35 035 Deceiving the King
◎Friends! Have you heard of the story of a cat replacing a prince?◎ The
person who came was indeed Aunt Xue.
At this time, Aunt Xue was only in her thirties. I don’t know if she has always lived a relatively worry-free life, or if she is born with a more Buddhist character. Anyway, she doesn’t look that old, and there is no difference between her and a young woman in her twenties.
But to be honest, Aunt Xue’s appearance is still quite good, right? At first glance, she has the standard appearance of a noble lady. It is similar to the setting in the original book. The daughters of the Wang family do have a dignified and generous appearance. It can’t be said that they are not good-looking, but they are definitely not stunning.
The only exception is Sister Feng, who is not only hot-tempered but also charming and hot-tempered, a rare beauty.
While watching Aunt Xue crying and coming forward to pay respects to Master Kang, Mo Yu began to guess the purpose of her coming.
In fact, it is not necessary to guess that Aunt Xue came to Master Kang in such a high-profile and shameless manner to plead for her beloved son Xue Pan.
The Xue family in Jinling is a big family in the area after all. It is impossible that they did not get any news about such an important event as the emperor's southern tour.
Even if their family is in mourning, they cannot afford to take the emperor's carriage - unless the emperor grants permission, they have to stand by the roadside to welcome the emperor.
But just as Mo Yu complained before, there are many complicated relationships in Jinling City, such as "officials protecting each other" and "mutual kinship".
Although the Xue family is only an imperial merchant, their ancestors were also wealthy. The earliest Xue Gong achieved the position of Ziwei Sheren. Although it is slightly inferior to the Duke, Baoling Marquis, and Taiwei County Earl of the other three major families, they are closer to the emperor.
Ziwei Sheren is a role similar to the secretary of the emperor. If you are not a popular person around the emperor, it is impossible to get this position.
Including the position of imperial merchant later, this can only be held by the emperor's confidant.
Xue Pan's father, Mr. Xue, mentioned by Master Kang, was the last imperial merchant. His great-grandfather was the Ziwei Sheren mentioned earlier, who was of the same generation as the Duke of Ning and the Duke of Rong.
He was also a great man, otherwise it would have been impossible for the Xue family to win such a large share of property.
It's a pity that the ancestors were capable, but the descendants were bastards, and it didn't work after a few generations.
The other three major families at least had a shelf, but the Xue family basically didn't even have a shelf.
Xue Pan's father, Mr. Xue, had a weak body since he was young. After marrying Aunt Xue, the youngest daughter of the Wang family, he gave birth to a son and a daughter, Xue Pan and Baochai, and then he had no more children.
It's not that he and Aunt Xue have such a good relationship, the key is that even if he wants to, he doesn't have the energy.
Therefore, Xue Pan's education is basically out of control, but Baochai is carefully cultivated by Mr. Xue because she is smart and sensible. In the end, Xue Pan's son is unlearned, while Baochai's daughter is both intelligent and smart, better than ordinary men, which is also a pity.
But is the truth of the matter really like this?
In such an era, would a normal male parent give priority to educating a daughter and give up cultivating his own son?
I heard that when Baochai was a child, her father personally taught her to write? But this kind of thing never happened to Xue Pan. Even if the daughter is smart and the son is stupid, they would not be so partial to one
over the other, right? Mo Yu looked at Aunt Xue who was crying bitterly. Although he felt a little sympathy for her for raising such a shameful, stupid and harmful son, he couldn't help but gossiping about the strange parent-child relationships in the Xue family.
Unexpectedly, it's okay if you don't gossip, but you will be shocked if you gossip.
[What? Xue Pan is not the biological son of Master Xue and Aunt Xue? ]
When System 006 broke this news, not only Mo Yu was shocked, but everyone who heard his shocking voice was also shocked.
Especially Aunt Xue who was crying, she was extremely shocked and petrified on the spot.
Actually, it's not her fault that she's surprised by what she's seen before. The truth is, this is the first time she's directly felt what it's like to "hear the voice of the heart".
In addition to the same confusion, shock, curiosity and awe as everyone else, she also had another emotion - disbelief.
Yes, no matter who tells you that the son you carried for ten months and gave birth to, and then took care of for twelve years, is not your own, you will also have an unbelievable sense of unreality.
How is it possible?
Pan'er is obviously my own son.
I saw him with my own eyes...
How could I be wrong?
Aunt Xue stood there blankly and began to doubt her life. However, Mo Yu has not stopped digging for the deeper information of this melon:
[It turns out that it is the same trick of 'the cat replaces the prince' - I have to admit that although Uncle Xue died a little early, he is really amazing to come up with such an idea. ]
Mo Yu ate the melon while sighing, and even praised System 006 a few words, praising it so much that it was so happy that it even hummed a little tune.
Of course, on the surface, it still has to pretend to be an emotionless system.
It turns out that System 006 saw that its host Mo Yu was not interested in everything, but was only interested in these wild stories, so it took the initiative to retrieve some and store them for Mo Yu to tell him when he was bored.
As an excellent system, it should not impose its own ideas on the host, but should let the host have fun, live comfortably, and die at ease... Ah, no, cough cough, delete the last sentence...
It is impossible to die.
At least not that early.
Thinking of the host always talking about the fate of not living past three years old in the original book, System 006 felt his head buzzing - which host doesn't want to change his fate, but this one of them, not only doesn't want to change his fate and reach the peak of his life, *even wants to lie down and die early...
Is this the mental state of contemporary young people?
It doesn't understand it very well, but it is greatly shocked.
But it doesn't matter, no matter what, as the strongest system in history, no matter what kind of host it encounters, it will definitely work hard to complete the task.
Don't like fighting, just like gossiping?
It doesn't matter, make the arrangements!
System 006 is with you at all times!
System 006 was having fun with himself, and of course he didn't stop revealing information to Mo Yu.
It turns out that in this world of the Red Mansion that has been completely distorted, there is no shortage of explosive gossip.
For example, the Xue family of Jinling just happened to have such a big gossip.
The ancestors of the Xue family of Jinling started out as Ziwei Sheren. Although they are close ministers to the emperor, they are the emperor's confidants, but to put it bluntly, they are just servants - no matter how nice it sounds, they are still the emperor's slaves, and the kind of slaves who manage pens and draft imperial edicts. The risk index is inevitably a bit high.
Of course, the emperor trusts their family, but this trust cannot be unlimited. And it is impossible to perfectly replicate and pass it down from generation to generation.
To be honest, the Xue family, starting from the ancestor, Mr. Xue, the Purple Wei Sheren, all the way to Xue Pan's father, Old Master Xue, has been trusted by the emperor for three generations, which is already very rare.
Of course, although the Xue family has changed for three generations, the emperor has only changed two, and most of the time was when Master Kang was in power, which invisibly reduced the difficulty coefficient a lot.
But of course the so-called difficulty coefficient is also relative.
Mr. Xue, Old Master Xue, and Old Master Xue all got through it smoothly and gained the trust of the late emperor and Master Kang, but Xue Pan obviously couldn't do it.
First of all, Old Master Xue died too early, before Xue Pan came of age. Even if Master Kang wanted to sympathize with his old ministers, he couldn't make a half-grown child of eleven or twelve years old the Purple Wei Sheren.
Fortunately, the position of the imperial merchant can be inherited.
It's just that we still have to wait another two or three years, at least until Xue Pan is fourteen or fifteen years old.
Now, what can such a young age understand?
But if he is particularly outstanding, he can still be appointed as an exception.
In fact, there have been precedents for this kind of thing before, that is, the old one has to submit a book before his death. Master Kang has always been sentimental. Generally speaking, once such a dying will is submitted, his sons will definitely be rewarded with something.
For example, the Jia family, a common relative of the Xue family and their Lin family, played it this way.
Before his death, the old Duke of Rong, Jia Daishan, submitted a will. It is said that the earnest words and sincere emotions moved Master Kang very much. In the end, the title of Duke of Rong was given to Jia Daishan's eldest son, Jia She, who is Mo Yu's uncle in this body. Of course, according to the rules, he had to be demoted from Duke of Rong to a third-class divine general. There was nothing that could be done about it. It was good to have it. You can't complain at this time.
Then the highlight came. It is said that Master Kang also specifically asked how many sons Jia Daishan had. Hearing that there was one more, and he was a legitimate son, Master Kang waved his hand and gave this son the favor of a Yuanwailang, and also gave him Rongguo Mansion to live in - this is Mo Yu's unfortunate cheap second uncle, Jia Zheng, the biological father of classmate Jia Baoyu.
Originally, the title was given to Jia She, and Rongguo Mansion and other properties should also be given to Jia She. As a result, Master Kang suddenly played such a trick, and had to separate the title and the properties, and gave Rongguo Mansion to Jia Zheng, which made everyone confused.
Especially since Jia Zheng originally wanted to follow the example of his brother-in-law Lin Ruhai and take the imperial examination, but with such a blessing, he has no chance of taking the imperial examination at all.
So, is Master Kang taking care of the Jia family or is he disgusted with them?
Anyway, it depends on one's opinion...
At least the official statement is that it is a favor. And later Jia Zheng also became an official, although not a high-ranking one, but he was able to maintain a good living, which is not bad.
It is said that asking for a will before death can at least get a minimum living allowance, but the strange thing is that Mr. Xue did not ask for it before he died - do you think he died of an acute illness and there was no time at all?
What a joke, the old man was ill for at least half a year.
I don't even have time to write about this, so I can only say that I don't want to write at all.
Mo Yu also learned the reason from System 006.
It's very ridiculous, but it's quite reasonable. Because...
[I actually thought of replacing my own son who died at birth with someone else's healthy child, and then put him in the family tree, inherit the position of patriarch and have the qualifications of an imperial merchant. Emma, think about it carefully, is this... considered deceiving the emperor? ]
[Author's words]
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