The daily life of a concubine's daughter

After the eighth brother Shi Minghui passed away, the descendants of the old Duke's lineage became increasingly dwindling, especially the eldest son Shi Mingwu, the second son Shi Mingwei, and the eighth son Shi Minghui, all died.

The second master Shi Jizhen and the third master Shi Jianan, two brothers, felt sad that their family situation was no longer what it used to be, but they became more united.

Shi Jizhen and his wife Shen personally taught the children in the family and made the third, fifth, sixth and seventh children attend classes. They not only practiced martial arts and studied, but also learned the principles of being a good person.

All the children of the Shi family learned martial arts since childhood, and few of them were good at learning the Four Books and Five Classics, but the third child, Shi Mingzhen, was an exception.

He usually behaves like a scholar, so it was natural for him to take on the responsibilities of Mr. Wen.

However, after teaching them for a while, Shen found that the four adults had already formed their own ideas and were difficult to change.

She just thought of these four as waste and was determined to teach her grandchildren to be decent.

The grandsons became merchants, but the nephews and grandsons could still be saved.

They learn martial arts well, so that once a war breaks out on the border, they don't ask for promotion or wealth, but they hope to live up to the great reputation of the Shi family's ancestors, go into battle to kill the enemy, protect the people, or have the ability to protect themselves if the dynasty collapses in the future.

One day, Fu Nanjun made some vegetarian snacks, and Shen brought them to the school, preparing to feed the children.

Shi Mingzhen is teaching children to interpret "The Analects of Confucius".

Shen had also read a few books and knew that in addition to the talk about the relationship between ruler and subject, the Analects also taught people how to be gentlemen.

Listening to Shi Mingzhen's constant chatter about "gentlemen are like this and like that, villains are like that and like that", she curled her lips sarcastically.

After Shi Mingzhen finished speaking a passage, he asked the students to recite it by themselves, while he sat down, picked up a book of poetry, and read it carefully.

Shen gave one copy to each person and gave the last copy to Shi Mingzhen. Seeing that the book had no title, he picked it up curiously and took a look. It turned out to be Shi Mingzhu's handwriting!

She flew into a rage and immediately threw the book at Shi Mingzhen's righteous face and resigned from his position as a teacher.

No matter how Shi Mingzhen explained, begged, or swore, she refused to listen.

During the following years of mourning, she never spoke a word to him again.

The next year, when the Du family came to Nanjing to cancel the engagement, Shi Mingzhen accompanied Shi Jizhen and Shi Mingchen down the mountain to receive them. He was already a sloppy, unkempt, and untidy man.

Du Jinyang almost didn't recognize him.

The Shen family already knew the Du family's intention, but when Du Jinyang said the word "cancel the engagement" himself, the nervous Shi Mingchen couldn't hold it in and ran out on the spot, heading straight for the mountain.

The Shen family was so panicked that they searched all over the mountains for him, shouting his name everywhere.

Shi Mingchen hid behind a crooked tree, sobbing.

What a shame!

Being rejected twice in a row!

Xie Qingdai looked down on him, and Du Jinhui also looked down on him.

Although Du Jinyang said that the reason for canceling the engagement was that his daughter's family could not afford to delay and the Shi family had to observe mourning for a full six years, so they canceled the engagement, everyone knew that this was just a euphemism.

In the final analysis, the Du family looks down on the Shi family and looks down on him.

Shi Mingchen cried until his eyes were red. He coughed desperately and pounded his heart-wrenching chest.

As night fell, Shi Mingchen cried so hard that she fainted under a tree.

Around midnight, Fang woke up slowly.

He couldn't face the Du family, nor could he face the Shi family.

The former ambitions and prosperity have all become nothing in the blink of an eye.

The Shi family fell so quickly that just when he had gained the attention of the whole family, he became a poor little person who was despised by everyone.

So, he made up his mind, untied his belt, tied it to the crooked tree, stuck his head in, and planned to hang himself to be done with it once and for all.

Just as he was about to kick the stone under his feet, his mouth pursed and he started crying again.

What will happen to his parents if he dies?

What should I do with the incense offerings from the third room?

A few days ago, that brat Shi Yunfan was still talking about following his father's example and entering the palace to become a eunuch.

He cannot die.

But I don’t want to live in such a cowardly way.

Shi Mingchen was like this, sometimes wanting to die, sometimes not daring to die. He did the step test on the stone, going up and down ten times until dawn.

The exhausted Shi family finally came over.

Rong screamed, "Chen Ge'er, my son!"

Shi Mingchen's heart began to panic. The stone under his feet shook as he stepped on it back and forth. The stone rolled away and Shi Mingchen's neck was hung on the rope.

Rong fainted immediately.

Du Jinyang was filled with shame. He didn't even have a bite of tea when he arrived at Shi's house. He was tired, hungry and thirsty. He looked for someone for an entire afternoon and night. He had no choice but to be the first one to rush over. He rescued Shi Mingchen and carried him down the mountain, fearing that he would die and his sister would have to remain a widow for a year.

When he was going down the mountain, he thought thankfully that he had broken off the engagement with the Shi family, otherwise his sister would have married such a loser and her life would have been a disaster.

Three days later, Shi Mingchen regained consciousness. Du Jinyang hurried back to the northwest with the letter of divorce, not daring to stay in Jinling for a moment.

Shi Mingchen injured his throat and lost all his energy and spirit. After he recovered from his injury, he became very taciturn.

During the three days of coma, he recalled the fragments of words revealed by Shi Yao, Shi Mingzhu and his sisters-in-law, and those fragments of words turned into a nightmare.

He dreamed that he despised Xie Qingdai because she came from a merchant family and deliberately tormented her, and married a woman named "Grandma Xiaoqi" who came from a prominent family in a nearby city to deliberately humiliate her.

After the Shi family fell into poverty, Xie Qingdai said a few bad things about Shi Mingzhu, so he strangled her to death. Together with Du Jinhui, he hung her from the beam of the house, making it look like she committed suicide out of fear of punishment.

He also dreamed that in the second life, Zhuzhu destroyed Xie Qingdai's innocence and told him that marrying a girl from the Xie family would be a humiliation to him, and he agreed with it.

Because he wanted the generous dowry from the Xie family, he took Xie Qingdai as a concubine and married his previous life's concubine Du Jinhui as his principal wife.

Xie Qingdai lived a lonely life with green lamps and ancient Buddhas.

After waking up, only two words came to his mind: retribution.

Shi Jizhen put his hands behind his back and shook his head.

This nephew is also useless.

The marriage of the male members of the Shi family was not put on the agenda again until after six years of mourning.

At that time, the three branches of the Shi family moved down the mountain and lived in their own houses.

Only at this point did the Shi family truly split up and each lived their own life.

After all, the Shi family was the most powerful family in Jinling. Shi Jian'an went to Shi Jizhen for help. Shi Jizhen put aside his pride and went to his good friend's house to find a job as a minor official for Shi Mingchen.

Shi Yunfan has always been undisciplined, always clamoring to go out to sea, to the grasslands and deserts, and he is always refusing to get married and have children.

Rong had no way to deal with him. She didn't want anything from this grandson. She just hoped that he would not always think about exterminating the entire clan. She would be thankful.

The third house's livelihood depends entirely on Shi Mingchen, therefore, the second and third houses work together to plan Shi Mingchen's future and arrange a marriage.

The first person to visit was Magistrate Wang’s daughter, Miss Wang.

Miss Wang had been a widow for a year, which delayed her flowering period. The matchmaker said: "She is still a virgin!"

On the way to the blind date, Shi Mingchen somehow always saw breeding dogs, pregnant sows, and horses being bought from the dental clinic for breeding.

For some unknown reason, he started vomiting after just one look at Miss Wang.