Chapter 230: The Great Mean (Part 2)

Sitting in the cabin, Cui Xian whispered: "Do you want to go out with Luo Luo in the future?"

The well-educated families of prominent families in the early and mid-Tang Dynasty, including Cui Youjie's Qinghe Cui family and Zheng Lang's Xingyang Zheng family, also had to go out, but it was not very good to meet strange men, so they wore a Luo curtain. This facial curtain is also called Luo.

The people of the Tang Dynasty were open, and the curtains were getting thinner and thinner. Later, no one wore them. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, all famous families were destroyed and all ethics were abolished. There was no saying of famous families after the Song Dynasty. Yes, only rich and powerful families were of different natures from the famous families and surnames of the Tang Dynasty, and no one wore this annoying little curtain. However, influenced by the concubine Li Yu's concubine, a few women began to wrap their feet in order to please their husbands.

Both are not what Zheng Lang likes.

And Choi Xian did a good job.

Apart from a few people at home, I almost never talk to strangers. What else should I do?

"Need not."

However, Cui Xian was still very careful, right next to Zheng Lang, far away from the other officials.

The boat made a slight ramming sound in the water. After a while, the boatman shouted, "Zheng Zhizhou, we are here."

"Please trouble Brother Ship."

The boatman let the brother shout at a loss.

Zheng Lang ordered a few yamen runners to carry a few things to the ashore. Not long after walking, there was a village with about fifty families, some poor and rich, and you can tell by looking at the houses. Five or six tiled houses, and the others were all thatched houses.

The yamen runner walked straight through the village and headed towards the west entrance of the village. Yuan Zhen, the magistrate of Dangtu County, asked: "Doctor Zheng, is he going to Xie Xiaozi's home?"

"Um."

It was a touching journey. The son's father died early, and his mother pulled him into an adult. He finally got him married a marriage, but he married a bad wife and came back, and was very unfilial to his mother. After his wife gave birth to a son, he became more and more evil. This person could not bear his wife's disobedience to his mother and gave him his wife out. Later, he raised his old mother and raised his son. He lived without a meal. Sometimes he would rather not eat enough than give his mother a good meal.

This kind of upbringing has been in the past ten years. Filial piety has moved everyone in Fang Yuan. Even officials like Wang Zhizhou who have experienced qualifications have come to visit and provide some funding.

After passing through a piece of green bamboo, I came to a few thatched huts. Under an ancient locust tree at the door, an old woman was sitting, shaking a cart to weave hemp. Zheng Lang walked over, sang a fat look, and asked, "Master, is this the home of Xie Chun and Xie filial son?"

The old woman stood up and looked at him suspiciously.

"I am the new magistrate."

"See the new magistrate," the old woman asked to salute.

Zheng Lang waved his hand, Cui Xian had already rushed forward and helped the old woman up, saying, "Empress, no need to show off. It is our couple who should show off. When we came to Taipingzhou, I heard about the Empress. My family was poor and it was difficult for ordinary men to live in the middle age of the young men, but it was not easy for the Empress to pull my son up to grow up."

The old woman made Cui Xian praise her so much that she didn't know what to say.

Zheng Lang asked, "Where is Xie Chun?"

"Zhuangyuan Gong, working in the field."

"Can you take us to see it?"

"Okay." Before the old woman left, Cui Xian took another step and said, "Grandma, let me help you."

"I dare."

"Empress, please help me." He said that, helping the old woman up and walking forward.

The officials looked at each other. This trick is great. If it is spread, it will shock the village tomorrow. No wonder the top scholar wants to bring his wife out. If Zheng Lang comes to help him, he will pretend to do it. But if Cui Xian comes to help him, there is no problem.

The idea is good, but who is the wife of the magistrate who can do this like Cui Xian, and she will not dislike it and support an old woman. This also requires a heart. Although her heart is suspicious and helping the old woman may not be a little sincere, she is very sincere for Zheng Lang.

There is also such cleverness, adaptability and decisiveness that ordinary women can do.

Knowing that such a husband and wife will win a lot of people's hearts, but few people can learn it.

After walking for more than a mile, I came to a rice field. A dark middle-aged man was working, and a ten-year-old boy next to him helped his father pull the tares in the field.

Seeing a large group of officials, a few teenagers, a beautiful little lady, helping her to come, the man hurried to the ridge of the field, and gave a gift at a loss, a very honest person. Zheng Lang said: "Can you go back first? I'll bring you some things."

"The top scholar, the young man, dare not accept me. The empress raises me to adulthood. It is necessary to respect her, but she cannot accept it."

"Who doesn't know what to do, but how many people can do it, including me, I was naughty many times when I was a child, which made several empresses worry. I went to the capital and caused trouble many times. Xie Dalang, you made me ashamed, so I should accept it," he said, and took his hand and wanted to go back.

Xie Chun was frightened and said, "There is still mud on his hands."

"The mud is so good. Without mud, how can all things grow? In my eyes, these big hands covered with mud and hardworking hands are the most beautiful hands."

The officials were even more ashamed. What a touching sentence. Did you see that, all the farmers watching around were crying. Why didn’t you say it before?

It was really stirred up. Seeing Zheng Lang holding Xie Chun's hand, Cui Xian helped the old woman back, the common people were so sad that they couldn't speak, and finally said, "What a magistrate, go and have a look."

He threw down the affairs in his hand, wiped his eyes with the corner of his clothes, and followed him toward the Xie family.

When he arrived at the door of Xie's house again, Zheng Lang asked the yamen runners to open up a few things, first rewarded them, a very generous reward, one hundred shreds of money and one hundred pieces of silk.

There is another more important thing, a piece of stele and Zheng Lang wrote a touching article "Found of the Loving Mother and Filial Son". This is also his doctrine of the mean. Yin and Yang are relative to each other. Without the care and correct teachings of elders, how can the filial piety of the servants be? Without the filial piety of the servants, how can the elders have the confidence to be kind to the younger generation?

This is the correct view of human ethics, which is kind to the top and filial to the bottom, and constitutes an organic whole of Confucian filial piety. If you live in a family environment like Shun, it would be a bit difficult to ask your son to be very filial.

The yamen runners were carrying stone tablets, and Zheng Lang said again: "Xie Dalang, this spring Your Majesty told me, let me see the good things of Jiangnan for him. The people in Jiangnan are simple, you are the simple things that Your Majesty wants to see. Sit down and let me draw a painting for you and the Grandmaster, and give it to Your Majesty in the future."

All the people watching were bombing the camp.

Show it to the emperor! Then he looked at the three generations of three people in the Xie family with envious eyes.

Xie Chun was so anxious that he wanted to kneel down and let Zheng Lang support him.

This move is very important in Zheng Lang's heart. It is not only to touch his filial piety, but also the most important point, to Dehua the folk customs of the whole province!

Let Xie Chun set an example of filial piety.

Jiang Xing'er took out the painting tools, Zheng Lang took the pen and first drew a sketch of the three of Xie's family, and there was also the background of the poor straw hut of the Xie family. After the sketch was drawn, Zheng Lang gave a deep gift to the old woman, without any magistrate's airs at all, so he led everyone away.

Re-boarded the boat.

The boat was sailing forward, and the place we went back was Zhujiazhuang.

But the family I visited was unexpectedly unexpected by all the officials.

The person who visited a very controversial woman was a family in Zhujiazhuang who had four sons. The family was poor and it was so difficult to raise four sons. Not only did they pull them into adults, but they also had to support them to get married. Therefore, after the eldest son got married, the couple fell down.

The eldest son had to take over his parents' job, pulling up three younger brothers and one of his own children, and fell down as he was tired.

Before he died, he just held his wife's hand and his eyes were not closed for a long time.

The wife seemed to understand her husband's idea. She changed to an ordinary woman. She was very young and had some beauty at that time, so she had already changed her marriage. However, this woman did not, but how could she support this family with her weak shoulders?

So she went to the county town to make some money by selling laughs. She only got the best looks, and the money she earned was less. In order to get more money, she quarreled with customers or begged with shamelessness, and was a very controversial person back then. However, her extremely bitter money continued to maintain the vitality of the family and helped her second son marry a marriage in a grand manner.

Someone was talking outside, and the third brother gradually grew up and couldn't stop his mouth. So when he heard it, he knelt down at the person and begged, "Stop talking bad things about my sister-in-law, please."

Under the leadership of my sister-in-law, what else can I say about the second brother and my sister-in-law? I helped my sister-in-law to continue to support the family. It was not until the third brother started a family and started a career that the woman ended her laughing career. Then the fourth brother became a relative again.

The fourth daughter-in-law wanted to be strong, and the fourth brother scolded her, and the sister-in-law defended her. Faced with such a sister-in-law, the fourth sister-in-law finally repented and knelt down to her to repent.

Since then, there has never been any quarrel in the family.

But it was her bad experience in the county town that the Xie family was exempted from taxation, while the Zhu family had never exempted from taxation, and no officials came to visit.

After hearing this, Zheng Lang immediately took it seriously, sent the yamen runners to inquire, and then sighed.

Like the Xie family, he gave him hundreds of stagnants of money, hundreds of pieces of silk, and stones to make fu, but it was replaced by "The Fu of the Sister-in-law". He also wanted to draw pictures, and these were ordinary people, but ordinary deeds were more touching than heroic deeds. He used Dehua Quanzhou and handed the pictures to the capital, and he didn't know if the big bosses in the court would use them.

When I saw the eldest sister-in-law of the Zhu family, she was only in her forties and was overworked and had gray hair on her head. Cui Xian and Jiang Xing'er and Si'er bent down together to give a deep bow and said, "I have met my sister-in-law."

She was making a living by laughing and should have some beauty, but now she looks like this.

Under this seemingly humble body, what a noble glory of human nature is hidden! Cui Xian has been moving her eyes with her little thoughts. At this moment, she was finally moved to see the old look of the eldest sister-in-law of the Zhu family.

"You killed me..." A woman who was very quarreling back then was frightened by the faction. The wife of the top scorer and the concubine of the top scorer gave me great gifts. Do you dare to bear it?

"This is what you deserve. How can we say that we are juniors? In twenty or thirty years, we will give you a big gift. But for you, it is too late, which is unfair..." Zheng Lang said.

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen people from the Zhu family cried like tears.

Walking out of the Zhu family, Mr. Lu whispered: "Doctor Zheng, I feel very upset."

"It's not a congestion, it's a touching thing. There are too many noble and humble little people like this. I only chose three from the middle. This is the hope of human nature."

I don’t think that only scholars and officials have personality, and small people also have the personality of small people, human dignity, and highlights of human nature.

Not only Dehua, but also a spiritual cleansing for one's own and a few of his students.

I got on board again and changed my place.

What I just saw was filial piety and fraternity, and this time I saw benevolence.

Therefore, this time the fu was replaced by "The Fu of Good Man".

Lu Ning, a second-class wealthy family in Lujiazhuang, had a very fair experience.

The family is very honest and kind-hearted, often does good deeds, builds roads and bridges, and sometimes uses money to support orphans and widows. The family has more than 200 acres of land, and rents some land for tenants. As a result of being kind-hearted, the rent is often not available.

The Lu family just smiled, very much like the aunt, but it did more thoroughly than the aunt Zheng Lang. Because they were honest, they were designated as second-class wealthy households in the county. How could it be second-class? The third-class were forced. They were heavy taxes and kind-hearted, so they had to work hard on their own. However, the county magistrates who served as Dangtu County seemed to have not seen it.

It is not that life is not enough to pass. If you get more money, you will have more achievements. The more honest people are, the more tax they have to collect. So they force the couple to go to the field to work and deal with the work.

It was heard by a friend of the Lu family's son's yamen in front of Zheng Lang that Zheng Lang sent someone to ask, and it was true that this person was discovered.

Looking at the inscription, Lu Ning immediately declined and said, "Zhengzhou, I don't dare to do anything."

The Zhu and Xie family didn’t know that Lu Ning was a main household and had seen some of the world. As soon as Zheng Lang’s sect was released, countless students might come to see him in the future and praise him one after another, and even leave it in history. It was not just a portrait that was as simple as showing the emperor, so how could he dare to accept it!

"Why don't you dare? It's the reward you get when you do good deeds in your daily life. Come and take me to see the bridge you built."
To be continued...