During the Ming Dynasty, there was a young man named Tang Yiwen in Qingyuan County. He was upright, kind and sincere in his treatment of others. He was born into a wealthy family. His father, Tang Bingkuan, was a well-known wealthy businessman in the county. He opened five restaurants and four rice shops and earned a considerable income. When he was young, Tang Bingkuan was a handsome and wealthy man, and he owed a lot of romantic debts. Tang Bingkuan married three wives in total and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Tang Yiwen was born to his third wife and was the youngest son in the family.
Tang Yiwen's mother, Lin, is the daughter of an ordinary farmer's family. Tang Bingkuan met her when he was purchasing grain in the countryside. The two were privately engaged for life, and soon Lin became pregnant with Tang Bingkuan's child. Tang Bingkuan resolutely married Lin into his family, regardless of the objections of his eldest wife and second wife.
Mrs. Lin came from a humble background, and the eldest wife and the second wife were both daughters of a wealthy family. Therefore, Mrs. Lin had been bullied by them since the day she entered the family. Even Tang Yiwen had been bullied by his four older brothers and sisters since he was a child. .
Tang Bingkuan does business all year round and does not come home often, but he knows that Lin is often bullied by the other two wives at home. When she was at home, she often comforted Mrs. Lin, always gave her money secretly, and played with her youngest son Tang Yiwen. This is what makes Lin feel most gratified after marrying into the Tang family.
The eldest wife, Mrs. Ma, gave birth to a son and a daughter after marrying into the Tang family. The second wife, Mrs. Xu, also gave birth to a son and a daughter. In the past two years, Tang Bingkuan has grown old and has handed over many business matters to Ma, while he slowly retreats behind the scenes.
After Tang Yiwen grew up, he still had no status in the family. He was arranged by Ma to work as a handyman and supervisor in a rice store. He was very reluctant and wanted to be reused like his two brothers, but no one spoke for him, so he had no choice but to follow Ma's arrangements.
Tang Yiwen sits at the door of Mihang Warehouse every day, watching the workers constantly carrying grain. He thought to himself: "What can I do to get reused?" Tang Yiwen also approached his eldest wife, Ma, about changing her job, but Ma didn't raise her head or open her eyes and ignored him at all.
Seeing his two brothers managing two rice stores and two restaurants respectively, Tang Yiwen felt very unbalanced. Under the same roof, the treatment is completely different. He wanted to get angry in public, but he was afraid that his mother would be implicated later, so he kept tolerating the family in his heart.
Let us say that one morning, Tang Yiwen was about to go to Mihang to supervise the work. Before he could leave the house, he was called over by his eldest wife, Ma. Ma said to him with a smile: "Yiwen, you have been working as a supervisor at Mihang for more than a year. In fact, it's not that I don't want to reuse you, I just keep testing you. You have done a good job for more than a year." ! Now it’s time to change your job. I decided to send you to the accounting office to manage the accounts. This is a very important job. Can you? You must do it well!"
As soon as he heard that he was going to the accounting office to manage the accounts, Tang Yiwen was immediately elated. After enduring it for so long, he finally got a good job. He quickly bowed to Ma and said, "Thank you, ma'am, I will try my best to manage it!" From the accounting office of the Tang family!" After that, Tang Yiwen trotted happily to the accounting office.
Tang Yiwen has been smart and studious since he was a child. He has also learned a lot about accounting. After working in the accounting office for three days, Tang Yiwen went through all the accounts of the Tang family. What puzzled him was that the accounts of the Tang family appeared to be profitable, but in fact they were always losing money. But after thinking about it for several days, Tang Yiwen didn't understand. I didn't find out which link caused the problem.
One day, Tang Yiwen came out of the accounting room and felt bored, so he thought of walking on the street to relax. After walking for a long time, he came to the city gate. When he was far away, he found a group of people gathering on the roadside. Don't know what I'm looking at. Driven by curiosity, Tang Yiwen squeezed into the crowd and came to the front.
I saw a young woman in a white dress kneeling on the roadside. The woman was covered in dust and her hair was disheveled. She knelt on her knees, and two lines of tears fell down her cheeks and fell straight to the ground. There was also a wooden board in front of him, with the four characters "Sell your body and bury your mother" written in charcoal on it.
Tang Yiwen was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see the poor woman kneeling down, so he stepped forward and wanted to help the woman. At this moment, a few reminders from passers-by suddenly came from behind: "Young man, stop minding your own business, she is just a money liar. In today's society, there are too many people like her!" Tang Yiwen hesitated for a moment. , ignored it, reached out to help the woman kneeling on the ground, the woman looked at Tang Yiwen with tears in her eyes, choked and unable to speak. After a while, the woman's mood eased a bit. After Tang Yiwen asked about the situation, he followed the woman back home. When
arrived at the woman's house, she found that her mother had been dead for two days. Her body was lying in the courtyard, and no one came to express condolences. Tang Yiwen quickly took out ten taels of silver to buy a coffin for the woman's mother, and asked someone to help bury the woman's mother. The woman was extremely grateful to Tang Yiwen. She knelt on the ground and was about to kowtow to him, but Tang Yiwen stopped her and helped her up.
After a detailed discussion, we learned that the woman’s name was Yu Jiayin, she was nineteen years old and worked as a servant in the family of a wealthy family named Ding. A month ago, Yu Jiayin's mother was seriously ill and bedridden. She spent all the family's savings and failed to cure the disease. Yu Jiayin had to take care of her sick mother in the past month, so she was always absent from work. The owner of the Ding family did not understand and fired her. The woman had no income and could not bury her mother, so she had no choice but to sell herself on the street to bury her mother.
After listening to Yu Jiayin's story, Tang Yiwen was full of sympathy for her and left her another ten taels of silver. Yu Jiayin refused to ask for money, so Tang Yiwen forced it into her hands. "Mr. Tang, you helped me bury my mother. I will be yours from now on. I am willing to be your slave in this life!" Yu Jiayin said with a grateful heart.
Upon hearing this, Tang Wenyi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, it's just a few dozen taels of silver. Don't worry about it, girl. I can do it with just a little effort!" Yu Jiayin lowered his head and cried softly: "Does the young master dislike me?" Tang Yiwen rushed He hurriedly explained: "Girl, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to dislike you, I just don't want to take advantage of others!" After hearing this, Yu Jiayin had a smile on her face, and then she would follow Tang Yiwen home. But how dare Tang Yiwen take her home, so he rented a room near his home and temporarily settled Yu Jiayin. After some grooming and dressing up, Tang Yiwen discovered that Yu Jiayin was a beautiful woman with her regular facial features, graceful figure, fair skin, and rosy pink face.
Tang Yiwen was worried when he returned home. The issue about the accounts kept him awake. He wanted to ask his father for advice, but he was afraid that his father would think he was incompetent, so he had to keep his worries in his heart. The next morning, as soon as Tang Yiwen went out, he saw Yu Jiayin standing on the opposite side of the road.
Tang Yiwen stepped forward, and before he could speak, Yu Jiayin asked: "Master, is that lady who went out just now your mother?" "He is my aunt, my father's eldest wife, why?" "Yes?" Tang Yiwen replied. Yu Jiayin's expression changed drastically, and she quickly walked into an alley while pulling Tang Yiwen's clothes.
"Master Tang, please leave quickly, your aunt is going to harm you!" Yu Jiayin said nervously.
"Why do you say this?" Tang Yiwen asked.
Next, Yu Jiayin told some news she heard when she was a servant in Ding Mansion. It turned out that Ma often went in and out of Ding's house to play cards. Not long ago, when Yu Jiayin was still working as a servant in the Ding Mansion, she heard the conversation between Mr. Ma and Mrs. Ding. The general meaning is that Ma secretly embezzled a large amount of money from the Tang family and used it to do business for his father, but lost everything.
Mr. Tang will check the accounts at the end of every year, and the new year will come in more than a month. If Mr. Tang knows that Ma has embezzled so much money privately, he will definitely divorce her. Therefore, I would like to ask Mrs. Ding to help me raise some money to plug the hole. Mrs. Ding didn't want to lend her money, so she gave her an idea, asking her to find someone to make a false account, and then find someone to be the scapegoat, and this scapegoat was Tang Wenyi.
After hearing this, Tang Yiwen suddenly realized: "I wonder why there are more problems with this account the more you look at it!" Tang Wenyi thought to himself.
On this day, Tang Wenyi did not go to the accounting office. He returned home and took his mother Lin away from the Tang family. He went to Linxi County, Linxian County with his mother and Yu Jiayin. After settling down, Tang Yiwen wrote a letter to his father Tang Bingkuan, reporting the eldest wife Ma's misappropriation of money from the accountant privately.
After reading the letter, Tang Bingkuan immediately went to the accounting room to check the accounts. The evidence was conclusive. Afterwards, Tang Bingkuan became furious and kicked his eldest wife, Ma, out of the house. In order to save his daughter's marriage, the eldest wife's father sold his family property and returned the money to the Tang family. Tang Bingkuan forgave Ma because she had given birth to two children for the Tang family, and Ma moved back to the Tang family.
Afterwards, Tang Bingkuan sent someone to take Tang Yiwen and his son home. However, Tang Yiwen, his mother and son had had enough of the humiliating life and did not want to go back, so they chose to stay in Lanxi County. Tang Bingkuan also understood very well and did not force the mother and son. He also sent Tang Yiwen and his son three thousand taels of silver.
Tang Yiwen married Yu Jiayin and took root in Lanxi County. Later, with the money given by his father, he started a business in Lanxi County. Three years later, Tang Yiwen became the richest man in Lanxi County, opening eight businesses. With five pawn shops and restaurants, his wealth has surpassed that of his father, Tang Bingkuan. Yu Jiayin gave birth to a son and a daughter to Tang Yiwen in the past three years. The family lives a stable and happy life.
Five years later, Tang Bingkuan was over sixty and no longer concerned about business matters. Not long after, all the family property was lost to the two wives and four sons and daughters. Just when Tang Bingkuan was about to live on the streets, Tang Yiwen sent someone to take his father to Lanxi County. Tang Bingkuan spent a peaceful old age with Lin.
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