Chapter 028: Difficult to support yourself
Qin Su turned his eyes around and sighed slightly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Yingchuan Qin clan has long since passed away with the sky like water, and there is no trace. Today's Qingzhou Qin clan is just a slightly prestigious clan, not even a famous family.
Looking back, the decline of the Qin family was not caused by the Qin family's ignorance and self-destruction of the family business, but by the will of God.
The ancestral home of the Qin family was not in Jiangyang County, Yizhou, but in Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, in the south of the current Zhao State.
At that time, it was still the territory of the Chen State.
Yingchuan County is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Heihe River, the largest river connecting the Three Kingdoms, with rich land and many Wang clans, in addition to the Qin clan, the Lu clan, the He clan, the Yu clan, etc., are all famous local clans.
More than 30 years ago, on the occasion of the Qin family's centennial ancestor worship, this is a big sacrifice, and all the people of the Qin clan returned to their hometowns from all over the country and lived in the ancestral house of the Qin family, which is comparable to a small city, to participate in this grand event.
But no one expected that heavy rain fell in the upper reaches of the Heihe River, and the flood broke through the Yingchuan embankment and poured into the county.
It was late at night when the water was issued, and most of the nearly 1,000 poor Qin clans were swept away by the flood in their sleep. When the flood receded, before the Qin clan could take a breath, the plague broke out, followed by a great drought, the mountain fires burned for a whole month, the fields were scorched, corpses were everywhere, the entire Yingchuan was not alive, and many families were wiped out.
The Qin family was lucky, and in the end there were seven people with three men, four women, namely: Qin Zongliang and Lu husband and wife, who were in the second room of the Yan branch; the mother of the four houses of the Yan branch, Wu and his daughter-in-law Qin Shifang, and his concubine Qin Shihong; Xiaozong's five-room concubine 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.
That Qin Zongliang is a very responsible person, and the Lu family is from the Yingchuan Lu family, with extraordinary knowledge and a resolute personality. Seeing that Yingchuan was no longer a livable place, the husband and wife resolutely led the mother and son of the Wu family and the Gao family to move away from their homeland, and after many hardships, they finally settled in Qingzhou City, Jiangyang County, Yizhou.
Seven years later, Qin Zongliang died young due to overwork, and he was not yet forty years old when he died.
It is also the will of heaven, the Qin family is already thin, but Qin Zongliang and the Lu family have never given birth to a child in those six or seven years, and even the concubines are all gone. Na Lu is an open-minded, after finishing Qin Zongliang's funeral, she simply opened the ancestral hall, asked for a family tree, and under the witness of the elders of the Yizhou scholars, the Wu family, Qin Shihong, and Qin Shifang were officially recorded as the head of the Qin family's branches; Gao's and Qin Shizhang's branch are recorded as the second room of the Yan branch; As for Qin Zongliang and the Lu family, in the name of "the eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother", they are recorded as the fifth-generation patriarch of the Qin clan.
The cigarettes that the Qin family had almost cut off were renewed, and for the Qin family, this was tantamount to a nirvana rebirth, and among them, the Lu family made great contributions.
At that time, all the properties of the Qin family were in the hands of the Lu family, and the Lu family's move was to show everyone that she would never have the intention of marrying another person with her property, and she would always be the wife of the Qin family.
The Wu family and the Gao family were even more grateful to Dade, and officially changed their words to call the Lu family their mother, and they were regarded as Mrs. Tai, and everyone moved into the three-way four-entry mansion that Qin Zongliang bought before his death, and lived like a family of scholars.
Because there are three roads in the house, which is enough for these people to live, the Wu branch of the long house lives in the east courtyard, and the Wu family is called Mrs. Wu; The second room of the Gao family lives in the west courtyard, and the Gao family is called Mrs. Gao. Mrs. Tai lived in the main courtyard of Zhonglu to show the respect of the people in the two rooms for her. In this way, the Qin family's original situation of having a branch and a small sect living together, and each house having its own plans, has also been improved.
When the Qin family moved into the mansion, Qin Shihong had just turned nineteen years old, married to Yu, and his eldest son, Qin Yanduan, had just been born. Qin Shizhang is also fourteen, and after 25 months of decay and filial piety, he has also reached the age of marriage, and the two rooms of the Qin family can be regarded as successors.
Speaking of which, Qin Shihong has no talent in reading, but he is a good hand in business, and Lu Shi saw that he acted steadily, so he slowly handed over part of the industry to him to take care of. Qin Shihong also lived up to expectations, the Qin brick kiln opened bigger and bigger, he also opened the porcelain kiln, the celadon fired was warm and pure, lustrous like jade, and the white porcelain was stable and solid, quiet as the abyss, for a time, the Qin kiln porcelain became famous, and gradually ranked among the first-class porcelain.
And Qin Su's father, Qin Shizhang, is a talented and intelligent person, he was admitted to Xiucai at a young age, and he also talks elegantly and smoothly, has a handsome demeanor, and also has the reputation of "prodigy" in the county. There are many scholars who take a fancy to his talent, and they are all willing to match him with women, although most of them are concubines, but for the Qin family, it is already a good thing for the family to prosper and revive the sect.
However, no one expected that when the Qin family was thriving, Qin Shihong suddenly fell ill and died, and his wife Yu was pregnant with her second child at that time.
What's even more worrying is that because Xu was busy with funerals at home and neglected to take care of him, Qin Shihong's sister-in-law, Qin Yanduan, who was only four years old, accidentally fell from the garden rockery, broke his spine, and couldn't move from the waist down. The old doctor vaguely said that even if Qin Yanduan could grow up alive, he would forever lose the ability to be a father.
Everyone was still lucky at that time, if Yu's fetus still gave birth to a boy, the incense of the Qin family's big house could continue. However, the reality was not so satisfactory, Yu gave birth to a child the following year, but it was a girl named Qin Yanya.
After giving birth to a daughter, Yu's body completely lost and fell into severe uterine cold.
In this way, the lineage of the Qin family room (that is, the original descendant) has no successor. The only male in the entire Qin family is Qin Shizhang, who was originally the son of a small sect. Qin Shizhang was already married at that time, and his wife Zhong was the daughter of the Han An Xiao Shi clan, and his sister-in-law Qin Yanzhao had just reached the full moon.
Old Madam Wu proposed at this time that she wanted to let her nephew Qin Shizhang take care of her.
According to common sense, Mrs. Wu can inherit a boy from Qin Shizhang and raise him under the knees of her daughter-in-law Yu, and their long house can be regarded as a continuation of incense.
However, Mrs. Wu refused to do so.
Her biological daughter Qin Shifang was seventeen years old at the time, but she never found a good husband.
The Qin family has already injured the foundation, Qin Shifang's marriage is already a bit high, not low, now the Qin family is full of women and children, and the vein of the long house is not even a man who has a top door, even if it is the lowest class, they will not find such a woman to be a wife, at most they will be accepted as a concubine.
Qin Shifang is the only blood and blood of Mrs. Wu, she loves this daughter more than treasures, how can she be willing to let her daughter be a concubine, and she is even more unwilling to marry her daughter into the cold. And Qin Shihong is a concubine in the end, separated from Mrs. Wu's belly, for 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 couldn't let go of anything, so she hit Qin Shizhang with the idea.
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