Poor Family

As an uncle, although Mrs. Shi loves his concubine the most, there are also concubines in the house. Apart from Mrs. Shi, there are two other aunts who gave birth to children for him.

Mrs. Shi gave birth to three sons and one daughter in total, the eldest son Shi Zhengmao, the eldest daughter Shi Yuhua, the second son Shi Zhengkun, and the youngest son Shi Zhengye.

Two aunts, Aunt He gave birth to a son and a daughter, the concubine Shi Yuwen and the concubine Shi Zhengde; Aunt Kong gave birth to only one daughter, the concubine Shi Yuru.

Four sons and three daughters, Mr. Shi still has a lot of children.

The seven children, according to the order of birth, the first is Zhengmao, the second is Yuhua, the third is Yuwen, the fourth is Kun, the fifth is Virtue, the sixth is Yuru, and the seventh is Zhengye.

With the children starting their own families and the birth of grandchildren, the branches and leaves of the Shi family became more and more luxuriant.

In this regard, the old man was very pleased.

Because of Shi Yuhua's return, Mrs. Shi sent someone to call all four sons and daughters-in-law to Yixiang Hall.

As soon as everyone arrived, Mrs. Shi said, "Something happened at home. I originally wanted to tell you when you all took a rest, but today Yuhua came back, so I might as well tell you about it."

"Zhengmao, Zhengkun, you all have errands on your body, it's not easy to keep others waiting, it's better to send someone to ask for a leave."

When he heard that he had to ask for leave, Shi Zhengkun's heart tensed up, while Shi Zhengye and Shi Zhengde, who knew nothing about it, looked at each other in blank dismay.

Zeng Yuwei's daughters-in-law looked at Mrs. Shi, and seeing that there was nothing unusual on her face, they were a little relieved, suppressed their curiosity, and silently sat beside their husbands.

The atmosphere in the room was somewhat dignified, Shi Yuhua saw that Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Shi both had tense faces, and came out with a smile to liven up the atmosphere: "Mother, what happened, why are you and father so serious?"

Mrs. Shi glanced at Shi Zhengkun, took out the letter from Jiang Anbang last time, and handed it directly to Shi Yuhua: "You are my sister, you should read it first."

Shi Zhengkun's heart trembled at the sight of Mrs. Shi, and when he saw Shi Yuhua's face of more and more surprise after reading the letter, his heart became more and more uneasy.

"impossible"

Shi Yuhua shook his head while watching, looking in disbelief.

"impossible!"

Before reading the letter, Shi Yuhua tried to deny it: "Mother, the second uncle must have made a mistake, how could Zhengkun not be the son of the Shi family?!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room was shocked. Except Mrs. Shi, Mrs. Shi, and Mr. and Mrs. Shi Zhengmao who knew about it at the beginning, everyone else opened their mouths in surprise.

Shi Zhengkun swayed, took a few steps forward and snatched the letter from Shi Yuhua's hand, and then quickly read it, the more he looked at it, the paler his face became.

Zeng Yuwei couldn't sit still at this time, and quickly came to Shi Zhengkun's side, and read the letter with him.

"how so?"

After reading half of the letter, Zeng Yuwei collapsed.

The person she married was not the son of the Shi family, but the son of a military family? !

Shi Yuhua and Shi Zhengkun had the best relationship. Seeing that Shi Zhengkun's hand holding the letter was shaking, he couldn't bear it, and quickly looked at Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Shi: "Father, mother, you must have made a mistake, right? ?”

Shi Zhengkun also raised his head quickly, and looked at Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Shi beseechingly, hoping that this was just a joke they were playing with him.

However, he was disappointed.

Looking at the serious eyes of Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Shi, Shi Zhengkun collapsed.

He couldn't accept this fact.

How could he not be the son of the Shi family?

He still has memories of scenes from his childhood, Shifu is his home!

"I don't believe it, father, mother, I don't believe it!"

After finishing speaking, Shi Zhengkun slapped the letter on the table, turned around and ran out of the room.

Zeng Yuwei stood there in a daze, also looking unacceptable.

When Mrs. Shi saw it, she sighed, got up and helped her to a chair and sat down.

Zeng Yuwei grabbed Mrs. Shi's wrist, and eagerly asked for confirmation: "Sister-in-law, this is not true, you tell me, it is not true, it must be Uncle Jiang who made a mistake, right?"

Mrs. Shi looked at her parents-in-law, and sighed: "Butler Shi and Nanny Xu are both in Rongcheng now, and they met Changsen's family. Changsen looks like the second uncle, and his daughter is exactly like the mother, so it can't be wrong .”

Zeng Yuwei still shook her head: "There are so many people who look alike in the world, this alone doesn't explain anything at all."

Mrs. Shi showed sympathy: "But Steward Shi went to Tianlingtun and met the Li family, and the facial features of the fourth younger brother and the fourth younger brother are quite similar to that old man Li."

If it was just Li Changsen's family that looked like the Shi family, there was indeed insufficient evidence, but Shi Zhengkun also looked like the Li family, which made it impossible to refute.

Zeng Yuwei couldn't accept it, she stood up abruptly, and left quickly without saying a word to Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Shi.

"Mother, her fourth sibling"

Mrs. Shi didn't care about it, and waved her hand: "Let them all be quiet."

Shi Yuhua picked up the letter again and read it. After reading it, he still didn't want to believe it: "Father, mother, uncle, are they really right?"

Mrs. Shi glanced at her: "Your uncle has always acted prudently and rigorously. If he hadn't confirmed it, he wouldn't have told us about this kind of thing."

As he spoke, he took out the letter from Shi Nian and Madam Xu.

"This is a letter from Steward Shi and Nanny Xu. They won't talk nonsense. You should read it too."

Shi Zhengye and Shi Zhengde recovered from the shock and joined the team of reading the letter.

After everyone read the letter, although they were not as collapsed as Shi Zhengkun was, the shock was still palpable.

Shi Yuhua looked at Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Shi: "Father, mother, if the child is really wrong, what are you going to do?"

Mrs. Shi looked at her indifferently: "What do you mean what to do? What else can you do, that is your own brother, so naturally you want to take him back to Shi's family."

For the younger brother who grew up in a military family and had never met, Shi Yuhua really couldn't empathize with him, but for Shi Zhengkun who grew up together, he couldn't bear and sympathized: "Then what about Zhengkun? "

Mrs. Shi said indifferently: "If he is still willing to stay in the Shi family, then he is the adopted son of the Shi family. If he is not willing, then let him go."

Upon hearing this, Shi Yuhua and Shi Zhengye were a little shocked.

Shi Yuhua got up eagerly and walked to Mrs. Shi's side: "Mother, is this necessary? I have no objection to taking back that Li Changsen, but Zhengkun doesn't need to do such an absolute job right here."

Mrs. Shi frowned tightly, and looked at Shi Yuhua with displeasure: "You and Zheng Kun have a good relationship, I understand, but Chang Sen is your real brother, you'd better find out about this."

"What do you mean we can do it all? I just handed over the choice to Zheng Kun. If he wants to go or stay, it's up to him. Your father and I respect his decision."

Shi Yuhua became anxious: "Mother, that's not what I meant. There are many ways to bring Li Changsen back. It doesn't have to be that Zhengkun is not the son of the Shi family."

Mrs. Shi understood her daughter's meaning, shook her head and said, "But he really isn't." Then she clicked on the letter on the table, "And he already knew."

"You are afraid that he will have a rift with his family, right? But, even if we don't make it public, he and we will never go back to the past."

"Yuhua, for things that cannot be done by humans, do as many mistakes as possible, especially don't deceive yourself and others."

"Bringing your brother back to Shi's family is the responsibility of your father and I as parents. As for how Zheng Kun will treat Shi's family, I will leave it to God to arrange."

When Shi Yuhua heard Mrs. Shi say this, knowing that his parents had already made a decision, he felt a little annoyed: "Then Li Changsen grew up in the border, and he is still a military household. He probably doesn't understand anything. He returned to Shi's house. Our family I'm afraid it will become the laughing stock of the capital."

"Snapped!"

Mrs. Shi put the tea bowl in her hand on the table heavily, looked at Shi Yuhua coldly, only looked at Shi Yuhua with a guilty conscience and bowed her head.

"I think it's not easy for you to be in your in-law's house. I seldom talk about you these years, but it makes you more and more shameless. Are you a sister who said this?"

Shi Yuhua was a little dissatisfied: "If I don't say it, won't it happen? Mother, you know better than me what people in the capital are like."

"My own son was wrongly held for more than 30 years, and he grew up in a border military family. I can now imagine that our family has become the laughing stock of others."

Mrs. Shi was silent: "There is never a lack of gossip in the capital, and there are few people in our family who pay attention to it. Even if someone says a few words, it is not painful."

Shi Yuhua snorted: "But my mother-in-law and sister-in-law will make fun of me."

It was rare for the old lady not to answer these words.

Because of the decline of the Shi family, the life of the three girls in her husband's house was somewhat difficult.

Shi Yuhua was unhappy and didn't want to argue with his parents. When he saw Shi Zhengye and Shi Zhengde who were silent, he immediately changed his partner: "Fifth brother and seventh brother, this is a big family matter, you should say something." !"

As a concubine, Shi Zhengde was very aware of his weight in the family, and since it was about his aunt's son, it was not his turn to intervene, so he immediately said, "I will listen to my father and mother."

Shi Yuhua didn't count on him either, and looked at Shi Zhengye: "Seventh brother, what do you say?"

Shi Zhengye pondered for a while before saying: "Since the child was carried by the wrong person, I think it's best for everyone to return to each other."

When Shi Yuhua heard this, he immediately became angry: "Everyone, do you still want Zhengkun to go back to the border and become the son of that military household?"

Shi Zhengye immediately said: "That's how it should be, recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors."

Shi Yuhua snorted coldly and said: "I think you are stupid in reading and studying. Zhengkun returned to Li's family. At that time, the family's raising him for so many years was all in vain."

Shi Zhengye hated people saying that he was stupid when he read books, and his tone became bad: "I'm not as smart as your second sister, since you are so smart and you can't bear Shi Zhengkun so much, then you handle this matter. "

"You can bring back my fourth brother and not offend Shi Zhengkun, so you can show me one. Hmph, you want to please both sides, do you have the ability?"

"you"

The old man slapped the table with a slap and interrupted the quarrel between the siblings: "Okay, your mother and I have already decided on this matter. Today I just let you know and didn't ask you to express your opinion."

As he spoke, he looked at Shi Yuhua.

"Didn't you come back just to inquire about this matter? Now that the matter is known, go back to Wei's house quickly, lest your mother-in-law and sister-in-law pick you up again."

Once the old master Shi spoke, Shi Yuhua didn't dare to say more even if he didn't want to.

Since they planned to take Li Changsen back in a legitimate way, Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Shi didn't want to hide the fact that the child was wrongly carried back then, so today's conversation spread throughout the Shi mansion like a tsunami, and spread outside the mansion.

Within two days, members of the Shi clan, the family of good friends, and the family of in-laws also knew about this matter.

For this reason, a wave of heated discussions was triggered.

At the same time, Rongcheng, the Li family.

After returning home from school, Li Qilang came to look for Li Wuya again: "Sister, it's been almost half a month, and there is still no movement from the Jiang family, so they really don't want to recognize us, right?"

Li Wuya was wiping the strings. Today she learned a new piece, and she was in a good mood: "It's just a blood relationship, and there is no emotion. If you don't recognize it, you don't recognize it. It's not a big deal."

As he spoke, he paused.

"By the way, what do you think of Dad's mood these days?"

Li Qilang: "I look pretty good, but I'm just a little distracted. Sister, do you think Dad really wants to recognize Shi's family?"

Li Wuya was silent, his father probably wanted to recognize his relatives.

Her mother once said that her father used to work so hard for the Li family because he wanted to get the approval and care of Li's father and Li's mother.

Her father should be very eager to get father's love and mother's love.

Li Qilang sighed: "Actually, I also really want to go to the capital." As he spoke, his eyes became yearning, "The capital is the place where the emperor lives, there must be a lot of delicious food and fun."

Li Wuya replied: "There will be many troubles. There are many people in high-ranking and big families. If there are many people, there will be more right and wrong. Do you think you can handle it?"

Li Qilang made a sharp cut and squeezed his fist: "I'm still afraid that they won't succeed?"

Li Wuya: "There are some things that can't be solved with a hard fist. In a place like the capital where nobles are everywhere, many things can affect the whole body."

"However, it's still the same sentence, high risk and high reward. In the capital, there will also be delicious food and beauty that we will never be able to touch in Rongcheng."

Li Qilang bumped Li Wuya's arm: "Sister, you also want to recognize the Shi family in your heart?"

Li Wuya smiled lightly, and generously admitted: "There are shortcuts for people to go to high places, and I am naturally too lazy to climb up step by step."

Li Qilang frowned: "Then what should we do now, the Jiang family has ignored us, so we have to beg to come to the door? Did we lose by wrestling with them?"

Li Wuya patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, what's wrong with this matter, we haven't made a move yet, and now we are just passively waiting for them to choose."

As he spoke, he plucked the strings twice, "Since Dad wants to recognize relatives, and returning to Shi's house will indeed benefit us, we have to take the initiative."

Li Qilang: "What do you take the initiative to do?"

Li Wuya: "Take the initiative to show a little value, so that the Jiang family has to bow their heads and recognize us first."

Li Qilang was eager to try: "How to show?"

Li Wuya was silent for a while: "Father and mother are not easy to operate, we have to come four. Governor Cai and General Zhuang are still in Rongcheng, Qilang, you go to Shang Laojiu now and ask him to inquire about their itinerary .”

"Okay, I'll go right away."