Chapter 1, Section 4: The Origin of the Bracelet (I)

If you want to talk about the origin of the bracelet in Qin Yunan's hand, you have to go back to Qin Yunan's family history.

If you want to talk about Qin Yunan's family history, you have to start from the time when her ancestor Qin Wanxuan was alive:

The cause of the incident has to be traced back to: the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty more than 100 years ago.

In the era of the Qing Dynasty, Qin Yunan's ancestor Qin Wanxuan was once a privy secretary of the Criminal Department of the Qing court, assisting in the management of criminal cases across the country.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty was facing internal and external troubles and was divided by the foreign powers.

In that turbulent era, the international and domestic forms were changing, and wolf smoke was everywhere. The Chinese people are caught in a big war.

In China at that time: the peasant uprising forces such as the Red Lantern and the Little Knife Society were surging and constantly fighting each other.

Abroad, the imperialist powers are planning their dream of carving up China.

With the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the defeat of the naval squadron of the Chinese Beiyang Naval Division. The foreign powers have stepped up their plans to carve up China.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty, due to the First Sino-Japanese War, the naval team of the Beiyang Naval Division was completely annihilated in the war against Japan. Japan forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" that humiliated the country.

After the treaty was signed, in order to compensate the Japanese army for its huge military expenditures, the Qing Dynasty stepped up its exploitation of the people, and the broad masses of the people fell into a catastrophe of dire straits.

With the intensification of the exploitation system of the Qing Dynasty, the class contradictions at home and abroad have become more acute. Peasant movements broke out throughout the country. Social contradictions have become even more acute.

After seeing that the international and domestic contradictions became more acute, the reformers led by Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others, in order to save the Qing ** on the verge of collapse, wrote to Emperor Guangxu and asked for a change in the law. In an attempt to use this move to restore the decadent rule of the Qing Dynasty that was on the verge of collapse.

In the face of the declining Qing Dynasty, Emperor Guangxu was unwilling to clear the country, so it was cut off in his own hands.

As a result, he began to issue some decrees to change the law, and began to implement a vigorous reform movement - the Wuxu Reform. (Historically known as the Hundred Days Restoration)

However, in this vigorous reform movement, as soon as the reform began, it was strongly opposed by the diehards led by the Empress Dowager Cixi. These people are constantly creating contradictions among you and sabotaging the progress of the reform.

Since then, the Qing ** has been divided into two factions. They were the Imperial Party and the Later Party. People on both sides will win over each other's forces. The contradictions and struggles between the imperialist party and the latter party became even more acute.

As the contradictions between the emperor and the queen deepened, the struggle between the reformers and the diehards became more acute.

The struggle between the reformers and the diehards intensified. The reformists led by Emperor Guangxu did not dare to be a puppet, so they secretly contacted Tan Sitong and united with Yuan Shikai in an attempt to stage a farce of "encircling the garden and killing the queen", so as to eradicate the forces of the diehards.

However, what he didn't expect was that Yuan Shikai was a two-faced, not only did he not help the reformists at the critical moment of the reform, but instead took refuge in the Empress Dowager Cixi, thus wantonly arresting the reformists.

As a result, a vigorous movement to change the law lasted only more than three months. After the Empress Dowager imprisoned Emperor Guangxu, she began to arrest the reformists nationwide.

The famous Six Gentlemen of Wuxu gave away their lives because of this. A vigorous movement to change the law finally ended in failure.

In this vigorous reform movement, Qin Yunan's ancestor Qin Wanxuan was one of the victims.

As early as the early days of the implementation of the Wuxu Reform, Qin Yunan's ancestor Qin Wanxuan was one of the followers and supporters of the Wuxu Reform.

Later, with the failure of the reform movement. Qin Wanxuan was involved in the change of the law, and then he was imprisoned.

However, because he was not one of the masterminds of the change, plus their family, they spent money to dredge up some relationships. As a result, he was released after just over two months in prison.

Although after this catastrophe, Qin Wanxuan was lucky to be picked up with his life. However, since then, he has been dismissed from his official position and reduced to the people because of his participation in the change of the law.

As the saying goes: Tiger Lao Yu Wei is here. Although Qin Wanxuan was cut to the people, he no longer had any authority. However, their family's family did not decline because of this.

There is a way: the three holes of the cunning rabbit. Long before he led his wife and concubine to move back to his hometown in Shangqiu, Henan, he had already thought of a way out for himself.

Before she returned to her hometown in Shangqiu, Henan, he used the assets in his hand to buy dozens of acres of land in his hometown and bought Xu Cheng's family property. handed it over to his eldest son, Qin Tianzhong, to cook.

Not only that, he saw that his second son Qin Tianxiao (Qin Yunan's great-grandfather) was keen on collecting, so he opened a stall shop for him in Shangqiu County, Henan.

Therefore, after Qin Wanxuan was imprisoned, he did not suffer much disaster, but was very lucky to escape the catastrophe.

After seeing his father imprisoned, Qin Wanxuan's two sons, Qin Tianzhong and Qin Tianxiao, ran around for their father's affairs, did not hesitate to sell many properties, and spent a lot of money to bribe the officials who presided over the trial, and finally rescued Qin Wanxuan from prison.

After Qin Wanxuan escaped safely, he sold his property in the capital, took his wives and concubines, and several other minor children, and moved back to his hometown in Shangqiu, Henan, and lived with his eldest son, Qin Tianzhong.

Qin Wanxuan had a wife and two concubines at that time. Five sons and eight daughters. Among them, the eldest son's name is: Qin Tianzhong. The second son's name is: Qin Tianxiao. and a daughter born to his wife. The other children were born to his concubines.

Among his children, except for the eldest son Qin Tianzhong, the second son Qin Tianxiao, and the other two daughters, who started a family at that time, the rest of the children did not start a family at that time.

These two of his sons. The eldest son, Qin Tianzhong, like his father, likes real estate and land. So he inherited his father's clothes and became a rich man.

Qin Wanxuan's second son is named Qin Tianxiao (Qin Yunan's great-ancestor), and he is a very smart person. He had studied abroad at that time, and he had also seen some of the world. I fell in love with some ancient research.

In this way, Qin Wanxuan transferred the family's land and land to his eldest son Qin Tianfu. followed him through a happy old age. Until the end of his life.

At the same time, Qin Wanxuan saw that his youngest son Qin Tianxiao was enthusiastic about the cause of ancient understanding. So, he used the wealth in his hands to his youngest son Qin Tianxiao (Qin Yunan's great-grandfather) to open an ancient understanding shop in Shangqiu County, Henan, and concurrently operated a stall shop.

Because Qin Tianxiao is talented, he is very eloquent, has a wide range of contacts, and is good at business. Coupled with the fact that his father used to be a palace eunuch, the contacts were very extensive. Therefore, his business in the county town is very prosperous. Since then, their family's life has been very happy.

However, the good times were short-lived. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed. The Xinhai Revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen shattered the tranquility of the past. The royal relatives and nobles of the past did not have the majestic scene of the past.

After that, in 1924, General Feng Yuxiang led a team to expel Emperor Xuantong Puyi from the Forbidden City, and from then on, Emperor Xuantong was forced to leave the palace.

Seeing that the trees fell and scattered, these princes and nobles of the Qing court, as well as high-ranking officials and nobles, fled from the palace with some gold and silver hand ornaments and other beyond.

Among these fleeing princes and nobles, there was a royal family of the Qing Dynasty, Ke Ke, who brought some gold and silver hand ornaments and other things to the boundary of Shangqiu, Henan.

After she came to Shangqiu, Henan, because she had no other livelihood, she waited for the day to sit and eat empty. Life soon came to an end.

After seeing that her life was gone, she had no choice but to bring some gold and silver jewelry to the stall opened by Qin Tianxiao, and lost some of the gold and silver jewelry in order to survive.

Among the gold and silver jewelry she had lost, one of them was the jade bracelet that Qin Yunan was wearing. This pair of bracelets is one of the items she has in her file.

Qin Tianxiao loved it very much when he saw the pair of jade bracelets she had (note: the other bracelet, which Qin's father gave to his eldest daughter Qin Yufan when he was dying). He kept this pair of jade bracelets by his side and was never willing to sell them.

In this way, from then on, this pair of jade bracelets has been passed down from generation to generation since Qin Yunan's great-grandfather. This finally reached Qin Yunan's hands.

Time passed like this, year after year. In the blink of an eye, it was the early thirties of the twentieth century.

At that time, China was in a very turbulent era, with warlords cutting dramas, constant wars, and people living in poverty. The broad masses of the people are living in dire straits. Officials and bandits collude and fight each other often occur.

In the winter of that year, when the New Year was approaching, Qin Tianxiao closed his stall early because he was going home for the New Year, preparing to go home for the New Year. When he was leaving, he entrusted the shop to a nearby neighbor and asked him to take care of his shop.

However, as the saying goes: if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves. Just when he went home for the New Year, his stall was caught up by a gang of petty thieves and ruffians nearby.

The thieves had found out that he had returned to his hometown and that there was no one in the shop. On the fourth night after he left the shop (on the 30th day of the lunar month), he climbed over the wall and entered his shop.

The thieves jumped over the wall and window into his shop, ransacked all the valuable things in his shop, and fled.