008 The Qiao family's past grievances
-The past grievances of the Qiao family-
It's finally home!
Although the two farmhouses of Qiao Mei's family occupy a huge area, the courtyards on the left and right sides together have nearly ** acres of land! However, the actual house occupies a small area.
The layout of the houses on both sides is the same, and they are all large five-room. And from the layout of the house, it is a big 'concave' shape. The one facing the patio is generally called the main room, the left and right sides are the east and west wings, the remaining two, one is divided into a stove room and a bathroom, and one is made into a study and a cubicle by the mother, don't look at only five houses, the previous house is not like the future house, it is completely a sleeping place.
The smallest of this room is more than 30 square meters, like the main room, which is nearly 50 square meters, which is completely the area of a small suite.
Since she was five years old, only three bedrooms were not enough, so her mother and her brother lived in the small courtyard on the left, while she and her grandmother lived in the small courtyard on the right.
are all five major rooms, but grandma directly assigned the main house and the west chamber to Qiao Meizhu. The main room is Qiao Mei's boudoir, and the west chamber is Qiao Mei's 'studio', simply put, it is the embroidery room, which is equipped with a full range of embroidery thread and silk cloth and thin sand. They are all the private collections of the ancestors, and there are many large and small embroidery frames, and most of the embroidery frames are old objects left by her maternal grandmother.
Qiao Mei lives in the inheritance of her grandfather Qiao Jun, when her grandfather participated in the front-line battle and was unfortunately killed, the only thing left to her grandmother was this small courtyard, if it wasn't for the fact that her grandmother was pregnant with Liujia at that time, I am afraid that this small courtyard would not have been able to get grandma's turn!
If you want to say that grandma is an only daughter, but grandpa is not. Although grandpa has no brothers, he has two older sisters, and they are both married in this village!
The Qiao family who moved to this deep mountain peak vein has a total of ten rooms, and the side lineage has all of them, but the lineage has always been thin, so although they are all surnamed Qiao, the blood relationship is not very close, and when they settled here, they set family rules: the daughter of the Qiao family can only marry her own people, but the Qiao family can marry foreigners, and close relatives within five generations are prohibited, so that the Qiao family is not too close to the descendants and harms the descendants.
Don't look at the simple ten-room people, but this was very large at the time. Each room has its own guards and maidservants, it is the least room of people, there are more than 30 people, this is still before the escape left and right, the rest are the most loyal and close slaves, and finally gave them the surname Qiao, and wait until more than a hundred years of turmoil has passed, the new era is coming, and their Qiao family is in front of the world again.
Don't look at the last slaves are all surnamed Joe, and the slave owners are not divided. In fact, the genealogy of Qiaojia Village is very complete, and only the real Qiao family is allowed to have a one-word name. And this word can only be on the family tree after the approval of the entire clan elders!
After more than 100 years of development, there are more than 400 people in the whole Qiaojia Village, most of the villagers live in the front, except for the small hillside in the middle, are fields, and there are more than ten households living in the back, the closest to Luoyun Peak is only Qiao Mei's family, and the closest to their homes are more than 500 meters away.
My grandfather lost his father at the age of eleven, and his mother died prematurely at the age of fifteen because she was too tired. His two sisters were both married after their father's filial piety. His eldest sister is seven years older than him, and his second sister is six years older than him.
Don't look at the two aunts and grandmothers are six or seven years older than their own grandfathers, but they have hated grandpa since they were children. Because of the birth of their grandfather, they immediately became what others called 'money-losing goods'!
Of course, before their grandfather was born, their sisters didn't have much love from their grandfather. But the old people in the village heard too many jokes, and the two undetermined sisters felt that 'they' were disliked, and they would eventually become a 'commodity' because of this younger brother, how could they still like to love this younger brother with their psychology!
Don't look at the two sisters are not good to their younger brother, but they are really good to each other, both of them know the rules of the clan, and they can only find a 'Ruyi Langjun' in the village. Therefore, after knowing that the eldest sister was yellow because of 'filial piety', the two of them were extremely concerned about their own family affairs!
They don't want to be sold as goods by their mother, just to marry a 'daughter-in-law' for their younger brother! I didn't notice at all that there was no shortage of food, clothing, meat and rice at home, where could they be used as a bride price!
But in the end, the two sisters were young and young, and if they didn't pay attention, the eldest sister was coaxed by Qiao Donglai, a big family in the village, and she didn't notice it at all, but he called Qiao Donglai!
The eldest sister who lost her body and mind was unwilling to listen to the persuasion of her relatives at all, and insisted on 'marrying' Qiao Donglai, completely fascinated by his handsome appearance and wealthy family background, and was so angry that the grandmother's heart was on fire.
The second sister is a good eye, and she is willing to listen to her mother's persuasion, plus after the eldest sister's family scandal happened, her mother's discipline of her was strengthened, and finally under the arrangement of her mother, she married Qiao Qi, the youngest grandson of the three clans, and she was also happy.
A year after the two got married, the grandmother died of a sudden illness, leaving behind a fifteen-year-old younger brother. But the two of them always have psychological distortions, depression and awkwardness in the matter of their own brother, and always feel that their father was too partial to his younger brother back then, so he rarely went back to visit and take care of his only younger brother.
Qiao Jun, who became a loner, survived with the kindness of Qiao Mei's parents. Of course, this is an exaggeration. Qiao Jun's ancestors are the descendants of the Qiao family, and there must be a family background, and this family background was forced by his father to memorize it as early as Qiao Jun's fifth year old, including the genealogy of the descendants, which is the 'literacy textbook' used by him for enlightenment.
Therefore, the two sisters may not know the details of their family, but Qiao Jun definitely knows. The reason why it is so serious is because Qiao Jun has been reminded by his father's ear since he was a child, and he knows that 'a gentleman is far away from cooking'. After his father died, his mother refused to let him enter the stove room easily, and when his mother was not in good health, he could not even cook a good meal, but fortunately the porridge could still be cooked.
Qiao Mei's parents, who couldn't see it, had to let Qiao Jun come over to eat at home, after all, Qiao Jun has been helping them do the gravity work they can every year since he was ** years old, and no matter how far away the relationship is, they have to get close under this trickle, not to mention that they are still relatives with the same surname and clan!
And looking at her daughter's attitude towards Qiao Jun, she also raised him as a half-son.