Why are the granddaughters of the Xue family thinking about getting married quickly, instead of thinking about staying up and waiting to be the sister of Xiucai to live a good life?

It's very simple, they all know that even if the elder brother becomes a talented master, even if the grandma and father are eager to leave everything to him, the benefits he brings to the family will eventually be given to him, and they will not fall into their hands, and he is obviously not a good brother who loves his sister, otherwise he would not have helped them so that they could eat a full meal in the early days when the family was still prosperous.

Every time I eat, my grandmother and aunt (aunt) are like they have eyes all over their bodies, and they have a few sisters, as long as they have more chopsticks and dishes, they can be accurately discovered, so that they can't do any small movements.

As I said earlier, if there were no accidents, the Xue family's life might go on like this.

But accidents always come unexpectedly.

In order to relax the tense state for several days, after the scientific expedition, Xue Boqing and a group of students went to a beautiful place in a neighboring county to play, but when passing through a remote place on the way, they coincidentally encountered a group of rogues who came from nowhere and robbed the road with knives.

Among these corpses was Xue Boqing.

Almost all the family property that has been accumulated for several generations is gone, and the precious grandson who they have high hopes of becoming a talented master is gone! The show is gone! The heir who picks two rooms on his shoulders is gone!

This is not an exaggeration for the Xue family.

When receiving this news, Mrs. Xue's Tang and Xue Boqing's mother, Shen, fainted directly.

After waking up, they didn't believe that their grandson (son) was gone, until they brought back a cold corpse, and no matter how they wailed and called, they couldn't get a response, that the Xue family finally believed that the grandson of the Xue family was really gone, and their dreams of cultivating and reading people's homes and the dreams of the talented master were about to wake up.

However, compared to the crying and grabbing of the Tang family, the Shen family, and the Liang family, as well as the ugly faces of the Xue family's father and son, the sisters of the Xue family did not have much grief in their hearts, but were more like relieved.

It's not that they are indifferent, but they really don't have any family affection for his brother, not only do they have no family affection, but they still complain.

It was because of him that they had been starving for so many years, and they had hardly eaten since they were young, and when they had to carefully hold and eat even a nest, and deduct some for Xiaoba, he could be lovingly held by his grandmother and asked for warmth, and the bowl was full of the fragrant gluttonous meat that his grandmother gave him one by one.

And he himself can eat with peace of mind, but he has never thought about his sisters, nor has he said a word for them. He could still sneer at Hachi disdainfully when he was hungry and faint, and he didn't think about who got the food that the family 'provided' for him.

Xue Langjing, who is a little eight, has no sadness at all in her heart, she felt disgust for herself from him when she was very young, and even heard him secretly scold herself for being a strange freak and showing her head and not abiding by women's morals, etc.

In her childhood, the little Xue Langjing listened to the story of the former female concubine Ma Zheng, who was also an able person, and when she was a child, she was also as hungry and unclothed as herself, and she was very envious of those who read, so she would secretly walk outside the private school to listen to her husband's lectures.

She wants to be like Lord Zheng, and she also wants to learn from each other to study, but there is no private school in the village, even if she wants to eavesdrop, she can't hear it, so she secretly goes to her brother's study to read, but the result is either that her grandmother is not allowed to go by herself, and she has to be beaten, or she is ruthlessly driven out by her brother, and finally she can only sneak in as much as she can, or squat in the corner to listen to him when he is at home.

Why should she grieve for such a person?

Naturally no!

Who is the female concubine Ma Zheng that Xue Langjing worships?

During the period of Chu Renzong, there was a female capable person born in a peasant family - Zheng Wen.

It only took her more than ten years to go up step by step from a helpless orphan girl to become the only imperial merchant in the rich country, and the Zheng firm she founded covered the entire Chu country, making great contributions to the stability of grain prices in Chu during the Chu Renzong period, and at the same time, the Zheng firm also often raised a large amount of food and salary for the former soldiers of the Chu State under the emperor's order, which can be described as the money bag of the treasury during the reign of Chu Renzong.

It has been more than 180 years since Zheng's firm has been in the past 180 years, and in the past nearly 200 years, although there have been ups and downs in the middle, it has not been without major crises, but it is still standing firm.

Today, the Zheng firm is still the only imperial merchant in the Chu State, and the imperial court still needs the help of this behemoth to maintain the annual price of grain, as well as to raise food for the imperial court when necessary, and the firm has always only dealt in medicinal herbs, grains, fruits and vegetables and other food-related businesses, and has never been involved in other industries.

Of course, compared with Zheng's firm, the one who made the people talk about it the most and found it incredible, and was criticized by many literati and Confucian scholars, was its founder Zheng Wen.

She married Chu Renzong's favorite prince.

Yes, that's right, it's to marry.

In ancient times, the emperor's favorite prince was always the most powerful contender for the throne, but this prince entered the homes of ordinary people, which can be regarded as the first time since ancient times.

Of course, for this reason, the financial resources she paid were also quite large, and these financial resources were also jokingly called sky-high dowries by the people, and the word 'marry' still came from Chu Renzong's mouth, although there were mostly jokes at that time, in order to get more money out of her hands.

Therefore, Zheng Wen is also nicknamed the only female concubine throughout the ages.

In his hand, he also held the Danshu iron coupon granted by Chu Renzong, and after that, as long as the Zheng clan did not commit a major crime that endangered the Chu court, they could be pardoned, provided that the Zheng clan would never enter the army and not join the army.

As for why it was criticized by the literati and Confucian scholars?

Because of the word marry? Because he is too out of line and does not abide by women's morals, he shows his head and goes in and out of the market to do business?

These are not the most important, the most important thing is the family rules set by her descendants.

What an outrageous family rule?

In a nutshell, here are a few rules.

But all the people of the Zheng clan, regardless of men and women, can only marry or not, and can be single for a lifetime without talking about marriage, and women can also have celibates, and even love each other with the same sex.

If you still insist on marrying or going out, then it means that you have given up your identity as a member of the Zheng family, and in the future, you will only have an in-law relationship with the Zheng family at most, and there will be no longer any interest relationship, and you no longer need to bear any family responsibilities, and at the same time, you will no longer enjoy any rights in the family, after all, you will have to bear as many responsibilities as you enjoy, even if it is the children of the patriarch.

The president of the firm is the patriarch of the Zheng clan, and the next patriarch is inherited by the eldest son of the previous patriarch, and it is specifically noted that the 'son' here also belongs to both men and women, and daughters and sons belong to this 'son'.

If the patriarch has no children to inherit, it will be transferred to the eldest brother and sister of the patriarch, and so on, just like Zheng Wenhe's eldest son is a daughter, and the second son and third son are men, she did not cultivate the second son and three sons as ordinary people think, and taught them to manage the business house, but focused on cultivating the eldest daughter, let her inherit the next patriarch, and hand over the business house to her to manage.

At the beginning, her shocking behavior was bluntly said by Chu Renzong, a little girl, her style of acting was even crazier than Emperor Gaozu, but he didn't stop it, after all, her arbitrary behavior was also destined to the Zheng family would not be tolerated by the clan family, and not in the eyes of literati and Confucianism, because she and their foundation were far from each other, and they were simply two extremes.

In this way, no matter how rich the Zheng family is in the future, and even if they master the grain that the imperial court cares about the most, it will not shake the foundation of the Chu royal family.