[Red Mansions] Guide to "The Empress of the Wise"

A group of people took a car to the pier, abandoned the car and boarded the boat. It took only half a day to arrive at Jinling.As soon as he entered the city, the Princess sent someone to invite a famous doctor to diagnose the pulse of Princess Qinghe, and the whole family directly lived in the old house in Jinling.

The convoy walked all the way to Longwang Street, which is where the Wang family's ancestor's house is located.

"This is the old house of the Wang family." Wang Shouzhong pointed to the wide street outside to show Wang Ziteng and his two brothers and sisters.

"As expected of our family, there are no white people in the business, and there are great scholars in talking and laughing." Wang Ziteng smiled and pointed to the people wearing long gowns and scribe hats on the street to Princess Wang Shouzhong.

"Yeah, it looks orderly here." Wang Shuo also smiled and nodded in agreement. In the middle of the tidy house is a bluestone road where three carriages can walk side by side, and there are no vendors shouting to and fro. They are very solemn, and almost all of them belong to high-ranking families. It seems that the Wang family is at a time when it is prominent.

"There are second uncle and third uncle's family in my hometown, you two must remember to call someone when you enter the door." Wang Shouzhong reminded.Jinling's hometown and their family's second-uncle and third-uncle are within five uniforms, but the Wang family is also a big family in Jinling, with many people of the same clan and clan, and they occupy a lot of streets.

"Yes, father." The siblings respectfully agreed.

"By the way, Dad, are we walking on Longwang Street now? Why is it called this name?" Wang Shuo asked curiously when the carriage turned around the street corner when he saw the name of the street corner.

"Yes, I heard that there was a fairy well in the old man's place. The water quality was sweet and it was also effective in curing diseases. It is said that the dragon king lived in it, so many temples were built in this generation to worship the dragon king. The last emperor of the previous dynasty was stupid and indulged monks. Let the thieves make trouble in the name of Buddha Sanqing. Later, the temples of this generation were pushed away, and we moved here when we went home." Wang Shouzhong popularized history.

"Dragon King Street is not like that now." Wang Ziteng added with a smile: "This Dragon King Street is about our Jinling King's family, this king is not that king!"

Wang Shuo didn't know if there was a history at this time of "Jia is not false, white jade is used as a horse for Tang Jin. A Fang Palace, three hundred miles away, cannot accommodate a history of Jinling. There is a lack of white jade beds in the East China Sea. The Dragon King came to invite the King of Jinling. There is a lot of "snow" in a good year. Pearls Like earth and gold like iron." The official talisman exists, but seeing that the Wang family is only the first generation to make a fortune with such momentum, I am filled with emotion.

The princess didn't talk much along the way, and listened quietly to the three of them talking and laughing. When the motorcade arrived at the main gate of the old house, she coughed and reminded: "We're here, it's time to visit the second and third uncles."

As soon as they got off the carriage at the gate, Wang Shoujie and Wang Shouyi stood in front of the gate to welcome them. Wang Shouzhong and the princess got off the carriage and said, "Third and fourth brothers have worked hard, we are all one family, why bother to be so polite. " After finishing speaking, he called Wang Ziteng and Wang Shuo to get out of the carriage and asked them to recognize people. Only three or five people made a salute in front of the gate.

After finishing the formalities, Fang asked Wang Shoujie and Wang Shouyi to take them inside. Wang Shoujie said as he walked, "Father and third uncle are waiting inside. The sixth son took his wife and children to take office in Sichuan. Just left Not long after, there was no chance to meet my eldest brother and sister-in-law."

The sixth son Wang Shoujie spoke of was Wang Shoulian, his brother of the same father and mother. In Wang Shouzhong's generation, there were only six males in the Wang family. Except for this sixth uncle, Wang Shuo had seen them all.While listening to the third uncle's introduction, Wang Shuo was clearing up the relationship in his heart. In Jinling, the third uncle in the capital could not be called the "third uncle". This one in front of you.This changed all of a sudden, Wang Shuo only secretly rejoiced that his father was the biggest no matter how he was ranked, otherwise he wouldn't let her catch him blind.

After entering, there were four gray-haired old men waiting in the hall. Hearing the noise of people, the old men went to the door and looked forward to it.When Wang Shouzhong and the princess saw several elders, they quickly walked a few steps, and bowed their heads when they reached the hall, "Greetings to the second uncle, the second aunt, the third uncle, and the third aunt!"

"Get up, get up, let me take a good look, the last time I saw Shouzhong was when you got married! It's been decades, and I don't want to see you again." The second uncle pulled Wang Shouzhong lamented that time flies, the transportation is inconvenient at this time, and Wang Shouzhong was ordered to work in various places. If he hadn't passed by Jinling at this time to see, he wondered if there would be a chance to see him again in this life.

"What my second uncle said is that it's rare for a sage to order me to go to Guangdong. I passed by my hometown to have a look. In the future, my nephew will be buried there..." Wang Shouzhong had tears in his eyes. All over the world, Ye Luo will still be buried in the ancestral tomb of Jinling in the future when he returns to his roots.

"Look at you old man, what are you doing talking about this in such a good manner, you don't have to provoke Shouzhong's eyes!" The second uncle and grandmother joked, "His third uncle is no longer like this old man."

"Third Uncle's understanding is weak, and my father has always asked me to learn from Third Uncle." Wang Shouzhong saluted Third Uncle's grandfather again.

"Okay, okay, it's rare for a family to reunite, so don't pay attention to these vain rituals, sit down, sit down." The third uncle was the first generation of Jinshi since the founding of the Tai/Zu, but he was not in good health and had served as a teacher for several times. So he retired and devoted himself to teaching the descendants of the clan, and now he is the head of the royal clan.The Wang family learns more than their disciples. As long as the surrounding surnames are Wang, the ancestors are all studying in it. But it has been rewarded by the court.

The princess also knows that this is a rare scholar who is well-educated and refined, and respects him very much.

After the adults are seated, it's the turn of the juniors.

The second uncle and grandmother first introduced the Shouzi generation, "This is the Liu family of the third oldest family. You may have met them once when they got married. Now they are all parents. This is the brother of their family. And brother Meng, and their only daughter. Your six younger brothers have gone to Sichuan and have no chance to see each other. Your eldest sister has married into the Zheng family, and she is also working with the son-in-law of the Zheng family." Wang Shouzhong's family and Wang Shoujie The family greeted each other, and Wang Shuo received many greetings.

Then the third uncle and grandmother introduced: "This is Brother Yun, Brother Tiao and Brother Yu from the fourth family. You two younger sisters married far away, so I didn't catch up with you."

It's another salute without mentioning it.

Wang Shouzhong and the princess drank tea in the living room for a while, and the princess said: "We are also accompanied by Princess Qinghe of Cheng Wang's family. Because the princess is not satisfied with the water and soil, we invite the princess to come home together. Come, the post station is really not a place to recuperate."

"Okay, okay, we should help each other when we go out, so the nephew and daughter-in-law will take us to meet the princess?" asked the second uncle and grandmother.

"Second Aunt is slapping me in the face. How dare she work for you as a junior. Besides, she is probably still asleep. It is she who entrusted me to trouble you. Please don't blame her for not knowing etiquette. I don't dare to give you the sickness." The princess flattered again and again.

"You can't say that, the royal blood of the princess is naturally noble, and it's appropriate for us to pay our respects as courtiers." The second uncle said.

Naturally, the princess could not agree, she is also the honor of the princess, but now the most important status is still the daughter-in-law of the Wang family, so she refuses repeatedly and dare not accept it.

In this way, people carried people in flower sedan chairs, and everyone was polite and flattering. Wang Shouzhong's family moved into the yard that had been tidied up a long time ago. Princess Qinghe moved in without showing his face.

The old family also sympathized with their hard work, and told them to go back to the yard to rest after a few words.

Wang Shouzhong and Wang Ziteng went to wash up separately, and Wang Shuo put all the meeting gifts received today on the table, silently thinking about the people he met today.

Seeing Wang Shuo frowning, the princess smiled and said, "What are you doing? I met so many elders today, but I can still tell who is who, and cousins, so I remember clearly. You two But my great-uncle said that there is only one girl in your family, and now you finally have you, you are so rare!"

Wang Shuo was in a daze, and the princess even came to laugh at her, so Wang Shuo asked the maid to take a notebook and write down the names and relationships of the old family members in Jinling.

"What a stupid girl!" The princess pointed at Wang Shuo's head and blamed, who needs to use a pen to remember relatives?

Wang Shuo doesn't care if it's embarrassing or not, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, let alone her with a bad memory.While writing, I felt something was wrong, and asked the princess, "Mother, the only relatives we have seen in our family are the sixth uncle Wang Shoulian's family."

"There are no rules, you can call Uncle Six just Uncle Six, what else is your name!" Princess said, "But you are right, only Uncle Six's family is missing, except for the three married aunts."

"No, my father's generation is ranked according to loyalty, filial piety, righteousness, propriety, integrity and shame. Even if the character of righteousness is heavy, why is there no uncle who ranks respect?" The names of big families are all particular, like the previous generation. For the generation of Shouzi, the third character also has a rule; like their generation, it is generally the Zizi generation, and the third character is next to the word "月" to show the meaning of flesh and blood.

"Be careful." The princess walked to the small table, took the pen in Wang Shuo's hand, and added a second son under the third uncle's grandfather's room. It turned out that the third uncle had two sons and two daughters, but only the second My son, who was six or seven years old, couldn't stand still. At that time, he had already taken the name Wang Shouli, and the family also let the name stick to him for the sake of looking good at the funeral, without banning it.

"It turned out to be like this, no wonder." Wang Shuo made a hard box, thinking of going elsewhere, and asked wretchedly and gossipingly: "Mother, why did you go there when you were six or seven years old? Is it because of the strife in the inner house? "

"Nonsense!" The princess slammed the table and said angrily, "Little girl, who said these dirty words to you, and where did you hear them?"

Wang Shuo was taken aback, didn't he just gossip~ But seeing the princess's wife was so angry, she was also frightened, and quickly jumped off the stool to make a bow, saying: "Mother, don't be angry, don't be angry, I just listen to others when I'm a guest. The girl at home told me that some children didn't grow up because of private affairs in the inner house, and I remembered it somehow. Know it's not good."

The princess let out a long breath, and said: "Which maid told you that such a family must not be an upright family. Tell your mother that we stay away from these families."

"This... I can't remember." Can Wang Shuo say that there is an art category called "Zhai Dou Wen"?

"You, let me worry about it. Where there is no child who died young, it is too arbitrary to say that the mistress is not virtuous and the inner curtains are not repaired. Which family marry a daughter-in-law not for the sake of prolonging the heirs, but for the sake of the whole family? Black corns? You see, your grandmother and I don’t get along well, but she never thought of giving your father a concubine to have children. Even if you put Yuan’s daughter to your brother’s side, it’s just pulling your mother’s family. Don’t be so different Don't have such an idea in the future." The princess taught.

Wang Shuo was confused by the princess's contradictory approach. Now that he said this, he couldn't help asking: "Mother, aren't you angry when grandma does this?"