Hou Men Splendid

Chapter 78 Shao Ziming Comes

The continuous rain continued until mid-April. This year, there was a lot of rain, and more crops were drowned, and the prices of many things in the city increased. The damage to crops in various counties was sent to the prefect of Pengcheng in a few days. Shao Ziyu Looking at the situation reported in the four county newspapers, more than [-]% of the severely damaged ones, [-] to [-]% of the lighter ones, and only half of those left, waited to pay taxes, and the rest of the harvest would not be able to support themselves.

Shao Ziyu took the time to sort out the official documents, and sent [-] horses to send them to Luodu City in a hurry, so that the money for disaster relief could be allocated as soon as possible, and people were sent to the counties to quickly reorganize and rebuild.

The destroyed crops were not replanted after the season, and the county distributed the seeds, and also distributed the silver taels according to the situation of each household for relief.

Waiting for these things to be arranged properly, in May, another year of the River God Festival is coming.

Lin Qingran, the magistrate, received a letter from Luodu City, saying that something happened in Yanzhou, and the fourth brother Shao Ziming wanted to go there, so he came here to see them. Lin Qingran called Aunt Yuan and asked her to go to the market for more Buy some fish and come back to dry the dried fish and dried fish, and let him take it back when the time comes.

After finishing the order, Lin Qingran thought of Aunt Yuan's son, "Aunt Yuan, how old is your son this year?"

"Six years old."

"You have now moved this household registration to Pengcheng, and you can send him to study in the academy in the second half of the year." Lin Qingran saw that she was embarrassed, and asked Si Qin to bring the money to her. Aunt Yuan shook her head and pushed No, Lin Qingran said with a smile, "If you feel uncomfortable, I lent you the money at the time, and the child can't delay his studies. It will be another year after one year passes."

"Ma'am, your kindness to us is as great as a mountain." Aunt Yuan knelt down and kowtowed to Lin Qingran, holding the money bag in her hand, her eyes filled with tears.

Siqi took her out, Lin Qingran looked outside the house, and sighed half aloud, as if he was talking to the people next to him, or telling himself, "I don't help everyone."

"Miss is kind-hearted, I can't bear Aunt Yuan's hard work with her two children, I want her to have something to depend on." Si Qin poured tea for her, and Lin Qingran took a sip of it, she also hoped that the child would be successful , Give my mother and sister to rely on.

If Aunt Yuan had told her that when she met her husband in the future, she would take the children to seek refuge, and watched her husband marry someone else and have children and would still be by his side, then Lin Qingran would have let her stay. Being a cook at home won't help much anymore

Shao Ziming arrived in Pengcheng at the end of May, and came by himself on horseback. The things he brought to Shao Ziyu and the others were still in the carriage behind, and it would take a few days to arrive.

After arriving at the magistrate, he saw his one and a half-year-old nephew Brother Han. Shao Ziming came over and picked him up. After playing with Brother Han high up for a few times, Shao Ziming couldn't lift it anymore.

Putting him on the ground, looking at his chubby body, and then at Lin Qingran, Shao Ziming smiled cheerfully, "Sister Bilan is heavy now."

Brother Han couldn't understand what his uncle meant, he grabbed his leg without any recognition of his life, and asked him to lift himself up to play again.

Lin Qingran pulled him over, "Call me Uncle Fourth."

Brother Han looked up at Shao Ziming, and said in a childish voice, "Dead Bobo."

"It's Uncle Fourth." Shao Ziming corrected him emphatically,

Brother Han took a breath, "It's Bobo." After speaking, he looked at Shao Ziming with wide eyes.

Shao Ziming smiled, Brother Han caught a glimpse behind him, and suddenly called out, "Father!" Shao Ziyu came back

Soon it was time for dinner, Lin Qingran left time for them to chat, and ordered Si Qin to tidy up the guest room, and returned to the main house, where Brother Han was playing with the mahogany sword that Shao Ziming gave him.

After playing with his son for a while, Lin Qingran took a look at the sky, asked the nanny to take Brother Han to sleep, and went to the front hall, where the two brothers were still chatting.

Most likely it was Shao Ziming who was talking, Shao Ziyu was listening, Lin Qingran went back to the main house and ordered someone to prepare hot water for bathing.

After a while, Shao Ziyu came back, Lin Qingran pushed him to take a bath, and ordered someone to bring hangover soup to the guest room.

After taking a bath, she became sober, Shao Ziyu pulled her to sit down, "Don't be too busy, the masters in the guest room will take good care of fourth brother, and he is not drunk."

"Whenever I drank with you, he didn't drink too much." Lin Qingran recalled that when he was in Shao's house, the fourth brother came to Chenxiangyuan to chat with him, and he got drunk several times, and the fourth sister-in-law sent someone to help him back .

"Fourth brother, he has something on his mind. If you don't get drunk, everyone gets drunk." Shao Ziyu pinched her nose, and Lin Qingran snorted, "Because he can't pursue the life he wants, right?"

Seeing her expression, Shao Ziyu smiled, "I can't pursue what I want, shouldn't I regret it?"

Lin Qingran turned sideways to look at him, with a serious expression, "It's good to have a pursuit in your heart, but when the pursuit conflicts with your current life, and you are in pain because you can't pursue it, you should think about it. Is this pursuit wrong? Yes, people have hundreds of responsibilities in life, and the word freedom is not absolute, apart from family and birth, it is actually nothing.”

How difficult is it for a person to climb up from the bottom? There are few people who are as smart as Dad, and there must be many, but a few succeed in the end. Some people are born with something that others can't get if they struggle for a lifetime. But don't know how to take responsibility.

"Every time you talk about this, you always have a lot of opinions on the fourth brother." Shao Ziyu compromised, she was much more reasonable than him.

Lin Qingran turned her face away, she didn't have much opinion, but it wasn't too small.

"Okay, the fourth brother came back this time and talked about the matter of the uncle and the second uncle." Shao Ziyu pushed her back, "The uncle and the second uncle have returned to their posts, and there is a memorial about the grandfather's title. I don't know why. Now, the Holy Majesty is not letting go of this matter now, whether to accept the title for the uncle or the second uncle, has been deadlocked."

"The Holy Majesty must have done it on purpose." Lin Qingran concluded, "It's not that he has the final say on the establishment of the elders and the establishment of the emperor. He said that he should respect the late emperor, but the one who is in power now is the Holy Majesty. He said it, so who? Will you stand up and say what the late emperor said is the most important thing?"

"If there is no uncle, or no second uncle, the matter of the title will be much simpler." Shao Ziyu said meaningfully.

Lin Qingran was startled, and immediately understood what he meant, and her expression became a little weird, "You are right, uncle and second uncle, if one of them has an accident, then there is no need to fight for the title."

After finishing speaking, the two fell into a long silence. The topic suddenly seemed dull. Lin Qingran raised her head to look at him, and after a while, she said slowly, "Is the Holy Majesty going to make the Shao family mess up?" In the end, if one of the big and second houses wins, then the Shao family will basically be ruined.

Shao Ziyu hugged her into his arms and sighed, "That depends on whether the Shao family will be in chaos."

There was another silence, the uncle and the second uncle would not give in on the matter of the title, could it be that they really wanted to kill each other.

"Grandfather also wants to see the Shao family in chaos." Lin Qingran thought of so many things left by Master Shao in Shao's house in Sangjiang. If he wanted to give it to his uncle, he would have given it to his second uncle. Knowing that he is not in good health, but he has not let his son accept the title for a long time, and knowing that the two sons are incompatible, he has not explained any of the similar things, isn't it just to make the Shao family mess up.

"That was when I was very young, about four or five years old. I don't have any impressions. I only know that my grandfather likes Dad very much. It's good to bring him into the palace or go out to meet guests." Shao Ziyu can't remember clearly, he The only thing I remember is that my grandfather paid more attention to my father than my uncles.

"Is it like grandfather often took you by his side later on?" Lin Qingran suddenly thought of something, and asked while holding his hand.

"It should be so. My father was not a low-ranking official back then, and my grandfather also raised him carefully." It has been too long, and the memory of his childhood is fuzzy. After thinking about it, Shao Ziyu has no other memories.

"Master, do you think that grandfather's candidate for the title was either the uncle or the second uncle." Lin Qingran raised her head, affirming the sudden idea in her heart.

But after affirming this idea, Lin Qingran felt another chill in her heart.

This kind of communication between the husband and wife is almost straightforward. When Lin Qingran said so, Shao Ziyu understood what she meant, and it is not impossible to think about it at that level.

And if the answer is affirmative, then the cause of death of parents may be another possibility.

The room was silent for a while, and Lin Qingran broke the calm, "I brought the things from Sangjiang too." Looking at each other, Lin Qingran asked him, "Do you want to sleep."

Shao Ziyu shook his head, Lin Qingran took his hand, "I don't want to sleep either, so let's go and have a look."

They didn't read all the things brought by Sangjiang. Most of the things they brought were grandmother's notes, and grandfather's were very few.

The two of them managed to find something written by their grandfather in the study room, but none of them were what they were looking for. The table was full of books. Lin Qingran finally found a letter in her grandmother's notes. There are quite a few years.

Gently opened it and spread it out on the table. The letter was very long. After reading it, Lin Qingran found a passage on it and read it out, "My son Changzhong, smart and smart, very much like you and me, with a calm temper , not as impetuous as his eldest brother, nor too gloomy as his second brother, if Master Shao can be handed over to him in the future, you and I can rest assured."

After reading, Lin Qingran looked up at Shao Ziyu, and Shao Ziyu pointed to the end of the letter, Dongxu Nine Years, "A letter written 25 years ago."

"Grandma had passed away when I wrote the letter, and my father should be in his teens." Lin Qingran calculated the age forward, and Shao Ziyu followed her words, "Dongxu is nine years old, and father is 15 years old."

At the age of 15, you can tell whether a person is calm or not, and whether he is qualified to be a qualified heir. Lin Qingran basically affirmed the conjecture in her heart, "Grandfather may have thought of writing to grandma because of feeling, but he wrote After such a passage, the grandfather at that time should have intended to pass on the Marquis to the father, and the grandfather felt that the uncle and the second uncle were not suitable, and the calmness and intelligence of the father made him feel at ease."

(End of this chapter)