Ding Tian's Ancient Life

When I went to my uncle's house, I had to go to my cousin's house.

I met yesterday, and when I came to my uncle's house today, my cousin came back with me.

The life of the big sister's house is better now. The three-entry courtyard has been expanded into a four-entry courtyard, with four cross-yards. In addition, there are more than a dozen healthy servants and maids serving them.

When Ding Tian arrived, the whole family stood at the door to welcome him.

It's just... Ding Tian frowned. He saw that besides the two women dressed as maids, there was also a strange young woman standing beside the hall sister.

The two sister-in-laws of the lobby girl are getting married one after another. This woman is definitely not from the Hu family.

Because Ding Chahua was young back then, she was not married, but Ding Guihua was married, and now she is also the wife of a master.

The lobby girl is still the same, but with a more mature charm, and her dress is much better.

However, Ding Tian personally prepared a dowry for her back then, and some of the ornaments were counted by him for countless times, and the ancient ornaments did not have any anti-oxidation treatment, what needs to be blown up every year, Clean and renovate.

The pair of hairpins on the woman's head and the pair of gold earrings on her ears, how Ding Tian thought and felt that they were the things in his cousin's dowry.

Probably Ding Tian's eyes were too straightforward, even his cousin Hu Biao was a little embarrassed: "Brother, come in and talk!"

And slightly rudely pushed the woman aside and let the door open.

Ding Tian stretched out his hand and took the arm of the hall sister: "Why did you run out? It's cold outside, so it's good to stay indoors and wait for me."

"I want to see big brother soon." Ding Guihua was amused: "I saw you a few days ago, and now I see you again. I am very happy."

"You." Ding Tian pulled the lobby girl into the main hall.

The two elders of the Hu family were all there, tremblingly saying hello to Master Ding, Ding Tian waved his hand: "They are all in-laws, you are welcome."

But he took his seat very unceremoniously.

Not to mention his official status and title, just say that he is an uncle of his in-laws, and a guest from his natal family should be more honorable.

Hu Biao's family is now separated.

Because the three brothers are all married, and the two younger sisters are also married, it is said that Ding Guihua's makeup looks very rich.

However, Hu Biao is the eldest, and he wants to inherit the family business, and he wants to die for the second elder, so their family is still in the original house. In Hu's village, their family is only inferior to Hu Wei's family.

But it is already a family with a lot of money.

The other two brothers went out to live alone, but they both had business in the county, so they put their family in the county.

The two younger sisters also married to scholars in the county.

So now at home, Hu Biao's family is taking care of the two elderly people, plus a group of servants, that's all.

Ding Tian looked at the hall girl, the maid behind her was pretty, but clean and tidy.

The two maids were holding the child of the hall sister, so that woman was standing behind Mrs. Hu at this moment.

A big maid came up with tea and snacks. After Ding Tian drank tea and ate snacks, he asked some trivial matters, such as how is his health?Can the child have a name?

Hu Biao, the cousin-in-law, rubbed his hands and smiled, but felt a little guilty.

The female relatives should go to the backyard when they see each other, but Ding Tian is Ding Guihua's cousin, so there is no need to shy away from it, but Mrs. Hu is from a farming family, and she doesn't know much about the rules of these rich families, so she just sat there upright.

Her eyes kept wandering to Wang Xiaoya and Ma Xiaohua who were following her, and she noticed that the two maidservants were like two young ladies, with their looks, clothes, and demeanor.

Take a look back...you can't even compare to other people's maids, what are you thinking about?

After talking about the scene for a while, it was the aunt who took a few female relatives to the back to chat alone before handing over the entire front hall to the men.

Ding Tian sat there, looking at Hu Biao without saying a word. After all, he has become an official and has cultivated his bearing. Besides, he is full of confidence. I am an uncle. If I don’t support my sister, will I support you?

There was no need for Ding Tian to ask, Hu Biao told the truth that the woman was a niece from his mother's side. She used to live with her grandparents, but after her grandparents passed away, there was no one in her family, so she came to seek refuge with Mr. Hu Ma'am, at first, Mrs. Hu thought about finding someone to marry her to. Anyway, life is better now, and she is not short of her dowry.

It is only three or fifty taels of silver for a peasant family to marry a daughter to go out, and it has to be said that the dowry is generous.

Poor people send their daughters to their in-laws for two taels of silver, isn't there?

Who knew that after this woman came to the house, she probably wanted to be his concubine because of the good conditions in the house!

"You agreed?" Ding Tian's face suddenly darkened.

"How is it possible!" Hu Biao immediately raised his hand: "I swear, I only treat Osmanthus fragrans, my cousin is just an orphan, she lives here, and she is getting old, so after the new year, I will invite a matchmaker to come, Let’s get married in February, just get used to my in-law’s family in March, and start farming in April.”

This means marrying into a farm family, and it must be the kind of family where the whole family works in the fields together.

"The dowry?" Ding Tian snorted coldly: "My cousin's dowry, put it on her head?"

"It was Osmanthus fragrans who took pity on her and was helpless, so she gave her something to decorate her appearance." Hu Biao immediately said: "You know, Osmanthus fragrans is soft-hearted and kind."

The wife is good, why doesn't he know?

If the family has a large family business, when the family was divided, the younger brothers took away so much of the family property. It was not because the elder sister-in-law, Osmanthus fragrans, was virtuous and magnanimous, and managed the family well, so the production increased so much.

Then it was distributed to the two younger brothers fairly, and the younger brothers and sisters were taught to read the ledger and do arithmetic.

When the younger sisters get married, the wife's dowry is the most generous in the whole family. There are only two pairs of gold hairpins.

I gave birth to him a son and a daughter, two children, and made up a good name, and he is now the master of Juren. After a few years of examination, if he is lucky, he will be a Jinshi and rank, and the whole family is proud of him. But he knows that if he wants to stand out, his uncle's care is indispensable.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to make his wife panic in public or private, and besides, he also despises that cousin!

Because my cousin is too ambitious.

Seeing how rich his family is, he wanted to be his second wife, and he didn't even look at who his wife came from. Why should she be the second wife as an orphan?

Even her mother became indifferent to her when she found out about it.

Who in the family doesn't know that the wife's position is secure, even if Mr. Ding Tian Ding is not there, the Ding family's conditions are good, and they have given birth to a pair of children for the Hu family. The two children are healthy and smart. No one would say that his wife is a lucky one. woman?

Nowadays, when a family marries a daughter, they all come to ask the wife to be a perfect person, because the wife has parents and in-laws, and the husband is a raiser, with a pair of children under her knees, who are lively and lovely.

It's just that many people knew about this cousin, and they were a little angrily, and looked at him in the wrong way. Fortunately, his wife still believed that he didn't have that kind of thought.

In addition, today I saw my uncle, his expression... Ha ha!

It's really embarrassing, if you really think you are as beautiful as a fairy, anyone who sees him will love him?

How far away can this kind of flamboyant woman be!

"You have arranged it. You will not get involved with such a woman in the future. Let's forget it this time. If this kind of thing happens in the future, it is hard to guarantee that your house will not be peaceful." Ding Tian snorted coldly: "Study hard, go to the government office as much as possible to watch politics Let's see what the officials do. I will try it in the future. Go to Beijing and find me. I'll find you some familiar Hanlin to give you some advice. If you come to Beijing a year in advance, it's easy to get a feel for it. Those examiners their temperament."

These things are the things that Wang Zuo used to chatter with Ding Tian on weekdays, but now Ding Tian took them out intact and chatted with his brother-in-law in the lobby.

It's kind of like that!

In fact, Ding Tian didn't understand these things very well, and he treated them like betting questions for the college entrance examination, but for Hu Biao, who grew up in the village and only worked in the county and prefectural cities, it was different.

This is his first contact with things related to Jinshi examination.

It turns out that there are so many sayings here, and he doesn't even know it!

Now this group of Juren are studying in the academy in Fucheng, and the teacher who teaches is a senior Jinshi. After passing the Jinshi exam, he has been teaching and educating people all his life. It seems that he has never told them about this.

Mr. and my uncle, of course he listened to my uncle.

"You have to keep yourself clean. A scholar with a bad reputation, no matter how talented he is, no one will use him, understand?" Ding Tian continued to beat his brother-in-law in the lobby: "If you enter the officialdom in the future, even if outsiders say you fear your wife Ruhu, you just know in your heart whether you are afraid of your wife or not. Don’t get overwhelmed and bring a woman home. If you think a woman is no big deal, let me tell you, how many officials are falling for their women!"

"Yes, yes!" Hu Biao sweated on his forehead.

"Don't go to the brothel Chuguan, it's right to sing poems with the Huakui ladies there, if you spend money on the women there, if you feel that you are in harmony with them, then well, you have to find a way to redeem them, Then you have no money, then you have to be greedy. Once you are greedy, you have to break the law. It’s useless!” Ding Tian gave him an example: “I’ve seen a lot in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Jiang Minghai, the former governor of Liangjiang, is he a cow? He will enjoy the blessings after entering, but he was beheaded? And Zhang Hanyuan, the former governor of Jiangsu..."

All of them fell down on women's sex, and the cousin-in-law's face was covered in cold sweat.

And each official position is called a high level, from the first-rank feudal official to the second-rank governor, all of them are existences that he could not look up to before, but they were all imprisoned under the hands of his uncle. .

On that day, Ding Tian had dinner at his brother-in-law's house, but men and women had different seats, and Ding Tian lived at his uncle's house at night, but the next day, Wang Xiaoya said that the cousin at the aunt's house was said to be ordered by her aunt , come to deliver supper to Mr. Ding, but who are Ding Tian's people around?Dare to try that little trick?He was not even allowed to enter the inner courtyard, and was sent back directly by the guards.

I don't know what the Hu family meant, but until Ding Tian left Hu's village and went back to Ding's village for the new year, he never saw the cousin again.

Later, I heard from Ding Guihua, a girl in the hall, that my cousin was decided by her mother-in-law, using 20 taels of silver, a pair of silver hairpins, a pair of silver earrings and the two jewelry she once gave to her cousin as dowry, four sets of brand new bedding, and a donkey hanging. Che, married to a place called Pingjiagou, which is quite far from here, and seems to be beyond the boundary of the three northeastern prefectures.

It is estimated that marrying in the past is a matter of a lifetime, and it will be difficult to meet again!

Only then Ding Tian was satisfied, the cousin-in-law was quite courageous, the woman couldn't stop looking at her, instead of marrying nearby and getting involved and ruining her reputation in the future, it's better to marry far away and never have any contact with each other.

After returning from Hu's Village, Ding Tian went to the old village chief's house again, spent a day there, had a meal, and was so happy that the old village chief said to him: "We are all high-ranking officials, what's the difference between this meal?"

"That's different. Uncle's braised rabbit is always the best!" Ding Tian sat cross-legged on the kang, eating a rabbit leg: "There is also miso made by my uncle, dipped in dried vegetables It's fragrance."

Let the old couple be happy to see their teeth but not their eyes.

The author's gossip: Come on, Wuhan!The community is closed, ahem, Jianghu can go out for shopping today, but not tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow... It's so strict, eh, hehehe, there are fewer cars in the community now, and it's so quiet at night!