The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 72

Zheng Chong is quite stubborn from the bottom of his heart.

At that time, although his father did abandon the girl of the Li family for the sake of his future, he married the daughter of the teacher, Ji.But he didn't think about driving Zheng Chong out of the house from the very beginning. After all, Zheng Chong is also the blood of the Zheng family, and Zheng Chong's grandparents are still alive, so he has some feelings for this only grandson.At the time, at most, he just wanted to find a family in the other branches of the family to adopt him, so that he could stay in the Zheng family without hindering the eyes of the later Mrs. Ji. Actually, the Zheng family really didn't intend to hand over this good son to the Li family.

It's just that Zheng Chong looked down on his father's behavior, and because of Li's being dismissed on trumped-up charges, he made a big fuss at home, and almost made things worse.Although the so-called filial piety is too great, if Zheng Chong really goes all out to make trouble, he can always cause a lot of trouble for the Zheng family. In order to prevent him from causing trouble in front of his bride, the Zheng family simply and cruelly drove him away with the girl of the Li family. out.

Such a character... No matter what, it is always very different from the foolish filial piety that is advocated today.

In other words, just from his temperament, it can be seen that he is actually a staunch temperament, he would rather die than be destroyed, and basically no one can change the things that have been decided.

Even if Li Sanlang and Xiao Zhang came forward in person, it was useless.

Although Jia Min's letter didn't mention Zheng Chong's plan at the time, when they came to Lin's house, Zheng Chong directly expressed his thoughts.

"I didn't intend to extend the heirs to the Zheng family. Although there are still offspring in his family, it is impossible for him to have no heirs because he has no sons. And since he knows that he has his own son, how can he be willing to have a step-heir? His wife Ji Although the Ji family is still holding back, as long as they have no biological children, they have to bow their heads. Although I was expelled with my mother, I am still on the Zheng family tree. If the Ji family is willing to endure it for a while I will allow my mother to enter the door out of arrogance—it will not be a loss to her, and I will always have to go back. Only when uncle thinks about it carefully, his family is still headed by the Ji family, and it will be fine in our family. At home, they will only think that the Ji family is very magnanimous and wronged by allowing me to go home. How can I be allowed to sacrifice incense for my mother. Besides, the Ji family is not the Zheng family who is barren. I guess the Ji family is a little similar Some would rather embrace a concubine child born to one's own cronies as an heir or even pretend to be one's own, then how will I deal with myself." Because Zheng Chong has seen the warmth and coldness of human relationships, Zheng Chong is not clear about the inner house of these ordinary men See things clearly, but also quite a bit of my own opinion.

There is an abandoned woman in the family who was expelled from the house. She has a bad reputation after all. If Mrs. Li hadn't been depressed for a few years after returning home and never remarried, I am afraid that even if the Li family is a victim now, they will inevitably be accused by outsiders. give pointers.It is not that there are no girls in the younger generation of the Li family. There is an aunt who has been divorced, and it is impossible that her marriage will not be affected in the future.Although the uncles and aunts didn't complain because they loved Li's younger sister before, but as the cousins ​​grew up, if the Zheng family could propose to welcome back the Li family tablet, Zheng Chong couldn't guarantee that the Li family would definitely I won't be moved.

But Zheng Chong didn't want to go back.

It doesn't matter whether he is willful or selfish, since the Zheng family would abandon their mother and themselves because they climbed up to the Ji family, then even if he really goes back, life will never be easy.Unless one day the Ji family is boiled to death, even if the Ji family completely collapses, the Ji family will still take over the name of his stepmother and put him on his head.The so-called filial piety is greater than the sky. Not only is his life difficult, but he also has no future at all. He also has to guard against the Ji family's intentions to harm him day and night. It would be better to find a way to get rid of the Zheng family completely.

Everyone knew that the Zheng family was unkind back then, and the Li family had already passed away. As long as the Zheng family didn't take the initiative to bring up this matter, the impact on the other girls of the Li family would not be too great.At most, if Zheng Chong returned to the Zheng family, the Li family might have the opportunity to move back to the Zheng family's ancestral tomb in the future, and accept sacrifices as the Zheng family's wife; otherwise, they would have to stand alone as the daughter of the Li family with some embarrassment. up.

Naturally, there are still differences, and even this is of great significance to Mrs. Li himself, but Zheng Chong still doesn't want to ruin his life for this—especially when he knows that his mother still hates the Zheng family to the bone before she dies. , even if there is only one tablet left now, in fact, she may not be willing to be Zheng's wife again.

Although the brothers of the Li family love this little sister very much, and love Wu and Wu's partiality for this nephew, but from the perspective of the mainstream at this time, if the Ji family really can't give birth, it really proves what is meant by a child. It's not that the time has not come.As long as the Zheng family is willing to welcome back Miss Li's tablet with the gifts of the original spouse, it might not be a good result to take Zheng Chong back.After all, the girl from the Li family is gone, and the Ji family will not have a biological child in the future. If they want to grow old, they have to treat Zheng Chong well, which is also a good future for Zheng Chong.

Who would have thought that Zheng Chong would be unwilling, and even would rather gamble his future than bow to the Zheng family.

The girl from the Li family is gone now, and there is no one who can directly make choices for Zheng Chong.Although it seems that Zheng Chong's worries are not unreasonable based on Xiao Zhang's rationality, but the old lady of the Li family is still in the church, and Xiao Zhang is only one of Zheng Chong's four aunts, but he does not dare to respond to this without authorization. One thing, I'm afraid I will be blamed when I go home.

Neither Li Sanlang nor Mrs. Zhang could make decisions for Zheng Chong, but Zheng Chong was very stubborn at a young age, so he was in a stalemate for a while.In the end, Lin Ruhai came forward and only compromised and said that Zheng Chong would be left to teach for a while, and Li Sanlang and Xiao Zhang would bring a letter from Zheng Chong back to Li's house for discussion.

In this way, Zheng Chong will not be forced, and Li Sanlang and his wife will not be able to explain to their family.

----split line----

The matter ended when the old lady of the Li family came to the Lin family in person.

The so-called people don't fight with officials, don't look at the Lin family Saburo and the Zheng family are both from Juren background, but one is still in the exam and the other is an official, plus the Zheng family has finally climbed up to the Ji family - the fourth-rank official position It's nothing to a real nobleman, but it's not something a country gentleman like the Li family can match.

If it weren't for Xiao Zhang's natal family's friendship with Jia Min before its downfall, the Li family's origin would not be able to climb up to the Lin family at all-even as a surrogate son-in-law.

If it were an official family, they might think that even if the Zheng family was willing to welcome back a tablet, it would be good, at least it would not make them lose face by having an abandoned woman.But as an ordinary gentry family based on farming and studying, the old lady of the Li family would not pay attention to decency to ruin her grandson's life for a name.

Although the Li family also has a clan, and in the clan there are pedantic children who pay attention to the so-called decency and are first-class scholars, but as an upbringing, they have brought up a grand old lady who is the only one in the next generation.Even if her daughter becomes an abandoned woman, as long as she does not allow a "remarried daughter" to emerge from the clan, then she will be somewhat respectable in the clan.

It's just that if the Ji family or the Zheng family stepped forward to put pressure on the Li family, the result might not be the same.

So the old lady of the Li family had to come to Yangzhou for a visit with her third daughter-in-law.

This era has always been much crueler to women than men, even though the Li family, as uncles, doesn't mind raising their nephew, and are even willing to support their nephew to study for the imperial examination.But it is undeniable that all of these premises are based on the fact that the Zheng family does not care about this son. It is justifiable to ask Zheng Chong to go back.

As long as the Zheng family wanted it, the Li family would not be able to protect Zheng Chong. Even if the Zheng family or the Ji family wanted to sue for a crime of unfilial piety, Zheng Chong would never be able to stand out in his life.

Instead of that, it's better to burn the boat once.

It has to be said that Zheng Chong's choice is wise to some extent.Although the Lin family had to choose a son-in-law from a low-income family, judging from the Lin family's wealth and Lin Ruhai's official position, he still had a lot of choice. With Zheng Chong's background, even if he had a child Status, after all, is too low.Moreover, the girl of the Lin family is only 11 years old now. Don't say that she can get married later if she recruits a relative. Just according to the woman and Xu's marriage, the Lin family has three or four years to slowly find a candidate. Now he hastily settled down.

In the beginning, Lin Ruhai just had a little intention of being kind to others, and temporarily took in the children given by his wife's handkerchief, and just took a look at his knowledge in his spare time as a pastime.

It is worth mentioning that Zheng Chong is really a very spiritual child, plus he is extra resilient because of setbacks in his childhood, otherwise he would not have passed the Tongsheng exam at the age of 13, even if it was not because of Zheng Chong Sudden trouble at home, probably even the fame of a scholar can be obtained.

Although there is a saying that literati look down on each other, it is actually easy for literati to cherish each other, especially at Lin Ruhai's age. If it hadn't been delayed due to filial piety and other trivial matters, his children would probably have grown so old, and it was even more inevitable A little empathy.

This little bit of empathy was enough to let go of Zheng Chong when the old lady of the Li family and Mrs. Zhang arrived in a hurry.

Naturally, the future husband-in-law of the only daughter of the Lin family cannot be selected so easily. Lin Ruhai's ability to let go and leave Zheng Chong only means that he has a chance to be a candidate. The Lin family robbed people.Even if the Lin family didn't like Zheng Chong in the end, at least they could temporarily protect Zheng Chong for a while.

The author has something to say:

As long as Lin Ruhai is good, in fact Baochai can find someone with a good status even if he recruits a relative, but he must have a good character and no worries but also have the ability to learn...

Next time, I will definitely not add original characters casually...