Liu Yun, who reacted, was surprised and delighted, and faintly felt that it would not be so coincidental, who is Xu Hao? Today's most trusted hero of the saint, how could he come to Hangzhou if he is not in the capital to enjoy happiness?

Hurriedly sent the family to inquire around, and the people who came back without exception said that this Xu Hao was not Xu Hao, but a native of Liaodong, and brought his family to Hangzhou to play, and there was a road guide issued by the government as evidence.

Liu Yun quickly relieved his doubts, and secretly scolded Zhu Boqing and Jiang Dengyun, how could they get acquainted with the high-ranking and powerful Xu Dudu, if they knew each other, how could there be no movement in the officialdom? It was also because he had been worried about the news at home for a long time, and he didn't know that there was a Xue Wen in Hangzhou, and he didn't know that the Jiang family was from Xiaojia Village.

In the main room of the Xu family at the foot of Wu Mountain, Mrs. Xia and Mrs. Mu were talking about their hearts, Mrs. Xia sighed: "I regret that I shouldn't have returned to Hangzhou to settle down, if I stayed in the capital, my deceased husband and son must be alive, and I blame me for only focusing on the whole family business, neglecting to take care of my husband and disciplining my son, alas!" In the end, it almost came to naught. ”

"Let's pass the past, I have left my bloodline, and I don't have to worry about the Xia family having no successor."

Mrs. Mu accompanied her with emotion, saying that the Xia family was forcibly moved into Beijing by will, although it was a big family with a name and surname in Hangzhou, what was it in the capital of 100,000 rich families and princes and nobles? It happened that she gave birth to Ning Xue that year, and was introduced to hire Xia Shi to enter the house as a nurse.

Xia's knowledge and conversation are extraordinary, and they are deeply respected by Mu Ying and his wife, Mu Ningxue was enlightened when she was one year old, and Mrs. Mu got along with her as a sister in the boudoir, and later when Mu Ningxue was eight years old, the Mu family helped the Xia family return to Hangzhou to settle down. Reorganize your business.

Who would have thought that the two of them were both loving and living happily as husband and wife, but they became widows successively in middle age, and the pain of being a widow is indescribable.

In the early years, the two ladies talked about everything. has been pampered for a long time, and the natural topic quickly digressed to the privacy of the boudoir.

Mrs. Mu smiled bitterly: "It's not a secret, every night is lonely and sleepless, a little acupoint and spring, rubbing the heart and full of affection, sometimes I really want to hook a man to satisfy my hunger, but fortunately, there are still some utensils that are barely usable." didn't do anything unseemly, and finally had the face to see the ancestors of the Mu family in the future. ”

Mrs. Xia said: "Who said no, back then, Empress Wu was so angry that Yun's life could not be 100 years old. Joy is timely, which is similar to 'the husband can't live for a hundred years, and he should be left stinking for ten thousand years', the so-called chastity is nothing more than putting a shackle on a woman. If it weren't for the rats around you. I've been a slut for a long time. ”

Mrs. Mu said with a smile: "Your opinion was different back then, otherwise I wouldn't have let you go back to Hangzhou, for fear that Ning Xue would be taught by you to deviate." Strange way, I always feel that my uncle's thoughts are very similar to yours, speaking of which, this kid has nothing to say to Ning Xue, and he doesn't raise people to be concubines, but at the same time, there are a lot of girls left, sometimes I really can't see through him. ”

Mrs. Xia said disappreciably: "It's just a few maids, what qualifications do you have to compete with Ning Xue?" No matter how much it is, it's nothing. With the status of an uncle, who can say anything if he raises a hundred and ten concubines. ”

"He dares!" Mrs. Mu snorted coldly. turned to smile and said: "Don't mention the couple, the two children have great ideas, and it's not our turn to worry about the elders." By the way, you just mentioned that after the Tianwu Dynasty, I also remember reading a turtle scripture, which is rumored to be from the hand of the martial queen. ”

Mrs. Xia said with a smile: "It's probably just a false rumor, and it can't be true, but aside from the mysterious yin and yang theories and absurd things, there are thousands of people here, and there are naturally thousands of kinds of turtles, so only prostitutes and the like can be well-informed, let's guess at most." ”

"Idle is idle, let's talk about passing the time." Mrs. Mu was interested.

Mrs. Xia said: "Women are most afraid of marrying the paralyzed turtle in the Turtle Sutra, I have a daughter-in-law at home, her man is strong and burly, and some are strong, who is not envious when they get married?" I didn't know that after three months of marriage, I came to cry to me, saying that the thing was short and sluggish, not to mention, even if it had been bait with a hundred medicines, it was impossible to hold it once, and it turned out to be a heavenly eunuch. If you want me to say that this kind of man is really hateful, he can't be humane and wants to hide his wife, and then I simply found him a stone girl, born a pair to live, no one blames anyone, the daughter-in-law remarried someone else. ”

Mrs. Mu clapped her hands and smiled: "That's how it should be." Secondly, probably the most annoying thing is the rotten tortoise, although it can be angry, but it will be defeated in just a few breaths, marrying this kind of man is really disappointing, and it is almost the same as marrying a heavenly eunuch. Since ancient times, why have many women preferred to be ruined than to steal? Even because I can't bear it for a long time, this kind of dispute in my family is often the most difficult to deal with. ”

Mrs. Xia sighed: "The husband has the grievances of the husband, and the wife has the unwillingness of the wife, it is a confused account, otherwise why is there etiquette and law." ”

Mrs. Mu said: "I remember that the turtle of manlessness is the most funny, and the turtle classic describes it as the lowest of the three, as small as a child's thing, and it is as if it is not put in it; There is also the turtle of the member, which is good-looking and good-looking, but it is soft and useless, and marrying such a man can be regarded as a sin in the previous life. ”

On the way back from Xu Hao's hit the West Lake, many men were wrapped in green turbans, red cloth belts were tied around their waists, and they were wearing hairy pigskin boots under their feet, and they couldn't help but shake their heads slightly.

This is the Hongwu Dynasty's decree, the standard dress of Lehu men, and also one of the origins of the green hat, although Zhu Gaochi has decreed to pardon Lehu who has been a prostitute for generations, but after a long time, many men who are used to letting their wives and daughters usher in them still do not change their customs.

Xu Hao believed that it was impossible to completely eradicate such feudal customs in the Chengping era, and that the cost of revolution was too great, either the whole society faced drastic changes, or it came to fruition through the rise of capitalism, because he was too lazy to waste his efforts.

Take the Lehu in front of you as an example, you don't want to farm, you don't want to do business, you don't want to make a lot of efforts, you are used to parasiting on women to live, forcibly ordering them to change their careers, and the custodian is going to die behind your back and curse you. Don't think that you have done a good deed, in fact, in the hearts of some Lehu people, they have cut off their way of life, and besides, those who have a good life will naturally choose other livelihoods.

Speaking of which, where the happy households often gather, there are many rivers and lakes that make a living. Selling drugs for rejuvenation or abortion, looking at gynecology or something, Xu Hao also knew a lot about the doctors of the Ming Dynasty through Xiangyu.

Doctors have been a highly respected profession since ancient times. Although the status is not as high as that of scholars, aside from the famous doctors with real talents and learning, most quacks are divided into two types, one is poor doctors and the other is rich doctors.

Most of the poor doctors are because they keep the high school of the scholars, put a medicine box at home, and sit at home with their hands up. I know very well that my skills are not high, so I rarely go to see people, and I make a living by selling medicines. If someone buys moldy ginseng at a high price, they will not have to worry about their livelihood for three years, otherwise they will continue to be poor.

The rich doctor must be a more diligent person, and usually hires four palanquin drivers every day. Carrying a small sedan chair with an oil coat and a red top. Regardless of the weather, wind or rain, running around in the streets and alleys every day, deliberately buying some roast goose duck or ham smoked chicken, the scholar followed behind the sedan chair with a medicine box on his back, and the people saw him go to the clinic all day and night, and he was so hungry and useful, that he must be a famous doctor.

Only those who are familiar with it know that it is a few hundred pennies at their own expense, and they are carried on the street. If someone is sick and rushes to the doctor, it depends on his own creation. Anyway, the quack doctor tried his life, and if he was lucky, he was cured, and the doctor got money to feed his wife and children, and if he was unlucky, he said that he was terminally ill and had no cure.

In fact, the Ming Law has a clause on the conviction of quack homicide, but it seems that it has never been used, and it is difficult to convict unless it is intentional homicide. The reason why traditional Chinese medicine is gradually declining is that in addition to being too difficult to learn, the entire industry has not been standardized.

The ancients were not good looks, but good doctors, saying that they could save people, in short, medical ethics were at ease in people's hearts.

Xu Hao encouraged Xiangyu and them to study medicine for the sake of the whole family, which was indeed out of hard work. It's not that I don't trust traditional Chinese medicine, but a prescription that can kill people by adding a few catties and taels, which is too unsafe, at least there are trustworthy people such as Xiangyu to check it, and it will not be due to the doctor's temporary negligence, and he will die in a daze.

After thinking about it for a long time, the carriage slowly entered the house, and Xu Hao looked through the window to see Xia Wu standing in the distance.

Xia Wu's family was originally richer than the Xia family, but Xia Wu liked gambling when he was young, and when his father was not at home, he stole everything that could be sold for money, his mother doted on her son, and her husband didn't tell her when he came back, and when he was waiting to use it, it was gone, so he said that he was taken by his son.

Later, his father locked up all the valuable items in the house, and brought the key with him, Xia Wu lost the money and owed debts and came back to find things to sell, and there was nothing at home, so the angry Xia Wu turned out a blue cloth skirt of his mother, and left with the quilt on his father's bed.

This made him angry, and in order to prevent his son from selling the whole family, he easily did not dare to go out after that.

Xia Wu was scolded after returning home, and heard his father scolding him for not studying well and going downstream, and glared angrily: "You say I'm obscene? I'll show you a lewd look, you say I bet, I used to be a small gamble, you don't say I'm better, you say so, I'll go to the big bet to show you. ”

As a result, the creditor who lost the money came to ask for it, and if he didn't give it, he stood outside the door all day long and beat him up, and he couldn't beat Xia Wu hard to pay back the money.

Relatives and friends asked Mr. Xia to go to the yamen to sue, because Xia Wu was an only son and reluctant, sometimes he felt sorry for the silver to sue, and then he felt sorry for his son and stopped, making Xia Wu more and more unscrupulous.

Once, Xia Wutong played money with a few singles, and his luck was very smooth, and from morning to noon, he won three or four hundred taels of chips, and after gambling and settling accounts, he asked for silver.

Unexpectedly, the losers said together: "The man's money is easy to win?" When you lose one day, pay it off slowly. ”

Xia Wu was in a hurry and shouted, "How much silver did you usually win me?" If you lose, you won't be able to rush it, I finally won once, and you want to rely on me? No way. ”

A bachelor sneered: "Let's tell you the truth, your kid is our fortune boy, my brother unfortunately lost today, it is your creation, don't talk about three or four hundred taels of silver, even if you want three or four hundred copper coins, you can't do it." ”

At that time, Xia Wu was angry and anxious, and scolded a few words, but was beaten to death by three people, his mouth and nose were bloody, his face was red and purple, and his clothes were torn to shreds.

was making trouble, and happened to be passed by Mrs. Xia's husband, Mr. Xia, and saw that it was his distant relatives who hurriedly stepped forward to drink.

Master Xia asked the reason, Xia Wu told the reason, and Master Xia said to those bachelors: "My distant nephew loses two thousand taels a year, and he only won one game today. How can I be deceived by no one in the Xia family? ”

Everyone didn't dare to reply when they saw that he was dressed decently, and besides, it was their own side that was at fault, so they immediately dispersed in a hurry.

Master Xia sent Xia Wu home, and said angrily to his father: "Since you have the ability to raise your son, why don't you have the ability to discipline him?" Let him gamble outside and get into trouble, what is the game? Since you don't dare to take care of him, then send him to the government and deal with the gambling people together, so as to get rid of the gambling addiction. ”

Daddy Xia spit out a sentence of truth for a long time: "Why don't I want to? But the official was afraid that his relatives would laugh at him, and he had no face. ”

Master Xia said angrily: "Okay, okay, your son doesn't grow up like this, but he has face, and you have lived so long." ”

Coming out angrily, Master Xia scolded: "Phew! I don't know how to appear in the future and embarrass the Xia family. ”

God knows that Master Xia died of illness within a few years, and his son Xia Lai lost control and did not listen to his mother's hard advice, and finally harmed others and himself and was cut off his head, but Xia Wu's parents quickly lost all their family property after their deaths, and they couldn't gamble without money, and they lived alive to this day. (To be continued......)