Chapter 15: Qin Kang
Qin Kang thought of his identity in his mind. Yes, he is the son of the Duke of the Kingdom, although he is a concubine, but he is also the son of the Duke of the Kingdom. However, his father, Liguo Gong is not a son, and he is not a son-in-law.
The former Duke of Li Guogong had never entered the court in his life, and he did not have any official position, so he could only guard the family business at home, be an empty prince, and live a life of fine clothes and food.
Qin Kang's father was a real master of playing. Not only are there groups of wives and concubines in the backyard, but even the red cards of the Qinglou outside are mostly his friends. That's it, he also likes to play very much, those ministers, he doesn't know how much silver he threw on it. Most of the foundation of the Qin family, which has been inherited for one or two hundred years, has been ruined.
Since Qin Kang's memory, the Qin family has been selling their properties in the sky, and they have stuffed all kinds of beauties into the backyard. Qin Kang's biological mother is also one of them. Qin Kang's biological mother is extremely good in color. There was a time when the whole backyard was pampered. Mrs. An, the wife of the house, is jealous, and she doesn't dare to say anything. However, the other aunts were unwilling. All kinds of intrigues and tricks are resorted.
Finally, Qin Kang's biological mother died. Qin Kang became a motherless child. However, although it is a little pitiful to become a motherless child, no one deliberately deals with him anymore. He could grow up quietly in the backyard safely.
When he grew up, Qin Kang was a man with a heart. Seeing his father Liguo Gong ruining the family business like this, he knew that the good life of the Qin family was about to come to an end. He bought off the maid next to his mother-in-law Mrs. An early, and for this, he spent all the monthly money he had accumulated over the years, and treasured him, and took out some hairpin rings left by her biological mother before and dedicated them to Mrs. An, which made Mrs. An say in front of Liguo Gong that it was time for Qin Kang to marry.
Liguo Gong doesn't have enough time to be happy every day, where is the spirit to care about this? What's more, it's not a son-in-law, just a concubine without a mother. He has one or twenty such sons and daughters. Everyone, did he take it?
However, after all, he is a father. Liguo Gong casually instructed Mrs. An to show him the family, and, at that time, it was very coincidental that Liguo Gong had just sold a few shops on West Street for a good price, and he had a sum of money in his hand, so he immediately waved his hand and took out five thousand taels of silver and gave it to Mrs. An, and asked Mrs. An to handle this matter.
Mrs. An naturally left four thousand taels of silver. Then he took out a thousand taels of silver, told Qin Kang that he was a family, and became a relative, and after getting married, Duke Liguo bought a small house for Qin Kang outside, and gave him 100 acres of land, and sent it out.
Although Qin Kang is out of the big house, he will bring a thin gift to his grandmother on three festivals a year. I didn't come to trouble on weekdays. This is much better than the other concubines of Liguo Gong who rely on their biological mothers to be favored.
Therefore, whether it is Mrs. An, Qin Ping, and Qin An, the two brothers, they are not bad to Qin Kang. But it's just good.
Qin Kang guards a hundred and ten acres of land, and has a small house, with his wife and three children, he doesn't have to worry about food and clothing, but don't think about it if it's superfluous. Nowadays, the children are getting older, getting married, and studying are all things. Qin Kang was a little stretched.
Qin Kang's wife was selected by Mrs. An back then. What good family can she choose for her concubine? Naturally, it can't be a young lady in a big family. Qin Kang's wife is the daughter of a small family next to Mrs. An's mother's house. He looks a little good, and he is good at washing and cooking, but he doesn't know a word, let alone a housekeeper and managing the fields. Even the dowry is just a dowry of ten taels of silver that the family spent all they had. It can't help Qin Kang's family at all.
When Qin Kang was worried about the future of his children, he couldn't help but meet Qin Guosong when he gave a thin festival gift to Mrs. An during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Unexpectedly, this nephew was interested. He first arranged for Qin Kang's two sons to go to study in the Patriarchal School.
There is no money for reading in the ethnology, and two meals a day are served, plus snacks. This saved Qin Kang a lot of money, as well as Mr. Money.
For this matter, Qin Kang and Qin Kang's wife did not talk about Qin Guosong's good son at home.
Then, what made Qin Kang even more unexpected was that it didn't take long for Qin Guosong to hand over the message, saying that Qin Ming was going to go out to Ba Province after the New Year, and he wanted a few family members to follow him to do errands. Such a Qiao Zong'er, others can't grab it, so Qin Guosong gave it to Qin Kang.
Qin Kang and his wife were overjoyed in disbelief.
The Qin family has been in decline for decades, and in the capital, who still takes the Qin family seriously? The scoundrels on the street dare to bully the people of the Qin family. Not to mention the officials. They didn't even want to pinch the Qin family with their eyes.
Therefore, Qin Kang couldn't touch the light of the Guogong Mansion at all. However, this situation suddenly improved after Qin Mingyue suddenly became a disciple of the national teacher last year. The Qin family became famous all of a sudden. The entire Great Zhou knew that the Qin family was going to produce a national teacher in the future, and that was a master who had the power to dominate the world. The Qin family may be the first family in the future. This is okay, the people in the capital are used to being red and white, and there are many people who go on the pole to pay homage to the national government. Even ordinary people from the Qin family have also been wiped out a lot. Among them, there is Qin Kang.
Qin Kang, who walked to the street and straightened his waist, and Qin Kang's two sons, who were often bullied by the neighbors' playful children when they were playing on the street. Now after going to school in the Qin family, the children on the street treat them respectfully.
Qin Kang had just realized the little benefit that the rise of the Qin family had brought him, and he was already overjoyed, that is, his daughter, although she was still young, she already had neighbors left and right, and several solid families had come to listen to his wife's tone. His wife used to be Qin Qiniangzi. Now she is called Qin Qi's grandmother.
How could Qin Kang and his wife not be happy, naturally they hoped that the mansion would become more and more prosperous.
However, they didn't expect that Qin Mingyue, who was like a heavenly immortal in their hearts, would be able to use Qin Kang one day. If you really go out with this, wouldn't it be someone who Qin Mingyue would use? That decency, not to mention anything else, is just the neighbor's, even the officials have to be respectful.
Qin Kang and his wife were still puzzled, after the Chinese New Year, the Qin family sent five hundred taels of silver as the cost of settling in, and then instructed Qin Kang to go to the Liguo Mansion every day to start preparing for the trip with the housekeepers, maids, and grandmothers.
Only then did Qin Kang know that his errand had really been done. The neighbors knew that Qin Kang had to go to the Liguo Mansion every day to run errands, so they looked at him with more and more reverence, and there were more and more people who came to propose marriage to his boy and girl.