Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 196
Not only Yuan Shang was dumbfounded, but most of the people present only learned the whole story at this moment just now.

Including Liu He, including Huan's mother and daughter in the carriage.

After listening to Yuan Xi's words, the first thought that popped up in everyone's mind was this.

absurd!

It's ridiculous!

He didn't play cards according to common sense at all, completely breaking everyone's understanding of how the gentry behaved.

Most of the gentry are good-looking and want to be famous, but when a gentry, or a top gentry, throws away all these shackles, how outrageous things will be, until this moment, everyone has a full understanding.

Marriage between the gentry requires the support of both families to achieve each other, but Yuan Xi does not need it.

He was originally a child of the Yuan family, one more Zhen family is not much, and one less Zhen family is not much, not to mention that the Zhen family had already let him evacuate.

Of course, it was expedient for Zhen Mi to be expelled from the Zhen family in name, and she might not be able to return to the clan in the future, but in order to have a status when she got married, Yuan Xi also specially found her a foster mother.

Zhen Mi recognizes Huan's family as her adoptive mother, and she counts birds with one stone.

Originally, Yuan Xi wanted to return the Huan family from Cao Cao in the name of rescuing the widow, but he was slandered by people with ulterior motives as mother and daughter.

Later, Yuan Xi let Cao Song expelled from the Huan clan, and this rumor was confirmed even more, and his reputation fell to the bottom for a while.

But Yuan Xi only used one move, and then gently resolved it.

Let Zhen Mi, who has never been through the family, recognize Huan as her foster mother and use the name of the Bian family.

This not only clarified Yuan Xi's motivation for rescuing the Huan family, but also married Zhen Mi, who became Bian Rang's widow and righteous daughter, and allowed Yuan Xi to occupy the moral high ground.

Because from then on, he wanted to take care of Huan as his adoptive mother.

In this way, he is very likely to be supported by the gentry who sympathize with Bian Rang, and thus inherit all the political legacy of Bian Rang!
Yuan Shang felt chills down his spine, how did he come up with such an outrageous idea?

The Huan family in the carriage hugged Cao Xian, feeling complicated.

So Yuan Xi is such a person who understands righteousness?

Huan couldn't help feeling extremely ashamed that he really had the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman.

What made everyone even more puzzled was Zhang's courage.

In order to cooperate with Yuan Xi, he was willing to change his daughter's family and gave away all the property of the Zhen family. Why?
Isn't she afraid that the Zhen family's bamboo basket will be empty?

Mrs. Zhang met Yuan Shang's gaze with a calm expression.

Now that the Zhen family has been involved in the Yuan family's affairs, it is impossible for them to be alone, and they can only choose to stand in line.

On the bright side, Yuan Shang, as the future master of Jizhou, must have a much more promising future than Yuan Xi.

But Zhang didn't think so.

After she learned about Zhen Rong being deceived, she knew that Yuan Shang was just treating the people around him as pawns that could be used and discarded at will.

The power of the Zhen family is not worth mentioning to Yuan Shang, so they may be given up at any time.

But Yuan Xi is different. He is on the rise, and every investment in him is precious, and he may reap rich returns in the future.

Of course, it is also possible to lose all your money, but how can you not take risks in doing business?

And most importantly, Yuan Xi made a very heavy oath to Mrs. Zhang.

According to the promise, Yuan Xi's fate will be linked with Zhen Mi's in the future, and the Zhen family will never suffer from it.

The Huan family firmly believed in this, because Yuan Xi swore the poisonous oath in the name of Yuan's children, and this was the greatest guarantee.

Yuan Xi had also made a poisonous oath before, and those who heard it would not feel that there was anything wrong at all, but would feel that it should be taken for granted.

Different from what some people in later generations think, and think that children like to swear, the Han Dynasty is an era that likes to swear to express their will and attaches great importance to oaths.

The poisonous oath made by the gentry, especially the children of the rich family, must be strictly obeyed. It not only insults the family's reputation, but also binds their own reputation and morality.

Whether it is "swear allegiance to the lord to the death" when the subordinates took refuge, or the lord said to the subordinates "I will never betray you", they will all be taken seriously.

So in this era, people are happy to swear to make others believe, and they are also willing to defend this oath with their lives.Such as Guan Yu, such as Zhuge Liang.

Of course, there are exceptions. For various purposes and reasons in this era, there are many people who did not keep their promises in the end.

For example, Lv Bu once promised Dong Zhuo that "I will swear to father and son", which is also a kind of oath. Later, he killed Dong Zhuo. Regardless of whether Dong Zhuo was good or bad, Lv Bu was despised by the gentry because of this.

For example, Liu Bei once deceived Liu Zhang in order to seize Yizhou and destroy his promise.

Although Liu Bei did these things, in the eyes of other heroes, it was not a problem at all.

At this time, the world is fighting, as long as you have a thick skin, promises are like farting, and they are insignificant. For example, Sima Yi's Luoshui oath completely broke the bottom line among the nobles.

Since then, evil fruits have been planted, creating the curse of Sima's unrewarding.

In the two Jin Dynasties, the imperial power was weakened to the point where it was almost on an equal footing with the gentry, and the emperor was despised and used by others, which had nothing to do with Sima Yi's broken promises back then.

But before Sima Yi did such a thing, the gentry at the end of the Han Dynasty still had a moral bottom line worth defending with their lives, and a large number of loyal and loyal figures emerged for this reason.

This is an era of decline, and it is also an era of declining morals. In this era, there are rituals and music, conspiracies and tricks, massacres, and wilderness of thousands of miles of bones.

But there are also a group of people who use their lives to guard the ideals and morality in their hearts, so this turbulent era is so respected and praised by future generations.

The more Yuan Xi understands the thoughts of people in this world, the more he realizes how superficial and ignorant his previous understanding of human nature and dignity was.

Of course, when Yuan Shang planned to frame Zhen Rong, he also made a promise to him.

It is precisely because of the special oath of the gentry that Zhen Rong easily believed Yuan Shang and fell into a trap.

But then Yuan Shang suffered a backlash. He deceived Zhen Rong about Gao Lan's life and death, so he lost his trust, and the Zhen family could no longer believe him.

Afterwards, Yuan Xi's private operations completely bound himself to the Zhen family. Even if Zhang wanted to turn around, it was too late.

Including intentionally meeting Zhen Mi to be seen by others, so as to spread rumors, is also part of the plan.

Mrs. Zhang sighed secretly, and she could also guess some clues from it.

What Yuan Xi has to do in the future is not easy, so he wants to separate the Zhen family, which is a kind of protection for the Zhen family.

But from now on, only Zhen Mi will entrust her life and death to Yuan Xi.

Now that everyone has figured out the cause and effect, their hearts are full of surprise, admiration, exclamation, and joy.

Only people like Yuan Xi can have such a unique idea, which seems to have broken the unspoken rules established by the gentry, but it has not touched the bottom line, and through this unique method, the gentry has been maintained. rules.

Guo Jia had a different idea from everyone else.

He guessed that by doing this, Yuan Xi was actually taking away his wife's family!

As a prince, he didn't want to seek his wife's family as a backing, but did the opposite. A large part of it was probably because Empress Lu was backed by the family's dictatorship.

But here comes the question, why did Yuan Xi consider Liu Bang's position?
Guo Jia's eyes were full of excitement, mixed with a gleam of ambition.

Yuan Shang found that things were completely beyond his imagination.

Now the card of screening in his hand is completely useless!
He snorted coldly and said, "Congratulations to Mr. Xian Yi!"

He didn't want to stay any longer, so he turned around and went outside Zhen's residence.

Yuan Xi said: "Young Master Xianfu, don't you want to watch an adoption ceremony? It must be very exciting."

Yuan Shang stumbled, staggered a few steps, and almost fell, he gritted his teeth and said, "No need!"

After speaking, he quickened his pace and left the door angrily.

When Zhen Fang saw him, he panicked and hurriedly followed. Before leaving, he turned to look at Mrs. Zhang and the others, and found that everyone ignored him at all, so he had to walk out in desperation.

Yuan Xi said from behind: "Patriarch, go slowly."

Zhen Fang turned his head and met Yuan Xi's ambiguous smile, his heart suddenly tightened for no reason.

I have offended Yuan Xi to death, and now I can only turn to Yuan Shang and seek asylum!

He ran out of the mansion with resentment in his heart, don't look down on others, I am also the head of the Zhen family now, and when I get an official position, I must squeeze the Zhen family clean!

Seeing that Yuan Shang was about to board the carriage and leave, he hurried up and shouted, "Master, wait for me!"

Yuan Shang stopped and sneered, "What are you going to do?"

Zhen Fang was stunned, and Ai Ai said: "My lord, my appointment as an official..."

Yuan Shang laughed angrily: "Zhen Fang, you are really shameless."

"Tell me, what is your use now?"

"You're a trash, but you still want to be a high-ranking official of the Two Thousand Stones?"

"Before I get angry, go back to Wuji County and be your idler!"

Zhen Fang watched in a daze as Yuan Shang ignored him, closed the door, and the carriage turned around to leave, feeling like he had fallen into an ice cave.

The dream of being the head of the Zhen family and a hereditary high-ranking official is shattered like this?

He suddenly remembered that Yuan Xi looked at him with a meaningful smile when he left. Yuan Shang's cold and piercing gaze just now made him shudder.

He was suddenly afraid of coming, and hurried back to the room where he lived before leaving, packing his luggage in a panic.

Looking at the load of tattered clothes and quilts, he wanted to cry but had no tears. He thought about coming to Yecheng to make a fortune, but in the end the bamboo basket was empty!

But if he didn't leave, he would be approached sooner or later. Now that he was abandoned, no matter whether it was Yuan Xi or the Zhen family, he was powerless to resist.

Thinking of this, he quickly carried his burden and walked out of the city.

At that time, there were a lot of people coming in and out of the city gate, and the crowd was bustling and crowded in and out. Zhen Fang was so crowded that he couldn't breathe. He tried to push away the people around him, but was bumped by the people next to him, and almost suffocated.

He was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, and he didn't dare to argue with others, so he had to swallow his anger and leave the city gate, heading towards Wuji County.

Fearing that someone would chase him, he chose secluded trails and walked for more than ten miles before he felt relieved.

As soon as he relaxed, he felt a dull pain in his side. He thought it was something wrong, so he couldn't help pressing it hard, but the tentacles were greasy.

When he raised his hand, he found that it was covered in blood.

Zhen Fang lowered his head tremblingly, and saw that the clothes on his side had been soaked in a large area by the oozing blood.

His eyes turned black, he felt his strength gradually disappearing, and finally realized that he still hadn't escaped!
He stumbled and took a few steps, then fell into the weeds, his mouth filled with a lot.

He looked up at the sky, feeling his eyelids getting heavier and the sky getting darker, and finally closed his eyes in regret and unwillingness.

(End of this chapter)