Chapter 2 Exogenous Branches
Li Yachae is the son of aunt Yang Muyun's family, named Li Yi. Because he failed to study, he had no other skills. He relied on Yang Muyun's brother-in-law Hu Dabiao to be the head of the third rank in the government office and found an errand.
Li Yi widened his eyes and asked, "Mu Yun, what's going on with you?"
Yang Muyun snorted and said, "Don't mention it, I'm having a drink with my classmates. On the way back, who knew that he met a pig and was urged into the river by the pig."
"Oh?" Li Yi was stunned for a moment, imagining the situation where the pig arched the man into the river.
Yang Muyun turned around and was about to leave. Li Yi hurriedly said, "Where are you going to? Now the city gates are closed and the sluices are falling. If you want to go home, it will be tomorrow morning." Yang Muyun's family was not in Huzhou City, but in Yangjiabu, three miles east of the city. Seeing his cousin being stunned, Li Yi grabbed him and said, "You go to my house for a night first and change this outfit."
The Li family, Mrs. Li looked at her nephew's miserable appearance and quickly prepared a set of clothes for him to change. She took the changed clothes in her hand and looked up, and asked, "Whose family's clothes are this? Where is your clothes?" Yang Muyun was stunned and hesitated, "I ate wine with my classmates, got dirty, and changed my clothes casually. Unexpectedly, I encountered an unlucky thing again and was taken to the pig to gonghe." Mrs. Li glanced at him: "Don't you go fooling around with your classmates in some messy place, right?" Yang Muyun waved his hand and said, "Auntie, this can't be said.
Talk nonsense..." Mrs. Li sighed and said, "Yun'er, your sister married early, and your father is the only son. You can't do anything to embarrass the Yang family! Although you have been a scholar now, you are still far from the Guangda family. Now you are more than three months away from the provincial examination. You have to take care of yourself..." Yang Muyun said impatiently, "Okay, aunt, you say more than my mother..." Mrs. Li glared at him: "Is it true that your wings are hard? You are the aunt who grew up watching you, and you say something wrong with you..."
The next day, Yang Muyun borrowed a set of Confucian shirts and other classmates who had won the scholars to attend the celebration ceremony held by Huzhou Prefecture.
Early in the morning, dozens of scholars from a prefecture, five counties gathered in the prefecture's office, and the gongs were fired. Then the scholars lined up to enter the lobby of the government office from the main gate. Yang Muyun had a big red flower on his chest and stood at the head of the team. He was so glorious. He was the first to stand in front of the hall to bow down to the prefecture's eldest master Chen Shiyao. After bowing, Master Chen personally handed him a light blue Confucian shirt dedicated to the scholar, and encouraged him: "The Yang case needs to be cautious of being arrogant and impatient. In the future, the autumn examination will definitely achieve another success for our residence." Yang Muyun took the Confucian shirt and knocked to the end, respectfully said: "Students remember." Then he retreated to the side. The scholars behind him bowed forward one by one, but the Confucian shirt was distributed by others. Master Chen no longer encouraged each of them, but he just nodded slightly.
Yangjiabu, Yang's mansion is very lively today. With the roar of firecrackers, guests entering the mansion are endless. Mr. Yang's face is flushed and he is very proud. Mr. Yang's surname is Yang Dan and his name is Lu. He is a well-known landlord in Yangjiabu. His family has little land and 80 acres of fertile land. His life is also very comfortable. But one thing is that the family has too few people. Since his wife gave birth to a daughter for him at the age of 20, he has never been able to do anything for more than ten years. The family is not popular, and Mr. Yang feels angry. Just as Mr. Yang is thinking about whether to accept it.
When a concubine came to renew the incense for the Yang family, her wife became pregnant again. This time she was a fat boy, which made Mr. Yang very happy and the matter of taking a concubine was thrown out of the sky. He specially invited an old master to pray for his child. He asked for money and chose good things to say, saying that this child is rich and noble, and has an official fortune, he will be the leader of a country and will rise all his life, so he named the child Muyun. Mr. Yang believed in this and asked the best gentleman to teach his child since childhood. Now, he became a scholar at the age of fifteen, so he would not respond to Ji Yan.
"Mr. Lu, the noble young master is in the high school case just as he was in his hair. His future is limitless!"
"Where is it, Xun Weng Miu praised it."
"Uncle, brother Yun Chun's test starts, and the autumn exam will definitely be high school in the next autumn."
"Anping, don't beat your brother Yun!"
“…”
Mr. Yang’s face is like a blooming chrysanthemum. Who doesn’t want to listen to compliments?
As soon as he sent a group of guests into the mansion, he saw his sister and brother-in-law Li Qingda coming from afar. He couldn't help but stroke his beard and said, "The foreign guests have come early. You are close relatives. You are the punishment of three cups late." Before Li Qingda could speak, Mrs. Li hurriedly said, "It's OK, it's OK." As he said, he said to Li Qingda, "You go and help the eldest brother accompany the guests. I have something to say to the eldest brother..."
The Yang Mansion is not big, with only three courtyards. In the inner room of the third courtyard, Mr. Yang and his wife, sister, and daughter were chatting together. The guests had dispersed, and only their family sat quietly together. Mr. Yang's daughter was named Yang Lan. When she was sixteen, she married Hu Dabiao, the head of the government office, and gave birth to a son named Hu Wenguang, who was as old as her younger brother Yang Muyun, and was both fifteen years old.
"Brother, Yun'er was taken to our house by Yi'er last night. Yi'er said that he climbed up from the river and was soaked all over," said Mrs. Li.
Mrs. Yang said "Ah": "He fell into the river. Is it important? Are you feeling unwell?"
Mrs. Li glanced at her: "Sister-in-law, it's okay. He went to the government office early in the morning. It is estimated that the yamen ceremony will end. You can take a look when he comes back."
As he said that, he turned his head and said to Mr. Yang, "I asked him how he did it. He said he had been taken to the Zhugong River. I didn't believe it. Later, he looked at the clothes he changed. They were actually the clothes of other people's servants in the mansion. I looked carefully and found the words embroidered with the words Lufu on them on the collar and cuffs."
"Lu Mansion? Which Lü Mansion?" asked Mr. Yang.
"I don't know this, and I don't say this child, but Huzhou Prefecture! There are not many wealthy families in the surname Lu, only Lu Yizhong's family in the south of the city. The clothes of the servants of the Lufu came from him."
"Oh, isn't that a young man from Lu Yizhong also has a man in the palace? And he has a good relationship with Yun'er?" Mr. Yang thought to himself.
"Where is he only has one daughter in his family, and I heard that he is about the same age as Yun'er."
"What?" Mr. Yang glared at him and looked at his wife for a moment. The whole family suddenly had a lot of thoughts.
Seeing that his elder brother and sister-in-law were stunned, Mrs. Li coughed: "Brother, all this is speculation, don't take it to your heart. In the morning, I asked Yi'er to go to the Lu Mansion in the south of the city to take a look. He came back and said that there was nothing unusual, so don't think about it."
Mr. Yang snorted: "It's nothing. Did the Lu family's clothes fall from the sky on him? Humph, don't you go to hook up with someone else's ladies, you're driven into the river!"
As soon as this statement came out, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Yang looked at each other for a moment, and swallowed all the words they had just reached their mouths.
Everyone was silent for a while, but Mrs. Li said first: "Brother, I have something to say, don't you know whether to say it?"
Mr. Yang took a deep breath: "It's okay to say something, but it's okay."
Mrs. Li said: "This child is old, it is inevitable... it is inevitable to think about that. If you and your sister-in-law don't worry about him, something might happen in the future."
Mrs. Yang continued: "His aunt, Yun'er is only fifteen years old. Is it a little too early to mention this?"
Mrs. Li said: "Since he has thought about it, it proves that it is not small. Although Emperor Taizu has ordered that the man should be married for sixteen or fourteen, that was the matter when he first founded the country. The Ming Dynasty has been in its founding for eighty years, and many rules are not so strict. There is not a lack of marriage for a man a year earlier."
Mrs. Yang looked at Mr. Yang: "His father, look..."
Mr. Yang stroked his beard and said nothing.
Mrs. Li said again: "Brother, it's said that this matter has been a few months since the autumn examination. I shouldn't have said this matter, but in order to avoid any more trouble during this period, the girl thinks... it's better to do this matter. Once a man becomes a family, he will not go out to steal for the time being. He said that our family Yi'er can't touch people every day when he is not married. Now that he becomes a family, the yamen will run home as soon as they change shifts..."
Mr. Yang nodded and nodded: "Madam, the people who have told Yun'er that they are about to break the threshold these two days. I didn't care at that time. Well, you, his aunt, and Lan'er, let's discuss it together. Let's see whose girls are similar, so let's get together for us Yun'er..."
Yang Muyun changed into a light blue scholar's uniform, and stood out among the surrounding groups of students with moon-white scholar-robes. There were only twenty scholars in the provincial schools, plus the surrounding five county schools.
There were less than a hundred scholars in total, so each scholar seemed to be surrounded by stars. People were looking for where to go to Lehe, when they saw Li Yi and Hu Wenguang hurried over. Hu Wenguang said from a distance: "Uncle, grandpa is sick, my grandma told you to go back quickly." Yang Muyun bowed to all the classmates: "If you have something to do at home, you can't play with you anymore, so say goodbye."
On the way, Yang Muyun asked Hu Wenguang: "My father was fine a few days ago, why did he get sick after he was sick?" Hu Wenguang shook his head: "Who knows? Maybe he is old, and the disease comes when he is said to come." Yang Muyun glanced at Li Yi: "Don't you have to be on duty? Why do you come with me?" Li Yi sighed: "My uncle is sick, and I, a nephew, should go and see."
The three of them spoke, and left the city gate and came to Yangjiabu.
As soon as Yang Muyun entered the house, he hurriedly walked in. When he turned into the hall in the third entrance, he saw his father lying on the bed, his face turned pale and looked very uncomfortable. Mother, aunt and sister were all waiting beside him. Yang Muyun stood with his hands down and called out softly: "Dad..." Seeing that his father did not respond, he asked the mother beside him: "Mom, when did Dad get sick?" Mrs. Yang shook tears and sobbed: "It was when I sent you to the provincial school to take the scholar five days ago, I couldn't get sick after I came back. I was afraid that it would affect you, so I didn't tell you. I thought it would be better to take two days off and take two doses of medicine, but who knew... Who knew that the disease was getting worse and worse, how could this be cured!" Mrs. Li persuaded her and turned around and pulled Yang Muyun aside, saying, "Yun'er, the doctor has seen it again just now, and said
Your father's heart is blocked and medicine is hard to cure." Yang Muyun asked hurriedly, "Aunt, what does this mean?" Mrs. Li said, "That is to say, your father has a heart disease, and the medicine cannot be cured." Yang Muyun said hurriedly, "How could this happen?" Mrs. Li hurriedly, "Yun'er, don't be anxious. The doctor said that this heart disease still needs heart medicine treatment."
"How to treat the law?"
"Just take the wedding to rush."
"So how to rush?"
"Yun'er, your father is the only son. Of course, I hope you can get married and start a career. If you become a scholar, it's great. If you marry another marriage and have a double happiness, will your father's illness be cured?"
"What? You have to do this!" Yang Muyun was shocked all over, and Miss Lu's big and thick shoulders and round waist immediately appeared in front of him. She couldn't help but shiver, rubbed her hands, and forced a smile: "Aunt, are there any other ways?" It turned out that he had a shadow in his heart, and he trembled when he was asked to marry.
Before Mrs. Li could speak, she suddenly heard a loud cough inside. Seeing this situation, she seemed to cough out her heart and lungs. She immediately turned around, came to the bed and sat down, patted Mr. Yang on the back, and whispered: "Brother, don't be excited, be careful to hurt your body." Mr. Yang's face was flushed with coughing, and he couldn't say a word.
Mrs. Li waved to Yang Muyun: "Come here to coax your father, he can't stand any stimulation anymore." Yang Muyun had no choice but to sit in front of the bed, hold his father's hand, and whispered: "Dad, everything for the child is up to the elders." Mr. Yang's cough slowly stopped, and he tilted his head and lay down. Before closing his eyes, he swept Mrs. Li with a slight cunning look.
Mrs. Li said to Mrs. Yang, "Sister-in-law, my elder brother is so sick, Yun'er's affairs must be handled as soon as possible." Mrs. Yang wiped her tears and said, "My aunt, I'm now in peace."
There is a big chaos, I don’t know what to do, everything will be done for you." He said, turning to his daughter and said, "Lan'er, you can make a decision with your aunt to see which girl is suitable for your brother. Just keep my father here."
Chapter completed!