When Qiao Jing'an heard Lan's question, his face darkened and he replied, "My aunt died more than ten years ago."
If his aunt hadn't been gone, he and his sister wouldn't have had such a difficult time.
He glanced at Lan and Qiao Jingkun again, wondering what the temperament of this mother and eldest brother was. Now their family can only rely on their aunt and eldest brother.
You can't count on the Liu family and the Fang family.
The couple quietly glanced at each other, and both could see the solemn look on each other's faces.
When the Lan family heard that Aunt Xia was gone, she sighed and said, "Your aunt was a good person. She followed me from the Lan family and served her wholeheartedly. If it hadn't been for your grandmother's request to let me go because of the rules of the clan.
If you stay in Yizhou, I won't let your aunt go to Beijing with your father. If you marry her to a steward or an outside shopkeeper, she might be able to live a few more years and have grandchildren."
Qiao Jing'an's heart moved slightly after hearing Lan's words.
Now that his father is gone, the Liu family and the Fang family are only focused on seizing power. How can anyone take care of his house? He is not good at studying and has no general affairs to take care of. After his father left, I am afraid that all the things given to him by the two houses will be lost.
There is not enough money for my daughter’s dowry.
Qiao Jing'an's face turned gloomy when he thought of this.
It is not risk-free for him to leave those two families behind and rely on his eldest brother who does not know the details. Maybe it will be better in the future, but maybe it will be worse than relying on those two families.
Now listening to Lan's words, it seems that this aunt still remembers the affection of his biological mother who served her. She can't help but feel a little calmer.
Then he said: "Mom, don't say that. When my aunt went there, she told me that if I have the ability in the future, I must find my mother and eldest brother, and let me serve my mother for her. Now my mother and eldest brother have come home.
I don’t know how happy I am.”
Qiao Jing'an felt somewhat settled now. Looking at the appearance of his aunt and eldest brother, he would definitely not ignore their family.
My father gave most of the family wealth to his eldest brother, and less than half of it was divided between the Fang family and the Liu family.
If it is given to him, how can there be any good things?
Has he still not been able to see clearly after all these years?
When their father was around, the Fang family and the Liu family were still doing superficial things. Now that their father is gone, they are eager to kick his family out of the house as soon as possible.
Now they have to receive money and food in their room. One of the two rooms is pushing one to the other. Now they can't even receive the monthly money in their room.
Qiao Jing'an's wife, Mrs. Huang, felt as confident as her husband when she saw that her aunt and eldest brother still remembered their aunt. She must have been better off following her aunt and brother than those two people.
The couple turned around and grabbed their three children: "I've all come to see your grandmother and uncles and aunts."
The couple gave birth to two sons and one daughter. The eldest son is 16 years old and the eldest daughter is 14 years old. The second son is 11 years old, the same age as Mingheng. Neither the eldest son nor the eldest daughter have said they are getting married yet. Now the couple is getting married.
Worried about the bride price and dowry for the eldest son and daughter.
When the three children heard their parents calling, they rushed forward. The three of them had already been secretly looking at Lan, Father Qiao and their group. Now they knelt down obediently and kowtowed to Lan, Father Qiao and Mother Qiao.
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Mother Qiao is a kind-hearted person and doesn't like people kneeling around like this. She doesn't have this habit either.
They helped the three children up early. After the three of them got up, Lan and Father Qiao glanced at Ding Er.
Ding Er caught Lan's look and hurriedly stepped forward and handed each of the three children a purse.
These purses were prepared by Lan's family on the way to reward the juniors. They were well prepared, but I didn't expect that only three of them would be given out today.
Qiao Mingjin also brought Mingjue, Mingyu and Qiao Jingan's family to meet each other.
Mrs. Huang held the hands of Qiao Mingjin and the sisters and said many affectionate words. She was not like Qiao Jingcang and others who thought they were a group of people from the countryside. She thought Qiao Jingkun's family was very easy to get close to and she was very willing to make friends with them.
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Qiao Jing'an and his wife behaved like this, and they undoubtedly recognized their eldest brother. This undoubtedly broke their plans for Qiao Jingcang, Qiao Jingya, Qiao Jingshan and others.
Make them secretly angry.
If they were to fight to death and cause trouble in the clan, wouldn't the family property allocated to the eldest brother end up in the hands of several of them?
Therefore, when Qiao Jingcang and others looked at Qiao Jingan and his wife, they all looked at them with knives.
Qiao Jing'an and his wife just couldn't see each other. How could they not know what these people were planning?
Even if the eldest brother's property is allocated to the house, all the property is taken back from the clan. But what does this house have to do with them? Can they be given a share?
Therefore, I only asked Lan and his party to talk.
The clan leader and several clan elders were very happy to see Qiao Jing'an taking such a path. They said to Qiao Jingcang, Qiao Jingya and others, "Why don't you go over and see your mother and eldest brother?"
How could those two people compromise so easily? They just glanced at Lan and the others and stood still in the hall.
When Lan saw this, he said, "I won't force you if you don't want to. Jingshan and Jingya were born in Beijing, and I haven't met them a few times. Even if you are standing in front of me now, I may not recognize you. As for Jingcang
, although you were born in Yizhou, you followed your father to Beijing when you were still young. I have not seen you a few times since then. Even when you came back from Beijing, your aunt took good care of you and never took any time.
Come and say hello to me. I am old and my eyes are not good."
Qiao Mingjin listened in the back row and laughed secretly in her heart.
The three uncles did not recognize her grandmother. It was better for her grandmother to just say that she did not recognize the three of them.
If the concubine does not recognize his illegitimate mother, it is just a few words of disrespect. But if the illegitimate mother does not recognize her concubine, the problem is even bigger.
Maybe it can be said that you are not a member of the Qiao family. If we don’t tell you to separate immediately, you might not be able to live in Yizhou in the future, and you won’t be able to call yourself a member of the Qiao family in the future.
Qiao Jingcang, Jing Ya, and Jing Shan naturally understood the meaning of Lan's words.
I didn't expect that the Lan family would be such a troublesome person. They didn't want to recognize Qiao Jingkun's family, but they didn't expect that the Lan family would say they didn't want to recognize them. If their aunt didn't recognize them, what reason could they have to occupy the ancestral home?
Several people glanced at the clan leader and several clan elders, and those few people happened to be looking at them, waiting for them to give in.
The few people looked at each other and were at a loss for what to do for the time being. Without saying hello, they turned around and went out with their wives and children.
They have to ask their respective mothers for advice on this matter.
Seeing them turn around and go out, Lan didn't say anything.
I just took Mr. Huang and talked about family affairs.
"Where are Aunt Liu and Aunt Chen?"
Mrs. Huang replied: "Aunt Liu disappeared a few years ago. After my father passed away, Aunt Chen went to Anping Temple outside the city to recite sutras for my father."
After Mrs. Huang finished speaking, she sighed secretly.
His father-in-law had one wife and five concubines.
Needless to say, Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Fang. Mrs. Liu had never given birth to a son or a daughter in her ex-husband's family, so she was forced to marry her father-in-law. Concubine Liu found some doctors who were good at gynecology and spent several years recovering.
Let him give birth to a young son, Qiao Jingshan.
My father-in-law is also very partial to this young son. With the care of his father-in-law and the palace, he has now become a sixth-level magistrate of the state.
Fang gave birth to two sons and one daughter.
With the great grandmother here, the second aunt of the Fang family is the best married among the several aunts. Now in Beijing, she is also the second daughter-in-law of a third-grade official's family. She has given birth to two more sons and a daughter, but it is in her husband's family.
Stand firm.
Fang's two sons, Jingcang and Jingya, also obtained official positions of some size because of their father-in-law, and each married several wives and concubines. They also gave birth to many legitimate children and concubine children.
Fang's house is now prosperous.
However, the two aunts her father-in-law married in Beijing only gave birth to one daughter each. Although the third aunt's grandmother and the fourth aunt's grandmother were also married in Beijing, they were far inferior to the second aunt's grandmother.
The woman she married was just a concubine, and her life was just average. After Aunt Liu passed away, the third aunt's grandmother had less contact with their family. Even if she was wronged by her husband's family, no one would stand up for her.
As for her husband's aunt, Xia, because she had served the mistress, her father-in-law gave her some respect. The aunt gave birth to her eldest aunt and her husband.
The eldest aunt did not marry in Beijing, but she married in Yizhou.
At that time, my aunt also thought that her family was in Yizhou. If one day she was no longer here, her eldest aunt had suffered any grievances from her husband's family, and her family could ask for help, but...
How can a child without a mother have such an easy time?
Not to mention the eldest aunt, even their own house is suppressed by the Liu family and the Fang family and cannot get ahead. The wealth allocated to their concubine's house is still not evenly divided. It is said that they must observe filial piety, but they also have room and board.
We are together, but we can’t get the monthly money.
Where is their Qiao family short of money?
It's just that the two families are competing for the middle of the family. You give it to me and I give it to you. Besides, the father-in-law gave most of the family wealth to the eldest brother, which is like cutting out their flesh. How can he spare the money?
Thinking of this, Mrs. Huang glanced at Mrs. Lan again. Maybe the serious mother-in-law was back and the situation of the Qiao family would change.
It can never be worse than now.
After the group of people sat and talked, the clan leader and several clan elders saw that Lan, Father Qiao and others looked tired, so they asked people to take them to rest.
Because the main courtyard had been cleared out, Qiao Jingkun originally wanted to let Lan live in the main courtyard, but Lan was unwilling. She chose Sanchun Yuan where she had lived before.
Qiao Jingkun had no choice but to give up and took his mother Qiao to live in the main courtyard.
Mingjue and Mingheng brothers lived in the front yard. Qiao Mingjin, Mingyu and Mingqi lived in several yards to the east.
The good courtyard is occupied by the Liu family and the Fang family, but fortunately, this ancestral house is the front of the Qiao family, and the side branches and general branches also come to worship here at the ancestral hall during the Four Seasons and Eighth Festival. Therefore, they usually
There are repairs.
The several well-kept courtyards are all in good repair and full of flowers. They have a main house, a side room and a side room. The main house is bright and the other is dark. There are clean rooms and large beds.
Compared to the house they live in in Qingchuan, I don't know how much better it is, and there's nothing to be picky about.
So the sisters settled down happily.
It’s just that although the courtyard is large, there is no maid or woman to serve it, so it looks empty. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.
