Abandoned wives of the Qing Dynasty

"What lock?" Sifujin was a little confused.

Seeing that she didn't understand, Ning Hua explained, "It's the locks of Wang's locksmiths, which can be found everywhere in Beijing and Yangzhou. They are said to be descendants of Wang's family, but I have seen them all, not my grandmother's. The lock is exquisite, sister-in-law, you don’t know, where is my grandmother, it’s fun, wait a minute, I’ll ask Baizhu to bring it for you to have a look.”

"Okay, okay, I've seen it, and my family has better ones. If you like this, tell me earlier, I'll give you this as your birthday present over the years. It's so affordable." Si Fujin covered his mouth and smiled.

Isn't it just a few locks? Looking at Ning Hua like this, he seems to be such an amazing treasure.

"Hehe, sister-in-law, let me show you first, Baishu, go get a basin of water, then bring me that box." Seeing Si Fujin's appearance, Ning Hua knew that he had never seen it before. That's the real lock.

However, this is also normal.

Although Wang's locksmiths are also very famous now, they are now famous for their exquisite workmanship and various fancy styles.

Even if it is from Yangzhou, it has a complete variety and takes a gorgeous route.

But Ning Hua knew that the real Wang's locksmiths were most famous for their strangeness, ingenuity, and secret mechanisms.

If it wasn't for listening to the second mother humming beside her grandmother at that time, Ning Hua would never have known, nor would she have known at all, that Wang's locksmiths are so famous.

The Wang family was first famous for their organs. At the beginning, their surname was Han. In the Tang Dynasty, it was said that they were the organ designers of their imperial mausoleums.

Of course.Everyone knows the fate of becoming the designer of the imperial mausoleum. If one person dies, the emperor is more lenient and cruel, and the whole family will also die, so as not to dig out the secrets of his imperial mausoleum.

So in a certain year in the Song Dynasty, a certain outstanding talent of the Han family fled with his wife and children.

Who made him one of the people who were selected to go to Beijing?

People who have beautiful wives and loving daughters don't want to die early.I don't even want to take the lives of my children.

Therefore, he fled from Jiangnan at that time to Yunnan and Guizhou, and changed his surname to Wang.

People also want to live, and if they show their production mechanism skills, they will definitely be captured by the clan, so.People then remade the lock.

After hundreds of years, the Han family has long forgotten about this defector, and the descendants of the Wang family have worked hard to study the lock technology generation after generation, and even applied the family's unique knowledge to the lock.

"Mechanisms and locks? Can this also be used?" Si Fujin felt a little strange.Like the man's small study, it also hides the mechanism.As for the imperial mausoleum, there are many traps, but the lock and the trap can be confused with each other, right?

As long as the lock has a key, it can be opened completely. As for the mechanism.Well, insist on a relationship.It seems there is still some connection.

"They specialize in this. The last time Second Mammy Humph showed it to me, it was amazing." Ning Hua said excitedly.

At this time, Bai Zhu also brought out the water and the box.

"Sister-in-law, watch." Ning Hua rolled up his sleeves and immersed the lock in the water.

There was no reaction at first, but after a while, a slight "click" sound was heard in the water, and the water level in the basin suddenly dropped, and a large part of it was sucked in by the lock.

"There are holes in this lock, if the lock sinks into the water, the water will naturally go in." Si Fujin said.

"The fun is in the back, sister-in-law, don't be impatient, ha." Ning Hua smiled, and when the lock was almost sucked, Ning Hua took it out again, then pointed the keyhole at Si Fujin and said, "Sister-in-law, just now you said , it’s normal, then we took out the lock, you see, the water didn’t come out.”

As he spoke, he turned the keyhole downwards and kept shaking it.

Si Fujin looked at it, and it really didn't come out, and there was no water stain on the lock, even if it was because Ning Hua was shaking it, but Si Fujin also knew that logically speaking, it was impossible to lock the lock without any water.

He took the lock from Ning Hua and planned to observe it carefully.

As soon as the lock was in his hands, it was a little heavy. It was really embarrassing for Ning Hua, a scholar, to actually be able to hold the lock, and it was a little heavy to hold it by himself.

"You mean that there is a mechanism in the lock, which can absorb water when it enters the water, and then it will automatically close when it is full?" Si Fujin asked after pondering for a while.

"Sister-in-law, I did it manually, not someone else automatically. This lock was made by the joint efforts of Huo Ha Ermao. If someone's craftsmanship is in front of the real Wang's locksmith, this is it." Ning Hua showed his little finger Said.

"Did you do it?"

"Of course, the two of them taught me. My grandmother also passed it down from a real locksmith. But now that she is a treasure, she said that she will be buried with her. If she said that, I, as a junior, naturally don't like it." It’s good to steal what she wants, so she gave me some of the few Erma Erma Hehe made this year.”

Ning Hua signaled Bai Shu to take those things down and said, "Although grandma didn't give it to me at that time, I did study it carefully. The box on top of the box is most likely the work of the locksmith's son-in-law."

According to Ermo Hengha and herself at that time, when the Wang family locksmith was passed down to the previous dynasty, she probably had three sons and a daughter, and the eldest son was the most talented. Unfortunately, he died not long after becoming a relative. His natal family was also somewhat related, so they took the daughter-in-law back home, and then the daughter-in-law finished three years of filial piety, and then gave it to someone else to fill in the house.

The so-called Wang family locksmith in the capital is actually the descendant of this daughter-in-law who later married and gave birth to a son with another man.

It's just that the man's family had a reputation in the previous dynasty, but the more prestigious it was, the more it could only pretend to be a grandson in the Qing Dynasty.

After the man's family fell, the clansmen fled in disarray.

In order to save her son's life, the daughter-in-law gave his son the surname Wang.

It should be said that the reputation of Wang's locksmiths was also heard in the Qing Dynasty far away in the border at that time.

After the family changed their appearance, coupled with the chaos of war at that time, no one recognized it.

After waiting for two generations to be in charge of the family, others will naturally think that they are the real descendants of the Wang family.

After all, at that time, the eldest son of the Wang family could be said to be the true heir of the Wang family. When he married a daughter-in-law at that time, he naturally wanted to be with her for the rest of his life. Therefore, he worked in the shop during the day and taught him carefully at night. wife.

Although the eldest son died early, it can be said that the daughter-in-law has learned five or six of the Wang family's unique skills.

In addition to not learning the core technology, some of the outside ones can definitely be said to be imitated perfectly.

And the one in Yangzhou is the son-in-law of the youngest daughter and son-in-law of the Wang family.

At that time, Wang's second and third sons were all incompetent, but the daughter and son-in-law had good skills. Therefore, at that time, the daughter and son-in-law were basically in charge of the family. At that time, the head of the family thought that the two sons were not successful. Then pin your hopes on your grandson.

The shop is guarded by the daughter and son-in-law, while the head of the family devotes himself to teaching the three grandchildren.

The son-in-law naturally sees the actions of the family members, so he is also very dissatisfied, but there is nothing he can do if he dissatisfies.

After all, if this kind of thing gets out, people must be on the side of the family.

When the Qing army entered the customs, the Wang family moved their home to Yangzhou. Coincidentally, there was a massacre. What was even more unfortunate was that the entire Wang family, including the son-in-law, All were killed.

Rather, it should be said that at that time the son-in-law had already had other intentions, because his wife had been doing her best to take care of the shop, and only gave birth to two daughters for the son-in-law, and then she had no intention of rebirth.

At that time, people were thinking that the man's family also relied on his own family to live, so would he still abandon her?

And although that man didn't abandon her, he naturally didn't want to have no offspring, so he raised a concubine outside and gave birth to a son.

It should be said that that man is also a scheming man, who has been peeping at the work of the old man and his brothers-in-law.

Plus what he learned from his wife and father-in-law before, plus some experience, he made notes and put them in the outer room.

Compared with the expertise of the eldest son and daughter-in-law, he has learned relatively broadly and broadly. In addition, his research over the years can be said to be superior to that of the eldest son and daughter-in-law. Unfortunately, he died early. Taught his son some furs, and a notebook was killed by the Qing army.

However, his son has led the Jiangnan lock industry for many years with only some fur and notes.

And in order to show that he is orthodox, the outer room also gave his son the surname Wang.

However, the two families also knew that they were not orthodox. Therefore, those in the capital did not come to the Jiangnan border to make trouble, and those on the Jiangnan side did not go north. They used the Changhe River as the boundary and did not interfere with each other.

And the reason why Second Nanny Hengha knew about it was really a predestined relationship.

Hehe Second Nanny's master used to be the eldest son's cousin, but because she was a cousin of the aunt, the aunt didn't like this cousin very much.

Although the head of the family at that time wanted to marry the two families, but because the wife objected, they married the eldest son.

And the cousin naturally remembered her cousin, and the family members felt sorry for the niece at that time, after all, it was the older sister who had promised to take care of her at that time.

After all, how can you expect your brother-in-law's filling in the house to treat her kindly?

It's just that after the eldest son passed away, the niece disappeared, and after a few years, she became the master of Erma Heng Ha.

The niece lived in her uncle's house for a long time when she was young, so she naturally knew the temperament of their family. Therefore, when the so-called eldest son of the Wang family in the capital was passed down by descendants, she naturally went to see him.

However, if the daughter-in-law doesn't know her niece, how could the niece not know her daughter-in-law? After all, if it wasn't for this daughter-in-law, how could she not be able to marry her cousin, and how could his cousin die? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)