Bao Zheng and Di Renjie should be regarded as the stars of the ancient case-handling circle in film and television dramas, but also the strength of the faction, handling cases like gods, not afraid of the powerful and honest, so they are highly respected, but when it comes to their families, whether it is historical records or legends, they are rare, but this does not mean that they have no descendants. In fact, Di Renjie's descendants were still relatively normal, giving birth to three sons, only the youngest son Guansheng was exactly the opposite of his father, and was hated by the people when he was an official in Weizhou, so that the people destroyed the ancestral shrine that had been built for him because of his gratitude to Di Renjie.
In 1058, when Bao Zheng, who was sixty years old at the time, mentioned the question of the vacant throne of the Eastern Palace to Song Renzong, Song Renzong immediately asked Bao Zheng who he liked, and Bao Zheng answered Song Renzong's question with such a sentence: "Your Majesty asked the subject who he wanted to stand, and he was a suspicious minister." The subject is seventy years old, childless, and not a blessed one. Sixty-year-old Bao Zheng has no son, which is a sore spot for Bao Zheng, of course, he does not really have no son, but the eldest son has died, and the second son has just been born, he does not know at all.
Bao Zheng died at the age of sixty-five, this age is actually a long life, but he only had two sons and two daughters in his life, which is indeed a lot for people now, but in that era it was not much, especially Bao Zheng originally actually had only one son, and he died at the age of twenty-one, and his only grandson died a few years later, which is equivalent to Bao Zheng having no queen, only one surviving grandchild.
However, sometimes life is to have unexpected surprises, Bao Zheng at the age of sixty, actually old to get a son, it is this son let the Bao family continue to branch and leaf, the story of which is really twisted and bizarre.
Bao Zheng's original match, Li Shi, died early, and then remarried Dong Shi, and in 1033, the thirty-five-year-old Bao Zheng ushered in his first son, namely Bao Zheng, who married his wife Cui Shi and gave birth to Bao Wenfu. But then, Bao Qi died young, and Bao Wenfu also died at the age of five. Bao Zheng and Dong clan are more enlightened, once persuaded Cui to remarry, after all, at that time Cui was not yet twenty-five years old, there were good years waiting for her, but Cui insisted on refusing to remarry, it can be said that Cui is the blessing star of the Bao family, although her own suffering is more miserable, but she stayed in the Bao family, did not let Bao Zheng and Dong become lonely.
When Bao Wenfu died prematurely, Bao Zheng was nearly sixty years old, and it was basically impossible to have children again, but the Bao family could not cut off the incense, so one of Bao Zheng's descendants was inherited to the name of Bao Zheng and the Cui family, raised by the Cui family, and continued the incense of the Bao family, he was Bao Yongnian. But perhaps it was providence that sixty-year-old Bao Zheng actually had a biological son.
Bao Zheng had a concubine Sun Shi, and did not know what reason was sent home by Bao Zheng, but coincidentally, Sun Shi was pregnant when he returned home, and after this matter was known by Cui Shi, she went to Sun's house several times to appease Sun Shi and let Sun Shi give birth to a child with confidence, and then there was Bao Zheng's second son Bao Shou. After Bao Shuo was born, he was carried back to his room by Cui Shi and raised personally.
Cui Shi is very careful, but also very smart, she did not tell Bao Zheng at the first time, that is likely to anger Bao Zheng, after all, Sun Shi was sent home, Bao Zheng must not be able to hang on his face and do not want to admit the child, so Cui Shi personally raised, only to wait until Bao Zheng was sixty years old when he hugged it. Bao Zheng knew that he was old and had children, and saw that the child was so cute, he accepted the child almost without consideration, but it was impossible for the Sun family to be brought back. Therefore, Bao Shou has always been raised by the eldest sister-in-law as a son, including the two wives that Bao Shuo married later, which were carefully arranged by Cui, and Cui shi even found his biological mother after Bao Shuo's marriage and took over to reunite with Bao Shou.
In 1062, when Bao Zheng died, Bao Shou was only five years old. Emperor Renzong of Song, grateful for Bao Zheng's exploits, made the five-year-old Bao Shou the Taizhu of taichang Temple, and three years later, Bao Shou was promoted to Dali commentator, which showed the importance that the imperial court attached to Bao Shou. What is even more rare is that Bao Shou did not grow crooked under such attention, but under the guidance of Cui Shi, he was diligent and studious, strict with himself, and he was very honest and clean after becoming an official later.
However, Bao Shou did not live long, and when he was forty-seven years old and went to Tanzhou to take up his post, he died of illness on the road, and Bao Shou had been an official for many years, but he did not have any savings, so that after his death, the coffin could not be transported back to his hometown. Bao Shou had six children, four sons and two daughters, of which two sons and two daughters died prematurely, and only two sons later started a family. It was at this time that the two sons had saved enough money for their father to return to his hometown.
The world is uncertain and always unexpected, and Bao Zheng did not expect that the incense of the Bao family was actually continued by the concubine Teng who was sent home by herself, although she was born in a maid, she was a great hero of the Bao family.