Idle courtiers

Chapter 191 Make the strongest voice of the era
How could Zhou Nan care about this incompetent nobleman who doesn't work hard and doesn't know the grain?

He grabbed Zhu Congchen's hand and shouted: "Brother Zhu, if you are rude again, don't blame me for being rude."

Zhu Congchen was weak, so naturally he couldn't break free, so he yelled angrily: "Let me go, a gentleman uses his mouth but not his hands."

"That's what you did first, Brother Zhu, calm down, let's talk."

"Okay, a gentleman will never make any bad noises. Today I want to hear what lotus flowers you can spit out of your bastard's mouth."

Zhou Nan let go of Zhu Congchen, and suddenly bowed to the ground: "I was wrong about this, please forgive me, brother Zhu. Zhou Nan sincerely regards brother Zhu as a good friend, and really doesn't want to lose you as a comrade."

Zhu Cong rubbed Zhou Nan's sore wrist, and said coldly, "Do you think we can still be friends?"

Zhou Nan straightened up, pretending to be ashamed, and said: "Brother Zhu, in fact, I had the idea of ​​embezzling your 3000 mu of land earlier. This is good land worth [-] taels. No matter how unworthy you are, you can live comfortably.”

Zhu Cong was stunned: "Eroze my five hundred acres of land?"

Zhou Nan nodded and said: "Brother Zhu, think about it! I will transfer your land to my name with 200 taels of silver. As for the redemption in the future, it is just a verbal agreement. How can it be accurate? If I turn my face and deny it , What can you do to me? Haha, 200 taels of silver bought [-] mu of land, it’s really cheap, it’s no different from giving it away for free. Brother Zhu is a gentleman, and a gentleman can be bullied.”

"Ah, you..." Zhu Cong soaked in cold sweat as he thought of the serious consequences.

Zhou Nan let out a long sigh: "Brother Zhu, I am different from you. I was born with the blood of the Tian family. My family has a large mansion with fertile land and a generous salary every year. Zhou Nan was born in a poor family. He was wronged and sent to Liaodong 12 years ago. All kinds of pain."

"If it were someone else, he would have sunk already. But after all, Zhou has read the books of sages all his life. The sages say that the sky is healthy, and the gentleman strives for self-improvement. In the past two years, Zhou Nan started as a humble yamen servant. I felt the grievances on my body, and became a pedestrian and a pedestrian again. I finally feel proud. However, it seems that I have stayed in the low-level for too long, and everything is only for the end, not the means. I really had the intention to cheat Brother Zhu's property before. But when you left, I was tormented by my conscience."

"What is money, and what are some things? Brother Zhu and I are best friends, and I really don't want to lose you as a friend. Otherwise, am I still a person? So I sent someone to return the land deed to Mrs. Zun .”

"Sister-in-law is such a shrewd person. Seeing me, I naturally wanted to ask Brother Zhu why he sold the farmland at home. I can only tell the truth. Madam sister-in-law heard that Brother Zhu has a lot of money in his pocket, so he must go out to have a good time. Naturally, look for it. The capital is only a little bigger. The land, brother Zhu, is well known to everyone, so if you look for it, you will find it."

"That's the way it is. Whether brother Zhu is willing to forgive me Zhou Nan or not, it doesn't matter now. Zhou has a clear conscience."

Having said that, Zhou Nan bowed to the ground again, his eyes were red.

Hearing these sincere words, Zhu Congba was greatly moved, he lifted him up, and said: "No one has faults, if you know your mistakes, you can correct them, and there is nothing good about it. Zimu, Zimu, what can I say about you! "

Zhou Nan asked in a trembling voice, "Brother Zhu, are you no longer blaming me?"

Zhu Congchen: "I blame you for what you did... Hey, Zimu is a real gentleman!"

Zhou Nan straightened up joyfully, and shouted outside: "Qinghua, quickly cook a chicken for brother Zhu and warm it up." As he spoke, he secretly threw a piece of crushed raw sauce into the dark.

That piece of ginger is so spicy, once you wipe it on your eyes, you can't stop the tears.The elders are crying, the shame is so high. ,

Zhu Congchen: "Get some more wine and food, and I'll drink with Zimu."

Soon, a table of simple snacks was placed on the table.Zhu Congzhu held a boiled egg in shell with one hand and applied hot compresses on the panda's eyes, while holding a cup with the other hand, he couldn't stop drinking.

To be honest, Master Zhu was beaten really badly tonight.

According to his description just now, after student Zhu took 20 taels of gold from Zhou Nan, he made an appointment with a few literary friends and poets, and ran to Jiaofang Division excitedly.

As a son of the clan, he would go back to the capital every winter to celebrate the New Year, offering sacrifices to the ancestors in the Taimiao. He was considered half a Beijinger.There are also many friends in the capital, and they gather several times every winter.Because Mrs. Zhu's hands are tight, every time Zhu Congjin attends this kind of gathering, he mostly eats, drinks and sleeps with women.

Although others would not say anything, he himself felt a little embarrassed.

This time he was rich, so he naturally wanted to get back the face he had lost before.

After entering the Jiaofang Division, Zhu Cong was very generous and covered all expenses.

After drinking, classmate Zhu and a beautiful woman were reciting poems and singing songs in the room to cultivate feelings and brew emotions.There was only a sound of thunder, and Mrs. Zhu rushed in with a healthy servant, and grabbed him and beat him madly.He also denounced Mr. Zhu for selling his ancestral property at the price of jumping off a building as money for whoring, which is a shame.If Zhou Zimu hadn't sent the land deed over, his family would have really become a laughing stock in others' mouths.

Fortunately, Zhu Congxi was able to run, otherwise he would really have to explain where he was today.

In front of him, his eyes are black and blue, and he looks like a national treasure.His nose was full of blood, his lips were swollen like sausage, and he didn't have the slightest bit of romantic and unrestrained appearance on weekdays.

Probably because there was a wound in the mouth, and every time Zhu took a sip of wine, he made a "silk" sound.

Zhou Nan first expressed sympathy for what happened to him, and then sighed: "This man has no money, just like a woman has no clothes. Not only do others look down on you, but even your own wife and children hate you to the bone. Then you will not be able to hold your head up at home for the rest of your life."

"I feel sorry for you." Zhu Cong nodded sullenly, and then asked strangely: "Brother Zhou, you also live a carefree life, do you have the same experience?"

Zhou Nan sighed intentionally: "Naturally, every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite. In fact... In fact, I am also a person who fears guilt... The year before last I returned home from serving in Liaodong, and my family was so poor that I almost couldn't help it. It was all supported by the father-in-law's family, and later the father-in-law and brother-in-law paid for a job as a government servant. Brother Zhu, you know that I am a poor boy, and if I want to get along in the scene, I have to use money. I am a government servant. , From the nine-rank governor, the Yue family has contributed a lot."

"The so-called short-lived mouth, short-handed manpower, really can't hold up his head at home. Tongues and teeth are still fighting, how can there be no conflict between the husband and wife. Every time my wife and I have a quarrel, she will kill my husband My brother-in-law and brother-in-law called me to support me. To tell the truth, my reputation in my hometown has been completely ruined. This time I came to the capital, I can’t bring my family with me, and no one is around to chatter. !"

Yun Niang, I'm sorry!

Hearing Zhou Nan's miserable words, Zhu Congjin and Zhou Nan felt sorry for each other, and the two talked for a long time. There was a lion in the family who destroyed a man's heart, and they felt a sense of confidant.

After a long time, Zhu Cong let out a long sigh: "Brother Zhou is really lucky. He can go to other places to be an official and escape from prison. A child of the clan like me cannot become an official. If he wants to escape, he has nowhere to go. There is no way out. Nowhere."

Zhou Nan: "Actually, when I was in Huai'an, I once thought of divorcing my wife."

"Divorce your wife?"

Zhou Nan nodded: "Yes, my wife has been married for 11 years and has never had a child. It is reasonable to divorce my wife. However, before I came to Beijing, she was pregnant, so I dropped the matter." Speaking of this, he Pretending to be heartbroken: "Actually, I have already made a decision. It would be fine if I divorced that tigress a few months in advance. Now it's over, and I will never escape her clutches for the rest of my life."

Zhu Congchen also felt regretful: "It's time, fate, and luck."

Zhou Nan paused: "Actually, if I want to divorce that wicked woman, it's okay. If I'm still in my hometown, I can't bear it for a day. Of course, I have fled to the capital now, and I am completely free. I don’t even bother to waste the energy.”

Zhu Congba was very surprised: "Your wife used to be barren. If you want to divorce her, no one else can say anything. Now that you have children, how can you divorce?"

Zhou Nan laughed and said: "Brother Zhu, you don't know this. According to the etiquette and laws of our court, a woman can divorce and abandon her wife if she commits seven crimes. Those who have seven crimes: have no children, one is also; , two things; not doing things to uncles and aunts, three things; talking and talking, four things; stealing, five things; jealousy, six things; evil diseases, seven things.”

"My wife is often jealous of me going to the brothel for entertainment, and even knocks on the door. I have committed the evil of jealousy, and I should go; I am making trouble at home, and even ask my mother's family to bully my husband. I have a bad tongue, and I should go. Besides, she often beats me. Scolding her husband, perverting the norms, just this one, you have to be kicked out of the house."

Zhou Nan muttered again in his heart: Yunniang, I'm really sorry, I have no choice but to wrong you.

"It only takes a letter of divorce to drive her away. It's very easy. The key is that you can make up your mind."

"Determination, determination, determination." Zhu Congchen murmured a few words, his face flushed suddenly: "I want to divorce the Hedong lion at home."

Zhou Nan pretended to be shocked: "Brother Zhu said carefully, you are a son of the clan, and Mrs. Sister-in-law is a lady with an imperial order. How can you just rest if you say so. Forget it, forget it, don't be impulsive. It's a big deal, you can't bear it. In just a few short decades, it passed in a blink of an eye. Family and everything are prosperous, so let’s bear with it, at most let the people in the clan laugh at your husband’s lack of strength, just pretend you didn’t hear it.”

It was fine if he didn't say anything, but when he said it, Zhu Congchi threw the cup in his hand on the ground angrily: "In this world, what is more important than a face? I have become the laughing stock of the heavenly family, how can I still have a face?" What is it like to live in the world. Zimu, you are right, life is only a few short decades. Brother Yu is now in his thirties, and he can live a few more years. Now this life is living, this is not the life I want ! Tomorrow morning, I will be a member of the Ministry of Rites, and I ask the imperial court to make the decision for me, so that I can save that tigress from the order of Shu Ren, and let her go back to her natal family!"

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the institution that managed the clan was called the Zongren Mansion, and the supervisor of the Clan Mansion was called Da Zongzheng, Zheng Yipin, who was generally held by a highly respected prince in the royal family.

After Jing Nan, Emperor Chengzu felt that the establishment of this institution was a bit inappropriate.Da Zongzheng's prestige is too high, and he is in charge of the entire royal family. Isn't that the patriarch of the people?The imperial power and clan power of the Tian family inevitably clashed, which also planted the seeds of instability.

As a result, Chengzu cut off the clan mansion, and let the Ministry of Rites, Rites, Rituals and Cleaning Department be responsible for the daily affairs of the clan.The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites and the Cleaning Officials Division Langzhong are just five-rank officials, which is in line with the political principle of the Ming Dynasty to control the big by the small.

Later, the Qing Dynasty restored the clan mansion.

However, the situation in the Qing Dynasty is quite special.At the beginning of entering the Central Plains and establishing a political power, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was nothing more than a slave society, and the Eight Banners political system was implemented.When the country has something to do, the princes and nobles will sit together and discuss it.

If you can't agree, start a fight.

Therefore, no matter who is doing Da Zongzheng, it is just a decoration. Could it be that you can still control the banner owner of the Eight Banners?

Therefore, if Zhu Congchi wants to divorce this time, he must first report to the Ministry of Rites to waive his wife's order.

After speaking, he walked excitedly to the long case, picked up a pen and wrote a note, and used his seal.

Then he vigorously slapped the pen on the table.

The strongest voice of the times: "Give me freedom or give me death!"

(End of this chapter)