Chapter 473 The pierced window paper
A word about the old friend's children is naturally more meaningful than the ones on the surface. Geng Dingxiang and Wang Daokun have some relationship, but to be honest, he and Hu Zongxian have a deeper relationship. Wang Fulin exchanged a glance with Xiaobei, and finally saluted calmly and boarded the carriage with his wife. As soon as he sat down with Xiaobei, Geng Dingxiang suddenly chanted: "Three Taichung sects, the big star died, the barbarians and summers were both sad, Huang Zhi left and cried. The farmer released the plow for him, and weaved the concubine and got down. The virtuous couple knew, where did this come from?"
Xiaobei felt that his whole body was suddenly stiff, and Wang Fulin reached out and pressed his hand on her hand and said in a deep voice: "I know, it was what the teacher said when he took the coffin of Hubutang back to his hometown and cried and sacrificed. It is said that after returning to Nanjing, the teacher described the people in the southeast who heard the reaction of Hubutang's death and used these words. Because the teacher's righteous act was made, the Hu family in Longchuan Village, Jixi County, Huizhou Prefecture had always been inscribed with the five insides and called him the benefactor of Hu's family."
Geng Dingxiang listened to Wang Fulin's words, but his eyes kept looking at Xiaobei. Seeing her hands tightly tucked together, even though Wang Fulin reached out to cover her hand, he still couldn't hide the slightly trembling movement. At this moment, his original suspicion almost turned into conviction, and he sighed: "Although I lost my official position because of offending Yan Song, I have recovered in the Hu Gong's curtain in less than a year, and it is unknown, but I still clearly remember the scene when Hu Gong hugged his young girl on his knees and discussed military strategies with others. In a flash, so many years have passed, and the former child has already talked about marriage. If Hu Gong knew about it, he would definitely be relieved."
Xiaobei never expected that Geng Dingxiang would have pierced the window paper so directly. If Wang Fulin hadn't switched to a hold, she would have been unable to sit still immediately. However, with her head down, she could clearly feel the tears that fell on the back of her hand. She bit her lips tightly and tried her best to control her sob sound.
"After I got married, I went to the Hu family's ancestral tomb in Longchuan Village, Jixi to worship." Wang Fulin directly answered on behalf of Xiaobei. Seeing that Geng Dingxiang's solemn expression of reproach was relieved, he continued. "When Hu was wrongly imprisoned and died soon after, the former governor of Huizhou He Dongxu arrested the Hu family and imprisoned the family out of personal grudges, and humiliated the female family, so that Hu's wife and daughter died early. This matter is well known. However, before the soldiers surrounded Xiyuan on the bank of Jianshui, someone might have escaped by chance. It is not necessarily clear. It's a pity that the court advocated the liquidation of Ge Lao Xu at that time, and even if he ran, it would be useless."
Although Wang Fulin was vague, Geng Dingxiang still understood it roughly. Although he came from the Wang Taizhou School, he was not as free and casual as Wang Ji and Luo Rufang and others, but was committed to maintaining human relations. To put it in a later evaluation, he was a Taoist master and very disagree with Xiaobei's behavior of not returning to his hometown after escaping from the Hu family. Therefore, he remained silent for a long time until the carriage stopped again. He raised the curtain and saw that there was a clean tea stall in front of him. Then he said lightly: "Get out of the car and talk."
The coachman is a servant of his old house for many years. The same is true for the car, but Geng Dingxiang did not want to let outsiders know about this meeting today. After getting off the car, he saw that the owner of the tea stall had been given money by the servants to retreat temporarily, and there were no outsiders around him. He just looked at Xiaobei and said heartbrokenly: "Mr. Hu loved you so much back then, and even asked a famous teacher to teach you martial arts despite the words of others. But after you escaped from the Hu family, you have had the opportunity to return to the clan for many years, not to mention that Mr. Hu's grievances were already cleared and restored to his old position last year. How could you not return to the clan?"
Although Xiaobei thanked Geng Dingxiang for his friendship back then, when she heard the other party blame him for his humanity, she immediately raised her head, without any guilt in her eyes: "If my father is still there, of course I will recognize my ancestors and return to my hometown, but Mr. Geng wouldn't know what kind of person are my two brothers? One abandoned the coffin halfway for his own safety, and the other passed the post station to blackmail and arrested Haigangfeng. How did my legitimate mother die? I escaped from the Hu family with my wet nurse, just to seek help from old friends to rescue people, but why did my death not long after? Even when my father was offering sacrifices for the fifth anniversary, my brother almost made a deal with someone that time."
Seeing Geng Dingxiang silent, Xiaobei continued, "For them, fame and fortune are the most important. Since I am dead, why should I go back and bother them? To be honest, Mr. Geng, Wang Fulin is the husband whom my father had made for me back then. I didn't expect that after I took office in She County with my current parents, I could meet him. It was also the protection of my father's spirit in heaven. Now I have a father who is not afraid of authority, dares to speak, a mother who treats me as my own, loves me carefully, and a sister who has taken care of me for many years. I respect and love my younger brother. Why do I have to go all out to resurrect the dead and return to the Hu family to recognize my ancestors?"
Seeing that Xiaobei had said something, Wang Fulin interjected, "So, when Xiaobei and I got married last year, Mr. He Fushan, Mr. Lumen, Mr. Lu, and many old friends of the Hu family came. I think that friendship is in the heart, not on the surface. If Mr. Hu is alive, he will never blame us."
Hearing this, Geng Dingxiang's expression was no longer the same as before. He took a sip of tea absent-mindedly. Although the tea leaves were very thick and the tea had a little astringent taste, he did not take it too seriously, but was still immersed in the words just now. After a long time, he shook his head and said, "Although I really don't agree, your other elders know that I have nothing to say. But..."
He stared at Wang Fulin with complicated eyes for a while, and said in a low voice: "There is no successor to Mr. Hu, everyone knows that even if you are not his son-in-law in name, you have married his daughter after all. I just hope you can be down-to-earth step by step and not fall into his reputation as the Southeast Pillar, and you two should do it yourself."
Seeing Geng Dingxiang stand up like this, he staggered out of the tea stall and held the servant's hand into the carriage. After a while, the carriage disappeared from his sight. Wang Fulin then held Xiaobei's shoulder and whispered: "Okay, don't worry about what he said, we just do what we should do. People live for themselves, not for what others say."
"I was very sad at first, but I was not sad later." Xiaobei raised his head, although his eyes were slightly red and swollen, it was indeed bright. "When I just talked about my parents and sisters and brothers, I felt that they were my closest relatives like my father in heaven. If others don't understand, it's someone else's business. I only know that giving birth to kindness is as heavy as it is. There is no difference between thickness and thinness."
"This is said well. When the father-in-law and mother-in-law, sister and the fat sister, they will definitely feel that they will not be in vain when they hear it."
Wang Fulin said as he pulled Xiaobei up and went out, but saw Bizhu holding three horses waiting there. He was about to get on the horse and return to the city, but suddenly he found that behind the tree not far away, a figure slowly turned out. He then took off the hat on his head. Although the general had only met this person, the Xin'an Guild Hall was very serious. He recognized the person as soon as possible. He was not Mr. Pan Er, the deputy commander of the Dongcheng Military and Horses Department. He was about to instruct Xiaobei, but he found that the man suddenly shook his hand, and the hat in his hand suddenly threw it at them, and the man flew toward him.
Faced with this inexplicable surprise, Wang Fulin was surprised and alert, and raised his right hand, and the sword in his waist had been sheathed up. He just knocked the hat away. But at this moment, Mr. Pan had already attacked Xiaobei, with his fists and feet gushing. At first glance, he was very powerful. He was shocked and wanted to go up to help, but when he saw Xiaobei responding easily, he looked closely and saw that the offensives were a little strange. He stopped Bizhu who was going to rush forward, and took a quick look and said, "Master Pan, you can stop? Do you still need to continue acting like this monkey show?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiaobei had already swung his body beside Wang Fulin. Mr. Pan stopped and stood up, but his eyes still glanced at Xiaobei. Then he bowed without saying a word: "I offended."
Wang Fulin took a deep breath, thinking that it would be a damn thing to see someone off today. He was stopped by Geng Dingxiang and said a call, but now there was such an uninvited guest? Since he was unhappy, his tone of speaking was naturally not so good: "Master Pan Er shouldn't have met us here by chance?"
"Of course, I have been following since the sender from the city. But I didn't expect that I would be the first to be Geng, the chief examiner of the provincial examination in Jinke. I couldn't get close to me, so I could only wait here for the rabbit." Mr. Pan Er said without hesitation that he followed all the way, and then said lightly, "If you don't say secret words in front of the Ming people, I, the Dongcheng Military and Ma Si, have a scum like He Si, and now it's very stressful. I'm just wondering, He Si is not exposed early but not exposed late, but he just searched the Xin'an Guild Hall and was sent to the head the day after he asked for leave. Is this a coincidence?"
The first Xiaobei said that Mr. Pan had actually visited Xin'an Association in person. Wang Fulin was a little vigilant at that time, but he didn't expect that this person would persist in chasing this line and even stare at his husband and wife so accurately. He was a little lucky that he had not allowed his mother Yan and Xiaobei to enter and exit together recently. He saw the tea stall that had no business at the time. The owner was napping. On the official switch road that Geng Dingxiang specially ordered the follower to take over by the coachman, there were no pedestrians at the moment. He threw a wink to Bizhu, asking her to look at Xiaobei, and he walked straight forward.
"What exactly does Mr. Pan want to say?"
"The two prisoners who were escorted to the army were chosen by me. Although they were both very tough and had never revealed anything under Sanmu, I asked something about it. They said that they were intruded when they were having a secret conversation with He Si, and the person who broke in easily found He Si's mistakes, thus tearing the truth open. The most important thing is that they believed that the person came was an old subordinate of the Zhejiang Army. However, they were straightforward and brainless people, but I was not. Why did the old subordinate of the Zhejiang Army come to the place where they met secretly? Why did they think of instructing them to save their lives in such a big way? Could it be that He Si was once a personal soldier of Hu's tribe, so he was recognized by someone? But he has been in Nanjing for a long time, and this matter is not a secret, so why was he recognized and discovered that day by accident?"
ps: A package has been in Shanghai delivery point for four days and has not moved. The logistics for Double Eleven... Please give me comfort to the monthly ticket. It will not be completed.
Chapter completed!