Chapter 2: The talkative cousin

The orphan is still an orphan in this life. First, his father died of a cough, leaving him a posthumous son. Then his mother was so sad that after giving birth to him, he did not survive the postpartum syndrome and followed his father.

So the clan elder uncle kept him by his side, and he became both a father and a mother until this year, when he was five years old.

If he had been a small householder in Meishan City, he would have been thrown into the toilet just after crossing over, but luckily God had the foresight to give him the surname "Su".

Su Cheng Shishi, one of the four major families in Meishan County, has family fields, ancestral halls, old houses in the countryside, and shops in the city. So he is equivalent to reliving the life he had as a child in his previous life, with the addition of an old uncle who talks nonsense.

Look after you and be more considerate.

He was of high seniority, meaning "Shui", so the old man gave him a random name, Su You.

According to the old man, oil is a very good thing, and rich people don’t have to worry about eating it! For ordinary small households, if they have two or two wet mouths a year, that’s Tianen!

So the name was called out. By the time he pretended to learn to speak again when he was over a year old, the name had been included in the family tree and could not be changed or protested.

The old man spends his days guarding the ancestral hall, which is very boring and likes to chatter about all kinds of trivial matters in the clan.

After listening to it for several years, Su You already knew that the Su family began to have people twenty years ago.

I have a cousin from far away, named Su Huan, who survived for more than ten years. The year before last, the government allowed him to be promoted from Langzhong Magistrate to Xiangfu County Magistrate. He was the first person in the Su family to survive.

Xiangfu and Kaifeng, one is to the west of Bianjing and the other is to the south of Bianjing. Once you understand the geographical location, you will know the importance of this position.

The Su family once experienced an incident. There was not much left in Yamada, and it was already within the tax-free share of this cousin, so the family could barely provide for food and clothing.

Today, the old man took out two sets of old books with great care and called Su You over.

The old uncle said: "Xiaoyou! These two sets of books were sent to you the year your cousin became a Jinshi. They know me, but he doesn't know them. You can take them into the city and let me read them.

He is a scholar, let him arrange a job for you, you will become enlightened by now."

Su You said: "I am only five years old."

The old man started to give him a blow: "From now on, all the children in my Su family will study! Your third brother's two nephews were both enlightened at the age of six, shouldn't you, an uncle, have done it earlier? Don't make trouble! At least go.

Find out what the rules are for Kaimeng!"

Su You pouted and said, "I don't want to go! I'm so young and you let me go into the city alone. Do you want me to be abducted by the philanderers, right?"

The uncle was so angry that he said, "You are almost turning into a monkey! You provoked the little lady of the Shi family and brought disaster to the descendants of the family's four little pigs. Is that what a little girl should do?!"

Su You argued: "What kind of descendants are there? Two of them are little sows..."

The uncle turned around and started to poke around: "I can't cure you, can I? Where did I put my yellow thorn stick? Don't wait for the Shi family to come to the door, I will beat you to death now to eliminate the harm to the village!"

Su You turned around and ran away with the book in his arms: "Okay, okay, why don't I go? I tell you that you won't know how good I am until the new year!"

After running out of the open dam, I had the opportunity to look carefully at the book in my hand, and I almost dropped it when I saw it.

Song edition of Shu engraved large-character version of "The Analects" and "Spring and Autumn"!

Darling! I saw it in the Shuzhou Provincial Museum back then. It’s a real national treasure!

The old man was still shouting from behind: "Your third cousin is forty-four this year and lives in Shahui. You should be more polite and call Mr. Mingyun! I remember my cousin's surname is Cheng! You can hide for a few days and don't be in a hurry to come back!"

Then he saw Su You somersaulting and falling under the dirt ridge. The old man shook his head and sighed: "I'm a smart kid, but he's just too naughty! Ming Yun has a bad temper, let's see if it makes him feel better if I restrain him..."

"Alas! The fruit trees in a whole village have been destroyed, and now the pigs in other villages are in trouble. Well, the old man has to go to the Shi family to buy the pigs... It's really embarrassing to the Su family of Zhao County..."

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After looking left and right for a long time, Su You walked, looking at the lively scenes on the street and thinking.

There was only one Mr. Mingyun named Su in the 319th year of the Song Dynasty.

However, his impression of this old cousin was actually not very good. This cousin's actions and writings were too sharp, and Lao Wang was right in his assessment. The "On the Six Kingdoms" was really the talk of a political scholar.

As for "Distinguishing Adultery", it is even more like a shrew scolding the public, which is completely nutritious.

Look at Sima Guang, who used an exam question lightly: Someone thought, "There is no fear of destiny, no law of ancestors, and no sympathy for people's words." Everyone has read the book, let's discuss it together.

Three sentence summary: Crucifying someone for thousands of years, even the emperor can't hold it down, is a strategic-level nuclear missile.

My old cousin's article was widely publicized by the literary circle as soon as it was published because it was an unbridled and provocative challenge to the current government. It is indeed lethal. But it can only be regarded as a crooked machine gun.

In addition to his extraordinary literary achievements, from the perspective of a thousand years later, I can only call him naive ideologically.

In Su You's eyes, using trivial details such as clothing, behavior, and habits of political opponents as loopholes to attack them means that they missed the mark, missed the mark, added chaos, exposed the direction of attack, and slandered

It lowers the character of his comrades.

The eldest nephew, on the other hand, is definitely a huge idol, a mascot that will shine forever in the Chinese literary world. Well, the little nephew is actually not bad at all...

Just when he thought of this, Su You stopped and slapped his forehead: "Oh! I almost forgot that big thing!"

When he visited the Sansu Temple in his previous life, Su You knew that a big event would happen in Meishan City next year, and that was the breakup of the Jiang, Qing, and Su Cheng families.

The reason was Su Baniang who married into the Cheng family.

It would be a long story to talk about.

Su Dongpo once mentioned in his poems the famous families in Meishan at that time: "The bright pearls shine on the double jade. At that time, the three elders Su Chengshi. The people went down the road to avoid doves and sticks, and the governor greeted the door and turned to the boat."

Although the historian did not mention it in this poem, Su Che later married Miss Shijia.

The meaning in the poem is that the three families were rich and noble, and prospered for a while. When they went out to do business, the people inside respectfully avoided them, and even the local officials hurriedly went out to greet them.

Of course, the specific situation needs to be analyzed in detail. The things in the poem should actually happen after the descendants of the Su and Cheng families entered the officialdom.

Su Xu, old man Su is super cute. What he likes to do most is to make way for others with a smile. That’s not what Da Su wrote!

In short, the Su family has just started. On the contrary, the Cheng family was the richest man in Meishan Town earlier, and now the children have begun to enter the official career together with the Su family.

Su Huan of the Su family and Cheng Jun of the Cheng family were Jinshi in the second year of Tiansheng, which was the starting point.

Being of the same age and from the same hometown, in the officialdom, they are a natural helper.

Therefore, the marriage between the two families is the meaning of the title.

It was at that time that Su Dongpo's grandfather Cheng Wenying fell in love with Su Xun, the rebellious third son of the Su family.

So when Su Xun was nineteen, he married the daughter of the Cheng family.

This is a good marriage. The Cheng family is rich and the Su family is poor. It feels a bit like marrying from a high family. It is the best marriage choice for aristocratic families.

Mrs. Cheng, who grew up in a superior environment, came to her husband's family where conditions were relatively poor. She respected women's ethics, respected her parents-in-law, and was diligent and thrifty in running the household.

Someone once asked her: "With how much your parents love you, if you ask them for help, there should be no problem. Why are you willing to suffer poverty without saying a word of supplication?"

The wife replied: "If I ask my parents for support, my parents will definitely agree. But others will say that my husband has no future, so what can I do?"

At that time, Su Xun was still an angry young man, playing around in the world. In his own words, he was called "wandering and not learning." Mrs. Cheng was worried when she saw that her husband was neglecting his studies and traveling around all day long, but she had no complaints.

It wasn't until Su Xun was tired of playing at the age of twenty-seven, and several relatives inside and outside were awarded Jinshi, that he began to feel a little pressure, so he said to Mrs. Cheng: "I think I can still study, but now I can't."

I'm twenty-seven, isn't it too late? And I'm going to study, who will take care of the housework?"

He said it as if he had done it before.

Mrs. Cheng, however, understood the righteousness well and said: "You can go to study and make progress with peace of mind. You don't have to worry about family matters. Just let me handle it by myself."

So Mrs. Cheng sold her jewelry and curios to raise funds, rented a front house in Shajie Store in Meishan City, and started a silk business across the street from the richest man's father.

It may be the inheritance of business talent, or it may be the care of the richest father. In short, Mrs. Cheng has been doing business for several years, and the Su family has become rich because of it. They bought a garden-style house near Shahuhang in the city.
Chapter completed!