Zhe Jinchun

Chapter 28

Qin Su turned her eyes around and sighed slightly.

The Qin family in Yingchuan has long since disappeared with the sky like water, and there is no trace anymore.Today's Qingzhou Qin family is just a slightly prestigious noble family, not even a famous family.

Looking back on the past, the decline of the Qin family was not caused by the Qin family's ignorance and self-destruction of the family business, but by God's will.

The Qin family's ancestral home is not in Jiangyang County, Yizhou, but in Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, in the south of Zhao State.

At that time, it was still the territory of Chen Guo.

Yingchuan County is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Heihe River, the largest river that connects the three countries. The land is rich and rich, and there are many Wang clans. In addition to the Qin clan, the Lu clan, He clan, Yu clan, etc. are all well-known local clans.

Thirty years ago, it was the 30th year of the Qin family's ancestor worship. This was a big sacrifice. All the people from the whole family returned from all over the country and lived in the Qin family's ancestral house that was comparable to a small city to participate in this grand event.

But no one expected that the upper reaches of the Heihe River had continuous torrential rains, and the floods broke through the Yingchuan dam and flowed into the county.

It was late at night when the water was released, and the poor Qin family had nearly a thousand people, most of whom were washed away by the flood in their sleep.When the flood receded, before the people of the Qin clan could catch their breath, the plague broke out, followed by a severe drought. The mountain fire burned for a whole month. The fields were scorched and corpses were strewn all over the place. They are all extinct.

The Qin family was quite lucky, and finally survived seven people, three men and four women, namely: Qin Zongliang and Lu's husband and wife, the second wife of the first line branch; Concubine Shi Gao and his son Qin Shizhang.

At that time, Qin Shihong was nine years old, Qin Shizhang was five years old, and Qin Shifang was three years old.

Qin Zongliang is a very responsible person, and the Lu family is from the Lu family in Yingchuan, with extraordinary knowledge and a resolute personality.Seeing that Yingchuan is no longer a suitable place to live, the couple resolutely led Wu and Gao's mother and son to move away from their homeland. After going through a lot of hardships, they finally settled in Qingzhou City, Jiangyang County, Yizhou. , opened a brick kiln, and supported a family business.

Seven years later, Qin Zongliang died young due to overwork, less than 40 years old when he died.

It is also God's will, the Qin family was originally sparsely populated, but Qin Zongliang and the Lu family never gave birth to a child during those six or seven years, and even took no concubines.The Nalu family is open-minded. After Qin Zongliang's funeral, she simply opened the ancestral hall and asked for a genealogy. It is the head of the Qin family's direct branch; the Gao family and Qin Shizhang's branch are recorded as the second direct branch of the Qin family; as for Qin Zongliang and Lu's family, they are recorded as the first son of the Qin family in the name of "the elder brother is like a father, and the elder sister-in-law is like a mother". Five generations of patriarchs.

The cigarettes that had been almost cut off by the Qin family were resumed. For the Qin family, this was nothing less than a rebirth from nirvana, and the Lu family contributed the most to this.

At that time, all the properties of the Qin family were in the hands of the Lu family. Lu's move was to show everyone that she would never have any plans to remarry with the child, and would always be the Qin family's wife.

Such an act of understanding righteousness won the Qin family a very high reputation. The Wu family and the Gao family were even more grateful. The three-way and four-way mansion under the house lived like a gentry living together.

Because there are three roads in the house, which is enough for these people to live in, the Wu family of the long house lives in the east courtyard, and the Wu family is called Mrs. Wu; the Gao family of the second house lives in the west courtyard, and the Gao family is called Mrs. Gao.Mrs. Tai lives in the main courtyard of the middle road to show the respect of the two rooms.In this way, the Qin family's original situation where the direct branches, the small clans live together, and each house has its own plans can also be improved.

When the Qin family moved into the mansion, Qin Shihong had just turned 19 years old, married his wife Yu, and the eldest son Qin Yanduan had just been born.Qin Shizhang is also fourteen, and after 25 months of filial piety, he has reached the age of marriage, and the two families of the Qin family can be regarded as successors.

Speaking of which, Qin Shihong didn't have much talent in reading, but he was good at doing business. Seeing that he acted prudently, Mrs. Lu slowly handed over part of the property to him.Qin Shihong did not live up to his high expectations. The brick kiln of the Qin family became bigger and bigger. He also opened a porcelain kiln. The celadon he fired was warm and pure, with a luster like jade, and the white porcelain was solid, solid, and quiet as an abyss. For a while, Qin kiln porcelain became famous , Gradually rank among the top porcelain.

However, Qin Shizhang, Qin Su's father, was a talented and intelligent man. He was admitted as a scholar at a young age. He was also well-spoken and handsome, and he was also known as a "child prodigy" in the county.There are quite a few gentry clans who fancy his talent and are willing to marry him with women. Although most of them are concubine daughters, for the Qin family, it is already a good thing for the prosperity of the family and the revival of the sect.

However, no one expected that when the Qin family was flourishing, Qin Shihong suddenly died of a sudden illness. His wife, Yu Shi, was pregnant with her second child at that time. The fetus has fallen to the root of the disease since then.

What is even more worrying is that because Xu was busy with the funeral at home and neglected to take care of him, Qin Shihong's son-in-law—Qin Yanduan, who was only four years old—inadvertently fell from the rockery in the garden and broke his spine. Can't move.The old doctor implied that even if Qin Yanduan could grow up alive, he would never have the ability to be a father.

At that time, everyone was lucky enough to hope that if Yu's child still gave birth to a male, then the incense of the eldest family of the Qin family could continue.However, the reality was not so satisfactory. The next year Yu gave birth to a child, but it was a girl named Qin Yanya.

After giving birth to a daughter, Yu's body completely weakened, and she suffered from severe palace cold syndrome.

As a result, Qin's paternal family (that is, the original direct branch) has no successors.The only male in the entire Qin family is Qin Shizhang, who was originally the concubine son of Xiaozong.Qin Shizhang was already married at that time, and his wife Zhong was the daughter of a noble family with a small surname in Han'an, and his son Qin Yanzhao had just reached his full moon.

Mrs. Wu conveniently proposed at this time that Qin Shizhang, the nephew of the clan, should be consecrated.

According to common sense, Mrs. Wu can adopt a boy from Qin Shizhang and raise it under the knee of her daughter-in-law Yu, and their eldest house can be regarded as a continuation of incense.

However, Mrs. Wu refused to do so.

Her biological daughter, Qin Shifang, was 17 years old at the time, but she could not find a good husband.

The Qin family has already hurt its foundation. Qin Shifang's marriage was a little too high and too low. Now the Qin family is full of women and children, and there is not even a single male in the long family line. The gentry would not find such a woman as a wife, at most they would take her as a concubine.

Qin Shifang is Mrs. Wu's only flesh and blood. She loves this daughter more than a treasure. How can she be willing to let her daughter be a concubine, let alone marry her into a poor family.And Qin Shihong is a concubine after all, separated from Mrs. Wu by a layer of belly. To her, it makes no difference whether her grandchildren are Qin Shihong's children or Qin Shizhang's children.In order for her daughter to have a good marriage, she had nothing to let go of, so she set her mind on Qin Shizhang.

(End of this chapter)