Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

On the first day of the new year, the whole family spent the joy of a new life.

In the evening, Meng Zhen mentioned the child's nickname at the dinner table, asking for everyone's opinions.

The brothers have no objection, and agree that the nickname "Sui Sui" is very good.

"Since that's the case, then the nickname will be Suisui, and your brother and sister-in-law will give you the nickname." Meng Zhen took off the child's nickname just like that.

"Well, the name Suisui is very good. One year old one is happy, one year old one is safe. Doesn't this person want to be happy and safe when he is alive? If you want me to say, Dad even gave him a name, big brother and Sister-in-law will not disobey you. Besides, the name father gave to the fifth younger brother is so good, and Sui Sui’s name will not be bad.” Meng Hong, who had been immersed in joy all day, crackled and said.

But Meng Zhen said: "The child was born by your elder brother and sister-in-law. It's better for them to name it. As a grandfather, I can give him a nickname." After coming here for more than two years, he not only became a father for others, Now that even grandpa has become one, it's amazing to say the least.

The father has said so, but the son cannot refute it.After dinner, Meng Che yelled that he still wanted to visit his newborn niece, but Meng Hong disagreed: "You stay in your sister-in-law's house all day long, and people sleep at night, why don't you run over there."

Meng Che said embarrassingly: "It's not that I haven't seen enough during the day, and I want to watch it again." Last night when his sister-in-law gave birth, he was sent back to the house to sleep by the adults, and he didn't come to the sister-in-law's room until the little niece was born this morning.

After this year, Meng Che was exactly ten years old, and he was still a child.Children have a natural closeness to newborn babies. Meng Che saw this little niece wrapped in a mattress, much younger than Meng Yuan, and felt very surprised. He gathered around the little niece to look around.

It's just that the little niece has been sleeping with her eyes closed. Even if she opened her eyes, she lay quietly and rarely cried, unlike Meng Yuan who cried every night when he was a child. He lived in the courtyard next to him and was often disturbed by the crying.

"Second Brother!" Meng Che held Meng Hong's arm, with a coquettish tone, "I'll just go over and take a look, and after reading it, I'll sleep with you in your room, and I haven't slept with you for a long time. "

Meng Hong pushed him away: "Don't sleep with me, you don't sleep well, you snatch the quilt when you sleep at night, your brother and I will freeze to death."

Meng Che insisted not to let go: "Isn't it possible to cover two quilts, one for you and one for the other, so that no one will grab another's quilt."

Meng Hong still refused: "That's not okay, you often kick the quilt when you sleep at night, I don't want to worry about covering you with the quilt."

He looked at his father, "Go to sleep with dad, dad is careful, he will never let you freeze."

Meng Zhen didn't catch the ball kicked by Meng Hong, but said: "It's getting late, you all have had enough of playing around, go back to your own room and rest. As for Meng Che, just follow your second brother." Go to sleep, toss him hard at night, let him cover you well."

"This..." Meng Hong was ashamed, all because of his mouth, he insisted on blaming his father for what he did, which caused him to be retaliated by his father, but his father is also true, he was just joking, he did it so seriously Well.

Mengze and Meng Che couldn't stop laughing.Meng Hong grabbed Meng Che and rubbed the man's head, "Let's go, if you snatch my quilt at night, see if I don't spank your ass."

Meng Che bared his lips: "I won't grab the second brother's quilt, the second brother is so good, how could he be willing to beat me?"

The mansion is divided into the main courtyard, the east courtyard, and the west courtyard. The east and west courtyards are divided into three courtyards respectively. west yard.

The three brothers came out of his father's courtyard and went straight to the east courtyard.After Mengzhen waited for the people to leave, he called someone to clean up the table, and then he also took a rest.

On the next day, on the second day of the first lunar month, Wang Xiucai and his wife came to Meng Mansion with their son to pay New Year's greetings and to see their new-born granddaughter by the way.

Wang Xiucai looked a little fatter than in autumn, and greeted him with a smile as soon as he entered the door: "Congratulations to my father-in-law, happy to have a granddaughter, and become a grandfather."

Meng Zhen also returned the gift and said: "We are happy together, the Wang's family will become grandfathers too."

The two greeted each other as soon as they met, and then sat down and talked about other topics.Meng Hong accompanied him and said a few words, seeing the two talking about topics related to the imperial examination, he knew that he couldn't get in the way, so he took Wang Xiucai's wife and son to his sister-in-law.

Wang Xiucai's wife's surname is Lin. When she came to her daughter's room, she first glanced at her sleeping granddaughter, then took her daughter's hand and said, "Xin Yu, confinement is very important for this woman, you can take good care of her." , if you need anything, just tell the servants, don’t be embarrassed to speak up. You are the hostess of this family, and they will not dare to neglect you. "

Wang Xinyu wears a cloth belt on her head, in order to avoid the cold during confinement.Hearing what her mother said, she quickly nodded and said, "Mom, I know, everyone in the family is fine, and I'm not embarrassed. It's you and dad, it's cold, you must take care of yourself and don't get sick. It is."

Lin patted the back of her daughter's hand lightly: "Mother knows, mother is an old bone, it doesn't matter whether you keep it or not. But you, you can't be sloppy during the confinement, mother just didn't take care of it during the confinement, which caused the Falling to the root of the disease, a little bit of wind blows and catches cold, and this body feels like a leak of wind, and it hurts everywhere..."

She held her daughter's sign language and said earnestly: "This confinement period is like a woman's second birth. After sitting well, there will be no problems. If you don't sit well, it will cause the root cause of the disease. You will be the one who will suffer in the future." Heap, Mrs. Lin said a lot of things that need to be paid attention to during the confinement period.

Wang Xinyu listened carefully, and after her mother finished speaking, she said: "I know mother, I have written down everything mother said, and I will definitely take good care of my body according to what mother said, so that mother will not worry about me. "

After getting her guarantee, Lin's face turned from gloom to joy, and the joy was greater than the gloom. In a blink of an eye, he saw his granddaughter lying on the bed again, and the joy on his face immediately sank, and then turned into a sigh: "Oh, although this girl is good, in the future After all, you are going to marry off, and it is not as good as your son. The Meng family has a great fortune, so many properties in the future will definitely be inherited by your son, take good care of your body, and when Meng Qing comes back from Jiangnan, you will have a big fat baby with him Come out, kid, so that your position as housewife will be unshakable."

Wang Xinyu was stunned for a moment, lowered her head but did not refute, nodded and said: "I know mother, I will take good care of my body." But she didn't say the words about giving birth to her son later, she remembered the pain she suffered the night before yesterday. The crime of stubble is still terribly frightening, it hurts too much, and she doesn't want to have another one right away.

It just so happened that the conversation between her mother and daughter was overheard by Meng Hong who was guarding the outside room.Meng Hong thought to himself, this Mrs. Lin is really impatient, at least she is the mother of his sister-in-law, don't you know that giving birth is very painful, sister-in-law just gave birth to a child, and she has not yet breathed a sigh of relief, so she needs someone to prepare for the next child.

This woman is really annoying, Meng Hong threw away a piece of pastry in his hand, got up and came out of the house.Wang Huan followed closely behind, and shouted: "Brother Meng Hong, why are you unhappy?"

Wang Huan is Wang Xinyu's younger brother, and he came to see his little nephew with Mrs. Lin. Afterwards, his mother took his sister to talk about himself, and he was taken outside by Meng Hong to wait. After sitting for a while, Meng Hong got up gone.He looked at the person with a bad complexion and didn't know what was going on.

Meng Hong stopped under the magnolia tree in the middle of the courtyard, watched Wang Huan approaching, and asked, "How old are you?"

Wang Huan paused and replied, "Twelve."

"Are you going to school?" Meng Hong asked again.

Wang Huan then replied: "Going to school, just finished learning the enlightenment in the school and the simple Four Books and Five Classics. After the Chinese New Year, I will find a school to study. I can wait for two or three years to go to the examination room." These are all his father. Wang Xiucai had planned for him, but he just followed the steps.

Meng Hong understood.He knew something about Wang Xiucai's family. Wang's family was in a bad situation. Wang Xiucai spent a lot of money on studying the imperial examinations. After marrying their Meng family, their Wang family received a lot of care from his elder brother, and the family was a little more prosperous.

But these are all obtained through his sister-in-law as a bond. That Wang Xiucai met Meng Hong several times, and he roughly understands that he talks about his son-in-law all day long, and he treats his own daughter better. Heart, apparently to catch up with his elder brother's money.

It's human nature for people to come for money and go for money, but his sister-in-law just gave birth to a child, and he was being urged to have a son just because she gave birth to a girl, which made him very unhappy.

By the way, Wang Xiucai's son is not pleasing to the eye.Seeing that Meng Hong remained silent for a long time, Wang Huan thought he had made a mistake, so he asked, "What's the matter, Brother Meng Hong, did I make a mistake?"

Meng Hong lost his worry, squeezed a smile, and said: "You are right, what you said is very good, I just heard that the imperial examination is very expensive, and you two scholars from the Wang family may not be able to bear it."

Wang Huan lowered his head, pinched the hem of his clothes with both hands, rubbed them and then let go, and said in a low voice, "Brother Meng Hong is right. According to our family's situation, it is quite difficult for two people to study for the imperial examination. But My father told me that my brother-in-law's family is rich, and he wants me to spend more time with my brother-in-law's family. If I encounter financial difficulties in the future, my sister-in-law is kind and will definitely help me."

Meng Hong said "Ho", the Wang family really regarded Meng Qing as a cash machine with a lot of money, but his elder brother said, who made his elder brother love the house and the black.

However, Meng Hong changed his mind and compared his heart to his heart. If this matter was changed to him, he might be like Meng Qing, willing to be sucked for blood.

A gust of cold wind blew, Meng Hong leaned against the magnolia tree and took a deep breath, his body was chilly, but his mind was clearer than before.In fact, after thinking about it carefully, he is not unhappy because of money, he just thinks that people should not take things for granted, at least they have to exchange them at an equal value.

However, how can these matters linked to family affection be clearly marked, and how can they be easily sorted out.

Just as they were thinking wildly, footsteps suddenly came from outside the courtyard door, the two looked up, and Meng Zhen and Wang Xiucai came in.

Seeing the two of them, Wang Xiucai waved his hands: "Huan'er, where's your mother?"

Wang Huan pointed behind him: "It's in my sister's room."

"Okay!" Wang Xiucai walked over with her hands behind her back, "I just went in to see my granddaughter."

"Oh..." He shook his head and sighed when he walked up the doorstep, "It's a pity that it's a girl, it would be nice if it was a boy."

Wang Xiucai muttered softly, but it was still heard by Meng Hong who was not far away, not only Meng Hong, but also Meng Zhen who was far away.

The father and son looked at each other, Meng Hong walked up to his father, and said: "Father, our altar of aged osmanthus is drunk, take it out to honor my uncle Wang."

He said this loudly, Wang Xiucai must have heard it, but the person had already walked into Wang Xinyu's room, and did not respond to Meng Hong's words.

But Meng Zhen whispered: "It's not like you don't know that Wang Xiucai can't drink, but you let people drink. You did it on purpose, didn't you?"

Meng Hong squeezed his eyes with a smile, and said in a low voice: "Yes, I did it on purpose. He makes people uncomfortable. No matter what, I have to make him feel uncomfortable."

Meng Zhen thought he was being childish, and said "childish", but Meng Hong didn't think so, humming a little song to find his altar of sweet-scented osmanthus and getting drunk.

The author says:

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