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Chapter 10 Marrying a wife should marry a woman with five surnames

There is some fish belly white in the sky.

In the bell tower hidden in the bamboo grove, another little novice yawned and went upstairs to ring the bell.

Living in this ancient temple on the mountain, with morning bells and evening drums beside my ears, my daily life is like chanting scriptures, and my perception of the passage of time seems to have slowed down.

It seemed to be the same time as that day again, but the first time was familiar and the second time was familiar, this time Ouyang Rong vigorously climbed out of the well and over the fence, and walked away as if nothing had happened.

After discovering the secret blessing worth [-] merits, he stayed below for a long time, not chatting with Master Unknown, but carefully inspecting the underground palace several times from beginning to end.

He wanted to try to see if he could manually find out or trigger this hidden blessing.

Because what if it is different from the "going home" he expected, but some other strange fate, it is not impossible, he has to rule it out.

But Ouyang Rong didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed... He found nothing and returned without success.

Ouyang Rong returned to Sanhuiyuan, but took a detour - mainly avoiding his aunt's yard - not to mention, since Mrs. Zhen came to live, he was full of guilty conscience.

But in this detour, he happened to bump into Master Shandao who was going to chant the morning fast.

The old monk was puzzled: "Why did the Ming government walk on tiptoe so early in the morning?"

"This is... a popular morning exercise method in my hometown."

"It's because I'm short of knowledge."

The two just passed each other, Ouyang Rong seemed to think of something, and looked back curiously:

"By the way, I haven't asked you what sect you practice in Donglin Temple? Zen or Vinaya?"

"Neither, the Zen sect is in the west, and the Vinaya sect is in the north." Master Shandao shook his head, "The small temple is in the south, and we practice the orthodox Lotus sect, but the Ming government can also call us the Pure Land sect."

"Pure Land sect..." Ouyang Rong raised his eyes and asked, "Do you think there really is a Pure Land in this world?"

Master Shandao immediately nodded. "Of course there is. Isn't that old monk's master uncle an example."

"If there is, where is this pure land?"

Master Shandao pointed to Ouyang Rong's heart, "The Pure Land is here. The Pure Land in Ming Fu's heart has always been in Ming Fu's own heart. Why do you ask the old monk, an outsider?"

Ouyang Rong nodded, "I'm the one with the picture."

Master Shandao looked at him, "I don't know if I should say something or not. In fact, I found out the day before yesterday that Mingfu has always looked gloomy and has trouble in his heart."

Ouyang Rong looked directly at the old monk, and asked humbly, "How to break through the barriers and get free?"

Master Shandao didn't answer, he straightened his monk's clothes with lowered eyes, straightened his clothes, and before leaving, he only raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Sanhuiyuan, turned around and walked away slowly.

Ouyang Rong stood there for a while, then turned back to Sanhuiyuan.

When he entered the door, he stopped suddenly and looked up at the plaque hanging on the lintel.

The letter "Three Wisdoms".

"What are the three wisdoms? Hearing, thinking, and meditating, the three are also... Hearing must be heard carefully, thinking must be examined, and practice must be truthful."

Ouyang Rong's voice went from low to high, like understanding from shallow to deep, and he raised his head and said loudly: "Ouyang Lianghan, let me ask you again, how to break the barrier?"

Self-answer: "Lie down and hear it, sit and think about it, get up and...do it!"

The Confucian scholar laughed, swaggered his sleeves, and entered the hall.

……

"Leave the temple today."

Beside the dining table, Longcheng's newly appointed Ruoguan county magistrate put down the bowls and chopsticks sternly.

"No." Zhen Shi lowered her head and sipped the porridge without lifting her eyelids.

"Auntie, my nephew just informed you, not a discussion; my nephew has already had someone notify Yan Butou and the others to preside over there, and my nephew also inquired about it. The master said that my nephew's health has recovered and he can go down the mountain. "

"First cut and then play?"

"It should have been this way."

"The flood at the foot of the mountain has receded seven or eight times, so why go down?"

"It is the most critical time to start disaster relief after seven or eight retreats. My nephew is the order of the Dragon City. If he can't recover from his injury, he can hide on the mountain and not go down. He will throw it to the officials."

"Throwing it to the subordinates, Tan Lang doesn't have much responsibility for the big water under the mountain. You just took office, and the flood in Yunmeng Lake, which happened once in a few years. The flood that happened during the coma is force majeure. No one will hold Tan Lang is responsible."

"Without responsibility, can you sit back and relax and sleep with peace of mind?"

Zhen put down the bowl, took the handkerchief from Banxi, wiped her mouth, and began to speak slowly:
"Okay, then you go down the mountain, don't worry about your aunt, just leave it in this ancient temple deep in the mountains to fend for yourself, why don't you just become a monk and forget it, the child you have raised for 20 years is not as reliable as the ancient Qingdeng Buddha."

Speaking of this, the arrogant and decisive tone was able to carry a bit of crying, the woman tilted her head and "quietly" wiped her tears.

Ouyang Rong's expression didn't change. His aunt beat him up as ungrateful and unfilial. As a result, he waited for a long time before he heard the dull sound of wooden fish. It seemed that the Buddha couldn't stand it anymore.

He continued to suggest: "Auntie doesn't want to stay here, so why don't you send someone to send Auntie back to Nanlong?"

"No!" Mrs. Zhen immediately resolutely said.

"..."

She stared, "Tan Lang is now an official, and his wings are stiff, so he doesn't want to bring his aunt to enjoy the blessings, right?"

Ouyang Rong said solemnly: "The Great Zhou Order stipulates that local county magistrates must travel thousands of miles away from home to serve, and they must not bring relatives and villagers to the post for profit."

"Oh, Auntie Da Zhouling hasn't read it, but as a parent officer requires this, don't try to fool Auntie."

Zhen's smile was not a smile, "This kind of relatives refers to male relatives who can show their faces. They have no objection to relatives who bring their mothers, and they even encourage them. You can't say that the censor of the state procuratorate, you have to praise Tanlang for being filial and caring for his mother." , an extra sum will be counted during the assessment."

Ouyang Rong covered his fists and coughed, "It's fine, it's fine. But I heard from Liu Lang that the county government office was flooded. I'll wait until I get down the mountain, settle down first, and pick up my aunt..."

Mrs. Zhen didn't care about this, and interrupted someone who wanted to change the subject with a smile, "Also, did the Great Zhou Order also stipulate that the county magistrate must bring his wife and daughter with him to take office? During his tenure in the local area, the supervisor is not allowed to marry the daughter of the local custodian, otherwise he will be convicted... the county magistrate should be more familiar with this than the country girl, right?"

Ouyang Rong had a straight face, and he wondered why Mrs. Zhen was so stupid about some things, and so smart about some things.Nephew buster, right?
"Then Ouyang county magistrate, who is dedicated to his duties, should you consider marriage?"

"..." Auntie's map of the country of Yan is really a bit long, and she only draws out the dagger now.Ouyang Rong thought so.

But this time, since he decided to go down the mountain to take office and do something well, he no longer avoided it.

"It's impossible for a nephew to marry a woman with five surnames."

Ouyang Rong looked at Zhen Shi squarely.

"Why not? Tan Lang is a gentleman who was famous all over the world when he was weak,"

"It's very simple, lintel." Ouyang Rong raised his palm and compared it slightly between his foreheads.

"What's wrong with the lintel, our Nanlong Ouyang family..."

Ouyang Rong nodded and told the truth: "Our Nanlong Ouyang family really doesn't have a lintel, in the eyes of the five surnames and seven Wangs. The last time our Ouyang family had a character was in the Han Dynasty."

"..." Mrs. Zhen.

"Even the imperial examination that my nephew took is very important to the five surnames and Qiwang... well, my aunt should know that my nephew was given Guanlintai by the empress at the Xingyuan Banquet, and he was the former secretary of the provincial school. Shulang, to be an official, one must come from a clean family background. He is a clean stream. Almost all the prime ministers of the dynasty started from this official position. It is noble, and it is also the starting point of the ninth rank that scholars from both the north and the south yearn for.

"But you know, every year in the imperial examinations in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there are poor families in the world, and only 40 or [-] people are selected from the north and the south. Among these people, only the number one scholar and a few people can pass the harsh selection of the official department and be selected as this official. "

After a pause, Ouyang Rong spit out lightly: "As for such an official position, the children of the gentry with five surnames and seven Wangs can directly hold it, and they can just be recommended by the elders, and there is no need for an imperial examination."

Zhen Shi hesitated to speak.

Ouyang Rong comforted softly: "Auntie, in the eyes of the five surnames and Qiwang, we are the poor family among the poor. Even the Daganli clan, who has been the emperor for nearly a hundred years, is regarded by them as a sub-family mixed with barbarian blood. They rely on their family prestige and are ashamed to marry other surnames, so... let's stop thinking about it for the time being."

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, Shi Yan Gao Hua was headed by five surnames, Cui Li, Lu Wang Xie, a total of five surnames and seven Wang.

Among them, the Cui family of Boling, the Cui family of Qinghe, the Li family of Longxi, the Lu family of Fanyang, and the Wang family of Taiyuan are county surnames, and they are the highest families of the northern gentry.

The Langya Wang family and the Chenjun Xie family are overseas Chinese surnames, they belong to the Jiangzuo gentry... that is, the highest sect of the southern gentry.However, Nanfang Erwang is at the end of Qiwang.

Because in the magnificent Ding struggle between the Northern and Southern Dynasties before the great unification, Suigan from the Northern Dynasties finally won, pacified the Southern Chen, and realized another great unification of the North and the South. The center of the current Great Zhou Empire is Luoyang and Chang'an in Guanzhong, while the North It is the traditional hinterland of the Central Plains, so in this dynasty, the five kings in the north are stronger than Wang Xie in the south.

Among them, the Cui family of Boling is the most, and is regarded as the crown of the gentry by the world.

And as far as Ouyang Rong knows, the five surnames and seven Wangs are not just as simple as family traditions and hairpin tassels from generation to generation. I heard that each of the seven highest families in the world is more or less related to Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. There is a close relationship between Confucianism, metaphysics, or Taoism, and what's more, it also involves the more secret inheritance of Qi practitioners outside the world.

And those who survived the chaotic Southern and Northern Dynasties, and their family backgrounds continued to the Great Zhou Dynasty, were all famous families with terrible backgrounds for thousands of years, and even their genealogies could be traced back to the pre-Qin period, which was in the same era as the pre-Qin Qi fighters recorded in ancient books.

Ouyang Rong said again: "Besides, in order to suppress the five surnames and seven Wangs during the reign of Emperor Gaozong, he once issued an edict to prohibit the marriages of the most direct families among them, but now, the prohibition of marriage did not achieve the effect at all, but raised the seven Wangs in disguise. The value of the door makes it a glorious and isolated "forbidden marriage family"... In fact, when you think about it, you can understand that even you and your mother have heard the dignity of "five surname women" in the countryside, and the folks are sought after...it's really conceivable And I know."

In the words of Ouyang Rong's previous life, this "forbidden marriage family" is the existence at the top of the contempt chain in the blind date market of the Great Zhou Empire, and women, children, and children are all driving up the price.

Zhen frowned, "Is it really so difficult? Isn't my family Tanlang the best man in the world, even this can't be done?"

The corner of Ouyang Rong's mouth twitched, he got up and helped the second half clean up the dishes.

"Could it be that there's no chance for the offshoots?" Mrs. Zhen still couldn't give up.

"It's the end of the branch. Others are not fools. They have already made a move. I heard that the ban on marriage was proposed by Gaozong when the prime minister from a humble family was rejected. No one with a family background of the fourth rank in the dynasty should not go. .”

Zhen frowned, "Why is it so troublesome..."

Ouyang Rong took the half-handed hot towel, rubbed his face, seemed to think of something, and smiled: "Shang Yanya from the northern gentry, Shang Zhuan from the Jiangzuo gentry, Shang Guanmian from the Guanzhong gentry, and Shang Guiqi from the Daibei gentry. Which of your nephews do you think is the best? Well, there is no 'Shang Junnan'."

Zhen Shi glared at him, and then said nothing.

Ouyang Rong also pretended to be as depressed as she was, but in fact he was quietly relieved, and finally made his aunt give up.

"Jiangzuo's gentry is a respected figure... Coincidentally, isn't my Tan Lang a dragon and a phoenix among people..." Zhen muttered.

Ouyang Rong smiled and didn't answer, sometimes it's not good to be disillusioned too quickly, let my aunt slowly realize... He washed his hands and prepared to go out.

But unexpectedly, the woman in Luo Qun behind her suddenly asked, "Tan Lang, is your academy teacher's surname Xie?"

Ouyang Rong was stunned, "Yeah, what's the matter?" and helpless: "Stop thinking about it. I'm going out."

He felt a little baffled, but he didn't care about Mrs. Zhen and left Sanhuiyuan.

Inside the room, Zhen's hands rested on her chin, looking at the back of someone going out, Dan Feng's eyes were bent.

"Really, Auntie has to give you a chance."

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　I can't help but add a little more code, so it's a little late, this chapter is almost [-], and there will be more tonight, good brothers!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)