Chaos in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 4 30 Years Hedong 30 Years Hexi

Guan Ziyang's father, Guan Zhengqian, was surprised, but still said with a smile: "A few days ago, I discussed with your patriarch. After my niece Wei Yi Qing's blood awakened, it was indeed a little inappropriate to marry a man. Didn't we already Okay, can I just write a letter of resignation?"

Guan Zhenggan's face became more and more bitter as he spoke: "Why do you want us to withdraw the engagement in public at the grand ceremony today?"

Wei Lin looked embarrassed and said: "Hey, the main reason is that the situation has changed. Now many people outside are spreading rumors that our niece Yiqing has a marriage contract with Guan's 'fool', saying that our Wei family is forcing you The Guan family is retiring the marriage!"

"And this matter has already reached the ears of the court officials. If you don't voluntarily withdraw from the engagement in public at the grand ceremony, others will really think that our Wei family is secretly forcing you to the Guan family!"

The patriarch Guan Zhengkun said: "Our Guan family can be regarded as a respectable family in Fuling. My eldest brother Zhenggan is the magistrate of the county, and my third brother Zhengdao is the envoy of the county corps. If you let us withdraw the marriage in public at the grand ceremony, our Guan family will not be ashamed. I can’t make it through, I don’t know if I can find a compromise.”

Wei Lin played tricks on Wei Pu Wei Jiu again...

Wei Pu took out a letter, handed it to Guan Zhenggan, and said, "This is the letter of resignation written by our patriarch for you. At the time of the grand ceremony, you can let your son read it in public!"

Guan Zhengqian took out the letter and read it in public. The letter is very simple, but also very shameless.

"... At the beginning, I saw the little girl from the Wei family in a beautiful dress, with restrained spirit and awakened blood, so I came to ask for marriage for the dog son Guan Ziyang... Now I have realized that the marriage proposal cannot be married, so I cancel the marriage proposal..."

It's fine to call off the engagement in public, but it's still slandering that Guan's family members came to propose marriage when they saw that Wei Yiqing's blood was about to awaken!

Guan Ziyang's teeth itched with hatred, it was extremely shameless!
After hearing the letter, Guan Zhengdao, the third child, was the first to lose his temper. He immediately slapped the table and got up. The small solid table was torn apart, and sawdust flew everywhere!
He shouted: "The marriage contract is that our two deceased ancestors married each other! Why did we come to propose marriage! Your Wei family wants to withdraw from the engagement, but you want us to come forward from the Guan family. What a joke! What if we don't withdraw?" ?”

Guan Zhengdao is also well-known in Fuling County. Although he is a commoner, his martial arts are not bad. In addition to the county soldier instructor, he also acts as an agent for the work of the Fuling County Captain. Although he is only an agent, there is no official official document from the court. But the county lieutenant is also the highest military officer in a county.

Seeing that Guan Zhengdao was angry, Wei Lin felt a little guilty, but he still said with a normal expression: "This letter was written by my elder brother, Patriarch Wei Xuan. If you Guan family is sensible, follow this letter and come to the grand ceremony to withdraw the engagement. The Wei family must be thankful, on the contrary, as the only gentry in Fuling, our Wei family can also ruin your Guan family..."

Guan Zhengkun, the head of the Guan family, saw that the situation was getting more and more tense, so he quickly smoothed things over and said, "Third brother, put away your fiery temper. The Wei family has been friends with us for many years, so hurry up and apologize to Brother Wei Lin!"

When the patriarch spoke, Guan Zhengdao didn't dare to disobey, he just turned his head to one side, but he didn't apologize.

Wei Lin snorted coldly: "I'm just delivering a message on behalf of the patriarch. The message has been brought, so I'm leaving. However, I still kindly want to remind you that the Wei family will soon become a noble family!"

After speaking, he greeted his two sons and went out.

The patriarch Guan Zhengkun wanted to keep them, but Guan Zhengdao became irritable again, and shouted at the three people who left: "30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, go slowly! Don't send them away!"

Guan Zhengkun saw that the three of them walked away, and there was no room for recovery. He sat down on the chair and sighed: "Zhengdao, you are too impulsive. We can't afford to mess with the current Wei family!"

Guan Zhengdao was not convinced and said: "Second brother, are they allowed to talk nonsense in our Guan family's ancestral hall, insulting our Guan family as shameless villains who came to ask for relatives?"

The family ancestral hall is the most important place of a family, and it can be said that it is the spiritual core of a family.

In the Guan family ancestral hall, in addition to dozens of ancestors standing, there is a huge statue of Guan Yu standing in the middle. I saw it holding the Qinglong Yanyue knife in its left hand and stroking its beautiful beard with its right hand. It is ten feet long and its clothes are fluttering. , majestic.

His left pupil is as red as blood, which is the blood imprint of the Guan family.

It's only been more than 100 years, and no more red pupils have been born...

Guan Zhengdao said again: "Although our Guan family has become a commoner family, the blood of Duke Yun is shed on our body. What is his Wei family!"

Everyone bowed their heads and remained silent for a while...

After a long time, the patriarch Guan Zhengkun replied in a low voice: "The Wei family is nothing, but they are about to become a noble family. When the time comes, their Hedong Wei clan will be very different from our Hexi Guan clan."

"His Wei family wants to clean up our Guan family, and he can easily make us unable to turn over with a flick of a finger..."

The patriarch then sighed again, and said in a low voice: "Call everyone together immediately, and hold a clan meeting urgently."

After all the Guan family members arrived, everyone discussed how to deal with this matter.

Guan Ziyang listened to the Guan family's words from you and me, and finally realized that he didn't take this marriage contract to heart, and it was so important to the Guan and Wei families.

Filial piety is one of the important criteria for the prestige of scholars in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. If the Wei family wants to withdraw the marriage of the two ancestors, it is disobedience to the ancestors' will, which is unfilial. This is a major blow to the reputation of the Wei family. .

The Eastern Jin Dynasty advocated family status, and family reputation was very important. As the official selection system of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Jiupin Zhongzheng System was inherited from the Han Dynasty’s Chaju system. When Zhongzheng officials inspected people to determine their ranks, they first inspected their filial piety. , family status, style, but literary talent and martial arts are at the end.

Therefore, the Wei family did not dare to take the initiative to propose a divorce.

After Wei Yiqing's bloodline awakened, she is now the hope of the Wei family. According to the marriage tradition, the newly promoted noble family of the Wei family must be a lower-class noble family. blood lineage.

Marriage is the fastest way to improve the family status, it is impossible for the Wei family not to seize this unique opportunity of Wei Yiqing!
The Yu clan of Yingchuan more than ten years ago was originally a middle-class noble family.

But Yu Wenjun married Sima Shao, and Sima Shao later ascended the throne as emperor, and Yu Wenjun became Empress Mingmu, and Empress Mingmu passed away seven years later, but in this short period of seven years.

His father, Yu Chen, was promoted to General Zuo, and his elder brother, Yu Liang, was appointed as General Zhengxi, and concurrently led the governors of Jiang, Jing, and Henan.

The Yu surname became powerful for a while, and the Yu family also jumped from a middle-level gentry to a top gentry comparable to Wang Xie.

This is the power of marriage!

"You know the ways of the world, you can talk about right and wrong and make friends..." Guan Ziyang sighed in his heart.

"When a person has the power to change his own destiny, he will naturally remove all stumbling blocks in his path. The Wei family was promoted to a noble family, and the marriage contract between Wei Yiqing and me became a stumbling block to the rise of the Wei family..."

The fourth son, Guan Zhengde, suddenly sighed at this moment, looking at the ancestral hall, where the old man of the Guan family was closed, he said: "Hey, it's all my father's fault, why did you decide to marry this baby? It left us with a big problem. My son Zimu I still want to go to the imperial academy this year, but now that the marriage of your boss is retiring, it will be a big embarrassment, and the quota of imperial education may not fall to our family..."

"Fourth, how can we blame our father for this matter, he also can't guess that the Wei family will have today!" Guan Zhenggan said sternly.

Guan Ziyang felt contempt for this fourth uncle in his heart...

In the end, the patriarch Guan Zhengkun concluded: "If you want me to say, people have to bow their heads under the eaves. Now that the Wei family has been promoted to a noble family, if our Guan family wants to survive in Fuling County, we should do as they want! The prestige of the Guan family will be damaged, but keeping the Guan family is the most important thing!"

On the seventh day of the sixth lunar month, the weather gradually turned hotter, the sky was bright and clear, the day before the Wei family's promotion ceremony.

Guan Ziyang sat on the bullock cart and finally embarked on the road to divorce.

Seeing his parents waving goodbye getting younger and younger, after more than four years, apart from wandering into the Taohuayuan in a daze, this is the first time Guan Ziyang has traveled far since he was reborn, so he is somewhat uneasy.

Guan Zhengqian and Guan Ziyang were supposed to go together, but according to the words of the patriarch Guan Zhengkun, if a child does this kind of embarrassing thing alone, the face loss may be a little less...

As the magistrate of the county, Guan Zhengqian was the face of the Guan family. There were too many people participating in the promotion ceremony of the Wei family, so he couldn't lose this person.

Only Tiewei, Hei Nuer, and Qing Chan were accompanying him.

Qingchan was sitting in the bullock cart. Although she was only 17 years old, as Guan Mu's personal maid, she followed Guan Mu to handle the affairs of their East Building for many years.

She patted the back of Guan Ziyang's hand and nodded to express her comfort.

Guan Ziyang laughed and said, "Sister Qingchan, don't worry, why don't you just go and annul the engagement, I'm not nervous."

Tiewei led the ox in front, and told the black slave what he had seen and heard about Fuling City.

In the bullock cart, Guan Ziyang just concentrated on smelling the young girl's fragrance on Qing Chan's body, of course it's a very pure kind, he's still a child!
The bullock cart staggered forward slowly...

There was a shortage of horses in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so whether it was the emperor, princes, nobles, or ordinary people, they all rode in ox carts.

Although ox carts are slow, they are stable and comfortable, suitable for long-distance journeys. Except for the army, few people use horses.

Guanjiabao is thirty miles away from Fuling City, and it takes a whole day to get there.

When they arrived at the Wujiang Ferry, Tiewei and Hei Nuer were busy removing the luggage from the car, and unloading the frame from the back of the ox. The ferry was very small, and the ox and the frame had to be transported twice to cross the river, which would take a lot of money. Less effort.

Naturally, he, the young master of the Guan family, didn't have to worry about these things. Guan Ziyang practiced Tai Chi on a rocky cliff formed by a huge boulder on the rocky beach by the river when he was idle and bored.

Guan Ziyang also came to the Wujiang Ferry in his previous life. His era was already in the information age, and the river water was far less clear than the current river. The Wujiang River in front of him was six or seven feet deep, but it was crystal clear.

Looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him, Guan Ziyang took a deep breath and started Tai Chi.

Nuonuo said in his mouth: "A big watermelon, cut in half with a knife, half for you, you don't want me to take it back..."

The river wind was blowing on his face, making Guan Ziyang's clothes rattling. Guan Ziyang's mind was focused on thirteen gestures: push, stroke, squeeze, press, push, elbow, lean, advance, retreat, look, hope, and decide. Feel free to go.

Close your eyes and sink your heart to feel the surge of innate energy in your body, and carefully comprehend the "thirteen essentials of Tai Chi" handed down by your family.

"Exercise Qi with the heart and make it calm, then it can be restrained to the bone.

Luck the body with Qi, follow orders and follow them, and it will be convenient for the mind.

If the spirit can be raised, there is no fear of being slow or heavy; the so-called hanging from the top of the head.

Mind and energy must be changed to be flexible, and there is a sense of roundness and vitality; the so-called transformation of reality and reality..."

He recalled the Tai Chi formulas that his grandfather taught him when he was a child...

A mouthful of innate qi in the body flows through the meridians like a hot spring, nourishing the limbs and bones...

The Tai Chi moves from the previous life flashed through his mind, and suddenly he felt like his eyes were blurred, as if he was holding a Tai Chi Yin Yang fish picture in his arms, and the Tai Chi picture appeared out of thin air. When he blinked hard and looked again, the Tai Chi picture disappeared again not see……

At this time, a voice sounding like a bell came from next to my ear: "Xiao Xiao is so solemn, like the wind under the pine, bright and clear, tall and gentle, I can't imagine that there is such a graceful figure in this small Wujiangdu!"

Guan Ziyang looked for his reputation, and saw a small boat in the middle of the river floating along the river in the distance. There was a person standing on the bow of the boat. From a distance, the person was tall and slender, wearing a black shirt, standing with his hands behind his back.

The thick voice just now seemed to be in his ears, and Guan Ziyang was not sure if it was him who spoke.

As the boat approached slowly, Guan Ziyang took a closer look and found that the man was all white, with sword eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and he was very handsome. He gently stroked the beard on his chin with his hand, just like a water fairy, standing tall on the bow of the boat. Like a towering ancient tree, it is tall and straight.

Guan Ziyang's first reaction was, "A master!"

Maybe you can give me the kind of martial arts cheats that are invincible in the world...

Guan Ziyang nodded slightly from afar, and clasped his fists to thank him for his approval just now.

The man in the boat turned his head to the boatman at the stern and said, "Please come to the shore, please, I want to talk to the little friend on the shore."

After a while, the people in the boat climbed onto the rocky cliff, looked at Guan Ziyang with a smile and said: "Little friend, this way of boxing is graceful and graceful, it seems to hide the mystery of heaven and earth, and there is a faint image of opening the dark, it is really indescribable, I don't know Can I have a chat with a certain Qing?"

(End of this chapter)