Shanghai Songjiang, known as Rongcheng in ancient times. The most famous family here is the Wang family, the Wang family has a large population, according to the location, people divide the Wang family into the East King and the West King. As early as the Ming Dynasty, some of the Wang family members living in Xicheng had been high officials and passed down poetry and books to the family. Before the Ming Dynasty, no one who lived in Dongcheng was an official, until after Wang Guangxin, a famous envoy of the Qing Dynasty, the Wang family successively produced three brothers who lived in official residences and one product, and for a time they were extremely prominent.
Wang Guangxin's family was poor in his early years, his parents died, and it was his uncle who raised him. At the age of twenty years, Wang Guangxin took the middle school xiucai and lived in the school. There was a rich man surnamed Yao near the school who wanted to invite someone to teach in his family's private school, but Wang Guangxin was worried that his life was not settled, so he accepted the offer and went to Yao's house to teach every morning and return late.
This summer, Yao Yuanwai got up early and stood upstairs to look around. Faintly, he saw two lights in the distance moving slowly toward the village. Yao Yuanwai felt strange, so he stared carefully, and the light reached the front of the village, but it was extinguished, and Wang Guangxin followed him to the door of the private school.
Yao Yuanwai doubted whether he had read it wrong, and in the evening, when Wang Guangxin returned from teaching in the private school, he quietly followed behind and watched. Wang Guangxin was completely unaware, and walked back along the field path before he stepped out of a field, under the faint shadow of the moon, in the dim skylight, two bright lights appeared on Wang Guangxin's shoulder, illuminating the way forward.
Yao Yuanwai really saw it, he knew that Wang Guangxin would make a mark in the future and become a prominent figure, so he thought of marrying his newly adult daughter to him. Yao Yuanwai found a matchmaker and went to Wang Guangxin's uncle's house to discuss the marriage. Wang Guangxin's uncle had a hard time raising Wang Guangxin, and he really did not have the ability to handle the marriage for him. Yao Yuanwai forcibly made the decision, let Wang Guangxin enter his home, and became a door-to-door son-in-law.
Although Yao Yuan regarded Wang Guangxin as a treasure and thought that he had a promising future in the future, the Yao family did not look up to Wang Guangxin as a poor scholar, and the relatives of the Yao family often looked at him with blank eyes. A few years later, Yao Yuanwai died, and the Yao family was reluctant to take Wang Guangxin into his home.
Wang Guangxin's wife knew the thoughts of the family members and said to her husband: "You were originally just the son-in-law of the Yao family, and now that your father has died, you should not mention the matter of entering the Yao family again, or take me back to the Wang family." Wang Guangxin did not know that yao's family did not welcome him, but people were poor and short-minded, and he helplessly told his wife: "Where do I have a home to vote for?" Mrs. Yao asked him where he lived before he got married, and Wang Guangxin said that he lived in the school. Mrs. Yao then asked her husband to take her back to the school to rent a house and settle down.
Not long after, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng attacked beijing, entered the customs after the Qing Dynasty, and bandits ran rampant throughout the country, and there was constant turmoil. Wang Guangxin's uncle took his family from the countryside to Songjiang to escape the war. Wang Guangxin took in his uncle's family and rented a house in the temple, and the two families were ready to live together. Because Yao Fu was pregnant with her third child at this time, Wang Guangxin took his two sons to the temple to settle down first, planning to come back later to pick up Lady Yao.
Unexpectedly, that night, a stream of rogue bandits broke into the vicinity of the school, and Mrs. Yao was so frightened that she left the house and fled for her life. Escape to a bamboo forest to take refuge. Because of the running and the fright, the child in Mrs. Yao's belly was also born prematurely. Mrs. Yao sat on the ground leaning against a bamboo tree, groggy and her life hanging in the balance.
In the haze, Mrs. Yao saw an old woman dressed in white come to her side, help her body lie down, help her cut the umbilical cord of the child, and then tear off Mrs. Yao's coat to wrap the child. After doing this, Wang Guangxin also found here with people. Lady Yao handed the child over to Wang Guangxin and told her that an old woman dressed in white had saved her. Wang Guangxin asked lady Yao and the child to be carried back to the residence, and then looked for the old woman in white, who was gone.
A few months later, the Qing Dynasty unified the country and life settled down. After another year, my uncle saw that Wang Guangxin was busy teaching in private schools all day, and felt that this was not a long-term solution, and he said to Wang Guangxin: "In recent years, there have been frequent wars and chaos, and you have not studied for a long time in order to live, but you are afraid that your studies will be abandoned." For the sake of the future, I will help you dismiss those who ask you to teach next year and let you concentrate on the examination. Rest assured, although I am poor, I can fund you with dozens of stones of grain, and you don't have to worry about your family going hungry. ”
Lady Yao agreed with her uncle's opinion, and she also encouraged her husband to actively prepare for the examination, saying to Wang Guangxin: "Although life is difficult at the moment, I can also do some needlework to help support my family." If you concentrate on reading, if you are not named on the next autumn test list, you will not have the face to see your uncle at that time. ”
Wang Guangxin then concentrated on studying, only seeking the title of the gold list. During this time, a monk came to the Wang family, and when Wang Guangxin saw him, it turned out to be an old acquaintance from many years ago. It turned out that wang Guangxin had met this monk very early on, and the monk took a closer look at Wang Guangxin's face and said to him: "Looking at your face, you should be a great nobleman, but unfortunately your good fortune is covered by hair, if you are willing to follow me around the world, you will definitely be able to become a figure like Liu Bingzhong in the Yuan Dynasty in the future." At that time, Wang Guangxin did not believe the monk at all, and laughed at his words.
When the monk saw Wang Guangxin, he laughed, pointed to his hair that had been shaved at the behest of the Qing government, and said, "Well, now that the hair that covers your good fortune has been shaved off, my words are about to be fulfilled!" Wang Fangxin still thought that the monk's words were unbelievable, and the monk looked at his face carefully, frowned, and said, "You have the life of a pint officer, but your face does not seem to be like this, what is going on?" ”
At this moment, Wang Guangxin's eldest son, Wang Yanling, came in to serve tea to the guests, and when the monk saw Wang Yanling, he jumped up in surprise: "It turns out that this is the case, this is the real Yipin master, you rely on your son to be able to posthumously seal." As he was speaking, Wang Guangxin's second son, Wang Jiuling, came in from outside the door, and the monk looked at him and said, "This is also a pint, but it is slightly worse than his brother." ”
Wang Guangxin's third son, Wang Hongxu, was still swaddled at this time, being held in his arms, Wang Guangxin asked the monk to also look at it, and the monk looked at the child and said: "Haha, it is another one product, the official position is not as good as the two brothers, but the fame is much greater." Wang Guangxin disagreed with the monk's words: Where did so many yipins come from, could it be that the Yipin officials of the Qing Dynasty were contracted by themselves?
Unexpectedly, later, the three sons successively passed the examination for the jinshi, the eldest son Wang Yanling later became a scholar of Wuyingdian University and the Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, which was Zheng Yipin; the second son, The official to the Imperial Envoy of the Left Capital of the Duchayuan, the official rank was from Yipin; the third son Wang Hongxu was the first to pass the examination for the Jinshi, and later the official to the Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, also from Yipin. The three brothers were all writers and poets of the early Qing Dynasty, while Wang Hongxu had higher achievements and greater fame.
The three brothers of the Wang family were all the most elite officials and became the most prominent people at that time. There is a poem in the Qing Dynasty: "Langya Gate follows the three locusts, and the eight sound traces are not cold." The Prime Minister Shangshu was a royal envoy, and he still has thunder in his ears. "It is written about the glory of the Wang family's one door and three masters.