The Yin family's going south this time has achieved a lot. Third Mrs. Yang and Ms. Xu stayed in Hangzhou for another two or three days.
Before leaving, Miss Xu took Yu Tang's hand reluctantly and said: "You will definitely not be able to catch up with me when I get married, but I will write to you, and you must reply, and you can't cut off the communication with me. If we both When you get married, the children are of the same age, and you can marry a son and daughter and in-laws or something... "
As soon as she said this, Mrs. Yang San gave her a hard look, dragged her to the side, and said in a low voice: "How old are you, and you still say such things."
Whether it is the Yin family or the Xu family, it is impossible to marry anyone casually, let alone Yu Tang does not know what kind of family he will marry.
Miss Xu felt that Mrs. Yang San was worrying unnecessarily, so she rebutted Mrs. Yang confidently: "It is precisely because I know what kind of person Miss Yu is that I can say such things."
Not to mention that Yu Tang knows how to advance and retreat, if she and Yu Tang have several children, as long as the eldest son and eldest daughter are not married, each other's character is good, there is nothing wrong with marrying an in-law.
Mrs. Yang San has a headache.
From the Yin family to Yin Mingyuan's generation, there were only three males, not to mention Yin Hao. The first wife gave birth to three daughters, and the only son was born outside the family. position. The other, not to mention his young age, suffered from paralysis when he was young because he had a low-grade fever that was not taken care of. One of his legs is not very good, and he will definitely have trouble getting married in the future. Only Yin Mingyuan could read and found a daughter-in-law who was well-matched. The Yin family pinned their hopes on this couple. Naturally, Miss Xu would represent the Yin family when she married.
She actually had such an idea, Mrs. Yang San didn't know what to do, thinking about it, she could only go back and discuss it with Mrs. Zhang or Mrs. Li. No matter what, she couldn't make Miss Xu feel like she was at her mother's house. What did she want to do? Just do it.
Of course, Yu Tang didn't take Ms. Xu's words about marrying offspring and in-laws to heart. In her opinion, it was just Miss Xu's liking for her. There are infinite possibilities for a child to grow up. Maybe in the eyes of others, her child is not worthy of a child with the blood of Yin and Xu, but to her, it is her own flesh and blood, a part of her body. Tuanrou, she didn't want him or her to be wronged - if the children of Miss Xu's family were of bad character, she would not care too much.
She asked Qing Yuan to hand over the soil instrument she had prepared to Ah Fu who was next to Miss Xu, and said to Miss Xu: "Don't worry, if I have the opportunity, I will definitely go to the capital to see you. If you have the opportunity to go out of Beijing, you will also Come and see me."
For example, Yin Mingyuan was later released as a parent official in Zhejiang or Jiangsu.
Ms. Xu nodded her head again and again, with tears streaming down her face, she waved goodbye to Yu Tang.
Pei Yan, who accompanied Yin Hao to see him off, was relieved.
The troublemaker left and Yu Tang was free, so they can find time to say a few words, right
Who knew that Yin Hao wanted him to accompany him to visit Wang Qibao.
Of course Pei Yan refused. He plausibly said: "I have already retired, and I will not be an official in the court again. I can only help here with Wang Qibao's affairs. There are still a lot of things waiting for me at home!"
The sons of the Pei family are about to get rid of their uniforms soon, and others can say that the matter of Pei Xuan's recovery should start to be laid out. Yin Hao's heart is like a mirror, but Sun Gao's matter is not over yet. Gu Chang has now become his brother-in-law again. No matter what, he has to help Gu Chang to settle the following matters in order to show the energy of the Yin family and make Gu Chang feel that this marriage is worthwhile. When his cousin married into the Gu family, Gu Chang had to look up to her.
Pei Yancai didn't care what happened to the girl from the Yin family, so she confessed and took Yu Tang back to Lin'an by boat overnight.
When Yin Hao arrived at the pier, Pei's boat had long since disappeared.
Pei Yan stood comfortably on the side of the ship, letting Hu Xing instruct those maidservants and servants to tidy up the cabin in a mess, while he himself used the excuse that the place to stay had not been arranged, and talked with Yu Tang at the bow.
"I left in a bit of a hurry," he said politely, but he couldn't hear the slightest apology, "I can't do without leaving. It's all trivial things, and I can do it without me. With me, it's just a few people who contribute People. I was thinking that we should return to Lin'an as soon as possible. In a few days, it will be midsummer, and it will be impossible to plant any fruit trees, and the harvest of the season will be delayed in vain."
Talked as if he depended on this harvest for his living.
But Yu Tang is still grateful, after all, he is helping their family.
She smiled and thanked Pei Yan.
Pei Yan talked to her about planting trees: "The lecture meeting at Zhaoming Temple has ended, those masters should have already set foot on their way back, and the family members of the Wu family and Song family should not be in Lin'an anymore, but I still have some accounts. I have to go back and have a look. Master Yu and Mrs. Yu have not seen you for some days, and they must miss you very much.
"I'm thinking, let's work on each other for a day or two, and then take Hu Xing and a few experienced fruit farmers to your mountain forest to discuss what kind of trees are suitable for planting, and then you can go back and discuss with Master Yu. Things settled."
Yu Tang thought that after the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather would gradually heat up, and the lacquerware shop would be off-season, so Xia Pinggui could just leave the work to him, and Yu Yuan happened to be free, so he nodded and agreed.
Pei Yan solved the serious problem in his heart, and suddenly he was in high spirits, and he spoke more casually.
"You've been busy all day today, and you should be on your way tomorrow, but I think it's better to drive at night, not to mention that there are fewer people, and you can take a walk on the deck." He said, pointing to the trees on both sides of the bank, " You see, there is Xixi. The previous Zhejiang Tixue censor Chen Min did not return to his hometown after resigning from Hangzhou. A red-crowned crane, known as a red-crowned crane, opened some kind of society here in September every year, making it very lively. As a result, it offended Yuan Meizhi, the chief assistant at the time, and the society was disbanded. Chen Min was sentenced to prison and died in the The thatched cottage here gradually fell into disrepair. Instead, the dozens of red-crowned cranes multiplied and became a hundred, becoming a scene of Xixi. It is a pity that it is night. If it is daytime, you can still see a few Only. It would be even more spectacular in autumn. Hundreds of red-crowned cranes raised their heads to the sky, shaking the sky and shaking the earth. When they fly high, they shade the sun and block out the sun, like clouds covering the top, which is a rare sight in the south of the Yangtze River."
Hearing this, Yu Tang yearned for it.
Pei Yan took the opportunity and said, "I'll show you next time I have a chance."
Yu Tang hesitated.
She is not young anymore, and after going back, she will be engaged in eight or nine out of ten, and she doesn't know if she will have a chance to have a banquet with Pei again in the future.
However, Pei Yan had good intentions, she didn't want to spoil Pei Yan's mood, and she didn't want to explain too much to Pei Yan, so she simply responded "yes" with a smile, and said: "When did Chen Min and Yuan Meizhi come from? Haven't heard of it?"
It must be a big case to be sent to prison, but she has never listened to people in Lin'an discussing it.
Pei Yan laughed and said, "It all happened fifty years ago."
After so long, he still knows
Yu Tang was speechless.
Pei Yan smiled and said: "When I was a child, my father told me these stories as stories, firstly, to let me familiarize myself with local anecdotes, secondly, to learn from the past and tell me not to do stupid things. "
He began to tell Yu Tang the story of Chen Min and Yuan Meizhi in detail.
It's actually quite simple. Chen Min came from a wealthy family, but his father doted on his concubines and killed his wives. Chen Min suffered a lot when he was a child, and was even mentally impaired because of his private affairs in the back house. In this way, Chen Min read the book. But after all, he is different from ordinary people. He reacts slowly to the world and has offended many people. He has been in Zhejiang Tixue Yushi for fifteen years and has not been promoted again. Later, he simply began to pursue interests, wanting to shape his demeanor as a famous Confucianist in front of others, he set up a school, and accepted ten so-called personal disciples.
Yuan Meizhi and Chen Min belong to the same discipline. Contrary to Chen Min, Yuan Meizhi came from a humble background, received a lot of help on the way to study, had a very high emotional intelligence, was successful in official career, and became a secondary assistant all the way.
Chen Min was jealous of Yuan Meizhi, and organized Jiangnan students to attack Yuan Meizhi several times, which won him a great reputation.
Yuan Meizhi endured it until he competed with another second assistant at that time for the position of first assistant. In order to get rid of Chen Min's skin ringworm, he set up a plan to make Chen Min mistakenly think that the reason for banning the sea was because of the emperor. He believed Yuan Meizhi's greedy words, and at the instigation of the students who were bought by Yuan Meizhi, he wrote a ten-thousand-character letter and pasted it in front of the eight-character wall of the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province, which aroused the emperor's suspicion about the crony disputes in the south of the Yangtze River.
Not only was he himself imprisoned, almost all the Jiangnan family was liquidated.
The Gu family of the four major surnames in the south of the Yangtze River was hurt in this catastrophe and slowly declined.
Although Pei Yan's language is humorous and witty, and he described a major event that disturbed the south of the Yangtze River as a harmless neighborhood dispute, Yu Tang still frowned, and couldn't help saying: "If you hurt the enemy a thousand, you will hurt yourself eight hundred. This Master Yuan The means are too vicious, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to end well in the future."
Pei Yan's eyes lit up when he heard this.
That Master Yuan did not end well.
He said: "Why don't you say that Chen Min is too much, otherwise Yuan Meizhi wouldn't be so ruthless."
"I can understand Master Yuan's mood." Yu Tang said with a feeling of sympathy, "If it were me, I would not let Chen Min go. It's just because of Chen Min's matter that I have implicated the Jiangnan family. If you become a victim, you will definitely not support him in the future. Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. In this world, it is impossible to rely on only one person."
Pei Yan's eyes became brighter, and he asked tentatively, "Then what do you think he can do?"
Yu Tang said: "He should appease the Jiangnan family after Chen Min's incident, let the Jiangnan family abandon Chen Min first, take the opportunity to form an alliance with the Jiangnan family, advance and retreat together, and restrain Chen Min's so-called disciples, so as not to have a family feud Come."
Yuan Mei was indeed slandered to death by one of Chen Min's disciples.
Pei Yan's gaze on Yu Tang was a little crazy.
Yu Tang couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable, and said anxiously: "What's wrong? Am I saying something ridiculous? I, I just said casually, I don't know about these court affairs. I just think it's okay to take revenge on others, but No one else should be implicated…”