Chapter 6 The Sinus Family

　　Dou Zhao's ancestor, is a family without constant production of the picker, by chance, married a town merchant's family maid as his wife. He used his wife's dowry of ten taels of silver in Zhending's Beilou village to buy a mu and two minutes of land, and from then on settled in Beilou village and prospered. 　　This is the origin of the famous Beilou Dou Clan. 　　Dou Zhao's grandfather at the age of ten in the mother's old owner of the silk store as an apprentice. At the age of fourteen, he became a master, and at the age of twenty, he became the second owner of the silk store. The proprietor wanted to marry his daughter's personal maid to him, and he did not want his descendants to revolve around the proprietor for the rest of their lives, and wanted to marry Hao, the daughter of a poor scholar from the western part of the town, as his wife. 　　At the age of twenty-one, he used the eight taels of silver he had saved up as a bride price to marry Hao and lost his job as a second shopkeeper. 　　He took Hao back to Beilou village, took over his father's stretcher, as well as his father's life of hard work to do the thirty acres of good land. Farming in the busy season, and traveling around the countryside in the spare time. 　　The following summer, Hao gave birth to a big fat boy. 　　He met a cotton collector at the head of the village. 　　Cotton is grown in Zhending Province. 　　The cotton collector wanted to find someone who knew the local farmers to collect cotton for him. 　　Father recommended himself. With the skills honed in the silk store, a glance of the eyes, I know whether the cotton is adulterated, a hand carry, I know how many pounds of cotton, but also to plan the plate will be bookkeeping. 　　Summer past, in addition to the pre-agreed remuneration, cotton collectors in addition to rewarded Dou Zhao grandfather ten taels of silver, and agreed with him, this time next year to find him to help. 　　In the winter, Dou Zhao's grandfather traveled all over Zhending County. Waiting for the next summer, which family planted how much cotton, cotton is good or bad, cotton households are good to deal with, clear; cotton collection, weighing, accounting, storage, accounting, not bad at all. That businessman just shake the fan sitting in the shade and drink tea on the line. 　　"It looks like it's the same with me or without me, I still have to expense the money for staying and eating here." The traveling merchant smiled and discussed with Dou Zhao's great-grandfather, "I have an idea. I'll advance you a portion of the money, you collect the cotton yourself, then send the collected brocade flowers to me, and we'll settle the bill based on the cotton's merit. What do you think?" 　　This was how the Dou family started, by collecting cotton. 　　By the time Dou Zhao's high grandfather's hands, the Dou family's people from Zhending, Wolu, Yuanji, Pingshan, Xingtang and other counties received from the cotton trafficked to the south of the Yangtze River, exchanged for the silk of the south of the Yangtze River to sell to the Sichuan Province, and then transported to the capital of the Sichuan Province of the medicinal herbs into the silver, playing the new style of jewelry to sell to the Zhending Prefecture of the dignitaries. 　　Dou Zhao's grandfather only use peacefully study, the examination of merit on the line. 　　Only he hung a beam and stabbed the stock also only got a Xiucai. 　　But that didn't stop him from marrying the daughter of Zhao Juren of Anxiang Village in Xingtang County next door. 　　The Zhao family is not the same as the Dou family! 　　They have a genealogy. 　　Although the family has only 120 acres of land, their ancestors can be traced back to the time of King Mu of Zhou. Moreover, "Zhao" was the national surname of the previous dynasty, and the Zhao family moved here from the old capital, Bianjing, at the time of the change of dynasty. 　　The Zhao family of Anxiang was also the maternal family of Dou Zhao. 　　After Dou Zhao's high grandfather and Zhao got married, they had two sons. The eldest son, Dou Huan Cheng, and the second son, Dou Yao Cheng. 　　The two brothers were smart from a young age and studied with their grandfather, Zhao Juren, and when they were old enough, they were sent to the Imperial College in Kyoto to study. 　　In the thirteenth year of the reign of Emperor Zhide, the two brothers were nominated for the gold list at the same time. 　　The elder brother won the third place in the second grade, and the younger brother won the thirty-seventh place in the second grade. 　　The Dou family became truly wealthy. 　　After that, the elder brother won the examination, stayed in the Hanlin Academy, in the pedestrian department to observe the government. The younger brother was expatriated to Jinxian County in Nanchang Province as a county minister. 　　Dou Zhao's grandfather in the end, shallow blessing, scenery not a few years, on the death of a crane. 　　When he died, the two brothers were not around. 　　The two brothers returned to their hometowns to keep the system, in addition to the service, back to the capital to wait for the vacancy. 　　The brother is a concubine scholar, had stayed in the pedestrian division, and soon made an imperial inspector general's post. The younger brother wasted half a year, only in the brother's point of view under the experience of the Department of experience of the Department of the Yunnan Provincial Public Prosecutor's Office. 　　In the younger brother's impression, Yunnan poor mountains, miasma, barbaric smoke, some officials in the way to the appointment on the death of a sudden illness, is not a person to stay in the place. 　　If you continue to stay in Kyoto waiting for the vacancy, one is that they are two brothers into the career, good job may not be able to get their hands on, the second is that the court officials three years a rise, and so he seek a good lack of brother, I'm afraid that has long been promoted from the sixth grade. 　　The more he thought about it, the more meaningless he felt, so he resigned and returned to Zhending County. 　　Zhao's life is both decent and comfortable, to say what is enough, is that the two sons are out of the government, she was afraid of their own death and the old man, no son to send the end. 　　Dou Yaocheng returned to his hometown, she was naturally willing to do so. 　　Anyway, the eldest son's career is successful, the second son back, just in front of her filial piety, but also can help manage the family's affairs. 　　The top of the scholar and the aura of Dou Yaocheng and the ancestors of the Dou family compared to do business naturally not the same day. 　　In Kyoto into the silver is no longer sold jewelry, but as a stamp money, or put to those poor Hanlin; or put to those who have just made a job out of the need for large sums of silver to entertain and buy official sedan chair official clothes of the seven sesame officials; or put to the return to the capital to report to the need to treat the gifts of the feudal officials. Afterwards, with the promotion and dismissal of these officials, the Dou family began to intervene in the stone of the river, the grain of the Nine Borders, and the salt of the Nanjiang River. ...... 　　Silver poured in like water, leaving Zhao and Dou Huancheng dazzled and frightened. 　　Dou Huan Cheng, who was already the Right Commander of the Metropolitan Police Department, cautioned his brother more than once: "A full moon is a loss, and water overflowing is an overflow. You'd better hide your clumsiness." 　　Dou Yaocheng did not think: "Brace the bold, starve the timid. I am also a fox and tiger. You have been sentenced to the post, this business I will not do." 　　Dou Huancheng but feel that this money is not clean: "South goods sold in the north, earned at least is hard money. You so, is collusion between business and government! It's a national tragedy!" 　　Dou Yaocheng sneered: "Big brother at this time think money dirty hands? When my brother wanted to buy the Song carvings, how could he not think that the money was dirty? When you want to subsidize the orphans of your colleagues, how do you not think that money is dirty ......" 　　"You!" Dou Huan Cheng was so angry that his lips trembled. 　　The two brothers parted on bad terms. 　　Zhao looked saddened and advised Dou Yaocheng, "Just listen to your elder brother! He serves in the CAPITAL INSPECTORATE, impeachment of the hundred divisions, see a lot, he will not harm you." 　　Dou Yaocheng did not want his mother to worry, but also unwilling to bow to the big brother, casually said: "You see those who do the official, which does not compete to flatter? Don't have to open your mouth, from someone to send food and drink to send silver, but also afraid to send not to accept. I and big brother is not the same, I can not earn a day of silver a day will not eat." 　　Zhao but listened in. Laughing: "You think mother is old and confused." Heart but thinking of the eldest son only that little salary, every time back either ginseng bird's nest or jewelry and jade, the big house of the daughter-in-law grandchildren seasonal clothes and jewelry every year to add a new, visible days is indeed very good. The eldest son's words make sense, but the youngest son's business is not easy. Last time I went to the Songjiang Palace, in order to socialize with those officials, drinking to smell the smell of alcohol is not comfortable. That's it, the younger son smack of silver has never been hidden, all handed over to the public, all the proceeds are shared equally with the eldest son. 　　So think, pity the younger son to. 　　The official and the unofficial are different. 　　Otherwise, why would people in this world want to be officials? 　　The old lady's heart favored the youngest son who was in front of her every day. 　　And Dou Yaocheng broke the career, the sale of a powerful steward to help, more and more big, more and more prosperous, his mind gradually put on the enjoyment. 　　The beginning of just call friends and drink, and then began to listen to the Pearland theater, Zhangtai walk horse. 　　Zhao knew and advised his youngest son: "You are a man of status, how can you and those peddlers of women a table to drink? Why don't you buy a few smart and clever little girls, ask the famous actors of Zhendingfu to teach you, and raise an opera troupe of your own, so that you have face, can relieve your boredom, and can make a lively scene during the New Year's festivals." 　　With his mother's words, what scruples did Dou Yaocheng have? 　　He played more and more absurdly. 　　The differences between the two brothers also became deeper and deeper. 　　Zhao looked at how this wasn't working and asked her mother's brother for an idea. 　　Uncle Zhao thought for a moment and said, "Pro-brothers, clear accounts. Why don't we split up the family while you're here. Everyone will live their own lives, and there will be nothing more to say." 　　Zhao pondered for a long time and made up her mind painfully, "It's better than making a joke about the unequal division of the property after I die. I'll take the blame for this division of the family. I'm already half in the ground anyway." Then he called his eldest son back, "...... Don't argue over these trivial matters anymore!" 　　"Mother, it's not trivial." Dou Huancheng disagreed with the separation of the family and tried to convince his mother, "The career is a moment of glory, and the articles are ten million good. The foundation of the family is not all in the career, but the family culture is indispensable. There is a career, there is no style, to keep the heart not to be confused by the paper drunkenness is good, if you can not keep, used to living a good life suddenly collapsed, than that the ordinary family is still miserable; there is a style, there is no career, upright behavior, clean and honest people, the evil winds do not dare to dip, has its own blessing. Uncle s family is like this ......" 　　"I know, I know." Zhao said perfunctorily, "It's me who wants to separate the family. I don't want to see you guys messing around like this anymore. Especially your younger brother, ten years of cold window suffering and ending up in such a state. You are brothers, if you don't take care of him, who will? But this brother is also like a husband and wife, day after day, year after year, the birth of injury, even the best feelings can not withstand. Think of it as filial piety and divide this family." 　　Dou Huan Cheng swore in front of his mother, "I will take care of my brother. There's no need to split the family ......" 　　Zhao shook her head, "Listen to me. Although your father left behind ten thousand family properties, it's less than a third of the Dou family's current family properties. I want to divide the family's property into three, one for me, one for you, and one for your brother. I'll follow your brother through, and when I go, my share will be left to your brother ......." 　　Is this about dividing the family? Or is it to divide the property? 　　Is this what the mother means? Or is it the younger brother's intention? 　　Dou Huan Cheng didn't dare to think too much, he nodded. 　　Zhao asked Uncle Zhao, the magistrate of Zhending County at the time, and the maiden families of the two daughters-in-law to work together as middlemen to divide the family. 　　Since his mother followed his brother, Dou Huancheng gave up his mansion in Zhending County and built a five-story brick house on the east side of the county. 　　From then on, the Dou family was divided into two. 　　Dou Huancheng that live in the east of the city, known as the "East Dou", Dou Yaocheng that live in the west of the city, known as the "West Dou". 　　Dou Yaocheng is the great-grandfather of Dou Zhao. 　　As Dou Huancheng worried. A few years, Dou Yaocheng concubines to compete for favor, a murder case, but also involved a lot of dirt in the inner courtyard. Although it was suppressed, but the western sinus this one but hurt the vitality, sinus yao cheng less than forty years on the death of the disease, the heir of the successive zero transfer, only survived sinus zhao's grandfather sinus duo. 　　The "East Dou" is prosperous. 　　Dou Huancheng had two sons and three daughters. Nine grandsons, three granddaughters, eleven grandsons, nine granddaughters, two sons and a son-in-law have been successful. 　　He did not forget his promise in front of his mother and always took good care of this branch of Dou Yaocheng. 　　After the death of Dou Yao Cheng, Dou Huan Cheng the young Dou Duo received their own side, to help Dou Duo management of the family property, personally teach him to read and study, and after watching him become a family man, the family property to the hands of Dou Duo without any difference. After his death, he also left a will: "East and West, two Dou is a family, separated from the clan". 　　Dou Duo had a deeper impression of his uncle than his father. He treated Dou Huancheng as if he were his own father, and several cousins like blood brothers. After the birth of his son Dou Shiying, and the East Dou family "Shi" generation of brothers with the order, to show that the two families as a family, never divided. 　　So although Dou Zhao's father is the only son, but was called the seventh master. 　　And was called the third master, is Dou Zhao second uncle ancestor's eldest son Dou Shibang.