is still in Ding You. I temporarily took back the title. When did you live in peace? What? We'll talk later." After saying this, the emperor finally added such a shocking sentence, got up and left the hall directly.

Liu Jin looked at the crowd kneeling there and looked at each other, and shouted, "Retire!"

(End of this chapter)