coobybook Chapter 115 is not the same thing
Chapter 115 is not the same thing
“If the Su family in the capital is in great trouble, the Jiangnan Su family will treat us the same way they treated the Su Long family of the Bashu Su family.
Grandfather, more than 30 years ago, you branched out from the Jiangnan lineage and established the Beijing Su family. You are the old grandfather of the Beijing Su family and have no connection with the Jiangnan lineage anymore."
She sees things very clearly.
Su Jingzhai found it unbelievable. In his early years, he had planned to recommend a young man with the title of Juren to enter the officialdom, but he did not recommend his own descendants, but a young man of the direct lineage in Jiangnan.
Is he really wrong? He has been extremely wrong in recent years.
He gave up his eldest son, his second son, and even the grandchildren of these two families.
"Wen Jiang, you are not in love with Su Mo, you want..."
Zhen Su smiled bitterly, "Love is one thing, marriage is another."
In her eyes, love and marriage are not the same thing.
These days, she has been watching from the sidelines, especially after becoming the Supervisory Envoy of Si Feng, she has seen and received more information. Because she was concerned about Su Mo earlier, she asked Chunfeng and Chunyu to investigate the affairs of the Su family, the direct lineage of Jiangnan. The more she knew, the more disappointed she became.
"My Lady, it was my parents' order and the matchmaker's words that Mr. Su Mo was discussing marriage with Miss Yao, the daughter of the Jiangnan Grand Commander, before he left Jinling. He had no objection to the marriage."
When Zhen Su heard about this from Chun Yu, he asked, "I don't object, but do you support it?"
"Neither did they. But our people found out that Master Su Mo once told his old servant, Master Su Qi, that during his travels around the world to inspect the Su family's assets, if he meets someone whose family background and status are comparable to Miss Yao's and who can please him, he would be willing to marry her."
Only if she is superior to Miss Yao in every way can she become his marriage partner.
He did not treat Miss Yao as a backup. If he could find someone more satisfactory, he would give up the marriage proposal with Miss Yao. If he could not find someone more satisfactory, Miss Yao and he would still get married as scheduled as planned by the elders of the two families.
It would be a lie for Zhen Su to say he wasn't disappointed when he learned about this.
If she hadn't recovered the memories of her modern life, she might not have been so free and easy.
But now, there are doubts, contempt, and even more of a feeling that "it turns out that beneath his angelic appearance, he actually has a very mediocre heart."
As she learned about several cases of Su officials being convicted, and that these Su officials had come into contact with the Su family's patriarch, young master, and sons from Jiangnan before they went astray, and that most of the reasons for their crimes were because of the Su family, Zhen Su's heart gradually fell to the bottom.
A few days ago, Zhen Su asked Chunfeng to investigate the affairs between Su Jingzhai and the direct branch in recent years, and only then did he know that since Su Jingzhai took office as the Grand Commander of Hunan Province more than three years ago, he has supported five officials from the direct branch of Jinling and the branch of Yangzhou in three years. Among these five people, two were candidate officials who had passed the imperial examinations in their early years and were equal to Jinshi. Three were originally only Juren and could only be minor officials, but Su Jingzhai transferred them and arranged for them to become county magistrates of the seventh rank as an exception, and one even became the county magistrate of July.
The three juren who had not passed the imperial examination were allowed to enter officialdom as an exception, and the person who recommended them was Su Jingzhai.
In the previous life, Zhen Su only knew that Su Gang, Su Jin and Su Qi were alienated from their grandfather. After his grandfather took up the post of a local official, he hardly contacted them. But now that he knows so much, it is not their fault, and what happened is that their grandfather gave up on them and treated them coldly.
My grandfather did not support his own descendants, but because of the big pie created by the direct line, he did his best to support the people of the direct branch and the side branches in Jiangnan.
Zhen Su continued, "My grandfather and uncle wrote several letters to the Su family, the direct descendant of Jiangnan, but they prevaricated and delayed with various excuses. They dislike me today, but one day, I will let them see that they are not worthy of me!"
Su Jingzhai shook his head and said, "No, the master and his son are both people of high rank and high status, how could they..."
He didn't believe they would.
Zhen Su said, "Grandfather, can't you see? The clan leader and his wife and the old clan leader's wife look down on me. In their eyes, I am not only a 'softie' who is famous in the capital, but also a useless person. I am also the daughter of a widow and an ominous person."
Su Jingzhai didn't believe such words.
Zhen Su said: "In the eleventh year of Emperor Taizu's Kaiyuan reign, Su Ping'an, the governor of Chenzhou, Huizhou, burned the eight members of Han Hong's family to death in his home because he stole the famous ancestral painting "Autumn Scenery in the Western Hills" from a scholarly family of the previous dynasty. Han Hong's married daughter appealed for her father and brother and appealed to the Dali Temple. In the autumn of the following year, Su Ping'an was beheaded in the West Market of the capital. The famous painting "Autumn Scenery in the Western Hills" is now treasured in the hands of the patriarch of the Su family in Jinling.
In the third year of Emperor Gaozu's reign, there was a pair of sisters named Xu Lian and Xu He, who looked like fairies. The magistrate of Qingcheng County, Su Shilin, forced the two girls to be his concubines, but the next day, the two girls disappeared mysteriously. Xu Lian's fiancé traveled thousands of miles to appeal to the Dali Temple, and Su Shilin was convicted and stripped of his official position.
In the autumn of the eighth year of Daguan, a female corpse with a completely unrecognizable face was found on the moat of Jinling. It was later confirmed that it was Xu Lian who had disappeared from Qingcheng several years ago. In the spring of the following year, Xu He escaped from the Su family in Yangzhou and set a fire in the Su family before leaving.
My maternal grandfather, many officials from the Su family's side branches committed crimes, and either died or lost their future. In the end, it was discovered that the ones who benefited were the direct branches in Jiangnan. They clearly had the opportunity to save people, but they did not lend a helping hand.
My grandfather thought they were people of good character, but how could he know that there were no evil people hiding among them? "
If you want to destroy a person, you must first make him crazy.
They did not suppress the talented people in the side branches, but praised them to death. Now the main branch used their usual methods on my grandfather. In the past few years, except for the two branches of Su family in Jinling and Yangzhou in Jiangnan, only the grandfather of the branch in Beijing held a high position. Whenever the people from these two branches came to visit, they mostly praised and praised him?
"Grandfather, when you supported their descendants and helped them gain a foothold, it was time for them to give up on you. If you don't think for yourself, you have to think for your uncles and cousins. You bypassed your eldest and second uncles' cousins and supported the Jiangnan Su family, which is one or several levels away from you. Do you really think this is normal?"
When the Jiangnan Su family can use people, they will praise and support them. However, once a branch member of the family is found guilty, they will immediately withdraw their involvement, and then have someone erase all traces and evidence related to them, and stand by and watch.
Over the years, the same case has occurred repeatedly. They are so ruthless to the members of the side branches. Zhen Su believes that when his grandfather is no longer of any use, they will not lend a helping hand.
Su Jingzhai murmured in pain, "How could this be? How could it be..."
He didn't believe that the direct branch was so ruthless. He was also from the third branch of the direct branch.
"Grandfather, when my great-grandfather interceded for you to establish another branch in the capital, did he warn you to 'live your own life in the future, and once you branch out, you will no longer have anything to do with the direct branch'?"
Su Jingzhai was surprised and asked, "Wen Jiang, who told you this?"
She sent someone to find out.
Zhen Su said: "Parents always have far-reaching plans for their children. My great-grandfather had a kind heart. Perhaps at that time, he saw the filth and ruthlessness of the direct branch. He sacrificed so many outstanding talents from the side branches just to help their branch prosper. How cruel..."
"How could the direct branch ..."