Chapter 2 The direct son? The concubine?
The girl was stunned and heard the thirty-year-old woman raised the curtain with her deep Sichuan-shaped pattern on her eyebrows, which brought a bit of sorrow. She ran to the boy step by step with red eyes and asked, "What did you say, who are you? Who did you send home? Who is back?"
"My name is Gui Chongyang, the grandson of Dahai Gong and the son of the Fourth Master Gui." This place is still the Gui family, not a person from another surname, but should be an elder in front of him. Gui Chongyang brought a little solemn and replied respectfully.
The woman saw the young boy's face clearly, her body froze, and immediately looked behind the young boy, but she looked around, but except for the young boy in front of her and the little white cat in her arms, there was no other figure. Her eyes finally fell on the young boy's mourning clothes. Her body shook, and her voice was sharp: "Where is Gui Yuan, where is Gui Yuan? Where is he?"
Gui Chongyang remembered that "Dad" once said that there were two biological uncles in the family, among which the eldest uncle and uncle were the eldest brothers and had already married; the younger uncle and uncle were the third brothers. At that time, there was a fiancee who had not passed the family, and there was another uncle who was the second uncle. The fifth uncle and uncle belonged to the grandmother's family.
Gui Chongyang looked at the woman in front of him, remembering the past mentioned by "Dad". He was a little guilty. He hesitated for a moment, and tentatively asked, "But... the eldest uncle?"
"Owner?" The woman was stunned when she heard this. She was stunned at first, then covered her face and cried.
Gui Chongyang was so angry that he was guessing the identity of the woman in his heart. He became more polite and added a little respect: "Is that the third uncle?"
If it was Gui San's wife, Gui Chongyang should indeed respect it. Although people in the world value ethics, there are many women who can "end of one's life". It may be even more pitiful and respectful to watch over the widowed women for their dead fiancés.
The woman was already crying and heard someone at the door say, "Don't ask again, she is Guiyuan's wife!"
The person who spoke was a black-faced old lady in her sixties, wearing a washed-down, old-fashioned jacket, she was energetic and walked with wind. She looked at the boy, frowning tightly inside, and when she saw the little white cat on his shoulder, her face was full of pickiness and dislike.
Gui Chongyang was surprised: "Are the old man joking? My father and his mother got married, and they had a marriage letter. When did my father marry him?"
The old lady was about to talk when she saw something moving in the next yard. She didn't want to watch the excitement and lowered her face: "What are you shouting outside? Come into the house to talk!"
The woman had stopped crying, her face turned gray, and the girl helped her to follow the old lady into the room.
Gui Chongyang was full of depression. The excitement that had originally "returned to his hometown" and the faint expectation of seeing his blood relatives disappeared. He was sick due to premature birth, and he looked a little younger than his actual age. He was actually twelve years old, so he naturally knew the difference between legitimate and illegitimate. Although he lost his mother to birth, he had grown up with his "dad" since childhood and had a deep affection for his father and son. Otherwise, he would not have traveled thousands of miles back to his strange hometown for the sake of "dad". But when he first arrived in his hometown, his original legitimate son became a illegitimate son this time?
Among the classmates in Gui Chongyang, there are sons born from a concubine, with different quality. However, scholars are most concerned about innocent children. Except for those sons born from a concubine who are truly knowledgeable and respected by everyone, the others are often criticized and treated coldly.
Gui Chongyang did not want to generalize, but he would not really recognize his nanny. The woman in front of him had been vacant for so many years and sent her to the Gui family grandparents, which was recognized by Gui family grandparents and relatives. In the eyes of the world, she was the Gui family's daughter-in-law. But in that case, what is another woman who died of birth control with a dowry to marry Gui Yuan and inherit the bloodline of the Gui family?
Everyone entered the west room. There was a kang on the north side of the room, and an embroidery rack under the south window, with half-embellished embroidery pieces on it.
The old lady sat cross-legged on the north kang, looking at the woman's indifference, with a look of "hate that iron is not strong" on her face, and shouted: "Marriage events have always been the 'partner's orders and matchmakers'. If he has a marriage letter, you don't have a marriage letter? You got engaged to Gui Yuan when he was three years old, and when he was not aware of his life and death, he went to the family to fulfill his filial piety to his parents. His name was written in the Gui family genealogy, and he had been to your parents-in-law for six years. What a guilty feeling?"
Gui Chongyang's little face was tense. According to the old lady's words, the woman in front of her was indeed considered the wife of "dad". But why did "dad" mention his relatives in his hometown but never mention this person? Now that the woman has been in the house for more than ten years, she has been back outside. If this woman bites the legitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate illegitimate
These dilapidated houses will never catch his eye, but with the will of "dad" being there, he will go home as his first task.
However, the woman wiped her tears and stared at Gui Chongyang. After a while, she sighed: "You look a bit like your father's boy. Where have your father been in the past years and when did he not have it? Why didn't he come back?"
The old lady stared at Gui Chongyang like a knife: "Young mouth, white teeth, do you say you are the children and grandchildren of the Gui family, but what certificates do you have?"
In addition to scrutiny, his eyes also bring out a little resentment.
Before Gui Chongyang could reply, the little white cat on Gui Chongyang's shoulder had already noticed the old lady's bad habits, jumped onto the kang, arched up, and looked at the old lady, with a "guru" sound in his throat.
The little white cat is just the size of an adult's palm, so it is not scary to act like this. The old lady sneered when she saw this, but looked away.
Gui Chongyang didn’t know who this old lady was, but when she saw that she was in the Gui family, she was obviously an elder who could speak. Although she didn’t like her gaze, she still opened the package she carried on and took out the household registration certificate inside.
The old lady was angry, with a dark face and refused to answer, and only looked at the woman.
The woman stretched out her hand and answered it tremblely. When she opened it, her face became paler as she looked.
The old lady frowned and asked without rushing to ask. The woman raised her head and shivered her lips. After a while, she said to the old lady: "In December of the seventh year of Yongle, she settled in Shilipu, Waizhou City, Nanjing City. Her wife, Gui Wu, the eldest son, Gui Chongyang, and the head of the household... Guiyuan, formerly from Mujia Village, Xiji Town, Tongzhou, died of illness in November of the 18th year of Yongle..."
It is now May of the 19th year of Yongle, the anniversary of Gui Yuan’s death, and Gui Chongyang still carries great filial piety.
When the old lady heard this, she was full of anger on her face, then her eyebrows stood up: "What's wrong with that Gui Wu?"
The woman breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the household registration post and said: "Gui Wu family, native to Shilipu, is the daughter of Wu Da, a civilian. She married in December of the seventh year of Yongle and died on the ninth day of the ninth day of the eighth year of Yongle."
The old lady was so hot when she was young that she hated evil. Although death was a big deal, there was also the saying that "father was debtor and son was suffering." However, Gui Chongyang in front of her was about 10 years old and her body was not strong enough. The orphan who lost her father and mother came back thousands of miles away. How can people deal with it?
Chapter completed!