July is full of fire, and the heat is gradually fading.
On the day of Qiao Xingcun's third year's memorial ceremony, people came and went in the ancestral house. In fact, the house had been lively since a few days ago.
There was a hint of solemnity amidst the excitement.
As the only legitimate son of Qiao Xingcun and the head of the Qiao family, Qiao Jingkun had not fulfilled his filial piety by Qiao Xingcun's side for many years, so he naturally had to do more than others in hosting this three-year ceremony.
Qiao's residence invited a master to read scriptures for several days, and the family went to Qiao Xingcun's grave to pay homage, erect a monument, and add soil. After that, the family went to Cheng'en Temple to eat fast for several days.
When he came back, he held a banquet to inform his close relatives, old relatives and friends.
After being so busy for half a month, Qiao Xingcun's filial piety period has passed.
Although except for his children and grandsons, no one else is required to observe mourning for three years, but Qiao Jingkun still asked the whole family to observe it together.
Naturally, all the families and tribes in Yizhou watched this three-year ceremony hosted by Qiao Jingkun for his father. After taking off his clothes, more and more people walked around the Qiao family.
In the past, perhaps due to filial piety, Qiao Mingjin's family did not interact too much with others. Now that they have taken off their clothes, they naturally want to interact well with their in-laws and relatives, so they can interact with old and new friends.
In the Qiao residence, Mrs. Lan led the family to take off their plain clothes, and ordered people to move a lot of materials from the warehouse to make new clothes for the family. Several craftsmen from the silver house also invited several craftsmen to the house to customize jewelry for the female family members.
Even the four families of Qiao Jingcang and Qiao Jingshan have a share.
But those families kept packing their bags after taking off their mourning clothes.
Qiao Jingshan and others were all employed. After Qiao Xingcun left, his sons had all signed up for Ding You, and now they naturally had to return to Beijing to fill their posts. Even though Qiao Jing'an and Qiao Jingya were only serving as casualties, they also had to go back to cancel their leave.
Furthermore, Yizhou is naturally not as prosperous as Kyoto. Those families are accustomed to living in Beijing. Not only the children always think this is a rural place, but even the adults are eager to go to Beijing early.
You can meet noble people everywhere in Beijing. Maybe if you raise your hand, you will have a bright future. Besides, your children will naturally go to Beijing to marry someone else. How many noble people can there be in Yizhou?
The families were all busy packing their bags in their own small homes.
Qiao's father was a man who missed old friendships. When he saw that his younger brothers were going to Beijing with their families, he took two brothers, Mingjue and Mingheng, to visit him every day to help. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lan led Qiao's mother and Qiao Mingjin to help them.
Several families are planning local products and rituals.
After all, those people are also the bastards of the Lan family.
Before leaving, the two aunts Wu and Xiao Fang naturally did not stay at home. After Lan came back, they did not greet Lan and stayed in a corner. Many clan members said behind their backs.
Already.
It stands to reason that even if the husband dies and the mistress is there, as a concubine, even if she has children, she must serve the mistress. Without the grace of the Lan family, these two cannot just follow their son and separate the family.
Let's live another life.
Secular etiquette is unacceptable.
Therefore, even if these two people no longer take the Lan family seriously, they still have to kowtow at this time. Otherwise, as long as the Lan family tells the clan members, these two people will have to stay in the ancestral home to retire.
For both of them, this was worse than death.
When Qiao Xingcun was still there, none of them had ever served the eldest lady. Now that Qiao Xingcun was gone, they still had to stay and watch the eldest lady's face. They were afraid that they would not be able to survive this life.
These two people were used to being wives with Qiao Xing in the capital. They were used to living a good life, with fine clothes and fine food. They were used to being served by servants. When they are old, they have to serve in front of the Lan family. This is
It's like killing them.
No matter what these two people think in their hearts, in order to live such a carefree life, they still have to do this superficial work.
So these two came.
Although Lan didn't care and didn't want to care about the rudeness and neglect of these two people, she still showed off as a lady when they knelt down in front of her to pay their respects.
Otherwise, would we all regard her as a soft persimmon?
Fortunately, the Lan family was not that kind of mean person, and did not want to keep these two people around to cause trouble. He happily sent these two people away with his son.
In the eyes of outsiders, Lan's behavior has naturally won praise from everyone.
However, Aunt Qiao was very aggrieved and said that if it were her, she would definitely have to keep these two people by her side to learn from each other before she would be reconciled. Things that originally belonged to the Lan family have been robbed by those two people in the past few decades. The capital city
How could Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Fang, who only knew Qiao Xingcun here, know that there was Lan as his first wife? As concubines, they even went to the palace banquets.
But in Lan's heart, everything has passed, and there is nothing more important than family. Besides, the ancestors have passed away, and there is nothing to complain about. Now, her son and daughter-in-law are filial, and her grandchildren are in her lap. There is nothing more important than this.
It's better. I don't want to bother with irrelevant people.
At the end of July, after sending away the four members of Qiao Jingcang's family, Qiao Jingkun gathered the family together to discuss their fate.
When the family left Qingchuan before, they said they would go to Yizhou first to observe mourning for Qiao Xingcun. After the period of mourning was over, they would discuss whether the family should live in Yizhou or return to Qingchuan.
After all, the children were all born and raised in Qingchuan, and Qiao’s mother’s natal family is also in Qingchuan. At that time, she was afraid that the family would not be able to adapt to living in Yizhou, so she did not decide to stay, and she did not deal with the family’s house, title, land, etc. Now Xiao Xiao
After the holiday is over, it’s time to decide whether the family will stay or go. If you want to go back to Qingchuan, it’s time to get ready. It’s hard to leave when autumn comes.
On this day, the whole family gathered in the flower hall of Lan's courtyard, and even Wan'er was not left behind.
The atmosphere was too serious and no one spoke first.
Qiao Mingjin thought for a while, then asked Wan'er, who was sitting obediently next to her: "Wan'er, tell your grandparents and grandma, does Wan'er like Yizhou?"
Wan'er is now six years old and has reached the age of a governor. Before coming, Qiao Mingjin also told her some things.
At this time, when the little thing heard his mother asking this question, he nodded repeatedly and said to Mr. Lan and Mr. Qiao and Mr. Qiao who were sitting at the top: "I like it. The house here is so big and there are many delicious things. The street
The street is lively, the lanterns are beautiful, there are many people playing with Wan'er, there are no Donggen and Beishu bullying others, and there is no partial grandma..."
The little thing muttered in a low voice. No one heard it, but Qiao Mingjin heard it.
Wu's partiality has been engraved in the little thing's heart. Because of Wu's partiality, the little thing has learned to read people's eyes since he was a child. He is always a little afraid of strangers and wants to get acquainted with them.
Only then will you open your heart.
After hearing what the woman said, Qiao Mingjin felt a little sad for her daughter.
Even if this child has her wholehearted love, I'm afraid he doesn't have much sense of security. Only with a sound and harmonious family atmosphere like theirs can the little thing be happy all the time.
Now my daughter is used to being with people like her parents. If she changes to a new environment...
Qiao Mingjin felt a little worried when she thought about it.
When Lan heard the little thing saying that he liked Yizhou, he laughed and hurriedly called the little thing over.
"Come, come to the great grandmother."
After hearing this, the little thing hurriedly got off the chair with a grin on his face, trotted towards Lan, and threw himself into Lan's arms.
Lan hugged her and rubbed her. He smiled at her and said, "Wan'er likes it here? Are you not going back to Qingchuan?"
The little thing glanced at Qiao Mingjin, thought again, then looked at Lan and said, "Is Grandma going back to Qingchuan? Wan'er wants to be with Grandma."
After hearing this, Mrs. Lan liked it, laughed, praised her for being good, hugged the little thing in her arms, and fed her some snacks.
Qiao Mingjin smiled when she saw this, then looked at Father Qiao, who was frowning, and Mother Qiao, who was hesitant to speak. She said, "Mom and Dad, our family should stay in Yizhou. Dad has already taken over the position of head of the family.
.I’m afraid we can’t leave anymore. Besides, we don’t have many connections in Qingchuan. For the future of Mingjue and Mingheng, we have to stay in Yizhou. With the help of our tribe, the two of them will be able to avoid detours in the future. Besides,
My grandmother was also born and raised here, so it would be more appropriate to stay here."
After speaking, he glanced at Mingqi again, smiled and said to Mother Qiao and others: "Besides, Mingqi will marry in Yizhou in the future. If we all go back and she is left here alone,
Mom, don’t you miss her? Qingchuan and Yizhou are so far away, I’m afraid it will take several years before we can see each other.”
I am afraid that only Mother Qiao in this family wants to return to Qingchuan. After all, that is the place she is most familiar with.
There were her parents, brothers and sisters, the family she was most familiar with.
And things got better for the Qiao family later on. When she walked in the village and outside, others naturally looked up to her and fawned over her. In Yizhou, there were many rich and wealthy people.
After all, she came from the countryside and could not help but feel timid as she interacted with ladies and ladies from wealthy families. Every time before going out, she had to ask everyone in the house for fear that she was not dressed appropriately or spoke inappropriately.
It’s inappropriate to be laughed at outside.
If in Qingchuan, her family were wealthy and she was a wealthy countrywoman, I'm afraid others would still come to compliment her.
Although she knew it was best for her two sons to stay in Yizhou, she still thought of Qingchuan in her heart.
Now after listening to Qiao Mingjin's words, she really wanted to go to Mingqi's wedding. If their family all returns to Qingchuan, Mingqi will not be able to return to her parents' home anytime in the future. I'm afraid it will take many years to see her again.
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Just thinking about it makes me feel sad.
After Mingqi heard Qiao Mingjin talking about her, the girl was not embarrassed and said loudly: "If you all go back to Qingchuan, then I will go back too! Anyway, I am not married yet. Besides, the person named Zhou is not married.
I’m worried that no one will marry him!”
After everyone heard this, they all laughed.
Mingheng and Mingyu kept teasing her: "Shanxian would be very sad if he heard this." "No, that kid asked me to bring things in for him."
After hearing this, Ming Qi couldn't help but mutter: "It's not like we can't get married without him."
Mingyu laughed and teased her again after hearing this: "I'm just saying these things to coax us, but I'm afraid I don't want to let go."
"Who can't bear it!"
Everyone laughed again after hearing this...
In the end, both Lan and Qiao's father decided to stay in Yizhou for the sake of their children. Qiao's mother had always valued her husband and children more than herself, and it was a nurturing lesson she had received since she was a child.
Although Qingchuan was reluctant to leave, he was willing to stay with everyone in the end.
For Qiao Mingjin, her life is the same wherever she lives. There is nothing special. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.
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ps: I’ve been waiting for a few days and it’s finally coming to an end. It’s over today and there’s still one chapter left. This book took so long that it made me go crazy. Hey, it’s hard to finish in a word...
