The original owner's older sister is named Wei Qingniang.
The two lost their father since they were young, and they have been relying on Weimu to barely support the family. Qingniang is a few years older than the original owner, but she is much more sensible than him.
When I was still young, I learned to take care of my younger brother, cook and wash clothes by myself, and tried my best to help a single person to make ends meet.
Because of the absence of her father, Qingniang has been ridiculed by the children in the village since she was a child. Basically, the whole village of Weijia Village has the surname Wei. It is obvious that people in the same ancestral hall should help each other. But when the plague in Jin Dynasty came, the men were strong and strong. Fortunately, only half of them died, but the women were almost dead.
The original owner's family was different from other families. Wei's father was always weak. He was killed by the plague, leaving only his wife and a pair of children.
At that time, Wei's mother was still young and pretty, and most of the men in the village died, so the village elders asked her to take the children and remarry to a man of the same clan.
After all, Weijia Village was already impoverished, and now most of the people are dead. There are not many women who are willing to marry here. If you want to marry a wife and have children, you can only find it in the village.
Wei's mother is not willing. She is a woman, and she has lived a hard life. If she can raise her two children, she will be wronged. But the elders of the ancestral hall mean that her children will be brought there, and the girl will help the family to marry early. The family's nephew, the boy, is old enough to separate and live alone.
If she married in the past, she would be a cow and a horse by herself, and the two children would not have a good life.
What's more, the ancestral hall swore at the beginning that one daughter would not marry two husbands. There was once a Wei family daughter who was engaged, but her fiancé died of illness before she got married. Her parents wanted her to find another man to marry again. He was blocked by the elders of the ancestral hall.
It is a vow that a woman should guard a husband all her life.
Now the women in the village are almost dead, and they need women to continue their offspring, so they force widowed women to marry again.
She was also stubborn when she was young, the more the ancestral hall was like this, the more she refused.
Wei's mother was desperate not to marry, and was forced to shake all of these in front of the man who wanted to marry her.
Among other things, if she wanted her to marry with the property left by her husband, at least she would have to pay a dowry.
She doesn't give a penny, and doesn't support her two children. She is not a fool.
Facts have proved that most women these days can't help themselves.
Even though they knew it was a sea of suffering, they still couldn't bear the pressure of their elders and got married one after another.
Wei's mother was lucky, her mother supported her, and even the people in the ancestral hall refused to let go. In the end, those people had no choice but to give up and let Wei's mother remarry, but this beam was also formed.
Wei's mother's surname is Cheng, and although her mother's family is not very far from the village, it is absolutely impossible to stand by and help her every day, so gradually, her popularity in Weijia Village has deteriorated.
The men remembered what she said at the beginning, while the women felt that they were married and had a bad life. Seeing Mother Wei who was hard-working but at least no one beat and scolded her. In such an environment, few people have a conscience to know what to do Even if she was wrong, she didn't dare to stand up and help her.
The fact that the original owner can become a gangster and the ancestral hall does not come out to control is also related to their revenge mentality.
So this time, Wei Qingniang was divorced without reason, and the people in the ancestral hall knew about it but didn't plan to help her out.
Wei's mother wanted to take her daughter to Jiang's house to talk about it. On the way, she met the same clan, and some people ridiculed her.
"It's been six years since I haven't even had a son, so what face do I have to go to Jiang's family?"
"What's more, Jiang's family is still a scholar's family. I heard that they will go to Beijing to take the exam soon. When they become officials, can you provoke them?"
Wei's mother is old and trembling when she walks, and Qingniang has a quiet temper since she was a child. After hearing those words, she couldn't help crying. When she was outside her husband's house, she was pointed at her nose and scolded by her mother-in-law for something that didn't exist at all. , I feel even more uncomfortable.
The mother and son went to ask for an explanation, but they didn't get an explanation, and they were humiliated instead.
When they returned to their dilapidated home, thinking of the son who never came back, and the granddaughter who was sold to the brothel by her father, Mother Wei almost fell ill.
In the past few days, the mother and daughter have been trying their best to support them, but this morning, someone came to the door gloating and told them that Yunzhou had been breached.
And Qingniang's daughter was sold to the largest flower house in Yunzhou.
The people in the village are not very worried that they will be involved this time. Although their Weijia Village is in Yunzhou, but because of the dilapidation and the complicated terrain, the whole village is in the mountains. On weekdays, the government only collects money. to think of them.
Miaocheng would be beaten back by the court soon after they captured Yunzhou, and they just stayed in the village peacefully during this period.
Except for those whose family members were in Yunzhou City, the other villagers quickly felt relieved.
To Qing Niang, this incident was no less than a lightning strike.
In the past, she somehow knew where her daughter was sold. Although she was worried that she would be forced to pick up customers when she grew up, at least she is young now, and the Hualou will not do anything to her, but now that the Miaocheng army has entered the city, Yunzhou City must have already Messed up.
Her poor daughter is only five years old, she still doesn't understand anything, and she can live wherever she has her life.
Qing Niang is crying bitterly with her mother in this hut at this moment, because she will rush to Yunzhou City with her burden on her back tomorrow morning.
She knew what she might encounter, and she also knew that her life might not be safe if she went this time, but her daughter was in Yunzhou City...
Even if you can't find it, at least you have to look for it.
"Mother, my daughter is not filial, my daughter is not filial..."
Qing Niang was crying so hard that her eyes were full of guilt.
Mother is the only one left by her side now, but in order to find her daughter, she left her mother alone in this village...
"Mother doesn't blame you."
Wei's mother is getting old very quickly, her hands are already covered with wrinkles, she gently touched her daughter's cold face, she burst into tears, "Qing Niang, you may never come back after you leave, do you really think about it?" ?”
"Mom, I know."
Qingniang wiped away her tears, her usually weak face was rarely filled with firmness, "I was cowardly and incompetent, and I watched my husband and mother-in-law sell their own daughter. I owe her that, and I must give her get back."
"It's useless to be a mother... let you marry the Jiang family..."
"I don't blame my mother, it's me who was blind, and blamed the wicked for my beloved."
Qingniang tried her best to hold back her tears, and said with a choked voice, "Mother, go and rest quickly, tomorrow you have to get up early."
With tears in her eyes, Wei's mother became more and more bitter, "If Hu Cheng is still there, then the Jiang family can't bully you like this."
Thinking of her younger brother, Qingniang shed tears even more.
"It's our siblings who are not filial. Mother, you brought us up, but you still haven't received our filial piety."
The mother and daughter were talking and were about to cry again, when the sound of cavalry suddenly came from outside.
They suddenly panicked.
Didn't it mean that the village is desolate, and those officers and soldiers won't come to them
The villagers in Weijia Village also woke up one after another, but none of them turned on the lights. The men smeared and hid the children in rice jars, listening to the movement outside with bated breath.
The cavalry went straight to Wei's house.
Just as the mother and daughter huddled together and hid in the cabinet, the horses stopped. Wei Mingyan got off the horse and knocked on the courtyard door.
"Mom! The baby is back!"
"mother!"
The old lady in the cabinet listened to the voice outside in disbelief, and without thinking about pushing the door open, she stumbled into the yard to open the door.
Qing Niang also couldn't believe her ears, and hurriedly followed behind.
"Mother, mother, wait for me..."
Mother Wei tremblingly opened the door, and there was a man standing outside the door.
He was wearing mighty armor, with a handsome face and a tall and strong figure.
This is... her child! !
"Hu Cheng, Hu Cheng... Hu Cheng, you are back, Hu Cheng..."
The old lady trembled her lips, unable to speak with excitement, and touched him with trembling hands.
Wei Mingyan's eyes were also red, he knelt down on the ground, and said shyly, "Mother, the child is not filial, it took so long to pick up mother."
Wei's mother trembled her hands for a while, but she opened her mouth but made no sound, almost as if she was dumb.
When Qing Niang came, she seemed to shout out from the heart, "Son... Mother misses you so much, misses you so much..."
"My son..."
"Mother..."
Wei Mingyan's eyes became even redder, and his face was full of guilt, "It's my son who is unfilial. From now on, my son will take you and sister to enjoy the blessings. We, mother and son, will never be separated again."
Mother Wei was emotional and her mind went blank. She didn't look at his armor with some doubts until she was helped into the house and watched her son light the oil lamp.
"Hu Cheng, what are you?"
"Mother, didn't I want to come to the village to pick you up? Dress better?" Wei Mingyan looked at his mother's trembling hands and swallowed the fact of the rebellion.
If he dared to say that now, Mother Wei would really faint from fright.
Afraid that Wei's mother would ask again, he quickly changed the subject, and looked at the young lady who was sitting on the side and taking care of her mother carefully, with a happy face on her face.
"I've been away for so long, is my sister married yet?"
"I left early at the beginning. If my sister is married, I will take a good look at my brother-in-law and send the dowry I prepared. Although it is a little late, I said at the beginning that I would let my sister marry gracefully."
Qing Niang's eyes were still red, the tears that she felt she had cried dry, but after hearing what her brother said, she couldn't help but shed them again.
The smile on Wei Mingyan's face fell, and his sword eyebrows were deeply frowned, "What's going on?"
half an hour later
In the Jiang family, Jiang Shusheng, who was still asleep, suddenly heard a loud noise, his body trembled, and he opened his eyes in a daze to look outside.
Just when he saw a group of torches, the door of his room was kicked open.
Jiang Shusheng trembled, and then saw a gloomy face imprinted under the firelight.
"Jiang Cai!"
"Dare to sell my niece and divorce my sister..."
Wei Mingyan stood up, waved coldly, "Call me!"
"What are you doing! Who are you, ah—"
Jiang Cai ran away subconsciously, but was held down and beaten. Jiang's mother from another room was also arrested, her mouth was covered and tied up, and she was forced to watch her son being beaten.
Wei Mingyan scribbled a page on the desk that Jiang's family bought with a lot of money, and threw it in front of the screaming man who was beaten.
"Signed."
Jiang Cai didn't even dare to ask what it was, and hurriedly signed his name on it with trembling hands.
"You, you are Wei Hucheng..."
Wei Mingyan didn't even bother to look at him, he picked up the piece of paper and sneered.
"Remember, it wasn't you who divorced my sister, it was my sister who divorced you, a useless man who can't even protect his own flesh and blood."
He threw down a piece of silver, "You don't have to be polite for the exam expenses given to you. I used to be your brother-in-law too."
After finishing speaking, Mo Da, who had been silently by his side, stepped forward and let the person holding Jiang Cai let go. Just when he thought he had escaped, Mo Da raised his hand and hit him between the legs.
"ah-"
The miserable howls resounded around, and some villagers woke up with a start, and secretly looked out. After seeing the densely packed armored officers and soldiers standing outside, they quickly shrank back into the house and hid in fright.
I have been tremblingly waiting for the fire outside to disappear and the sky to light up again, then I carefully opened the door and looked around cautiously.
After confirming that those people had indeed left, the villagers carefully opened the door of Jiang's house, and all they saw was Jiang Cai who had passed out, and Jiang Mu who was tied up with five flowers and screaming.
"My lord, why didn't you kill him?"
Thinking about what he had heard, Mo Da hated Wei Mingyan, "He can even sell his own daughter, what a beast."
The most hateful thing is that what they saw at Jiang's house just now doesn't look like they have to sell their daughters to have money, just that table, if you carry it out and buy it, you can get some money no matter what.
That man claimed to be a scholar, and he used all good things for pens, inks, papers and inkstones, but he watched his mother sell her daughter, which is really despised.
"Kill him, and then he dies?"
Wei Mingyan wrote something on Table Mountain, with an indifferent expression, "My sister has been married to him for six years, and she has suffered for six years. He wants to pay it back overnight. It's not that easy."
Mo Da couldn't figure it out, "Then we'll arrest them and send them to prison for six years of torture!"
"How many times have I told you that you have to be aggressive in doing things. Jiang Cai saw that he was a coward. If he was thrown into prison and tortured, he turned around and committed suicide. What's the point of that?"
The handsome man standing in front of the table added ink and showed a mocking smile, "Tell me, what does he value most?"
Mo Da thought for a while, "Fame!"
"He sold his own daughter in order to take the exam in Beijing. He must care about fame."
"yes."
Wei Mingyan put down his pen, raised his eyebrows lightly, and picked up the list in his hand.
"Since my cheap brother-in-law likes fame, I will help him."
"You go and arrange someone to spread out today's matter. He is a scholar, sold his daughter, and divorced his wife who has been running the family for six years. I, the younger brother, will come back and pick up my sister. Five liang of silver was paid, tsk."
"Once this incident happened, his reputation was rotten in the eyes of those scholars, but because I am a rebellious minister, the court will not do anything to him. This time I went to Beijing to rush for the exam, even if he is half a bucket of water, I will let him I passed the exam."
Mo looked at Wei Mingyan in puzzlement, "My lord, why do we still help him?"
"Stupid or not."
Wei Mingyan laughed, "Since General Zhao has agreed to us, the situation is guaranteed."
"Najiang suffered a lot, and finally got a good reputation. As a result, the country changed hands, and the bamboo basket was empty."
"How would he feel?"
Mo Da suddenly realized, and before he could say a few words of praise to Wei Ming, he stuffed a list into his hand.
"Send someone to buy these, you have a look, if you want to buy for your daughter, you can buy a copy together."
Looking at the things the woman wanted to use on the list, Mo happily agreed.
"Thank you, my lord."
He was still worrying about how to build a good relationship with his daughter.
Wei Mingyan patted his body and went to his mother's house.
Wei's mother is taking medicine, and Qing Niang is taking care of her. She was too emotional last night, and today she has a cough and feels dizzy.
Although she was not feeling well, as long as she saw her majestic son, Mother Wei felt at ease.
"Mother, my sister was divorced without reason, did the ancestral hall not come forward?"
The expression on Mother Wei's face suddenly darkened, "No, it's all my fault, I offended the ancestral hall..."
"Son, mother knows that you are promising now, but you must not be like mother in the past. They have hated me. If you conflict with them again because of this matter, maybe the patriarch will directly call your name." Crossed out on the family tree of Wei."
"Mother, don't worry, the baby will certainly not cause trouble."
Wei Mingyan smiled gently, and coaxed Wei's mother to lie down and close her eyes to sleep, her smile turned cold immediately.
"Tiger into..."
Qing Niang watched him grow up, how could he not know what his expression represented, and the expression on his face suddenly became anxious.
"elder sister."
Wei Mingyan took her out the door, stretched out his hand and gently straightened the wooden hairpin on Qingniang's head, his eyes were full of seriousness, "Since I'm back, I won't let anyone bully you and your mother again."
"I will take back those who have bullied you."
Qingniang's eyes turned red immediately, she looked at her brother who had grown up and no longer needed her to be coaxed behind his back, "But that is the ancestral hall..."
"What about the ancestral hall?"
Wei Mingyan showed a bit of sarcasm, "When we two were young, didn't we watch them force my mother to hand over my father's land in the name of the ancestral hall?"
"If it weren't for the help of my grandmother, we would have no land, how could we survive until now."
"But there is nothing wrong with the ancestral hall on the surface. If you take action against the ancestral hall, don't you want to make yourself unkind?"
"Who said I'm going to attack the ancestral hall." The heroic man smiled, "Sister, watch."
"Those who have bullied my mother and you, I will let them trap themselves to death."
***
The people in the ancestral hall are now as anxious as ants on a hot pot.
Most of them had ridiculed the Wei family before, and with the fact that Qingniang was divorced some time ago, they also made trouble and laughed a lot.
Now that Wei Hucheng looked like he was out of the ordinary, what should they do.
"What's the rush?"
Among the group of people, only the patriarch was not in a hurry. He drank a cup of tea and said slowly, "What are you afraid of? Even if Wei Hucheng is well-off, he is still a member of our Wei family. What else can he do to us?"
"After all, he came from our Wei family. Even if there was some gap at the beginning, he couldn't touch a finger of our fellow clan, but he would confess us respectfully."
"Yes, but after all, we almost watched them die..."
"Unless Wei Hucheng doesn't want to continue to advance, and doesn't want to lose the incense of the ancestral hall after death, otherwise he has to humiliate us."
After the patriarch finished speaking, he looked at the group of people, "Okay, don't wander around anymore, I'll go and have a look after a while, if he's restless, just scare him with exorcism."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Mingyan's hearty laughter came from outside.
"Patriarch, I'm here to announce the good news."
Seeing his three-pointed smile, the patriarch's wrinkled face immediately showed a bit of complacency.
Throughout the ages, the ancestral hall has a lofty status.
He worked hard to get to this position, and he could see clearly that no matter how big those high officials were, they still wanted to flatter the ancestral hall with nice words.
"Hu Cheng, long time no see, what's the happy event?"
Seeing the patriarch's kind gesture of an elder, Wei Mingyan smiled even wider.
"Does the patriarch know about the downfall of Yunzhou City? The happy event I'm talking about is related to this."
The patriarch took a sip of tea, and his brows and eyes were also tinged with joy, "Could it be that you made great achievements in annihilating those Miaocheng troops?"
"almost."
Wei Mingyan looked at the smile on his face and said loudly, "I destroyed the Yunzhou Army and took Yunzhou."
"Patriarch, our clan is about to have an emperor surnamed Wei."
The old man who had been calm and breezy just now opened his eyes stiffly, and the teacup in his hand shook and fell to the ground.
"you you… "
"Yes, I rebelled."
The man in white armor chuckled, "Is the patriarch not happy? If I ascend the throne, our Wei family will be relatives of the emperor in the future, and you, the patriarch, will be the prince."
—"Rebellious officials and thieves!!!"
"Rebellious officials and thieves!!"
The patriarch pointed at him with trembling hands, "You, you are treasonous! This is treason!!"
"Why should the patriarch be so angry? I have rebelled against you, but if I become emperor, it will be our entire Wei family that will benefit."
"You...you lose...our Wei family is doomed! Do you know what the crime of rebellion is! Punish the Nine Clans!!"
The patriarch's eyes widened, and his heart that wanted to get a share of the pie completely collapsed.
"Get rid of the clan!! Get rid of the clan immediately!!"
"From now on, you, Wei Hucheng, have nothing to do with our Wei family!!"
Wei Mingyan gently stroked the willow table in the ancestral hall, his lips curled up slightly.
"Then get rid of the family."