The Zhong family is also a big family in Beijing, with a lot of people, but they are merchants.

The previous dynasty was in turmoil, these people who had money and no status and ran business, in the eyes of others, were fat sheep, the government asked for money and food every day, plus the merchants came and went from south to north, opportunities and challenges coexisted, the world was in turmoil and thieves were everywhere, and some goods and children were lost, and then the Hou family was a little defeated, and the descendants were scattered, which was nearly a hundred years ago.

The old lord who was the first to lay down the title of the Marquis of Ji'an was a branch of the children scattered to the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but the world has been chaotic for a long time, no matter where it is not safe, the ancestors of the Hou Mansion were very corrupt when they were young, and then they fell into the grass and became a water bandit on the two lakes.

However, he was very lucky, there was a rebel army passing by, took a fancy to their bandits, and had the intention of annexation, the leader of the rebel army is now the Taizu Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, the ancestor of the Hou Mansion saved the life of Taizu, and for the foundation of Taizu to bury five sons and four grandsons to the battlefield, when the lord no one inherited the family business, he had to pick a child from the far branch to succeed. After the founding of the country, Taizu killed heroes, but no matter what the blood of the killing became, the Ji'an Hou Mansion was still stable, because the Ji'an Hou had already disappeared, and the current Ji'an Hou was a notice board that reflected Taizu's benevolence. Bad things don't have him, and good things can't take his turn, An'an can live a divided life, anyway, the role of Ji'an Hou is for the reception of the ancestors.

But there is one point, you have to be An'an to divide the line, the ancestors of the Hou family to the Taizu that is really followed, there have been words in advance, although this child came to the Hou Mansion of Ji'an, but if the male and female are rampant in the township, the clan can open the ancestral hall at any time, and choose a virtuous person to replace it, it is said that Taizu "tears and allows it".

To put it bluntly, it is the grace of the Hou ancestors, anyway, this branch is not my own, if there is any evil deed, the emperor, your old man should not accept my title, just change someone to inherit the title. In order to ensure that the title of the Hou family is also eternal, at least the inheritance of incense is broken. As for Taizu, at the beginning of the founding of the country, he was interested in suppressing those princes who had high achievements, so he immediately agreed and set up the Zhong family as an example.

Since Taizu said that the Zhong family's virtue is not enough to inherit the title, they can choose another virtuous person to live in, so the people of the Zhong family are ready to grab the pigtail of the Marquis of Ji'an at any time, so that the title can be exchanged for their own home.

This kind of thing is impossible in other marquis' mansions. Which clan will not have a good relationship with the one with the title, but in Ji'an Hou, it is upside down, Ji'an Hou Zhong Lichang was born in a farmer's household, Xiao Shen was born in a small business, and most of the money in Ji'an Hou Mansion was buried with the old Hou Mansion, Ji'an Hou Mansion is really poor and white, except for one identity, it is to have no status, and to have money but no money. On the contrary, it is the Zhong family in the capital, because they have been doing business for generations, and there are some yellow and white things. The Hou Mansion is often looked down upon by the clan, and for a while he even hired someone to guard the Hou Mansion, just to grab the pigtails of the Hou Mansion of Ji'an, and want to change the title of the Hou Mansion.

Later, it was Mrs. Hou Shen who asked the prince to marry the daughter of the Shunyi Bobai Mansion, and the Bai Mansion was in charge of one of the five cities of the capital, and was powerful and powerful, and these sects in the Hou Mansion were a little more settled, but even so, the old Hou Ye and his wife were also cautious in their work, and they invited guests to banquets and had a good relationship with the clansmen during the New Year's holidays, for fear that there would be any tongue in the hands of others.

Even so...... Those people are also everywhere looking for their faults.

When she was pregnant, she said that she was jealous not to add people to Master Hou's room, so she had Aunt Li, the biological mother of Second Master Zhong. Later, in the prince's room, it was not virtuous for the Bai family not to allow concubines, but it was the turn of the second room, and the concubines in one room and one room were returned, and it was said that this kind of behavior was frivolous. The prince donated an idle official because she didn't take care of the concubine, and the second master remarried Xiao Shen because she wanted to suppress the second room, and then the second room was doing a little better business, and she made money back to the princess, and some people actually said that she was too powerful to the concubine, and she didn't distinguish between the concubines, and everything good and bad was wrong.

Anyway, it's not quite right to do anything in the Ji'an Hou Mansion, and there are problems with morality, but fortunately, the Zhong family also knows that these small things will not shake the position of the Marquis of Zhong Lichang.

However, the old Shen family didn't expect that she was already acting so carefully, and there would be such a big handle to stab in front of the Zhong family, or her own granddaughter provoked it.

Mrs. Hou's Mid-Autumn Festival reunion banquet is simply the taste of the Hongmen banquet, she doesn't know what she eats in her mouth, but she knows one thing, after today, there will be new rumors that their house treats the orphan girl who died of her mother.

After that, I am afraid that I will have to eat and drink for this big girl Zhong, otherwise if she has some accidents, I am afraid that the crime of murdering her granddaughter will make the Zhong family boil, and see if you can use this as a name to bring down the current Ji'an Hou and replace it with "the virtuous live there".

The old lady sighed, is all this her fault? No, everything is the fault of not having power, because Zhong Lichang is halfway through, has no power, no power, no background connections, and guards a marquis mansion and a title, and in terms of life connections, even the Zhong family is not comparable to the merchants in the capital, so no one will look at them at all.

If it weren't for power, why would they marry a jealous woman like the Bai family back then, and raise a noisy person like the second lady who is not afraid of heaven and earth, the funny thing is that the only bit of prestige in their Hou Mansion was also supported by the Bai family.

But where is power so easy to come by......

The old marquis Zhong Lichang has been a lord for decades, and now he is still just an idle marquis, relying on more than a dozen acres of sacrificial land in the Hou Mansion to celebrate his birthday, the closest thing to the power of the Hou Mansion is to marry the daughter of the powerful Shunyi Bofu, but then I realized that the daughter of someone else's family, no matter how powerful it is, it is still someone else's family, and they still want to take advantage of the situation, so they have to look at the face of their daughter-in-law first.

The old lady didn't know how to think of Zhong Xiaoxin's weak and beautiful face, not at all like the girl ring with a flat head and a straight face who gave birth to the second master when she gave the old marquis as a concubine, but it was the same as the second wife Dou in front of her, looking at the little jasper who was knowledgeable and courteous, and her temperament was also gentle, such a person, even if she couldn't be the wife of the main house of the powerful family, it was always okay to carry a noble concubine, at least she could give the gentlemen in the house a little help......