In the fourteenth year of Kangzong of Great Wei, the eighth day of the fourth month

In April, Jiangnan has quietly entered the rainy season, and when the eaves of Horseshoe Town were still dripping and dropping water droplets after a night of continuous drizzle last night, a crackling firecracker sound broke the quiet of the early morning in this Jiangnan town. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Eldest sister, eldest sister, the sedan chair of the Xiangyang family is here. Fourteen-year-old Xia Haoran took his younger brothers and sisters to run and jump in his sister Xia Feifei's room and laughed, today is a good day for his sister to get married.

The eldest lady who was putting on makeup for her sister heard Xia Haoran's laughter, looked back at him with some displeasure and said, "It's all nonsense, a reader must look like a scholar." Go, help your eldest brother deal with the outside greeting team. ”

Hearing the aunt's slightly scolding words, Xia Haoran, who was disapproving, winked mischievously at his mother, who was standing next to the eldest lady and helped his sister groom up, and said, "Who is going to pick up Xiangyang's stupid melon? As he spoke, he ran to his sister's side, who was sitting in front of the dresser, pulled the red silk on her head, and said, "Sister, you are so beautiful." ”

Hearing Xia Haoran's words, Xia Haoran's biological mother Chen Cuiping, who was helping Xia Feifei groom and dress, turned around and knocked his head and said, "What so much nonsense, don't listen to your aunt's words, go outside to help your eldest brother." ”

Xia Haoran, who was in pain, hurriedly hugged his head and rushed out of his mother's attack range, and then said with an unhappy face: "If you have something to say, there is a way that a gentleman doesn't move his mouth, if you give your son's smart brain, it will be troublesome." After speaking, without waiting for his mother's follow-up attack, Xia Haoran, who took advantage of the verb, hurriedly ran to the front hall with his younger brothers and sisters.

Listening to the laughter in the distance, Chen Cuicui, who helped Xia Feifei groom and dress up, shook her head helplessly and said, "It's hard for you, Feifei, those of us who are elders have no ability, but if there is a way, we will not let you marry Xiangyang's old military stick." ”

Xia Feifei, who had been smiling in front of people, stiffened when she heard this, and tried her best to squeeze out a little smile and said, "Erniang, what do you say? I am willing to marry Brother Xiangyang." ”

Her daughter's words made Chen Yaozhu, who was the eldest lady of the main house, tears fall instantly, and she married her flowery daughter to Xiangyang, an old soldier in her thirties who had not yet married a wife, to be honest, Chen Yaozhu was unwilling. But the current Xia family is really helpless, and since Xia's father died five years ago, the Xia family's sky has collapsed.

The Xia family, who can have 100 acres of paddy fields, 1,000 acres of dry fields, and seven or eight shops in the south of the Yangtze River, is also considered a rich family, but unfortunately Xia Runji, who is ready to break through to the Hundred Forging Realm in one fell swoop, was devoured by his own qi and blood in the process of practicing and died violently.

In this era of respect for force, the Xia family, who was born as a tenant for three generations, was able to turn over and become the 'big' landlord class in this small town in the south of the Yangtze River, relying on the strength of Master Xia. I didn't think that the Xia family in Horseshoe Town, which had just been rich for more than ten years, would encounter such a big change, relying on Chen Yaozhu, a weak lady, she would definitely not be able to support this Xia family, but fortunately, as a dowry maid, she was accepted by Master Xia as the second room, and Chen Cuiping stood up.

Facing the group of uncles and brothers in the Xia family who wanted to divide the family property, Chen Cuiping, who had a pungent personality, played the trick of crying and making trouble and hanging herself, and scared off this group of poor relatives who were very much helped by Xia Runji on weekdays with a determination to protect the property with death.

This group of uninformed village relatives in the family has been solved, but this external trouble, which really dragged down the entire Xia family, is not so easy to solve. In less than ten years, he can go from a mud leg to the richest man in Horseshoe Town, and Father Xia's methods are certainly not so glorious. It can be regarded as a bad retribution, the big shopkeeper who helped the Xia family deal with the business of seven or eight shops in the town colluded with the Ma family, the second largest family in the town, to empty the accounts, so that the seven shops and one restaurant under the Xia family owed a huge deficit, which made the Xia family ladies who didn't know how to do business in the inner house have no choice.

So far, the Xia family's seven shops and one restaurant in the town have become the property of the Ma family. The Xia family has also gradually changed from the richest family in Horseshoe Town with an annual income of 1,000 taels of silver to a small landlord family in the south of the Yangtze River with an annual income of less than 100 taels of silver.

It stands to reason that the Xia family, which has thousands of acres of land, has also lived, and I don't know whether it is lucky or unlucky, the men of this generation of the Xia family are all talented in civil and military affairs. The eldest Xia Haode was only seventeen years old when he cultivated the Ten Forging Realm, although there was still a big gap from his father Xia Runji's Ten Forging Realm Consummation, but at the age of less than eighteen, he was also the leading genius in the entire Okura County.

Xia Haoran, the second eldest of the concubines, don't look at him jumping up and down for a day without a certainty, but he has already obtained the identity of a child two years ago. Although the Great Wei Dynasty was founded more than 800 years ago, although it was known for both civil and military affairs, it was still a country that valued literature and light military force in its bones. There are all scholars such as Xiucai and Juren, and only those who study literature have a quasi-official body of a child. It can also be seen from this that the national policy makers favored the scribes, of course, the scholars and sages here are not powerless scholars, but writers who can gather Haoran righteousness and resist the enemy with qi.

It is no wonder that Wen Kaizong, who established the Great Wei Dynasty, was a literary saint in the world, and in the more than 800 years of the Huanghuang Great Wei Dynasty, great Confucian writers emerged in an endless stream, and the Spring and Autumn College founded by Wen Kaizong was known as one of the four major academies in the world.

And Xia Haoran has a second brother who is also a talented person with a culture and a martial arts, and the third brother Xia Haohan has already read more than 100 years old at about 12 years old, and Na Haoran's qi is in the sea of qi, and when the condensation of talent breaks through the body, he can obtain the name of the child outside. The fourth brother Xia Haomiao, as the youngest boy of the Xia family, is only ten years old this year, and he has completed the steps of condensing tendons, bones, and skin, and after completing the steps of practicing marrow and blood exchange, the Xia family will inevitably fill in another martial artist of the Ten Forging Realm.

And the misfortune of the Xia family or Xia Feifei also stems from this, her elder brothers and younger brothers are too talented. With the Xia family's financial resources, they simply can't support the jade crystals, qi and blood they need to practice literature and martial arts. Even if the eldest brother Xia Haode had already gone out of the house to the county government to get a job of arresting thieves and bandits, and the royal grain money and silver were subsidized by the family, the second brother also obtained a child quota, and he had three low-level jade crystals from the state every month. But this amount of money is far from enough to raise four warriors and scribes.

In the past five years, in order to provide for the things needed by a few people to practice literature and martial arts, the Xia family, which is not rich, has already exhausted the family foundation, and even the thousands of acres of land left by his father have been sold.

As the eldest daughter of the Xia family, Xia Feifei couldn't watch her third and fourth brothers lack enough jade crystals and qi and blood to support them when they were about to become mature and not be able to advance an inch or take the risk of forcibly breaking through the existing stage with their own brainpower, qi and blood, this kind of cultivation method that will leave a dark wound on the body is something Xia Feifei does not want to see.

Her elder brother and younger brother are the literary heroes and generals who will surely dominate the Great Wei in the future, and she is afraid that they will be like her father when they reach middle age, and their injuries will erupt and cause them to die of instability. She married the new county lieutenant Xiang Yang of Taicang County in exchange for a bride price to continue to support her younger brothers' cultivation needs, which was the only way she or the two old ladies of the Xia family could think of.