Then there is no more

The Uncle Shen mentioned by Bian Jingyu is named Shen Deyuan.

The Uncle Anping's Mansion owes Shen Deyuan a kindness.Back then, Shen Deyuan was still a poor scholar. When he went to Beijing to rush for the exam, he was robbed and entangled on the way. He was penniless and unable to move for a while.The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Shen Deyuan became seriously ill in shock and anger.It just so happened that Uncle An Ping went back to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors, and by coincidence, he knew what happened to Shen Deyuan. With the intention of doing good deeds every day, he invited a doctor for Shen Deyuan and gave him money.

At that time, Uncle An Ping really didn't think about getting anything in return, because Shen Deyuan, who was seriously ill at that time, couldn't see his qualifications.And there are so many scholars who come to Beijing every year to rush for the exam, who would have guessed that such a sick scholar really has a great talent in his stomach?As a result, Shen Deyuan was a high school prospect this time, and made his way to the top!He was very grateful to Uncle Anping in his heart, and even regarded Uncle Anping as his benefactor.Uncle Anping, this can be regarded as good will be rewarded.

After more than 20 years, Shen Deyuan's official career went smoothly, all the way from the official to the minister of the Ministry of officials.He and the Su family hit it off, and they have two sons and a daughter.

Because Shen Deyuan was born in a poor family, the Shen family's interpersonal relationship is very simple.His wife, Su Shi, was the daughter of the college teacher when he was young.The eldest son has passed the imperial examination and married his wife Yu Shi two years ago, while the daughter married Shen Deyuan's former classmate and friend Qian's family a year ago.These two marriages can be described as well-matched.As for Shen Deyuan's second son, he was still young and had been engaged in his early years, but he has not yet married.

Shen Deyuan's second son, Shen Yi, is engaged to Bian Jingyu.After Shen Yi was born, she cried unceasingly.The Shen family hired many doctors for him, but they still couldn't see anything wrong.At that time, Shen Deyuan's official position was not obvious, and seeing that his youngest son was getting weaker and weaker, he had no choice but to beg in front of Uncle Anping.No matter how declining the Anpingbo Mansion is, it is still a wealthy family in the eyes of ordinary people.Taking An Pingbo's post, Shen Deyuan finally invited an imperial physician for his youngest son.

However, the invited imperial physician still couldn't see anything wrong with Shen Yi.

In desperation, Su held her youngest son and begged before the gods and Buddhas.

On that day, a master said that the youngest son of the Shen family cried day and night because of his unstable soul.The master was compassionate, so he presented Shen Yi with a safety card, and suggested that the Shen family choose a female name for the youngest son, and ask him not to see outsiders until he is 16 years old.The thing was so miraculous, after the Su family put the safety card on Shen Yi, Shen Deyuan wrote the name "Shen Yi" into the genealogy and called the youngest son the nickname Yiniang, and Shen Yi will be fine from then on.

The law of this dynasty allows men to form contracts or women to establish female households. Although it is rare for a man to marry a man, and it is rare for a woman to establish a female household, since the law does not prohibit it, this matter is not seen by the world. It seemed strange.Often, the aunt of a big family is unwilling to allow the concubine to take up more property when the family is divided, so she sends the concubine off with a dowry.Compared with the wealth when the family was separated, the dowry is naturally small.

When Bian Jingyu was six years old, he had already shown his ice and snow smart side.Uncle An Ping went to Shen Deyuan for a drink, and heard that the youngest son of the Shen family and Bian Jingyu were born on the same day, the same month, and that the Shen family needed to raise the youngest son as a girl—in fact, Uncle An Ping misunderstood this, in fact Shen Yi just took a girl's name and He just didn't see outsiders, and he didn't act as a girl to support him—he immediately moved his mind and wanted to make a marriage for Bian Jingyu and Shen Yi.

Shen Deyuan has always remembered Uncle An Ping's kindness these years, so he agreed to Uncle An Ping's proposal, and the two exchanged tokens on the spot.

In this way, Bian Jingyu and Shen Yi became engaged.

Then, ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and Shen Deyuan was promoted step by step, but suddenly he was sent to prison.

The Song family and the Lu family have always valued Bian Jingyu very much.Now that Bian Jingyu is sixteen, they no longer treat Bian Jingyu as a child, but only as a man who can support a strong family.Mrs. Lu went to the uncle's place to test it out, and saw that the uncle really didn't stop thinking about asking Bian Jingyu to marry a man, so he listened to Bian Jingyu's words, took out some private money, and asked Bian Jingyu to help. Help the Shen family, at least make life easier for the Shen family in prison.

The Lu family is the legitimate daughter of the Royal Merchant Lu family, and she will never be short of silver envoys.

Bian Jingyu ran away for a few days, but before he could do anything, the Shen family's verdict came out.

Fearing that the Crown Prince's reputation would be ruined if the case continued to be delayed, the Holy Majesty quickly convicted Shen Deyuan, confiscated all of the Shen family's property, and Shen Deyuan and his eldest son, Shen Si, would be exiled to the Northwest.As for Shen Yi, because he was young and weak and not yet a weak crown, he was not on the exile list.In addition, Mrs. Shen's Mrs. Su and Mrs. Shen's Mrs. Yu (the daughter-in-law of Shen's parents) were all female relatives, so they were not included in the exile list, and they could still keep the dowry.

The sentence was light.

It may be that many of Shen Deyuan's friends have acted in secret, or it may be that the emperor knows the truth and deliberately handles it lightly.

Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Su brought their eldest daughter-in-law and youngest son back home early, while Shen Deyuan and his eldest son still had to live in prison until the day of exile.Although Mrs. Shen is a xiaojiabiyu, after all, she has been the wife of the family for decades, and she can still survive these things.With the help of Shen Deyuan's friends, she arranged the dowry, and took the remaining masters and second and third loyal servants of the Shen family to Nancheng to rent a small courtyard, and resettled there anyway.

The Shen family suffered such a catastrophe, and it was a blessing in misfortune that no one died.But the situation of the Shen family at this time is really not good.

There are five masters in the Shen family.Shen Deyuan and his eldest son Shen Si are still in prison.The eldest daughter-in-law, Yu Shi, is five months pregnant.She is a young daughter-in-law, this is her first pregnancy, because she was forced to live in a dark women's prison for a few days, and she was always terrified. Now her pregnancy is really not good, and she can't get up in bed after returning home. , according to the number of three meals a day, the mouth is poured with anti-fetal medicine.And Shen Yi is also sick.At the beginning, the master said that Shen Yi could not see outsiders before the age of 16, and the day the house was ransacked was the day before his 16th birthday, his soul might have been frightened.

So, Su's has to support many things inside and out.

Su Shi had to take care of her daughter-in-law and her youngest son, who was burnt out, and felt haggard both physically and mentally.

It takes money to see a doctor and prescribe medicine, and the money cannot be spent.Although there is still a dowry that can help with one or two, but the Su family was not a wealthy family at the beginning, and the Su family's dowry was very limited.Unless it was a last resort, she really didn't want to touch her daughter-in-law Yu's dowry, and Yu's dowry was also limited.And they need to continue to take care of the prison, and only if outside help take care of it, Shen Deyuan and Shen Si's life will be easier.

In addition, the daughter married to the Qian family also made Su worry about it.Her daughter is now seven months pregnant, two months older than Yu Shi, so she doesn't know what is going on now.Mrs. Qian is an old friend of Shen Deyuan, she will definitely not treat her daughter lightly, she is afraid that her daughter is too worried.

Mrs. Su personally fed her daughter-in-law the medicine, took care of her daughter-in-law and rested, and came to watch over her youngest son Shen Yi's bed.

Shen Yi's face was flushed red.

An old servant hurried over from outside, his expression was not very good.Mrs. Su took off the scalded kerchief on Shen Yi's head, ran it through cold water, wrung it dry, and placed it on Shen Yi's forehead again.She sighed and helped Shen Yi straighten her hair, and then walked out of the room lightly.

"What's wrong?" Su Shi asked.

"Someone threw rotten leaves at our gate." The old servant said angrily.

The law and order in Nancheng is not very good, and most of the people living here are small merchants and craftsmen.They heard that the new residents in the yard were the family members of a corrupt official who was still living in prison, so they threw a lot of filth into the main entrance of the yard with the intention of doing justice for the heavens.

After going through so many things, Su has never cried.The youngest son became so ill, and the medicine didn't work, so she didn't even cry.At this moment, hearing that his master was misunderstood so much and Shen's family was so belittled by others, he felt that he couldn't bring himself to speak up, but he couldn't stop crying.

The old servant hurriedly said: "...The most important thing is that the old slave saw idlers loitering outside the yard." If it was just that the gate was splashed with filth, she must have kept it a secret.It's just that the gathering of idlers is something that we absolutely dare not hide. Who knows what these idlers can do?If they rushed into the yard, the old, sick, and weak in this family would be the opponents of those idlers?So prepare early.

Su wiped away two tears indiscriminately, and frowned deeply.

"Madam, why don't you ask the master's friends again..." the old servant said cautiously.

Su shook her head: "They have helped a lot in secret, otherwise, how could I take the children out of the cannibalistic place smoothly? How can I keep the dowry? What's more, when the master and the boss are forced to leave for the northwest At that time, someone needs to take care of it, and the favor must be saved until then."

Thinking of the master and uncle who are still in prison, the old servant's face turned bitter, and he couldn't help turning his back and wiping the corners of his eyes.

Su Shi said again: "You don't call me madam anymore, I have lost my mandate, and I can't be called madam. Don't be caught in the wrong place."

Suddenly, a boy of seven or eight years old ran from the main entrance.He is the grandson of the old servant who talked with Su just now.Now there are only four servants in the mansion, the old servant, the old servant's son and daughter-in-law, and the old servant's grandson.When the young man saw Mrs. Su, he immediately said, "Ma'am, Uncle Anping is here!"

"Uncle Anping?"

"Exactly! Uncle has come in person!"

There was a gleam of joy on the old servant's face.If there is uncle's care, the master's family will not be bullied by a bunch of idlers.

Su Shi became more and more worried.Although her second son, Shen Yi, is engaged to the second son of the Bian family.But their Shen family has fallen into the current situation, it is hard to guarantee that the uncle did not come to withdraw the marriage.The Su family doesn't blame the Bian family either.Something happened to the Shen family, Shen Yi was ill again, if the Bian family didn't want to be dragged down by the Shen family, it was really human nature.But as a mother, if someone really disliked her child, she couldn't help feeling uncomfortable.

Su Shi only felt that her heart began to ache.Enduring the inexplicable pain, she said, "Let's go, let's welcome uncle in."

Uncle Anping came in a sedan chair.He got off the sedan chair at the door, and walked into the yard by himself. This detail alone showed his modest attitude, and Su Shi was slightly relieved.There was a sedan chair behind the uncle, the sedan chair was tightly surrounded, and it was unknown who was sitting in it.

Seeing Mrs. Su, Uncle An Ping sighed deeply, and said, "Sister and sister, I am the one who is sorry for your family!"

The Su family became more and more sure that Uncle An Ping had come to withdraw the engagement, otherwise why would Uncle An Ping be so humble.But it's better to be ashamed of the Shen family than to look down on the Shen family.Su smiled with difficulty, and said: "Uncle, what are you talking about, there is no way you can be sorry, we are not so lucky."

Uncle An Ping pointed to the sedan chair behind him, and said, "It's good that my brothers and sisters don't blame me. I took the initiative and brought my niece and daughter back."

Niece?

Su Shi looked towards the sedan chair, and seemed to hear the weak cry of a baby.