History is evolved, but sometimes it always feels like it's repeating the past. --Liao Mosha
Yue Fei's ancient temple we all know, a well-known anti-Gold hero who "repays the country with loyalty". He led the Yue family army against the Jin army countless times, and was invincible. However, Yue Fei's family ended in a very tragic situation, not only was Yue Fei alone framed by Qin Juniper, but finally executed for treason, and the Yue family was not spared.
In the process of Yue Fei's murder and his family's murder, Qin Juniper played an important role. As a lackey of Emperor Gaozong of Song, Qin Ju controlled the public opinion of the imperial court on the one hand, and on the other hand, he colluded with the jin dynasty magnates to block Yue Fei's loyal and righteous words, and also advised the emperor to kill him and raid his home. Therefore, Yue Fei's descendants regarded the Qin clan as a deep feud in the blood sea, and so far the two clans had never intermarried. Although this provision was not explicitly written into the Yue family rules, this hatred had been integrated into their bloodline, and the descendants of the Yue family had consciously avoided marrying the Qin family so far.
In fact, the Yue family did not actually intermarry with the surname Gong, not because of hatred, but because of gratitude, which had to start from the exile of the Yue clan to Lingnan.
After Yue Fei and his eldest son Yue Yun were killed, the other Yue clan members were sent to Lingnan. Exile is a heavy punishment second only to the death penalty, especially exile to The Miasma-filled Lingnan, where long distances and inconvenient transportation can lead to many deaths on the way. The third son, Yue Lin, was relatively lucky. With the help of his mother, he escaped the killing, escaped from the capital by chance, and embarked on the road of exile together.
But exile was undoubtedly torture to death, and if those traitors found out that Yue Lin was still alive, they would undoubtedly die. If you want to live, you must get help from your people. So Lady Yue Fei asked her third son, Yue Lin, to carry a family letter with him to seek Yue Fei's friends who fought side by side before he died, praying that the Yue family could leave a pulse.
Fortunately, the guards also admired Yue Fei's loyalty and turned a blind eye to Yue Lin's escape. In this way, Yue Lin was able to escape from it, and he took this family letter to find Gong Zuwen, a comrade-in-arms who had fought against Jin with his father. Gong Zuwen's side was also looking for Yue Lin's whereabouts.
Due to the rush of the journey, he fled south overnight, and all the way he was frightened and slept in the wind, Yue Lin soon fell ill. When Gong Zuwen found him, Yue Lin was fainting in the reeds and still had a high fever, and Gong Zuwen also found a letter on Yue Lin's body: "Brother Zu Wen is like a face, Lin'er is entrusted, and he will be reported in the next life." ”
Gong Zuwen couldn't help but burst into tears, he was well aware of Yue Fei's grievances, but he couldn't do anything about it, and now that the Yue family only had such a bone blood, he vowed to leave this vein of blood for the hero no matter what. At this time, Yue Lin was already unconscious, and the high fever did not go away, and Gong Zuwen hurriedly asked the doctor to heal him. In order to disguise Yue Lin's identity, Gong Zuwen resigned from the posts of Moling Commandery and Wude Dafu, and moved his family to Qu'a Liutang (present-day Liuru Village, Danyang City, Jiangsu).
Here, no one knew, everything was safe, and Yue Lin settled down with the Gong family ever since. The Gong family treated Yue Lin better than their own son and cultivated them carefully. Nine years later, Yue Lin became a promising young man who could write and fight. Gong Zuwen introduced him to a marriage, the other party was a girl who knew Dali, and the two fell in love after marriage, and gave birth to four sons and a daughter. In order to repay Gong Zuwen's life-saving grace, Yue Lin married the descendants of the Gong family as brothers of the opposite sex, and the two families were a family, so they were not allowed to intermarry.
When Emperor Xiaozong of Song ascended the throne, Yue Fei was rehabilitated and pardoned Yue Fei's exiled family, and the Yue family was finally able to live in a bright and upright manner. After learning of Gong Zuwen's deeds of sacrificing his life to protect Yue Fei's son Yue Lin, Emperor Xiaozong of Song praised him as a "loyal and beloved friend", and after Gong Zuwen's death, he gave him the title of "Wen Xian" and his wife Huang Shi posthumously honored him as "Lady of the Commandments".
In order to commemorate the life-saving grace of the ancestors of the Gong clan, the Yue clan set a family rule not to intermarry with the Gong clan, and to this day, in the Yue Clan Ancestral Hall, there are still placed gong zu wen tablets, and the status of the Gong clan in the hearts of the descendants of the Yue clan is extraordinary.