The Yizhou Lan family is truly a century-old family, a scholarly family.
Many families in Yizhou want to marry their daughters to the Lan family. Otherwise, the Lan family has a very upright family tradition and a quiet backyard. Our ancestors have already taught that a man can take a concubine only when he is forty and has no children.
It attracts all the girls in Yizhou to flock to him.
But this also has a drawback. It is that the population is not prosperous.
At that time, people liked to pay attention to being from the right family when getting married. Those who married into the Lan family as a daughter-in-law would naturally have similar family backgrounds.
The Lan family has ancestral precepts that clearly indicate that the in-law family cannot afford to offend easily. Even those who are disgusted with their original wives and want to live outside the family have to consider whether they will offend their wives' natal family.
Therefore, the Lan family has never been prosperous.
In the early years, it was passed down through generations, but later on, the Lan family looked for a wife not only based on character and family background, but also on whether they could have children. Later, the number of people was reduced to zero, and fertility was prioritized.
In Lan's generation, fortunately, her mother gave birth to her and her eldest brother Lan Ankang. Although she only gave birth to one son, fortunately, she also gave birth to Lan's daughter.
But later, when Lan's family was still unknown, her mother died. Later, Lan's father had another wife, but the subsequent wife only gave birth to a son, Lan Antai.
Lan Ankang, the eldest brother of Lan's first wife, has a very good relationship with Lan. There is also a love for brother and sister who support each other when their mother died young.
Lan has been known as a talented and outstanding-looking person since she was a child. People who have been seeking marriage since she was a child have almost crossed the threshold of the Lan family. Lan Ankang and his father chose for several years before they decided to marry Lan into the Qiao family and marry the eldest wife.
Qiao Xingcun.
Later it was confirmed that the father and son were very discerning and they found a man who was second on the list as their son-in-law.
I just didn't expect that something would happen later, causing Lan to wander outside for so many years.
Lan Ankang, the eldest brother of the Lan family, was able to read since he was a child. He was awarded a Jinshi at the age of twenty, was awarded an official, and went to work abroad with his wife and children.
It’s just that I haven’t been an official for a few years. Once on a business trip, I encountered heavy rain and was swallowed up by a mudslide. At that time, Lan was still in Qiao’s family. When Lan Ankang’s wife and children returned to their hometown, they even took Qiao Jingkun to pay homage.
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Lan's father lost his son in middle age, and he followed him within a few years. The Lan family's mansion fell into the hands of the Yan family who filled the house, and Lan Antai's mother and son.
Lan Ankang and his wife Zhou only had one son and one daughter. After Lan Ankang died, Zhou took his two sons and separated from his brother-in-law Lan Antai, and took their two children to avoid Zhuangzi in the countryside.
Lan's family was unfairly separated from her stepmother and younger brother, and she complained that they had treated her brother's widow and a pair of children badly. She also had little contact with her stepmother and younger brother.
Later, when Lan left, he only said hello to his widowed sister-in-law in the countryside.
When Lan met Ding Er, she had already asked him about the Lan family. Unexpectedly, in just twenty years, the Lan family was already in dire straits.
The Lan family's mansion was gone, and the younger brother's family was reduced to selling property and fields and living in hiding in the countryside.
Fortunately, what comforts her is that her brother's niece married well and now has two children. And her brother's nephew has also been awarded the Jinshi and is now an official. He is also married and has children, and he takes his widowed sister-in-law Zhou with him to be filial.
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Lan's concern for her mother's family over the years can finally be relieved.
The Shi family and the Lan family of the younger brother's family have always been just in love, and the Lan family has always looked down on the powerful Shi family.
The Lan family looked down upon the Shi family, and the Shi family also looked down upon the Lan family.
Mrs. Shi always felt that Mrs. Lan looked down on her and acted like a noble person, which made her feel that she was always a little short in front of that sister-in-law.
I also felt that when the family was separated, the Lan family, as a married woman, had to come out to interfere. As a result, the several hundred acres of farmland owned by the Lan family on the outskirts of Yizhou ended up in the widow's pocket.
She still remembers it so much that every time she thinks about it, she feels tight and breathless.
And Lan Antai thought about how he had ignored his only sister all these years. He had never sent anyone to look for her. He had never cared about the orphans and widows left behind by his brother. He felt uneasy.
At first, his family was in a good situation, and he wanted to help his widowed sister-in-law, but Mr. Shi always sent people to come to ridicule him, which made his widowed sister-in-law and her two children never visit again.
Later, when his eldest nephew Xianghe wanted to go to Beijing to take the exam, he came to ask for money. He secretly gave him three hundred taels, and was chased by Shi to take it back. This caused him a great loss of face.
Later, Xianghe became a Jinshi, was awarded an official position, and reached the position of fifth-rank magistrate of the state. The Shi family asked him to come to the house for marriage, how could he have the face to come to the house?
Now that his sister is back and Mr. Shi has asked him to come to her house to get married, how can he move forward?
My sister is the person who has the most clear-cut grievances. If she knew that he was indifferent to his sister-in-law and nephews and nieces, she would definitely not recognize him as his younger brother.
He came to the door just to scold me.
Seeing that her husband was sullen and silent, Mrs. Shi continued to scold her for a while.
Fortunately, Lan Antai has gotten used to it going in one ear and out the other over the years, so she can just scold her.
If you marry an unworthy wife, your family will suffer many disasters.
If the Shi family hadn't been bad at running the family and had a big heart, so they loaned loan sharks and mortgaged their ancestral home, would their family be able to live in the countryside now?
But this woman really told her mother that she was fertile.
His eldest brother only gave birth to a son and a daughter, but this woman gave birth to three sons and a daughter. Now the three sons have given birth to seven grandchildren.
Now he can be regarded as worthy of the ancestors of the Lan family.
The wife is not virtuous, and since she has given birth to children, she cannot return the money, so let’s just live like this.
As for the Lan family, they have just come back and are busy taking over the assigned family business, taking charge of the family affairs, making sacrifices, building a dojo, connecting with the clan members, and taking care of the relatives who come to visit...
Just so busy.
I didn't think of anything else for the moment. I couldn't spare any time to contact old relatives in law or anything like that.
Qiao Mingjin went to Baoxiang Temple for three days with her family. After three days of chanting, at the end of the day, she still felt a buzzing in her ears, all made of the sound of wooden fish.
Wan'er was so wilted that she couldn't even stand straight on her calves. After everyone stood up, she still spread out on the futon and stretched out her little hands towards Qiao Mingjin to hug her.
Qiao Mingjin herself was a little unsteady. She felt that her legs were numb from kneeling and her blood was not flowing smoothly. She tried to lift Wan'er several times but could not lift it up.
Fortunately, Wan'er's wet nurse, Mama Li, also came with her. Although the servants and women could not enter the main hall, after the ceremony, they all went into the hall to support their masters.
Mother Li, with her sharp eyesight and quick hands, took Wan'er from Qiao Mingjin's hand and held her firmly in her arms.
Wan'er looked at Qiao Mingjin, then at Mama Li, and then she snuggled into Mama Li's arms obediently.
After several days of contact, Wan'er no longer rejects Mother Li anymore. She also knows that Qiao Mingjin has something to do and cannot stick to Qiao Mingjin all the time, so she obediently follows Mother Li and is coaxed to eat and sleep by Mother Li.
Qiao Mingjin was supported by Chun Ya, the maid beside her, and followed Lan and others out of the main hall.
Mingyu and Mingqi were in the same situation as her, but Mother Qiao didn't need anyone's help and walked steadily by herself. She even went over to help Lan.
When the family left the main hall, they only bowed to the abbot and did not go to the side room to rest. Instead, they went straight to the carriage.
The servants and women had already packed their luggage. When the masters left the hall, they all followed them to the carriage place. The group returned to their ancestral home that day.
That night, the family had a hasty dinner and went back to rest.
After eating vegetarian food for several days and reciting sutras for three days and nights, I really needed a good night's sleep.
Everyone slept soundly that day.
When I get up the next day, I take a morning bath again. I feel refreshed again.
After having breakfast together at Sanchun Hall, Qiao's father led Mingjue and Mingqi out again after Qiao Jingcang and others came with their wives and children to say hello.
Mrs. Lan led Mother Qiao, Qiao Mingjin and others to talk to several concubines, daughters-in-law, concubines, granddaughters and others.
When Mother He led the people to come, Madam Zhang, Madam Xiao Fang and others also led the people in their respective rooms to leave, saying they were going back to pack their things.
Now that Mrs. Fang and Mrs. Liu were still staying in the room, Mrs. Lan simply told them to stay in the room to recuperate and not to make their illness worse.
Unless those two people moved to their assigned house, they wouldn't be able to leave the house and wander around with Lan's presence.
Now Qiao Jingcang and others have recognized the Lan family and Father Qiao respectively, and the Lan family has become the master of the family again. They are a group of people who are used to being the masters of the family, so naturally they are not willing to listen to the Lan family and Father Qiao in everything.
Assignment.
No matter how unwilling I am, moving out of my ancestral home has become inevitable.
If they don't move out, Lan's family might not let them take the things in the small warehouse in their courtyard.
This ancestral house has accumulated a lot of good things over the past hundred years. Where in the house and courtyard is there not a good thing accumulated over the years? Which of the vases is not valuable?
Now that the Lan family doesn't care about this, they can also take the opportunity to move all the things in the house. If they stay for a long time, the Lan family and Qiao Jingkun as directors are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As a guest, how can they have the nerve to move things from the owner's house?
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Besides, if the people in the two rooms still live in the ancestral home, they will definitely come to greet Lan and Qiao Jingkun every day. How can these people be willing to do so?
No matter how small the house you are assigned to is, it is still much better than living under a fence and having to bow to others every day.
Lan didn't rush them, he just told them to pack up and move out at a certain time.
After these people left, Mrs. Lan took Mrs. Qiao, Qiao Mingjin and others to visit the stewards and give instructions on various matters. She also gave Sister Qiao Mingjin another on-site education.
The three granddaughters have never lived in a big house, and their knowledge is limited. They will inevitably have to be the directors of the family in the future. What they were taught before was just talk on paper. Now that there is an opportunity, the Lan family will naturally keep the three of them by their side to learn.
After sorting out the affairs of the ancestral house, Ding Er took several shopkeepers and stewards and brought a stack of ledgers.
The Lan family took over the Qiao family's business, so the shopkeepers and managers from all over the place naturally came to report the situation to the new master. In order for the masters to check the accounts, they must bring the account books.
Mother Qiao is illiterate, and Father Qiao can only recognize her name, but he can't tell it by looking at the account book.
Lan sent her to chat with the ladies in charge of several farms to see what crops were grown in each farm and what was the harvest?
Mother Qiao was familiar with these people. Seeing that the ladies in charge were also farmers, she started chatting with them after a while.
After Lan had a few words with the stewards and shopkeepers, he left the account books and sent them to the guest house to rest. He would call them back if summoned.
After they left, Lan took Qiao Mingjin and others to look through the account books and check the accounts. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest support.
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