Bao Zheng of the Song Dynasty (999~1062) Bao Qingtian almost gave up his life. Fortunately, his daughter-in-law Cui secretly helped. Bao Zheng learned before his death that he had a younger son. This is what happened:
I don’t need to introduce who Bao Qingtian is, right? "There is a Bao Qingtian in Kaifeng, who is unselfish and selfless in distinguishing between loyal and traitorous people. Heroes from all walks of life come to help him, and Mahan of the Dynasty is by his side." This lyric is so familiar.
Historical records indicate that Bao Gong had one wife and one concubine. His first wife, Dong, gave birth to Bao Gong’s son Bao Yi (yi), but unfortunately died of illness. Bao Gong was very sad. The greatest pain in life is "the loss of a wife in middle age and the loss of a son in old age."
Bao Gong had a deep relationship with his first wife, and they never renewed their relationship. A man worked hard to raise his son. When Bao Qi was nineteen years old, Bao Gong married his son Cui, the granddaughter of Lu Mengzheng, the prime minister of the three dynasties. The Cui family in Huaiyang was from a wealthy family, and was a close match with Bao Gong's family.
Bao Gong has a high position. When Bao Qi was very young, he was granted the title of Taizhu of Taichang Temple by Song Renzong Zhao Zhen. Bao Qi can be said to be a child born with a golden key in his mouth.
However, things are unpredictable. Just when Bao Qi took office the second year after his marriage, he suddenly became ill and died on the way to take office.
Bao Qiu’s two closest people, his father and his wife, were heartbroken. Bao Gong looked up to the sky and sighed: "Why have I caught up with the two major pains in life? God is unfair to me." The sky was speechless, only Mrs. Cui was crying bitterly.
After burying his son, Bao Gong persuaded his daughter-in-law to marry someone else. Bao Gong was not a conservative person. But the daughter-in-law said she wanted to keep her husband's integrity and was determined to raise their child, Bao Gong's only grandson, Bao Wenfu.
Three years passed in the blink of an eye. One day, Bao Gongzheng was settling the case in Kaifeng Mansion. His daughter-in-law, Cui, came to Bao Gong in a hurry and said that her son Bao Wenfu suddenly fell ill.
When Bao Gong, Wang Chao, Mahan and others rushed home, their five-year-old grandson had already passed away. Bao Gong's vision went dark and he almost fell down. Fortunately, Mahan of the Dynasty stepped forward to support Mr. Bao. Why did Bao Gong's family suffer such changes one after another?
A local "forestologist" said, "Bao Gong is selfless and kills too many people. Although the country is stable, the family will definitely suffer such revenge. This is God's will." But Bao Gong didn't pay attention to these at all. Despite the rumors, justice is still served to the people.
From the perspective of personal and family circumstances, Mr. Bao cannot be called a perfect man. In ancient times, there was a saying: "There are three types of unfilial piety, the greatest is not having offspring." Bao Gong is equivalent to saying that the incense has been cut off.
When Bao Gong was 55 years old, his daughter-in-law Cui had a sudden idea and persuaded her father-in-law to accept her mother-in-law's dowry girl (officially called Teng Concubine) Sun as her concubine. Her daughter-in-law wanted to continue Bao Gong's incense. , but I didn’t have the nerve to say it directly, I just said it was to make it easier for Sun to take care of her father-in-law.
Bao Gong thought that he was very old and needed a woman to take care of him. So he agreed to take Sun as his concubine.
In the following years, daughter-in-law Cui and mother-in-law Sun talked about everything. Although the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is actually that of sisters.
The life of an old man and his young wife looks beautiful to outsiders, but only Bao Gong understands the difficulties. As a young and beautiful concubine, it was inevitable that she would boss her around. How could Bao Gong tolerate it? After a quarrel, Bao Gong directly drove Sun back to her parents' home (actually divorcing Sun).
However, Bao Gong did not know a secret, that is, Sun was already three months pregnant at that time. Only his daughter-in-law Cui knows this secret. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have a close relationship, and Sun will not hide any secrets from her daughter-in-law.
Bao Gong’s daughter-in-law often went to chat with Mrs. Sun who returned to her natal family, and persuaded her to give birth to the child. She also said that after the child was born, she would help her raise it so that she would not have to worry. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took care of the matter. It’s settled.
"It takes ten months to conceive and one day gives birth." Sun gave birth to a fat boy, and Bao Gong's daughter-in-law took him and raised her. She told Bao Gong that she had picked up a child. Bao Gong was very happy and named the child Bao Shou. She also claimed that Cui was Bao Shou's sister-in-law. Cui is her adoptive mother. This is the origin of the story of "old sister-in-law is better than mother".
On Bao Gong’s 60th birthday, Mrs. Cui held her infant child and told Bao Gong the true story in detail. After hearing this, Gong Bao sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect that I would have another son when I was 60 years old. This is all the credit of my daughter-in-law Cui!"
Gong Bao hurriedly sent someone to welcome back the Sun family. After the reunion celebrated their sixtieth birthday, Bao Gong was so happy that he changed his son's name to Bao Xian (Xian means continuation).
Bao Gong passed away at the age of 64. Bao Jian was only five years old at that time. He wore hemp and mourned for Bao Gong. At that time, Song Renzong went to Bao Gong's house to pay homage to Bao Gong and saw that the young child was very pitiful. Bao Gong did not leave much property for him, so Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty granted Bao Jiao the title of Taizhu of Taichang Temple and gave him many properties.
When Bao Jian came of age, under the auspices of his sister-in-law Cui, he married Zhang, the daughter of Zhang Tian, ??the magistrate of Luzhou. Soon Zhang died of illness. Cui married Bao again and married Wen, the daughter of Prime Minister Wen Yanbo. After that, Wen gave birth to four sons for the Bao family: Bao Kangnian, Bao Qinian, Bao Pengnian, and Bao Jing. Year.
The descendants of the Bao family "sons beget grandchildren, and grandsons beget sons." There are endless descendants!