Chapter 109 Chapter 21 Genealogy

Back in the village, the ceremony has already been completed, the tofu feast is not over yet, my father and cousin are still dealing with the aftermath, but this big event is considered complete.There are still a few tables left, most of them are Taoist priests and singers. They have to sing when others eat, and now it's their turn to eat.The old man looked tired, but he was still in good spirits. He was still eating with a few singers, and he didn't have time to pay attention to me. When my cousin saw us coming back, he greeted us and asked how we were doing. The third uncle briefly explained the story, but the cousin didn't understand it very well, so the second uncle went to his house to look at the genealogy, and then explained carefully after reading it.

There are two copies of the genealogy, one is copied, in another relative's house, and the original one is hidden in the cousin's house. The cousin resigned from his table and let us go with him. He kept the genealogy in a sandalwood box in his bedroom and locked it well. For the cousin, this thing was a symbol of his status.The way the old genealogy is recorded is very special. We couldn't find it, so our cousin helped us to find it, and soon we got to our family line. The old man of the Wu family, the first coffin in the ancestral grave, is not the eldest son of the direct line in the genealogy, but other branches cannot be tested, so this line is so conspicuous.Those who came to the back were basically descended from the old man of the Wu family.I saw that Mrs. Wu's title is "Zu Yi Gong", and the eldest son's title is "Shan Cheng Gong" on it, and there is a small letter below Shan Cheng Gong: Concubine He's eldest son Wanji, second son Wanbo, third son Wanxiang.

That is, the boss of the Wu family that Xu Aqin mentioned was Shan Chenggong, whose mother was named He, and Shan Chenggong had three sons, the eldest son Wu Wanji, the second son Wu Wanbo, and the third son Wu Wanxiang. There are no female names in Chinese genealogy, so I don’t know who the real wife of Lord Shancheng is. However, in the back, there are brief biographies of people who have achieved a little bit, about one page, briefly introducing that person Achievements and status of marriage and childbearing.The second uncle turned over and checked Shan Chenggong directly. He said that Shan Chenggong was the second in our line, so this genealogy must have been compiled by him, and there must be a brief biography.

I opened it up and saw that there was indeed one. Shan Chenggong, that is, Ada of the Wu family who built the ancestral grave, has two wives and three sons.The second uncle looked carefully at his wife's name and said, "Yes." We leaned over to ask what was the matter, and he said, look, the first of these two wives is named An, and the second is called He, and then turned to the front to look at the genealogy, and the three sons of Shan Chenggong are all He, who is a concubine. raw. I said, so the main room has no children, and the main room has nothing to do.This is also normal. At that time, there was no Maria Women's Hospital to treat infertility.

The second uncle asked his cousin to take out the paper that registered the name of the coffin of the ancestral grave, and calmly said: "But you see, the coffin buried with Mr. Shancheng in the ancestral grave is not An's, but He. Even if nothing comes out , and it is impossible to let the side room serve as the main room for burial. Look again, there is a brief life of Mrs. He in this biography. She is the fourth daughter of the He family in Zhao Shandu. When she died, it is written. There is no record at all. In feudal society, this kind of situation is impossible. That is, the He family relies on his son to be domineering, and the Wu family still has the patriarch and relatives. She will not make an exception in this respect. It's impossible to be Shen Jiang. But this happened, don't you think it's strange? This wife, Anshi, is like an invisible person, very mysterious." He said like a teacher.

I don't have any idea about these things, my head is getting dizzy, so I asked him to stop, "Second Uncle, please speak briefly." The second uncle took a pen and wrote on the back of the paper for registering the name of the coffin, and said while writing: "I don't know if you have read "Liu Ming Tong Hui". There are some ways of pronouncing them, including the word An: the homonym of An is darkness, and darkness means no light, no light. Mengcheng is full of the An family, so why should a stranger cherish the eastern land'." I kind of realized what the second uncle meant, but I couldn't believe that he meant it. My cousin and the third uncle didn't understand even more, so I said, "Second uncle, could it be that you mean that the main room is safe?" Shi, no name? Then, the extra unnamed coffin is the coffin of the main wife An Shi?"

The second uncle nodded, and the cousin said, "But the female corpse in that coffin doesn't look like the burial method of the main room." The second uncle said after listening to me, he turned to the genealogy and said, "At that time, how could someone marry a woman whose name is unknown? The existence of this An family is quite strange." "Don't be so absolute, maybe there is a very low-key wife, and her surname is An, so she can't have children?" The third uncle said: "You are just thinking about it. And why did you think about it? ? When I listened to that old monster just now, I couldn’t think of that at all.”

I'm also surprised, second uncle, you are too imaginative. The second uncle said: "Of course there is a reason. I noticed it when he was talking to the end."